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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: Ellen DeGeneres
Date: February 25, 1997
City: New York City

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Best Album Notes

Best Alternative Music Performance

Best Bluegrass Album

Best Chamber Music Performance

Best Choral Performance

  • Winner:
    Andrew Litton, conductor; Neville Creed, David Hill, chorus masters     Belshazzar's Feast track from Walton: Belsshazzar's Feast; Suite from Henry V; etc.
  • Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor Schubert: Mass in E Flat
  • William Christie, conductor; Francois Bazola, chorus master Requiem track from Mozart: Requiem; Ave Verum Corpus
  • John Eliot Gardiner, conductor Danny Boy - Songs and Dancing Ballads by Percy Grainger
  • Ton Koopman, conductor; Simon Schouten, chorus master Bach: Complete Cantatas, Col. 1 (Der Herr Denket an Uns, Gott Ist Mein Kongi, etc.)

Best Classical Album

  • Winner:
    Leonard Slatkin conducting the National Symphony Orchestra; Male Choir of the Oratorio Society of Washington D.C.; Male Chorus of the Choral Arts Society of Washington     Corigliano: Of Rage and Remembrance (Symphony No. 1 etc)
  • Yefim Bronfman, piano; Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Los Angels Philharmonic Bartok: The 3 Piano Concertos
  • Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bartok: The Miraclulous Mandarin; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
  • Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Simon Preston, organ Copland: Dance Symphony; Short Symphony; Organ Symphony
  • Bryn Terfel, bassbaritone; James Levine conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Opera Arias (Works of Mozart, Wagner, Borodin, etc)
  • Gil Shaham, violin; Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra Prokofiev: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2; Sonata for Solo Violin

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Earl Wild, piano     The Romantic Master (Works of Saint-Saens, Handel, etc.)
  • Alan Feinberg, piano Wuorinen: Third Piano Sonata; Bagatelle, Etc.; Feldman: Palais de Mari
  • Radu Lupu, piano Schumann: Kinderscenen; Kreisleriana; etc.
  • Evgeny Kissin, piano Schumann: Fantasy; Liszt: Transcendental Etudes
  • Yefim Bronfman, piano Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 9

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Yefim Bronfman, piano (Esa-Pekka Solonen conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic)     Bartok: The 3 Piano Concertos
  • Gidon Kremer, violin (Kent Nagano conducting the London Symphony Orchestra) Violin Concerto track from Adams: Violin Concerto; Shaker Loops
  • Alfred Brendel, piano (Michael Gielen conducting the SWF Symphony; Orchestra Baden-Baden) Piano Concerto track from Schoenberg: Piano Concerto; The Chamber Symphonies
  • Gil Shaham, violin (Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra) Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2 track from Prokofiev: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, etc.
  • Truls Mork, cello (Mariss Jansons conducting the London Philharmonic) Shostakovich: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2

Best Classical Vocal Performance

  • Winner:
    Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone (James Levine conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra)     Opera Arias
  • Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano (Bengt Forsberg, piano) Wings in the Night - Swedish Songs
  • Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano (Jesus Lopez-Cobos conducting the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne) Where Shall I Fly - Handel & Mozart Arias
  • Lorraine Hunt, soprano (Kent Nagano conducting the Halle Orchestra) Phaedra track from Britten: The Rescue of Penelope; Phaedra
  • Sanford Sylvan, baritone (David Breitman, piano; Lydian String Quartet) Faure: L'Horizon Chimerique
  • Renee Fleming, soprano (Charles Mackerras conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's) Visions of Love - A Collection of Mozart Arias

Best Comedy Album

  • Winner:
    Al Franken     Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idio
  • Stan Freberg Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America, Vol. 2 (The Middle Years)
  • Professor Peter Schickele The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach
  • Dennis Miller The Rants
  • Adam Sandler What the Hell Happened to Me?

