Most achingly-beautiful music

Right on Brownie. That is a beautiful recording of The Planets. I also have to go along with previous posts about Margo Timmins of The Cowboy Junkies, (Sweet Jane), as well as putting forward Maggie Reilly on some of the Mike Oldfield albums (eg Five Miles Out, To France etc.) Haunting....

Paul

Klemperer's Mahler 2
Kim Kashkashian's Britten Lachrymae
Byron Janis
Shostakovich 11 'The Year 1905'
Peter Pears singing Britten

ah, Milstein's Goldmark Violin Concerto

(what was Sarah Chang thinking!? pardon my bitchiness. )

Just about every single classical music piece can qualify - it just takes a bit of a commitment on our part to come to appreciate it. Since we all have nice systems I am sure, why not try to branch out and appreciate all sorts of music?

Can something be beautiful and ache? What is soothingly-ugly music?

Just a thought.