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Jan Swafford's The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a fun, informative read, which focuses mostly on short biographies of the great composers and brief snippets on some other composers. It also has some very good asides about different musical terms and ideas, as well as a basic library list.
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Do a bit of reading in "The Vintage Guide.." if that suits you, but, more importantly go to a lot more live concerts. Then, if your home music system is up to it, start some violin concerti - Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart. After that, follow your nose - er ears. It'll be a great trip.
Todd and Cheapskate, thanks for your replies, The only problem is that I cannot go for live concerts where i live, I only get this oppertunity when I am on a holiday, how I wish I can go once a month, where I live you really cannot even get cd's, the only way to get them is online (Thank God). The music system i have now is pretty good, am still runing it in and twaeking it, actually it sounds a lot better with classics than with rock or pop.
I would like to ask you which titeles/performers/conductors you would recommend to start with?
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