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For the fourth consecutive year, Gramophone has invited readers to vote for the performers, producers, engineers and label executives who have shaped the classical music recording industry. In thefollowingpagesyou can discover the 10 names we welcome into the , joining an already illustrious list ofmembers

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MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS GM944) Conductor Celebrating 20years at the helm of the , has held posts with the Symphony Orchestra and founded the New World Symphony in Miami. He has recorded extensively for DG, RCA and the SFS's own label.

MEMBERS OF THE LSO i r~¥~~She LSO was always swashbuckling. And Michael helped us channel those energies! He saw the bigger picture - that people needed to work together more - and the LSO made some good decisions with him.' (, clarinet.) 'Many people talk about breaking down barriers between the listener and the performer and finding new avenues. But Michael has done it! He's made it all happen. MTT is in his element sharing music with people.' (David Alberman, second . 'How he communicates is amazing. At rehearsals he always says hello to everyone. And if you are a new face he always says: "Hello friend. What's your name?" and finds out about them. That's so refreshing.' (Belinda McFarlane and Maxine Kwok-Adams, violinists.)

RECOMMENDED RECORDING Mahler Symphony No 6 San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas SFS Media/Avie ® © 8Z.926 :-"'1-2(5/02: GRAMOPHONE HALL OF FAME SIR U>1924) Conductor Founder, in 1958, and conductor of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Marriner has also held posts with the Los Angeles Chamber, and Stuttgart Radio orchestras. With the ASMF, he has probably made more recordings than any other conductor.

USE DE LA SALLE grew up with Sir Neville's recordings: his music has been with me since my childhood. Also, when I discovered the I film Amadeus, at the age of 10, it was almost like a drug! I watched it every night over and over; and the music obviously played a leading role. It was only later that I learnt that the soundtrack was recorded by Sir Neville. I remember the day my agent told me I was going to tour with him - what joy! I was obviously nervous before the first rehearsal. We did not talk, he just smiled at me and started the opening tutti of the D minor Concerto, No 20, by Mozart. Everything just disappeared: only the music mattered. Sir Neville is one of those rare conductors who convey - with both force and simplicity - all the grandeur of the music. Recently we played Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 togedier; working with Sir Neville is a great joy, everything seems so natural. He combines tradition, spontaneity, freedom and fidelity to the text in a unique way.

R E C O M M E N D E D R E C O R D1NG Rossini II barbiere di Siviglia Sols; ASMF / Neville Marriner BUttlMWmam%i NUILU Hmim Decca © © 478 2497DB2 (6/83R) (01958) Pianist Celebrated for her Bach recordings, Hewitt's repertoire is broad and takes in Mozart's piano concertos, Beethoven's piano sonatas, Schumann and French piano music. She records for Hyperion.

HANNU LINTU Conductor performance with Angela Hewitt is always a joy, shared by her colleagues and audience. Her airy, inventive A and bright touch never ceases to amaze me. She crowns her visionary feel for tempo by adding colour to the texture in precisely the right way. For Angela, the foundation for everything is Bach, but despite - or maybe precisely because of- this, she is at home in works by all the great : as an interpreter, she is a true match for Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt and Messiaen. Personally, I particularly prize the Schumann Piano Concerto we recorded together. From her I have learnt the importance of paying infinite attention to the notes on the page, and just how much a successful performance depends not only on inspiration and skill but also on endless background work. Angela is one of the few whose discs have the feel of a live performance. The overall picture is crystal-clear. Her vision and dialogue with the 's spirit are astoundingly well-balanced. If and when the record industry still has a future, it will be thanks to musicians like Angela Hewitt.

RECOMMENDED RECORDING Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor Angela Hewitt pf Hyperion © CDA68067 (3/15) gramophone.co.uk GRAMOPHONE JUNE 2015 17 HALL Ol FAME

SIRANDRAS SCHIFF GM953) Pianist The Hungarian pianist (and increasingly often conductor) recorded extensively for Decca before moving to ECM, where he focuses on a repertoire that ranges from Bach to Beethoven and Schubert.

