Best Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (with or without orchestra)

12th Annual Grammy Awards • 1970

Honoring recordings released between Aug 31, 1968 and Aug 30, 1969

Walter Carlos won the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (with or without orchestra) with "Switched-On-Bach"

Winners & Nominees 1970

Winner
Nominees
  • Switched-On-Bach

    Walter Carlos

  • Bach: Sonatas And Partitas For Solo Violin (6) (Album)

    Henryk Szeryng, violin

  • Dvorák: Concerto In B Minor For Cello

    Mstislav Rostropovich, cello

  • Gilels At Carnegie Hall (Album)

    Emil Gilels

  • Ives: Sonata No. 2 "Concord Mass." (Album)

    John Kirkpatrick

  • Ravel: Introduction And Allegro For Harp And Strings (Album)

    Edward Druzinsky, harp

Previous Winners

Year Winner Work
1987 Vladimir Horowitz, piano Horowitz - The Studio Recordings, New York 1985 All Nominees
1971 David Oistrakh, violin; Mstislav Rostropovich, cello Brahms: Double Concerto (Concerto In A Minor For Violin And Cello) All Nominees
1970 Walter Carlos Switched-On-Bach All Nominees
1969 Vladimir Horowitz, piano Horowitz On Television (Chopin, Scriabin, Scarlatti, Horowitz) All Nominees
1968 Vladimir Horowitz, piano Horowitz In Concert (Haydn, Schumann, Scriabin, Debussy, Mozart, Chopin) All Nominees
1967 Julian Bream, guitar Baroque Guitar (Works Of Bach, Sanz, Weiss, Etc.) All Nominees