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A mix of shadowed chamber music, unsettling score cues and restrained electronic atmosphere evokes the Conservatory's candlelit architecture, occult scholarship and dangerous pursuit of art beyond death. The three lyrical selections give voice to Dahlia's wary resolve, Julian's troubled legacy and the weight of inheritance without overwhelming concentration.
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20 songs
1
A Forest
The Cure · Seventeen Seconds
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2
Love
Mica Levi · Under the Skin
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Phaedra - Remastered 2018
Tangerine Dream · Phaedra (Deluxe Version)
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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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Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody
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Written on the Sky
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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The Book of Love
The Magnetic Fields · 69 Love Songs
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The Ninth Gate
Wojciech Kilar · The Ninth Gate
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Des pas sur la neige
Claude Debussy · Debussy… et le jazz (Bonus Track Version)
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Black Angels, Thirteen Images from the Dark Land, Departure: I. Threnody I "Night of the Electric Insects"
George Crumb · George Crumb: Black Angels & Music for a Summer Evening
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Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel): II. The Old Castle
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition
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Le gibet
Maurice Ravel · Ravel: Valley of the Bells, Jeux d'eau, Rapsodie espagnole, Le gibet, et al.
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Nocturnes, CD 98: I. Nuages
Claude Debussy · Debussy: Prélude à l'aprés-midi d'un faune; Trois Nocturnes; Pelléas et Mélisande Suite
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Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1
Jean Sibelius · Sibelius: Music From Timo Koivusalo's Film
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315 "Summer": III. Presto
Antonio Vivaldi · Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
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The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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Gnossienne: No. 2
Erik Satie · Satie: Avant-dernières pensées (Bonus Track Version)
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18
The Blue Danube (Op. 314)
Johann Strauss II · Happiness - The Music of Joy (Silver Memories)
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The Flower Duet
Léo Delibes · Enchantment
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