Most Beautiful Songs

[VisionofMilotic]

To me some would be...

When Dove's Cry

Lilac Wine

Iris

Song to the Siren- especially This Mortal Coil's cover

Anything performed by Loreena McKennit, but most of all "Snow" from her album A Winter Garden.

 

[TacoTach]

Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinéad O'Connor

 

[baire]

Shostakovich Symphony no. 5 is my favourite piece of music ever written so that'd be my answer

but it's a very dark and angry work - for a more conventional view of 'beautiful' I'll say Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe suite 2. The opening, especially, with the flute/clarinets underpinned by the harp's glissandos and double bass. in the ballet that suite 2 is taken from, it's dawn and the sun's about to come up. you can hear the bird calls/chirps imitated by the piccolo and the atmosphere is something out of a fairy tale (actually, an ancient greek novel)