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Sparky
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I'd say Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
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No idea who composed it but the soundtrack of CASPER with the piano melody, it plays in various parts of the film, really emotional stuff!!!
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"...Kill da wabbit"
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Vivadi's the Four Seasons.
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What a question dear friend! There are thousands of thousands of pieces you could now call "the most beautiful." If you're really into classical music you can only have "your current" favourite and then "your list" of favourite ones. The beauty of classical or ART MUSIC (which goes beyond the so called classical genre) is quite different than the standards used in commercial music. A beautiful or catchy melody plus decent lyrics may be enough in pop, but in Art Music there are very many elements to consider. First, you don't have lyrics, so you have to concentrate in the language of sound. Then you have a combination of elements you will never hear in pop music: varied rhythms; original melodies and their variations; rich, daring harmonies; colourful instrumentation and textures; intelligent musical discourse; melodic and harmonic development, etc. This usually requires longer time than that of the 3 to 4 minutes pop standard, and more attention and previous education. But it is worth the effort. My favourite? What about Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Child?
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"I Forgive You" by Thomas Newman from the Pay It Forward soundtrack.
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Bach's Goldberg Variations.
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Mozart's Requiem.
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Yann Tiersan - Comptine ete D'autre ville
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I would have to say Blue Danube by J. Strauss ll.
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Ride of the Valkyries and the William Tell Overture.
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The Four Seasons -- Vivaldi
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Rach3
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One of them though there are plenty...I like is this....
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Antonia Vivaldi - The Four Seasons - Winter 1
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By far the most "exciting" for me is; Sonate Nº 23 op 57 "Appassionata" played by Richter What I wouldn't give to be able to play this one. It's the level of difficulty that is awesome.
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Also... Hans Zimmer's "Why So Serious" from The Dark Knight soundtrack is amazing.
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I'm answering this to let people know my own thoughts. To me this question is a moving target. Tomorrow, I may hear a new piece or new version of something I already know, that will strike me. Today I have two contenders for what I think is the most beautiful piece of Classical music. Puccini: Gianni Schicchi - O Mio Babbin Caro and Rachmaninoff: Isle of the Dead, two opposite spectrum end pieces. One is light, the other is dark.
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Bach - Air on a G string! x
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Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKz6XJlI_jk
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Beethoven's 9th symphony. It's a huge piece, it was a huge leap in its time and it can still move me to tear no matter how many times I hear it.
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Myleene Klass- For the Love of A Princess
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UB3js8v6R0
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Mozart's Requiem performed by the Vienna philharmonic Orchestra. a small piece from "Lacrimosa Dies Illa" to give a hint:
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The last movement of Faure's "Requiem" - 'In Paridisum.' +5
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Rach3 performed by Vladimir Horowitz or Mikhail Pletnev.
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Nutcracker Suite family of songs, especially Waltz of the Flowers, all by Tchaikovsky. They play it especially around X-mas. I love it, even though I don't really celebrate X-mas.
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My all-time favorite is Vivaldi's Four Seasons
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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
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