JED DISTLER Reviewer ndras Schiff may be the Busoni of his generation. His physically and intellectually demanding programmes Agrow more epic in size and scope as they sharpen in focus, from the Bach Goldberg and Beethoven Diabelli variations in one evening to Schumann marathons and volumes of Schubert sonatas. Yet for all his uncompromising vision and scholarship, Schiff is never pedantic. Eschewing received opinion and easy interpretative solutions, his fastidious attention to detail nearly always puts a fresh spin on works we think we know well. Schiff is also aware of how timbral and tactile distinctions between piano brands and vintages can lend themselves more to certain works dian others. At the same time, he consistently strives to 'sing' at the piano. Schiff approaches the concerto repertoire as a collaborator rather than as a star soloist, and the same holds true for his work as a conductor, either at the keyboard or on the podium.

RECOMMENDED RECORDING Schubert Piano Sonatas Nos 18 and 21, etc Andras Schiff fp ECM New Series © © 4811572 (see page 22)

KATHLEEN FERRIER (1912-53) Contralto Though she died at 41, Feriier established herself as one of the greatest singers of her age, leaving classic recordings of Gluck's Orfeo, Mahler's Das von der Erde and the folksong 'Blow the wind southerly'.

NATHALIE STUTZMANN Contralto and conductor he contralto voice is a voice from the shadows. was the first woman who managed TJ. to bring it into the light. At a time when taste tends increasingly to the brilliance, the artifice and the registers of the high voice, listening to Kathleen Ferrier is like a soothing balm for the soul. It's a rare voice, strange, disturbing. Often disliked by those who do not understand it; adored by those open to its prime quality: the natural proximity, the intimacy that resonates within you as if you were physically and directly connected to all the vibrations inside the body of the singer. Kathleen Ferrier - because of her nature, the obvious sincerity of her personality, her ability to move us, her musicality, her kindly and radiant simplicity that is reflected so well in the colours of her voice - has become a myth. It still inspires us. To quote the poet Yves Bonnefoy: 'It seems that you know both sides, the extreme joy and extreme pain there, down among the grey reeds in the light, it seems that you dSjl Mshler Da* I itti von tht E.ile draw from the eternal.' VVy ra»m- wapS

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MARC-ANDRE HAMELIN mastery and an intensely musical (61961) Pianist virtuosity. The legend continued The Canadian player's Hyperion catalogue with 'In a State of Jazz' and a recital grows by the month, offering an astounding of Hamelin's own Etudes. range of repertoire that embraces music Today such dazzle is complemented of remarkable virtuosity. by more intimate and introspective but no less memorable offerings of music by BRYCE MORRISON Reviewer Mozart, Haydn, Debussy and Janacek. ew have created a more Hamelin's range is limitless and with astonishing discography than discs on the horizon of Rachmaninov, J_ Marc-Andre Hamelin. Who else Ravel and, hopefully, Schubert, what else would, or could, have launched their could one wish for? career on record with William Bolcom's Etudes, Stefan Wolpe's Battle Piece and RECOMMENDED Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte's RECORDING six sonatas? Discs of Alkan, complete Debussy Images, Books cycles of Scriabin and Medtner sonatas 1& 2. Preludes, Book 2 and the Chopin-Godowsky Etudes Marc-Andre Hamelin pf (to mention but a few) followed, all Hyperion © played widi a seemingly nonchalant CDA67920 (11/14)

HANS HOTTER the way I wanted to sing. He coached me (1909-2003) Bass- at one time on the role of Gurnemanz, The leading Wagnerian bass-baritone of and I came to understand the hugeness his generation, his finest acheivements on. of his voice and the extraordinary skill disc range from Bach cantatas to Strauss with which he could refine it. The and Wagner operas and Schubert Lieder. emotional impact of it was similar to the image of a very big man nursing Bass a newborn baby. At the other extreme V'ans Hotter was a remarkable few will forget how he could shake the I™ -fj singer, endowed with a uniquely rafters with Wotan's Farewell. He was JL A resonant, free throated voice a giant among singers. We are unlikely which is always instantly identifiable. to see his kind again. As a young singer I had two recordings of Wmterreise, one of Dietrich Fischer- RECOMMENDED Dieskau and the other of Hans Flotter. RECORDING After the creamy, intense intellectualism Schubert of Fischer-Dieskau, which seemed bass-bar out of reach, Hotter's reading had pf a directness, a tender sadness which Warner Classics ® ©

