Most beautiful chord progressions in history:

1. "Elegie" by Faure, the piano accompaniment towards the end while the cello is holding some note (it's like this string of three chords or so repeated twice... melts me every time)
2. "Sonts my Mother Taught me" by Dvorak, towards the end, it kind of slides down this beautiful line. SO SO beautiful... it's five seconds long, but I rewind over and over again.
3. The beginning six or so chords of Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Opus 85, Allegro Moderato... sucked me in eigth grade, and I haven't been the same since.
4. The end of Andrew Loyd Webber's "Music of the Night" (I think that's the right song)... it just climbs upward in this amazing pattern.
5. (my least favorite, but still awesome) Mahler's Symphonie Number 1 in D mvmt 2, the augmented or something pizzicato. I liked that a lot when I first heard it in early high school It's not beautiful the way my other favorites are, but it's characteristically brialliant Mahler.

Okay, back to studying... but I just love beautiful chord progressions so much that I had to share. I think I caught this love from my father, who made me appreciate them at a young age.