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

27th Annual Grammy Awards • 1985

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1983 – September 30, 1984

Yo-Yo Ma, cello won the 1985 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist Or Soloists (Without Orchestra) with "Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites"

Winners & Nominees 1985

Winner
Nominees

  • Bach: The Unaccompanied Cello Suites

    Yo-Yo Ma

  • Emil Gilels

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

    Emil Gilels

  • Julian Bream

    Music Of Spain, Vol. 7 "A Celebration Of Andres Segovia" (Album)

    Julian Bream

  • Glenn Gould

    R. Strauss: Glenn Gould Plays Strauss (Sonata; Five Pieces, Op. 3) (Album)

    Glenn Gould

  • Schubert: Piano Sonata In B Flat, Major D. 960 (Album)

    Alicia De Larrocha

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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