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I'm posting this because I told @Yargiyankooli I would suggest some things. I've been listening to orchestral music since the early 70s. I hadn't even started to notice girls when I discovered orchestral music and realized how much I liked it.

I'll start by saying that conductors who are the of the same nationality as the composer are the best interpreters of the music. Russian music is best performed by Russians. Gennady Rozhdestvensky was an excellent conductor of Tchaikovsky, particularly "Swan Lake". Herbert Von Karajan was an excellent German conductor and conducts the German composers brilliantly. French conductors seem to understand French composers best, etc.

You get the idea. Just make sure you look at a conductor's early history before you get one of his albums. Note that George Solti was a jew. He was a good conductor, especially for Bartok, but I can't listen to him any longer for that reason. And I just can't stand Leonard Bernstein because he was both a kike and a faggot.

Now, some recommendations. These are good for the new listener. Some of this you can find on jewtube.

Karl Richter's performance of Handel's "Messiah" with the London Philharmonic Orchestra is without question the best. It's easy to find if you do a search for those search terms. I have it on vinyl, with a paining by Salvador Dali on the front cover of the crucified Christ, but I also have it on DVD. Highly recommended.

Bizet's "Carmen" is the greatest opera ever written. Look for a version performed as opéra comique, which is where the musical segments are separated by spoken dialogue. Try to avoid a version with recitative, which is where the dialogue is sung rather than spoken.

"The Planets" by Holst should be familiar to most people. Very moving and inspirational.

I've always liked "The Grand Canyon Suite" by Ferde Grofe. It's the music used in the train ride at Disneyland during the Grand Canyon sequence.

Anything by Bach is perfect in every way, but his Brandenburg Concertos are lovely and very accessible.

"Symphonie Fantastique" by Hector Berlioz is surrealistic and strange but moving and captivating. One of the movements is in 5/4 time, unusual at the time.

"Scheherazade" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is long, but lyrical and beautiful. It can be described as a tone poem that expresses the feeling of the various stories in the series of books "A Thousand Nights and a Night".

The Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg, which is the incidental music for the play "Peer Gynt" is lyrical and beautifully harmonious. You'll hear quite a lot that will be familiar to you.

Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" is an old and familiar stand-by, famous for good reason. It's accessible, fun, and has the composer's usual lush orchestration. If you're up to heavier stuff, try his First Piano Concerto. His Symphony #6 is very melancholy, and one of the movements is also in 5/4, but it requires some listening to appreciate it.

Prokofiev was a Russian modernist who wrote lyrically with some integrated dissonance, a bit jarring sometimes, but it works. His easier works are the Lieutenant Kije suite, music he wrote for a Russian film, his Symphony #1, called his "Classical" symphony, and "Peter and the Wolf". If you listen to the latter, listen to a version with the narration first so you understand the story and the breakdown of the instrumentation, and then find a version without the narration.

Aram Khachaturian was very much a modernist, and a nationalist commie as was Prokofiev, but neither of them were jews. His most famous work is the ballet "Gayeneh" or "Gayane". It has the "Sabre Dance", which you have probably heard before.

That's enough for now. I just turned the soil for the first row, and there's much, more to add, but I don't want to make this too long. If anyone has other good recommendations that could be accessible to the new listener, please feel free.

https://youtu.be/uURgFiliOE0

I've played a few of these songs as a teen back in the early 1990s. There's nothing like knowing a big of the piano. I love you all.

Nosferatu birthday music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie52xH8V2L4

This is kind of an unusual piece for Bach. He wrote dozens of fugues in different styles and keys, but the passacaglia is unique. The passacaglia is a musical form from Spain and it's usually of a serious character and is often based on a bass-ostinato and written in triple metre. In Bach's piece the passacaglia is introduced as an ostinato of eight bars played by the pedal that is repeated during the first section, and it continues with increasingly complex variations on the theme.

The passacaglia is followed, without break, by a double fugue. The first half of the passacaglia ostinato is used as the first subject; a transformed version of the second half is used as the second subject.[14] Both are heard simultaneously in the beginning of the fugue. A countersubject enters immediately afterwards and is then used throughout the piece. When the three subjects appear simultaneously, they never do so in the same combination of voices twice.

The fugue form as expressed by Bach is the highest form of baroque music, if not all music: complex, beautiful, transcendent, and never again to be seen since the baroque era of music.

As I was driving home today, I started thinking about overtures I've always liked. Von Suppe's "Poet and Peasant" and "Light Cavalry" overtures are fun, and it's easy to make comparisons between them and "William Tell". I started a mental tabulation in my head, and when I got home I did a search to remind me of the many, many others I listened over the years. "La Gazza Ladra", "The Marriage of Figaro", and "Die Meistersinger" rank high on my list of favorites -- although I don't actually have *A* favorite.

If you have Broadway or movie overtures that you like, please name them. I especially the overture and fugue for tinhorns in "Guys and Dolls".

I don't use Spotify, but I thought the list in this link might spur some memories as it did with me.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6vAgh1YJ01m2dotpY20jLn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHNxdOTFt7c&t=572s

I grew up playing some of these songs. To learn Bach was more of a technical exercise than learning a song by heart and being moved emotionally. Strange guy! And a brilliant man.

I try to avoid all media/product by jews. What do you think about performances of classical music by humans, but conducted by a jew?

I guess this can be taken to even more extremes like not listening to a piece with a Jewish musician in the orchestra. I may as well cut off my ears at that point.

Just interested in your thoughts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fle2CP8gR0

Good night ya stinkers. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4pEO7__4E

NON-YT LINK: https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=LH4pEO7__4E