Grammy Awards for 1988

By Patrick Mondout

Two new awards were given out at the 31st annual Grammy Awards to recognize two previously overlooked genres: rap and heavy metal. Heavy metal fans were distressed to see the voters return to form by giving the heavy metal award to the way-past-their-prime Jethro Tull.

While Tracy Chapman was a deserving Best New Artist, why was she competing against the likes of Take 6 and Vanessa Williams instead of Keith Sweat, Sinead O'Connor, Al B. Sure! or even Edie Brickell?

Note: All nominees are listed and denotes the Grammy winner(s).

Record of the Year
	"Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin
	"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman
	"Giving You the Best That I Got" - Anita Baker
	"Man in the Mirror" - Michael Jackson
	"Roll with It" - Steve Winwood

Song of the Year
	"Be Still My Beating Heart" - Sting
	"Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFerrin
	"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman
	"Giving You the Best That I Got" - Anita Baker, Skip Scarborough, Randy Holland
	"Piano in the Dark" - Brenda Russell, Jeff Hall, Scott Cutler

Album of the Year
	Faith - George Michael
	...Nothing Like the Sun - Sting
	Roll with It - Steve Winwood
	Simple Pleasures - Bobby McFerrin
	Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

New Artist
	Rick Astley
	Tracy Chapman
	Toni Childs
	Take 6
	Vanessa Williams

Pop Male Vocalist
	Phil Collins - "A Groovy Kind of Love"
	Bobby McFerrin - "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
	George Michael - "Father Figure"
	Sting - "Be Still My Beating Heart"
	Steve Winwood - "Roll with It"

Pop Female Vocalist
	Tracy Chapman - "Fast Car"
	Taylor Dane - Tell It to My Heart
	Whitney Houston - "One Moment in Time"
	Joni Mitchell - Chalk Mark in the Rain Storm
	Brenda Russell - Get Here

Pop Vocal Group
	The Beach Boys - "Kokomo"
	The Escape Club - "Wild, Wild West"
	Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine - "Anything for You"
	The Manhattan Transfer - Brasil
	Brenda Russell, Joe Esposito - "Piano in the Dark"

Rock Male Vocalist
	Eric Clapton - "After Midnight"
	Joe Cocker - Unchain My Heart
	Robert Palmer - "Simply Irresistable"
	Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson
	Rod Stewart - "Forever Young"

Rock Female Vocalist
	Pat Benatar - "All Fired Up"
	Toni Childs - "Don't Walk Away"
	Melissa Etheridge - "Show Me Some Water"
	Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
	Tina Turner - Tina Live in Europe

Rock Vocal Group
	INXS - Kick
	Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - "I Hate Myself for Loving You"
	Little Feat - Let It Roll
	Midnight Oil - "Beds Are Burning"
	U2 - "Desire"

Best Pop Instrumental Performance
	David Sanborn - Close-Up
	Kenny G - Silhouette
	M/A/R/R/S - "Pump Up the Volume"
	Mike Post - Music from "L.A. Law" and Otherwise
	Joe Satriani - "Always with Me, Always with You"

Best Rock Instrumental Performance
	Carlos Santana - Blues for Salvador
	Jeff Healey Band - "Hideaway"
	Jimmy Page - "Writes of Winter"
	Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
	Frank Zappa - Guitar

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance - Vocal or Instrumental
	Jethro Tull - Crest of a Knave
	AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video
	Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
	Metallica - And Justice for All
	Iggy Pop - "Cold Metal"

Best Rhythm & Blues Song
	"Giving You the Best That I Got" - Anita Baker, Skip Scarborough
	"Any Love" - Luther Vandross, Marcus Miller
	"Don't Be Cruel" - Babyface, L.A. Reid, Daryl Simmons
	"I'll Always Love You" - Jimmy George
	"Just Got Paid" - Johnny Kemp, Gene Griffin

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male
	Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby
	Teddy Pendergrass - Joy
	Al B. Sure! - "Nite and Day"
	Luther Vandross - Any Love
	Stevie Wonder - Characters

