Gramophone Hall of Fame
Launched by Gramophone magazine in late 2011, the Gramophone Hall of Fame is an annual listing of the people 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 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 AbbadoJohn 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 GheorghiuJanet 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 ArgerichClaudio Arrau
Daniel Barenboim
Alfred Brendel
Glenn Gould
Vladimir Horowitz
Murray Perahia
Maurizio Pollini
Sviatoslav Richter
Arthur Rubinstein
Lang Lang
String/brass players
Pablo CasalsJacqueline du Pré
Jascha Heifetz
Yehudi Menuhin
David Oistrakh
Itzhak Perlman
Mstislav Rostropovich
Ensembles
Beaux Arts TrioTakács Quartet
Producers/record label executives
John CulshawWalter Legge
Ted Perry
2013 entrants
Conductors
Karl BöhmAdrian 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 CaballéRenée Fleming
Thomas Hampson
Anna Netrebko
Leontyne Price
Bryn Terfel
Fritz Wunderlich
Pianists
Leif Ove AndsnesVladimir Ashkenazy
Emil Gilels
Wilhelm Kempff
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Grigory Sokolov
String/brass/woodwind players
Maurice AndréJulian 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 QuartetAmadeus Quartet
The King's Singers
Tallis Scholars
Producers/engineers/record label executives
Bernard CoutazFred Gaisberg
Klaus Heymann
Goddard Lieberson
Kenneth Wilkinson
More recent entrants
Conductors
Pierre BoulezBenjamin 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 AllenVictoria de los Ángeles
Jussi Bjorling
José Carreras
Feodor Chaliapin
Kathleen Ferrier
Kirsten Flagstad
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Tito Gobbi
Marilyn Horne
Hans Hotter
Pianists
Friedrich GuldaMarc-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 BrainKyung Wha Chung
Arthur Grumiaux
Fritz Kreisler
Gidon Kremer
Nathan Milstein
Producers/record label executives
Emile BerlinerC Robert Fine
Alain Lanceron
Edward Lewis
Richard Mohr