No so much relaxing as immensely comforting (it makes me cry good tears).
Bach's Violin Partita No. 3 in E major BWV 1006 III Gavotte en rondeau by the incomparable Hilary Hahn.

Gabriel Fauré - Pavane, Op. 50 conducted by Tomasz Chmiel, Cracow Young Philharmonic

https://youtu.be/wQDoN40-_C4

Bubalus wrote:Gabriel Fauré - Pavane, Op. 50 conducted by Tomasz Chmiel, Cracow Young Philharmonic

https://youtu.be/wQDoN40-_C4

Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Fauré, Élégie Op. 24

Chopin's Sonata Op. 35 Mvt. 3 (Marche Funèbre)
First part is full of pathos and sadness, but second part is different; it could only be described as HOPE, as if by words of poet Propertius letum non omnia finit (death doesn't end all things)

Johann Pachelbel - Kanon und Gigue in D-Dur für drei Violinen und Basso Continuo)

Something a little more contemporary. May not be to everyone's taste but I think it's very atmospheric and this is a super live performance.

And this haunting Bulgarian folk song will pour honey in your ears and tear your heart open at the same time.

Karl Jenkins, The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace, X. Agnus Dei (The Lamb of God)

Something I discovered about 6 years ago.

Another of my favourite traditional folk singers, this time from Georgia. The late and magnificently named Hamlet Gonashvili.

Blackadder wrote:Something I discovered about 6 years ago.

It's beautiful. Reminds me of eastern church chorals (and Tchaikovsky's Hymn of the Cherubin)

And something from the Western religious tradition.

Do you guys like this Russian orthodox chant too? It's just beautiful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6veaj2 ... Go&index=6

And this Serbian chant too:

Vide Cor Meum (lat. See My Heart )- based on Dante Alighieri's La Vita Nuova