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.

Ma vlast is great to

Oh! And The gallant weaver, by James Macmillan. Could never sing it without tearing up a bit.

Laudate Dominum, Mozart
In Paradisium from Faure’s Requiem
The Mission - Ennio Morricone
Chi Mai - Ennio Morricone
Rachmaninov Symphony no 2 second movement
Neptune, The Planets - Holst

The Moldau by Smetana

There's a Vaughn Williams of Greensleaves that I absolutely love. It's so beautiful

Morning is top of my list I also love Mozart clarinet quintet and Brahms violin concerto.
Morning is beautiful. I used it when I first headed an assembly in my first teaching job and followed by the hymn ‘Morning has Broken’.

Someone should put these on a Spotify Playlist and share the link !! If I'm up in the night feeding DS I'll do my best to if anyone is interested?

There's a slow movement from one of Mozart's symphonies (39, 40 or 41?!). It's gorgeously relaxing, all ascending strings and descending woodwind.

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I've always loved Mozart's 40th Symphony, and Albinoni's Adagio in G minor.

slow stuff - these 3

Pachelbel;s Canon
AlbinonI's Adagio
Barber's Adagio

Einaudi is absolute favourite here.

Yiruma - river flows in you, may be, reminiscent, spring time

Joe Hisaishi - Summer

Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto no 1

The Pearl Fishers' Duet is very personal to me. Beautiful.

Sorry, keep on thinking of others.

Faure’s requiem, pie jesu is my favorite but also the Agnus Dei, and libera me if I’m in a bit of a darker mood.

Fur Elise.

Preludes to Tannhauser and Lohengrin by Wagner.
Britten 4 Sea Interludes
Sibelius violin concerto
Second the recommendation upthread for the last movement of the Firebird suite
Prokoviev Romeo and Juliet suite, especially Balcony Scene and Death of Tybalt
Tchaikowsky White Swan Pas de Deux from Swan Lake

All the best to your DD OP

Someone should put these on a Spotify Playlist and share the link !! If I'm up in the night feeding DS I'll do my best to if anyone is interested?

Great idea

Any of the Mozart piano concertos.
Schubert string quartets or either of his piano trios.
Ravel piano sonatine/ Tombeau de Couperin/ string quartet/ mother goose suite/ Daphnis and Chloe. In fact almost anything by Ravel except for Bolero.
Bach double violin concerto.
I think that maybe smaller scale/ chamber music is more intimate and calming?

Sorry! There were paragraphs when I typed it!

I think the 23rd Psalm Crimond melody is one of the nicest hymns. (Vicar of Dibley tune)

@redbedheadd fantastic idea!

Someone else has already suggested Benedictus from The Armed Man by Karl Jenkins which is stunningly beautiful.
Look on youtube for a version of The Mountains of Mourne by a pianist called Phil Coulter- beautiful arrangement of folk music. Also by Phil Coulter and James Galway, the Ashokan Farewell. Although not strictly classical, it's soul stirring.
I also love Tartini's Devil's Trill sonata, as played by Itzhak Perlman- there's something about that version that gets me every time.
If she wants some vocal music- Ombra mai Fu, as sung by Andreas Scholl, is lovely. As is Mozart's Exultate Jubilate and Laudate Dominum.

Not typically classical but Northern Lights by Ola Gjeilo is beautiful

I’ve not listened to masses of classical music, although I do like it. Probably not the most original but I’ve always loved Debussey’s Claire de Lune.