Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)

20th Annual Grammy Awards • 1978

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1976 – September 30, 1977

Georg Solti, conductor; Margaret Hillis, choral director (Various Artists) won the 1978 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) with "Verdi: Requiem"

Winners & Nominees 1978

Winner
Nominees

  • Verdi: Requiem

    Georg Solti, conductor; Margaret Hillis, choral director (Various Artists)

  • Berlioz: L'Enfance Du Christ (Album)

    Colin Davis, conductor

  • Britten: Saint Nicholas (Album)

    David Willcocks, conductor

  • Bruckner: Te Deum (Album)

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

  • Dvorák: Stabat Mater

    Rafael Kubelik, conductor

  • Purcell: Funeral Music For Queen Mary (Album)

    Phillip Ledger, conductor

  • Roussel: Psalm 80, For Tenor, Chorus And Orchestra (Album)

    Serge Baudo, tenor

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1991 Robert Shaw Walton: Belshazzar's Feast/Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis All Nominees
1990 Robert Shaw Britten: War Requiem All Nominees
1989 Robert Shaw Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses All Nominees
1988 Robert Shaw Hindemith: When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd All Nominees
1987 James Levine Orff: Carmina Burana All Nominees
1986 Robert Shaw Berlioz: Requiem All Nominees
1985 James Levine Brahms: A German Requiem All Nominees
1984 Georg Solti Haydn: The Creation All Nominees
1983 Georg Solti Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust All Nominees
1982 Neville Marriner Haydn: The Creation All Nominees
1978 Georg Solti, conductor; Margaret Hillis, choral director (Various Artists) Verdi: Requiem All Nominees
1977 Andre Previn, conductor; Arthur Oldham, choral director Rachmaninoff: The Bells All Nominees
1971 Gregg Smith Ives: New Music Of Charles Ives All Nominees
1969 Gregg Smith The Glory Of Gabrieli All Nominees
1965 Robert Shaw Britten: A Ceremony Of Carols All Nominees
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