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.

Beethovens Moonlight Sonata and Chopins Prelude in E Minor.

Elgar Cello Concerto
Dvorak American Quartet
Pretty much any Bach cello work!
Ennio Morricone's score for The Mission - Gabriel's Oboe in particular but it's all beautiful.

Bach’s Goldberg Variations, the Glenn Gould 1981 recording.

When it comes to opera here's a big second vote for The Marriage of Figaro. Wonderful, fun, lighthearted opera with some belting good, show-stopping arias. Bizet's Carmen is fab too: a colourful whirl of drama from start to finish.

Also love:

Chopin's Ballades and Nocturnes
Mendelssohn's String Symphonies and Violin Concerto
Mozart Flute Concerto
Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Beethoven's Emperor Concerto

Lovely thread. All the best OP

Mozart's letter duet

Not sure if this is classical but it’s on piano... Yurami ‘river flows in you’ is so beautiful. I always listen to it when I’m stressed

Adagio for Strings
Nimrod

Thatnks to all PP for giving me something to research this week.

So many beautiful ones already mentioned.

You could also try ‘Eliza’s Aria’ by Elene Kats-Chernin. There are two versions - one is vocal and one is just instrumental. I prefer the latter but they are both lovely.

Barcarolle - Offenbach
Scheherazade - Rimsky-Korsakov

Mozart clarinet concerto, especially the adagio.

Classical-y but not that my dd1 loves to listen to when stressed out is the music from Studio Ghibli films, it's on Spotify and is really relaxing (piano music).

Beethoven moonlight sonata

Theme song from Shindler's List (this video is moving: )

Many of the others listed (in particular Claire de Lune and Moonlight Sonata)

Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring - Bach
Pachelbel's Canon in D
The Moldau (Vltava) - Smetana
La Rejuissance (The Joy) from Music for the Royal Fireworks - Handel
Messiah - Handel
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart

Just to be pedantic, not all "classical" music is actually classical. Classical refers to a very specific period of time ranging from 1750-c. 1820. Beethoven, Mozart, and Haydn are considered to comprise the Viennese classical school. Brahms, Schubert, and Mendelssohn also wrote some works that are considered to be more classical - they are cross-overs between classical and romantic.

Music written after the Renaissance but prior to 1750 is usually classed as Baroque. Handel and Bach are two of the most famous Baroque masters.

Music written from 1820-1900 is considered Romantic. Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Greig, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Verdi, Wagner, and Rachmaninoff are among the Romantic composers.

From 1900 onward much "classical" music falls into the Post-Romantic and Impressionist styles. Debussy and Ravel are Impressionist composers. I believe Mahler is considered more Post-Romantic.

Monteverdi's vespers of 1610

Following this, loved listening to classical while pregnant in the bath and now play it to dd every night. It’s her music to sleep too.

Hope your dd is okay and wish her the best of luck op xxxx xxx

too many...
I love Mahler 1st symphonie - lots of oomph
beethoven - pastorale or eroica
brahms - 2nd symphonie

@KaliforniaDreamz God, I love the 1610 vespers. Nigra sum see formosa and Ave Maris Stella are so, so beautiful.

Actually, Monteverdi in general. Rosa del Ciel from L'Orfeo is one of my favourite things EVER.

Ode to joy is so uplifting.
Flower duet is lovely too.

Mozart Wind Serenade K361 3rd Movement
Gran Partita

Absolutely stunning.

Beethoven’s Pathetique No 8, Mozart’s Fantasia, To A Wild Rose by Edward Macdowell (walked down the aisle to this) and On Athens Nature Of Daylight. Is that greedy? No apologies, though, any of them capable of inciting a Sistine Chapel-style outburst 🤭

Er, not Athens, On The Nature. Every time, I have to correct 🙄

Richard Strauss - Vier Letze Lieder, especially Im Abendrot
Caccini - Amarylli Mia Bella
Elgar - Salut d'Amour

Bach Chaconne from Partita number 2 in d minor

Satie’s Gymnopedie No 1 is very tranquil and soothing.

I love Fantasia on a Theme (Thomas Tallis) by Vaughn Williams. Wishing your daughter all the best.