Classical Strut
Sun_Fortune
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Anyone collect classical records -- I'm not talking Stockhausen either.
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The BIG DUDE for classical is AP I guess, and his young protoge Guzzo.....
Baroque would include Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi.
I recommend Bach's cello suites, which were avant garde compositions for solo cello based on dance forms -- composing for solo cello being something unheard of back in his time. If you can handle fugues, he composed a ton of those, as well. I also like his Brandenburg concertos.
As for Handel, the two most well known might be The Messiah and Water Music.
Vivaldi is best known for The Four Seasons. I'm sure you've heard it.
Lastly, if you like chamber music, the Baroque period was the heyday for that kind of music.
Classical music would include Mozart and Beethoven.
You really can't go wrong with anything Mozart. I usually suggest renting the movie Amadeus and seeing which compositions you like from the soundtrack and listening to those. I thinkthey leave out The Magic Flute in that movie, though, which is one of his best works.
With Beethoven you have, of course, his 5th and 9th symphonies, as well as his opera [color:white]Fidelio[/color].
Dont forget the Romantics (a helpful primer):
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Romantic-music