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Best Contemporary Composition

  • Winner:
    John Corigliano     String Quartet
  • John Adams Violin Concerto
  • Gunther Schuller Four Soundscapes
  • Einojuhani Rautavaara Angel of Light
  • Colin Mathews Fourth Sonata

Best Contemporary Folk Album

Best Contemporary Jazz Performance

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

Best Country & Western Album

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance

Best Country & Western Song

Best Country & Western Vocal Collaboration

  • Winner:
    Vince Gill, Alison Krauss & Union Station     High Lonesome Sound
  • Jeff Foxworthy, Alan Jackson Redneck Games
  • Lyle Lovett, Randy Newman Long Tall Texan
  • Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Trisha Yearwood, Lorrie Morgan, Marty Stuart, Little Texas, Tracy Lawrence, Terri Clark, Neal McCoy, Travis Tritt, John Berry Hope: Country Music's Quest for a Cure
  • Marty Stuart, Travis Triff Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

Best Engineered Album

Best Gospel Album By A Choir Or Chorus

  • Winner:
    Shirley Caesar's Outreach Convention Choir     Just a Word
  • Mississippi Mass Choir I'll See You in the Rapture
  • Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship Mass Choir A New Thing ...Experience the Fullness
  • Edwin Hawkins Music & Arts Seminar All Things Are Possible
  • Associates Gotta Feelin'

Best Hard Rock Performance

Best Historical Album

Best Instrumental Arrangement

  • Winner:
    Mr. Holland's Opus     An American Symphony
  • The Five Seasons Summer
  • The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band Sing, Sing, Sing
  • High Life Children of the Night
  • Firebird - Jazz Meets the Symphony No. 3 Charlie Parker: The Firebird (Medley)

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

Best Instrumental Composition

  • Winner:
    Herbie Hancock, Jean Hancock     Manhattan (Island of Lights and Love)
  • Wayne Shorter Midnight in Carlotta's Hair
  • Jorge Calandrelli The Fifth Season
  • Arturo Sandoval Real McBop
  • Billy Childs Aaron's Song

Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture Or Television

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Individual Or Group

  • Winner:
    Tales from the Hudson     Michael Brecker
  • The Hardbop Grandpop Horace Silver
  • The Child Within Billy Childs
  • Quartet West Charlie Haden
  • Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard Joe Lovano

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

  • Winner:
    Cabin Fever     Michael Brecker
  • Now Is the Hour Charlie Haden
  • Duke Ellington's Sound of Love Joe Lovano
  • Agua de Beber Gonzalo Rubalcaba

Best Jazz Vocal Performance

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance

  • Winner:
    Count Basie Orchestra     Live at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
  • Marcus Roberts with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Portraits in Blue
  • Mingus Big Band Live in Time
  • Maria Schneider Orchestra Coming About
  • Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass Even Canadians Get the Blues

Best Latin Jazz Performance

Best Latin Pop Performance

Best Metal Performance

Best Mexican-american/tejano Music Performance

  • Winner: La Mafia Un Millon De Rosas
  • Vincente Fernandez Vincente Fernandez y Sus Canciones
  • Jaime y los Chamacos En Vivo ...Puro Party Live!
  • Ramon Ayala y Sus Bravos del Norte Arrancame el Corazon
  • Fandango U.S.A. 10th Anniversary

Best Music Video - Long Form

Best Music Video - Short Form

Best Musical Album For Children

Best Musical Show Album

Best New Age Album

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Richard Hickox conducting the London Opera, London Symphony Chorus and City of London Sinfonia (solos: Langridge, Opie, Watson)     Britten: Peter Grimes
  • Thomas Dausgaard conducting the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Bonde-Hansen, Inger Dam-Jensen, Henning-Jensen, Mannov, Nielsen, Paevatalu, Reuter, Rorholm) Kunzen: Holger Danske
  • Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Berliner Philharmonic and Rundfunkchor Berlin (solos: Cachemaille, Holzmair, Moll, Orgonasova, Salminen, Schafer, Wottrich) Weber: Der Freischutz
  • Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Eric Ericson Chamber Chorus, Swedish Radio Chorus and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (solos: Bryn-Julson, Haskin, Hynninen) Dallapiccola: Il Prigioniero
  • Donald Runnicles conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the San Francisco Opera (solos: Hagley, Larmore, Upshaw) Gluck: Orphee et Eurydice

