Helen I give you eternal thanks for creating this thread. Bobby McFerrin as a cello was delightful.
To all who have contributed with care concern and links 'praise be upon you'. While reading, the mere mention of certain pieces came back with such a torrent of beauty that I swooned and was exausted toward the end.

There is much joy to be found in war horses and show pieces but there innumerable small jems and musical ideas to be found in obscure places from dusty closets to paintings. I'll explain later.

Gilly you posted some of the same pieces I would have high lighted.
Kendal, you have ken-densed wisdom.

One of my contentions is that many classical works should be perfored with much more exaggeration than notation allows. On the other end of the musical spectrum simplicity can be more simplified.

As a teenager I discovered hundreds of mini works by Haydn that he had to create for a King of average talent. The King played something called a baritone but the Hayden pieces can be enhanced by any instruments like this

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