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So, I like music. A lot. And I feel like I'm familiar/comfortable with a variety of music across all sorts of genres. Generally, I can walk into a record store and be able to pick out high quality albums, and conversely, know what to avoid as lackluster efforts.
One area where I absolutely don't feel comfortable doing this though is in the area of classical music. Sure, I'm familiar with the names of famous composers. And even sort of familiar with their more important and more popular works. But as far as I can tell, that's not really enough.
When you have recordings by all sorts of different symphonies, etc, a lot of times just being familiar with the composers isn't enough. You need to be familiar with the orchestras, the conductor, etc. At least as far as I can tell. This could be totally wrong. (see my aforementioned lack of knowledge on the subject.)
I want to at least begin to make up for my decided shortcoming in this area.
As I recall from the various discussions regarding the Columbus Symphony on here, there are at least a few classical music fans. So, I pose the question: what I should I be looking for? What sort of listening/buying guide would you offer? Any sort of best of list that might be helpful?
I realize I'm painting "classical" music with a very broad brush, and that's also probably unfair. I'd probably scoff at someone who asked a similar question about "rock" music. But you have to start somewhere. I'm starting here.
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