 | Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.34 Composed and first performed in a Nazi concentration, this is Messiaen's transcendent masterpiece. Louange à l' Éternité de Jésus is the most remarkable movement, and one of the finest eight minutes in music.
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 | Mahler: Symphony No. 2 by Gustav Mahler
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $19.99 Experience the pain of life and death and the glory of resurrection in this colossal masterpiece.
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 | A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.50 Widely regarded as Trane's best, A Love Supreme was written for God.
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 | Eric Whitacre: The Complete A Cappella Works, 1991-2001
Buy used from: $195.75 Whitacre would call his music spiritual rather than religious, but When David Heard that Absolom Was Slain is one of the most agonizingly beautiful settings of any sacred text.
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 | Karma by Pharoah Sanders
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $3.94 Total peace to chaotic rapture and back again.
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 | Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.48 Free, otherworldly.
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 | Mormon Tabernacle Choir: The Sound of Glory-Battle Hymn of the Republic
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $3.10 The most traditional music on the list. Still uplifting no matter how often I hear it.
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 | LaMonte Young: The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25, 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC by La Monte Young
Buy used from: $799.99 LaMonte Young's stunning five-hour duet for piano and your soul.
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 | Spirituals by Jessye Norman
Buy used from: $3.21 Negro spirituals are some of the most sublime songs out there, and nobody sings them as well as Norman.
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 | My Name Is Albert Ayler by Albert Ayler
Buy used from: $16.98 The prophet of the Avant Garde.
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 | Bruckner: Die 3 Messen/Masses Nos. 1-3/Les Messes
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $7.24 The highlight is the Kyrie to the Mass in E Minor.
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 | Steal Away by Charlie Haden
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $4.49 Simple, straight-ahead spirituals and folksongs for piano and bass.
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