Being a lover of lieder, I'm rather partial to the piano version with Brigitte Fassbender, Thomas Moser & Cyprien Katsaris

Jordi Savall & Le Concert des Nations. Superb period instrument performance

What is 'classic'? Its essence is that it appeals across multiple generations and survives the purging of every last vestige of the nostalgia which blunts our powers of objectivity.

Only then can one say that the innate qualities of music, art, literature are provenly classic.

I'd be happy to do this, Rosemary, but - despite having chaired an SFC, SATs, and maintained schools - I'm 'only' chairing a LGB at the moment. Sorry. But I will share this among some colleagues who do meet your criteria.

Read this a long time ago. Very impressive and thought-provoking but, as I recall, rather heavy going (like all the Canetti I've read).

If it's even half as good as Underland, it'll be worth devoting much time to devouring it.

Also, I think, the Fantasie op. 77 for solo piano, perhaps the closest we'll ever get to hearing the great man improvise. This, apparently, was one of the glories of Vienna's music scene.

Try Melvyn Tan's recording on Ludwig's very own 1814 Broadwood. It's like time travelling!

I always make sure to listen to the great man on his birthday and death day.

Tomorrow, I'm planning to journey through the symphonies in the period instrument company of Maestro Jordi Savall and his Concert des Nations.

Very loudly!

One of those few books that I've found reward repeated reading.

Just went to see them,,possibly for rhe last time. Beautifully displayed and explained but still leaves a nasty taste. But where do we stop?

Only worry is that, if we return them out of a sense of duty and guilt, will the USA give us back the ruined relic that is Liz Truss?

I learned to love this piece via Karel Ančerl's Supraphone recording, bought for 39p in a sale in WHSmith, Chelmsford in 1973 or so. Misty-eyed nostalgia means nothing comes close, though I have the Abbado recording.