Classical music?

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Looking for some recommendations please for some beautiful music.

Raindrop by Chopin is gorgeous

Orchestral or choral?

Beautiful menuet by Handel

Choral music by Rameau

Contemporary classical - Max Richter.

Se Pietà

Casta Diva by Bellini

Lark ascending - Vaughan Williams
Cantique de Jean Racine - Fayre
Sea interludes - Britten

*Fayre = Faure

Ave Verum Corpus by Byrd

All Night Vigil by Rachmaninov ( particularly Bogoroditsye Dyevo)

Salut d'amour by Elgar:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=mSk2mHk3cPQ

Wow thanks all! Going to listen to tonight.

Ocies, orchestral or choral, thanks :)

By choral, do you mean sung by a choir? Or will arias & cantatas do?

Bruch Violin Concerto
Elgar Cello Concerto

Scheherazade by Ravel
Carmina Burana by Orff
Lark Ascending by Vaughn Williams
The Creation by Haydn

I guess it depends on what you consider beautiful!

Or on s different tangent;

There are some names in that list that make stuff I wouldn't even call music, let alone consider beautiful music but I accept that we are all different, with different tastes.

Objectively though, that "harpsichord concerto" by Falla is a proper tragedy, and I say that as a harpsichord player. You don't bang chords on the harpsichord It's played more like a mandolin than a piano.

Probably just as well I didn't put the on the list then...

Nils Frahm
Olafur Arnalds
Second Max Richter! Sleep or The Blue Notebook

Some off the top of my head

Choral:
Poulenc 'Stabat Mater'
Samuel Barber 'Adagio for Strings' then 'Agnus Dei'
Morten Lauridsen 'O Magnum Mysterium'

Tallis
Byrd
Sheppard

Piano:
Rachmaninoff Concerto No2
Lizst
Chopin

Opera:
Puccini's La Boheme

Violin:
Bruch

Thanks so much!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=X_FVODPf2tk

Borodin string quartet number 2