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. A special edition of the magazine (May 2012 issue) celebrated this new initiative, and the list was first published online on 6 April 2012.
Voting
Entrants are chosen by a public vote on Gramophone's website, with voters able to choose from a shortlist of over 200 industry figures and musicians chosen by the magazine's editors. The list is intended to be updated on a yearly basis, again, by public vote.
Entrants
2012 entrants
Conductors 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
Singers 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
Keyboard players Martha Argerich Claudio Arrau Daniel Barenboim Alfred Brendel Glenn Gould Vladimir Horowitz Murray Perahia Maurizio Pollini Sviatoslav Richter Arthur Rubinstein Lang Lang
String/brass players
Pablo Casals Jacqueline du Pré Jascha Heifetz Yehudi Menuhin David Oistrakh Itzhak Perlman Mstislav Rostropovich
Ensembles Beaux Arts Trio Takács Quartet
Producers/record label executives John Culshaw Walter Legge Ted Perry
2013 entrants
Conductors 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
Singers Montserrat Caballé Renée Fleming Thomas Hampson Anna Netrebko Leontyne Price Bryn Terfel Fritz Wunderlich
Pianists Leif Ove Andsnes Vladimir Ashkenazy Emil Gilels Wilhelm Kempff Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Sergei Rachmaninoff Grigory Sokolov
String/brass/woodwind players 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
Vocal and instrumental ensembles Alban Berg Quartet Amadeus Quartet The King's Singers Tallis Scholars
Producers/engineers/record label executives Bernard Coutaz Fred Gaisberg Klaus Heymann Goddard Lieberson Kenneth Wilkinson
More recent entrants
Conductors Pierre Boulez Benjamin Britten Riccardo Chailly Christopher Hogwood Neville Marriner Yevgeny Mravinsky Riccardo Muti Eugene Ormandy Antonio Pappano Trevor Pinnock Fritz Reiner Leopold Stokowski Michael Tilson Thomas
Singers Thomas Allen Victoria de los Ángeles Jussi Bjorling José Carreras Feodor Chaliapin Kathleen Ferrier Kirsten Flagstad Nicolai Ghiaurov Tito Gobbi Marilyn Horne Hans Hotter
Pianists Friedrich Gulda Marc-André Hamelin Angela Hewitt Stephen Hough Evgeny Kissin Gustav Leonhardt Lang Lang Dinu Lipatti Radu Lupu Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli András Schiff Artur Schnabel Mitsuko Uchida
String/brass/woodwind players Dennis Brain Kyung Wha Chung Arthur Grumiaux Fritz Kreisler Gidon Kremer Nathan Milstein
Producers/record label executives Emile Berliner C Robert Fine Alain Lanceron Edward Lewis Richard Mohr
References
External links Gramophone Hall of Fame - Artists