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I think I've erased my thoughts a dozen times before this reply...
I would caution you from thinking about "classical music" as the composers, unless you know exactly who you really like. Why? We tend to listen to performers, not songwriters, in this day and age. I find a connection with Alison Krauss' voice, Brad Paisley's guitar playing, or Victor Wooten's bass playing. I don't know who wrote the song they're singing, but I love their performance of it. I would recommend that you find some performers you really enjoy, and then find the music through them. Kathleen Battle (soprano), YoYo Ma(cello), Wynton Marsalis(trumpet), Andres Segovia(guitar), Itzakh Perlman(violin)...Start with these names in YouTube, and find where they take you.
Is your Vivaldi the Four Seasons? I've heard probably 200 versions of Spring from the Four Seasons, and 150 of them were insipid and boring, 45 were okay, and 5 were brilliant. It's about the performance more than just the notes on the page. Find some performers you love, and stay out of the "Laserlight Classics" kind of CDs. A bad performance of something could sway you forever. Find the best performers, and you'll get more than the sum of the parts.
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