…and still in an operatic vein, the Franco Corelli version of E lucevan le stelle comes close…
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So many great choices on here but for me The Night Comes On by Jennifer Warnes. Leonard C cover.
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This is a pretty long reading of Elgar’s Nimrod but this lingering set somehow always gets me.
Incidentally Elgar himself conducting the same piece (1926 rec.) is much faster yet it, too, pulls all the right chords.
Wagner’s Isolde Leibestod is powerful.
Also it’s a total schmaltz but Schindler’s list Theme.
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He wrote many power ballads.
This one is for me:
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I regard that a one of her signature pieces. I have the whole opera with the wonderful and much missed Charles MacKerras conducting the Vienna Phil. There’s more shivers down the spine moments in the rest of the work.
Roger
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Sinead O’Connor, From The Lion and the Cobra -
“Drink Before the War”
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Amy Macdonald. I left that body long ago.
Written in memory of her gran who had Alzheimer’s.
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There are two songs which sprang to mind when I read the title of this thread:
Crisis from Bob Marley’s Kaya album and Solid Air by John Martyn. Both are incredible tracks IMHO.
Peter
Todd is one of the few modern musical geniuses
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Waiting for you, by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Very moving knowing what happened to his son before he wrote the album Ghosteen.
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Tom Trauberts blues by Tom Waits from the album Small change.
If you’ve not heard it you’re in for a treat. imo
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Allegri’s Miserere - gets me every time.
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Judy Henske & Jerry Yester
A track from Farewell Aldebaran, one of the last genuine classics to have a proper re-release (Radioactive & others are needle drop pirates). Initially released on Zappa’s Straight label it’s an album that defies description, as pretty much every track is a different genre. Though each is magnificent.
This has me gulping back the tears.
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If ever there was a catharsis for emotional mourning for the one you love or miss dearly then this is it…
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Takes me back to the Finsbury Astoria (Rainbow), power blackouts and matches and lighters (no mobile phones). Pure teenage nostagia.
Off topic
Do you remember Jesus? A long haired hippie who used to dance up and down the aisles before being gently persuaded to dancing back up again (that never stopped him for long).
Me? I can barely remember what I was imbibing 
Listen to Light House by Future Islands
Thanx, enyoing the music of Future Island right now 