Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)

29th Annual Grammy Awards1987

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1985 – September 30, 1986

James Levine, conductor; Margaret Hillis, choral director won the 1987 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) with "Orff: Carmina Burana"

Winners & Nominees 1987

Winner
Nominees
  • Orff: Carmina Burana

    James Levine

  • Bach: Mass In B Minor (Album)

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

  • Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Album)

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Helmuth Froschauer, chorus master

  • Berlioz: Romeo Et Juliette (Album)

    Riccardo Muti, conductor; Joseph Flummerfelt, choir director

  • Choral Masterpieces: (Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Handel, Berlioz, Haydn, Brahms, Etc.) (Album)

    Robert Shaw, conductor

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