I love Beethoven’s 6th, the Pastorale. I’ve got it on RCA Red Seal, conducted by Toscanini, and on Deutsch Grammophon vinyl with the Berliner Philharmoniker. And I would buy another, more modern version also. A must have piece of music for me.
Elsewhere, I’ve talked about Offenbach’s Gaite Parisiene. Been thrilling me since I could stand up. Available on both CD and Vinyl in a brilliant re-master. I’ve compared to the original.
I have, I think 4 copies of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, by Derek and the Dominoes. Wiki link HERE if you don’t know this album. This is the album that pretty much defines the time I had leaving high school and going to college. Every note is chemically burnt into my brain. A close second from those days is Santana Abraxas. This is the album featuring Oye Como Va and Black Magic Woman.
I’ve listened to a lot of music for a long time. NPR used to have a show “Desert Island Discs” with the music you’d have to have if stranded on a desert island. (Hopefully a desert island with good electricity, high end headphones, a cache of NOS tubes, assorted audio gear, Magico and Wilson Audio speakers, and an acoustically perfect listening room). There is a lot of music that has and does thrill me, but these bits are a good place to start.