Most achingly-beautiful music


Ultimately, we listen to music to be moved, for example, to be elated, exulted, calmed or pained. Which are the 3 most affecting pieces of music do you find the most affecting?
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Earlier this morning I wrote the wrong song title. It's actually not even listed on the cover hence my mistake. I think it' Pan Bowl by Sturgill Simpson and not Ain't All Flowers. 

In no paricular order:
  • Bach, JS: Violin Concerto in D Minor (after Harpsichord Concerto, BWV 1052): III. Allegro - Itzhak Perlman
  • Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy
  • Chick Corea/Return To Forever, or Chick Corea and Gary Burton - Crystal Silence
  • The Killing Moon by Echo and The Bunnymen in "Donnie Darko"
  • New Order - Perfect Kiss
  • Depeche Mode - Suffer Well, M83 remix
  • Kachaturian Violin Concerto - Perlman
  • Henryk Szeryng - Tchaikovsky Violin concerto
  • Evgeny Kissin -  Piano Concerto No.1, Karajan and Berlin Philharmonic
  • Joshua Bell - Meditation, for piano in D major, Op. 72/5, Tchaikovsky
  • The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland - 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be - requires prior ingestion of LSD-25
  • Life on Mars? David Bowie
Wow! 17 years and still going. I gotta chime in
*Harry Belafonte - Take My Mother Home, Turn Turn, Scarlet Ribbons,      Danny Boy, Try To Remember
*Linda Ronstadt - Faithless Love, Long Long Time
*Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
*Left Banke - Walk Away, Renee (also Vonda Shepard)
*Indigo Girls - Down By The River (live)
*Many - Summertime, I think I lke Big Brother & the Holding Company best;   but Even Perry Como did a really nice version
* Cowboy Junkies - His Song/Her Song
*Concrete Blonde - Joey
* Isis (the old all girl band) - Rubber Boy
* Candy Stanton - He Called Me Baby
* Teresa Brewer - Let Me Go, Lover
* Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
* Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Killing The Blues

There are so many great recordings listed here I haven't read them all, so please excuse me if I duplicated any.

The Everly Brothers: Let It Be Me (also done beautifully by Dave Edmunds)

Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You

The Kinks: Waterloo Sunset

Bob Dylan: Knockin’ On Heavens Door

The Band: The Clock Struck One; Whispering Pines

Iris Dement: My Life; You’ve Done Nothing Wrong; Childhood Memories; Sweet Is The Melody; When My Mornin’ Comes Around