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female
	Anita Baker - "Giving You the Best That I Got"
	Taylor Dayne - "I'll Always Love You"
	Pebbles - "Girlfriend"
	Karyn White - "The Way You Loved Me"
	Vanessa Williams - "The Right Stuff"

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Duo or Group
	Gladys Knight & the Pips - "Love Overboard"
	Robert Cray Band - "Acting This Way"
	E.U. - "Da' Butt"
	Jets - "Rocket 2 U"
	New Edition - "If It Isn't Love"

Best Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Performance
	Chick Corea - "Light Years"
	Gerald Albright - "So Amazing"
	Cornell Dupree & Who It Is - Coast to Coast
	George Howard - Reflections
	Paul Jackson Jr. - I Came to Play
	Doc Powell - "What's Going On"

Best Rap Performance
	D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - "Parents Just Don't Understand"
	J.J. Fad - "Supersonic"
	Kool Moe Dee - "Wild, Wild West"
	L.L. Cool J - "Going Back to Cali"
	Salt-n-Pepa - "Push It"

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Male
	Bobby McFerrin - "Brothers"
	Mose Allison - Every Since the World Ended
	Joao Gilberto - Live in Montreaux
	Mark Murphy - September Ballads
	Mel Torme - A Vintage Year

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Female
	Betty Carter - Look What I Got!
	Lena Horne - The Men in My Life
	Rickie Lee Jones - "Autumn Leaves"
	Peggy Lee - Miss Peggy Lee Sings the Blues
	Carmen McRae - Fine and Mellow

Best Jazz Vocal Performance - Duo or Group
	Take 6 - "Spread Love"
	Jackie Cain, Roy Krat - One More Rose
	Cunninghams - Strings 'n' Swing "I Remember Bird"
	Lena Horne, Joe Williams - "I Won't Leave You Again"
	Carmen McRae, Betty Carter - The Carmen McRae-Betty Carter Duets

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Soloist
	Michael Brecker - Don't Try This at Home
	Miles Davis - Music from Siesta
	Branford Marsalis - Random Abstract
	Wynton Marsalis - The Wynton Marsalis Quartet Live at Blues Alley
	Rob Wasserman - Duets

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Group
	McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, David Murray, Cecil McBee, Roy Haynes - Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane
	Chick Corea Elektric Band - "Amnesia"
	Keith Jarrett Trio - Still Live
	Branford Marsalis Quartet - Random Abstract
	Wynton Marsalis Quartet - The Wynton Marsalis Quartet Live at Blues Alley

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Big Band
	Gil Evans & the Monday Night Orchestra - Bud and Bird
	Gene Harris All-Star Big Band - Tribute to Count Basie
	Woody Herman's Thundering Herd - Ebony
	Bill Holman Band - Bill Holman Band
	Illinois Jacquet & His Big Band - Jacquet's Got It!

Best Jazz Fusion Performance
	Yellowjackets - Politics
	David Benoit - Every Step of the Way
	Lyle Mays - Sweet Dreams
	John Patitucci - John Patitucci
	Tom Scott - "Amaretto"

Best Country & Western Song
	"Hold Me" - K.T. Oslin
	"Chiseled in Stone" - Vern Gosdin, Max D. Barnes
	"I Couldn't Leave You If I Tried" - Rodney Crowell
	"She's No Lady" - Lyle Lovett
	"Streets of Bakersfield" - Homer Joy

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male
	Randy Travis - Old 8 x 10
	Rodney Crowell - Diamonds and Dirt
	Lyle Lovett - Pontiac
	Dan Seals - "Addicted"
	Dwight Yoakam - Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female
	K.T. Olsin - "Hold Me"
	Emmylou Harris - "Back in Baby's Arms"
	k.d. lang - "I'm Down to My Last Cigarette"
	Reba McEntire - Reba
	Tanya Tucker - "Strong Enough to Bend"

