Most achingly-beautiful music

"Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits hurts me.

Django's Nuage. Makes me want to cry.
Toots and The Maytals- Take me Home, Country Road. Toots loves his West Jamaica, he does not like to tour for that reason. I consider him right there with Otis redding, Aretha Franklin.
Of course, Beethovens 9th.
Mozarts Eine Kleine Nacht Music, Budapest Quartet.
Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness.
Wilson Picket 6345789
Stevie Wonder Innervisions

Great thread!

...from Saxophone Colossus is incredible. Much late-50's Art Pepper will give you goosebumps....Coltrane's A Love Supreme is up there of course....Anita O'Day singing "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Tea for Two" in the film Jazz on a Summer's Day always kills me..."Perfect Day" by Lou Reed stikes me as a perfect song...and TOOL's Aenima is awesome...

A fellow A'goner just turned me on to the 1986 recording of the USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir performing the Rachmaninoff Vespers. If ever there was achingly beautiful, this be it. A must-have if you like choral music. MOS 18733.

Faure's Requiem, in the original version, by Herreweghe on Harmonia Mundi. This is one of the most intimate, serenely beautiful, and works in the catalog (that I have ever heard). Sounds nothing(!) like the fully orchestrated version, or even Herreweghe's later version made with large forces, which is also excellent by any standard. I would choose this for my own memorial service!