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This is truly the grand-daddy of all awards shows. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding musical achievements. The Grammys always prove to be a night of spectacle and performance that truly can't be missed.

Host: Ellen DeGeneres
Date: February 27, 1996
City: Los Angeles

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Best Album Notes

Best Album Package

Best Album Package - Boxed

Best Alternative Music Performance

Best Arrangement On An Instrumental

  • Winner:
    J.J. Johnson with the Robert Farnon Orchestra     Lament
  • Ettore Stratta conducting the Royal Philharmonic Manha de Carnaval
  • GRP All-Star Band Cookin' at the Continental
  • Marcus Miller Come Together
  • Ettore Stratta conducting the Royal Philharmonic Atras da Porta

Best Bluegrass Album

  • Winner:
    Nashville Bluegrass Band     Unleashed
  • Rose Maddox $35 and a Dream
  • Cox Family Beyond the City
  • Claire Lynch Moonlighter
  • Byron Berline Fiddle and a Song

Best Chamber Music Performance

  • Winner:
    Emanuel Ax, piano; Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Richard Stoltzman, clarinet     Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart: Clarinet Trios
  • Emerson String Quartet Webern: Works for String Quartet; String Trio, Op. 20
  • St. Petersburg String Quartet Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 3, 5 and 7
  • Alban Berg Quartet Janacek: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2
  • Vermeer String Quartet Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ

Best Choral Performance

  • Winner:
    Herbert BLomstedt conducting the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus     Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
  • John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique Verdi: Requiem; 4 Pezzi Sahri
  • Yuri Temirkanov conducting the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Chamber Choir Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
  • Barbara Thornton conducting the Sequentia Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy
  • Robert Shaw conducting the Robert Shaw Festival Singers Evocation of the Spirit (Works of Gorecki, Part, Barber, etc.)

Best Classical Album

  • Winner:
    Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra Choir; Franklin Cohen, clarinet     Debussy: La Mer; Nocturnes; Jeux; etc.
  • Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bartok: Divertimento; Dance Suite; etc.
  • Mstislav Rostropovich conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Maxim Vengerov, violin Prokofiev, Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Martin Neary conducting the New London Consort; Westminster Abbey Choir Music for Queen Mary (Works of Purcell, Morley, Blow, etc.)
  • Charles Dutoit conducting the Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Montreal Symphony Orchestra Choir; Gary Lakes, Francoise Follet, Gino Quilico, Deborah Voigt, principal soloists Berlioz: Les Troyens

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Radu Lupu, piano     Schubert: Piano Sonatas (B Flat Major and A Major)
  • Murray Perahia, piano Chopin: 4 Ballades (Waltzes, Nocturne, Mazurkas and Etudes)
  • Evgeny Kissin, piano Chopin, Vol. 2 (Sonata No. 3; Mazurkas)
  • Stephen Kovacevich, piano Beethoven: Piano Sonata, Op. 31, Nos. 16-18
  • Konstantin Lifschitz, piano Bach: Goldberg Variations

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Itzhak Perlman, violin (Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra)     The American Album (Works of Bernstein, Barber, Foss)
  • Evgeny Kissin, piano (Claudio Abbado conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker) Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3
  • Maxim Vengerov, violin (Mstislav Rostropovich conducting the London Symphony Orchestra) Prokofiev, Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Catherine Cantin, flute; Heinz Holliger, oboe; Yvonne Loriod, piano; Mstislav Rostropovich, violincello (Myung-Whun Chung conducting the Bastille Opera Orchestra) Messiaen: Concert a Quartre track fron Messiaen: Concert a Q
  • Maria Joao Piers, piano (Andre Previn conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) Chopin: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 track from Chopin: Piano Concerto

Best Classical Vocal Performance

  • Winner:
    Sylvia McNair, soprano (Christopher Hogwood conducting the Academy of Ancient Music)     The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell (If Music Be the Food of Love, Sweeter Than Roses, etc.
  • Bryn Terfel, baritone (Malcolm Martineau, piano) The Vagabond (Songs by Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, etc.)
  • Wolfang Holzmair, baritone (Imogine Cooper, piano) Schumann: Dichterliebe; Liederkreis, Op. 24; HeineLieder
  • Roberto Alagna, tenor (Richard Armstrong conducting the London Philharmonic) Roberto Alagna - Operatic Arias (Works of Donizetti, Massenet, etc.)
  • Sergei Leiferkus, baritone (Semion Skigin, piano) Mussorgsky Songs (Songs and Dances of Death, The Nursery, etc)

