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Between Two Fires Playlist
The instrumental opening evokes ruined medieval landscapes, creeping supernatural dread, and the vastness of the celestial conflict, while leaving room for the fragile bond between Thomas and the girl. The vocal half turns toward plague, faith, judgment, and endurance, balancing dark, earthly songs with older sacred music and flashes of compassion.
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20 songs
1
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Krzysztof Penderecki · Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
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William Basinski · The Disintegration Loops (Remastered)
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Requiem for the Static King, Pt. 1
A Winged Victory for the Sullen · A Winged Victory for the Sullen
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Fratres
Arvo Pärt · Part: Tabula Rasa / Frates / Collage Sur Bach
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The Blue Notebooks
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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O Death
Ralph Stanley · O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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God's Gonna Cut You Down
Johnny Cash · American V: A Hundred Highways
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The End
The Doors · The Doors
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O vis aeternitatis
Hildegard von Bingen · Hildegard von Bingen - Vespers from Her Abbey
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Carmina Burana: O Fortuna
Carl Orff · Orff: Carmina Burana
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The Mercy Seat - 2010 Remaster
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · Tender Prey (2010 Remaster)
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No Rest for the Wicked
Lykke Li · I Never Learn
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13
The Partisan
Leonard Cohen · Songs From A Room
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If I Had a Heart
Fever Ray · Fever Ray
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Lux Aeterna
György Ligeti · Ligeti: Lux Aeterna
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Snow
Ben Frost · Sólaris
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The Firebird Suite (1919 Version): Infernal Dance of King Kashchei - 2017 Remastered Version
Igor Stravinsky · Stravinsky: Firebird Suite - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet (Remastered)
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Miste
The Haxan Cloak · Excavation
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Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel): X. The Great Gate of Kiev
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition
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