Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra)

40th Annual Grammy Awards • 1998

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1996 – September 30, 1997

Janos Starker won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without Orchestra) with "Bach: Suites For Solo Cello Nos. 1-6"

Winners & Nominees 1998

Winner

Nominees

Bach: Suites For Solo Cello Nos. 1-6

Janos Starker
Ligeti: Works For Piano (Etudes; Musica Ricercata, Etc.) (Album)

Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Murray Perahia Plays Handel And Scarlatti (Handel: Suite No. 5 In E Major, Etc./Scarlatti: Sonata In D Major, Etc.) (Album)

Murray Perahia

Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1; Fantasy In C (Album)

Leif Ove Andsnes
Volodos - Piano Transcriptions (Works Of Bizet, Liszt, Rachmaninoff-Volodos, Etc.) (Album)

Arcadi Volodos

Previous Years

Year	Winner	Title
2011	Paul Jacobs	Messiaen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement	All Nominees
2010	Sharon Isbin	Journey To The New World	All Nominees
2009	Gloria Cheng	Piano Music Of Salonen, Stucky, And Lutoslawski	All Nominees
2008	Garrick Ohlsson	Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 3	All Nominees
2007	Maurizio Pollini	Chopin: Nocturnes	All Nominees
2006	Evgeny Kissin	Scriabin, Medtner, Stravinsky	All Nominees
2005	David Russell	Aire Latino (Morel, Villa-Lobos, Ponce, Etc.)	All Nominees
2004	Emanuel Ax	Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 29, 31, 34, 35 & 49	All Nominees
2003	Murray Perahia	Chopin: Études, Op. 10 & Op. 25	All Nominees
2002	Truls Mork	Britten Cello Suites (1-3)	All Nominees
2001	Sharon Isbin	Dreams Of A World - Works Of Lauro, Ruiz-Pipo & Duarte	All Nominees
2000	Vladimir Ashkenazy	Shostakovich: 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87	All Nominees
1999	Murray Perahia	Bach: English Suites Nos. 1, 3 & 6	All Nominees
1998	Janos Starker	Bach: Suites For Solo Cello Nos. 1-6	All Nominees
1997	Earl Wild	The Romantic Master - Works Of Saint-Saens, Handel	All Nominees
1996	Radu Lupu	Schubert: Piano Sonatas (B Flat Major And A Major)	All Nominees
1995	Emanuel Ax	Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Nos. 32, 47, 53, 59	All Nominees