Various Composers – 18th-century Overtures – Raymond Leppard

Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782):
Catone in Utica - Opera: Overture
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764):
Les Paladins, comédie lyrique: Overture
Zaïs, pastorale-héroïque: Overture
Pygmalion, acte de ballet: Overture
William Boyce (1711–1779):
Here all thy active fires diffuse, ode: Overture
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725):
Il giardino di rose: La SS Vergine del Rosario, oratorio: Overture
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801):
I Tre Amanti, opera: Overture
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736):
L'olimpiade, opera: Overture
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759):
Il Pastor Fido, opera, HWV 8a: Overture
André Ernest Modeste Grétry (1741–1813):
Le Jugement de Midas, opera: Overture
Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747):
Polifemo, opera: Overture
Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini (1730–1786):
Oedipe a Colonne, opera: Overture
Étienne Nicolas Méhul (1763–1817):
Le Jeune Henri, opera: Overture

New Philharmonia Orchestra
Raymond Leppard - conductor

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Méhul - The Complete Symphonies - Swierczewski

"The Revolution of 1789 took away some things and gave France others. It put a stop to regular concerts societies (though not to symphonic events), but it engendered the Paris Conservatoire, which opened in 1795. This Conservatoire provided the musical base from which Méhul began his regeneration of the French symphony. (...)"
[David Charlton, in the booklet]

Étienne-Nicolas Méhul (1763-1817):
Overture "La chasse du jeune Henri"
Symphony No.1 in G minor
Symphony No.2 in D major
Overture "Le trésor supposé"
Symphony No.3 in C major
Symphony No.4 in E major

Orquestra da Fundação Gulbenkian
Michel Swierczewski - conductor

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