Gramophone Hall of Fame

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 record industry. Fifty individuals and ensembles entered the Hall of Fame in its first year. A special edition of the magazine (May 2012 issue) celebrates this new initiative, and the list was first published online on 6 April 2012.

Voting
Entrants were 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.

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

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