Best Classical Performance – Instrumentalist (With Concerto Scale Accompaniment)

1st Annual Grammy Awards • 1959

Honoring recordings released between January 1, 1958 – December 31, 1958

Van Cliburn, piano won the 1959 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumentalist (With Concerto Scale Accompaniment) with "Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 In B Flat Minor, Op. 23"

Winners & Nominees 1959

Winner
Nominees

  • Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 In B Flat Minor, Op. 23

    Van Cliburn

  • Isaac Stern

    Bartók: Concerto For Violin

    Isaac Stern

  • Emil Gilels

    Brahms: Piano Concerto # 2 (Album)

    Emil Gilels

  • Leonard Pennario

    Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini (Album)

    Leonard Pennario

  • Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto # 2 (Album)

    Artur Rubinstein

  • Segovia Golden Jubilee (Last Record In Set)

    Andres Segovia

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1959 Van Cliburn Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 In B Flat Minor, Op. 23 All Nominees