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Non-Classical (In no particular order.)
Guettel: The Light in the Piazza
Guettel: Il Mondo Era Vuoto
Sondheim: Poor Thing
Sondheim: Johanna
Guettel: How Glory Goes
Sondheim: Anyone Can Whistle
Schwartz: Defying Gravity
Bernstein: I Had A Love (or is it Your Love is Your Love?)
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Umm, can you be my new best friend, Calehay? I love everything on that list, save I Had A Love, because I haven't heard it (yet!). Have you heard Myths and Hymns? Children of the Heavenly King almost makes me cry. But the most amazingly, startlingly beautiful and passionate music I've ever heard was in art song by Ricky Ian Gordon based on Langston Hughes' "The Dream Keeper", sung by the amazing Audra McDonald. A close second would be the Michael Starobin's beautiful underscoring in Sondheim's Sunday in the Park With George directly after "We Do Not Belong Together", which is really the most romantic.
As far as actual classical music, I'm far too poorly educated in that subject to make a remotely intelligent response, though I am awfully stirred by the little Rachmaninoff I've heard.