[jyl]

My dad was a huge classical music fan and for most of my childhood classical music was playing from his record player. I’ve heard every possible classical piece over and over, from his collection which is like 30 linear feet of LPs. I’m not that much of a classical fan myself, but I will happily listen to anything by Debussy, Ravel, Gershwin, Satie - I think of as the romantic side of classical. Some Tchaikowsky too. Most ballet suites are listenable. Chamber music is decent background music. Beethoven, Stravinsky, Mahler, Brahms I will usually not put on. The problem with many classical pieces, IMO, is the dynamic range. If you turn the quiet passages up enough to hear them well, the crescendos blow you out.