Most achingly-beautiful music

Some of my favorites:

The Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Cité de la Musique, Dino Saluzzi
Romance in F Minor, Dvorak
I Loves You Porgy, Keith Jarrett (solo)
A State of Wonder - the whole album, especially Gould's more recent take (Gould/Bach)
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Roberta Flack
Cavatina – John Williams
Claire de Lune – Debussy
Como un fiore – Ludovico Einaudi (pretty much the whole Una Mattina album, which is exquisite)
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares - Messetschinko lio Greilivko

So many more, but that's a start...

Going for songs here, not pieces:

- God Only Knows, The Beach Boys
- What Becomes of the Brokenhearted, Jimmy Ruffin
- No Time to Cry, Iris Dement

Bdp - your mention of the Beach Boys reminded me about "Let's Go Away For A While" from Pet Sounds.

Mickey Katz!

Yeah Ghosthouse, Brian Wilson wrote quite a few songs that could be nominated, "Til I Die" and "Surf's Up" being a couple more.