are you big into classical then stan? whos good? mahler - do you like him? I never really listened to him but bukowski was a big fan so he's alright by me innit.
Still a bit deaf to much of the nuances - only recently starting to be able to attribute character and narrative and emotion to much of it. I can only start to distinguish, as in a blind test, whose music is whose.
I've listened to some of Mahler, got a record of his seventh symphony I believe from a thrift store a couple years back, but he hasn't solidified for me yet, couldn't really distinguish his work from the work of others.
As of now my favorite classical piece is the second movement of Beethoven's seventh symphony, which I gather is pretty famous and unsurprising so. But I couldn't intuitively pin it down as "allegretto"
I like the grandeur. A grandeur that seems to taunt with a sort of whimsy, perhaps even succumbing to it itself.