Most achingly-beautiful music

Two new additions for the chamber music crowd:
Brahms Viola/Clarinet sonatas, Opus 120, nos. 1 and 2.

The viola version with Kim Kashkashian is absolutely marvelous. Her playing is
willful without being forceful. I have the Naxos CD of the clarinet version, very romantic without sounding too lush. They rank up there with the Brahms sextets and the late
Schubert string quartets for being the most achingly-beautiful music I have heard.

Also, not quite on the same plane as above but the cello
solo( with piano accompliment) music of Faure is very heart felt music

I will stand on the adagios on Schubert's late string quartets, see above. Lately though,I have really gone back to very early American music like Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. Call it country music or even hillbilly music, I really do not care. But I have been quite smitten by the Hank Williams, Sr mystique. His acoustic music with just him and his flat body Martin/ Gibson has to be the most achingly beautiful music around. Hauntingly beautiful.
Even goose bump beautiful. Pitiful beautiful, what ever. He LIVED his songs. The original recordings are scratchy, lots of wow and flutter, but his voice does shine through. About the only two people I know on Audiogon who actually listen to Hank are myself and Albert. Most people probably are not familar with his body of work or do not care to know. But I will say this: 100 years from now, in America, at least, if not England, too( yes the Brits love Hank, for some strange reason the Swiss do too, maybe its the yodeling) Hank's music will be around.