Where echoes of different times resound
There is no way I could, in a single effort, list the most brilliant or important musical works of all time so this is but one installment of suggested listening and/or supplemental music history
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In regards to sound quality, yes, the Tilson Thomas recordings with the SFSO that I've heard are pretty good. The thing is, I'm fully aware how terrible most classical recordings sound. I don't buy recordings for the sound quality. You get them for the performance. All of my Richter recordings sound pretty lo-fi (yay Russia). The Vaughan Williams conducts Vaughan Williams is absolutely terrible sounding. A great many of my opera recordings are pre-stereo.
Now, if you want to hear recordings that sound unreal, check out anything Rostropovich has CONDUCTED. An orchestra does not sound like that in a hall.
As for works in the vein of Dvorak 9, uhh, any late Romantic giant should do so...
Tchaikovsky - Symphonies 4, 5 and 6
Holst - The Planets
Richard Strauss - any of the symphonic poems (Don Juan, Also sprach Zarathustra, Ein Heldenleben, etc...)
Bruckner - late symphonies
Rachmaninoff - anything
Grieg - Peer Gynt
Liszt - Faust Symphony
Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 "Italian"
You'd probably also dig Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.
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