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Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist(s) (without orchestra)

2011 • 53rd Annual Grammy Awards

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

2011 Winner is Paul Jacobs with "Messiaen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement"

Nominees 2011

Winners

Year Winner Work
2011 Paul Jacobs Messiaen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement
2010 Sharon Isbin Journey To The New World
2009 Gloria Cheng Piano Music Of Salonen, Stucky, And Lutoslawski
2008 Garrick Ohlsson Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3
2007 Maurizio Pollini Chopin: Nocturnes
2006 Evgeny Kissin Scriabin, Medtner, Stravinsky
2005 David Russell Aire Latino (Morel, Villa-Lobos, Ponce, Etc.)
2004 Emanuel Ax Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 29, 31, 34, 35 & 49
2003 Murray Perahia Chopin: Études, Op. 10 & Op. 25
2002 Truls Mork Britten Cello Suites (1-3)
2001 Sharon Isbin Dreams Of A World - Works Of Lauro, Ruiz-Pipo & Duarte
2000 Vladimir Ashkenazy Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
1999 Murray Perahia Bach: English Suites Nos. 1, 3 & 6
1998 Janos Starker Bach: Suites For Solo Cello Nos. 1-6
1997 Earl Wild The Romantic Master - Works Of Saint-Saens, Handel
1996 Radu Lupu Schubert: Piano Sonatas (B Flat Major And A Major)
1995 Emanuel Ax Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Nos. 32, 47, 53, 59
1994 John Browning Barber: The Complete Solo Piano Music
1993 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz - Discovered Treasures (Chopin, Liszt, Scarlatti, Scriabin, Clementi)
1992 Alicia De Larrocha Granados: Goyescas; Allegro De Concierto; Danza Lenta
1991 Vladimir Horowitz The Last Recording
1990 Andras Schiff Bach: English Suites
1989 Alicia De Larrocha Albeniz: Iberia, Navarra, Suite Espagnola
1988 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz In Moscow
1986 Vladimir Ashkenazy Ravel: Gaspard De La Nuit; Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales
1985 Yo-Yo Ma Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites
1984 Glenn Gould Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 12 & 13
1983 Glenn Gould Bach: The Goldberg Variations
1982 Vladimir Horowitz The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80
1981 Itzhak Perlman The Spanish Album
1980 Vladimir Horowitz The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79
1979 Vladimir Horowitz The Horowitz Concerts 1977/78
1978 Artur Rubinstein Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 In E Flat/Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op. 12
1977 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz Concerts 1975/76
1976 Nathan Milstein Bach: Sonatas And Partitas For Violin Unaccompanied
1975 Alicia De Larrocha Albeniz: Iberia
1974 Vladimir Horowitz Scriabin: Horowitz Plays Scriabin
1973 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz Plays Chopin
1972 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas)
1966 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
1965 Vladimir Horowitz Vladimir Horowitz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin
1964 Vladimir Horowitz The Sound Of Horowitz
1963 Vladimir Horowitz Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz
1962 Laurindo Almeida Reverie For Spanish Guitar
1961 Laurindo Almeida The Spanish Guitars Of Laurindo Almeida
1960 Artur Rubinstein Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 In C (Waldstein) And No. 18 In E Flat
1959 Andres Segovia Segovia Golden Jubilee
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