Genre
Classical
Wins*
1329
Nominations*
6997
2021 - 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards Winners
Best Orchestral Performance
Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Best Opera Recording
Glass: Akhnaten
Best Choral Performance
Mahler: Symphony No. 8, 'Symphony Of A Thousand'
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas - Hope Amid Tears
Yo-Yo Ma
Best Classical Instrumental Solo
Alone Together
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
Mythologies
Best Classical Compendium
Women Warriors - The Voices Of Change
Best Contemporary Classical Composition
Shaw: Narrow Sea
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.
Classical News
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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