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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: Kelsey Grammer
Date: February 24, 1998
City: New York City

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Alternative Music

Bluegrass Album

Chamber Music Performance

  • Winner:
    Emerson String Quartet     Beethoven: The String Quartets
  • Kronos Quartet Early Music: Lachryma Antiqua
  • Jaime Laredo, Cho-Liang Lin, Yo-Yo Ma, Sharon Robinson, Isaac Stern Schubert/Boccherini: Quintets
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis The Berlin Recital
  • Beaux Arts Trio Beaux Arts Tiro Plays Turnia, Granados

Choir Or Chorus Gospel Album

Choral Performance

  • Winner: Robert Shaw Adams: Harmonium/Rachmaninoff: The Bells
  • Richar dHickox Dyson: the Cantebury Pilgrims; Overture: At the Tabard Inn; In Honour of the City
  • John Eliot Gardiner Haydn: The Creation
  • James Paul Paray: Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc
  • Fran Welster-Most Bruckner: Messe No. 3 in F Minor; Te Deum

Classical Album

  • Winner:
    Philadelphia Orchestra     Premieres - Cello Concertos
  • The Cleveland Orchestra Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
  • Scottis Chamber Orchestra Brahms: The Four Symphonies: Academic Festival Overture, Etc
  • Emerson String Quartet Beethoven: The String Quartets
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg

Classical Contemporary Composition

  • Winner:
    John Adams     Adams: El Dorado
  • Richard Danielpour Danielpour: Concerto for Orch:
  • Per Norgard Norgard: Symp. No. 5
  • Lowell Liebermann Liebermann: Con. No. 2 for Piano and Orch, Op. 36
  • Aaron Jay Kernis Kernis: Second Symphony

Classical Orchestral Performance

  • Winner:
    Pierre Boulez conducting The Cleveland Orchstra     Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
  • Riccardo Chailly conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra Shostakovich: The Dance Album
  • Franz Welser-Most conduting the Philadelphia Orchestra Korngold: Sym. in F Sharp, Op. 40
  • Christopher Lyndon-Gee conducting the Arnhem Phil. Orchestra Markevitch: Complete Orchestral Musica, Vol. 1
  • Charles Mackerras conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Brahms: The Four Symhonies: Academic Festival Overture

Classical Producer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Steven Epstein
  • Andrew Keener
  • Wolf Erichson
  • Judith Sherman
  • J. Tamblyn Henderson Jr.

Classical Vocal Performance

Contemporary Blues Album

Contemporary Folk Album

Contemporary Jazz Performance

Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

Country Album

Country Collaboration

  • Winner:
    Trisha Yearwood, Garth Brooks     In Another's Eyes
  • Patty Loveless, George Jones You Don't Seem to Miss Me
  • Clint Black, Martina McBride Still Holding On
  • Tim McGraw, Faith Hill It's Your Love
  • Toby Keith, Sting I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying

Country Female Vocalist

Country Instrumental Performance

Country Male Vocalist

  • Winner:
    Pretty Little Adriana     Vince Gill
  • Something That We Do Clint Black
  • Rusty Cage Johnny Cash
  • Carrying Your Love with Me George Strait
  • Peach Pickin' Time Down in Georgia Willie Nelson

Country Song

  • Winner:
    Bob Carlisle, Jeff Carson, Raybon Brothers     Butterfly Kisses
  • Trisha Yearwood, Garth Brooks In Another's Eyes
  • Tim McGraw, Faith Hill It's Your Love
  • Pam Tillis All The Good Ones Are Gone
  • Deana Carter, Rhonda Hart Did I Shave My Legs For This?

Country Vocal Group

Dance Recording

Hall Of Fame

Hard Rock Performance

Historical Album

Instrumental Arrangement

Instrumental Arrangement With Accompanying Vocal(s)

  • Winner:
    Slide Hampton     Cotton Tail
  • Mike Renzi The Summer Knows
  • John Clayton My Heart Belongs to Daddy
  • Don Sebesky Our Love is Here to Stay
  • Arif Mardin Laura

Instrumental Composition

Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Yo-Yo Ma, David Ziman     Premieres - Cello Concerto (Works of Danielpour, Krchnner, Rouse)
  • Richard Goode Mozart: Piano Cons. Nos. 18 & 20
  • Martha Argerich, Claudio Abbado Tchaikovsky: Piano Con. No. 1
  • Joshua Bell, David Zinman Barber/Walton: Violin Concertos/Block: Baal Shem
  • Evelyn Glennie, Leonard Slatkin Schwanter: Con. for Percussion and Orch.