Best Comedy Album

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Best Contemporary Composition

  • Winner:
    Olivier Messiaen     Concert a Quatre
  • John Adams Chamber Symphony
  • Gyorgy Ligeti Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
  • Gunther Schuller Of Reminiscences and Reflections
  • Ellen Taafe Zwilich Symphony No. 3

Best Contemporary Folk Album

Best Contemporary Jazz Performance

  • Winner:
    We Live Here     Pat Metheny Group
  • Tales Marcus Miller
  • Lee and Larry Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton
  • Elixir Fourplay
  • Dreamland Yellowjackets

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

Best Country & Western Album

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance

Best Country & Western Song

Best Country & Western Vocal Collaboration

  • Winner:
    Shenandoah, Alison Krauss     Somewhere in the Vicinity of the Heart
  • Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Linda Davis On My Own
  • Dolly Parton, Vince Gill I Will Always Love You
  • Suzy Bogguss, Chet Atkins All My Loving
  • George Jones, Alan Jackson A Good Year for the Roses

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

Best Engineered Album

Best Engineered Recording

  • Winner:
    Herbert Blornstedt, conductor     Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Kossuth - Symphonic Poem
  • Leonard Slatkin, conductor The Typewriter - Leroy Anderson Favorites
  • Anonymous 4 The Lily and the Lamb (Chant and Polyphony from Medieval England)
  • Yuri Ternirkanov, conductor Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
  • Leonard Slatkin conductor Orff: Carmina Burana

Best Hard Rock Performance

Best Historical Album

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

  • Winner:
    Mel Torme, Rob McConnell     I Get a Kick Out of You
  • GRP All-Star Big Band, B.B. King Stormy Monday Blues
  • The Magic Song Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
  • Cirque Du Soleil Algeria
  • Carmen Lundy 'Round Midnight

Best Instrumental Composition

Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture Or Television

  • Winner:
    Crimson Tide     Crimson Tide
  • Joe Cool Blues Buggy Ride
  • Ed Wood Main Title
  • The Cure The Cure
  • Batman Forever Batman Forever

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Individual Or Group

  • Winner:
    McCoy Tyner Trio featuring Michael Brecker     Infinity
  • Kenny Barron, Roy Haynes, Charlie Haden Wanton Spirit
  • Charlie Haden, Hank Jones Steal Away
  • Joe Henderson Double Rainbow - The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim
  • Fred Hersch I Never Told You - Fred Hersch Plays Johnny Mandel

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

  • Winner: Michael Brecker Impressions
  • Eliane Elias, Herbie Hancock The Way You Look Tonight
  • Kenny Barron Take the Coltrane
  • Pete Christlieb But Beautiful
  • Charlie Haden, Hank Jones Go Down Moses

Best Jazz Vocal Performance

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance

Best Latin Jazz Performance

  • Winner:
    Jobim     Antonio Brasileiro
  • Patato, Changuito, Orestes Ritmo y Candela: Rhythm at the Crossroads
  • Chico O'Farrill & His Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Pure Emotion
  • Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band Pensativo
  • Eddie Palmieri Areta

Best Latin Pop Performance

Best Metal Performance

Best Mexican-american Performance

Best Music Video - Long Form

  • Charles Dutoit conducting the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Barbara Willis Sweete, director The Planets

Best Musical Album For Children

  • Winner:
    J. Aaron Brown, David R. Lehman (Barbara Bailey Hutchinson)     Sleepy Time Lullabies
  • Michael L. Becker, Harold J. Kleiner, Marco Marianangeli (Chieftains, Kathie Lee Gifford, various artists) Winnie-the-Pooh's Take My Hand
  • Los Lobos, Lalo Guerrero Papa's Dream
  • Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz Pocahontas Sing-Along
  • Bod Dawson, John McCutcheon John McCutcheon's Four Seasons: Summersongs

