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

20th Annual Grammy Awards • 1978

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1976 – September 30, 1977

Artur Rubinstein, piano won the 1978 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (Without Orchestra) with "Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 In E Flat/Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op. 12"

Winner

Nominees

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 In E Flat/Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op. 12

Artur Rubinstein
Bach: Partitas For Harpsichord No. 1 In B Flat Major And No. 2 In C Minor (Album)

Igor Kipnis
Bach: The English Suites (Complete) (Album)

Glenn Gould
Grainger: Piano Music Of Percy Grainger (Album)

Daniel Adni
Granados: Goyescas (Album)

Alicia De Larrocha
Kreisler: Itzhak Perlman Plays Fritz Kreisler - Album 2 (Album)

Itzhak Perlman
Messiaen: 20 Regards De L'Enfant Jesus (Album)

Michel Beroff

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