EMI Classics and Virgin Classics artists

Sir James Paul McCartney is an English musician and songwriter. He gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he was the bassist and keyboardist, and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. McCartney is known for his melodic approach to bass-playing, versatile tenor vocal range and musical eclecticism, exploring genres ranging from pre-rock and roll pop to classical, ballads and electronica. His songwriting partnership with Lennon is the most successful in music history.

Egyptian singer and actress (1904–1975)

Indian sitar player (1920–2012)

American-Greek operatic soprano (1923–1977)

Spanish operatic soprano (1933–2018)

German rock band

Spanish tenor and conductor (born 1941)

Austrian conductor (1908–1989)

Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor (1927-2007)

French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992)

Italian conductor (1933–2014)

American composer (born 1937)

Polish composer and conductor (1933–2020)

American violinist and conductor (1916–1999)

Argentine pianist (1941-)

Vanessa-Mae (; born 27 October 1978), also called Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson, is a Singaporean-born British violinist and skier with Thai heritage from her father. Her album sales reached several million by 2006, making her the wealthiest entertainer aged under 30 in the United Kingdom at that time. She is known for fusing classical and popular genres, which she calls "violin techno-acoustic fusion". This crossover style combines her classical violin training with electronic music influences like techno and synth-pop, as seen for example in the title track from her album Storm from 1997.

Nouhad Wadie Haddad (born 20 November 1934 or 21 November 1935), known as Fairuz, is a Lebanese singer. She is widely considered an iconic vocalist and one of the most celebrated singers in the Arab world. She is popularly known as "The Bird of the East", "The Cedar of Lebanon", "The Moon's Neighbor", "The Voice of Lebanon", and "Our Ambassador to the Stars", among others.

African-American contralto (1897–1993)

Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor (born 1942)

Soviet violinist (1908-1974)

Israeli-American violinist and conductor (born 1945)

German conductor and composer (1886–1954)

Polish composer and conductor (1913-1994)

German violinist

British-American musician

New Zealand opera singer

Russian classical pianist

British-born American conductor (1882–1977)

British cellist (1945–1987)

German lyric baritone and conductor (1925-2012)

Dutch conductor and violinist (1929-2021)

British conductor (born 1955)

Romanian opera soprano

boys' choir in Vienna, Austria

Romanian conductor (1912–1996)

English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist

Italian opera singer

Egyptian singer and actor (1929–1977)

British conductor and violinist (1924–2016)

Egyptian singer, actor and composer (1896-1991)

Polish composer

Soviet Russian musical group; official army choir of the Russian armed forces

Welsh musician and composer (b. 1944)

English composer and conductor (1934-2016)

Spanish tenor (1927–1999)

British composer (1944-2013)

British-born violinist and violist (born 1956)

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Russian violinist, violist, and conductor

German soprano opera singer

French tenor

Algerian singer (1939-2012)

English composer (1905-1996)

British opera and concert singer

British composer, pianist and conductor

German conductor and pianist (1923–2013)

Greek mezzosoprano

American opera mezzo-soprano

French trumpeter born in Occitania (1933-2012)

French opera soprano