The concert platform:

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In the world of classical and contempory music:

Otto Klemperer, Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, George Solti, Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono, Luciano Berrio, Elliot Carter, Benjamin Britten, Andre Previn, Leopold Stokowski, Claudio Abbado, Neville Mariner, John Elliot Gardener, Simon Rattle, Thomas Beecham, Malcolm Sargent, Michael Tippet, Lenard Bernstein, and William Walton among others.

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Recordings:

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In the world of film: 

John Barry, John Williams, Miklosz Rozsa, Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, Maurice Jarre, Michael Kamen, James Horner, Michel Legrand, Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Dimitri Tiompkin, Les Reed, Alex North, Jerry Fielding, Quincy Jones, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, Lalo Schifrin, Philip Glass, Rachel Portman, Anne Dudley, Thomas Newman, Marvin Hamlisch, Malcolm Arnold, Georges Delerue, Richard Rodney Bennett and Bill Conti.

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In the world of pop:  

Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark, Shirley Bassey, John Denver, Paul McCartney, Cilla Black, Tony Bennett, Andy Williams, Louis Armstrong, Nancy Sinatra, Sandy Shaw, Lulu, Cliff Richard, Eric Clapton, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Matt Monro, The Walker Brothers, Art Garfunkel, Gene Pitney, The Brotherhood Of Man, Dave Berry, Engelbert Humperdinck, Barbra Streisand, Elaine Page, Julie Andrews, Sacha Distel, Scott Walker, Gladys Knight, Cat Stevens, Dolly Parton, Celine Dion, Carly Simon, Sheena Easton, Sammy Davis Jnr, Glen Campbell, George Benson, Burt Bacharach and Rita Coolidge among others.

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Among my favourites: