@noricenolife One contributing factor to that feeling you described that's in quite a few Kajiura pieces probably comes from her mix of European and Japanese musical roots. Evidently, she spent a good deal of time over in Europe with her father, going to the operas when they got a chance.
It's evident in her music even as far back as the .hack//sign soundtrack. The opening to The World (the first track we hear after the opening in that series) has that quality, and so do many in that soundtrack. The Rekishi Hiwa Historia OST felt like it almost *featured* that as a core aesthetic (which makes sense considering the "hiwa" (秘話、ひわ) in the series title means "hidden tales". It was a show about small, oft-overlooked yet no less wonderous parts of Japanese history, the side-tales that might be relegated to something like Tolkien's Unfinished Tales, as a crude example.)
I think another of the contributing factors is both her choice of vocalists and the way she tends to layer and harmonise them.
This is a good example from the Historia OST: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0qiZXgjC0U]
Another from the same OST: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GNdEF4vnMo]
And another: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iClsyKleXAs]
In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, though the characters are based in the modern world, there's a magical, mystical element to the plot and she again brings it out in that OST (ex: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzlHPlq8hIs]).
I seem to remember a few tracks in the Sword Art Online OST as well, but there, there's much more brass, drums, and rock music elements, with which her signature female vocals feel less mysterious and much more victorious...the voice of valkyries as opposed to the voice of wood elves, if you will 
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