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
Stevie Ray Vaughan's rendition of Hendrix's "Little Wing" (Jimi's wasn't too bad either), Bruce Springsteen "My City of Ruin" from "America: Tribute to Heroes" (could include several cuts from that set). On the other end of the emotional spectrum, "Key to the Highway" from Derek and the Dominoes "Layla and other assorted love songs". Something magical was going on between Clapton and Duane Allman in the studio during those sessions, and it may have been captured best on this track.

FWIW,
Mike
Panufnik Sinfonia Sacra
U2 - Elvis Presley and America (Unforgettable Fire)
Nascimento - Sao Vicente
OK, herewith my contributions from the Baroque catalog:

From the 2-CD album of the complete Albinoni Concertos, Opus 9, with Christopher Hogwood (Decca 289 458 129-2), the following movements:

a) Concerto No. 2 in D minor - Adagio - Track 5 CD 1
b) Concerto No. 11 in B flat minor - Allegro - Track 13 CD 2

And from Frederic Chopin, as interpreted by Arthur Rubenstein in a 2 CD set on EMI Classics (1992), the Nocturne in C sharp minor, possibly the most symmetrically beautiful of Chopin's creations.
Pictures At An Exhibition, especially "The Great Gates..." at the end, either in Piano ala Janis or Ravel's orchestration versions...

To Be Over,,,a YES tune in their Relayer album...

Awaken,,,Yes tune from Going For The One..
Glenn Gould's 1981 release of the Goldberg Variations.
This Man's Soul is imprinted in the performance.