Vladimir Horowitz - Awards and Recognitions

Awards and Recognitions

Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra)

• 1968 Horowitz in Concert: Haydn, Schumann, Scriabin, Debussy, Mozart, Chopin (Columbia 45572)
• 1969 Horowitz on Television: Chopin, Scriabin, Scarlatti, Horowitz (Columbia 7106)
• 1987 Horowitz: The Studio Recordings, New York 1985 (Deutsche Grammophon 419217)

Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)

• 1979 Golden Jubilee Concert, Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (RCA CLR1 2633)
• 1989 Horowitz Plays Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 (Deutsche Grammophon 423287)

Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)

• 1963 Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz
• 1964 The Sound of Horowitz
• 1965 Vladimir Horowitz plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin
• 1966 Horowitz at Carnegie Hall - An Historic Return
• 1972 Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas) (Columbia M-30464)
• 1973 Horowitz Plays Chopin (Columbia M-30643)
• 1974 Horowitz Plays Scriabin (Columbia M-31620)
• 1977 The Horowitz Concerts 1975/76 (RCA ARL1-1766)
• 1979 The Horowitz Concerts 1977/78 (RCA ARL1-2548)
• 1980 The Horowitz Concerts 1978/79 (RCA ARL1-3433)
• 1982 The Horowitz Concerts 1979/80 (RCA ARL1-3775)
• 1988 Horowitz in Moscow (Deutsche Grammophon 419499)
• 1991 The Last Recording (Sony SK 45818)
• 1993 Horowitz Discovered Treasures: Chopin, Liszt, Scarlatti, Scriabin, Clementi (Sony 48093)

Grammy Award for Best Classical Album:

• 1963 Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz
• 1966 Horowitz at Carnegie Hall: An Historic Return
• 1972 Horowitz Plays Rachmaninoff (Etudes-Tableaux Piano Music; Sonatas)
• 1978 Concert of the Century with Leonard Bernstein (conductor), the New York Philharmonic, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Lyndon Woodside
• 1987 Horowitz: The Studio Recordings, New York 1985 (Deutsche Grammophon 419217)
• 1988 Horowitz in Moscow (Deutsche Grammophon 419499)

Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 1990

Prix Mondial du Disque

• 1970 Kreisleriana

Miscellaneous awards

• 1972 - Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music (London)
• 1982 - Wolf Foundation Prize for Music
• 1985 - Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur from the French Government
• 1985 - Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 1986 - United States Presidential Medal of Freedom
• 1988 - National Bow Tie League List of 10 Best Bow Tie Wearers of 1988
• 2012 - Gramophone Hall of Fame entrant