AIBU to ask for what you think is the most beautiful piece of classical music you have ever heard

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I want to put together a playlist for my DD as she has a horrendously difficult time ahead of her (you can search my username to see why) I am hoping it will help her in some way...calm her. Take her mind off things.

I love Grieg's Morning from the PG Suite.
And the big aria from Mme Butterfly if that counts?

Greig?

I can really recommend the whole of the "if Beale Street could talk" soundtrack. So so beautiful and incredibly relaxing.

Luduvico Einaudi's album called Islands. Beautiful piano music and I find it very comforting and relaxing. Think warm summer evening with a glass of wine feeling

Grieg, Morning. I first heard it at school and have loved it ever since.

My current favourites are Finlandia and Fingal’s Cave, both about 9 minutes long so not hugely long but long enough to lose yourself in for a while. Hope you find something that helps your DD.

I love Vaughn Williams, The Lark Ascending. Lots of beautiful Debussy also.

Also Beethoven's moonlight sonata.

Beethoven sonata Pathetique (No 8)

Pachabel cannon but it has to be the right version

The Pearl Fishers Duet by Bizet
Nimrod by Elgar
Clarinet Concerto in A Major by Mozart

The finale to the firebird by Stravinsky.
It's pure beauty

The Girl with the Flaxen Hair by Debussy
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis by Vaughan Williams
Miserere Allegri by Gregorio

The Allegri Miserere

Then pretty much anything else by the Tallis Scholars: Tallis, Byrd, Palestrini, Taverner etc.

Pachelbel's Canon definitely

I find baroque harpsichord really dramatic and invigorating
(I know you've asked for classical) but I'd really recommend Rammeau harpsichord work.

@King yes.....that is beautiful. My DD saw him in London last year. She said it was amazing.

I am busy checking these out. Thank you

Rachmaninoff Concerto 2.

I love some the suggestions above (Tasmin Little's version of Lark ascending is wonderful ).

I'd add the Pastoral Symphony by Beethoven and recently ive been playing a Summer Suite by Eric Coates which is lovely (and a new one for me!)

I'm seconding The Lark Ascending and also adding Barber's Adagio for String.

The Benedictus from Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

Figlio perduto

If I need to either pick myself up or celebrate doing something hard, it's always Beethoven's 9th

The second movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5 has brought me calm and strength in difficult times.

What a lovely idea OP.

Sibelius Valse triste is wonderful for relaxing even if the story behind it is a little dark so I wouldn't tell her it