Let's talk music, no genre boundaries

Music exist in speech as its root..

Then music has no need for a goal as a tree roots has no goal save to sustain life...

 We are the tree. Our roots dont have goal no more than our feet.

 But we speaking walking trees we speak or do music to "change our own consciousness level"...

Music is not just leisure, pleasure,but a sacred moral duty as speech itself.

This is the spiritual content of music.

Music is more  about a higher consciousness level, not about "taste" so much...But because we are all different, we "taste" different flavors and stick to them.It is why thread as this one matter, we must go out of our own habits and explore other realms...

@mahgister 

I have a number of Schnabel albums, playing mostly Beethoven's latter piano sonatas, but also a Schubert sonata. I don't get him. Compared to the more modern pianists I like, he sounds a bit clumsy. I know I must be missing something. @frogman 

Can you help me understand why Schnabel is considered great?

@mahgister 

I understand and i am sorry for your frustration...

... which is far outweighed by all of your suggestions that are expanding my awareness and enjoyment of, Classical music.    ;o) 

@audio-b-dog 

No doubt it there would be practical and perhaps sonic advantages to switching from CDs to streaming. The prospect of entrusting my listening to an internet connection that can go down at any time makes me nervous. Listening to music is a very personal activity and I'd prefer to maintain my sense of privacy, illusory as it may be. I have enough difficulty with digital interfaces as it is and my mind is not getting any sharper. In the future, I can't help but believe I'll be less likely to succumb to confusion playing CDs compared to negotiating software menus. 

I began with a friend help converting cd to flac format  near 20 years ago at its beginning .

I went on with this method, now i bought  files or i convert...

It is impossible for me in my small house to store  my books collection. all on digital files now nor my music collection...

I am lucky i had no need for any storage now save my 600  paper books essentials what is left from my huge  personal library...I own more book files than i could read for one thousand years...

Same for music...

 Streaming ? Never ...