Best Classical Performance – Orchestra
12th Annual Grammy Awards • 1970
Honoring recordings released between November 2, 1968 – November 1, 1969
Pierre Boulez, conductor won the 1970 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Orchestra with "Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2 "Images Pour Orchestre""
Winners & Nominees 1970
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Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2 "Images Pour Orchestre"
Pierre Boulez, conductor
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Bartók: Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta
Pierre Boulez, conductor
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Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole/ Mother Goose Suite/ Alborada Del Gracioso/ Introduction And Allegro (Album)
Jean Martinon, conductor
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Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Album)
Zubin Mehta, conductor
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Wagner: Great Orchestral Highlights From "The Ring Of The Nibelungs" (Album)
George Szell, conductor
Previous Years
| Year | Winner | Title | |
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| 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 |