Classical and Jazz Artists and Works: John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, John Williams, Cassandra Wilson, Sarah Vaughan, Natalie Cole, Antonio Carlos Jobim, John Klemmer, Charles Mingus, Manhatten Transfer, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Shirly Horn, Ornette Coleman, Big Mama Thorton, Ben Webster, Wes Montgomery, Dianne Schuur, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Return to Forever, Grover Washington Jr, Gregorian Chant, Jeno Jando, Idil Biret, Richard Goode, Rudolf Serkin, John Williams, Yehudi Menuhin, Glenn Gould, Sviatoslav Richter.

Classical Music Composers: Vivaldi, Rodrigo, Elgar, Debussy, Dvorak, Haydn, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Puccini, Saint-Saens, Granados, Sibelius, Ravel, Schubert, J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Vaughan Williams, Rakhmaninov, Mendelssohn, Falla, Schubert, Schumann, Stravinsky, Mahler, Rodrigo, J. Strauss, Villa-Lobos, Brahms.

Favorite classical musical pieces: The Goldberg Variations and The Well-tempered Clavier, Books 1 and 2, by J.S. Bach, performed by Glenn Gould (See next paragraph). St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach, Geza Oberfrank, conductor (Naxos) and Mass in B Minor, Eugen Jochum, conductor (Phillips Classics); Sonatas and Paritas for Solo Violin by J.S. Bach, Arthur Grumiaux (Phillips). Mozart, Piano Concerto 20, performed by Jeno Jando & the Concentus Hungarius. Mozart, Requiem in D minor, KV 626, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker. Beethoven's Piano Sonatas (Complete Cycle: Naxos/Jandos). Handel, Messiah, conducted by Sir. Thomas Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (RCA Victor). 

The Goldbergs, in Glenn Gould's recording, were chosen as one of the pieces of music sent out on the Voyager space probe, together with pictures of humans, diagrams of where to find our planet, and instructions on how to play the record. As one of the project members said, the ideal message to send out to alien civilisations would have been the complete works of Bach, but "that would have been boasting."  From ClassicalNet/UK.