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This is truly the grand-daddy of all awards shows. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding musical achievements. The Grammys always prove to be a night of spectacle and performance that truly can't be missed.


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The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Album Of The Year - Classical

  • Winner:
    Vladimir Horowitz     Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz
  • Otto Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra and Choir Bach: St. Matthew Passion
  • Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts with Primrose, Pennario and Guests
  • Igor Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Symphony Stravinsky: The Firebird Ballet
  • Bruno Walter conducting the Columbia Symphony Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor

Best Album Cover (other Than Classical)

Best Background Arrangement

Best Chamber Music Performance

  • Winner:
    Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, William Primrose     The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts with Primrose, Pennario and Guests
  • Laurindo Almeida, Virginia Majewski, Vincent De Rosa The Intimate Bach
  • Artur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng Rubinstein and Szeryng Violin Sonatas, Brahms: Sonata No. 1; Beethoven: Sonata No. 8, Op. 30, No. 3
  • Budapest String Quartet Beethoven: The Late Quartets
  • Hungarian Quartet Bartok: Complete Quartets
  • Yehudi Menuhin, George Malcolm Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord

Best Classical Composition By A Contemporary Composer

  • Winner:
    Igor Stravinsky     The Flood
  • Lukas Foss Time Cycle
  • Sir William Walton Symphony No. 2
  • Lukas Foss Song of Songs
  • Aaron Copland Connotations for Orchestra
  • Benjamin Britten Noye's Fludde
  • Edgard Varese Arcana

Best Classical Performance - Choral

  • Winner:
    Philharmonia Choir, Wilhelm Pitz, choral director; Otto Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra     Bach: St. Matthew Passion
  • Westminster Choir, Warren Martin, director; Thomas Schippers conducting the New York Philharmonic Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78
  • Women's Chorus of Schola Cantorum: Hugh Ross, director of Boys' Choir; Church of Transfiguration, Stuart Gardner, director; Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
  • Roger Wagner Chorale, Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Roger Wagner, conductor Faure: Requiem
  • New England Conservatory Chorus, Lorna Cooke de Varon, director; Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette
  • University of Utah Chorus, Ardean Watts, director; Maurice Abravanel conducting the Utah Symphony Honegger: King David (Le Roi David)

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Duo Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Vladimir Horowitz     Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz
  • Robert and Gaby Casadesus French Piano Music - Four Hands
  • Leon Goossens The Art of Leon Goossens
  • Artur Rubinstein Highlights of Rubinstein at Carnegie Hall Recorded During the Historic 10 Recitals of 1961
  • Sviatoslav Richter Beethoven: Sonata No. 22 for Piano
  • Joseph Szigeti Bach: The 6 Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Unaccompanied
  • Glenn Gould Bach: The Art of the Fugue, Vol. 1
  • Andres Segovia 5 Pieces from Platero and 1

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Isaac Stern (Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Symphony)     Stravinsky: Concerto in D for Violin
  • Van Cliburn (Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony) Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 2
  • Sviatoslav Richter (Kondrashin conducting the London Symphony) Liszt: Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 for Piano and Orchestra
  • Jascha Heifetz (Sargent conducting the New Symphony Orchestra of London) Bruch: Scottish Fantasy; Vieuxtemps: Concerto No. 5
  • David Oistrakh (Klemperer conducting the French National Raido Orchestra) Brahms: Concerto in D for Violin

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Igor Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Symphony     Stravinsky: The Firebird Ballet
  • Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
  • Bruno Walter conducting the Columbia Symphony Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
  • Otto Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist With Or Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Eileen Farrell (Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic)     Wagner: Gotterdammerung, Brunnhilde's Immolation Scene; Wesendonck: Songs
  • Victoria de los Angeles (Sorianno, piano) Spanish Songs of the 20th Century
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Moore, piano) Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin
  • Birgit Nilsson (Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic) R. Strauss: Salome
  • Maria Callas (Pretre conducting the Orchestre National de la Radio Diffusion Francaise) Great Arias from French Opera
  • Adele Addison (Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic) Foss: Time Cycle

Best Comedy Performance

Best Documentary Or Spoken Word Recording (other Than Comedy)

