Most achingly-beautiful music

Thank you all for a gold mine of music suggestions. I don't think I found one of my favorites: Jennifer Warnes with Leonard Cohen, singing "Joan of Ark" on her Famous Blue Raincoat album (all L. Cohen songs). Always give me goosebumps - I feel like Joan wins in the end...

Franz Shubert
Symphony No. 8 In b
"Unfinished", D. 759

Faure's Requiem. (Also harmonic singing by M. Litwinski, except it's unavailable commercially save a pale imitation with a fusion jazz group, "Two Suns". There might still be streaming files of Litwinski at wnyc.org's "New Sounds".)

J.S. Bach Polonaise in G Minor(^119)
From the Magdalena Notebook (#10)

States of Grace CD (esp tracks 1, 4 and 6) by Paul Schwartz, and Tale of the Whales by Michael Gettel