Artists
The Gramophone Hall of Fame celebrates those performers, producers, engineers and label executives whose contributions to classical music recording, whether through artistic excellence, innovation or imagination, have proved the most influential and inspiring.
Conductors
Claudio ABBADO ★ John BARBIROLLI ★ Daniel BARENBOIM ★ Thomas BEECHAM ★ Leonard BERNSTEIN ★ Karl BÖHM ★ Pierre BOULEZ ★ Adrian BOULT ★ Benjamin BRITTEN ★ Sergiu CELIBIDACHE ★ Riccardo CHAILLY ★ Colin DAVIS ★ Gustavo DUDAMEL ★ Wilhelm FURTWÄNGLER ★ John Eliot GARDINER ★ Carlo Maria GIULINI ★ Bernard HAITINK ★ Nikolaus HARNONCOURT ★ Christopher HOGWOOD ★ Mariss JANSONS ★ Herbert von KARAJAN ★ Carlos KLEIBER ★ Otto KLEMPERER ★ Rafael KUBELÍK ★ James LEVINE ★ Charles MACKERRAS ★ Neville MARRINER ★ Zubin MEHTA ★ Yevgeny MRAVINSKY ★ Riccardo MUTI ★ Eugene ORMANDY ★ Antonio PAPPANO ★ Trevor PINNOCK ★ Simon RATTLE ★ Fritz REINER ★ Georg SOLTI ★ Leopold STOKOWSKI ★ George SZELL ★ Michael TILSON THOMAS ★ Arturo TOSCANINI ★ Bruno WALTER
Singers
Thomas ALLEN ★ Victoria de los ÁNGELES ★ Janet BAKER ★ Cecilia BARTOLI ★ Jussi BJÖRLING ★ Montserrat CABALLÉ ★ Maria CALLAS ★ José CARRERAS ★ Enrico CARUSO ★ Feodor CHALIAPIN ★ Feodor CHALIAPIN ★ Joyce DIDONATO Plácido DOMINGO ★ Kathleen FERRIER ★ Dietrich FISCHER-DIESKAU ★ Kirsten FLAGSTAD ★ Renée FLEMING ★ Angela GHEORGHIU ★ Nicolai GHIAUROV ★ Tito GOBBI ★ Thomas HAMPSON ★ Marilyn HORNE ★ Hans HOTTER ★
Birgit NILSSON ★ Luciano PAVAROTTI ★ Leontyne PRICE ★ Elisabeth SCHWARZKOPF ★ Bryn Terfel
Pianists/harpsichordists
Leif Ove ANDSNES ★ Martha ARGERICH ★ Claudio ARRAU ★ Vladimir ASHKENAZY ★ Alfred BRENDEL ★ Emil GILELS ★ Glenn GOULD ★ Friedrich GULDA ★ Marc-André HAMELIN ★ Angela HEWITT ★ Vladimir HOROWITZ ★ Stephen HOUGH ★ Wilhelm KEMPFF ★ Evgeny KISSIN ★ Gustav LEONHARDT ★ LANG LANG ★ Dinu LIPATTI ★ Radu LUPU ★ Arturo Benedetti MICHELANGELI ★ Murray PERAHIA ★ Maurizio POLLINI ★ Sergey RACHMANINOV ★ Sviatoslav RICHTER ★ Arthur RUBINSTEIN ★ András SCHIFF ★ Artur SCHNABEL ★ Grigory SOKOLOV ★ Mitsuko UCHIDA
String/brass/woodwind players
Maurice ANDRÉ ★ Dennis BRAIN ★ Julian BREAM ★ Pablo CASALS ★ Kyung Wha CHUNG ★ Jacqueline DU PRÉ ★ James GALWAY ★ Arthur GRUMIAUX ★ Jascha HEIFETZ ★ Heinz HOLLIGER ★ Steven ISSERLIS ★ Fritz KREISLER ★ Gidon KREMER ★ Yo-Yo MA ★ Wynton MARSALIS ★ Albrecht MAYER ★ Yehudi MENUHIN ★ Nathan MILSTEIN ★ Anne-Sophie MUTTER ★ David OISTRAKH ★ Emmanuel PAHUD ★ Itzhak PERLMAN ★ Jean-Pierre RAMPAL ★ Mstislav ROSTROPOVICH ★ Jordi SAVALL ★ Andrés SEGOVIA ★ John WILLIAMS
Vocal and instrumental ensembles
Alban Berg Quartet ★ Amadeus Quartet ★ Beaux Arts Trio ★ The King's Singers ★ Takács Quartet ★ The Tallis Scholars
Producers/engineers/record label executives
Emile BERLINER ★ Bernard COUTAZ ★ John CULSHAW ★ C Robert FINE ★ Fred GAISBERG ★ Klaus HEYMANN ★ Alain LANCERON ★ Walter LEGGE ★ Edward LEWIS ★ Goddard LIEBERSON ★ Richard MOHR ★ Ted PERRY ★ Kenneth WILKINSON
Photos: 1) Mariss Jansons; 2) Joyce DiDonato (by Josef Fischnaller); 3) Grigory Sokolov (by Klaus Rudolph); 4) Anne-Sophie Mutter (by Monika Höfler); 5) Takács Quartet (by Robert Torres)
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