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

23rd Annual Grammy Awards • 1981

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1979 – September 30, 1980

Itzhak Perlman, violin won the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (Without Orchestra) with "The Spanish Album"

Winners & Nominees 1981

Winner
Nominees
  • Itzhak Perlman

    The Spanish Album

    Itzhak Perlman

  • (Joplin) Digital Ragtime - Music Of Scott Joplin (Album)

    Joshua Rifkin

  • Glenn Gould

    Bach: Toccatas, Volume II (Album)

    Glenn Gould

  • Rudolf Serkin

    Brahms: Variations And Fugue On A Theme By Handel (Album)

    Rudolf Serkin

  • Copland: The Complete Music For Solo Piano (Album)

    Leo Smit

  • Rachmaninoff: Music For Piano, Vol. 7 (Sonatas Nos. 1 And 2) (Album)

    Ruth Laredo

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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