Mahler: The Symphonies – Bernard Haitink & the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Decca, 1994)
Last Leaf – Danish String Quartet (ECM Records, 2017)
Bach: St. Matthew Passion – Ton Koopman, De Nederlandse Bachvereniging & Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra (Erato, 1993)
John Adams: Century Rolls, Lollapalooza, Slonimsky’s Earbox – Emanuel Ax, Christoph Von Dohnányi, Cleveland Orchestra, Kent Nagano & Hallé Orchestra (Nonesuch Records, 2001)
Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers – Mei-Ann Chen & Chicago Sinfonietta (Cedille Records, 2019)
Book Recommendations
Elizabeth Lunday – Secret Lives of Great Composers (Quirk Books, 2009)
Clemency Burton-Hill – Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day (Harper, 2018)
Michael Steinberg – The Symphony: A Listener’s Guide (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Nicolas Slonimsky – Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven’s Time (W.W. Norton & Company, 1953/2000)
Dorothy Lamb Crawford – A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler’s Émigrés and Exiles in Southern California (Yale University Press, 2011)
John Adams – Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life (Picador, 2009)
Alex Ross – The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Picador, 2008)
Leonard Slatkin – Conducting Business: Unveiling the Mystery Behind the Maestro (Amadeus, 2012)
Jasper Rees – I Found My Horn (A Devil to Play): One Man’s Struggle with the Orchestra’s Most Difficult Instrument (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008)
Robert Lee Watt – The Black Horn: The Story of Classical French Hornist Robert Lee Watt (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014)
John Bird – Percy Grainger (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Peter Schickele – The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach (Random House, 1977)
