Gramophone Hall of Fame

Introduction

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. Click on an honorees' name below to discover more about their life and recordings.

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 ● Georg SOLTI ● George SZELL ● Michael TILSON THOMAS ● Arturo TOSCANINI ● Bruno WALTER

Singers

Thomas ALLEN ● Janet BAKER ● Cecilia BARTOLI ● Jussi BJÖRLING ● Montserrat CABALLÉ ● Maria CALLAS ● José CARRERAS ● Enrico CARUSO ● Feodor CHALIAPIN ● Joyce DIDONATO ● Plácido DOMINGO ● Kathleen FERRIER ● Dietrich FISCHER-DIESKAU ● Renée FLEMING ● Angela GHEORGHIU ● Nicolai GHIAUROV ● Tito Gobbi ● Thomas HAMPSON ● Marilyn HORNE ● Hans HOTTER ● Dmitri HVOROSTOVSKY ● Gundula JANOWITZ ● Simon KEENLYSIDE  ● Emma KIRKBY ● Anna NETREBKO ● Birgit NILSSON ● Jessye NORMAN ● Anne Sofie von OTTER ● Luciano PAVAROTTI ● Leontyne PRICE ● Elisabeth SCHWARZKOPF ● Joan SUTHERLAND ● Renata TEBALDI ● Kiri TE KANAWA ● Bryn TERFEL ● Fritz WUNDERLICH

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 ● Jacqueline DU PRÉ ● James GALWAY ● Jascha HEIFETZ ● Heinz HOLLIGER ● Steven ISSERLIS ● Yo-Yo MA ● Wynton MARSALIS ● Albrecht MAYER ● Yehudi MENUHIN ● 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