Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Orchestra)

28th Annual Grammy Awards • 1986

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1984 – September 30, 1985

Yo-Yo Ma, cello won the 1986 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (With Orchestra) with "Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85/Walton: Concerto For Cello & Orch."

Winners & Nominees 1986

Winner
Nominees

  • Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85/Walton: Concerto For Cello & Orch.

    Yo-Yo Ma

  • Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue (Album)

    Andre Previn

  • Gershwin: Second Rhapsody For Orchestra With Piano (Track)

    Michael Tilson Thomas

  • James Galway Plays Khachaturian (Concerto For Flute And Orchestra/ Spartacus, Masquerade And Gayaneh) (Album)

    James Galway

  • Itzhak Perlman

    Khachaturian: Violin Concerto In D Minor (Album)

    Itzhak Perlman

  • Andras Schiff

    Schumann: Piano Concerto In A Minor/ Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 In F Minor (Album)

    Andras Schiff

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1986 Yo-Yo Ma Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85/Walton: Concerto For Cello & Orch. All Nominees
1985 Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis-Edita Gruberova-Handel, Purcell, Etc, All Nominees
1984 Wynton Marsalis Haydn: Trumpet Concerto In E Flat/L. Mozart: Trumpet Concerto In D/Hummel: Trumpet Concerto In E Flat All Nominees
1982 Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman Isaac Stern 60th Anniversary Celebration All Nominees
1981 Itzhak Perlman Berg: Violin Concerto/Stravinsky: Violin Concerto In D All Nominees
1981 Itzhak Perlman, Mstislav Rostropovich Brahms: Violin And Cello Concerto In A Minor (Double Concerto) All Nominees
1980 Maurizio Pollini Bartók: Piano Cons. Nos. 1 & 2 All Nominees
1978 Itzhak Perlman Vivaldi: The Four Seasons All Nominees
1977 Artur Rubinstein Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos All Nominees
1976 Alicia De Larrocha Ravel: Concerto For Left Hand And Concerto For Piano In G/Faure: Fantaisie For Piano And Orchestra All Nominees
1975 David Oistrakh Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 All Nominees
1974 Vladimir Ashkenazy Beethoven: Concerti (5) For Piano And Orchestra All Nominees
1973 Artur Rubinstein Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 In B Flat All Nominees
1972 Julian Bream Villa-Lobos: Concerto For Guitar All Nominees
1966 Artur Rubinstein Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 In G All Nominees
1964 Artur Rubinstein Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 In B Flat Minor All Nominees
1963 Isaac Stern Stravinsky: Violin Concerto In D All Nominees
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