Most achingly-beautiful music

Jlindquist - You are right on with Cassidy's Over The Rainbow! I can tear up just thinking about how she sings it, let alone listening to her actually sing it. Makes Judy's version sound like the idle dream that little girls have. Eva's IMHO expresses the yearnings of a grown woman! Hard to believe it was a 'production' as opposed to something spontaneous! :-)

Ditto Satie's Gymnopedies 1-3; add Prince's, When You Were Mine and The Rolling Stone's, Moonlight Mile.

anyone heard any jerry douglas lately on a nice system .. ..severely wonderful Dobro guitar that can send you other places...also the grateful dead movie soundtrack..superb

Haven't been following this thread, so apologies if it has been mentioned. In terms of achingly beautiful, how about Patty Loveless "They Never Left Harlan Alive".

Well, I expect to have stones thrown at me for these suggestions, but I think the melodies are simply and yearningly beautiful:

Canon in D -- Pachelbel

Waltz from Sleeping Beauty Ballet -- Tschaikovsky

As a conductor once commanded: OK, let's play it again, and this time with a little schmaltz!

Jim Crane