Oh God, this is going to take me awhile... gives the chance for another count-down!!! It's not quite in good order yet, I may well come back to this.
10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wddtne7KSs - Yes, THE prelude, Rachmaninoff playing it. Sorry Rach...
9.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=928NSu5S-uo - I can't help it! Osmo Vänskä's whistling is just cool. And it's STILL classical music!
8.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8YUIG3YgxQ - The end of Mahler's ninth is quite possibly one of my favorite endings in all music, and Bernstein describes it SO WELL!
7.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9yLz...eature=related - Sibelius concerto: Heifetz owned this piece for about 20 years because nobody else would (or could) play it.
6.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NwLDMcA9U4 - Enescu's recording of Chausson's Poeme. I've not heard Neveu's yet in full, but I don't think what I have heard of her's can compare.
5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AK5lJFhrQ4 - Heifetz's rendition of Vitali's Chaconne sent shivers down my spine.
4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPQxhIC1Tls - The second movement of Sibelius' third symphony. It's probably my favorite symphonic movement in all of Sibelius (not counting the Seventh)
3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1pbWzCRZEE - Yehudi Menuhin playing the last few minutes of Bach's overwhelming Chaconne from the second partita in D minor.
2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5C99JyP2ns - Jaqueline du Pre's Elgar. It brought me to tears the first I heard it. The best.
1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rECVyN5D60I - Bernstein conducting the last 5 or so minutes of Mahler's Second Symphony. Not quite the best, but still my favorite video on all of Youtube.