Album Of The Year Classical
12th Annual Grammy Awards • 1970
Honoring recordings released between November 2, 1968 – November 1, 1969
Walter Carlos won the 1970 Grammy Award for Album Of The Year Classical with "Switched-On-Bach"
Winners & Nominees 1970
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Switched-On-Bach
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Berio: Sinfonia (Album)
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Boulez Conducts Berg (Three Pieces For Orchestra/Chamber Concerto/Altenberg Lieder) (Album)
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Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2 "Images Pour Orchestre" (Album)
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Gabrieli: Antiphonal Music Of Gabrieli (Canzoni For Brass Choirs) (Album)
Chicago Brass Ensemble, Cleveland Brass Ensemble, Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Andrew Kazdin
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Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Album)
Previous Years
| Year | Winner | Title | |
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| 1976 | Georg Solti, Raymond Minshull | Beethoven: Symphonies (9) Complete | All Nominees |
| 1975 | Georg Solti, David Harvey | Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique | All Nominees |
| 1974 | Pierre Boulez, Thomas Z. Shepard | Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra | All Nominees |
| 1972 | Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost, Richard Killough | Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas) | All Nominees |
| 1971 | Colin Davis, Erik Smith | Berlioz: Les Troyens | All Nominees |
| 1970 | Wendy Carlos, Rachel Elkind | Switched-On-Bach | All Nominees |
| 1968 | Pierre Boulez, Thomas Z. Shepard | Berg: Wozzeck | All Nominees |
| 1968 | Leonard Bernstein, John McClure | Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (Symphony Of A Thousand) | All Nominees |
| 1967 | Morton Gould, Howard Scott | Ives: Symphony No. 1 In D Minor | All Nominees |
| 1966 | Vladimir Horowitz, Thomas Frost | Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return | All Nominees |
| 1965 | Leonard Bernstein | Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish" | All Nominees |
| 1963 | Vladimir Horowitz | Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz | All Nominees |
| 1962 | Igor Stravinsky | Stravinsky Conducts 1960: Le Sacre Du Printemps; Petrouchka | All Nominees |