I find Beethoven's 7th to be his best work. (The third mvmt of the 9th has always bored me.) Throw in Haydn's last dozen, The Creation, Rossini's Barber of Seville and Italian in Algiers, much of Schubert, Beethoven's 3'd and 5th, the violin concerto and the 5th piano concerto, as well as Mozart's last symphonies, Don Giovanni, and the last string quintets and the clarinet concerto and you have a tolerable playlist.
Also Handel's Messiah which, even if the story is horseshit, has wonderful music.
Also Handel's Messiah which, even if the story is horseshit, has wonderful music.