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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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