The choices

Rigoletto Verdi Callas, Gobbi, Di Stefano; La Scala Milan/ Serafin Warner Classics 2564634095 Beethoven String Quartet No. 15

Amadeus Quartet Audite AUDITE21424 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Alfred Brendel (piano) Vanguard Classics ATMCD1213 Janáček String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’

Janáček String Quartet Centaur CRC3809 Monteverdi Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)

English Baroque Soloists; Monteverdi Choir/ John Eliot Gardiner DG 483 8464 (2CD/1DVD)