Additional Resources: Classical Music
- The Encyclopedia of Music: Musical Instruments and the Art of Music-Making, by Max Wade-Matthews and Wendy Thompson
- The Great Composers: An Illustrated Guide To The Lives, Key Works And Influences Of Over 100 Renowned Composers, by Wendy Thompson
- Language of the Spirit: An Introduction to Classical Music, by Jan Swafford
- Organ Works, by Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer) and Karl Richter (Artist)
- Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, by John Eliot Gardiner
- The Sacred Cantatas (Complete, Nos 1-199, 60 CDs Box Set), by Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Conductor), Gustav Leonhardt (Conductor)
- Handel, by Christopher Hogwood
- Messiah, by George Frideric Handel (Composer) and Neville Marriner (Conductor)
- Music for the Royal Fireworks / Water Music, by George Frideric Handel (Composer), Neville Marriner (Conductor), Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields (Orchestra)
- The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, by Charles Rosen
- The Complete Piano Sonatas, by Franz Joseph Haydn
- Haydn: A Creative Life in Music, by Karl Geiringer & Irene Geiringer
- The Piano Concertos, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer) and Vladimir Ashkenazy (Performer)
- Mozart: The Reign of Love, by Jan Swafford
- Le Nozze di Figaro (CD), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Sir Georg Solti (Conductor), London Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra).
- The Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart’s Poet, Casanova’s Friend, and Italian Opera’s Impresario in America, by Rodney Bolt
- Don Giovanni (DVD), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Wilhelm Furtwängler (Actor), Cesare Siepi (Actor), Alfred Travers (Director).
- The Magic Flute (DVD), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer),Ying Huang (Actor), Nathan Gunn (Actor), Julie Taymor (Director), Gary Halvorson (Director).
- Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7, by Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer), Carlos Kleiber (Conductor)
- Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph, by Jan Swafford
- The Piano Concertos, by Ludwig von Beethoven (Composer), Sir Georg Solti (Conductor), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Vladimir Ashkenazy (Performer)
- 8 Symphonies, by Franz Schubert (Composer), Karl Bohm (Conductor), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra)
- The Romantic Generation, by Charles Rosen.
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by Felix Mendelssohn (Composer), Seiji Ozawa (Conductor), Boston Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Judi Dench (Performer), Kathleen Battle (Performer)
- Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times, by Dr. Alan Walker
- Nocturnes; 4 Ballades, by Frederic Chopin (Composer) and Vladimir Ashkenazy (Performer)
- Berlioz: The Making of an Artist (2 Volumes), by David Cairns
- Symphonie Fantastique, by Hector Berlioz (Composer), Sir Colin Davis (Conductor), Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Les Troyens (DVD), by Hector Berlioz, Fabrizio Melano (Director)
- Jessye Norman (Actor), Tatiana Troyanos (Actor)
- Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi (Composer) Luciano Pavarotti, Ingvar Wixell, Edita Gruberova, Victoria Vergara, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Riccardo Chailly (Performers)
- Verdi: A Biography, by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
- La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Carlos Kleiber (Conductor), Bayerisches Staatsorchester (Orchestra), Ileana Cotrubas (Performer), Placido Domingo (Performer)
- Aida /Teatro alla Scala, by Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Claudio Abbado (Conductor), Katia Ricciarelli (Performer), Plácido Domingo (Performer)
- Johannes Brahms: A Biography, by Jan Swafford
- The Symphonies, by Johannes Brahms (Composer), Georg Solti (Conductor), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
- The Life of Richard Wagner (4 Volumes), by Ernest Newman
- Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring Cycle CD boxset), by Richard Wagner (Composer), Sir Georg Solti (Conductor), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra).
- Slavonic Dances, by Antonín Dvorák (Composer), Christoph von Dohnanyi (Conductor), The Cleveland Orchestra (Orchestra)
- The Nutcracker, Jacques Offenbach (Composer), by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky (Composer), Richard Bonynge (Conductor)
- Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music, by David Brown
- La Boheme: Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Herbert von Karajan (Conductor), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra), Mirella Freni (Performer), Luciano Pavarotti (Performer).
- Operas of Gilbert & Sullivan (CD Box Set), D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
- 9 Symphonies (9 CD Box Set), by Anton Bruckner (Composer), Herbert von Karajan (Conductor), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra)
- Sacred Works for Chorus: Masses 1-3; Te Deum; Psalm 150, (4 CD Box Set), by Anton Bruckner (Composer), Edith Mathis (Artist), Maria Stader (Artist)
- Tosca, by Giacomo Puccini (Composer) Maria Callas (Artist), Victor De Sabata (Conductor), Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala (Orchestra)
- Gustav Mahler: Complete Edition (18 CD Box Set), by Gustav Mahler (Composer)
- Piano Concertos 1-4 (2 CD), by Sergei Rachmaninov (Composer), Andre Previn (Conductor), London Symphony Orch. (Orchestra), Vladimir Ashkenazy (Performer)
- L’Oeuvre Pour Piano (5 CD Box Set), by Erik Satie (Composer), Aldo Ciccolini (Performer)
- The Planets, by Gustav Holst, Herbert von Karajan (Conductor) Berliner Philharmoniker (Orchestra)
- Symphony No.3 “Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs,” by Henryk Górecki, Joanna Koslowska & Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra & Kazimierz Kord