Georg Solti - The Last Recording (Bartok: Cantana Profana/Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus/Weiner: Serenade) (Album).
Tamas Bubno, Kalman Strausz, Gabriella Thesz
41st Annual Grammy Awards
Best Classical Album - Nominee
Georg Solti - The Last Recording (Bartok: Cantata Profana/Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus/Weiner: Serenade) (Album).
Tamas Bubno, Kalman Strausz, Gabriella Thesz, Georg Solti, Chris Hazell
40th Annual Grammy Awards
Best Opera Recording - Nominee
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Album).
Renee Fleming, Ann Murray, Michele Pertusi, Georg Solti, Bryn Terfel, Michael Woolcock
40th Annual Grammy Awards
Best Opera Recording - Winner
Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg.
Ben Heppner, Herbert Lippert, Karita Mattila, Alan Opie, Rene Pape, Jose Van Dam, Iris Vermillion, Georg Solti, Michael Woolcock
40th Annual Grammy Awards
Best Classical Album - Nominee
Wagner: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg (Album).
Ben Heppner, Herbert Lippert, Karita Mattila, Alan Opie, Rene Pape, Georg Solti, Jose Van Dam, Iris Vermillion, Michael Woolcock
35th Annual Grammy Awards
Best Opera Recording - Winner
R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten.
Hildegard Behrens, Placido Domingo, Sumi Jo, Reinhild Runkel, Jose Van Dam, Julia Varady, Georg Solti, Christopher Raeburn, Stephen Trainor, Morten Winding
35th Annual Grammy Awards
Best Classical Album - Nominee
R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Album).
Hildegard Behrens, Placido Domingo, Sumi Jo, Reinhild Runkel, Georg Solti, Jose Van Dam, Julia Varady, Christopher Raeburn, Stephen Trainor, Morten Winding
34th Annual Grammy Awards
Best Choral Performance - Winner
Bach: Mass In B Minor.
Georg Solti
33rd Annual Grammy Awards
Best Orchestral Performance - Nominee
31st Annual Grammy Awards
Best Chamber Music Performance - Winner
Bartók: Sonata For Two Pianos & Percussion.
David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie, Murray Perahia, Georg Solti
About Georg Solti
Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music — that is the death of a musician.
Born Georg Solti on Oct. 21, 1912, in Budapest, Hungary. Died Sept. 5, 1997, in Antibes, France
Orchestral conductor George Solti was the longtime leader and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. With CSO and other first-rate orchestras around the world, Solti made more than 250 recordings. He established a reputation for being an intense and dynamic conductor with his Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra series of recordings of Wagner's Ring cycle, released between 1958 and 1965.
The incredibly prolific Solti won 31 GRAMMYs in his lifetime, and he currently is the top GRAMMY winner of all time. His first win was for 1962 for Best Opera Recording for his rendition of Verdi's Aida. His final win was for 1997, a Best Opera Recording award for his conducting of Wagner's Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg.
Solti was a rising star in the European classical scene of the 1930s, but his career was imperiled with the rise of the Nazi's in Germany. Solti, of Jewish descent, sought refuge in Switzerland. Travel and work restrictions made it impossible for him to work as a conductor during this period, so he supported himself as a piano accompanist.
Solti, along with record producer John Culshaw, was the recipient of the Recording Academy's first Trustees Award in 1967. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. Solti has two works in the GRAMMY Hall Of Fame: the complete set of his Ring cycle recordings, and his Chicago Symphony Orchestra recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 8.
The Solti Foundation was created by Solti's wife and daughters after his death to provide financial support to struggling young artists. The Georg Solti Accademia was founded in 2004 to carry on Solti's legacy through music training and education.