Oscar Peterson - Oscar Peterson Plays My Fair Lady
various artists - The Sound of Harlem
Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Laurindo Almeida - Guitar from Ipanema
Best Album Cover - Classical
Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops - Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals; Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Roger Blanchard Ensemble with the Poulteau Consort - Court and Ceremonial Music of the 16th Century
Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony - Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor
Carlos Chavez - Mexico (Legacy Collection)
Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathurstra
Giulini conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra - Verdi: Requiem Mass
Best Album Notes
Carlos Chavez - Mexico (Legacy Collection)
Original cast - Beyond the Fringe '64
Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony - Mahler: Symphony No. 5; Berg: Wozzeck Excerpts (Phyllis Curtin)
Quincy Jones - Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini
Edith Piaf - The Definitive Piaf
Maurice Chevalier - The Young Chevalier
Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental
Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky (Jacob Lateiner, piano) - Beethoven: Trio No. 1 in E Flat, Op. 1, No. 1
Juilliard String Quartet - Beethoven: Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132
Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich - Beethoven: Sonatas (5) for the Piano and Cello (Complete)
Rudolf Serkin with the Budapest String Quartet - Brahms: Quintet in F Minor for Piano and Strings
Jean-Pierre Rampal, Robert Veyron-Lacroix - Mozart: The Complete Flute Sonatas
Igor Markevich conducting the Chamber Group (with narrators Jean Cocteau, Peter Ustinov, Jean-Marie Fertey, Anne Tonietti) - Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat
Best Chamber Music Performance - Vocal
New York Pro Musica (Noah Greenberg conducting) - It Was a Lover and His Lass (Morley, Byrd and others)
Le Petit Ensemble Vocal de Montreal - Dufay Motets
Golden Age Singers - Music for Voices and Violins in the Time of Shakespeare
Deller Consort - Music of Medieval France, 1200-1400, Sacred and Secular
Vocal Arts Ensemble - Music of the Renaissance (Des Prez, Morley)
Hermione Gingold, Russell Oberlin, Thomas Dunn - Walton: Facade
Best Classical Composition by a Contemporary Composer
Samuel Barber - Piano Concerto
Darius Milhaud - A Frenchman in New York
Charles E. Ives - New England Holidays
Igor Stravinsky - Sermon, Narrative and Prayer
Leonard Bernstein - Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish)
Best Classical Performance - Choral (Other than Opera)
Robert Shaw conducting the Robert Shaw Chorale - Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Elliott Forbes conducting the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society; Alfred Nash Patterson conducting the Chorus Pro Musica; Lorna Cooke De Varon conducting the New England Conservatory Chorus; Rt. Rev. Russell H. Davis conducting the St. John
Rene Duclos conducting the Rene Duclos Chorus; Georges Pretre conducting the Paris Conservatoire - Poulenc: Stabat Mater
Elmer Iseler conducting the Toronto Festival Chorus; Igor Stravinsky conducting the CBC Orchestra - Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Wilhelm Pitz directing the Philharmonia Chorus; Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra - Verdi: Requiem Mass
George Lynn conducting the Westminster Choir; Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Verdi: Requiem Mass
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra
Isaac Stern (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) - Prokofiev: Concerto No. 1 in D Major for Violin
John Browning (Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra) - Barber: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 38
Artur Rubinstein (Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony) - Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 in E Flat
Yehudi Menuhin (Kletzki conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra) - Bloch: Concerto for Violin
Van Cliburn (Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony) - Brahms: Concerto No. 1 in D Minor for Piano
Rafael Druian, Abraham Skernick (Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra) - Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
Julian Bream (Davis conducting the Melos Chamber Orchestra) - Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra; Vivaldi: Concerto in D for Lute and Strings
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) without Orchestra
Vladimir Horowitz - Vladimir Horowtiz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin (Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 (Pathetique); Debussy: P
Artur Rubinstein - A French Program (Ravel, Poulenc, Faure, Chabrier)
Glenn Gould - Bach: Two and Three Part Inventions
Igor Kipnis - French Baroque Music for Harpsichord (Couperin, Rameau, Boismortier)
Julian Bream - Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar (Villa-Lobos, Falla, etc.)
Sviatoslav Richter - Richter Plays Schubert (Sonata in A Major for Piano; Wanderer Fantasia for Piano)
Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony - Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor; Berg: Wozzeck Excerpts (solo: Phyllis Curtin)
Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Yehudi Menuhin conducting the Bath Festival Chamber Orchestra - Handel: Concerti Grossi (12), Op. 6
Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony - Haydn: Symphony No. 95 in C Minor; Symphony No. 101 in D Major (Clock)
Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C (Resurrection)
Bruno Walter conducting the Columbia Symphony - Mozart: Last 6 Symphonies
George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra - R. Strauss: Symphonia Domestica
Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with or without Orchestra)
Leontyne Price (Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony) - Berlioz: Nuits d' Ete'; Falla: El Amor Brujo
Regine Crespin (Ansermet conducting the Suisse Romande Orchestra) - Berlioz: Nuits d' Ete
Peter Pears (Britten conducting the London Symphony) - Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Maria Callas (Rescigno conducting the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra) - Callas Sings Verdi
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - Shubert: Die Winterreise
Joan Sutherland (Bonynge conducting the London Symphony and New Symphony of London) - The Age of Bel Canto: Operatic Scenes
Boris Christoff (Cluytens conducting the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra) - Tsars and Kings (Opera Arias)
Best Comedy Performance
Bill Cosby - I Started Out as a Child
Allan Sherman - For Swingin' Livers Only!
Godfrey Cambridge - Ready or Not, Here Comes Godfrey Cambridge
Jonathan Winters - Whistle Stopping
Woody Allen - Woody Allen
Best Country & Western Album
Roger Miller - Dang Me/Chug-a-lug
Buck Owens - The Best of Buck Owens
Chet Atkins - Guitar Country
Hank Williams Jr. - Hank Williams Jr. Sings Songs of Hank Williams
John F. Kennedy, narrated by David Brinkley, introduction by Adlai Stevenson - The Kennedy Wit
original cast with Alec Guinness, Kate Reid - Dylan
Richard Burton (original cast: Hume Cronyn, John Gielgud, Alfred Drake, George Voskovec, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield, George Ross) - Shakespeare: Hamlet
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole - Dialogue Highlights from Becket
Best Engineered Recording
Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
Stan Kenton - Artistry in Voices and Brass
Al Hirt, Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops - Pops Goes the Trumpet
Al Hirt - Sugar Lips
Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther
Tony Bennett - Who Can I Turn To?
Best Engineered Recording - Classical
Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra - Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection)
Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony - Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor
Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 , Op. 100
Vladimir Horowitz - Vladimir Horowitz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin
Best Engineered Recording - Special or Novel Effects