What’s the most beautiful classical music piece ever composed?

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Pls help me put together a classical playlist for when I give birth in a few weeks and tell me your favourite ‘birth worthy’ piece.

I have many I love but think mine is Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, it’s gorgeously ethereal, so that’s going on there. I also love Camille Saint-Saëns's classical masterpiece, Danse Macabre but probably a little dark for this particular event even if it will be around Halloween!

Humming chorus - Madame butterfly

Maybe not strictly classical ((though he did have a Prom!) some of Murray Gold's music for Doctor Who is beautiful - especially The Shepherd's Boy, This is Gallifrey and Songs of Captivity and Freedom

Adagietto from Mahler 5th Symphony:

Delibes Lakme

Gerald Finzi: Romance

Carnival of the animals, Saint Saens is lovely, my favourite is Aquaruim, it's very beautiful

Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2: 2nd Movement - Andante

Gerald Finzi is a composer who is rightfully coming or the fore, both those pieces are beautiful

Copland: Quiet City

César Franck - Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major

So much Bach. And The Lark Ascending.

Rachmaninoff, Symphonic Dances for two pianos

Pavane pour une Infante Defunte by Ravel - about a long-ago princess.
Gabriel’s Oboe by Morricone.
Fantasia on Greensleeves by RVW.
Scherezade by Rimsky-Korsakov,
Swan Lake by Tschaikovsky.

Spiegal Im Spiegal - Arvo Part
Theme from Lloyd George - Ennio Morricone
The Lark Ascending Vaughn-Williams
Bethoven’s 6th

Something rousing for the pushing stage. I would suggest

Enchantress by Thomas Bergensen

Two pieces that I adore are:

The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams

Lully, Lulla, Lullay by Philip Stopford, performed by the Truro Cathedral Choir

Just gorgeous.

I had the Bach Cello Suites by Yoyo Ma on my birth playlist.

'Lark Rising' Vaughan Williams

Amazing ! Thank you so much. Listening now. Beautiful

Vaughan Williams Symphony No.5 in D major, 3rd movement - Romanza.
Impossible not to cry .

Debussy Clair de Lune
Beethoven Moonlight Sonata
Allegri Misere
Pachabel Canon

There's a Chopin (prelude I think) DS plays that makes me stop in my tracks every time he plays it, but he hasn't left the sheet music at home and I can't remember what it is.

Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor for Strings &Organ