As promised on The Great Courses Facebook LIVE – here is my list of music guaranteed to raise our spirits, make us forget our woes, and render us susceptible to boogie fever:
- Bach: Brandenburg Concertos; Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert; Archiv
- Bach: Goldberg Variations; Glenn Gould 1955 & 1981 recordings; Sony
- Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas; Ronald Brautigam; BIS
- Beethoven: Complete Symphonies: John Eliot Gardiner, conductor; Archiv
- Bernstein: The Theater Works Vol. 1; Sony
- Brahms: Clarinet Quintet; Karl Leister and the Vermeer Quartet; Orfeo
- Brahms: Complete Piano Quartets; Beaux Arts Trio with Walter Trampler; Philips
- Brahms: Horn Trio; Vladimir Ashkenazy, Itzhak Perlman, Barry Tuckwell; London
- Brahms and Schumann: Piano Quintets; Joyce Yang and the Alexander String Quartet; Foghorn
- Brahms: String Quintets; Boston Symphony Chamber Players; Nonesuch
- De Falla: El Amor Brujo; Montreal Symphony; London
- Dvořák: Piano Quintet Op. 81; Menahem Pressler and the Emerson String Quartet; DG
- Gershwin: Overtures; John McGlinn, conductor; EMI
- Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings; Alexander and Afiara String Quartets; Foghorn
- Mozart: Piano Quartets; Joyce Yang and the Alexander String Quartet; Foghorn
- Mozart: Symphony No. 41; Yehudi Menuhin, conductor; Virgin
- Prokofiev: Piano Concertos 1 & 3; Yevgeny Kissin and Claudio Abbado, conductor; DG
- Schumann: Complete Symphonies; John Eliot Gardiner, conductor; Archiv
- Schubert: String Quintet; Amadeus Quartet & Robert Cohen; DG
- Schubert: Symphony in C Major No. (9); Jeffrey Tate, conductor; EMI
- Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings; Herbert von Karajan, conductor; DG
Flamenco:
- Carlos Lomas and Pepe de Malaga: Andalusian Flamenco Song & Dance; Lyrichord
- Manitas de Plata: Gypsy Flamenco; Vanguard
- Paco de Lucia: Siroco; Phonogram
- Paco Peña: Azahara; Nimbus
- Paco Peña and Eduardo Falu: Encnento; Nimbus
- Pedro Bacon: Alurican; Le Chant du Monde
- Pepe Romero: Flamenco; Philips