| Feanor's Not-Too-Condescending Guide for Classical Beginners | ||||
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| Composer | Era | Category | Composition | Suggested Recording |
| BACH, Johann Sebastian | Baroque | Chamber | Cello Suites BWV 1007-1012 | Ralph Kirshbaum Virgin Classics Catalog #: 61609 |
| BACH, Johann Sebastian | Baroque | Concerto | Brandenburg Concerto BWV 1046-1051 | Martin Pearlman / Boston Baroque Telarc Catalog# 80412 |
| BARBER, Samuel | 20th Century | Concerto | Violin Concerto, Op 14 | Leonard Slatkin / St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Rca Victor Red Seal Catalog: 68283 |
| BARTÓK, Béla | 20th Century | Concerto | Concerto for Orchestra | Ivan Fischer / Budapest Festival Orchestra Philips Catalog #: 000689002 |
| BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van | Classical | Chamber | Sonata for Violin & Piano No 9 Op 47, 'Kreutzer' | Vladimir Ashkenazy, Itzhak Perlman Decca Catalog: 000624602 |
| BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van | Classical | Symphony | Symphony No 5 in C minor ("Fate"), Op 67 | Carlos Kleiber / Vienna Philharmonic Deutsche Grammophon Catalog #: 447400 |
| BORODIN, Alexander | Romantic | Chamber | Quartet No 2 in D | Borodin String Quartet EMI Cat# D 120041 |
| BOULEZ, Pierre | Contemporary | Choral | Pli selon pli, for soprano & orchestra | Performer: Christine Schäfer Pierre Boulez / Ensemble Intercontemporain Deutsche Grammophon 471 3442 |
| BRAHMS, Johannes | Romantic | Chamber | Quintet for Clarinet & Strings Op 115 | Richard Stoltzman & Tokyo String Quartet RCA Red Label Cat# 09026-68033-2 |
| BRAHMS, Johannes | Romantic | Symphony | Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98 | Carlos Kleiber / Vienna Philharmonic Deutsche Grammophon Cat# 289 457 706-2 |
| CARTER, Elliot | Contemporary | Contemporary | Concerto for Orchestra | Oliver Knussen / London Sinfonietta Virgin Classics Cat# VC 7 91503-2 262 404 |
| DEBUSSY, Claude | Romantic | Chamber | Quartet in G minor Op 10 | Cleveland String Quartet Telarc Cat# CD-80111 |
| DVOŘÁK, Antonín | Romantic | Symphony | Symphony No 9 "New World" | Ivan Fischer / Budapest Festival Orchestra Philips Catalog: 470617 |
| FAURE, Gabriel | Romantic | Choral | Requiem Op 48 | Fischer-Dieskau, de los Angeles, Puig-Roget André Cluytens / Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire Paris EMI Catalog # 66946 |
| HANDEL, George Frideric | Baroque | Choral | Messiah | Performers: Brett, Hale, Rolfe Johnson, Robbin, Marshall, Quirke John Eliot Gardiner / English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir Philips Catalog #: 434297 |
| HOLST, Gustav | 20th Century | Orchestral | The Planets | Charles Dutoit / Montreal Symphony Decca Catalog #: 417553 |
| LIGETI, György | Contemporary | Chamber | Atmospheres | Jonathan Nott / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Teldec Catalog #: 88261 |
| MAHLER, Gustav | 20th Century | Vocal | Das Lied von der Erde | Performers: Michelle DeYoung, Jon Villars Eiji Oue / Minnesota Orchestra Reference Recordings Catalog #: 88 |
| MESSIAEN, Olivier | 20th Century | Concerto | Turangalîla-symphonie, I/29 | Performers: Thomas Bloch, François Weigel Antoni Wit / Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra Naxos Catalog #: 8554478-79 |
| MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus | Classical | Concerto | Violin Concerto No 5 in A major ("Turkish") K. 219 | Performer: Joshua Bell Peter Maag / English Chamber Orchestra London Cat# 436 376-2 |
| ORFF, Carl | 20th Century | Choral | Carmina Burana | Performers: Oelze, Keenlyside, Kuebler Christian Thielemann / Berlin Deutsche Oper Deutsche Grammophon Cat# 453 587-2 |
| PROKOFIEV, Sergey | 20th Century | Symphony | Symphony No 5 | Stephen Gunzenhauser / Slovak Philharmonic Naxos Catalog #: 8553218 |
| SCHUBERT, Franz | Romantic | Chamber | Quintet in A "Trout" D.667 | Performers: Van Demark, Brendel, Cleveland String Quartet Philips Catalog #: 000667202 |
| SCHUBERT, Franz | Romantic | Vocal | Die Schone Mullerin D. 795 | Performers: Gerald Moore, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau EMI Catalog #: 66959 |
| SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri | 20th Century | Chamber | String Quartet No 8 Op 110 | Borodin String Quartet Virgin Classics Catalog #: 61630 |
| SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri | 20th Century | Symphony | Symphony No 10 in E minor, Op 93 | Neeme Järvi / Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chandos Records Catalog #: 8630 |
| STRAVINSKY, Igor | 20th Century | Orchestral | Sacre du printemps | Charles Dutoit / Montreal Symphony Decca Catalog: 414202 |
| TALLIS, Thomas | Renaissance | Choral | Spem in Alium, P. 299 | Jeremy Summerly / Oxford Camerata Naxos Catalog: 6110111 |
| TCHAIKOVSKY, Pyotr Il'yich | Romantic | Symphony | Symphony No 6 "Pathetique" | Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic Deutsche Grammophon Catalog #: 419604 |
| WEBERN, Anton | Modern | Orchestral | Pieces (5) for orchestra, Op 10 | Antal Doráti / London Symphony Orchestra Mercury Living Presence Catalog #: 432006 |
