I only listen to or play classical. One of my favourites is Bach's musette in D major and Chopin's Waltz in B minor. I can play both on the piano. I also love national anthems. 

Yesss Dvorak!!! I adore Dvorak's music but I've forgotten most of the names and stuff because i've only been listening to ballet recently. i especially like his Slavonic Dances, both sets. I've played the first on first violin, and the third and eighth on viola. but i'd say my favorites... idk. the fifth from both sets but especially the first set is/are really good. there's a really good version by Antal Dorati if you want to listen to it. It's even online.

and the 9th symphony of course :P i haven't listened to all of his symphonies but it's my favorite of the ones I have listened to. I actually heard my local orchestra play it in person, which was amazing. (it was also fun bc my viola/violin teacher's assistant concertmaster)

i also really like baroque music. One of my favorite Baroque sets of music at the moment are the Telemann Violin Fantasias. If you're going to listen to these it HAS to be Shunsuke Sato. He's my favorite violinist and does a lot of baroque stuff.

And ballet music is so good! my favorites are Prokofiev's Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet, everything by Tchaikovsky, and Coppelia and what I've heard of Sylvia by Delibes. But I've also listened to a bit of Don Quixote by Minkus and that's been pretty good so far. but they're never played well outside of the ballet strangely. All of the Season Fairies in Cinderella are amazing musically. The major to minor thing in Summer is idk how to put it into words. and fall and spring are so fun. On which note The Four Seasons are famous for a reason :D I've played Winter first movement and it's really fun. It's hard in the baroque way of easy to play badly, hard if you want to get any of the intonation right or go fast XD

oh, and also: Sibelius's 2nd symphony is really good. i've been meaning to listen to more of his stuff. I don't have as strong of an opinion on recording for this, but I've been listening to one by Paavo Berglund. 

i'm probably overly picky about recordings but a bad recording can ruin the best piece. Like, at the big dramatic "Seigfried going into the forest" dance in Swan Lake (it's pretty famous) in Royal Opera House 2018, the dancing with Vadim Muntagirov is so well-done I actually prefer that version over the one with worse but still really good dancing and much better music, but the violins in particular need to be more agressive at the end because the dance is very well done to feel like "spinning out of control" and the violins are like "calm sadness". it doesn't completely ruin the piece because the piece is too good, but nonetheless it's annoying and the dance deserves better. 

Same, I like Dvorak's 9th Symphony it feels so final and epic. Does anyone know about The Spider Knows His Craft? It is so scary...and I love it.

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