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo or Group
	The Judds - "Give a Little Love"
	Forrester Sisters - Sincerely
	Highway 101 - Highway 101 - 2
	Oak Ridge Boys - "Gonna Take a Lot of River"
	Restless Heart - Big Dreams in a Small Town

Best Country & Western Vocal Collaboration
	Roy Orbison, k.d. lang - "Crying"
	Earl Thomas Conley, Emmylou Harris - "We Believe in Happy Endings"
	Rodney Crowell, Rosanne Cash - "It's Such a Small World"
	k.d. lang, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Kitty Wells - "Honky Tonk Angels' Medley"
	Dwight Yoakan, Buck Owens - "Streets of Bakersfield"

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance
	Asleep at the Wheel - "Sugarfoot Rag"
	Johnny Gimble - "Still Fiddlin' Around"
	Leo Kottke - "Busy Signal"
	Carlton Moody & the Moody Brothers - "The Great Train Song Medley"
	Mason Williams & Mannheim Steamroller - "Country Idyll"

Best Gospel Performance - Male
	Larnelle Harris - Christmas
	Steven Curtis Chapman - Real Life Conversations
	Steve Green - Find Us Faithful
	Michael W. Smith - I 2 (Eye)
	Russ Taff - Russ Taff

Best Gospel Performance - Female
	Amy Grant - Lead Me On
	Margaret Becker - The Reckoning
	Sandi Patti - "Almighty God"
	Deniece Williams - "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
	Delores Winans - "Precious Is the Name"

Best Gospel Performance - Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus
	Winans - The Winans Live at Carnegie Hall
	DeGarmo & Key - D&K
	First Call - An Evening in December, Vol. 2
	Whites - Doing It by the Book
	BeBe & CeCe Winans - "Silent Night, Holy Night"

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Male
	BeBe Winans - "Abundant Life"
	Walter Hawkins  - solo tracks from Special Gift
	Richard Smallwood - "You Did It All"
	Marvin Winans - "Dancin' in the Spirit"
	Melvin Williams - Back to the Cross

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Female
	Aretha Franklin - One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism
	Vanessa Bell Armstrong - "Pressing On"
	Shirley Caesar - Live ...in Chicago
	Tremaine Hawkins - The Joy That Floods My Soul
	CeCe Winans - "I Have a Father"

Best Soul Gospel Performance - Duo, Group, Choir or Chorus
	Take 6 - Take 6
	Clark Sisters - Conqueror
	Aretha Franklin, Mavis Staples - "Oh Happy Days"
	Edwin Hawkins - That Name
	New Jersey Mass Choir - Hold Up the Light
	Ronald Winans Family & Friends Choir - Ron Winans Family and Friends Choir

Best Traditional Folk Recording
	Folkways: A Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly - various artists
	Irish Heartbeat - Van Morrison, Chieftains
	Journey of Dreams - Ladysmith Black Mambazo
	Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares - Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir
	"Pretty Boy Floyd" - Bob Dylan

Best Contemporary Folk Recording
	Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
	"Emergency" - Sweet Honey in the Rock
	Homeland - A Collection of Black South African Music - various South African artists
	John Prine Live - John Prine
	Short Sharp Shocked - Michelle Shocked

Best Traditional Blues Recording
	Hidden Charms - Willie Dixon
	Ain't Nothin' but a Party - Johnny Copeland
	Live at Antone's Nightclub - James Cotton
	Saturday Night Zydecko - Rockin' Dopsie
	The Story of My Life - Guitar Slim Jr.

