GRAMMY Awards Winners & Nominees for Best Classical Vocal Performance

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Best Classical Vocal Performance

63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2020)

winner

Smyth: The Prison

Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton, soloists; Blanton Alspaugh, producer; Mark Donahue, Brandon Johnson & John Newton, engineers/mixers (Experiential Orchestra)

nominees

American Composers At Play - William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto

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Stephen Powell (Attacca Quartet, William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto, Charles Neidich & Jason Vieaux)

Clairières - Songs By Lili & Nadia Boulanger

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Nicholas Phan; Myra Huang, accompanist

Farinelli

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Cecilia Bartoli; Giovanni Antonini, conductor (Il Giardino Armonico)

A Lad's Love

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Brian Giebler; Steven McGhee, accompanist (Katie Hyun, Michael Katz, Jessica Meyer, Reginald Mobley & Ben Russell)

62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2019)

winner

Songplay

Joyce DiDonato; Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter & Craig Terry, accompanists (Steve Barnett & Lautaro Greco); Steve Barnett, producer; Preston Smith, engineer

nominees

The Edge Of Silence - Works For Voice By György Kurtág

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Susan Narucki (Donald Berman, Curtis Macomber, Kathryn Schulmeister & Nicholas Tolle)

Himmelsmusik

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Philippe Jaroussky & Céline Scheen; Christina Pluhar, conductor; L’Arpeggiata, ensemble (Jesús Rodil & Dingle Yandell)

Schumann: Liederkreis Op. 24, Kerner-Lieder Op. 35

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Matthias Goerne; Leif Ove Andsnes, accompanist

A Te, O Cara

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Stephen Costello; Constantine Orbelian, conductor (Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra)

61st Annual GRAMMY Awards (2018)

winner

Songs Of Orpheus - Monteverdi, Caccini, D'India & Landi

Karim Sulayman; Jeannette Sorrell, conductor; Apollo's Fire, ensembles; Erica Brenner, producer; Ian Dobie, engineer; Ian Dobie & Daniel Shores, mixers

nominees

ARC

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Anthony Roth Costanzo; Jonathan Cohen, conductor

The Handel Album

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Philippe Jaroussky; Artaserse, ensemble

Mirages

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Sabine Devieilhe; François-Xavier Roth, conductor

Schubert: Winterreise

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Randall Scarlata; Gilbert Kalish, accompanist

60th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2017)

winner

Crazy Girl Crazy

Barbara Hannigan, soloist; Guido Tichelman, producer; Bastiaan Kuijt, engineer (Ludwig Orchestra)

nominees

Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas

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Philippe Jaroussky, soloist (Freiburger Barockorchester)

Gods & Monsters

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Nicholas Phan, soloist

In War & Peace - Harmony Through Music

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Joyce DiDonato, soloist (Il Pomo D’Oro)

Sviridov: Russia Cast Adrift

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky, soloist (Style Of Five Ensemble & St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra)

59th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2016)

winner

Schumann & Berg

Dorothea Röschmann, soloist; Everett Porter, producer

winner

Shakespeare Songs

Ian Bostridge, soloist; John Fraser, producer; Philip Siney, engineer

nominees

Verismo

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Anna Netrebko, soloist (Orchestra Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia)

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Monteverdi

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Magdalena Kožená, soloist (La Cetra Barockorchester Basel)

Label: Archiv Produktion

Mozart: The Weber Sisters

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Sabine Devieilhe, soloist (Pygmalion)

Label: Erato

58th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2015)

winner

Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall

Joyce DiDonato, soloist; Stephen Johns, producer; Jonathan Allen, engineer

nominees

Beethoven: An Die Ferne Geliebte; Haydn: English Songs; Mozart: Masonic Cantata

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Mark Padmore, soloist

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Nessun Dorma - The Puccini Album

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Jonas Kaufmann, soloist (Orchestra Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia)

Label: Sony Classical

Rouse: Seeing; Kabir Padavali

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Talise Trevigne, soloist (Albany Symphony)

Label: Naxos

St. Petersburg

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Cecilia Bartoli, soloist (I Barocchisti)

Label: Decca

57th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2014)

winner

Douce France

Anne Sofie Von Otter, soloist; Jean-Pierre Loisil, producer; Thomas Dappelo, engineer/mixer

nominees

Stella Di Napoli

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Joyce DiDonato, soloist (Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Lyon)

Label: Erato/Warner Classics

Virtuoso Rossini Arias

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Lawrence Brownlee, soloist (Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra)

Label: Delos

Porpora: Arias

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Philippe Jaroussky, soloist (Venice Baroque Orchestra)

Label: Erato

Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin

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Florian Boesch, soloist

Label: Onyx

56th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2013)

winner

Winter Morning Walks

Dawn Upshaw, soloist; David Frost, producer; David Frost, Brian Losch & Tim Martyn, engineers (Maria Schneider; Australian Chamber Orchestra & St. Paul Chamber Orchestra)

nominees

Drama Queens

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Joyce DiDonato, soloist (Alan Curtis; Il Complesso Barocco)

