Most achingly-beautiful music

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.

Poets and psychologists have pondered the question "why we respond to beauty with tears..." without arriving at a final solution, except to wonder if it is becuase it reminds us of the rest of the times in our lives, that are not filled with constant beauty and happiness... making the satisfying listening moments that much more precious.

Casssandra Wilson-Harvest Moon, Jane Siberry-Taxi Ride, Bill Evans-Peace Piece.

Ella Fitzgerald singing "I Loves You Porgy" on her 40th birthday concert recording

Stevie Wonder singing "You and I" on Innervisions

The Beatles "Something"

Luciano Pavarotti singing the aria "Nessum Dorma" from Turandot

World Saxophone Quartet peforming "Ming" on Revue

Joan Baez singing "All My Trials" on her first eponymous Vanguard LP

Cesaria Evora singing "Sodade" from Miss Perfumado

John Coltrane playing "Naima" from Giant Steps

Does this kind of list actually have an end?