Awards
- Sonning Award (1993, Denmark)
- Polar Music Prize (1994, Sweden)
- Hans von Bülow Medal (1999, Berlin)
- Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (2002)
- Kyoto Prize (2005, Japan)
- Leipzig Bach medal (2007, Leipzig)
- Honorary doctor (2008, Mozarteum University of Salzburg, Austria)
- Voted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame (2012)
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