Great music few are aware of. Any genre.

I’ve been listening to a lot of the Stockfisch label recordings (per Hifiman5) over the past few days, and they’ve been bringing me much pleasure.  Thanks for the tip!

@bdp24 

" Emerson got a lot of credit for being a "Classically" trained keyboardist playing Rock music. He did that, though, not by using Classical compositional knowledge to create new, song-form music, but rather by playing music written by Classical composers for an orchestra, in a Rock band."

This was only a small amount of Emerson's material. Most of his output were original compositions, informed by classical composition.

Tarkus, Karnevil 9, Take a Pebble, The Endless Enigma, Trilogy, just to name a few. 

@stmike   My pleasure!  The "Closer to the Music" samplers are awesome.  No throwaway cuts at all.  If you haven't already done so, try to get a Stockfisch DMM-CD/SACD.  Fantastic sound quality!

rob, I like your style.

Further down the rabbit hole of epic stoner Doom Metal:

Sons of Otis -- Songs for Worship
Conan -- Blood Eagle
Bongripper -- Miserable

And, no one on this forum will like or be ready for this, but super fresh absolutely brilliant technical death core:

Rings of Saturn -- LugaL KI En

So many metal subgenres in my collection, don't tempt me to share further.

Resolving a violin concerto is one thing, but take one of these titles to a dealer to audition some gear. They might give you the piece for free to get you out of the store (almost a true story).

simonmoon, it is my opinion that it was primarily Emerson's keyboard playing that displayed and contained his classical training and knowledge, his writing less so. I find the ELP songs devoid of the musical sophistication, wit, and wisdom found in the work of Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, Frank Zappa, Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum), and a few others. As always, just one opinion. It's all good!