In 2016, Fiona Maddocks published her personal list of 100 pieces of music to see her through life.

Let's see if I can reach one hundred:

JS Bach (how to pick just a few!); St Matthew Passion, Partita for Violin 3, BWV 565 (and I don't care if it turns out to have been written by someone else; has anyone checked on WF Bach, by the way?)

Beethoven: Symphony 7

Berlioz: the Trojans (complete)

Brahms: Symphonies 1 & 3, most of the late piano works

Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, War Requiem, Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Cantata Academica

Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies 7, 8, 9

Gerald Finzi: Dies Natalis

Victor Hely-Hutchinson: Carol Symphony (if possible the Boyd Neel recording)

S Prokoviev: Romeo and Juliet (complete ballet), Violin Concerto 1, Piano Concertos 1 and 3; Symphonies 3, 4 and 6

Shostakovich: Piano Concerto 2 (Maxim's birthday present); Symphony 11;

Smyth: The March of the Women

Stravinsky: Petrushka (first version); Symphony in Three Movements

Vaughan Williams Symphonies 1 (original version), 4 and 6; The Pilgrim's Progress;

Soundtracks;
Sir Arthur Bliss: Things to Come
Bernard Herrmann: Citizen Kane, North by Northwest
Ennio Morricone: The Mission, Once Upon a Time in the West
Pandit Ravi Shankar: Pather Panchali
Nino Rota: La Dolce Vita

Non-straight music:
Lennon/McCartney: I'll get you
Bob Dylan: Go 'way from my window; Black Diamond Bay
Julie Felix: The Friends I Love the Most
Joni Mitchell: Amelia; The Circle Game

Charles Trenet: La Mer