I'm an unabashed Romantic. I love the Romantic-and-later-period big-orchestra pieces. My favorite composer is Gustav Mahler but I love much of the music from mid-Beethoven* on. Perhaps my most-listened-too recording, however, is one of Gustav Holst's 'The Planets'. My absolute-favorite recording of it is by Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonc Orchestra (which many of us call the LPO), on EMI, CD #72435677492.
Enjoy your listening. I expect in a year or earlier you'll be able to say that you most love the music of a certain period...Baroque, Classical, Romantic, modern, etc. Then you'll start to hear and prefer certain performances of some pieces.
*--Ludwig didn't start writing anything for me until the 4th piano concerto and the 3rd symphony. His earlier stuff sounds too much like Mowart and Hayden...a little too neat and organized and not dramatic enough.
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Enjoy your listening. I expect in a year or earlier you'll be able to say that you most love the music of a certain period...Baroque, Classical, Romantic, modern, etc. Then you'll start to hear and prefer certain performances of some pieces.
*--Ludwig didn't start writing anything for me until the 4th piano concerto and the 3rd symphony. His earlier stuff sounds too much like Mowart and Hayden...a little too neat and organized and not dramatic enough.
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