The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance has been handed out since 1959. The Award was titled Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music (including chamber orchestra) for two years after its introduction in 1959. It was changed later on from Best Classical Performance - Vocal or Instrumental - Chamber Music to Best Chamber Music Performance – Vocal and Best Chamber Music Performance – Instrumental in 1965. From 1968 till 1990 it remained as Best Chamber Music Performance; from 1992 to the present it has been awarded as Best Chamber Music Performance.
Winners: Grammys Best Chamber Music Performance
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Year
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Winner/s
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Performance
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2006
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Emerson String Quartet
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Intimate Voices
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2005
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Emerson String Quartet
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Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets
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2003
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Kronos Quartet & Dawn Upshaw
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Berg: Lyric Suite
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2002
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Takács Quartet
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Beethoven: String Quartets ("Razumovsky" Op. 59, 1-3; "Harp" Op. 74)
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2001
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The Angeles String Quartet
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Joseph Haydn: The Complete String Quartets
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2000
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Emerson String Quartet
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Shostakovich: The String Quartets
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1999
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André Previn & Gil Shaham
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American Scenes (Works of Copland, Previn, Barber, Gershwin)
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1998
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Emerson String Quartet
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Beethoven: The String Quartets
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1997
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The Cleveland Quartet
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Corigliano: String Quartet
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1996
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Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma & Richard Stoltzman
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Brahms/Beethoven/Mozart: Clarinet Trios
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1995
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Daniel Barenboim, Dale Clevenger, Larry Combs, Daniele Damiano, Hansjorg Schellenberger & the Berlin Philharmonic
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Beethoven/Mozart: Quintets (Chicago-Berlin)
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1994
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The Emerson String Quartet
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Ives: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2/ Barber: String Quartet Op.11 (American Originals)
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1993
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Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma
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Brahms: Sonatas - Cello & Piano
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1992
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Emanuel Ax, Jaime Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma & Isaac Stern
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Brahms: Piano Quartets (Opp. 25 and 26)
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1991
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Daniel Barenboim & Itzhak Perlman
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Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas
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1990
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The Emerson String Quartet
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Bartók: 6 String Quartets
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1989
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David Corkhill, Evelyn Glennie, Murray Perahia & Georg Solti
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Bartók: Sonata - Two Pianos & Percussion
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1988
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Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman
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Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios
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1987
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Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma
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Beethoven: Cello and Piano Sonata No. 4 in C & Variations
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1986
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Emanuel Ax & Yo-Yo Ma
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Brahms: Cello and Piano Sonatas in E Minor and F
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1985
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The Juilliard String Quartet
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Beethoven: The Late String Quartets
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1984
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Mstislav Rostropovich & Rudolf Serkin
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Brahms: Sonata - Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38 and Sonata in F, Op. 99
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1983
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Richard Goode & Richard Stoltzman
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Brahms: The Sonatas - Clarinet & Piano, Op. 120
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1982
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Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman
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Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor
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1981
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Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman - Music
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Two Violins (Moszkowski: Suite - Two Violins/Shostakovich: Duets/Prokofiev: Sonata - Two Violins)
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1980
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Dennis Russell Davies (conductor) & the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
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Copland: Appalachian Spring
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1979
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Itzhak Perlman & Vladimir Ashkenazy
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Beethoven: Sonatas - Violin and Piano
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1978
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The Juilliard String Quartet
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Schoenberg: Quartets - Strings (Complete)
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1977
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David Munrow (conductor) & the Early Music Consort of London
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The Art of Courtly Love
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1976
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Pierre Fournier, Arthur Rubinstein & Henryk Szeryng
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Schubert: Trios Nos. 1 in B Flat, Op. 99 and 2 in E Flat, Op. 100 (Piano Trios)
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1975
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Pierre Fournier, Arthur Rubinstein & Henryk Szeryng
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Brahms: Trios (Complete)/Schumann: Trio No. 1 in D Minor
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1974
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Gunther Schuller (conductor) & the New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble
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Joplin: The Red Back Book
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1973
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Julian Bream & John Christopher Williams
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Julian and John (Works by Lawes, Carulli, Albéniz, Granados)
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1972
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The Juilliard String Quartet
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Debussy: Quartet in G Minor/Ravel: Quartet in F
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1971
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Eugene Istomin, Leonard Rose & Isaac Stern
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Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios
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1970
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The Chicago Brass Ensemble, Cleveland Brass Ensemble & Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
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Gabrieli: Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli
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1969
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Vittorio Negri (conductor), E. Power Biggs & the Edward Tarr Ensemble
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Glory of Gabrieli Vol. II - Canzonas - Brass, Winds, Strings and Organ
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1968
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Ravi Shankar & Yehudi Menuhin
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West Meets East
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1967
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Boston Symphony Chamber Players
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Works of Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Fine, Copland, Carter, Piston
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1966
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The Juilliard String Quartet
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Bartók: The Six String Quartets
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1965
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Noah Greenberg (conductor) & the New York Pro Musica
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It Was a Lover and His Lass (vocal award)
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1965
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Jascha Heifetz, Jacob Lateiner & Gregor Piatigorsky
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Beethoven: Trio No. 1 in E Flat, Op.1 #1 (instrumental award)
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1964
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Julian Bream
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Evening of Elizabethan Music performed by the Julian Bream Consort
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1963
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Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky & William Primrose
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The Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts With Primrose, Pennario and Guests
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1962
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Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky & William Primrose
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Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 8/Kodaly: Duo - Violin and Cello, Op. 7
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1961
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Laurindo Almeida
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Conversations With the Guitar
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1960
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Arthur Rubinstein
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Beethoven: Sonatas No. 21 in C (Waldstein) and No. 18 in E Flat
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1959
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Hollywood String Quartet
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Beethoven: Quartet 130
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