Performers include:

• Early music ensembles, such as Chapelle Royale, Lionheart, Sequentia, and the Tallis Scholars
• Singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renée Fleming, and Joan Sutherland
• Cellist Yo-Yo Ma
• Pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Malcolm Bilson, and Artur Rubenstein
• The Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the London Symphony Orchestra
• Conductors Pierre Boulez, John Eliot Gardiner, James Levine, and Michael Tilson Thomas
• String quartets, such as the Concord String Quartet and the Tokyo String Quartet
• Jazz artists Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie