Best Classical Performance Grammy Awards
Conductor's Award

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1998

Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra
For: Mahler: Symphony No. 9

1997

Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and the Cleveland Orchestra
For: Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Tristia

1996

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
For: Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, San Francisco Symphony

1995

Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Symphony
For: Debussy: 'La Mer'; Nocturnes; 'Jeux,' etc.

1994

Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
For: Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra: 4 Orchestral Pieces, Op. 12

1993

Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
For: Bartok: The Wooden Prince

1992

Leonard Bernstein conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
For: Mahler: Symphonie No. 9

1991

Daniel Barenboim
For: Corigliano: Symphony No. 1

1990

Leonard Bernstein conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
For: Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 1, Op. 10 and No. 7, Op. 60

1989

Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic
For: Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor

1988

Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
For: Rorem: String Symphony

1987

Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
For: Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor ("Choral")

1986

Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
For: Liszt: A Faust Symphony

1985

Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony
For: Faure: Pelleas et Melisande

1984

Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony
For: Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B. Flat, Op. 100

1983

Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony
For: Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Major

1982

James Levin conducting the Chicago Symphony
For: Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minorr

1981

Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
For: Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor

1980

Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony
For: Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A Major

1979

Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
For: Brahms: Symphonies (4) (Complete)

1978

Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic
For: Beethoven: Symphonies (9) (complete)

1977

Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony
For: Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D Major

1976

Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony
For: Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

1975

Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic
For: Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe

1974

Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony
For: Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

1973

Pierre Boulez conducting the New York Philharmonic
For: Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

1972

Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony
For: Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor

1971

Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony
For: Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major

1970

Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra
For: Stavinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps

1969

Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra
For: Boulez Conducts Debussy, Vol. 2

1968

Pierre Boulez conducting the New Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
For: Boulez Conducts Debussy

1967

Igor Stravinsky conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra
For: Firebird and Petrouchka Suite

1966

Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra
For: Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A Minor

1965

Leopold Stokowski conducting the American Symphony Orchestra
For: Ives: Symphony No. 4

1964

Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra
For: Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor: Berg: Wozzeck Excerpts

1963

Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra
For: Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

1962

Igor Stravinsky
For: Stravinsky: The Firebird Ballet

1961

Charles Munch
For: Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe

1960

Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony
For: Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

1959

Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony
For: Debussy: Images for Orchestra

1958

Felix Slatkin conducting the Hollywood Bowl Symphony
For: Gaite Parisienne



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