In no particular. Some of my faves. Mozart - syms 40 and 41 Ralph Vaughan Williams - variations on a theme of Thomas Tallis Prokoviev - Romeo and Juliet suites Mahler - syms 4 and 5 Beethoven - sym 6 Respighi - pines and/or fountains of Rome Copland - appalachian spring Benjamin Britten - 4 sea interludes Debussy - nocturnes Gershwin - american in paris Rimsky Korsakov - scheherazade Holst - planets Virgil thompson - the plow that broke the plains Stravinsky - firebird Bach - brandenburg #2 John Phillips Sousa - washington post march.

Good Buys on Classical Music I don't know if it's the case anymore or not since I haven't gone classical music shopping for a few years, but you used to be able to buy some very good classical CDs at Best Buy and similar retailers. I used to buy a lot of 'Point Classics' stuff. As far as what to buy, I second the Vivaldi recommendation.

I'd also highly recommend Handel's 'Water Music' and 'Music for Fireworks'. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos are truly sublime, too. Have fun, you've got some wonderful music to hear for the first time! Click to expand.+1, you beat me to it Here's another one: Debussey - Clair de Lune Not to go off-topic, but here's something I've noticed. I have an old old cassette version of Clair de Lune that is fantastic. I copied it off of someone in college, so I have no clue who recorded it or where or whatever.

So when CDs came out I bought a copy of it but that version, to me, is kind of 'meh.' So, is there any way of telling beforehand--like what symphony it's recorded by or country it's recorded in? I don't know if that makes any sense. Another place to check out classical music is your local library. The library here in Milwaukee is online so you can reserve stuff from the comfort of your own home.

Registration is absolutely free so please, join our classical music forums! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login. One of them Nigel Kennedy. It's a bit like jazz - you're expected to extemporise. So the new notes you heard are put there by the player, not Vivaldi. Kennedy will have done the same.

And they're connected to the surrounding libraries, so if there's something from a library across town, say, They'll deliver it to the one closest to you. I've listened to tons of it, but I continue to come back to 'Classical' calssical music (that's not a joke, there is a real classical period).

Mozart and Beethoven are just sublime. I think the Adagio from Mozart's Serenade in B-Flat for 13 winds (K 361) is the most beautiful piece of music ever written (with 'Sweet 16' by BB King a close second). The Marriage of Figaro (also Mozart) is a great introduction to opera- very accessible. Mozart's Requiem is really haunting (written as he was dying pretty much) I also love Haydn's String Quartets, The Mendelsohn Piano Concerto in G Minor, and lots of the Chopin piano stuff.