What Are You Listening To (Classical Version)?

I am currently going through one of those phases where all I want to listen to is tragedy. Shostakovich is a perfect outlet for this, so I started with the 14th symphony, and worked my way through recommendations from there. At the moment, this is going through my headphones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4pAXSqxxsc
 
I am listening to Orff's Carmina Burana on my cd player, Andre Previn conducting. However, my roommate Just got back from a cello recital: Bach's "Canon alla Duodecima in Contrapunto all Quinta" and "Canon per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu" plus Debussey's "Sonate pour Violincelle at Piano," and a few others. It was Joel Krosnick and his daughter, Gwen, and some other. The recital was over 2 hours and I'm wicked jealous!
 
I know about Krosnick as a member of the Juilliard String Quartet, a very fine group. Unfortunately I live in a place where there are not so many interesting live concerts, so I am mostly left to "canned" music, which by being fine in its own right doesn't really match up to the real thing.
Since it is Easter, I suppose it makes sense to post something related. So here is Penderecki's St.Luke's Passion, a work which at least for me is most rewarding.

Link to video.
 
Continuing music related to easter with a real gem from the Baroque era which may be too little known, Reinhard Keiser's version of Brockes Passion

Link to video.
 
The full William Tell Overture. Of course the most famous part is the finale, but I consider all four sections of this piece to be worthy of listening to, particularly the haunting introduction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoBE69wdSkQ
 
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