Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera)
21st Annual Grammy Awards • 1979
Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1977 – September 30, 1978
Georg Solti, conductor; Margaret Hillis, choral director won the 1979 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance, Classical (Other Than Opera) with "Beethoven: Missa Solemnis"
Winners & Nominees 1979
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
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Bach: Mass In B Minor (Album)
Neville Marriner, conductor
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Bloch: Sacred Service (Album)
Maurice Abravanel, conductor
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Haydn: Mass No. 9 In D Minor ("Lord Nelson Mass") (Album)
Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Joseph Flummerfelt, choral director
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Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (Album)
Leonard Slatkin, conductor; Thomas Peck, choral director
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Stravinsky: Les Noces And Mass (Album)
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
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Vivaldi: Gloria In D Major And Magnificat (Album)
Riccardo Muti, conductor; Norbert Balatsch, choral director
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Walton: Belshazzar's Feast (Album)
Georg Solti, conductor; John Alldis, choral director
Previous Years
| Year | Winner | Title | |
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| 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 |