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I'll second Stenhammer 2nd.
Stanford 3 (makes you proud to be Irish)
John K Paine 2 (a big chorale with New England hymn tune written all over it!)

Try the amazing Coronation Mass for the otherwise wretched Charles the Tenth of France.  Wow.  Muti's recording has blazing brass and catches the drama that is often (ironically) missing in Cherubini's operas. 
Cherubini had the misfortune to be writing in a transitional period (the manditory dialogue in Medee is a handicap not overcome even by our friend Franz Paul Lachner's much later recitativi.)  While Cherubini's impulses (and often his plots) were Romantic, his language is Mozartian.  Alas, as a tunesmith, and probably as a human being, he did not have Mozart's emotional range.
That being said, he left a delightful symphony (there is a fine Toscanini recording) and numerous overtures where the Romantic feeling is sometimes more successfully expressed than in the operas that follow.  'Anacreon' is probably his best overture (those marvelous violin trills) and Karajan recorded a powerful, muscular performance that may convince you it is a masterpiece. 

I guess this is my debut on the NEW board...and since Americans are my area, I'll make a plug for Horatio Parker.  What Victorian choral piece is more stirring than Hora Novissima?  (Good recording available, too: from Nebraska on Albany records)  And the Northern Ballad..surely he's the American Tchaikovsky??!! (on records Hegyi and Krueger both good, Krueger maybe a little more magical on the descending bass line in the coda.)  And most recently the marvelous scene for baritone and orchestra 'Cahal Mor of the Wine-Red Hand' newly (and excellently) recorded on Albany records by Patrick Mason.  All full of good tunes and red-blooded Romanticism.  Makes you yearn for his opera Mona, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera...  Best, from NYC David K