Music By Which to Read for Week 3
This week's list continues with music of the age of Enlightenment but moves into pieces dealing with and reacting to the French Revolution. Again, this is representative but just scratches the surface.
Christoph Williblald Ritter von Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice
Overture
Selected recording: Peter Maag, Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major, op. 55, "Eroica"
- Allegro con brio
- Marcia funebre: Adagio assai
- Scherzo: Allegro vivace
- Finale: Allegro Molto
Selected recording: Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra
Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
La Marseillaise
Selected recording: Roger Boutry, Mireille Mathieu, Choeur de l'Armée Française, Garde Republican Band of France
Landré
Ça Ira
Selected recording: Edith Piaf
Étienne Nicolas Méhul and Marie-Joseph Chénier
Le Chant du Départ
Selected Recording: Jacques Gautier
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Cinquième concert
I - La Forqueray
II - La Cupis
III - La Marais
Selected recording: Les Timbres