The Christian Science Monitor puts together a great list of the favorite classical recordings of six professional musicians, including an idol from my trombone-playing earlier days and one of the finest bass trombonists in the world, Douglas Yeo.  Where specific recordings have been specified, I link to them.

• Douglas Yeo - Bass trombonist, Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Claudio Monteverdi - Vespers of 1610
  • Hector Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Six Suites for Violoncello
  • Gustav Mahler - Symphony 5
  • Anton Bruckner - Motets
  • Benjamin Britten - War Requiem
  • Giovanni Gabrieli - Sacrae Symphoniae
• Lucas Richman - Resident conductor, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
  • Johann Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel [ed: This should be Richard Strauss!  An editor made a booboo somewhere.  Thanks to Mr Richman for correcting this]
  • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4
  • George Gershwin - An American in Paris
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
  • Giuseppe Verdi - Requiem
• Fred Bronstein - President of the Dallas Symphony
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg Variations
  • Antonio Vivaldi - Four Seasons
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
  • Franz Schubert - Quintet in A Major (Trout Quintet)
  • Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
• Jennifer Higdon - Composer and conductor - The Curtis Institute
  • John Adams - Naive and Sentimental Music
  • Barber and Meyer Violin Concertos
  • Songs of Ned Rorem
  • White Moon-Songs to Morpheus
  • Igor Stravinsky - Firebird & Petrushka
  • Dance Mix
  • Rainbow Body
• Chen Zhao - Violinist, San Francisco Symphony
  • Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1
  • Franz Schubert - String Quartet in D Minor (Death and the Maiden)
  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor
  • Selections from the Heifetz Collection
  • Szigeti Recital
  • Denise Djokic plays Barber Martinu and Britten Sonatas
• Laura Carlo and Rodney Flora - WCRB-FM
  • Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Everything
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven - Hammerklavier Sonata
  • Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Trio
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sea Symphony
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams - London Symphony