Gramophone Hall of Fame

This is the list of founding members of the Gramophone Magazine Hall of Fame.

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  (15/6)

Singers 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 (12/3)

This is astounding.  Unless you count the twilight of the career of  Plácido Domingo, only the current reigning mezzo-sopranos Cecilia Bartoli and Joyce DiDonato have made the list from among active singers.  This may be considered part of the Cecilia Bartoli Effect.  May we declare this the age of the mezzo?  Congratulations, ladies.

Pianists Martha ARGERICH ● Claudio ARRAU ● Daniel BARENBOIM ● Alfred BRENDEL ● Glenn GOULD ● Vladimir HOROWITZ ● LANG LANG ● Murray PERAHIA ● Maurizio POLLINI ● Sviatoslav RICHTER ● Arthur RUBINSTEIN  (11/3)

String/brass players Dennis BRAIN ● Pablo CASALS ● Jacqueline DU PRÉ ● Jascha HEIFETZ ● Yehudi MENUHIN ● David OISTRAKH ● Itzhak PERLMAN ● Mstislav ROSTROPOVICH (8/1)

Ensembles BEAUX ARTS TRIO ● TAKÁCS QUARTET  (2)

Producers/record label executives John CULSHAW ● Walter LEGGE ● Ted PERRY