Most achingly-beautiful music

"Let's Go Away for Awhile" - Beach Boys from Pet Sounds (That melody, those vibes and strings...always been killer to me).

Nice to see that people like Arvo Pärt.

Listen to Liz Carroll, most moving music I have ever heard. Crow in the Sun is an amazing piece of music.

3) Harold Melvin "If You Don't Know Me By Now"
2) Simon and Garfunkel "The Only Living Boy in New York"
1) Leonard Cohen "Famous Blue Raincoat"

Appalachian Spring by Copland recorded by Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Orchestra on RCA. With a great system the experience in nothing short of fantastic.
Beethoven's Piano Sonata #30 by Wilhelm Kempff on DG. The third movement seems to place us on a plateau rarely visited.
Franz Schubert's Death and the Maiden Quartet by the Takacs Quartet on Hyperion. The music is beautiful and angry, and the recording realizes the tremendous angst of the composer.