Label: Virgin Classics

Mission

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Cecilia Bartoli, soloist (Diego Fasolis; I Barocchisti)

Label: Decca

Schubert: Winterreise

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Christoph Prégardien, soloist

Label: Challenge

Wagner

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Jonas Kaufmann, soloist (Donald Runnicles; Orchester Der Deutschen Oper Berlin)

Label: Decca

55th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2012)

winner

Poèmes

Renée Fleming, soloist; Arnaud Moral, producer; Christian Lahondes, engineer/mixer (Alan Gilbert & Seiji Ozawa; Orchestre National De France & Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France)

nominees

Sogno Barocco

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Anne Sofie Von Otter, soloist (Leonardo García Alarcón; Ensemble Cappella Mediterranea)

Label: Naïve Classique

Debussy: Clair De Lune

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Natalie Dessay, soloist (Henri Chalet)

Label: Virgin Classics

Homecoming - Kansas City Symphony Presents Joyce DiDonato

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Joyce DiDonato, soloist (Michael Stern; Kansas City Symphony)

Label: Kansas City Symphony

Paris Days, Berlin Nights

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Ute Lemper, soloist

Label: Steinway & Sons

54th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2011)

winner

Diva Divo

Joyce DiDonato, soloist; Daniel Zalay, producer (Kazushi Ono; Orchestre De L'Opéra National De Lyon)

nominees

Grieg/Thommessen: Veslemøy Synsk

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Marianne Beate Kielland, soloist

Label: 2L (Lindberg Lyd)

Handel: Cleopatra

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Natalie Dessay, soloist (Emmanuelle Haïm; Le Concert D'Astrée)

Label: Virgin Classics

Purcell: O Solitude

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Andreas Scholl, soloist (Stefano Montanari; Accademia Bizantina)

Label: Decca

Three Baroque Tenors

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Ian Bostridge, soloist (Bernard Labadie; The English Concert)

Label: EMI Classics

53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2010)

winner

Sacrificium

Cecilia Bartoli, soloist; Arend Prohmann, producer; Philip Siney, engineer/mixer (Giovanni Antonini; Il Giardino Armonico)

nominees

Turina: Canto A Sevilla

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Lucia Duchonová, soloist (Celso Antunes; NDR Radiophilharmonie)

Label: Haenssler Classic

Vivaldi: Opera Arias - Pyrotechnics

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Vivica Genaux, soloist (Fabio Biondi; Europa Galante)

Label: Virgin Classics

Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder

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Measha Brueggergosman, soloist (Franz Welser-Möst; The Cleveland Orchestra)

Track From: Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder; Preludes & Overtures
Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Ombre De Mon Amant - French Baroque Arias

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Anne Sofie von Otter, soloist (William Christie; Les Arts Florissants)

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2009)

winner

Verismo Arias

Renée Fleming, soloist; David Frost, producer; Mike Hatch & Richard King, engineers/mixers (Marco Armiliato; Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppi Verdi)

nominees

Bach

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Anne Sofie von Otter, soloist (Lars Ulrik Mortensen; Concerto Copenhagen)

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Bel Canto Spectacular

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Juan Diego Florez, soloist (Daniel Oren; Orquestra De La Comunitat Valenciana)

Label: Decca

Recital At Ravinia

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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, soloist

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Un Frisson Français

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Susan Graham, soloist

Label: Onyx Classics

51st Annual GRAMMY Awards (2008)

winner

Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems Of Bob Dylan

Hila Plitmann, soloist; John Corigliano & Tim Handley, producers; John Corigliano, Tim Handley & Tom Lazarus, engineers (JoAnn Falletta; Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)

nominees

Fussell, Charles: Wilde

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Sanford Sylvan, soloist (Gil Rose; Boston Modern Orchestra Project)

Label: BMOP/Sound

Gomidas Songs

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Isabel Bayrakdarian, soloist (Eduard Topchjan; Chamber Players Of The Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra)

Label: Nonesuch Records

Maria

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Cecilia Bartoli, soloist (Adam Fischer; Orchestra La Scintilla)

Label: Decca Records

Terezín: Theresienstadt

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Anne Sofie von Otter, soloist

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

50th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2007)

winner

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, soloist; Dirk Sobotka, producer; Mark Donahue & John Newton, engineers (James Levine; Boston Symphony Orchestra)

nominees

Gitano - Zarzuela Arias

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Rolando Villazón, soloist (Placido Domingo; Orquesta De La Comunidad De Madrid)

Label: Virgin Classics

Homage: The Age Of The Diva

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Renée Fleming, soloist (Valery Gergiev; Orchestra Of The Mariinsky Theatre)

Label: Decca Records

Russian Album

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Anna Netrebko, soloist (Valery Gergiev; Orchestra Of The Mariinsky Theatre)

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Sea Pictures, Op. 37

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Sarah Connolly, soloist (Simon Wright; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra)

Track From: Elgar: Sea Pictures
Label: Naxos

49th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2006)

winner

Rilke Songs

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, soloist

nominees

Canciones Argentinas

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Bernarda Fink & Marcos Fink, soloists

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Consider, My Soul

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Thomas Quasthoff, soloist (Sebastian Weigle; Staatskapelle Dresden)

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Songs Of Amy Beach

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Patrick Mason, soloist

Label: Bridge Records, Inc.

