(March 26, 2015 at 1:38 pm)Alex K Wrote: What a service. You dont intend to allow any excuses it seems. Mozart now just one click away (if they have AutoRip that is)
There are no good excuses for not loving Mozart. Of course, one ought to also love Bach and Beethoven. And for opera, aside from Mozart, there is Rossini, Puccini, Verdi, and Wagner, and Delibes' Lakmé and Bizet's Carmen. But for now, we should focus on getting you to love Mozart.
If you wanted to take a big plunge into Mozart for little money per disc, you could buy one of the versions of the complete works of Mozart put out by Brilliant Classics. One then would get many fine performances, often from relatively unknown performers, as well as some dreadful performances (the Requiem, at least on the original release, is the worst recording of that piece that I have ever heard). Both because it is a bit of hit and miss, as well as the fact that it is a substantial investment for someone who doesn't love Mozart, I am not particularly recommending it, at least not yet for you. It is worth buying for the good performances, but there are some bad ones that are not going to help with my present goal of getting you to love Mozart.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.