The resurrection of the Grand Narrative.
Christopher Hitchens
Bach, Celestial Bach. Otherwise: Tallis, Byrd, Morley, Monteverdi, Purcell, Couperin, Vivaldi, Rameau, Scarlatti, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner, Bruckner, Faure, Debussy, Satie, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Messiaen, Arvo Part, John Tavener, Gavin Bryars, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Sidney Bechet, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Oscar Peterson, Paul Desmond, Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, Archie Shepp, WSQ, Sun Ra, John McLaughlin, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Eric Dolphy, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jan Garbarek, Michael Brecker, Gato Barbieri, The Temptations, Junior Walker, Parliament-Funkadelic, The Meters, James Brown, War, Sly Stone, Donald Byrd, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Jacques Brel, Noel Coward, The Beatles, Talking Heads, Ivor Cutler, The Clash
Faves current and perennial: The Bible. Homer, Hesiod, Theocritus, Callimachus, Demosthenes, Aeschylus, Euripides, Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Xenophon, Sallust, Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Martial, Juvenal, Catullus, Lucretius, Tacitus, Suetonius, Lucian, Boethius, Avicenna, St Anselm, Pierre Abelard, St Thomas Aquinas, Vico, Kant, Nietzsche, Cassirer, Hume, Locke, Rousseau, Spinoza, J S Mill, Russell, Wittgenstein, Leo Strauss, Blake, Tennyson, Donne, Shakespeare, Borges, Kafka, Joyce, Mallarme, Milton, Dante, Boccaccio, Pope, Swift, Bunyan, Nabokov, Beckett, Huxley, Orwell, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J G Frazer, Arthur Machen, H P Lovecraft, Philip Larkin, Thomas Pynchon, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Umberto Eco, Alan Moore, Martin Amis.
Bach, Newton, Shakespeare, Aristotle, Virgil, Kant