I third Barber's Adagio for Strings....absolutely heartbreaking.
Pachelbel's Canon in D also, but in a less sad way.
I find Japanese bamboo flute music in particular to be hauntingly beautiful and very spiritual.
Medieval Gregorian chants are hauntingly beautiful- especially if performed in a cathedral with the appropriate echoes. I like The Anonymous Four...a quartet of women who perform Gregorian chants.
+1 to Renaissance music as well.



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