Best Classical Performance – Choral (Other Than Opera)

5th Annual Grammy Awards • 1963

Honoring recordings released between December 1, 1961 – November 30, 1962

Otto Klemperer, conductor; Wilhelm Pitz, choir director won the 1963 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Choral (Other Than Opera) with "Bach: St. Matthew Passion"

Winners & Nominees 1963

Winner
Nominees

  • Bach: St. Matthew Passion

    Otto Klemperer, conductor; Wilhelm Pitz, choir director

  • Berlioz: Romeo Et Juliet (Album)

    Charles Munch, conductor; Lorna Cooke de Varon, choral director

  • Faure: Requiem

    Roger Wagner

  • Honegger: King David (Le Roi David) (Album)

    Maurice Abravanel, conductor; Ardean Watts, choral director

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 3 In D Minor (Album)

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Hugh Ross, Stuart Gardner, choral director

  • Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 (Album)

    Thomas Schippers, conductor; Warren Martin, choir director

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
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