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coffeesp00ns  ·  3364 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I need classical music recommendations

Since you dig Opera (which I'll grab from the famous ones), and since you started with Mozart, which is considered "High Classical" music (late 18th early 19th century), I'm gonna give you some recommendations based on those two things. Mozart's other famous Operas are a great place to start:

Don Giovanni - Mozart

Le Nozzi Di Figaro - Mozart

Die Zauberflöte - Mozart

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Otello - Giuseppe Verdi

Aida - Verdi

Messiah - G.F Handel (this is technically an Oratorio, but Handel desperately wanted to compose opera)

Symphonies no. 100-104 - Haydn

Symphonies no. 3,5,7,8,9 - Beethoven (love 6 as I do, it's not as accessible as the others. 9 is on this list exclusively for the last movement - It's a long-ass symphony so start there)

Turandot - Puccini

Madame Butterfly - Puccini

Carmen - Bizet

Sinfonia Concertante for Viola and Double Bass - Carl Dittersdorf

Bass Concerto - J.B. Vanhal

Check some of that stuff out. I love earlier (Baroque) and Later (Romantic) more than High Classical, but It's all great.

Enjoy.