Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)

The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) was awarded from 1959 to 2011. From 1967 to 1971, and in 1987, the award was combined with the award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) and awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra).

Multi-time nominee and winner Vladimir Horowitz in 1986

The award has had several minor name changes:

  • In 1959 the award was known as Best Classical Performance – Instrumentalist (other than concerto-scale accompaniment)
  • In 1960 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance – Concerto or Instrumental Soloist (other than full orchestral accompaniment)
  • In 1961 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Duo (other than with orchestral accompaniment)
  • From 1962 to 1964 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Duo (without orchestra)
  • In 1965 it was awarded as Best Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra)
  • From 1966 to 1994 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (without orchestra) (or a very similar equivalent)
  • From 1995 to the present it has been awarded as Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)

In 2012, the award was discontinued in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. The category was merged with the Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) category to form the new Best Classical Instrumental Solo category, similar to the award from 1967 to 1971.

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

Recipients

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Year Winner(s) Title Nominees Ref.
1959 Andrés Segovia Segovia Golden Jubilee
  • Wanda Landowska for Art of the Harpsichord
  • Nathan Milstein for Beethoven: Sonata No. 9 and Sonata No. 8
  • Vladimir Horowitz for Horowitz Plays Chopin
  • Marcel Grandjany for Music for the Harp
[1]
1960 Arthur Rubinstein Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 & No. 18 in E Flat Major, Op. 53, No. 3
[2]
1961 Laurindo Almeida The Spanish Guitars of Laurindo Almeida
[3]
1962 Laurindo Almeida Reverie for Spanish Guitar [4]
1963 Vladimir Horowitz Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz
[5]
1964 Vladimir Horowitz The Sound of Horowitz
[6]
1965 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin
[7]
1966 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
[8]
1972 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas)
[9]
1973 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz Plays Chopin [10]
1974 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz Plays Scriabin
[11]
1975 Alicia de Larrocha Albéniz: Iberia [12]
1976 Nathan Milstein Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Unaccompanied
[13]
1977 Vladimir Horowitz The Horowitz Concerts 1975/76
[14]
1978 Arthur Rubinstein Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E Flat/Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
[15]
1979 Vladimir Horowitz The Horowitz Concerts 77/78
[16]
1980 Vladimir Horowitz The Horowitz Concerts 78/79
[17]
1981 Itzhak Perlman The Spanish Album
[18]
1982 Vladimir Horowitz The Horowitz Concerts 79/80
[19]
1983 Glenn Gould Bach: The Goldberg Variations
[20]
1984 Glenn Gould Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 12 & 13 [21]
1985 Yo-Yo Ma Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites
[22]
1986 Vladimir Ashkenazy Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit; Pavane pour une infante défunte; Valses nobles et sentimentales
[23]
1987 No Award Given
1988 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz in Moscow
[24]
1989 Alicia de Larrocha Albéniz: Iberia; Navarra; Suite Espagnola [25]
1990 András Schiff Bach: The English Suites
[26]
1991 Vladimir Horowitz The Last Recording [27]
1992 Alicia de Larrocha Granados: Goyescas, Allegro de Concierto, Danze Lenta
[28]
1993 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz - Discovered Treasures (Chopin, Liszt, Scarlatti, Scriabin, Clementi)
[29]
1994 John Browning Barber: The Complete Solo Piano Music
[30]
1995 Emanuel Ax Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Nos. 32, 47, 53, 59
[31]
1996 Radu Lupu Schubert: Piano Sonatas (in B Flat major and A major)
[32]
1997 Earl Wild The Romantic Master - Works of Saint-Saëns, Handel
[33]
1998 János Starker Bach: Suites for Cello Nos. 1-6
[34]
1999 Murray Perahia Bach: English Suites No. 1, 3, & 6
[35]
2000 Murray Perahia Bach: The English Suites Nos. 2, 4, & 5
[36]
2001 Tobias Lehmann, producer; Jens Schünemann, engineer; Sharon Isbin, soloist Dreams of a World (Works of Lauro, Ruiz-Pipò, Duarte, etc.) [37]
2002 Arne Akselberg, Truls Mørk producers; Arne Akselberg, engineer; Truls Mørk, soloist Britten Cello Suites
[38]
2003 Andreas Neubronner, producer; Andreas Neubronner, engineer; Murray Perahia, soloist Chopin: Études, Op. 10 & Op. 25
[39]
2004 Emanuel Ax Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 29, 31, 34, 25 & 49
[40]
2005 David Russell Aire Latino (Morel, Villa-Lobos, Ponce, etc.)
[41]
2006 Evgeny Kissin Scriabin, Medtner, Stravinsky [42]
2007 Maurizio Pollini Chopin: Nocturnes
[43]
2008 Garrick Ohlsson Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3
[44]
2009 Gloria Cheng Piano Music of Stucky, Lutosławski
[45]
2010 Sharon Isbin Journey to the New World
[46]
2011 Paul Jacobs Messiaen: Livre du Saint-Sacrement
[47]

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