Britten: Song Cycles

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Ian Bostridge, soloist (Simon Rattle; Berliner Philharmoniker)

Label: EMI Classics

48th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2005)

winner

Bach: Cantatas

Thomas Quasthoff, soloist; Christopher Alder, producer; Jürgen Bulgrin & Rainer Maillard, engineers (Rainer Kussmaul; Berlin Baroque Soloists)

nominees

Bolcom: Songs

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Carole Farley, soloist

Label: Naxos

Gounod - Massenet: Arias

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Rolando Villazón, soloist (Evelino Pido; Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France)

Label: Virgin Classics

Opera Proibita

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Cecilia Bartoli, soloist (Marc Minkowski; Les Musiciens Du Louvre)

Label: Decca

Strauss: Amor

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Natalie Dessay, soloist (Antonio Pappano; Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)

Label: Virgin Classics

47th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2004)

winner

Ives: Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; The Housatonic At Stockbridge, Etc.)

Susan Graham, soloist

nominees

Grieg And Sibelius Songs

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Karita Mattila, soloist (Sakari Oramo; City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)

Label: Warner Classics

Handel: Arias (Theodora; La Lucrezia-Cantata; Serse)

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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, soloist (Harry Bicket; Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment)

Label: Avie

Marx: Orchestral Songs (Songs For High & Middle Voice; Verklärtes Jahr)

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Angela Maria Blasi & Stella Doufexis, soloists (Steven Sloane; Bochum Symphony Orchestra)

Label: ASV, Sanctuary Classics

A Romantic Songbook (Strauss, Schumann, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Etc.)

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Thomas Quasthoff, soloist

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

46th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2003)

winner

Schubert: Lieder With Orchestra

Thomas Quasthoff & Anne Sofie von Otter, soloists; Christopher Alder, producer; Jürgen Bulgrin & Oliver Rogalla Von Heyden, engineers (Claudio Abbado; Chamber Orchestra of Europe)

nominees

Argento: Casa Guidi

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Frederica von Stade, soloist (Eiji Oue; Minnesota Orchestra)

Track From: Argento: Casa Guidi; Capriccio For Clarinet And Orchestra, Etc.
Label: Reference Recordings

Britten: The Canticles

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Ian Bostridge, David Daniels & Christopher Maltman, soloists

Label: Virgin Classics

Im Chambre Séparée - The Operetta Album

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Label: Decca

Songs Of The Spanish Renaissance, Vol. 1

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Montserrat Caballé, soloist

Label: RCA Red Seal

45th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2002)

winner

Bel Canto - Bellini, Donizetti & Rossini

Erik Smith, producer; Neil Hutchinson, Tom Lazarus & Jonathan Stokes, engineers (Patrick Summers)

nominees

Arias For Farinelli (Porpora, Hasse, Broschi, Etc.)

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(René Jacobs; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin)

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Boulez: Pli Selon Pli

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(Pierre Boulez)

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Carter: Tempo E Tempi

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Track From: Music Of Elliott Carter, Vol. 4
Label: Bridge

Chaminade: Mélodies - Mots D’Amour

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

44th Annual GRAMMY Awards (2001)

winner

Dreams & Fables - Gluck Italian Arias: Tremo Fra' Dubbi Miei; Di Questa Cetra In Seno

Christopher Raeburn, producer; Jonathan Stokes, engineer (Bernhard Forck; Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin)

nominees

Schubert: Schwanengesang/Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Beethoven/Meyerbeer/Spohr: Lieder - Mélodies

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Label: Archiv Produktion

Fairest Isle (Dowland, Campion, Morley, Etc.)

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(Christopher Hogwood; Academy Of Ancient Music)

Label: Decca

Henze: Six Songs From The Arabian; Three Auden Songs

–

Label: Emi Classics

43rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (2000)

winner

The Vivaldi Album - Dell'aura al sussurrar, Alma oppressa

Christopher Raeburn, producer; Jonathan Stokes, engineer (Il Giardino Armonico)

nominees

Bach: Cantatas BWV 82, 158 & 56 (Album)

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(Camerata Academica Salzburg)

Label: Decca

Brahms/Liszt: Lieder (Brahms: Lieder und Gesänge, Etc./Liszt: Tre sonetti di Petrarca, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Folksongs (Works Of Dvorák, Grainger, Larsson, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Handel: Opera Arias & Cantatas (V'adoro pupille; Lascia ch'io pianga; Tra le fiamme, Etc.) (Album)

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(Capriccio Stravagante)

