Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance
Awarded forquality chamber music performances
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First award1959
Final award2011
Websitegrammy.com

The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance was awarded from 1959 to 2011. The award was discontinued in 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories; since 2012, recordings in this category have fallen under the Best Small Ensemble Performance category. The award has had several minor name changes:

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

Recipients

Year Winner(s) Title Nominees Ref.
1959 Hollywood String Quartet Beethoven: Quartet 130
1960 Arthur Rubinstein Beethoven: Sonata No. 21 in C (Waldstein); Sonata No. 18 in E Flat
1961 Laurindo Almeida Conversations with the Guitar
1962 Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, William Primrose Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 8; Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7
1963 Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, William Primrose The Heifetz-Piatgorsky Concerts with Primrose, Pennario and Guests
1964 Julian Bream Consort An Evening of Elizabethan Music
1965 Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, Jacob Lateiner Beethoven: Trio No. 1 in E Flat, Op. 1, No. 1
Noah Greenberg conducting New York Pro Musica It Was a Lover and His Lass (Morley, Byrd and Others)
1966 Juilliard String Quartet Bartók: The 6 String Quartets
1967 Boston Symphony Chamber Players Boston Symphony Chamber Players - Works of Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Fine, Copland, Carter, Piston
1968 Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin West Meets East
1969 Vittorio Negri (conductor), E Power Biggs with the Edward Tarr Brass Ensemble & Gabrieli Consort Glory of Gabrieli Vol. II - Canzonas for Brass, Winds, Strings and Organs
1970 Chicago Brass Ensemble, Cleveland Brass Ensemble, and Philadelphia Brass Ensemble Gabrieli: Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli (Canzoni for Brass Choirs)
1971 Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios
1972 Juilliard String Quartet Debussy: Quartet in G Minor; Ravel: Quartet in F Major
1973 Julian Bream, John Williams Julian and John (selections by Lawes, Carulli, Albéniz, Granados)
1974 Gunther Schuller (conductor), New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble Joplin: The Red Back Book
1975 Pierre Fournier, Arthur Rubinstein & Henryk Szeryng Brahms: Trios (Complete)/Schumann: Trio No. 1 in D Minor
1976 Arthur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng, Pierre Fournier Schubert: Trios No. 1 in B Flat Major, Op. 99 and No. 2 in E Flat Major, Op. 100 (Piano Trios)
1977 David Munrow (conductor), Early Music Consort of London The Art of Courtly Love
1978 Juilliard String Quartet Schoenberg: Quartets for Strings (Complete)
1979 Itzhak Perlman, Vladimir Ashkenazy Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Complete)
1980 Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Copland: Appalachian Spring
1981 Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman Music for 2 Violins (Moszkowski: Suite for 2 Violins; Shostakovich: Duets; Prokofiev: Sonata for 2 Violins)
1982 Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor
1983 Richard Stoltzman, Richard Goode Brahms: The Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120
1984 Mstislav Rostropovich, Rudolf Serkin Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38, and Sonata in F Major, Op. 99
1985 Juilliard String Quartet Beethoven: The Late String Quartets
1986 Emmanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma Brahms: Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Major and F Major
1987 Emmanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma Beethoven: Cello and Piano Sonata No. 4 in C and Variations
1988 Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, Vladimir Ashkenazy Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios
1989 Murray Perahia, Georg Solti, David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie Bartók: Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion; Brahms: Variation on a Theme by Joseph Haydn for 2 Piano
1990 Emerson String Quartet Bartók: 6 String Quartets
1991 Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas
1992 Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartets
1993 Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano
1994 Emerson String Quartet Ives: String Quartets
1995 Daniel Barenboim, Dale Clevenger, Larry Combs, Daniele Damiano, Hansjorg Schellenberger, Berlin Philharmonic Beethoven/Mozart: Quintets (Chicago-Berlin)
1996 Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman Brahms/Beethoven/Mozart: Clarinet Trios
1997 Cleveland Quartet Corigliano: String Quartet
1998 Emerson Quartet Beethoven: The String Quartets
1999 André Previn, Gil Shaham American Scenes (Works of Copland, Previn, Barber, Gershwin)
2000 Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas (Nos. 1-3, Op. 12; Nos. 1-3, Op. 30; "Spring" Sonata, etc.)
2001 Emerson String Quartet Shostakovich: The String Quartets
2002 The Angeles String Quartet Haydn: The Complete String Quartets
2003 Takács Quartet Beethoven: String Quartets ("Razumovsky", Op. 59, 1-3; "Harp", Op. 74)
2004 Kronos Quartet, Dawn Upshaw Berg: Lyric Suite
2005 Martha Argerich, Mikhail Pletnev Prokofiev (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella - Suite for Two Pianos; Ravel: Ma Mère L'Oye
2006 Emerson String Quartet Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets
2007 Emerson String Quartet Intimate Voices
  • The Chicago Chamber Musicians for Chamber works for Winds and String by Mozart
  • Andrew Russo, Corey Cerovsek, Steven Heyman for Corigliano: Violin Sonata, Étude Fantasy
  • Martha Argerich and Friends for Martha Argerich and Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2005
  • Beaux Arts Trio for Shostakovich: Piano Trios 1 & 2, Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok
2008 Eighth Blackbird Strange Imaginary Animals
2009 Pacifica Quartet Elliott Carter: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 5
2010 Emerson Quartet Intimate Letters
2011 Parker Quartet Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

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