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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: Garry Shandling
Date: February 28, 1994
City: New York City

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Best Album Notes

Best Alternative Music Album

Best Arrangement On An Instrumental

  • Winner:
    Dave Grusin     Mood Indigo
  • Vince Mendoza, Arif Mardin Suite Fraternidad (1st and 2nd Movements)
  • GRP All-Star Big Band Oleo
  • Vince Mendoza, Arif Mardin Buleria
  • Lalo Schifrin Dizzy Gillespie Fireworks

Best Bluegrass Album

Best Chamber Music Performance

  • Winner:
    Emerson String Quartet     Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2/Barber: String Quartet, Op. 11 (American Originals)
  • Girdon Kremer, violin; Martha Argerich, piano Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2; Melodies
  • Janos Starker, cello; Rudolf Firkusny, piano Martinu: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1-3
  • Itzhak Perlman, violin; Pinchas Zukerman, viola; Lynn Harrell, cello Beethoven: Complete String Trios, Opp. 3, 8 and 9
  • Emanuel Ax, piano; Isaac Stern, violin; Jaime Laredo, viola; Yo-Yo Ma, cello Faure: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 and 2

Best Choral Performance

  • Winner:
    Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; Margaret Hillis, choral director     Bartok: Cantata Profana
  • Paul McCreesh conducting the Gabrieli Consort and Players Venetian Vespers
  • Leonard Slatkin conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
  • Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint-Sebastien
  • Roger Norrington conducting the London Classical Players and Schutz Choir of London Brahms: A German Requiem

Best Classical Album

  • Winner:
    Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; John Aler, tenor; John Tomlinson, baritone     Bartok: The Wooden Prince and Cantata Profana
  • Paul McCreesh conducting the Gabrieli Consort and Players Venetian Vespers
  • Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony; McNair, Murray, Stutzmann, principal soloists Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint-Sebastien
  • James Levine conducting the Chicago Symphony; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Berg: Violin Concerto; Rihm: Time Chant
  • Cecilia Bartoli, soprano; Gyorgy Fischer, piano If You Love Me (18th Century Italian Songs)

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    John Browning, piano     Barber: The Complete Solo Piano Music
  • Leon Fleisher, piano Leon Fleisher Recital (Piano Works for Left Hand - Tackacs, Saint-Saens, Bach, Scriabin)
  • Richard Goode, piano Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Nos. 1-4, 8-12, 13-15, 19-27
  • Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano Alkan: Concerto for Solo Piano
  • Andras Schiff, piano Bach: 6 French Suites, BWV 812-17

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin (James Levine conducting the Chicago Symphony)     Berg: Violin Concerto; Rihm: Time Chant
  • Gil Shaham, violin (Giuseppe Sinopoli conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra) Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Sibelius: Violin Concerto
  • Leon Fleisher, piano (Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony) Ravel: Piano Concerto for Left Hand; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 for Left Hand; Britten: Piano D
  • Richard Stoltzman, clarinet (Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony) Copland: Clairnet Concerto; Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata; Gershwin: 3 Preludes
  • Stephen Kovacevich, piano (Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting the London Philharmonic) Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1

Best Classical Vocal Performance

  • Winner:
    Arleen Auger, soprano (Joel Revzen, accompanist)     The Art of Arleen Auger (Works of Larsen, Purcell, Schumann, Mozart)
  • Anne Sofie von Otter, soprano (Bengt Forsberg, accompanist) Grieg: Lieder
  • Christa Ludwig, contralto (Charles Spencer, accompanist) Farewell to Salzburg (Works of Brahms, Mahler, Schumann, Strauss)
  • Sylvia McNair, soprano (John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists) Exsultate Jubilate (Works of Handel, Mozart)
  • Gabriela Benackova, soprano (Rudolf Firkusny, accompanist) Dvorak, Janacek, Martinu: Lieder

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Best Contemporary Composition

  • Winner:
    Oliver Knussen conducting the London Sinfonietta; Olc Bohn, violin     Violin Concerto
  • Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Orphee-Serenade
  • Tokyo String Quartet A Way Alone
  • Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony; Faye Robinson, soprano Byzantium
  • Lynn Harrell, cello; Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Cello Concerto

Best Contemporary Folk Album

Best Contemporary Jazz Performance - Instrumental

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance

Best Country & Western Song

Best Country & Western Vocal Collaboration

  • Winner:
    Reba McEntire, Linda Davis     Does He Love You
  • Reba McEntire, Vince Gill The Heart Won't Lie
  • Dolly Parton, Tanya Tucker, Billy Ray Cyrus, Kathy Mattea, Pam Tillis, Mary Chapin Carpenter Romeo
  • Ralph Stanley, Dwight Yoakam Miner's Prayer
  • Clint Black, Wynonna A Bad Goodbye

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

Best Engineered Album

Best Engineered Recording - Classical

  • Winner:
    Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony     Bartok: The Wooden Prince and Cantata Profana
  • Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the New World Symphony Tangazo - Music of Latin America
  • Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony and Chamber Chorus Haydn: The Creation
  • Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint-Sebastien
  • Kent Nagano conducting the Orchestra of the Opera de Lyon Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer

