Most achingly-beautiful music

TubeGroover, may I also suggest Mahler 2 final movement, the resurrection final scence, when the organ bass kicks in, you can see the skies open before you, and you transcend mortality..........Tchaikovsky Sym 6 Pathetique, is a malestorm of elation/utter despair, I love the 2nd movement a melancholy waltz, like a lover with a broken heart dancing the last dance........Finally Mozart "Exultate Jubulate" I have an Emma Kirkby/Hogwood version that is a heavenly inspiration, just stunning.....regards Sam

Three more for an encore, .........Puccini "O Mio Babbino Caro" this song will make grown men cry, sublimely beautiful, snippets turn up in commercials constantly.............Strauss "voices of spring" 1987 New Years live performance Vienna, Kathleen Battle/Karajan, you are transported to another world/time........Tchaikovsky ballets are so beautiful they will never be surpassed, Swan Lake has so many beautiful passages and themes it is impossible to name one, the entire work is a romantic masterpiece.....regards, Sam

Ejlif interesting choices, 99.9% of people here don't know who Coil is (or Pink Dots) But since I hung out at Wax Trax in Chicago, the industrial music center of the USA, I had some Coil records and LPD