OK...now i am listening to Mendelssohn.
Did you enjoy the Beethoven? Don’t forget all the little Schubert pieces I posted.
Try the Shostakovitch 5. Bernstein.
I remember listening to it over and over, going to sleep, one hot summer with no A/C. The white bedroom curtains would flutter in the darkness.
That was a good summer. I was a teenager. The LP wasn’t very powerful, so you could hear the record getting a little worn after a while.
But the melodies. And the story of the symphony itself. Kind of like Beethoven’s 3rd. Or 5th. Or 9th.
Ours was a Brahms, Bach and Beethoven house.