Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra)

21st Annual Grammy Awards • 1979

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1977 – September 30, 1978

Vladimir Horowitz, piano won the 1979 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance-Instrumental Soloist(s) (Without Orchestra) with "The Horowitz Concerts 1977/78"

Winners & Nominees 1979

Winner
Nominees
  • Vladimir Horowitz

    The Horowitz Concerts 1977/78

    Vladimir Horowitz

  • Alfred Brendel

    Bach: Italian Concerto/Choral Prelude/Prelude S922 /Chromatic Fantasy And Fugue/Fantasy And Fugue (Album)

    Alfred Brendel

  • Maurizio Pollini

    Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas (Album)

    Maurizio Pollini

  • Charles Rosen

    Beethoven: Variations On A Waltz By Diabelli (Album)

    Charles Rosen

  • Debussy: Preludes For Piano, Books I and II (Album)

    Paul Jacobs

  • Claudio Arrau

    Liszt: 12 Transcendental Etudes And 3 Etudes De Concert (Album)

    Claudio Arrau

  • Rudolf Serkin

    Rudolf Serkin On Television (Album)

    Rudolf Serkin

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1989 Alicia De Larrocha Albeniz: Iberia, Navarra, Suite Espagnola All Nominees
1988 Vladimir Horowitz Horowitz In Moscow All Nominees
1979 Vladimir Horowitz The Horowitz Concerts 1977/78 All Nominees