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.

Palestrina Missa Assumpta est Maria - really beautiful

For cello music Jaqueline du Pre's recording of Faure's Elegy

London by Phamie How was beautiful when watching the sun rise once, made me cry though!

Gow not how!

Mahler's fifth
Vaughn Williams Thomas Tallis variations

So many great suggestions on here! I would add another vote for Spem in Alium (Tallis).

Can I vote against When I am laid in Earth (Dido's lament) by Purcell? Yes, it's beautiful but potentially depressing if you're going through a hard time.

Oh gosh, there are dozens...

Barber:
Sibelius:
Satie: ,
Offenbach:
Górecki:
Vivaldi:
Prokofiev: (from Alexander Nevsky)
Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder (particularly )
Berlioz: (from Les Nuits d'Été)

And others too numerous to mention...

Song For Athene by Sir John Travener sung at Diana’s funeral, it is haunting, and gives me goosebumps and tears whenever I hear it.

Albinonio - adagio in g minor

My all time most favourite piece of music.

The flower duet from Lakme, by Delibes.

Chopin's Nocturne no. 2 in E-Flat major is my go to chill out tune

I heard a modern choral piece fairly recently: Stars by Ēriks Ešenvalds. He's a Latvian composer and it was so beautiful!

Corelli ‘Christmas concerto.’ It’s perfection.

Lark ascending, it's gorgeous.

Classical isn't really my thing but I love Vivaldi's Four Seasons, it's literally a journey through every emotion I've ever felt in musical form. Also anything by Ludovico Einaudi and the soundtrack to The Piano.

Clair de Lune by Debussy, I Giorni by Ludovico Einaudi (actually anything from him is pretty awesome), The Aquarium by Saint Saens, River Flows In You by Yiruma, and if you're looking on Spotify try a pianist called Stephen Bear, he does beautiful arrangements of soundtrack pieces.

I love classical music, so going to sift through all these pages and get some ideas.
But may I suggest movie soundtracks too? Such beautiful music.
Dances with Wolves soundtrack is so beautiful.
And my favourite piece ever is Flying from ET. I soar, feel exhilarated, and cry. It’s just so emotionally fabulous!

Anything by Ola Gjeilo, although I particularly recommend The Lake Isle, The Rose, and his piano music (especially the Stone Rose CD).

The Seal Lullaby by Eric Whitacre.

Barber’s Adagio for Strings

5 Variants of Dives and Lazarus by Vaughan Williams

Duruflé’s Requiem and his 4 motets

Bruckner: Os Justi

And Ravel Pavanne pour une infante defunte

And the slow movement of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 2.

Plus Vaughan Williams: Lord, thou hast been our refuge

Hans zimmer - no time for caution.

Finzi: Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and Piano, and his clarinet and cello concertos

The first movement of Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto

Oh it's the dances with wolves tune. Erm what's it called? The john Dunbar theme

Love it!

When I had a hard time as a young woman, I loved to listen to the slow movements of Tchaikovsky symphonies 5 and 6, and Beethoven symphony 7. Also Mahler’s 5th. And Dvorak’s World symphony too

Rodrigo - guitar concerto a close second.

Massagnet Cavaliera Rusticana
Preisner’s Requiem for a Friend