Or Gustav's Stupendous Second. Pant indeed! Hmmm, I shall have to bring a few more CDs next time.
Ooohh... Mahler? good call.
How about some good 'ol Dmitri Shostakovich? I think it was #5. But my mind is fuzzy on such things.
But still... I think all works pale in the face of the Glorious Ninth.
The possible exception was a vinyl Telarc digital copy of Tchaikovsky's 1812 with real honest brass cannon fired the old fashioned way. I think it was Andre and the London P. that did it. It beat the ever-lovin' *crap* out of other recordings that used howitzers, or worse yet, electronic cannon. Gotta have the real thing.
That Telarc Digital recording on vinyl was hysterical. If you looked close you could *see* the wiggles in the grooves at the spot where the cannon fired. If you didn't have a really first-rate head on a really good turntable... that sucker would kick the needle right OUT of the groove. At the time it was sorta the reference standard for whether your equipment was sufficiently "audiophile" or not. [sigh] Vinyl. Properly done, I still say that it was potentially better than digital.