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Classical

Genre

Classical

Wins*

1354

Nominations*

7022

2020 - 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners

Ives: Complete Symphonies

Best Orchestral Performance

Ives: Complete Symphonies

Gershwin: Porgy And Bess

Best Opera Recording

Gershwin: Porgy And Bess

Danielpour: The Passion Of Yeshua

Best Choral Performance

Danielpour: The Passion Of Yeshua

Contemporary Voices

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Contemporary Voices

Theofanidis: Concerto For Viola And Chamber Orchestra

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Theofanidis: Concerto For Viola And Chamber Orchestra

Smyth: The Prison

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Smyth: The Prison

Thomas, M.T.: From The Diary Of Anne Frank & Meditations On Rilke

Best Classical Compendium

Thomas, M.T.: From The Diary Of Anne Frank & Meditations On Rilke

Isabel Leonard

Rouse: Symphony No. 5

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Rouse: Symphony No. 5

All Nominations From This Genre

*Through the 65th GRAMMY Awards

Music Facts: Classical

  • Classical music originated in Europe in the 6th century. 

  • Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Schubert, Stravinsky, Gershwin, and Shostakovich are among some of the most prominent classical composers. 

  • Famous classical GRAMMY winners include Leonard Bernstein, Georg Solti and Yo-Yo Ma.

All GRAMMY Awards and Nominations for Classical

Wins

Best Orchestral Performance

Works By Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman

Best Opera Recording

Blanchard: Fire Shut Up In My Bones

Best Choral Performance

Born

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Shaw: Evergreen

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Letters For The Future

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Voice Of Nature - The Anthropocene

Best Classical Compendium

An Adoption Story

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Puts: Contact

Nominations

Best Orchestral Performance

John Williams - The Berlin Concert

Best Orchestral Performance

Eastman: Stay On It

Best Orchestral Performance

Dvorák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9

Best Orchestral Performance

Adams, John Luther: Sila - The Breath Of The World

Best Opera Recording

Davis: X - The Life And Times Of Malcolm X

Best Opera Recording

Aucoin: Eurydice

Best Choral Performance

Verdi: Requiem - The Met Remembers 9/11

Best Choral Performance

Bach: St. John Passion

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

What Is American

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Perspectives

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Musical Remembrances

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Beethoven: Complete String Quartets, Volume 2 - The Middle Quartets

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

A Night In Upper Town - The Music Of Zoran Krajacic

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Beethoven: Diabelli Variations

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Bach: The Art Of Life

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Abels: Isolation Variation

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Stranger - Works For Tenor By Nico Muhly

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Okpebholo: Lord, How Come Me Here?

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

How Do I Find You

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Eden

Best Classical Compendium

The Lost Birds

Best Classical Compendium

A Concert For Ukraine

Best Classical Compendium

Aspire

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Simon: Requiem For The Enslaved

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Gubaidulina: The Wrath Of God

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Bermel: Intonations

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Akiho: Ligneous Suite

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