Best Classical Performance – Choral (Other Than Opera)
6th Annual Grammy Awards • 1964
Honoring recordings released between December 1, 1962 – November 30, 1963
Lord Benjamin Britten, conductor; David Willcocks & Edward Chapman, choral directors (Pears, Vishnevskaya, Fischer-Dieskau) won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Choral (Other Than Opera) with "Britten: War Requiem"
Winners & Nominees 1964
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Britten: War Requiem
Lord Benjamin Britten, conductor; David Willcocks & Edward Chapman, choral directors (Pears, Vishnevskaya, Fischer-Dieskau)
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Bach: St. Matthew Passion (Album)
Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Stuart Gardner, Abraham Kaplan, choral directors
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Brahms: A German Requiem (Album)
Eugene Ormandy, conductor; Richard Conde, choral director
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Haydn: "Nelson Mass" (Mass No. 9 In D Minor, Missa Solemnis) (Album)
David Willcocks, conductor
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Milhaud: Les Choephores (Album)
Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Hugh Ross, choral director
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (Album)
Igor Stravinsky, conductor
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The Robert Shaw Chorale "On Tour" (Ives, Schoenberg, Mozart, Ravel) (Album)
Previous Years
| Year | Winner | Title | |
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| 1964 | Lord Benjamin Britten, conductor; David Willcocks & Edward Chapman, choral directors (Pears, Vishnevskaya, Fischer-Dieskau) | Britten: War Requiem | All Nominees |
| 1963 | Otto Klemperer, conductor; Wilhelm Pitz, choir director | Bach: St. Matthew Passion | All Nominees |
| 1962 | Robert Shaw | Bach: B Minor Mass | All Nominees |