Best Classical Performance – Vocal Or Instrumental – Chamber Music

3rd Annual Grammy Awards • 1961

Honoring recordings released between September 1, 1959 – November 30, 1960

Laurindo Almeida, guitar won the 1961 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Vocal Or Instrumental – Chamber Music with "Conversations With The Guitar"

Winners & Nominees 1961

Winner
Nominees

  • Conversations With The Guitar

    Laurindo Almeida

  • Bach: Cantata No. 4; Christ Lag In Todesbaden (Christ Lay In The Bonds Of Death) (Album)

    Robert Shaw, choral conductor

  • Henryk Szeryng

    Brahms: Horn Trio And Beethoven: Sonata For Horn And Piano (Album)

    Victor Babin, Joseph Eger, Henryk Szeryng

  • Debussy And Ravel: Quartets (Album)

    Claus Adam, Isidore Cohen, Raphael Hillyer, Robert Mann

  • Haydn: Quartets, Opus 71 And 74 (Album)

    Griller Quartet

  • Yehudi Menuhin

    J.S. Bach: The Complete Brandenburg Concerti (Album)

    Yehudi Menuhin

  • Janácek String Quartets Nos. 1 And 2

    Smetana Quartet

  • Schubert: "Trout Quintet" (Album)

    Clifford Curzon

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1961 Laurindo Almeida Conversations With The Guitar All Nominees