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

26th Annual Grammy Awards1984

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1982 – September 30, 1983

Glenn Gould, piano won the 1984 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (Without Orchestra) with "Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 12 & 13"

Winners & Nominees 1984

Winner
Nominees
  • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 12 & 13

    Glenn Gould

  • Beethoven: Sonata For Piano No. 15 In D Major, Op. 28 ("Pastoral") And No. 3 In C Major, Op. 2, No. 3 (Album)

    Emil Gilels

  • Horowitz In London (Album)

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Paganini: Caprices (24) (Album)

    Shlomo Mintz

  • Ravel: Gaspard De La Nuit/ Prokofiev: Sonata For Piano No. 6 In A Major, Op. 82 (Album)

    Ivo Pogorelich

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