If you're interested in any contemporary music, I would suggest any of the available EMI recordings of Thomas Ades's music. This young man is really remarkable, and all four of the disks (as well as the new recording of him playing other people's works) are very well recorded. I would also suggest the Argo recordings of Mark-Anthony Turnage's work. One of my favorite cds has always been the Telarc recording of Andreas Schmidt with Lopez Cobos doing Mahler songs. I'm not especially fond of some Telarc disks, but this one has always had a special place in my collection. I often take this with me to demo new equipment. I think that this disk also demonstrates that Schmidt is one of the most underrated baritones around today.
