History's most beautiful classical pieces

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

I'll start it off with :

Ave Maria by Franz Schubert (especially female vocals)

 

[Killbot]

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

 

[challenge_everything]

Gorecki - Symphony No 3 - sad but beautiful
Sibelius - The Swan of Tuonela
Basically any of Chopin's Nocturnes
Nyman - The Piano Concerto

 

[anti nowhere punk]

Beethovens moonlight sonata

 

[Nightmare_Heaven]

Anything from The Planets suite by Holst, especially Neptune, The Mystic.

Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries

Famous Beethoven's Famous 9th Symphony

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

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...

 

[panzerfaust666]

bolero-ravel

 

[Einherjar86]

Fingal's Cave- Mendelssohn

 

[esphanneman]

Debussy - Le Mer
Bach - Brandenburg Concertos

 

[Psychonaut]

Trying to listen to some of this. Wow, iTunes is being gay as fuck...

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

Trying to listen to some of this. Wow, iTunes is being gay as fuck...

Why? what is Itunes doing?

 

[Psychonaut]

Won't connect and if I do, it won't stream the songs without a very long buffer.

 

[FailingAcension]

Debussy - Le Mer
Bach - Brandenburg Concertos

Most def. La Mer!!!!
Also pretty much his entire piano repitoir (sp?)

There are far too many beautiful classical pieces name in a thread.

 

[tagradh]

Gorecki - Symphony No 3 - sad but beautiful
Sibelius - The Swan of Tuonela
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These two are amazing.

Holst's 'Venus' also and some of Messiaen's/Rostropovich's/Einaudi's pieces are great too. I fail at remembering songs names though. Silly foreigners. ;<

 

[Thoth-Amon]

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

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody On Theme Of Paganini

 

[Killbot]

Gorecki- Sym. 3

Werd, this is an ace piece.

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

Anyone else with their beautiful picks?

 

[Thoth-Amon]

Anyone else with their beautiful picks?

Tavener- The Bridegroom

Schubert- Piano Sonata 20

 

[Unfaithfully Metalhead]

How about we show Youtube clips of some of these? Do you have one of the Canon in D that we like Thoth? ....