Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without Conductor)

40th Annual Grammy Awards • 1998

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

Claudio Abbado, conductor won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance (with or without Conductor) with "Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 1 With Finale 1921, Op. 24 No. 1"

Winners & Nominees 1998

Winner
Nominees

  • Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 1 With Finale 1921, Op. 24 No. 1

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

  • Adams: Chamber Symphony; Shaker Loops; Phrygian Gates For Solo Piano (Album)

    Sian Edwards, conductor; Ensemble Modern

  • Chaconne (Works Of Blow, Corelli, Muffat, Etc.) (Album)

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor; Musica Antiqua Koln

  • Ockeghem: Missa De Plus En Plus, Etc./Binchois: Missa Au Travail Suis, Etc.) (Album)

    Peter Phillips, conductor; Tallis Scholars

  • Schein: The Fountains Of Israel - Sacred Madrigals (O Herr, Ich Bin Dein Knecht; Ich Lasse Dich Nicht, Etc.) (Album)

    Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

  • Shakespeare's Musick - Songs And Dances From Shakespeare's Plays (Works Of Byrd, Dowland, Holborne, Etc.) (Album)

    Philip Pickett, conductor; Musicians Of The Globe

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
2006 Pierre Boulez, Ensemble InterContemporain, Odile Auboin, Vincent Bauer, Michel Cerutti, Samuel Favre, Marie-Therese Ghirardi, Emmanuelle Ophèle Boulez: Le Marteau Sans Maître, Dérive 1 & 2 All Nominees
2005 Jeff Von Der Schmidt Carlos Chávez - Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 2 All Nominees
2004 Jeff Von Der Schmidt, Southwest Chamber Music Chávez: Suite For Double Quartet All Nominees
2003 Joseph Jennings Tavener: Lamentations & Praises All Nominees
2002 Gidon Kremer After Mozart - Raskatov, Silvestrov & Schnittke All Nominees
2001 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Shadow Dances - Stravinsky Miniatures, Tango, Suite No. 1 & Octet All Nominees
2000 Joseph Jennings, conductor; Chanticleer Colors Of Love - Works Of Thomas, Stucky, Tavener & Rands All Nominees
1999 Steve Reich & Musicians Reich: Music For 18 Musicians All Nominees
1998 Claudio Abbado, conductor Hindemith: Kammermusik No. 1 With Finale 1921, Op. 24 No. 1 All Nominees
1997 Pierre Boulez, conductor; Ensemble Intercontemporain Boulez: ...Explosante-Fixe... All Nominees