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RENATA TEBALDI a conviction that her detractors claimed (1922-2004) Soprano she lacked. One of the greatest. Italian sopranos of the When listening to her Decca-label post-war period, Tebaldi was often lined up recordings, one is hard pressed to decide as the rival of . She recorded where her voice had the greatest allure. many of her key roles for Decca. The tranquillity of her low-vibrato soft singing? Her enveloping, xnctAt fmtissimosl DAVID PATRICK STEARNS Reviewer Or the unaffected sweetness that made uddenly, there she was - Renata Verdi's various Leonoras as guileless as Tebaldi - at the entrance of the they claimed to be? All of die above. rehearsal hall, not expected for conservative repertoire. While Maria this orchestral run-through but fully Callas was the diva of the future, Tebaldi RECOMMENDED RECORDING warmed up and singing on cue with reaffirmed tradition. Though not one to Puccini that trademark sound and generosity of probe the psychological depths of her Madama Butterfly spirit that wasn't some recording-studio characters, Tebaldi could, nonetheless, Sols; Orchestra creation but the full flowering of Italian arrive at the same artistic end point as dell'Accademia opera singing through the centuries. Callas. The grainy, black-and-white 1958 Nazionale di Santa The occasion was a late-1960s Otello at television video of Laforza del destino Cecilia / Tullio Serafin Philadelphia Lyric Opera - an adoring from San Carlo (Hardy Classics) tells that Decca ® ©

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20 GRAMOPHONE JUNE 2015 gramophone.co.uk GRAMOPHONE HALL OF FAME SIR GM959) Conductor and pianist Music Director of both , Covent. Garden, and ECM NEW SERIES 's Orchestra deU'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

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(f ; ometimes I really was luck)'. For instance, when I got the chance to work with Tony Pappano. When we met ' way back in Brussels I realised that at the time I wasn't Sir Andras Schiff half as good as to fulfil his expectations. But he always had this wonderful way of inspiring everyone to lift things up for Gramophone Hall of Fame 2015 the greater good. Since then we've done many things and I've noticed that he still is there for us from the first rehearsal, getting to know the production and die singers, in order to help, suggest, support, improve. It's always exciting, always inspiring and Andras Schiff tsi HI sum always fun. I will never forget that moment after we had recorded Canio's monologue 'Ridi, Pagliaccio' for my 'Verismo' album. 'We made it, we made it!' we screamed, hugging each other, laughing and dancing in the studio like kids. Tony is a great musician, one of the species diat has become so rare nowadays: a real theatre conductor. And for me he's much more than that: a tower of strength in the ups and downs of our business. And a very good friend.

RECOM MENDED RECORDING Puccini Madama Butterfly Sols; Orchestra and Chorus deU'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Antonio Pappano Warner Classics © © 264187-2 (3/09)

CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD (1941-2014) Conductor, keyboard player, scholar and broadcaster One of the giants of the early music world, Hogwood is celebrated for his extensive catalogue for Decca's L'Oiseau-Lyre label. Franz Schubert Pianist Hungarian Melody in b minor D 817 hristopher Hogwood was a musical polymath Sonata in G major D 894 whose work shaped our understanding of early music. Moments musicaux D 780 '' An accomplished clavichordist, harpsichordist and Allegretto in c minor D 915 C Four Impromptus D 935 fortepianist, and founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, Sonata in B flat major D 960 he transformed 's Handel and Haydn Society into a period orchestra and conducted numerous period and standard Andras Schiff performs on a instrument orchestras worldwide. His repertoire interests Franz Brodmann fortepiano from 1820 extended into the present; among the 20th-century composers 2-CD 4811572 whose work he enthusiastically advocated was Martinu. Through his prolific recordings of operatic, orchestral and chamber works, Hogwood was able to bring his message Recent releases:

of historically-informed performances of 18th- and early- 19th-century music with the AAM and H&H, and of more Diabelli-Variationen recent repertoire through performances and recordings with 2-CD 481 0446 the Kammerorchester , to a global audience. Despite an active concert career he was able to pursue a broad spectrum Das Wohltemperierte Clavier of scholarly endeavours. 4-CD 476 4827 My collaboration with spanned 20 years, a partnership that I shall forever treasure. He was Distribution UK & Ireland: Proper Note an uncommon synthesis of wisdom, Season details: [email protected] enthusiasm, stylistic understanding and Distribution USA: Universal Music Classics, a division of UMG recordings. Inc. reflection. I shall miss him keenly. Email: [email protected]

RECOMMENDED RECORDING Available from: ArkivMusic.com ProperMusic.com Handel Messiah (remastered 2014) www.facebook.com/ecmrecords Soloists; AAM / Christopher Hogwood

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