Aaron Copeland: Billie the Kid, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton.
I am a very infrequent listener to classical, but I enjoy Aaron Copeland. I had a fellow visit last week to hear the Alsyvox Botticelli speakers. I’ve never met anyone as passionate and knowledgable of classical music. He knew symphonic works like I know DSOTM. He’d read comments that I prefer dynamic, powerful, melodic pieces if I have to listen to classical so he prepared his playlist to include a lot of music I might have heard, but had no idea the best performance / conductor/ etc. He could say, for example “listen for the organ, it comes in on the left, just after the piccolo”. It was really a pleasure to listen to classical music for 4.5 hours — easily a record for me. I am going though the playlist again, but this time listening through all movements.