The nineteenth classical recording: #10 John Taverner - The Western Wynde Mass
Choral masses are the bread and butter of the early works on this list. It's where most music (that survived) would have been written for, and the choirs still inspire an angelic feeling. Based on an existing text, the music this is set up sounds lovely and high, mostly relying on the higher voices to really create its melody. While the words have meaning, I don't really need to understand them to flow into the atmosphere the work creates.