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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Gotta get me some more Gillian Welch!

Here's another, as cosmic as lyrics come. I saw her do it live when she opened for Neil Young on his Greendale tour. What a show!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CywArYObn2U

Emmylou Harris  - The Pearl
This may not be the best version.
Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Austin
Mary Chapin Carpenter: Come on, Come on
New Queens Hall Orchestra: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
 
All the music from Shindler’s List by John Williams! Almost painful to listen too.
Brian Wilson: "God Only Knows" (heard on the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album), "Til I Die" (on their Surf's Up album).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLk6vqaxU1Y 


Listen to that and you will go into the abyss of the heart with a pianist guide playing as if like perfect playing was only child practice...This god is the best pianist I ever listen to...