Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental or Vocal
Boston Symphony Chamber Players - Boston Symphony Chamber Players (selections by Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Fine, Copland, Carter, Pis
Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky with Leonard Pennario - Arensky: Trio in D Minor for Violin, Cello and Piano; Martinu: Duo for Violin and Cello
Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose - Beethoven: Trio No. 6 in B Flat, Op. 97 (Archduke)
Erick Friedman, Andre Previn - Franck: Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano; Debussy: Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Piano
Weller Quartet - Haydn: Quartets, Op. 33
Walter Trampler and Budapest Quartet - Mozart: The 6 Quintets for String Quintet and Viola
Gregor Piatigorsky, Rudolf Firkusny - Prokofiev: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 119; Chopin: Sonata in G Minor for Piano and Cello, Op. 6
Vienna Philharmonic Quartet - Schubert: Quintet in C Major
Best Classical Performance - Choral
Robert Shaw conducting the Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra - Handel: Messiah
Gregg Smith conducting the Columbia Chamber Orchestra, Gregg Smith Singers, Ithaca College Concert Choir; George Bragg conducting the Texas Boys' Choir - Ives: Music for Chorus (General William Booth Enters Heaven, &quo
Wilhelm Pitz conducting the New Philharmonia Chorus; Otto Klemperer conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D Major
Richard Condie directing the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Bless This House
Colin Davis conducting the soloists, London Symphony Orchestra and Choir - Handel: Messiah
Wilhelm Pitz conducting the New Philharmonia Chorus; Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra - Orff: Carmina Burana
David Willcocks conducting the Bach Choir and Choristers of Westminster Abbey and London Symphony - Vaughan Williams: Hodie
Alfred Nash Patterson directing the Boston Symphony Chorus; Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra - Verdi: Requiem
Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) with or without Orchestra
Isaac Stern (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) - Dvorak: Concerto in A Minor for Violin
Yehudi Menuhin (Boult conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra) - Elgar: Concerto for Violin
Raymond Lewenthal - Operatic Liszt
John Browning (Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony) - Prokofiev: Concerto No. 1 in D Flat Major for Piano; Concerto No. 2 in G Minor for Piano
John Williams (Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) - Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra; Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto in D Major fo
Artur Rubinstein - Rubinstein and Chopin (Bolero, Tarentelle, Fantasia in F Minor Barcarolle, Bercuse and 3 nouvelles e
Best Classical Performance - Orchestra
Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony - Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A Minor
George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra - Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Pierre Boulez, Antal Dorati conducting the BBC Symphony - Boulez: Le Soleil des Eaux; Messiaen: Chronochromie; Koechlin: Les Bandar-Log
Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic - Ives: Fourth of July
Morton Gould conducting the Chicago Symphony - Ives: Symphony No. 1 in D Minor
Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 10
Ernest Ansermet conducting the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
Jean Martinon conducting the Chicago Symphony - Varese: Arcana; Martin: Concerto for 7 Wind Instruments, Timpani, Percussion and String Orchestra
Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
Leontyne Price (Molinari-Pradelli conducting the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra; solos: Barber, Purcell, etc) - Prima Donna
Judith Raskin (Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra) - Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Janet Backer (Morris conducting the London Philharmonic) - Mahler: The Youth's Magic Horn (Das Knaben Wunderhorn)
Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Nilsson, Crespin, Ludwig, King, Hotter) - Wagner: Die Walkure
Aaron Copland conducting the Choral Arts Society and New York Philharmonic (solos: Clements, Turner, Cassilly, Treigle, Fredericks) - Copland: The Tender Land
Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony (solos: Konya, Amarca, Gorr, Dooley) - Wagner: Lohengrin
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli conducting the Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra (solos: Nilsson, Corelli) - Puccini: Turandot
Istvan Kertesz conducting the London Symphony (solos: Ludwig, Berry) - Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle
Best Original Jazz Composition
Duke Ellington - In the Beginning God
Claus Ogerman - Jazz Samba
Lalo Schifrin - Marquis de Sade
Bill Evans - Time Remembered
Bob Brookmeyer - ABC Blues
John Handy - If Only We Knew
Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television
Maurice Jarre - Dr. Zhivago
Alex North - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Henry Mancini - Arabesque
John Barry - Born Free
Sonny Rollins - Alfie
Best Performance by a Chorus
Ray Conniff & Singers - Somewhere, My Love (Lara's Theme from Dr. Zhivago)
Johnny Mann Singers - A Man and a Woman
Alan Copeland Singers with Count Basie - Basie Swingin', Voices Singin'
Henry Mancini, Orchestra & Chorus - Henry Mancini Presents the Academy Award Songs
Swingle Singers - Rococo A' Go Go
Best Recording for Children
Marvin Miller - Dr. Seuss Presents: If I Ran the Zoo and Sleep Book
Art Linkletter - For the Children of the World Art Linkletter Narrates the Bible
Marty Gould conducting the Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus - Happiness Is
original cast. Moose Charlap, Elsie Simmons, score - Alice Through the Looking Glass
Paul Tripp and cast - The Christmas That Almost Wasn't
Best Rhythm & Blues Group Performance - Vocal or Instrumental