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.

If you want soothing I also like the second movement of Bach’s concerto for two violins:-

Best wishes to your daughter.

War Song by Phamie Gow is so beautiful!

Some fantastic suggestions here.

Carnival of animals - saint-saens.
Barcarolle -Offenbach
Sanctus- Jenkins
I liked Mylene Klass’ album Moving On
And my absolute favourite:
Die Moldau - smetana. It was written about the river running through Czech Republic and when you listen you can imagine the river winding through fields, valleys, mountain scapes, castles and finally into the bustling city of Prague. Truly beautiful and emotional. It is from a wider symphony called Ma Vlast (my homeland).

Enigma - Return to innocence, always found this so soothing

Bach's double violin concerto.

Pathetique sonata (Beethoven). Beautiful and very moving. Hope your DD is ok.

The Carnival of the Animals
Suite by Camille Saint-Saëns
(My last post on mumsnet was to say my dream job would be as classic Fm presenter!)
Hope your daughter finds comfort in this music,as so many others have.

Spirit Garden - Gavin Luke
Clair De Lune - Claude Debussy
Lieder One Worte - Felix Mendelssohn

And Handel's Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, which is much cheerier:

We've had a couple of votes for Rach 2, but you can't beat Rach 3 - with Horowitz playing.

Debussy - Girl with the flaxen hair is nice. Also Kings college choir Cambridge for their version of Agnes Dei.

Gorecki Symphony no 3. It's hauntingly beautiful.

Instrumental:

Choral:
Palestrina - Sicut cervus
Eric

There's also an amazing choral version of 'This is where I sleep' by Voces8 (originally Emeli Sandé) which is BEAUTIFUL.

The Lark Ascending transformed my view of classical music so i'd have to agree with pps.

I'm always floored by Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Grew up with it but it still gets me every time.

Another vote for both Allegri's Miserere and Debussy's Claire De Lune.

To echo many posters:

Ludovico Einaudi (specifically Night Book and Divinire) . He's amazing in concert.
War Song - Phamie Gow
Lark Ascending and Thomas Tallis - Vaughan Williams
Adagio for Strings
Nimrod- Elgar
Miserere
The Heart Asks Pleasure First- Theme fr The Piano
Titanic soundtrack is lovely
John Barry - Out of Africa
John Williams does many movie themes like Harry Potter and I think Lord of The Rings (may be wrong)

Love to your DD. Classical music always brings me peace

Oops that sounded like I was saying my choices were fantastic! I meant everyone else’s!

Forgot to say: film themes and composers are worth looking at. Thomas Newman is very peaceful music - American Beauty, Meet Joe Black, Shawshank Redemption. Also James Horner - last of the Mohicans, Troy, Titanic. My favourite soundtrack is The Pacific - Hans Zimmer. It’s very emotional as is the sister TV programme soundtrack Band of Brothers (Michael Kamen)

‘Soave sia il vento’ - from Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte is beautiful and the one piece of music I’d save from the waves!

Haha ItsAlive! Crosspost.

There's some lovely John Williams scores : Schindler's List and Across the Stars are my favourite.

Bruch Violin Concertos are beautiful.

O Mio Bambino Caro is stunning

Oh agree with loads of these just adding the Ebarme Dich Aria from Bach's St Matthew Passion. And all the Chopin Nocturnes. And Beethoven's Appassionata Piano Sonata. Gonna be a long playlist, OP! Best wishes to your daughter. Here's the Bach.

Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis .... probably my favourite.

Hymn of the Cherubim by Tchaikovsky
O Magnum Mysterium by Lauridsen
Symphony No. 8 by Mahler

The Mahler is epic and quite different to the other two which are much more reflective choral pieces.

Oh my word....... I cannot believe my ears are only hearing so many of these for the first time. What the hell have I been doing

Sorry - my flailing baby pressed post before I was ready...

Instrumental:
Warlock - Pavane from the Capriol Suite
Batt - Love in slow motion
Handel - Courante from Suite in A major (HWV 426)
Corelli - Christmas concerto (the whole of the famous one)
Debussy - The girl with the flaxen hair

Choral:
Palestrina - Sicut cervus
Eric Whitacre - Sleep
Robert Walker - As the apple tree
Rachmaninov - Bogoroditsye Dyevo

And Loveliest of trees, by Vaughan Williams.

And the Emeli Sandé song that I tried to recommend BEFORE the flailing baby...

I think I'm done, now!