Best Contemporary Blues Recording
	"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" - Robert Cray Band
	Blues You Can Use - Bobby Bland
	"Low-Commotion" - Ry Cooder
	Seven Year Itch - Etta James
	Talk to Your Daughter - Robben Ford

Best Bluegrass Recording - Vocal or Instrumental
	Southern Flavor - Bill Monroe
	Drive - Bela Fleck
	Fifteenth Anniversary Celebration, Live at the Kennedy Center - Seldom Scene & Their Very Special Guests
	Home Is Where the Heart Is - David Grisman
	New Moon Rising - Peter Rowan & the Nashville Bluegrass Band

Best Latin Pop Performance
	Roberto Carlos - Roberto Carlos
	Dyango - Cae la Noche
	Jose Jose - Soy Asi
	Jose Luis Perales - Sueno de Libertad
	Raphael - Las Apariencias Enganan

Best Tropical Latin Performance
	Ruben Blades, Son de Solar - Antecedente
	Oscar D'Leon - La Salsa Soy Yo
	Pete Escovedo - Mister E.
	Johnny Pacheco, Pete "El Conde" Rodriguez - Salsobita
	Eddie Santiago - Sigo Astrevido

Best Mexican-American Performance
	Linda Ronstadt - Canciones de Mi Padre
	Los Bukis - Si Me Recuerdas
	Los Freddy's - Vida Nueva
	Flaco Jimenez - Flaco's Amigos
	Jose Javier Solis - No Me Olvidaras
	Los Tigres del Norte - Idolos del Pueblo
	Pio Trevino & Majic - Quiero Verte Otra Vez
	Los Yonics - Petalo y Espinas

Best Reggae Recording
	Conscious Party - Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
	"Breakfast in Bed" - UB40, Chrissie Hynde
	Hanging Fire - Jimmy Cliff
	Toots in Memphis - Toots
	UB40 - UB40

Best Polka Recording
	Born to Polka - Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra
	All Aboard It's Polka Time - Walter Ostanek & His Band
	Join the Polka Generation - Lenny Gomulka's Chicago Push
	Let's Have a Party - Stas Bulanda's Average Polka Band
	Sounds from a Polka Party - Jimmy Weber & the Sounds

Best New Age Performance
	Shadowfax - Folksongs for a Nuclear Village
	Suzanne Ciani - Neverland
	Mark Isham - Castalia
	Steve Khan, Rob Mounsey - Local Color
	Paul Winter - "Down in Belgorod"

Best Arrangement on an Instrumental
	Roger Kellaway - "Memos from Paradise" (Eddie Daniels)
	David Balakrishnan - "A Night in Tunisia" (Turtle Island String Quartet)
	Bill Barber, Bill Berg, Jimmy Johnson & Dick Oatts - "Jazz Patrol" (Flim & the BB's)
	John Dankworth - "Caravan" (John Dankworth conducting the London Symphony Orchestra)
	Henry Mancini - "Suite from The Thorn Birds" (Henry Manicin & R.P.O. Pops)

Best Instrumental Composition
	"The Theme from L.A. Law" - Mike Post (Mike Post)
	Central City Sketches (side 2) - Benny Carter, composer and conducting the American Jazz Orchestra
	"Eternal Child" - Chick Corea (Chick Corea Elektric Band)
	"Olympic Spirit" - track from 1988 Summer Olympics album - John Williams (John Williams)
	"Winter Games" - David Foster (Vancouver Symphony)

Best Musical Cast Show Album
	Into the Woods - Bernadette Peters, Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien, Tom Aldredge, Robert Westenberg. Stephen Sondheim, music and lyrics
	Anything Goes - Patti LuPone, Bill McCutcheon, Howard McGillian, others. Cole Porter, composer and lyricist
	Chess - David Carroll, Philip Casnoff, Judy Kuh, others. Benny Anderson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, composers; Tim Rice, lyricist
	Of Thee I Sing/Let 'Em Eat Cake - Maureen McGovern, Larry Kert, Jack Gilford. Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the New York Choral Artists & Orchestra of St. Luke's. George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
	Show Boat - Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley, Teresa Stratas, Nancy Culp, Lillian Gish, others. John McGlinn conducting the London Sinfonietta. Jerome Kern, composer; Oscar Hammerstein, lyricist

Best Album of Original Instrumental Background Score written for a Motion Picture or Television
	The Last Emperor - Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Cong Su
	Empire of the Sun - John Williams
	Fatal Attraction - Maurice Jarre
	Tucker: The Man and His Dream - Joe Jackson
	Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Alan Silvestri

