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?
hungryear
Jackie Gleason Orchestra; Music for Lovers Only, we play this LP when we make ourselves a nice candlelit dinner. Basia; Time and Tide on gold CD. Anything by Enya!
Great question -- so many beautiful and truly moving songs, it's difficult to pick just 3. Fortunately, many of the great ones have already been mentioned above. Here are 3 more that always make me feel there is something more to life than our physical existence: (1) "Psalm" by the Jan Garbareck Group and Agnes Buen Garnas (on Twelve Moons), (2) Oregon's "Icarus" (Live), (3) the Jai Uttal/Lakshmi Shankar/Don Cherry rendition of "Raghupati" (on Footprints).
The Mozart piece that was used in the British Airways commercials (don't know the name of it).