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

14th Annual Grammy Awards • 1972

Honoring recordings released between October 16, 1970 – October 15, 1971

Vladimir Horowitz, piano won the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (Without Orchestra) with "Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas)"

Winners & Nominees 1972

Winner
Nominees
  • Vladimir Horowitz

    Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas)

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Alicia De Larrocha Plays Spanish Piano Music Of The 20th Century (Album)

    Alicia De Larrocha

  • Glenn Gould

    Bach: Well Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Vol. 3 (Album)

    Glenn Gould

  • Barber: Sonata For Piano/Prokofiev: Sonata No. 6 In A Major (Album)

    Van Cliburn

  • Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Vol. 6/ Out Of Doors Suite/ Sonatina

    Stephen Kovacevich

  • Rudolf Serkin

    Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 In B Flat Op. 106 "Hammerklavier" (Album)

    Rudolf Serkin

  • Piano Rags By Scott Joplin (Album)

    Joshua Rifkin

  • Aldo Ciccolini

    Satie: Piano Music Of Erik Satie, Vol. 3 (Album)

    Aldo Ciccolini

  • The Brahms I Love (Album)

    Artur Rubinstein

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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