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

22nd Annual Grammy Awards • 1980

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1978 – September 30, 1979

Vladimir Horowitz, piano won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (Without Orchestra) with "The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79"

Winners & Nominees 1980

Winner
Nominees
  • Vladimir Horowitz

    The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Bach: Goldberg Variations (Album)

    Rosalyn Tureck

  • Glenn Gould

    Bach: Toccatas, Volume 1 (Album)

    Glenn Gould

  • Maurizio Pollini

    Boulez: Sonata For Piano No. 2 (Album)

    Maurizio Pollini

  • Debussy: Estampes, Images, Books I And II (Album)

    Paul Jacobs

  • Franck: Prelude, Chorale And Fugue For Piano/Bach-Busoni: Chaconne/Mozart: Rondo In A Minor (Album)

    Artur Rubinstein

  • Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated (Album)

    Ursula Oppens

  • Scarlatti: Sonatas (12) (Album)

    Igor Kipnis

  • Julian Bream

    Villa-Lobos: Etudes (12) And Suite Populaire Brasilienne (Album)

    Julian Bream

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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