Label: Astrée Naïve

42nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1999)

winner

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn

(Berliner Philharmonic)

nominees

Schubert: Winterreise (Album)

–

Label: RCA Victor Red Seal

Eisler: The Hollywood Songbook (Eisler: Der Sohn; In Den Weiden; Frühling, Etc.) (Album)

–

Label: London/Decca

German Romantic Opera (Arias From Tristan Und Isolde, Rienzi, Siegfried, Etc.) (Album)

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(NDR Sinfonieorchestre)

Label: RCA Victor Red Seal

Handel: Operatic Arias (Arias From Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo, Etc.) (Album)

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(Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment)

Label: Virgin Classics

41st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1998)

winner

The Beautiful Voice - Works Of Charpentier, Gounod, Massenet & Flotow

(English Chamber Orchestra)

nominees

Amore Per Rossini (Arias From La Pietra Del Paragone; Matilde Di Shabran; Le Siege De Corinthe, Etc.) (Album)

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(English Chamber Orchestra)

Label: Teldec Classics International

Hagegard Sings Brahms, Sibelius, Stenhammar (Brahms: Funf Lieder, Op. 105, Etc./Sibelius: Drommen, Etc./Stenhammar: Florez Och Blanzeflor, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: RCA Victor Red Seal

Handel Arias (Arias From Judas Maccabaeus; Dettingen Te Deum; Samson, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48; Liederkreis, Op. 24 (Album)

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Label: London

40th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1997)

winner

An Italian Songbook - Works Of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini

nominees

Signatures - Great Opera Scenes (Porgi, Amor; Dove Sono; O Silver Moon, Etc.) (Album)

–

Label: London

La Bonne Chanson - Faure Chamber Songs (Works Of Ravel, Chausson, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Ligeti: Vocal Works (Nonsense Madrigals; Aventures; Der Sommer, Etc.) (Album)

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(Members Of The Philharmonica Orchestra)

Label: Sony Classical

Mozart: Arias (Non So Piu, Cosa Son; Vedrai Carino; In Quali Eccessi, O Numi, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: RCA Victor Red Seal

39th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1996)

winner

Opera Arias - Works Of Mozart, Wagner, Borodin

(Metropolitan Opera Orchestra)

nominees

Faure: L'Horizon Chimerique (Dans La Foret De Septembre; La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61, Etc.) (Album)

–

Label: Nonesuch

Visions Of Love - A Collection Of Mozart Arias (Giunse Alfin II Momento...Deh, Vieni; Ruhe Sanft, Etc.) (Album)

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(Orchestra Of St. Luke's)

Label: London

Where Shall I Fly - Handel And Mozart Arias (Voi Che Sapete; Ombra Mai Fu, Etc.) (Album)

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(Orchestra De Chambre de Lausanne)

Label: Teldec

Wings In The Night - Swedish Songs (Works Of Peterson-berger; Von Koch, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Britten: Phaedra (Track)

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(Hallé Orchestra)

Track From: Britten: The Rescue Of Penelope; Phaedra
Label: Erato

38th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1995)

winner

The Echoing Air - The Music Of Henry Purcell

(Academy Of Ancient Music)

nominees

Mussorgsky Songs (Songs And Dances Of Death; The Nursery, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: Conifer Classics

Roberto Alagna - Operatic Arias (Works Of Donizetti, Massenet, Etc.) (Album)

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(London Philharmonic)

Label: Emi Classics

Schumann: Dichterliebe; Liederkreis, Op. 24; Heine-Lieder (Album)

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Label: Philips Classics

The Vagabond (Songs By Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

37th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1994)

winner

The Impatient Lover - Italian Songs By Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart

nominees

Loves's Twilight-Late Romantic Songs By Berg, Korngold, R. Strauss (Album)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Mendelssohn: Lieder (Der Mond; Reiselied, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: Berlin Classics

Songs And Dances Of Death (Works Of Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsa Koff, Borodin, Etc. (Album)

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(Kirov Orchestra St. Petersburg)

Label: Philips Classics

An Die Music Favorite Schubert Songs (Die Forelle; An Die Leier, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

36th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1993)

winner

The Art Of Arleen Auger (Works Of Larsen, Purcell, Schumann, Mozart)

nominees

Dvorák/Janácek/Martinu: Lieder

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Label: RCA Victor Red Seal

Exsultate Jubilate (Works Of Handel, Mozart)

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(English Baroque Soloists)

Label: Philips Classics

Farewell To Salzburg (Works Of Brahms, Mahler, Schumann, Strauss)

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Label: RCA Victor Red Seal

Grieg: Lieder

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

35th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1992)

winner

Kathleen Battle At Carnegie Hall (Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Strauss, etc.)

nominees

Cecilia Bartoli: Rossini Heroines

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(Orchestra Teatro La Fenice)

Label: London

Delius: Sea Drift

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(Welsh National Opera Orchestra)

