Ok, so true decision for the final piece is this, a little fussed-with Gorecki, or a piece by Grieg, the Melodie Opus 47 No. 3. Which YouTube selfishly doesn't offer.

What do you think? Which is more likely to make people sob..?

I started out thinking the music might mostly be baroque. But that withered and died as Handel was quite strident and I don't have enough Bach to fill the whole thing with it.

So I've strayed across the centuries and finished up with William Orbit. I wonder if I've got the composers in chronological order.