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Best Chamber Music Performance

2011 • 53rd Annual Grammy Awards

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 2009 and Aug 30, 2010

2011 Winner is Parker Quartet with "Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2"

Nominees 2011

Winners

Year Winner Work
2011 Parker Quartet, Jessica Bodner, Daniel Chong, Karen Kim, Kee-Hyun Kim Ligeti: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
2010 Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Intimate Letters
2009 Pacifica Quartet, Sibbi Bernhardsson, Simin Ganatra, Masumi Per Rostad, Brandon Vamos Carter, Elliott: String Quartets Nos. 1 And 5
2008 Eighth Blackbird, Matt Albert, Molly Alicia Barth, Matthew Duvall, Lisa Kaplan, Michael Maccaferri, Nicholas Photinos Strange Imaginary Animals
2007 Emerson String Quartet, Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Intimate Voices
2006 Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets
2005 Mikhail Pletnev & Martha Argerich Prokofiev (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella - Suite For Two Pianos/Ravel: Ma Mère L'Oye
2004 Jennifer Culp, Hank Dutt, David Harrington, John Sherba Berg: Lyric Suite
2003 Edward Dusinberre, András Fejér, Károly Schranz, Roger Tapping Beethoven: String Quartets ("Razumovsky" Op. 59, 1-3; "Harp" Op. 74)
2002 Brian Dembow, Stephen J. Erdody, Kathleen Lenski, Steven Miller, Sara Parkins Haydn: The Complete String Quartets
2001 Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Shostakovich: The String Quartets
2000 Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas (Nos. 1-3, Op. 12; Nos. 1-3, Op. 30; "Spring" Sonata)
1999 Andre Previn, Gil Shaham American Scenes - Works Of Copland, Previn, Barber & Gershwin
1998 Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Beethoven: The String Quartets
1997 James Dunham, Paul Katz, William Preucil, Peter Salaff Corigliano: String Quartet
1996 Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman Brahms/Beethoven/Mozart: Clarinet Trios
1995 Daniel Barenboim, Dale Clevenger, Larry Combs, Daniele Damiano, Hansjorg Schellenberger Beethoven/Mozart: Quintets (Chicago-Berlin)
1994 Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2/Barber: String Quartet Op. 11 (American Originals)
1993 Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma Brahms: Sonatas For Cello & Piano
1992 Emanuel Ax, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma, Isaac Stern Brahms: Piano Quartets (Op. 25 & 26)
1991 Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas
1990 Eugene Drucker, Lawrence Dutton, David Finckel, Philip Setzer Bartók: 6 String Quartets
1989 David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie, Murray Perahia, Georg Solti Bartók: Sonata For Two Pianos & Percussion
1988 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell, Itzhak Perlman Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios
1987 Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma Beethoven: Cello And Piano Sonata No. 4 In C & Variations
1986 Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma Brahms: Cello And Piano Sonatas In E Minor And F
1985 Earl Carlyss, Joel Krosnick, Robert Mann, Samuel Rhodes Beethoven: The Late String Quartets
1984 Mstislav Rostropovich, Rudolf Serkin Brahms: Sonata For Cello And Piano In E Minor, Op. 38 And Sonata In F, Op. 99
1983 Richard Goode, Richard Stoltzman Brahms: The Sonatas For Clarinet & Piano, Op. 120
1982 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell, Itzhak Perlman Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio In A Minor
1981 Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman Play Music For Two Violins (Moszkowski: Suite For Two Violins/Shostakovich: Duets/Prokofiev: Sonata For Two Violins)
1980 Dennis Russell Davies Copland: Appalachian Spring
1979 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Itzhak Perlman Beethoven: Sonatas For Violin And Piano
1978 Earl Carlyss, Joel Krosnick, Robert Mann, Samuel Rhodes Schoenberg: Quartets For Strings (Complete)
1977 David Munrow The Art Of Courtly Love
1976 Pierre Fournier, Artur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng Schubert: Trios Nos. 1 In B Flat, Op. 99 And 2 In E Flat, Op. 100 (Piano Trios)
1975 Pierre Fournier, Artur Rubinstein, Henryk Szeryng Brahms: Trios (Complete)/Schumann: Trio No. 1 In D Minor
1974 Gunther Schuller Joplin: The Red Back Book
1973 Julian Bream, John Christopher Williams Julian And John (Works By Lawes, Carulli, Albeniz, Granados)
1972 Claus Adam, Earl Carlyss, Robert Mann, Samuel Rhodes Debussy: Quartet In G Minor/Ravel: Quartet In F
1971 Eugene Istomin, Leonard Rose, Isaac Stern Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios
1970 Chicago Brass Ensemble, Cleveland Brass Ensemble, Philadelphia Brass Ensemble Gabrieli: Antiphonal Music Of Gabrieli
1969 E. Power Biggs, Vittorio Negri, Tarr Brass Ensemble Glory Of Gabrieli Vol. II - Canzonas For Brass, Winds, Strings And Organ
1968 Yehudi Menuhin, Ravi Shankar West Meets East
1967 Boston Symphony Chamber Players Boston Symphony Chamber Players - Works Of Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Fine, Copland, Carter, Piston
1966 Claus Adam, Isidore Cohen, Raphael Hillyer, Robert Mann Bartók: The Six String Quartets - Nos. 1-6
1965 Noah Greenberg It Was A Lover And His Lass
1965 Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky Beethoven: Trio No. 1 In E Flat, Op. 1 #1
1964 Julian Bream Evening Of Elizabethan Music
1963 Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, William Primrose The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts With Primrose, Pennario And Guests
1962 Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky, William Primrose Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 8/Kodaly: Duo For Violin And Cello, Op. 7
1961 Laurindo Almeida Conversations With The Guitar
1960 Artur Rubinstein Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 In C (Waldstein) And No. 18 In E Flat
1959 Alvin Dinkin, Paul Shure, Eleanor Aller Slatkin, Felix Slatkin Beethoven: Quartet 130
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