Best Classical Performance – Concerto Or Instrumental Soloist

3rd Annual Grammy Awards • 1961

Honoring recordings released between September 1, 1959 – November 30, 1960

Sviatoslav Richter, piano won the 1961 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Concerto Or Instrumental Soloist with "Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat"

Winners & Nominees 1961

Winner
Nominees
  • Sviatoslav Richter

    Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat

    Sviatoslav Richter

  • Glenn Gould

    Bach: Concerto No. 5 (Album)

    Glenn Gould

  • Rudolf Serkin

    Brahms: Double Concerto For Violin And Cello (Album)

    Pierre Fournier, Zino Francescatti, Rudolf Serkin

  • Mozart: Clarinet Concerto (Album)

    Gervase De Peyer

  • Prokofiev: Piano Concerto # 2 (Album)

    Malcolm Frager

  • Schumann: Piano Concerto In A (Album)

    Van Cliburn

  • Jascha Heifetz

    Sibelius: Violin Concerto In D (Album)

    Jascha Heifetz

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1961 Sviatoslav Richter Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat All Nominees