Timelessly beautiful classical masterpieces. Recommended classical music.
A showcase of stunningly beautiful classics, all at once!
There are so many beautiful pieces in classical music, aren’t there?
This time, I’ve selected works that are especially beautiful—“classics that are just too beautiful.”
It’s a lineup of masterpieces that have been passed down through a long history.
When you think of beautiful classical music, many people imagine something calm and refreshing, but I’ve also picked pieces not only for solo piano but also for voice and full orchestra.
Now then, please take your time and enjoy!
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Masterpieces of Classical Music Too Beautiful for Words: Recommended Classical Pieces (31–40)
La CampanellaFranz Liszt
This is a piano piece arranged and written based on the theme of the Rondo “La Campanella” from the third movement of Niccolò Paganini’s Violin Concerto No.
2.
Paganini, an Italian violinist particularly renowned for his virtuosic technique, was said to have acquired his skill at the cost of selling his soul to the devil, and that extraordinary technique is vividly reflected in this piece as well.
“La Campanella” means “the little bell” in Italian, and from the very opening melody one can easily imagine the sound of bells ringing.
Meditation from ThaïsJules Emile Frédéric Massenet
An interlude from the opera Thaïs.
Set in a town along the Nile in North Africa in the 4th century, Thaïs tells a wild love story between the courtesan Thaïs and the monk Athanaël.
This piece is the interlude that plays at a pivotal moment when, persuaded by Athanaël, Thaïs gives up her life as a courtesan and resolves to embrace a life of faith.
It vividly depicts Thaïs’s inner turmoil and her determination.
Chaconne in G minorTomaso Antonio Vitali
A violin piece that is sweet and wistful, yet also radiant.
It was in the 19th century—almost a century after Vitali’s lifetime—that this work reached the public.
When the violinist David arranged and published the previously unknown Chaconne in G minor, the piece became widely known.
However, because the score he used for the arrangement was not in Vitali’s own hand, there are suspicions that it may be a spurious work.
Like a melodyJohannes Brahms
This work, set to a poem by Klaus Groth, a friend of Johannes Brahms, is characterized by a warmly embracing quality.
The wide intervals within the phrases and skillful modulations lend the piece delicacy and depth.
Its melody, deeply intertwined with the poem’s content, conveys an attempt to express emotions and thoughts beyond words through the power of music.
Beginning with broad, arpeggiated progressions and unfolding into long-breathed, beautiful melodic lines, this piece is recommended for those who wish to explore the deepest emotions of the heart through music.
Composed in 1886 and published in 1888, this song, written when Brahms was 53, has continued to be cherished by many performers and audiences.
Scene (from Act II of the ballet music Swan Lake)Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake is a ballet score composed by Tchaikovsky and, along with The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, is regarded as one of the three great ballets.
This piece is played in the opening scene where Prince Siegfried, standing by a quiet lakeside, is captivated by the sight of swans gliding across the water.
Its beautiful yet slightly shadowed melody, as if expressing Princess Odette’s heart, is especially enchanting.
Masterpieces of classical music that are too beautiful. Recommended classical music (41–50)
Nocturne No. 20 “Posthumous”Frederic Chopin
This piece, also known for being used in the film The Pianist, was completed in Vienna in 1830 and sent to Chopin’s sister Ludwika.
It is said to have been written as a piece for Ludwika to practice the Piano Concerto No.
2, and it incorporates fragmentary motifs from that concerto as well as from Chopin’s song The Maiden’s Wish.
It is a work whose exquisite shading is highly appealing.
Ave verum corpusWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A sacred work regarded as a late-life masterpiece alongside the famed Requiem.
Mozart composed it a mere six months before his death, as if foreseeing his own passing and what lay beyond.
Scored simply for choir, strings, and organ, and lasting just under five minutes, it depicts a serene, lucid, transparent world—one filled with peace, as though all struggles have ended and the soul has returned to heaven.