  • Winner:
    Charles Laughton     The Story Teller: A Session with Charles Laughton
  • Michael Redgrave Sir Michael Redgrave Reads The Harmfulness of Tobacco, A Transgression, The First Class Passenger by
  • Stan Kenton Mama Sang a Song
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic First Performance: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
  • Laurence Harvey This Is My Beloved
  • Claude Rains, reader; Glenn Gould, pianist Enoch Arden (music by R. Strauss; poem by Alfred Tennyson)
  • Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg Reading His Poetry

Best Engineered Recording - Novelty

Best Engineering Contribution (other Than Novelty Or Classical)

Best Engineering Contribution - Classical Recording

  • Winner:
    Lewis W. Layton     Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
  • Robert Fine Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 for Piano; Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 1 for Piano
  • William Britten Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
  • Fred Plaut Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
  • Robert Fine Copland: Billy the Kid; Appalachian Spring
  • London Recording Team Holst: The Planets
  • Fred Plaut Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz

Best Folk Recording

Best Gospel Or Other Religious Recording

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Best Instrumental Theme

  • Winner:
    Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow     A Taste of Honey
  • Route 66 Theme Nelson Riddle
  • Baby Elephant Walk Henry Mancini
  • The Stripper David Rose
  • Stranger on the Shore Acker Bilk, Robert Mellin
  • Walk on the Wild Side Elmer Bernstein

Best Jazz Performance By A Large Group - Instrumental

Best Jazz Performance By A Soloist Or Small Group - Instrumental

  • Winner: Stan Getz Desafinado
  • Oscar Peterson Trio West Side Story
  • Bill Evans, Jim Hall Undercurrent
  • George Shearing Quintet Nat King Cole Sings, George Shearing Plays
  • Eddie Cano A Taste of Honey
  • Charlie Mingus Tijuana Moods

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Georg Solti conducting the Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Price, Vickers, Gorr, Merrill, Tozzi)     Verdi: Aida
  • Pierre Dervaux conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of Theatre National de l'Opera Comique (solos: Micheau, Gedda) Bizet: The Pearl Fishers
  • Otto Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Ludwig, Vickers, Frick, Hallstein, Berry) Beethoven: Fidelio
  • Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Nilsson, Wachter, Stolze) R. Strauss: Salome
  • Erich Leinsdorf conducting the London Symphony (solos: Nilsson, Brouwenstijn, Gorr, Vickers, London, Ward) Wagner: Die Walkure
  • Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Moffo, Tucker, Costa, Merrill, Tozzi, Maero) Puccini: La Boheme

Best Original Cast Show Album

  • Winner:
    Richard Rodgers (Broadway cast)     No Strings
  • Stephen Sondheim (Broadway cast) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • Lionel Bart (Broadway cast) Oliver!
  • Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley (Anthony Newley, Anna Quayle and cast) Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
  • Dudley Moore (Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore) Beyond the Fringe

Best Original Jazz Composition

Best Performance By A Chorus

  • Winner:
    New Christy Minstrels     Presenting the New Christy Minstrels
  • Fred Waring & the Pennyslvanians The Waring Blend
  • Johnny Mann Singers (Si Zentner Orchestra) Great Band with Great Voices Swing the Great Voices of the Great Bands
  • Pete King Chorale Consider Yourself
  • Norman Luboff A Choral Spectacular

Best Performance By An Orchestra For Dancing

Best Performance By An Orchestra Or Instrument With Orchestra (not Jazz Or Dancing)

  • Winner:
    Peter Nero     The Colorful Peter Nero
  • Elmer Bernstein Walk on the Wild Side
  • Acker Bilk Stranger on the Shore
  • Felix Slatkin Hoedown!
  • Henry Mancini Hatari!

Best Recording For Children

Country And Western Recording

Female Solo Vocal Performance

Lifetime Achievement Award

Male Solo Vocal Performance

New Artist

Record Of The Year

Rhythm & Blues Recording

Rock And Roll Recording

Song Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley     What Kind of Fool Am I
  • Richard Rodgers The Sweetest Sounds
  • Lionel Bart As Long as He Needs Me
  • Douglass Cross, George Cory I Left My Heart in San Francisco
  • John Kander, Fred Ebb My Coloring Book

Vocal Group Performance

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