Greatest Classical Musicians of the Recording Era

Greatest Classical Pianists

1. Vladimir Horowitz 2. Arthur Rubinstein 3. Sergei Rachmaninoff 4. Sviatoslav Richter 5. Glenn Gould 6. Martha Argerich 7. Alfred Cortot 8. Dinu Lipatti 9. Emil Gilels 10. Claudio Arrau 11. Arthur Schnabel 12. Murray Perahia 13. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli 14. Wilhelm Kempff 15. Alfred Brendel 16. Maurizio Pollini 17. Radu Lupu 18. Daniel Barenboim 19. Vladimir Ashkenazy 20. Krystian Zimerman 21. Josef Hofmann 22. Lang Lang 23. Evgeny Kissin 24. Grigory Sokolov 25. Andras Schiff 26. Mitsuko Uchida 27. Leif Ove Andsnes 28. Myra Hess 29. Edwin Fischer 30. Yuja Wang 31. Alicia de Larrocha 32. Van Cliburn 33. Georges Cziffra 34. Stephen Hough 35. Walter Gieseking 36. Marc-André Hamelin 37. Clara Haskil 38. Ignaz Friedman 39. Maria João Pires 40. Wilhelm Backhaus

Vladimir Horowitz Arthur Rubinstein Sergei Rachmaninoff

Greatest Classical Organists

1. Marie-Claire Alain 2. Christopher Herrick 3. Peter Hurford 4. Ton Koopman 5. Simon Preston 6. Maurice Duruflé 7. Kevin Bowyer 8. Louis Vierne 9. Wolfgang Rübsam 10. Michael Murray

Marie-Claire Alain

Greatest Classical Violinists

1. Jascha Heifetz 2. Yehudi Menuhin 3. Itzhak Perlman 4. Isaac Stern 5. David Oistrakh 6. Fritz Kreisler 7. Nathan Milstein 8. Pablo de Sarasate 9. Eugene Ysaÿe 10. Joseph Szigeti 11. Leonid Kogan 12. Henryk Szeryng 13. Joseph Joachim 14. Arthur Grumiaux 15. Maxim Vengerov 16. Hilary Hahn 17. Zino Francescatti 18. Anne-Sophie Mutter 19. George Enescu 20. Gidon Kremer 21. Joshua Bell 22. Pinchas Zukerman 23. Kyung-Wha Chung 24. Mischa Elman 25. Ginette Neveu 26. Janine Jansen 27. Ivry Gitlis 28. Leonidas Kavakos 29. Nicola Benedetti 30. Michael Rabin

Jascha Heifetz Yehudi Menuhin Itzhak Perlman

Greatest Classical Violists

1. William Primrose 2. Lionel Tertis 3. Yuri Bashmet 4. Tabea Zimmermann 5. Nobuko Imai 6. Kim Kashkashian 7. Lawrence Power 8. Paul Hindemith 9. Paul Neubauer 10. Rebecca Clarke

William Primrose

Greatest Classical Cellists

1. Pablo Casals 2. Mstislav Rostropovich 3. Yo-Yo Ma 4. Jacqueline du Pré 5. Mischa Maisky 6. Paul Tortelier 7. Gregor Piatigorsky 8. Emanuel Feuermann 9. Steven Isserlis 10. Pierre Fournier 11. Julian Lloyd Webber 12. János Starker 13. Truls Mørk 14. Heinrich Schiff 15. Lynn Harrell 16. Natalia Gutman 17. Gautier Capuçon 18. Beatrice Harrison 19. Alisa Weilerstein 20. Anner Bylsma

Pablo Casals Mstislav Rostropovich

Greatest Classical Trumpeters

1. Maurice André 2. Wynton Marsalis 3. Sergei Nakariakov 4. Håkan Hardenberger 5. Timofei Dokschitzer 6. Alison Balsom 7. Adolph Herseth 8. Philip Smith 9. Rafael Méndez 10. Tine Thing Helseth

Maurice André

Greatest Classical French Horn Players

1. Dennis Brain 2. Barry Tuckwell 3. Hermann Baumann 4. Dale Clevenger 5. Philip Farkas 6. Radek Baborák 7. Sarah Willis 8. Stefan Dohr 9. Marie-Luise Neunecker 10. Radovan Vlatković

Dennis Brain

Greatest Classical Flutists

1. James Galway 2. Jean-Pierre Rampal 3. Georges Barrère 4. Emmanuel Pahud 5. Jeanne Baxtresser 6. Marcel Moyse 7. Jasmine Choi 8. Julius Baker 9. Paula Robison 10. Michel Debost

James Galway

Greatest Classical Clarinetists

1. Sabine Meyer 2. Martin Fröst 3. Richard Stoltzman 4. Karl Leister 5. Stanley Drucker 6. Sharon Kam 7. Harold Wright 8. Robert Marcellus 9. Charles Neidich 10. Gervase de Peyer

Sabine Meyer

Greatest Classical Oboists

1. Heinz Holliger 2. Albrecht Mayer 3. Marcel Tabuteau 4. François Leleux 5. Alex Klein 6. Paul McCandless 7. Elaine Douvas 8. Katherine Needleman 9. Leon Goossens 10. Eugene Izotov

Heinz Holliger

Greatest Classical Bassoonists

1. Klaus Thunemann 2. Milan Turković 3. Julie Price 4. Judith LeClair 5. Gustavo Núñez 6. Albrecht Holder 7. William Waterhouse 8. Archie Camden 9. Bernard Garfield 10. Martin Gatt

Klaus Thunemann

Greatest Classical Harpists

1. Marcel Grandjany 2. Carlos Salzedo 3. Nicanor Zabaleta 4. Judy Loman 5. Henriette Renie 6. Lily Laskine 7. Isabelle Moretti 8. Susann McDonald 9. Xavier de Maistre 10. Catrin Finch

Marcel Grandjany