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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.

Host: John Denver
Date: February 23, 1982
City: Los Angeles

The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Best Album Notes

  • Winner:
    Erroll Garner: Master of the Keyboard     Dan Morgenstern
  • The Mario Lanza Collection The Mario Lanza Collection
  • Pee Wee Russell Giants of Jazz
  • James P. Johnson Giants of Jazz
  • Fats Waller Giants of Jazz

Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television Special

  • Winner: John Williams Raiders of the Lost Ark
  • Neil Diamond, Gilbert Becaud, Alan Lindgren, Richard Bennett, Doug Rhone The Jazz Singer
  • Jonathan Tunick, Lionel Richie, Thomas McClary Endless Love
  • Charles Fox, Dolly Parton 9 to 5
  • John Morris The Elephant Man

Best Album Package

Best Arrangement Of An Instrumental Recording

Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental Or Vocal

  • Winner:
    Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, Vladimir Ashkenazy     Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor
  • Guarneri Quartet The Complete String Quartets of Brahms and Schumann
  • Ray Still, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, Lynn Harrell Oboe Quartets (Mozart, J.C. Bach, Karl Stamitz, Wanhal)
  • Tokyo String Quartet Bartok: Quartets for Strings (6) (Complete)
  • Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman Bartok: Duos for 2 Violins

Best Classical Album

  • Winner:
    Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Isobel Buchanan, Mira Zakai)     Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor
  • Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic (solos: Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman) Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration
  • Vladimir Horowitz The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80
  • Richard Bonynge conducting the New York City Opera Orchestra (solos: Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti) Live from Lincoln Center, Sutherland, Horne, Pavarotti
  • Teresa Stratas The Unknown Kurt Weill

Best Classical Orchestral Recording

  • Winner:
    Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony     Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor
  • Simon Rattle conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra Holst: The Planets
  • James Levine conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (Deryck Cooke final version)
  • Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Symphonic Picture); Cuban Overture and Second Rhapsody
  • Christopher Hogwood, Jaap Schroder, conductors, Academy of Ancient Music Mozart: The Symphonies: Salzburg 1775-1983, Vol. 5

Best Classical Performance - Choral

  • Winner:
    Neville Marriner conducting the Chorus of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields     Haydn: The Creation
  • Richard Westenburg, choral conductor, Musica Sacra Chorus; Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic Verdi: Requiem
  • Thomas Peck, choral director, St. Louis Symphony Chorus; Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible from Music from the Films
  • Richard Cooke, choral conductor, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Eduardo Mata conducting the London Symphony Orff: Carmina Burana
  • Robert Shaw, conductor, Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Atlanta Boys'' Choir, Atlanta Symphony Orff: Carmina Burana

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman (Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic)     Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary CelebratioN
  • Dylana Jenson (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) Sibelius: Concerto for Violin in D Minor; Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
  • James Galway (Dutoit conducting the Royal Philharmonic) French Flute Concertos
  • Stanley Drucker (Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic) Corigliano: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra
  • Emanuel Ax (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra) Chopin: Concerto for Piano No. 1 in E Minor

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Vladimir Horowitz     The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80
  • Pinchas Zukerman (Marc Neikrug, accompanist) Virtuoso Violin
  • Itzhak Perlman (Samuel Sanders, accompanist) Itzhak Perlman Plays Fritz Kreisler, Album 3
  • Murray Perahia Bartok: Sonata for Piano (1926); Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs; Suite, Op. 14
  • Artur Rubinstein Artur Rubinstein, Schumann, Ravel, Debussy, Albeniz

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist

  • Winner:
    Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti (Richard Bonynge conducting the New York City Opera Orchestra)     Live from Lincoln Cneter, Sutherland, Horne, Pavarotti
  • Elly Ameling (Dalton Baldwin, accompanist) Think on Me
  • Teresa Stratas (Richard Woitach, accompanist) The Unknown Kurt Weill
  • Frederica von Stade (Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony) Ravel: Sheherazade
  • Barbara Hendricks (Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony) Del Tredici: Final Alice

Best Comedy Recording

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance

Best Country & Western Song

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

Best Engineered Recording

Best Engineered Recording - Classical

  • Winner:
    Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic; solos: Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman     Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration
  • Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Atlanta Boys'' Choir; solos: Blegen, Brown Orff: Carmina Burana; Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber
  • Eduardo Mata conducting the London Symphony; Richard Cooke conducting the London Symphony Chorus; solos: Hendricks, Aler, Hagegard Orff: Carmina Burana
  • James Levine conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (Deryck Cooke final version)
  • Simon Ruttle conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra, Ambroisian Singers Holst: The Planets

Best Ethnic Or Traditional Recording

Best Gospel Performance - Contemporary Or Inspirational

  • Winner:
    Imperials     Priority
  • Archers Spreadin' Like Wildfire
  • Amy Grant In Concert
  • Cynthia Clawson Finest Hour
  • DeGarmo & Key This Ain't Hollywood

