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Originally Posted by mikeylips
I've heard from "classical" solo artists that when you make a recording, if you break even that's doing really well. Most of the time by the time they pay everyone they end up losing money. Thank God we still have people who will record this kind of music despite the fact that there is basically no money in it (unless you are a huge recording artist like Wynton Marsalis for example) otherwise students like myself would fall short on study materials. Even with the amount of recordings there are out there I still come across solo literature that has never been recorded.
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This is true - that is why there has been a sharp decline in the amount of recording work done by orchestras. Record labels are starting to commit only to projects that haven't been done and overdone. Hopefully this will lead to fewer Beethoven Symphony cycles and more from interesting new composers.
To reply to the original question, I listen to classical, I play classical, and I can read music. My interests have gotten too broad to pick favorites, but I did just get a couple of new CDs of John Adams' music. I'm pretty impressed with his stuff.