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Hollow Bones moves through grief, hidden truths, and the way old stories haunt the present. This playlist leans into sustained, melancholic classical writing—string and piano-led passages that feel like remembering something you can’t quite reach—then closes with two carefully chosen songs whose lyrics echo the book’s emotional core.
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20 songs
1
Largo (From Xerxes)
George Frideric Handel · Largo (From Xerxes)
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2
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto
Ludwig van Beethoven · Klassische Melodien zum Entspannen: Adagio
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3
Swan Lake, Op. 20a, Scene: Odette and the Swans return to the lake
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Complete Ballet)
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4
Spiegel im spiegel
Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait
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5
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber · Classic
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Claire de Lune
Claude Debussy · Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun - Scottish March - Claire de Lune - La Mer
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Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: Sequence: VI. Lacrimosa dies illa
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Mozart: Requiem / Exultate, Jubilate / Laudate Dominum
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Requiem: Pie Jesu
Andrew Lloyd Webber · Voice Of An Angel
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The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan
Camille Saint-Saëns · Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals: The Swan
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Il trovatore, Act II: Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie "Anvil Chorus"
Giuseppe Verdi · Verdi: Il Trovatore
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11
Gymnopédie No. 2
Erik Satie · Erik Satie & Friends
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12
Blackbird - Remastered 2009
The Beatles · The Beatles (Remastered)
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13
Everybody Hurts
R.E.M. · Automatic For The People
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14
Pavane for a Dead Princess
Maurice Ravel · Tranquil Impressions: Musical Meditations for Peaceful Moments
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The Planets, Op. 32: VI. Uranus, the Magician
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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Requiem: I. Requiem Aeternam
Giuseppe Verdi · Verdi: Requiem
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Scheherazade, Op. 35: I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · Rimsky-Korsakov, Sedlar: Symphonic Suite based on Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Op. 35: 1. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
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Requiem: Sequence. Lacrimosa dies illa
Giuseppe Verdi · Musica sacra ai tempi di Don Bosco: Verdi, Requiem
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Minuet in G Major
Johann Sebastian Bach · Hintergrundmusik, Vol. 7 - 12 - Gemafreie Musik zur Beschallung von Hotels & Restaurants (inkl. Klaviermusik) [Background Music]
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