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