Launched by Gramophone magazine in late 2011, the Gramophone Hall of Fame is an annual listing of the people (artists, producers, engineers, A&R directors and label founders) who have contributed to the classical music record industry.
Fifty individuals and ensembles entered the Hall of Fame in its first year.
[1] A special edition of the magazine (May 2012 issue)[2] celebrated this new initiative, and the list was first published online on 6 April 2012.
The list is intended to be updated on a yearly basis, again, by public vote.
Claudio Abbado John Barbirolli Daniel Barenboim Thomas Beecham Leonard Bernstein Pierre Boulez Wilhelm Furtwängler John Eliot Gardiner Nikolaus Harnoncourt Herbert von Karajan Carlos Kleiber Otto Klemperer Simon Rattle Georg Solti Arturo Toscanini Angela Gheorghiu Janet Baker Cecilia Bartoli Jussi Björling Maria Callas Enrico Caruso Joyce DiDonato Plácido Domingo Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Birgit Nilsson Luciano Pavarotti Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Joan Sutherland Martha Argerich Claudio Arrau Daniel Barenboim Alfred Brendel Glenn Gould Vladimir Horowitz Murray Perahia Maurizio Pollini Sviatoslav Richter Arthur Rubinstein Lang Lang Pablo Casals Jacqueline du Pré Jascha Heifetz Yehudi Menuhin David Oistrakh Itzhak Perlman Mstislav Rostropovich Beaux Arts Trio Takács Quartet John Culshaw Walter Legge Ted Perry Karl Böhm Adrian Boult Sergiu Celibidache Colin Davis Gustavo Dudamel Carlo Maria Giulini Bernard Haitink Mariss Jansons Rafael Kubelík James Levine Charles Mackerras Zubin Mehta George Szell Bruno Walter Montserrat Caballé Renée Fleming Thomas Hampson Anna Netrebko Leontyne Price Bryn Terfel Fritz Wunderlich Leif Ove Andsnes Vladimir Ashkenazy Emil Gilels Wilhelm Kempff Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Sergei Rachmaninoff Grigory Sokolov Maurice André Julian Bream James Galway Heinz Holliger Steven Isserlis Yo-Yo Ma Wynton Marsalis Albrecht Mayer Anne-Sophie Mutter Emmanuel Pahud Jean-Pierre Rampal Jordi Savall Andrés Segovia John Williams Alban Berg Quartet Amadeus Quartet The King's Singers Tallis Scholars Bernard Coutaz Fred Gaisberg Klaus Heymann Goddard Lieberson Kenneth Wilkinson