Most beautiful (classical) music

[Nodak]

Ludwig sure did know how to create beauty.

He certainly did.

 

[NW-Bound]

Some pieces that I like to listen to time and time again are the following.

* Schubert's "Serenade"
* Chopin's "Tristesse"
* Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, Second Movement or Adagio

 

[Midpack]

Ludwig sure did know how to create beauty.

He certainly did.

Another of Beethoven's best, Sym #5, 4th Movement (majestic, beautiful, grand)...even better than his most well known 1st Movement opening IMO.Beethoven -5th Symphony, 4th movement: Allegro; Presto - YouTube

 

[Purron]

Think we need some Mozart today. Here's one of my favorite pieces by "Wolfie"

Mozart " Eine kleine Nachtmusik" Allegro - YouTube

 

[Purron]

One in honor of NASA's amazing achievement.

Holst-Planets Suite-Mars-Proms 2009 - YouTube

 

[sunnysideup]

My favorites would be anything by Puccini but the one that gets me the most is "o mio babbino caro", not a song from his most popular operas.

Followed by the Brandenburgs by Bach, which technically are not classical but baroque...

 

[DougViages]

What a great Question...

Back to Opera, with Bizet's "Lakmé"

A Soprano duet to make the heart soar!

Sutherland, Tourangeau - Viens, Mallika! "Flower Duet" Lakmé - YouTube

 

[bbbamI]

Bugs Bunny makes fruit salad on elmer fudds head - YouTube

 

[FinanceDude]

Anything from Mozart is my favorite......

 

[boatfishandnature]

Another Beethoven favorite of mine: Piano Sonata No. 8 Opus 13 "Pathetique"

 

[Purron]

Just for fun!

The Muppets: Ode To Joy - YouTube

 

[NW-Bound]

Bugs Bunny makes fruit salad on elmer fudds head - YouTube

What a "classic"! Countless people and not just schoolchildren have been introduced to this wonderful piece this way.

For a more highbrow performance of The Barber of Seville by Rossini, the following is more complete, albeit much less fun. The "Bugs Bunny passage" starts at 2:00.

Barber of Seville Overture - Rossini - YouTube

 

[Nodak]

The old WB cartoons were my introduction, as a child, to a lot of classical music.

 

[razztazz]

This bit of Wagner's Parsifal

Parsifal Fantasia Richard Wagner - YouTube

Maybe this too.

Jussi Björling & Robert Merrill / Pearl Fishers Duet - YouTube

I'm an old opera person from way back. There are too many tied for "most beautiful" to list. The person who listed the Lakme duet beat me to it

 

[figner]

I have to second the vote for Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending."

Also, the slow movement of the Elgar cello concerto:

Yo-Yo Ma: Elgar Cello Concerto, 3rd mvmt - YouTube

 

[palomalou]

Braumeister, must agree with you. There are many singers I adore, but Pavarotti is at the very least tied for the top. Also love Jessie Norman. Living in NY during the late 70s and 80s, I was blessed to hear both of them live many times. Pavarotti had a way of singing that gave no doubt that every cell of him was giving it all he had. Such an intuitive musician. Musikalisch, wenn nicht Musikantisch.
Pieces: I MUST have Strauss's Four Last Songs and Mahler's Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

 

[Marita40]

Two which tug at my heartstrings are Erik Satie's Trois Gymnopedies and Franz Lehar's Vilja-Lied from The Merry Widow. I also love the music of Mozart.