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JMThomas:
God bless Pandora radio.  Have you tried creating a station?  It doesn't do so well with score composers, though I have a combination going of Yann Tiersen, Philip Glass, and Yo-Yo Ma that's not half bad.  If you do it by band - or better yet, by song - it really shines.  I use different stations depending on which story I'm working on at the moment.

If I'm working on something more of a fantasy bent, I'm a big fan of film scores.  Right now I've got the scores to Stardust, The Pillars of the Earth, The Tudors in a playlist, and a YouTube window open (because I can't find the cd anywhere) with the theme to the old Merlin miniseries (the one with Sam Neill).

If I'm working on something more modern, I've been rather obsessed with Mumford & Sons and Florence and the Machine lately.

RobJN:
The Piano collections from Windham Hill and Narada have some really good solo and ensemble stuff on them.

David Lanz has some pretty powerful piano pieces, as does Ludovico Einaudi.

If you can find them, the piano arrangement albums from the Final Fantasy series are some great music (even if you aren't into the games themselves).

For modern classical stuff, I go to Bear McCreary. He did most of the Battlestar Glactica music, as well as Caprica. He did the first season's music for Human Target and The Walking Dead (good lord I hope they put out a soundtrack for that show, the work was incredible!); he's currently scoring The Cape.

Yoko Kanno has to be my all time favorite composer, though. She can do classical. She can do jazz. Rock. Blues. Pop. Sometimes more than one style wrapped up in the same piece....

Shecky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XBfZD_Yvl0

Video's not much to look at, but the sound is somethin' else. The Moonlight Sonata has always been a direct path to my emotions, and this does it in a way I'd never have expected.

KWPech:
Month or so later: I think I'm set for a while.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
I found Adam Hurst, who is an amazing cellist and makes great mood music with a variety of instruments. I enjoy the piano/Cello songs the most.
http://www.adamhurststudio.com/

I dug out my old box of CDs and found my collection of Movie scores from the pre-mp3 days. And started hunting around for new stuff since then.
I thought I'd post up what I found and have running,

Top 3 at the moment:
The Last Samurai
Pearl Harbor movie score (Rip and then delete the faith hill song.. its a mood breaker if your in a groove)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

The Rest:
Dragon: The Bruce Lee story
House of Flying Daggers
Curse of Golden Flower
Straight Story
Dragon Heart
LOTR triology

The Corvidian:
Try Bond.

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