I studied music, a bit, back in school - Just enough to know that not all music played without words is classical. The romantic stuff did little for me, Bach and Beethoven is good listening, and the ornamental stuff of the Baroque seems, to me, the musical equivalent of a crocheted tablecloth - a solid rag would do the same purpose with much less work.

One album I do love dearly, though, is Bela Fleck's "perpetual motion".. Fleck is a Banjo virtuoso and he tackled many of the classics in an album that I run through the iPod at least once every couple weeks.... Give it a shot.