Are you Beethoven or Mozart?

LVB, esp. string quartets and piano sonatas. The Waldstein sonata is close to perfection.

I enjoy where Mozart sounds closer to LVB—like his string trio Divertimento K.563 or the Adagio for piano or even a few of his “Haydn” quartets. When Mozart gets dark is when you see his true genius.

Leonard Bernstein once said in Beethoven music, every note is a right note. No second guessing. List, on the other hands, ahem ... but they sure sound good with a sip of wine.