Your favorite music from 1800 - 1810

You don't have to post a big list all at once. Just add some favorite tunes/pieces whenever you think of them.

Since we have a lot of audiophiles on the board, feel free to recommend some of your favorite recordings of the music you list.

 

Gioachino Rossini - Il pianto d'armonia sulla morte di Orfeo (1808)

As with many classical composers, this is a very impressive work written when Rossini was still a teen.

 

The second half:

 

Almost certainly the most famous opening bars of any classical composition ever:

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5:

 

here's a recording I've never heard before. according to the uploader, its performed by the Orchestra of the Gulbenkian Foundation, Michel Swierczewski conducting. I did not follow the link provided to the blogspot for info on a date.

this is Symphony No. 1 in G minor written by French composer Étienne Nicolas Méhul, who is famous as a Revolution-period opera composer.


(in my library is a recording by Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski conducting from 199O)

 

here's an upload of the recording I own, performed by Les Musiciens du Louvre.

Symphony No.1 in G minor──Méhul

I


II
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BvE5fvbF0vA

III
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2W1JDvXYG7o

IV
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ycKlTlG8MDE


It is interesting to compare this performance with the one I posted above by Orchestra of the Gulbenkian Foundation. let us know how you experience the two and what differences you notice. Also, tell if there are other renditions of Méhul' s Symphony No. 1 in G minor you are fond of.

 

Oops, this thread title should have been 1800-1809.

 

Anton Reicha (aka Antonin Rejcha) - 36 Fugues for Piano, Op. 36 (1803)