Best Gospel Performance - Traditional

  • Winner:
    J.D. Summer, James Blackwood, Hovie Lister, Rosie Rozell, Jake Hess     The Masters V
  • Rambos Rambo Reunion
  • Happy Goodman Family Goin' Higher
  • Rusty Goodman Escape to the Light
  • Lanny Wolfe Trio Can't Stop the Music

Best Historical Album

Best Inspirational Performance

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

Best Instrumental Composition

  • Winner:
    Mike Post     Theme from Hill Street Blues
  • Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays As Falls Witchita, So Falls Wichita Falls
  • John Corigliano Altered States
  • Jerry Goldsmith The Slaves
  • Gerry Mulligan For an Unfinished Woman

Best Jazz Fusion Performance - Vocal Or Instrumental

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band

  • Winner:
    Gerry Mulligan and His Orchestra     Walk on the Water
  • Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass Tribute
  • Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band Tanuki's Night Out
  • Panama Francis & the Savoy Sultans Panama Francis and the Savoy Sultans, Vol. 2
  • Don Menza & His ''80''s Big Band Burnin' (Blues for Bird)

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Group

  • Winner:
    Chick Corea, Gary Burton     Chick Corea and Gary Burton in Concert, Zurich, October 28, 1979
  • Zoot Sims The Swinger
  • Al Cohn Nonpareil
  • Red Rodney featuring Ira Sullivan Live at the Village Vanguard
  • Vic Dickenson Vic Dickenson Quintet

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Soloist

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Female

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Male

Best Latin Recording

  • Winner:
    Clare Fischer     Guajira pa la Jeva
  • Laurindo Almeida, Charlie Byrd Brazilian Soul
  • Eddie Palmieri Eddie Palmieri
  • Dizzy Gillespie, Mongo Santamaria Summertime Digital at Montreaux, 1980
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Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Charles Mackerras conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Jiri Zahradnicek, Vaclav Zitek, Ivo Zidek)     Janacek: From the House of the Dead
  • Marck Janowski conducting the Munich Radio Orchestra; Bavarian Radio Chorus (solos: Eva Marton, Siegfried Jerusalem) Korngold: Violanta
  • Raymond Leppard conducting the London Philharmonic; Glyndebourne Chorus (solos: Frederica von Stade, Richard Stiwell) Monteverdi: Il Ritorno d' Ulisse in Patria
  • Lorin Maazel conducting the National Philharmonic; Ambrosian Opera Chorus (solos: Renata Scotto, Placido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Tito Gobbi) Puccini: Le Villi
  • Herbert van Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic; Chorus of Deutsche Opera Berlin (solos: Peter Hofmann, Dunja Veizovic, Kurt Moll, Jose van Dam, Siegmund Nimsgern, Victor von Halem) Wagner: Parsifal
  • Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Chorus (solos: Eberhard Waechter, Anja Silia) Berg: Wozzeck
  • Claudio Scimone conducting the I Soloisti Veneti, Chorus of Prague (solos: Marilyn Horne, Samuel Ramey, Kathleen Battle) Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

  • Winner:
    Mike Post featuring Larry Carlton     Theme from Hill Street Blues
  • Quincy Jones Velas
  • Lee Ritenour Rit
  • Earl Klugh Late Night Guitar
  • Louis Clark conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Hooked on Classics

Best Recording For Children

  • Winner:
    Muppets, Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Loretta Lynn, Tanya Tucker     Sesame Country
  • Pat Boone, various artists Ants'hillvania
  • Jim Henson, creator Big Bird Discovers the Orchestra
  • Janice Karman, Ross Bagdasarian, writers A Chipmunk Christmas (the Chipmunks & Santa Clause)
  • Soundtrack The Fox and the Hound

Best Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Performance

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Contemporary

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Traditional

Best Spoken Word, Documentary Or Drama Recording

  • Winner:
    Orson Welles     Donovan's Brain
  • James Mason Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
  • Ed McMahon 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
  • E.G. Marshall Justice Holmes' Decisions
  • Paul McCartney; Vic Garbarini, interviewer The McCartney Interview

Best Vocal Arrangement For Two Or More Voices

  • Winner:
    A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (Manhattan Transfer)     Gene Puerling
  • The Night We Called It a Day (Hi-Lo''s) Gene Puerling
  • Kafka (Manhattan Transfer) Bernard Kafka, Jay Graydon
  • (The World of) Confirmation (Manhattan Transfer) Milcho Leviev
  • Clare Fischer 2+2 (Du, Du)

Classical Producer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    James Mallinson
  • Robert Woods
  • Steven Epstein
  • Jay David Saks
  • Andrew Kazdin

Hall Of Fame

New Artist

Pop Female Vocalist

Pop Male Vocalist

Pop Vocal Group

Producer Of The Year

Record Of The Year

Rock Female Vocalist

Rock Male Vocalist

Rock Vocal Group

Song Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Donna Weiss, Jackie DeShannon     Bette Davis Eyes
  • Peter Allen, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Christopher Cross Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do)
  • Lionel Richie Endless Love
  • Bill Withers, William Salter, Ralph MacDonald Just the Two of Us
  • Dolly Parton 9 To 5

Video Of The Year

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