I have a few favourites from Erik Satie: Nocturne III Gnossienne No.5 Pieces Froides - Trois Danses De Travers These are just my favourite three, but I could pick any Satie piano piece. Claude Debussy's Etude No. XI pour les Arpeges Composes and Clair De Lune But possibly the most beautiful piece I've heard so far is Camille Saint-Saens' The Cuckoo in the Heart of the Woods
Gorecki - Symphony No 3 - sad but beautiful Sibelius - The Swan of Tuonela Basically any of Chopin's Nocturnes Nyman - The Piano Concerto
Anything from The Planets suite by Holst, especially Neptune, The Mystic. Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries Famous Beethoven's Famous 9th Symphony
I wouldn't call Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries "beautiful"... epic perhaps but not beautiful... but i do agree on Beethoven's 9th Symphony especially the Ode to Joy part... but here are two more to round off my top 3 at the present time: Canon in D major for strings and continuo by Johann Pachelbel (the best version is the one conducted by Jean-Francois Paillard) Etude, Op.10. No.3 in E "Tristesse" by Frederic Chopin (sad but beautiful, about lost love.... it's rumored that Chopin wrote it for a woman he loved in his youth and lost to someone else) << listen to this one and tell me what you think...
Most def. La Mer!!!! Also pretty much his entire piano repitoir (sp?) There are far too many beautiful classical pieces name in a thread.
Hmmmm.... well let me list a few favorites off the top o' me 'ead: Mozart- Kyrie from C Minor Mass; Concerto for Flute & Harp Beethoven- Piano Concerto No. 2 adagio; Kyrie from Missa Solemnis Berlioz- Adagio from Romeo & Juliette Gorecki- Good Night; Sym. 3 Kilar- Angelus Tchaikovsky- Sym. 6 4th mvmt. Mahler- Ruckertlieder; Sym. 10 Adagio Berg- Violin Concerto
How about we show Youtube clips of some of these? Do you have one of the Canon in D that we like Thoth? ....