Label: Argo

Marilyn Horne: Rossini Recital

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Label: RCA Victor Red Seal

Wolf: Songs To The Poetry Of Goethe And Morike (Album)

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Label: Hyperion

34th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1991)

winner

The Girl With Orange Lips (Falla, Ravel, etc.)

nominees

Beloved That Pilgrimage (Album)

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Label: Elektra Nonesuch

Copland: Old American Songs/Ives: Songs (Album)

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Label: Argo

Jan De Gaetani In Concert Vol. 2, (Brahms, Schumann, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: Bridge

Mahler: Songs Of A Wayfarer And 5 Ruckert Lieder (Album)

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(Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)

Label: Dg

Mozart: Arias (Album)

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(Academy Of St. Martin-In-The Field)

Label: Philips Classics

33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1990)

winner

Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert

(Orchestra Del Maggio Musicale)

nominees

Adams: The Wound Dresser (Track)

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(Orchestra Of St. Luke's)

Track From: Adams: Fearful Symmetries; The Wound Dresser
Label: Elektra Nonesuch

Berlioz: Les Nuits D'ete/Op. 7/Mahler: Five Wunderhorn Songs And Five Ruckert Songs (Album)

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(Eastman Chamber Ensemble)

Label: Bridge

Schubert: The Complete Songs - Volume 7 (Album)

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Label: Hyperion

Songs From Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Album)

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Label: Teldec

32nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1989)

winner

Knoxville - Summer Of 1915 (Music Of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky)

(Orchestra Of St. Luke's)

nominees

Live In Tokyo 1988 (Album)

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(Metropolitan Opera Orchestra)

Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Puccini: The Unknown Puccini (Album)

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Label: Cbs Masterworks

Schubert: Lieder (Album)

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

William Sharp, Baritone (Works By Thompson, Bowles, Hoiby, Musto, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: New World

31st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1988)

winner

Luciano Pavarotti In Concert

(Symphony Orchestra Of Amelia Romangna)

nominees

Handel/Schubert/Schumann: Lieder (Jessye Norman - Live At Hohenems) (Album)

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Label: Philips

Love Songs (Copland, R. Strauss, Poulenc, Mahler, Schumann, Gounod, Schubert, Etc.) (Album)

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Label: Delos International

Schubert: Winterreise (Album)

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Label: Dg

Songs Of America (Stephen Foster, Elliott Carter, Ruth Crawford, Milton Babbitt, George Crumb, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Irving Fine, Sergius Kagen) (Album)

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Label: Nonesuch

30th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1987)

winner

Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital

nominees

Copland: Eight Poems Of Emily Dickinson (Album)

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(Pacific Symphony Orchestra)

Label: Reference Recordings

R. Strauss: Lieder (Including "Malven") (Album)

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Label: Philips Classics

Soiree Francaise (Album)

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Label: Philips Classics

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 For Soprano And Orchestra Of Violoncellos (Album)

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(Yale Cellos Of Aldo Parisot)

Label: Delos International

29th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1986)

winner

Mozart: Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart

(Andre Previn; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)

nominees

Beautiful Dreamer (The Great American Songbook) (Album)

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(English Chamber Orchestra)

Label: London

Canteloube: Chants D'Auvergne Vol.II/Triptyque (Album)

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(Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)

Label: Cbs Masterworks

Passione Pavarotti (Favorite Neapolitan Love Songs) (Album)

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(Orchestra Del teatro Comunale Di Bologna)

Label: London

Weill: Stratas Sings Weill (Album)

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(Chamber Symphony)

Label: Nonesuch

28th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1985)

winner

Berlioz: Requiem

(Robert Shaw; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)

nominees

Zarzuela Arias And Duets (Arias Only) (Album)

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(Orf Symphonie-Orchester)

Label: Cbs Masterworks

Berlioz: Les Nuits D'Ete (Track)

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(Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)

Track From: Berlioz:Les Nuits D'Ete/Faure: Pelleas Et Melisande
Label: Telarc

Berlioz: Les Nuits D'Ete/Debussy: La Damoiselle Elue (Album)

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(Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Label: Cbs Masterworks

Canteloube: Chants D'auvergne, Vol.2/Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras, No. 5 (Album)

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(English Chamber Orchestra)

Label: London

Marilyn Horne Sings (Offenbach, Cherubini, Saint-Saens, Etc.) (Album)

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(Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte Carlo)

Label: Erato Editions

27th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1984)

winner

Ravel: Songs Of Maurice Ravel

(Pierre Boulez; BBC Symphony Orchestra & Ensemble InterContemporain)

nominees

Brahms: Songs Of Brahms (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Mahler's Songs Of Youth (Album)

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Label: Hyperion

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

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(Wiener Philharmonic)

Label: Cbs Masterworks

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

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(Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Label: London

26th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1983)

winner

Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne In Concert At The Met

(James Levine; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra)

nominees

The Brahms Edition: Lieder (Complete)

–

Faure: Eighteen Songs (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Mozart: Opera Arias (Album)

–

(London Symphony Orchestra)