Best New Age Album

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Charles Dutoit conducting the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (solos: Lakes, Pollet, Quilico, Voigt)     Berlioz: Les Troyens
  • Valery Gergiev conducting the Kirov Orchestra (solos: Borodina, Gassiev, Gorchakova, Grigorian, Kit, Minjelkiev, Ognovienko) Borodin: Prince Igor
  • John Eliot Gardiner conducting the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Chorus (solos: Clarkson, D'Arcangelo, Gilfry, James, Margiono, Orgonasova, Pregardien, Silvesterelli) Mozart: Don Giovanni
  • Christopher Hogwood conducting the Academy of Ancient Music Orchestra (solos: Bartoli, Bonney, Cachemaille, Heilmann, Jones, Montague) Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito
  • Alberto Zedda conducting the Collegium Instrumentale Brugense (solos: Micco, Jo, Lendi, Olsen, Podles, Spagnoli) Rossini: Tancredi

Best Orchestral Performance

  • Winner:
    Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra     Debussy: La Mer
  • Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
  • Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra Hindemith: Mathis der Maler - Symphonie; Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by C.M. von Weber, etc.
  • Simon Rattle conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Elgar: Enigma Variations; Falstaff; Grania and Diarmid
  • Pierre Boulez conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bartok: Divertimento; Dance Suite; etc.

Best Polka Album

  • Winner:
    Jimmy Sturr     I Love to Polka
  • Walter Ostanek Happiness Is Polkas and Waltzes with Walter Ostanek and Friends
  • Lenny Gomulka & Chicago Push For Old Times Sake
  • Brave Combo Polkas for a Gloomy World
  • Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones Better Than Ever

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

Best Pop/contemporary Gospel Album

Best Rap Album

Best Rap Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Rap Performance - Solo

Best Reggae Album

Best Rhythm & Blues Album

Best Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Performance

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

  • Winner:
    For Your Love     Stevie Wonder
  • Creep Dallas Austin
  • Brown Sugar D'Angelo
  • Babyface You Can't Run
  • Red Light Special Babyface

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male

Best Rock Gospel Album

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Best Song Written Specifically For A Motion Picture Or Television

  • Winner:
    Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz     Colors of the Wind (Pocahontas)
  • James Horner, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil Whatever You Imagine (The Pagemaster)
  • Bryan Adams, Michael Kamen, Robert John Mutt Lange Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? (Don Juan DeMarco)
  • Bruce Hornsby, Chaka Khan Love Me Still (Clockers)
  • Babyface Someone to Love (Bad Boys)

Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel Or Bluegrass Gospel

Best Spoken Word Album For Children

  • Winner:
    Patrick Stewart     Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
  • Morgan Freeman Follow the Drinking Gourd
  • Winona Ryder The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
  • Denzel Washington John Henry

Best Spoken Word Or Nonmusical Album

Best Traditional Blues Album

Best Traditional Folk Album

  • Winner:
    Ramblin' Jack Elliott     South Coast
  • Norman Blake, Nancy Blake While Passing Along This Way
  • Laurie Lewis, Tom Rozum The Oak and the Laurel
  • Dave Van Ronk From ...Another Time and Place
  • Ali Akbar Khan Then and Now

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album

Best Tropical Latin Performance

Best World Music Album

Classical Producer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Steven Epstein
  • John Fraser
  • Andrew Cornall
  • Michael Woolcock
  • Jay David Saks

Hall Of Fame

  • Winner:
    Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra     Flying Home
  • Winner: Andrews Sisters Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
  • Winner:
    King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band     Chimes Blues
  • Winner:
    Jascha Heifetz; Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra     Beethoven: Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra
  • Winner:
    Glenn Miller Orchestra with Tex Beneke and the Modernaires     Chattanooga Choo Choo
  • Winner:
    Dave Brubeck Quartet     Take Five

Lifetime Achievement Awards

New Artist

Pop Album

Pop Female Vocalist

Pop Male Vocalist

Pop Vocal Collaboration

Pop Vocal Group

Producer Of The Year

Record Of The Year

Rock Album

Rock Female Vocalist

Rock Male Vocalist

Rock Song

Rock Vocal Group

Song Of The Year

Traditional Pop Performance

Trustees Award

  • Winner:
    Jerry Wexler
  • Winner:
    George Martin
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