Best Orchestral Performance

  • Winner:
    Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Scenes from the Ballet)     Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony
  • Symphony No. 2 track from Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 2; Chantefleurs et Chantefables; Piano Concerto Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic
  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) Yuri Temirkanov conducting the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
  • Messiaen: Et Exspector Resurrectionem Mortuorum; Chronochromie; etc. Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra

Best Polka Album

  • Winner:
    Jimmy Sturr     Polka! All Night Long!
  • Walter Ostanek & Friends Putting It All To-gether
  • Lennon Gomulka, Chicago Push Irresistable You
  • Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones Music, Music, Music!
  • Frank Yankovic & Friends Songs of the Polka King

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Best Pop/contemporary Gospel Album

Best Rap Album

Best Rap Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Rap Performance - Solo

Best Recording Package

Best Recording Package - Boxed

Best Reggae Album

Best Rhythm & Blues Album

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 Gospel Album

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Best Small Ensemble Performance With Or Without Conductor

  • Winner:
    Pierre Boulez conducting the Ensemble Intercontemporair     Explosante-Fixe track from Boulez Conducts Boulez
  • Federico Maria Sardelli, conductor; Modo Antiquo Vivaldi: Concerti per Molti Istomenti
  • Oliver Knussen, conductor Suns Dance track from Matthews: Broken Symmetry; Fourth Sonata; etc.
  • New Century Chamber Orchestra Shostakovich: Written with the Hearts of Blood
  • Gidon Kremer, violin Hommage a Piazzolla

Best Song Written Specifically For A Motion Picture Or Television

Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel Or Bluegrass Gospel Album

Best Spoken Word Album For Children

Best Spoken Word Or Nonmusical Album

  • Winner:
    Hillary Rodham Clinton     It Takes a Village
  • Lauren Bacall, Martin Landau, Jack Lemmon, Gregory Peck Harry S. Truman: A Journey to Independence
  • Garrison Keillor The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Edward Asner, Ellen Burstyn, CCH Pounder, Alfre Woodard Grow Old Along with Me, The Best Is Yet To Be
  • Charles Kuralt Charles Kuralt's Amerca

Best Traditional Blues Album

Best Traditional Folk Album

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album

  • Winner: Cissy Houston Face to Face
  • Walter Hawkins & the Hawkins Family New Dawning
  • Slim & the Supreme Angels, Mighty Clouds of Joy, Williams Brothers, various artists Together As One
  • Dorothy Norwood Shake the Devil Off
  • Albertina Walker Let's Go Back: Live in Chicago

Best Tropical Latin Performance

Best World Music Album

Classical Producer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Joanna Nickrenz
  • Gary Schultz
  • Martin Sauer
  • Manfred Eicher
  • James Lamminson

Hall Of Fame

Lifetime Achievement Awards

New Artist

Pop Album

Pop Female Vocalist

Pop Male Vocalist

Pop Vocal Collaboration

  • Winner:
    Natalie Cole, Nat King Cole     When I Fall in Love
  • Sting, John McLaughlin, Dominic Miller, Vinnie Colaiuta The Wind Cries Mary
  • Frank Sinatra, Luciano Pavarotti My Way
  • Brandy, Tamia, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan Missing You
  • Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello God Give Me Strength
  • Whitney Houston, CeCe Winans Count on Me

Pop Vocal Group

Producer Of The Year

Record Of The Year

Rock Album

Rock Female Vocalist

Rock Male Vocalist

Rock Song

  • Winner:
    Give Me One Reason     Tracy Chapman
  • Wonderwall Noel Gallagher
  • Cry Love John Hiatt
  • 6th Avenue Heartache Jakob Dylan
  • Stupid Girl Garbage
  • Too Much Dave Matthews Band

Rock Vocal Group

Song Of The Year

Traditional Pop Performance

Trustees Award

  • Winner:
    Herb Alpert & Jerry Moss
  • Winner:
    Burt Bacharach & Hal David
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