Instrumental Soloist(s) Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Janos Starker     Bach: Suites for Solo Cello Nos. 1 to 6
  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard Liegeti: Works for Piano
  • Murray Perahia Murray Perahia Plays Handel and Scarlatti
  • Leif Ove Andsnes Schumann: Piano Son. No. 1; Fantasy in C
  • Arcadi Volodos Volodos, Piano Transcriptions

Jazz Instrumental Performance

Jazz Instrumental Solo

  • Winner:
    Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton     Stardust
  • Tommy Flanagan Dear Old Stockholm
  • Buddy DeFranco You Must Believe in Swing
  • Brad Mehldau Blame It on My Youth
  • Antonio Hart The Community

Jazz Vocal Performance

Large Jazz Ensemble Performance

  • Winner:
    Joe Henderson Big Band     Joe Henderson Big Band
  • Phil Woods & the Festival Orchestra Celebration!
  • J.J. Johnson The Brass Orchestra
  • Bill Holman Brilliant Colors
  • Anthony Wilson Anthony Wilson

Latin Jazz Performance

Latin Pop Performance

Latin Rock/alternative Performance

Life Achievement Awards

Long Form Music Video

Metal Performance

  • Winner:
    Aenema     Tool
  • Trust
  • No Place to Hide KoRn
  • Drowning in a Daydream Corrosion of Conformity
  • Cemetery Gates Pantera

Mexican-american/tejano Music Performance

Musical Album For Children

New Age Album

New Artist

Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Georg Solti     Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg
  • William Christie Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
  • Valery Gergiev Glinka: Russlan and Lydumila
  • Lothar Zagrosek Braunfels: Die Vogel
  • Georg Solti Mozart Don Giovanni

Original Soundtrack

Polka Album

  • Winner:
    Jimmy Sturr     Living on Polka Time
  • Walter Ostanek Moments to Remember
  • Lenny Gomulka & the Chicago Push Home Is Where the Heart Is
  • John Gora & Gorale Duty Free Polkas
  • Frank Yankovic & Friends Sonngs of the Polka King

Pop Album

  • Winner:
    Hourglass     James Taylor
  • Travelling Without Moving Jamiroquai
  • The Dance Fleetwood Mac
  • Surfacing Sarah McLachlan
  • Paula Cole This Fire

Pop Collaboration

  • Winner:
    John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison     Don't Look Back
  • Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion Tell Him
  • Barbra Streisand, Bryan Adams I Finally Found Someone
  • Babyface, Stevie Wonder How Come, How Long
  • Tony Bennett, Billie Holiday God Bless the Child

Pop Female Vocalist

Pop Instrumental Performance

Pop Male Vocalist

Pop Vocal Group

Pop/contemporary Gospel Album

Producer Of The Year

R&b Album

R&b Female Vocalist

R&b Group Vocalist

R&b Male Vocalist

R&b Song

Rap Album

Rap Duo Or Group Performance

Rap Solo Performance

Record Of The Year

Recording Package

  • Winner:
    Hugh Brown, Al Q, Jeff Smith     Titanic - Music As Heard on the Fateful Voyage
  • Stefan Sagmeister Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon
  • Peter Grant, Stephanie Hughes Free Mars
  • Johann Zambryski Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
  • Julian Peploe The Planet Sleeps

Recording Package - Boxed

  • Winner:
    Hugh Brown, David Gorman, Rachel Gutek     Beg Scream & Shout! The Big Ol' Box of '60s Soul
  • Patricia Lie The Complete Bill Evans on Verve
  • Giulio Turturro The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armsrtong on Verve
  • Carol Bobolts, Laurie Goldman, Jack O'Neil Cuba: I Am Time
  • Bryan Lasley Shakdown! The Texas Tapes Revisted

Reggae Album

Remixer Of The Year

Rock Album

Rock Female Vocalist

Rock Gospel Album

Rock Instrumental Performance

Rock Male Vocalist

Rock Song

Rock Vocal Group

Short Form Music Video

Small Ensemble Performance

  • Winner:
    Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmonic     Hindemith: Kammermusick No. 1 with Finale
  • Sian Edwards, Ensemble Modern Adams: Chamber Sympohony; Shaker Loops
  • Reinhard Goebel, Musica Antiqua Koln Chaconne
  • Philip Pickett, Musicians of the Globe Shakespeare's Musick
  • Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars Ockeghem: Miss de Plus en Plus
  • Philippe Herreweghe, Ens. Vocal Europeen Schein: The Fountains of Israe, Sacred Madrigals

Song Of The Year

Song Written For Motion Picture Or Television

Southern Gospel, Country Gospel Or Bluegrass Gospel Album

Spoken Comedy Album

  • Winner: Chris Rock Roll with the New
  • Julia Sweeney God said ha!
  • Garrison Keillor Garrison Keillor's Comedy Theatre
  • Drew Carey Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined
  • Bob Newhart Button Down Concert

Spoken Word Album

Spoken Word Album For Children

Traditional Blues Album

Traditional Folk Album

  • Winner:
    BeauSoleil     L'Amour ou la Folie
  • The Hackberry Ramblers Deep Water
  • New Lost City Ramblers There Ain't No Way Out
  • Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin Heart Songs: The Old Time Country Songs of Utah Phillips
  • Jo-El Sonnier Cajun Pride

Traditional Pop Performance

Traditional Soul Gospel Album

Tropical Latin Performance

Trustees Award

  • Winner:
    Frances Preston
  • Winner:
    Richard Rodgers
  • Winner:
    Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland

World Music Album

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