Top 20 CDs for your Classical Music Collection (CD 1 to 10)

So you want to start listening to classical music, but don't know where to begin? Here's a list of the twenty essential CDs that every classical music fan should have - if you're only going to buy twenty classical CDs in your life, they should be these twenty. The list provides a sampling of the greatest works from a wide variety of styles and time periods. There are roaring symphonies and intimate chamber works, old-fashioned Baroque music, a scandalous twentieth century piece, and everything in between. The works are all among the most popular pieces performed today, and there are dozens - if not hundreds - of recordings of each. You're bound to fall in love with at least a couple of works on this list.

“

01 - Ludwig van Beethoven; Symphonien Nos. 5 & 7 - Carlos Kleiber & Wiener Philharmoniker (DG 1996) http://rapidshare.com/files/19153820/top_20_classical_cd_guide_01.txt Total RAR size: 7 parts, 321.8 Mb 02 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Great Piano Concertos Nos. 20, 21, 23, 24 & 25 - Vladimir Ashkenazy (Decca 1997) http://rapidshare.com/files/19153821/top_20_classical_cd_guide_02.txt Total RAR size: 12 parts, 597.4 Mb 03 - Ludwig van Beethoven; Favourite Piano Sonatas - Alfred Brendel (Philips 1994) http://rapidshare.com/files/19153822/top_20_classical_cd_guide_03.txt Total RAR size: 11 parts, 536.6 Mb 04 - Johann Sebastian Bach; Brandenburg Concertos - Age of Enlightenment Orchestra (Virgin 1999) http://rapidshare.com/files/19153823/top_20_classical_cd_guide_04.txt Total RAR size: 10 parts, 473.9 Mb 05 - Johannes Brahms; Piano Trio No. 1 Op. 8, No. 2 Op. 87 - Eroica Trio (EMI 2002) http://rapidshare.com/files/19153824/top_20_classical_cd_guide_05.txt Total RAR size: 6 parts, 268.1 Mb 06 - Igor Stravinsky; Petroushka, Le Sacre du Printemps - Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Sony 1990) http://rapidshare.com/files/19153825/top_20_classical_cd_guide_06.txt Total RAR size: 6 parts, 282.9 Mb 07 - Franz Schubert; 'Trout' Quintet & 'Death and the Maiden' - Amadeus Quartet (DG 1997) http://rapidshare.com/files/19153826/top_20_classical_cd_guide_07.txt Total RAR size: 7 parts, 355.6 Mb 08 - Pyotr Iliych Tchaikovsky; Symphony No. 6 In B Minor Op. 74 'Pathetique' (Chandos 1992) http://rapidshare.com/files/19153827/top_20_classical_cd_guide_08.txt Total RAR size: 4 parts, 177.5 Mb 09 - Franz Joseph Haydn; Mass No. 11 in D minor ''Nelson Mass'' - Willcocks & LSO (Decca 2000) http://rapidshare.com/files/19153828/top_20_classical_cd_guide_09.txt Total RAR size: 9 parts, 424.4 Mb 10 - Georges Bizet; Carmen - Sir Thomas Beecham, de Los Angeles, Gedda, Michau, Blanc (EMI 2000) http://rapidshare.com/files/19153829/top_20_classical_cd_guide_10.txt Total RAR size: 16 parts, 771.5 Mb

”