Benchmark recordings

Obviously these are subjective to personal taste and style. For many pieces there are many fine recordings and I haven't bothered to list them all.

Generally speaking I recommend: C. Kleiber, Furtwanger, B. Walter, Szell, Karajan, Haitink 
Composer Piece Conductor/Soloist Orchestra Year
Beethoven Symphonies No. 5,7 Carlos Kleiber Vienna Philharmonic 1974
Prokofiev  Piano Concerto No. 3 Claudio Abbado/Argerich BPO 1996
Mozart Symphonies 35, 39-41 George Szell Cleveland 1955
Mozart Clarinet Concerto George Szell/Marcellus Cleveland 1961
Mahler Symphony No. 5 Bernstein New York Phil -
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 Koussevitzky Boston -
Verdi Requiem Toscanini NBC 1940
Bach Take your pick! Glen Gould - -
Take your pick! Take your pick! Fritz Kreisler - -
Beethoven Piano Sonatas Artur Schnabel - 1935

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