It's tough to go wrong with Leonard Bernstein with anything. Feel a hankering for those Russian ultra-romantics Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov? He's your man. Bruno Walter truly unearths the souls of Beethoven, Brahms and Gustav Mahler. I think Bruno Walter actually knew Gustav. Walter's records have surprisingly good fidelity, too. Neville Marriner finds suavity, energy & grace with Mozart and Haydn. He makes the tunes those guys wrote really sing. Try Gustav Leonhardt for J.S. Bach. No fuss. No muss. Get up and dance. Benjamin Britten was not only a superb composer, he could really swing a stick. It doesn't hurt that London-Decca gave Britten's efforts some of the best sound quality you'll ever hear.
