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Additions to my list:

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

"Ave Maria" by Charles Gounod

"Messiah" by George Frideric Handel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K 525, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"

Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

Wagner Die Walküre, WWV 86B (Ring der Nibelungen)

Pachelbel Canon in D Major

Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite

You want Masterpieces in Miniature by the SFS

I took a shot at it emphasizing recording/sound quality. For the smaller works and some others, there are too many options and I would not recommend buying a whole disc for one small work.

Beethoven – Symphony No.5 in C minor Honeck/Pittsburgh (Reference Recordings FR-718SACD)

Mozart Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major (Eine kleine Nachtmusik)

J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D minor (on great organ) Biggs (Sony Classical SS 87983)

Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Podger (Channel Classics CCS SA 40318)

Georges Bizet - Carmen

Johann Strauss II - An der schönen, blauen Donau

J. Strauss I: Radetzky-Marsch, Op. 228

Maurice Ravel - Bolero Jarvi.Cincinnati (Telarc SACD-60601)

Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suites Aadland/Cologne (Audite 92.651)

Mozart – Overture from The Marriage of Figaro

Rossini – Overture from ‘William Tell’

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125

"Ave Maria" by Charles Gounod

"Messiah" by George Frideric Handel Davis/Toronto (Chandos CHSA 5176)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K 525, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" (Too many)

Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 Steinberg/Boston (Deutsche Grammophon 47986690)

Wagner Die Walküre, WWV 86B (Ring der Nibelungen) Haenchen/Nederlans PO (Etcetera KTC 5501)

Pachelbel Canon in D Major

Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite Too many

@kr4 Wow, I appreciate the details in your response. I need to start somewhere (with my first classical SACD). So if you have to pick (with emphasis on recording qualityh and use of SACD technicology), which would you order? 

Beware of great technical recordings with weird performances.

exhibit  #1

Beethoven 9, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck, SACD Reference Recordings.  Great sound, but I am not sure they were playing Beethoven's 9th.

Cheers