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.

Brahms Sextet No 1 in b flat.

Great thread op place marking and pillaging for my Spotify list 😁

I love Debussy's Clair de Lune, Barber's Adagio for Strings, Pachelbel's Canon, Beethoven's Symphony No 6, Strauss' Blue Danube and there's a piece of music in The Truman Show called Father Kolbe's Preaching which is just beautiful albeit not technically classical.

Bach cello and Debussy Clair de lune.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=iT-ZAAi4UQQ

@BadMoon I love Spem in Alium. I sang 2nd alto choir 7 in Peterborough Cathedral many moons ago. Gorgeous piece.

Nimrod from Elgar's enigma variations
Suite Gothique Boullman
Organ sonatas esp the 2 d minor ones Mendelssohn

I always have to stop what I am doing and listen whenever I hear this piece -

Ravel 2nd movement piano concerto in G major.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOhx6J21AY

Schubert string quintet, especially the slow movement

I love Glenn Gould’s version of Bach’s Goldberg adagio

Sibelius - The swan of Tuonela

Also not a long piece.

When I do Touch therapy relaxation with my daughter
I usually play

Debussy - Clair de Lune
Brian Crain - Song for Sienna
Max Richter - Written on the Sky
Michael Nyman- The Heart Asks Pleasure First
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Malcolm McLaren - Aria on Air (If i want something to invigorate)

@ScribblyGum and @BadMoon, don't suppose you'd appreciate what dissenting tenors my section call it in my choir.

Whales in the Onions.

And O Magnum Mysterium is 'The Lost Choc Ice'.

We have a Sad Disaster Squid Section instead of Libera Me. (Calmitatus et miserie).

In Bach's Johannespassion, we've got, amongst others, the Fecking Song and 'Wo-Help Not This One Again'.

Thomas Tallis - Spem in Alium (40 parts!!)

Also this song.
I love this scene in Cold mountain and it makes me cry every time x
Its not a relaxing one but more invigorating)

Also my inner outlander fan loves these xx

Beethovens sonata pathetique. I'm trying to learn to play this and it's really hard.

Gabriel’s oboe
Karelia suite
Anything by Rachmaninov

Have a look at the classic fm top 300, lots of good ideas

Grieg: The Last Spring

I love 'je te veux' by Satie. Great thread!

Not usually a classical music listener.

However, had classic fm on the other day and they played :

Seven Wonders - Stewart Mitchell.

Recommended!

Another vote for Albinoni Adagio in G Minor

Good music for a funeral! (A long funeral, it might be a bit long for the shortest slot at a crematorium.)

There's also a good story behind it, it's not really by Albinoni.

Sublime Oboe

ScribblyGum - it always reminds me of my dad - we saw it performed in Ely Cathedral and I remember turning to look at him to see he had tears pouring down his cheeks. It was played at his funeral.

Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending and variations on Tallis.

Holst, Planet Suite - Jupiter particularly. It’s so uplifting.

MitziK - Whales in the Onions? Noooooo...