Best Song written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television
	"Two Hearts" (Buster) - Phil Collins, Lamont Dozier (Phil Collins)
	"Century's End" (Bright Lights, Big City) - Donald Fagen
	"Cry Freedom" (Cry Freedom) - George Fenton, Jonas Gwangwa
	"Kokomo" (Cocktail) - Mike Love, Terry Melcher, John Philips, Scott Mackenzie (Beach Boys)
	"One Moment in Time" (1988 Summer Olympic Album One Moment in Time) - Albert Hammond, John Bettis (Whitney Houston)

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)
	Jonathan Tunick - "No One Is Alone" (Cleo Laine)
	Henry Mancini - "Volare" (Luciano Pavarotti)
	Marcus Miller - "Funny" (Boz Scaggs)
	Mike Renzi - "I Wish I'd Met You" (Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr.)
	Thomas Dolby & the Lost Toy People - "The Keys to Her Ferrari" (Thomas Dolby)

Best Classical Album
	Verdi: Requiem and Operatic Choruses - Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
	Horowitz Plays Mozart (Piano Concerto No. 23 in A and Piano Sonata No. 13 in B Flat) - Vladimir Horowitz, piano; Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the La Scala Opera Orchestra
	Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor ("Resurrection") - Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic
	Rorem: String Symphony; Sunday Morning; Eagles - Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for "String Symphony"; Louis Lane conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for "Sunday Morning", "Eagles"
	Wagner: Lohengrin - Georg Solti conducting the Vienna State Opera Choir and Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Placido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Eva Randova, Siegmund Nimsgern, Hans Sotin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)

Best Orchestral Recording
	Rorem: String Symphony - Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Sunday Morning, Eagles, Louis Lane conducting the Atlanta Symphony
	Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor - Roger Norrington conducting the London Classical Players
	Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E - Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
	Copland: Appalachian Spring (Complete); Letter from Home; John Henry; Cortege Macabre from Grohg - Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
	Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor ("Resurrection") - Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic

Best Chamber Music Performance - Vocal or Instrumental
	Murray Perahia, George Solti, pianos; David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie, percussion - Bartok: Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion; Brahms: Variation on a Theme by Joseph Haydn for 2 Pianos
	Guarneri Quartet - Dvorak: String Quartet in F ("American Quartet"); Smetana: String Quartet in E Minor ("From My Life")
	Kim Kashkashian, viola; Robert Levin, piano - Hindemith: Viola Sonata Op. 11, No. 4; Violin Sonata, 4; Op. 25, No. 4; Violin Sonatas, 1937
	Gidon Kremer, violin; Martha Argerich, piano - Beethoven: Violin-Piano Sonatas No. 4 in A, Op. 23, and No. 5 in F, Op. 24
	James Levine, piano; Ensemble Wien-Berlin - Mozart: Quintet in E Flat for Piano and Winds, K. 452; Beethoven: Quintet in E Flat for Piano and Winds, Op. 16

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) with Orchestra
	Vladimir Horowitz, piano (Carlo Maria Giulini conducting La Scala Opera Orchestra) - Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A
	Gary Gray, clarinet (Harry Newstone conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) - The Art of Gary Gray (Copland: Clarinet Concerto; Lutoslawski: Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Orchestra; Arnold: Clarinet Concerto No. 1; etc)
	Zoltan Kocsis, piano (Ivan Fischer conducting the Budapest Festival Orchestra) - Bartok: Works for Piano and Orchestra (Concerto No. 1, Concerto No. 2, Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, etc.)
	Wynton Marsalis, trumpet (Raymond Leppard conducting the English Chamber Orchestra) - Baroque Music for Trumpets (Vivaldi, Telemann, Pachelbel, Haydn, von Biber)
	Itzhak Perlman, violin (Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) - Bruch: Scottish Fantasy and Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor
	Isaac Stern, violin (Lorin Maazel conducting the Orchestre National de France) - Dutilleux: L'Arbre des Songes - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
	Isaac Stern, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello (Claudio Abbado conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) - Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor, Op. 102

