page 8.  All forms of music interest me, including classical. It can be orchestral, it can be chamber.  We are lucky here in the UK we have bbc r3, sometimes a little variable, but one soon find out which times or programmes to avoid. For thirty plus years it has been a musical education to me. 

To a newbie I wld suggest the more famous Beethoven symphonies, the Bach cello suites and the Beethoven later string quartets. Dip into Haydn, Vaughan Williams and of course Mozart, I heard his fantasia (solo piano?) the other night and it was quite wonderful.  

I had wanted to work my way thro the symphonies of Shostakovich, but each piece will take many listenings to get anywhere near to understanding it. So here I am weeks later quite happily still on no.1. 

Tootling around on the web I found this material, very interesting...

Shostakovich and psychology? : r/shostakovich