Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera)
23rd Annual Grammy Awards • 1981
Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1979 – September 30, 1980
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor; Norbert Balatsch, chorus master won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera) with "Mozart: Requiem"
Winners & Nominees 1981
Winner
Nominees
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Mozart: Requiem
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Boito: Prologue To Mefistofele (Album)
Robert Shaw, conductor
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Menotti: The Unicorn/The Gorgon And The Manticore
Thomas Hilbish, conductor
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Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (Album)
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder (Album)
Previous Years
| Year | Winner | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Norbert Balatsch, Carlo Maria Giulini | Mozart: Requiem | All Nominees |
| 1980 | Georg Solti | Brahms: A German Requiem | All Nominees |
| 1979 | Georg Solti | Beethoven: Missa Solemnis | All Nominees |
| 1976 | Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Robert Page, choral director | Orff: Carmina Burana | All Nominees |
| 1975 | Colin Davis, conductor | Berlioz: The Damnation Of Faust | All Nominees |
| 1974 | Andre Previn, conductor; Arthur Oldham, choral director | Walton: Belshazzer's Feast | All Nominees |
| 1973 | Georg Solti, conductor (Various Artists) | Mahler: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat (Symphony Of A Thousand) | All Nominees |
| 1970 | Luciano Berio, conductor; Ward Swingle, choir master | Berio: Sinfonia | All Nominees |