Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance

27th Annual Grammy Awards • 1985

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1983 – September 30, 1984

Jose Van Dam, Jessye Norman & Heather Harper won the 1985 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance with "Ravel: Songs Of Maurice Ravel"

Winners & Nominees 1985

Winner
Nominees

  • Ravel: Songs Of Maurice Ravel

    Jose Van Dam, Jessye Norman & Heather Harper

  • Brahms: Songs Of Brahms (Album)

    Kathleen Battle, soprano; Hakan Hagegard, baritone

  • Mahler's Songs Of Youth (Album)

    Janet Baker, mezzo

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

    Jessye Norman

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 4 In G Major-4th Movement (Track)

    Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1990 Dawn Upshaw Knoxville - Summer Of 1915 (Music Of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky) All Nominees
1989 Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Pavarotti In Concert All Nominees
1988 Kathleen Battle Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital All Nominees
1987 Kathleen Battle Mozart: Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart All Nominees
1986 John Aler, tenor Berlioz: Requiem All Nominees
1985 Jose Van Dam, Jessye Norman & Heather Harper Ravel: Songs Of Maurice Ravel All Nominees
1984 Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne In Concert At The Met All Nominees
1983 Leontyne Price Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi) All Nominees
1982 Marilyn Horne, Joan Sutherland & Luciano Pavarotti Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti All Nominees
1981 Leontyne Price, soprano Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel To Britten All Nominees
1980 Luciano Pavarotti O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs All Nominees
1979 Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center All Nominees
1978 Janet Baker Bach: Arias All Nominees
1977 Beverly Sills, soprano Herbert: Music Of Victor Herbert All Nominees
1976 Janet Baker Mahler: Kindertotenlieder All Nominees
1975 Leontyne Price Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss All Nominees
1974 Leontyne Price, soprano Puccini: Heroines All Nominees
1973 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone Brahms: Die Schone Magelone All Nominees
1972 Leontyne Price Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann All Nominees
1971 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone Schubert: Lieder All Nominees
1968 Leontyne Price, soprano Prima Donna, Volume 2 All Nominees
1966 Leontyne Price, soprano Strauss: Salome (Dance Of The Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene) All Nominees
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