Label: Philips

The Brahms Edition: Lieder (Complete) (Album)

–

Label: Dg

25th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1982)

winner

Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi)

(Zubin Mehta; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra)

nominees

Berlioz: La Mort De Cleopatre (Album)

–

(Orchestre De Paris)

Label: Dg

Faure: La Bonne Chanson/Debussy: Chansons De Bilitis And Ariettes Oubliees (Album)

–

Label: Cbs

Frederica von Stade Live! (Album)

–

Label: Cbs

Mozart: Concert Arias (Album)

–

(Vienna Chamber Orchestra)

Label: London

24th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1981)

winner

Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti

(Richard Bonynge; New York City Opera Orchestra)

nominees

Think On Me (Album)

–

Label: Cbs

Del Tredici: Final Alice (Album)

–

(Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Label: London

Ravel: Sheherazade/From Cinq Melodies Populaires Grecques/Deux Melodies Hebraiques/Chansons Madecasses (Album)

–

(Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Label: Cbs

The Unknown Kurt Weill (Album)

–

Label: Nonesuch

23rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1980)

winner

Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel To Britten

(Henry Lewis; Philharmonia Orchestra)

nominees

Berg: Der Wein - Concert Aria (Album)

–

(New York Philharmonic)

Label: Columbia

Berg: Lulu Suite (Album)

–

(New York Philharmonic)

Label: Columbia

Mahler: Songs Of A Wayfarer And Ruckert Songs (Album)

–

(London Philharmonic)

Label: Columbia

Mozart: Songs (Album)

–

Label: Seraphim

R. Strauss: Four Last Songs And Orchestral Songs (Album)

–

Label: Columbia

22nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1979)

winner

O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs

(Bologna Orchestra)

nominees

Victoria De Los Angeles In Concert (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Frederica von Stade Song Recital (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Lieder By Schubert And Richard Strauss (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Mozart: Lieder (Album)

–

Label: Philips Classics

Mussorgsky: Songs (Album)

–

Label: Columbia/Mel.

Ravel: Chansons Madecasses (Album)

–

Label: Nonesuch

Schubert: Lieder (Album)

–

Label: Dg

21st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1978)

winner

Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center

nominees

Mussorgsky: Songs And Dances (Album)

–

(London Philharmonic)

Label: Angel

Ravel: Sheherazade (Album)

–

(Orchestre National De France)

Label: Columbia

Teresa Berganza - Favorite Zarzuela Arias (Album)

–

Label: Zambra

Wagner: Arias (Album)

–

(Bavarian Radio Orchestra)

Label: Angel

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody (Album)

–

(Vienna Philharmonic)

Label: Dg

Maria Callas/The Legend, The Unreleased Recordings (Album)

–

Label: Angel

20th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1977)

winner

Bach: Arias

(Academy Of St. Martin-In-The Fields)

nominees

Faure: Songs (Complete) (Album)

–

Label: Conn. Soc.

Ives: Songs (Album)

–

Label: Dg

Luciano Pavarotti - O Holy Night (O Holy Night; Sanctus/ Schubert; Ave Maria, Etc.) (Album)

–

(National Philharmonic Orchestra)

Label: London

Rachmaninoff: Songs Vol. Two (Album)

–

Label: London

Rossini/Mozart: Opera Arias (Album)

–

(Rotterdam Philharmonic)

Label: Philips

Schubert On Stage (Album)

–

(Rotterdam Philharmonic)

Label: Philips Classics

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 (Album)

–

(Moscow Philharmonic)

Label: Columbia

But Yesterday Is Not Today (Album)

–

Label: New World

19th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1976)

winner

Herbert: Music Of Victor Herbert

nominees

(Verdi:) Carlo Bergonzi Sings Verdi (Album)

–

(New Philharmonia & Royal Philharmonic)

Label: Philips

Classical Barbra (Debussy: Beau Soir, Canteloube: Berceuse, Wolf: Verschwiegene, Etc.) (Album)

–

(Columbia Symphony)

Label: Columbia

Ives: Songs (Album)

–

Label: Nonesuch

Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde (Album)

–

(Concertgebouw Orchestra)

Label: Philips

Mozart: Arias (La Clemenza Di Tito, Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail, nozze Di Figaro, Etc.) (Album)

–

(English Chamber Orchestra)

Label: RCA

Schoenberg: Nine Early Songs: The Cabaret Songs Of Arnold Schoenberg (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Wolf: Morike Lieder (Album)

–

Label: Dg

18th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1975)

winner

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder

(Israel Philharmonic Orchestra)

nominees

After The Ball (A Treasury Of Turn-Of-The-Century Popular Songs) (Album)

–

Label: Nonesuch

Canteloube: Songs Of The Auvergne, Album 2 (Album)

–

(Lamoureux Concerts Orchestra)

Label: Angel

Cleo Laine Sings Pierrot Lunaire And Songs By Ives (Album)

–

(Nash Ensemble)

Label: RCA

Schumann: Frauenliebe Und Leben (Album)

