Most achingly-beautiful music

Billie Holiday:Lady In Satin. So dramatic and so aesthetic. Billie + Jazz combo + Strings. Sometimes you feel like you're Alice in Wonderland here.
Ray Charles: That Lucky old son, Eleanor Rigby, Born to lose, etc. This guy gives me chicken skin.
Rickie Lee Jones: ditto title album. Well composed pop songs.
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis: this one brings me straight to heaven...
Debussy: La Damoiselle elue: beautiful solo voice, choir and orchestra. Romantic.
Puccini: La Boheme with Callas. Boy does this story and music make you want to cry for beauty and aesthetics.
Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3. Solo female voice and minimalist orchestra. Makes you want more...

Chris Isaak-Wicked Games

Cowboy Junkies-The Trinity Sessions

Dead Can Dance-Aion

Lisa Gerrard Duality/The Mirror Pool

Lonely Is An Eyesore

Mojave 3-Ask Me Tommorrow

Mazzy Starr-Among My Swan/So Tonight I Might See

This Mortal Coil-It'll End In Tears/Filigree And Shadow

Recoil-Hydrology And 1 + 2

Øystein Sevåg/Lakki Patey : Visual on a good system ;)

"By Your Grace"
Beaver & Krause / GANDHARVA / Warner Bros. CCM-461
Recorded in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

This is pretty obscure. Anyone else know this recording?

BTW, I love this thread. It's a gold mine of pleasure.

Gorecki, Symphony #3

Vaughan-Williams, The Lark Ascending

any number of movements from Mahler: last movement 3rd; Adagietto 5th; slow movement 6th; large parts of 9th...

also check out R. Strauss's Death and Transfiguration