Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (Without Orchestra)

28th Annual Grammy Awards • 1986

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

Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano won the 1986 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (Without Orchestra) with "Ravel: Gaspard De La Nuit; Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales"

Winners & Nominees 1986

Winner
Nominees
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy

    Ravel: Gaspard De La Nuit; Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales

    Vladimir Ashkenazy

  • Julian Bream

    "Guitarra" - The Guitar In Spain (Mudarra, Guerau, Boccherini, Sor, Tarrega, Albeniz, Falla, Turina, Etc.) (Album)

    Julian Bream

  • Claudio Arrau

    Chopin: 4 Scherzi/ Polonaise Fantaisie Op. 61 (Album)

    Claudio Arrau

  • Chopin: Piano Sonatas No. 2 in B-Flat Minor And No. 3 In B Minor (Album)

    Francois-Rene Duchable

  • Gershwin: Preludes For Piano/Short Story/Violin Piece/ For Lily Pons/ Sleepless Night/ Promenade (Track)

    Michael Tilson Thomas

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1986 Vladimir Ashkenazy Ravel: Gaspard De La Nuit; Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales All Nominees
1985 Yo-Yo Ma Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites All Nominees
1984 Glenn Gould Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 12 & 13 All Nominees
1982 Vladimir Horowitz The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80 All Nominees
1981 Itzhak Perlman The Spanish Album All Nominees
1980 Vladimir Horowitz The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79 All Nominees
1978 Artur Rubinstein Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 In E Flat/Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op. 12 All Nominees
1977 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz Concerts 1975/76 All Nominees
1976 Nathan Milstein Bach: Sonatas And Partitas For Violin Unaccompanied All Nominees
1975 Alicia De Larrocha Albeniz: Iberia All Nominees
1974 Vladimir Horowitz Scriabin: Horowitz Plays Scriabin All Nominees
1973 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz Plays Chopin All Nominees
1972 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas) All Nominees
1966 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz At Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return All Nominees
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