Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (With Or Without Orchestra)

6th Annual Grammy Awards • 1964

Honoring recordings released between December 1, 1962 – November 30, 1963

Leontyne Price, soprano won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Vocal Soloist (With Or Without Orchestra) with "Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy And Bess"

Winners & Nominees 1964

Winner
Nominees

  • Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy And Bess

    Leontyne Price, soprano

  • A Verdi Collaboration (Album)

    Anna Moffo, soprano

  • Canteloube: Songs Of The Auvergne, Vol. II (Chants D'Auvergne, Vol. II) (Album)

    Netania Davrath

  • Command Performance (Album)

    Joan Sutherland, soprano

  • Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Album)

    Maureen Forrester

  • Melodies De France (Ravel, Debussy, Duparc) (Album)

    Victoria De Los Angeles

  • Ravel: Scheherazade/Berlioz: Cleopatre (Scene Lyrique)

    Jennie Tourel, soprano

  • Schubert: Schwanengesang (Album)

    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  • Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (Album)

    Shirley Verrett, soprano

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1964 Leontyne Price, soprano Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy And Bess All Nominees
1963 Eileen Farrell, soprano Wagner: Gotterdamerung - Brunnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs All Nominees
1962 Joan Sutherland, soprano The Art Of The Prima Donna All Nominees
1960 Jussi Bjoerling, tenor Bjoerling In Opera All Nominees
1959 Renata Tebaldi, soprano Operatic Recital All Nominees