In 2025 I started logging albums as I listen on Rate Your Music. Some go to playlists:

• Reruns
• Black Friday
• EZ tunes
• Beats 25
• Tracks 25

I got addicted to classical music in 2024. The pieces that got me hooked were Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58, and Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata, Op. 53 (esp. the third movement). Robert Greenberg’s How to Listen to and Understand Great Music, the Sticky Notes podcast, and the /r/classicalmusic subreddit have been great resources.

A few favorite classical playlists/recordings:

• Classical all timers
• Piano bangers
• Slow movements
• Piano concerti
• Minsoo Sohn’s Beethoven Piano Sonatas
• Krystian Zimerman’s Chopin: Ballades; Barcarolle; Fantaisie
• Mitsuko Uchida’s Schubert Piano works (esp. Sonatas 19–21 and all Impromptus)
• Martha Agerich’s Schumann: Fantasia Op. 17
• Pavel Haas Quartet’s Janacek String Quartet No. 1 & No. 2
• Quartetto Italiano’s Schubert Last Four Quartets
• Borodin Quartet’s Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets
• Trio Wanderer’s Faure Piano Quartets
• Bernstein’s Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 (the most beautiful slow movement of all time)
• Bernstein’s Mahler Symphony No. 2 (the most epic finale of all time)