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) without Orchestra
	Alicia de Larrocha, piano - Albeniz: Iberia; Navarra; Suite Espagnola
	Alfred Brendel, piano - Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage, Second Year: Italy
	Vladimir Horowitz, piano - Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 13 in B Flat, K. 333
	Keith Jarrett, piano - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
	Maurizio Pollini, piano - Schubert: The Late Piano Sonatas (D. 958, 959, 960); 3 Piano Pieces, D. 946; Allegretto, D. 915

Best Opera Recording
	Wagner: Lohengrin - Georg Solti conducting the Vienna State Opera Choir and Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Placido Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Siegmund Nimsgern, Jessye Norman, Eva Randova, Hans Sotin)
	Adams: Nixon in China - Edo de Waart conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's (solos: Sanford Sylvan, James Maddalena, Thomas Hammons, John Duykers, Carolann Page)
	Bellini: Norma - Richard Bonynge conducting the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballe, Samuel Ramey)
	Bernstein, Wadsworth: A Quiet Place - Leonard Bernstein conducting the Austrian Radio Symphony (solos: Chester Ludgin, Beverly Morgan, John Brandstetter, Peter Kazaras, Jean Kraft, Wendy White)
	Mozart: Idomeneo - John Pritchard conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Luciano Pavarotti, Agnes Baltsa, Lucia Popp, Edita Gruberova, Leo Nucci)
	Puccini: La Boheme - Leonard Bernstein conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of Santa Cecilia (solos: Angelina Reaux, Jerry Hadley, Barbara Daniels, Thomas Hampson)

Best Choral Performance
	Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Verdi: Requiem and Operatic Choruses
	Helmuth Froschauer, chorus master; Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Singverein and Vienna Philharmonic - Mozart: Requiem
	John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists - Bach: Christmas Oratorio
	Margaret Hillis, choral director; Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra - Bach: St. Matthew Passion
	Trevor Pinnock conducting the English Concert Choir and English Concert - Vivaldi: Gloria; Scarlatti: Dixit Dominus

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
	Luciano Pavarotti, tenor (Emerson Buckley conducting the Symphonic Orchestra of Amelia Romagna "Arturo Toscanini") - Luciano Pavarotti in Concert (arias from Lucia de Lammermoor, Rigoletto, La Boheme, Fedora, Turandot)
	Arleen Auger, soprano (Dalton Baldwin, accompanist) - Love Songs (Copland, R. Strauss, Poulenc, Mahler, Schumann, Gounod, Schubert)
	Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano (Gilbert Kalish, accompanist) - Songs of America (Stephen Foster, Elliott Carter, Ruth Crawford, Milton Babbitt, George Crumb, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Irving Fine, Sergius Kagen)
	Christa Ludwig, soprano (James Levine, accompanist) - Schubert: Winterreise
	Jessye Norman, soprano (Geoffrey Parsons, accompanist) - Handel, Schubert, Schumann: Lieder (Jessye Norman - Live at Hohenems)

Best Contemporary Composition
	John Adams - Nixon in China (Edo de Waart conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's)
	Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Wadsworth - A Quiet Place (Leonard Bernstein conducting the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra; soloists)
	William Bolcom - Symphony No. 4 (Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Orchestra; Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano)
	Ned Rorem - String Symphony (Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
	Karlheinz Stockhausen - Amour (Suzanne Stephens, clarinet)

Best Engineered Recording - Classical
	Jack Renner - Verdi: Requiem and Operatic Choruses (Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra)
	Simon Eadon - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E (Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
	Cees Heijkoop, Willem van Leeuwen, Volker Strauss - Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies (Complete) (Bernard Haitink conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra)
	Jack Renner - Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Mozart: Great C Minor Mass (Robert Shaw conducting the Atlanta Symphony Chorus and Orchestra)
	Klaus Scheibe - Mahler: Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection") (Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic)

Classical Producer of the Year
	Robert Woods
	Andrew Cornall
	Steven Epstein
	Thomas Frost
	Joanna Nickrenz