The Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year was introduced in 1977, as recognition each year for the best classical music album in Canada. It was presented until the Juno Awards of 1985, when it was split into separate awards for Large Ensemble and Solo or Chamber Ensemble.
Winners and nominees Year Winner(s) Album Nominees Ref.1977 Anton Kuerti Beethoven - Vols. 1,2,& 3 Franck and Ravel — Hidetaro Suzuki & Zeyda Ruga-Suzuki Franz Schubert & Johannes Brahms — Gisela Depkat Liona — Liona Boyd Plays J.S. Bach — Pierre Grandmaison1978 Toronto Symphony Orchestra Three Borodin SymphoniesMendelssoh Quartets Op. 12 & 13 — Orford String Quartet Staryk Plays Kreisler — Steven Staryk and Jane Corwin To Syngen & Pleye — The Toronto Consort1979 Glenn Gould/Roxolana Roslak Hindemith; Das MarienlebenA Baroque Bouquet — Toronto Baroque Trio First Lady of the Guitar — Liona Boyd Janacek Taras Bulba — Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis The Orford String Quartet — Orford String Quartet1980 Judy Loman/R. Murray Schafer The Crown of AriadneLoving — Kathy Terrell, Jean MacPhail, Susan Gudgeon, Mary Lou Fallis, Chamber Orchestra, Robert Aitken (conductor) The Nutcracker Suite — Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord No. 1,2,3 — Robert Aitken, Greta Kraus The Stratford Ensemble — Raffi Armenian, Maureen Forrester1981 Arthur Ozolins Stravinsky - Chopin Ballads Bach Toccatas, Vol 2 — Glenn Gould The Village Band — Canadian Brass Orford String Quartet — Orford String Quartet François Dompierre — François Dompierre1982 Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Charles Dutoit Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloe (Complete Ballet) Mozart's Serenade for 12 Winds and Double Bass — Toronto Chamber Winds Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez and Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre — Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit - conductor Rossini-Respighi's La Boutique Fantastique — Toronto Symphony Orchestra York Winds — York Winds1983 Glenn Gould Bach: The Goldberg Variations Haydn: The Six Last Sonatas — Glenn Gould Ravel: Bolero, La Valse, Rapsodie Espagnole, Alborada Del Gracioso — Montreal Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Dutoit Stravinsky: The Firebird 1910 Version — Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, Salome's Dance, Death and Transfiguration — Vancouver Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama1984 Glenn Gould Brahms: Ballades Op. 10, Rhapsodies Op. 79 Andrew Davis Plays the Organ at Roy Thomson Hall — Andrew Davis Brass in Berlin — Canadian Brass Sibelius: Symphony #2 — Toronto Symphony Orchestra with Andrew Davis Viola Nouveau — Rivka Golani-Erdesz
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