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Currently I don't have any music of Telemann, Vivaldi, Albinoni or Montverdi because I don't listen to Baroque music all that much. I have all the major works of Bach, Handel and Scarlatti, but I am more into orchestral music these days. I have the orchestral music of Bizet and Rossini and they are good for an 'easy listening' session. I am not into opera and don't have the music of Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti etc. I don't particularly care for Wagner or Richard Strauss. I don't listen to choral music, oratorios or masses. I have a few works by British and American composers like Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Charles Ives, Edward Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten. They are nice to listen to but I am not particularly fond of any of these composers. I have most of the major works by the rest of the well known European composers.
So what do I like these days?
Mahler most of all. I have multiple recordings of all his symphonies and listen to them all the time. Last night I finished of with Symphony 1 by Guilini and 2 by Klemperer. Today morning I began with 3 by Haitink, 4 by Boulez and currently 6 by Abbado is playing. Therefore Mahler rules!
I have most of the works by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn, Brahms, Schumann, Chopin, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Strauss Jr. and listen to their music frequently. David Oistrakh and Jascha Heifetz for the violin works and Sviatoslav Richter, Vladimir Horowitz, Murray Perahia, Maurizio Pollini, Emil Gilels, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Martha Argerich for the piano works. I have had an overdose of Karajan, Bernstein, Barenboim, Menuhin, Perlman, Zukerman, Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic in the past. They are all very good but currently I would rather listen to a new set of interpreters.
My favorite orchestra is the Royal Concertgebouw from Amsterdam and The Mariinsky from St. Petersburg. Recently I was very impressed with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra from Finland. The conductors I prefer listening to are Pierre Boulez, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Otto Klemperer, Claudio Abbado and Evgeny Svetlanov. I would love to listen to Wilhelm Furtwangler and Yuri Temirkanov when somebody manages to clean up their historical recordings.
In recent times I have bought comprehensive collections of Sergei Prokofiev, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinski, Sergei Rachmaninov, Rimski Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin, Mili Balakirev, Mikhail Glinka, Jean Sibelius, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Anton Bruckner, Anton Webern, Olivier Messiaen, Arnold Schoenberg, Gyorgy Ligetti, Leos Janacek, Carl Neilsen, Bohuslav Martinu, Bedrich Smetana, Eric Satie, Julian Bream, Andre Segovia among others. Therefore plenty of music to dip into!