Best Classical Performance – Orchestra

1st Annual Grammy Awards • 1959

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

Felix Slatkin, conductor won the 1959 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Orchestra with "Gaiete Parisienne"

Winners & Nominees 1959

Winner
Nominees

  • Gaiete Parisienne

    Felix Slatkin, conductor

  • Barber: Meditation And Dance Of Vengeance

    Charles Munch, conductor

  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 In F Major (Album)

    Bruno Walter, conductor

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 2 In C Minor (Album)

    Bruno Walter, conductor

  • Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 In B-Flat Major (Album)

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

  • Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherezade (Album)

    Pierre Monteux, conductor

  • Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps (Album)

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1976 Pierre Boulez, conductor Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloe (Complete Ballet) All Nominees
1975 Georg Solti, conductor Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique All Nominees
1974 Pierre Boulez, conductor Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra All Nominees
1973 Georg Solti, conductor Mahler: Symphony No. 7 In E Minor All Nominees
1972 Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor Mahler: Symphony No. 1 In D All Nominees
1971 Pierre Boulez, conductor Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps All Nominees
1970 Pierre Boulez, conductor Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2 "Images Pour Orchestre" All Nominees
1969 Pierre Boulez, conductor Boulez Conducts Debussy (La Mer; Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune; Jeux) All Nominees
1968 Igor Stravinsky, conductor Stravinsky: Firebird And Petrouchka Suites All Nominees
1967 Erich Leinsdorf, conductor Mahler: Symphony No. 6 In A Minor All Nominees
1966 Leopold Stokowski, conductor Ives: Symphony No. 4 All Nominees
1964 Erich Leinsdorf, conductor Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra All Nominees
1963 Igor Stravinsky, conductor Stravinsky: The Firebird Ballet All Nominees
1962 Charles Munch, conductor Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloe All Nominees
1961 Fritz Reiner, conductor Bartók: Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste All Nominees
1960 Charles Munch, conductor Debussy: Images For Orchestra All Nominees
1959 Felix Slatkin, conductor Gaiete Parisienne All Nominees
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