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.
Entrants are chosen by a public vote on Gramophones 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.
Claudio Abbado <br /> John Barbirolli<br /> Daniel Barenboim<br /> Thomas Beecham<br /> Leonard Bernstein<br /> Pierre Boulez<br /> Wilhelm Furtwängler<br /> John Eliot Gardiner<br /> Nikolaus Harnoncourt<br /> Herbert von Karajan<br /> Carlos Kleiber<br /> Otto Klemperer<br /> Simon Rattle<br /> Georg Solti<br /> Arturo Toscanini
Angela Gheorghiu<br /> Janet Baker<br /> Cecilia Bartoli<br /> Jussi Björling<br /> Maria Callas<br /> Enrico Caruso<br /> Joyce DiDonato<br /> Plácido Domingo<br /> Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau<br /> Birgit Nilsson<br /> Luciano Pavarotti<br /> Elisabeth Schwarzkopf<br /> Joan Sutherland
Martha Argerich<br /> Claudio Arrau<br /> Daniel Barenboim<br /> Alfred Brendel<br /> Glenn Gould<br /> Vladimir Horowitz<br /> Murray Perahia<br /> Maurizio Pollini<br /> Sviatoslav Richter<br /> Arthur Rubinstein<br /> Lang Lang
Pablo Casals<br /> Jacqueline du Pré<br /> Jascha Heifetz<br /> Yehudi Menuhin<br /> David Oistrakh<br /> Itzhak Perlman<br /> Mstislav Rostropovich
Beaux Arts Trio<br /> Takács Quartet
John Culshaw<br /> Walter Legge<br /> Ted Perry
Karl Böhm <br /> Adrian Boult <br /> Sergiu Celibidache <br /> Colin Davis <br /> Gustavo Dudamel <br /> Carlo Maria Giulini <br /> Bernard Haitink <br /> Mariss Jansons <br /> Rafael KubelÃÂk<br /> James Levine <br /> Charles Mackerras <br /> Zubin Mehta <br /> George Szell <br /> Bruno Walter
Montserrat Caballé <br /> Renée Fleming<br /> Thomas Hampson <br /> Anna Netrebko <br /> Leontyne Price <br /> Bryn Terfel <br /> Fritz Wunderlich
Leif Ove Andsnes <br /> Vladimir Ashkenazy <br /> Emil Gilels <br /> Wilhelm Kempff <br /> Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli <br /> Sergei Rachmaninoff<br /> Grigory Sokolov
Maurice André <br /> Julian Bream <br /> James Galway<br /> Heinz Holliger <br /> Steven Isserlis<br /> Yo-Yo Ma <br /> Wynton Marsalis <br /> Albrecht Mayer <br /> Anne-Sophie Mutter <br /> Emmanuel Pahud <br /> Jean-Pierre Rampal <br /> Jordi Savall <br /> Andrés Segovia <br /> John Williams
Alban Berg Quartet <br /> Amadeus Quartet <br /> The King's Singers <br /> Tallis Scholars
Bernard Coutaz <br /> Fred Gaisberg <br /> Klaus Heymann <br /> Goddard Lieberson <br /> Kenneth Wilkinson <br />
Pierre Boulez <br /> Benjamin Britten <br /> Riccardo Chailly <br /> Christopher Hogwood <br /> Neville Marriner <br /> Yevgeny Mravinsky <br /> Riccardo Muti <br /> Eugene Ormandy <br /> Antonio Pappano <br /> Trevor Pinnock <br /> Fritz Reiner <br /> Leopold Stokowski <br /> Michael Tilson Thomas<br />
Thomas Allen <br /> Victoria de los ÃÂngeles <br /> Jussi Bjorling <br /> José Carreras <br /> Feodor Chaliapin <br /> Kathleen Ferrier <br /> Kirsten Flagstad <br /> Nicolai Ghiaurov <br /> Tito Gobbi <br /> Marilyn Horne <br /> Hans Hotter<br /> <br /> <br />
Friedrich Gulda <br /> Marc-André Hamelin <br /> Angela Hewitt <br /> Stephen Hough <br /> Evgeny Kissin <br /> Gustav Leonhardt <br /> Lang Lang <br /> Dinu Lipatti <br /> Radu Lupu <br /> Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli <br /> András Schiff <br /> Artur Schnabel <br /> Mitsuko Uchida<br />
Dennis Brain <br /> Kyung Wha Chung <br /> Arthur Grumiaux <br /> Fritz Kreisler <br /> Gidon Kremer <br /> Nathan Milstein <br />
Emile Berliner <br /> C Robert Fine <br /> Alain Lanceron <br /> Edward Lewis <br /> Richard Mohr <br />