Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)

31st Annual Grammy Awards1989

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1987 – September 30, 1988

Robert Shaw, conductor won the 1989 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) with "Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses"

Winners & Nominees 1989

Winner
Nominees
  • Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses

    Robert Shaw

  • Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Album)

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

  • Bach: St. Matthew Passion (Album)

    Georg Solti, conductor; Margaret Hillis, choir director

  • Mozart: Requiem (Album)

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor, Helmuth Froschauer, choral director

  • Vivaldi: Gloria/Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus (Album)

    Trevor Pinnock, 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