Where to start?
- the late piano concertos by Mozart
- Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
- Vivaldi's Four Seasons
- Handel's Water Music and the 12 Concerti Grossi 0p. 6
- Haydn's London Symphonies
- Beethoven's symphonies (especially # 3, 5, 7 & 9)
- Beethoven's piano concertos
- Mendelssohn's A Midsummer's Night Dream, his symphonies and the violin concerto
- Chopin's waltzes and nocturnes (played by Rubinstein)
- Tchaikovsky's piano concerto, ballet music, and Symphony No. 6
- Mahler's early symphonies (#1 and #4 are the most accessible)
- Sibelius's symphonies
- Ravel's orchestral pieces
- Erik Satie's quirky piano pieces
- Vaughan Williams' symphonies
- Stravinsky's early ballets: The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring