The fourty-third classical recording: #631 Erno Dohnányi - Variations on a Nursery Song
While this piece starts with a big introduction, grandiose and described as Wagnerian (which makes sense), it moves into just a piano playing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. As variations then do, it starts to vary how the tune - or at this point, theme - is played, The reason it works so well is because the theme is so much better known, it seems easier to latch on to it and really appreciate the variations. While it feels like a nice exercise for the composer and musician, as a novice listener I appreciate the examples even more.
The one hundred eighth album: #108 Traffic - Traffic
Folk rock is another genre that seems to have been ignored recently. Here, we start with a call and response number and a blues rhytm rock song that feels out of place in the era. And while it experiments a bit, it feels like this gentler rock does need another hook, which I couldn't find in these songs. It's what it is, but nothing jumps out as special at me.