Jacqueline du Pré, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · 1967 Spin it Again - She had nine years left to perform when she made this, and somehow the cello already knew.

Jacqueline du Pré, Berlin Philharmonic · 1968 Spin it Again - Du Pré was twenty-three years old and playing like someone who had already heard the end of the story.

Itzhak Perlman, London Philharmonic Orchestra · 1982 Spin it Again - Elgar dedicated this concerto to an unnamed soul and then put five dots where the name should go — Perlman is the only violinist who seems to actually live inside that silence.

Jacqueline du Pré · 1965 Spin it Again - She was twenty years old, Barbirolli had known Elgar personally, and somehow the tape caught something neither of them could have planned.

Chilly Gonzales · 2010 Spin it Again - Gonzales has spent his whole career hiding how good he actually is behind how clever he is — this is the record where the hiding slips.

Georg Solti / Vienna Philharmonic · 1959 Spin it Again - John Culshaw put sixty anvils in a Vienna ballroom and accidentally made the most important classical recording of the twentieth century.

Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic · 1963 Spin it Again - A forty-four-year-old conductor, a church in Dahlem, and a deaf composer's last word on what music is for.

Glenn Gould · 1981 Spin it Again - He spent twenty-six years thinking about how he played this the first time, and the answer he came up with was: slower, quieter, and with considerably less to prove.

Glenn Gould · 1956 Spin it Again - He brought his own chair, sat lower than anyone else would, and played Bach like he'd already argued it out in his head on the drive over.

Yo-Yo Ma · 2013 Spin it Again - Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach alone in 2013 and somehow makes a piece written for no instrument in particular feel like it was always meant to end like this.

Various Artists · 1998 Spin it Again - Three men, three centuries of technique between them, all circling the same six suites like they each found something different hidden inside the wood.

Yo-Yo Ma · 2006 Spin it Again - Yo-Yo Ma spent years living inside the Bach Cello Suites and then handed you the receipts.

Yo-Yo Ma · 2018 Spin it Again - Yo-Yo Ma, thirty years after the first recording, sat back down with these suites and played them like a man who finally stopped trying to impress Bach.

Moondog · 1969 Spin it Again - A blind man in a Viking helmet stood on a Manhattan street corner for twenty years and still made something quieter and stranger than anything recorded inside a studio that decade.

Franz Schubert · 1827 Spin it Again - Schubert wrote these eight piano pieces the year before he died and somehow made restraint feel like the whole point.

Ludwig van Beethoven · 1818 Spin it Again - Beethoven wrote this in 1818 like a man who had stopped caring whether the piano could actually handle it, and it cannot, and that is entirely the point.

Franz Schubert · 1823 Spin it Again - Schubert was twenty-six, already sick, and this is what quiet fury sounds like when someone stops trying to convince you of anything.

Franz Schubert · 1828 Spin it Again - Schubert wrote this in the last weeks of his life and somehow made the slowest movement on the piano feel like it has nowhere to be and all the time in the world.

LaSalle Quartet · 1975 Spin it Again - Four string quartets spanning Schoenberg's entire arc, played by four Germans in 1974 who had no interest in making it easier on you.

Alban Berg Quartet · 1987 Spin it Again - Four Hungarians handed six quartets to four Austrians and the result is the kind of cold precision that makes you stop arguing about which recording is definitive.