Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
Ring of Honour of the Austrian state Styria
Gold Decoration for Services to the City of Vienna
Erasmus Prize
Léonie Sonning Music Prize
Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal
honorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh
Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy
Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau
Bach Medal
Hans von Bülow Medal
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art