Best Hard Rock Vocal Performance

Best Historical Album

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

Best Instrumental Composition

Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture Or Television

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Individual Or Group

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

Best Jazz Vocal Performance

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance

  • Winner:
    Miles Davis, Quincy Jones     Miles and Quincy Live at Montreux
  • Rob McConnell The Boss Brass, Our 25th Year
  • Johnny Otis & His Orchestra Spirit of the Black Territory Bands
  • GRP All-Star Big Band, Tom Scott Dave Grusin Presents GRP All-Star Big Band Live
  • Jimmy Heath Little Man, Big Band

Best Latin Pop Album

Best Metal Vocal Performance

Best Mexican-american Album

Best Musical Album For Children

Best Musical Show Album

Best New Age Album

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    John Nelson conducting the English Chamber Orchestra and Ambrosian Opera Chorus (solos: Battle, Horne, Ramey, Aler, McNair, Chance, Mackie, Doss)     Handel: Semele
  • Valery Gergiev conducting the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus, St. Petersburg (solos: Gergalov, Prokina, Gregoriarn, Borodina, Okhotnikov, Gerelo) Prokofiev: War and Peace
  • Riccardo Muti conducting the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala (solos: Vaness, Allen, Winbergh, Surian, Brunet) Gluck: Iphigenie en Tauride
  • Kent Nagano conducting the Orchestra of the Opera de Lyon and the London Opera Chorus (solos: Maddalena, Hammons, Sylvan, Friedman, Nadler) Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer
  • Charles Mackerras conducting the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and Choir (solos: Barstow, Langridge, Opie, Kenny, Jones, Summers, Van Allan, Terfel, White) Britten: Gloriana

Best Orchestral Performance

  • Winner:
    Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony     Bartok: The Wooden Prince
  • Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Ives: Symphony No. 3; Three Places in New England; The Unanswered Question; Central Park in the Dark
  • Ingo Metzmacher conducting the Ensemble Modern Ives: A Portrait of Charles Ives (tracks 1-4, 6-10, 15-21, 23-25)
  • Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra Debussy: Images; Printemps; Prelude a l'Apres-Midi d'un Faune
  • David Zinman conducting the Baltimore Symphony Barber: Adagio; Symphony No. 1; The School for Scandal; Essays

Best Polka Album

  • Winner:
    Walter Ostanek & His Band     Accordionally Yours
  • Polka Family Band Polka Music Fan
  • Lenny Gomulka, Chicago Push Most Requested Hits
  • Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra Saturday Night Polka
  • Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones A New Batch of Polkas

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Best Pop/contemporary Gospel Album

Best Rap Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Rap Performance - Solo

Best Recording Package

Best Reggae Album

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

  • Winner:
    Janet Jackson, James Harris III, Terry Lewis     That's the Way Loves Go
  • Raphael Wiggins, Carl Wheeler Anniversary
  • Luther Vandross, Reed Vertelney Heaven Knows
  • Luther Vandross, Marcus Miller Little Miracles (Happen Every Day)
  • Babyface, Daryl Simmons Can We Talk

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male

Best Rock Gospel Album

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Best Song Written Specifically For A Motion Picture Or Television

  • Winner:
    Alan Menken, Tim Rice     A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme) (Aladdin)
  • Steve DuBerry, Lulu Lawrie, Bill Lawrie I Don't Wanna Fight (What's Love Got to Do with It)
  • David Foster, Linda Thompson I Have Nothing (The Bodyguard)
  • Allan Rich, Jud Friedman Run to You (The Bodyguard)
  • Alan Menken, Howard Ashman Friend Like Me (Aladdin)

Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel, Or Bluegrass Gospel Album

Best Spoken Comedy Album

  • Winner: George Carlin Jammin' in New York
  • Leslie Nielsen Leslie Nielsen: The Naked Truth
  • Garrison Keillor Lake Wobegon U.S.A.
  • Erma Bombeck A Marriage Made in Heaven or Too Tired for an Affair
  • Al Franken You're Good Enough, You're Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like You!

Best Spoken Word Album For Children

  • Winner:
    Audrey Hepburn     Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales
  • Various Artists Aladdin Sound and Story Theater
  • Muppets, Michael Caine, various others The Muppet Christmas Carol Story Album
  • John Cleese Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (Dr. Seuss)
  • Danny Glover, Dr. John Brer Rabbit and Boss Lion

Best Spoken Word Or Nonmusical Album

Best Traditional Blues Album

Best Traditional Folk Album

  • Winner: The Chieftains The Celtic Harp
  • Steve Riley, Manou Playboys Trace of Time
  • R. Carlos Nakai, William Eaton, Black Lodge Singers Ancestral Voices
  • Jody Stecher, Kate Brislin Our Town
  • Bill Morrissey, Greg Brown Friend of Mine
  • Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares Melody, Rhythm and Harmony

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album

Best Tropical Latin Album

Best World Music Album

Classical Producer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Judith Sherman
  • Michael Haas
  • Andrew Cornall
  • Adam Stern
  • Robina G. Young

Hall Of Fame

Legend Award

Lifetime Achievement Awards

New Artist

Pop Female Vocalist

Pop Male Vocalist

Pop Vocal Group

  • Winner:
    Peabo Bryson, Regina Belle     A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)
  • Celine Dion, Clive Griffin When I Fall in Love
  • Barbra Streisand, Michael Crawford The Music of the Night
  • REM Man On The Moon
  • Vanessa Williams, Brian McKnight Love Is

Producer Of The Year

Record Of The Year

Rock Group Vocal Performance

Rock Solo Vocal Performance

Rock Song

Song Of The Year

Traditional Pop Performance

Trustees Award

  • Winner:
    Norman Granz
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