Most achingly-beautiful music

Mcrheist:

As a father and a son, my thoughts and prayers go to each of yours on their journey.

Mike.

I have just heard the V. Symphony of Shostakovitch, played by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Pinchas Steinbert. Oh what a tragically painful music on dictatorship and terror and pain felt by people. Unfortunately, the CD version I have, the Leningrad Symphonic Orchestra conducted by Mravinskiy is nowhere close to the concert interpretation.

If you want to be amazed by real-time 6- and 12-string guitar musicianship ... no other instruments involved ... you MUST pick up "Deviations" by Dominic Frasca ... a true keeper that you'll play over and over ... and never tire from listening

Greetings, newbie here.

Robbie Williams, The Ego Has Landed, 4th track called Strong.
George Winston, December.
Fresh Aire II.
Gordon Lightfoot, Pussy Willows Cattails, and Affair on Eighth Avenue are fantastic. (Back when he was singing correctly, with support and an open throat.)

All of Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, but specifically Us And Them, and That Great Gig in the Sky.

I will 2nd the Moody Blues nomination. To Our Children's Children's Children is an amazing effort, start to finish, but to stay with the category description, specifically the song "Out and In".

Don Quixote, with Richard Kiley and Joan Diener, Dulcinea, and What Do You Want of Me?

I am trying very hard to keep to the "achingly beautiful" songs, but there is just so much wonderful stuff out there...

Oh, Annie Lennox, Medusa, the songs No More I Love Yours, and Waiting in Vain. The latter is fantastic!

The largo movement from Haydn's Quartet in D major Opus 76 # 5.