–

Label: Philips Classics

Schumann: Frauenliebe Und Leben, Op.42 (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Verdi And Puccini Duets (Othello, Ballo En Maschera, Manon Lescaut, Madame Butterfly) (Album)

–

(New Philharmonic)

Label: RCA

17th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1974)

winner

Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss

nominees

Schubert: Goethe-Lieder (Album)

–

Label: Philips Classics

There's A Meeting Here Tonight (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Wagner: Duets From Parsifal And Die Walkure (Album)

–

Label: Philips

Amazing Grace (Agnus Dei, Bless The Lord, O My Soul, Etc.) (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Brahms: Alto Rhapsody (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Cathy Berberian At The Edinburgh Festival (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Crumb: Night Of The Four Moons (Album)

–

Label: Columbia

Davies: Eight Songs For A Mad King

–

Label: Nonesuch

French And Spanish Songs (Album)

–

Label: London

16th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1973)

winner

Puccini: Heroines

(Sir Edward Downes; New Philharmonia Orchestra)

nominees

Schubert: Songs (Album)

–

Label: Seraphim

Berg: Seven Early Songs (Album)

–

(BBC Symphony)

Label: Columbia

Berio: Recital 1 (For Cathy) (Album)

–

(Berio Sinfonietta)

Label: RCA

La Voce D'Oro (Album)

–

(New Philharmonia)

Label: RCA

Mahler: Das Lied Von Der Erde (Album)

–

(Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Label: London

Marilyn Horne Sings Rossini (Excerpts From Siege Of Corinth And La Donna Del Lago) (Album)

–

(Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)

Label: London

Martti Talvela - A Lieder Recital (Schumann) (Album)

–

Label: London

15th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1972)

winner

Brahms: Die Schone Magelone

nominees

Elgar: Sea Pictures (Album)

–

(London Symphony)

Label: Angel

Five Great Operatic Scenes (Verdi: Traviata, Don Carlo/ Tchaikovsky: Onegin/ Strauss: Ariadne, Etc.) (Album)

–

(London Symphony Orchestra)

Label: RCA

Songs By Stephen Foster (Album)

–

Label: Nonesuch

Songs Of Debussy (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder

–

(London Symphony Orchestra)

Label: Philips

14th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1971)

winner

Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann

nominees

An Evening Of Duets (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Berio: Epifanie (Album)

–

(BBC Symphony Orchestra)

Label: RCA

Haydn And Mozart Arias (Album)

–

(Vienna Haydn Orchestra)

Label: London

Ives: American Scenes/American Poets (Scenes: Things Our Fathers Loved, Walking, Autumn, Etc./Poets:Last Reader, Childrens Hour, Whitman, Thoreau, Etc.) (Album)

–

Label: Columbia

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 (Album)

–

(Philadelphia Orchestra)

Label: RCA

Wolf: Songs (Salzburg Festival 1953) (Album)

–

Label: Seraphim

13th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1970)

winner

Schubert: Lieder

nominees

Mozart And Strauss Arias (Album)

–

(London Philharmonic Orchestra)

Label: Audio Treasury

Prima Donna Volume III (Album)

–

(London Symphony Orchestra)

Label: RCA

Berlioz: The Trojans - Final Scenes "Death Of Cleopatara" (Album)

–

(London Symphony)

Label: Angel

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Album)

–

(New York Philharmonic)

Label: Columbia

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder/Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder (Album)

–

Label: London

12th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1969)

winner

Barber: Two Scenes From Antony And Cleopatra/Knoxville: Summer Of 1915

(New Philharmonia)

nominees

Berg: Attenberg Lieder (Album)

–

(London Symphony Orchestra)

Label: Columbia

Brahms: Four Serious Songs (Track)

–

(Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Track From: Brahms: Requiem
Label: RCA

Britten: Holy Sonnets Of Donne, Songs And Proverbs Of Blake (Album)

–

Label: London

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Album)

–

(London Symphony Orchestra)

Label: Angel

Scenes And Arias From French Opera (Album)

–

(Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)

Label: Westminster

Strauss (Richard): Nineteen Early Songs (Album)

–

Label: Angel

A Most Unusual Song Recital (Beethoven, Rossini, Brahms, Reger, R. Strauss) (Album)

–

Label: Seraphim

Bach And Handel Arias (Excerpts From Magnificat, Christmas Oratorio, St. Matthew Passion, Messiah, Rodelinda) (Album)

–

(Vienna Cantata Orchestra)

Label: London

11th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1968)

winner

Rossini: Rarities

(RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra)

nominees

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder And Songs Of A Wayfarer (Album)

–

(Hallé Orchestra)

Label: Angel

Schumann: Songs (Album)

–

Label: Dg

Songs Of Andalucia (Album)

–

(ARS Musicae Ensemble Of Barcelona)

Label: Angel

Songs Of Poulenc (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Verrett In Opera (Album)

–

(RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra)

Label: RCA

10th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1967)

winner

Prima Donna, Volume 2

(RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra)

nominees

Schubert: Die Winterreise (Album)

–

Label: London

Shepherd On The Rock And Other Songs (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Victoria De Los Angeles Sings Debussy And Ravel And Other French Songs (Album)

–

Label: Angel

An Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Songbook (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Beethoven: Songs (Album)

–

Label: Dg

Copland: 12 Poems Of Emily Dickenson (Album)

–

Label: Cbs

Schubert: Die Schoene Muellerin (Album)

–

Label: Dg

9th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1966)

winner

Prima Donna (Works Of Barber, Purcell, Etc.)

(RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra)

nominees

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 In G Major (Album)

–

(Cleveland Orchestra)

Label: Columbia

Mahler: The Youth's Magic Horn (Das Knaben Wunderhorn) (Album)

–

(London Philharmonic Orchestra)

Label: Angel

Presenting Montserrat Caballe (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Schumann: Dichterliebe (Album)

–

Label: Dg

Strauss: Four Last Songs (Album)

–

(Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra)

Label: Angel

8th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1965)

winner

Strauss: Salome (Dance Of The Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene)

(Boston Symphony Orchestra)

nominees

Canteloube: Songs Of The Auvergne/ Rachmaninoff: Vocalise/ Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasilieras #5 (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Falla: Seven Popular Spanish Songs (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Mirella Freni - Operatic Arias (Album)

–

(Rome Opera House Orchestra)

Label: Angel

Moussorgsky: Songs (Album)

–

(Russian State Symphony)

Label: Philips

Russian And French Arias (Album)

–

(London Symphony)

Label: London

Schumann: Liederkreis (Album)

–

Label: Angel

7th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1964)

winner

Berlioz: Nuits D'Ete (Song Cycle)/Falla: El Amor Brujo

(Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

nominees

Schubert: Die Winterreise (Album)

–

Label: Angel

The Age Of Bel Canto: Operatic Scenes (Album)

–

(London Symphony Orchestra & New Symphony Orchestra Of London)

Label: London

Tsars And Kings (Opera Arias) (Album)

–

(Paris Conservatoire Orchestra)

Label: Angel

Berlioz: Nuits D'Ete (Song Cycle)

–

Label: London

Britten: Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings (Album)

–

(London Symphony Orchestra)

Label: London

Callas Sings Verdi (Album)

–

(Paris Conservatoire Orchestra)

Label: Angel

6th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1963)

winner

Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy And Bess

(RCA Orchestra)

nominees

Command Performance (Album)

–

Label: London

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Album)

–

Label: Vanguard

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

–

Label: Angel

Ravel: Scheherazade/Berlioz: Cleopatre (Scene Lyrique)

–

Label: Columbia

Schubert: Schwanengesang (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (Album)

–

Label: Columbia

A Verdi Collaboration (Album)

–

Label: RCA

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

–

Label: Vanguard

5th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1962)

winner

Wagner: Gotterdamerung - Brunnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs

(New York Philharmonic)

nominees

Foss: Time Cycle (Album)

–

Label: Columbia

Great Arias From French Opera (Album)

–

Label: Angel

R. Strauss: Salome

–

Label: London

Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Spanish Songs Of The 20th Century (Album)

–

Label: Angel

4th Annual GRAMMY Awards (1961)

winner

The Art Of The Prima Donna

(Royal Opera House Orchestra - Covent Garden)

nominees

The Fabulous Victoria De Los Angeles (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Trimble: Four Fragments From The Canterbury Tales (Album)

–

Label: Columbia

Bach Cantatas No. 58, And No. 202 (Album)

–

(Bach Aria Group Orchestra)

Label: Decca

Operatic Arias (Album)

–

(Rome Opera House Orchestra)

Label: RCA

3rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1960)

winner

A Program Of Song - Leontyne Price Recital

nominees

Arias In The Great Tradition (Album)

–

Label: Columbia

Britten: Nocturne (Album)

–

Label: London

Conversations With The Guitar (Album)

–

Label: Capitol

Handel Arias (Album)

–

Label: L'oiseau - Lyre

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Album)

–

Label: RCA

Schubert: Songs, Album 3 (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Schuman: Dichterliebe (Album)

–

Label: RCA

2nd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1959)

winner

Bjoerling In Opera

nominees

A Brahms-Schumann Recital

–

Label: Decca

Maria Callas Portrays Verdi Heroines (Album)

–

Label: Angel

Milanov Operatic Arias

–

Label: RCA

The Art Of Song (Album)

–

Label: RCA

1st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1958)

winner

Operatic Recital

nominees

Cherubini: Medea (Album)

–

Label: Mercury

Duets For Spanish Guitar (Album)

–

Label: Capitol

Eileen Farrell As Medea (Album)

–

Label: Columbia

Wagner: Prelude And Liebestod - Tristan And Isolde, Brunnhilde's Immolation, Die Gotterdamerung (Album)

–

(Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Label: RCA