Best Classical Performance – Orchestra

2nd Annual Grammy Awards • 1960

Honoring recordings released between January 1, 1959 – August 31, 1959

Charles Munch, conductor won the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Orchestra with "Debussy: Images For Orchestra"

Winners & Nominees 1960

Winner

Nominees

Debussy: Images For Orchestra

Charles Munch, conductor
Beethoven: Symphony # 6

Pierre Monteux, conductor
Rossini Overtures (Album)

Fritz Reiner, conductor

Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture; Ravel: Bolero (Album)

Morton Gould
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol (Album)

Kiril Kondrashin, 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