Herbert von Karajan · 1962 Spin it Again - Karajan's first stereo complete cycle, recorded in a Berlin church with a pair of microphones and an iron will, remains the cold perfection that all other Beethoven sets are measured against.

Nathan Milstein · 1975 Spin it Again - A 71-year-old violin genius, alone in a church, playing Bach with a bow arm that sounds like it was forged in another century.

Emerson String Quartet · 2012 Spin it Again - Four musicians who spent forty-seven years together, and this is their definitive statement: Beethoven as logic, as argument, as structure — and it is devastating.

Toru Takemitsu · 1977 Spin it Again - Takemitsu dreamed a garden with five sides and wrote the quietest masterpiece of the 1970s.

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.

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.

Karlheinz Stockhausen · 1971 Spin it Again - Stockhausen in 1971, still convinced that sound itself was the argument, and honestly, after an hour of this, you start to think he was right.

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.