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A shadowy, measured soundtrack for Jay’s search through family papers, antique books, and the history of a nineteenth-century actor whose Dracula role blurs performance and menace. Baroque ceremony, uneasy chamber writing, and expansive orchestral textures trace the novel’s passage from intimate grief and scholarly inquiry toward an older, transatlantic threat; the final songs evoke its theatrical and vampiric shadows.
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20 songs
1
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48: V. Songe d'une nuit du sabbat
Hector Berlioz · Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48
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Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1
Jean Sibelius · Sibelius: Music From Timo Koivusalo's Film
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Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56: I. Jocul cu bâtă
Béla Bartók · Folklore
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Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
Arnold Schoenberg · Journeys
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Four Sea Interludes From Peter Grimes, Op. 33a: II. Sunday Morning
Benjamin Britten · Benjamin Britten: Essential Works
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Totentanz, S. 126
Franz Liszt · The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 7
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String Quartet No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 131: I. Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo
Ludwig van Beethoven · Beethoven:The String Quartets
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Le Festin D'Esope Op. 39 No. 12
Charles-Valentin Alkan · Alkan, Liszt, Prokofiev: Romantic Pieces For Piano
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String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 "Death and the Maiden": II. Andante con moto
Franz Schubert · Schubert: "Death and the Maiden" D. 810 / Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 135
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10
Les sauvages
Jean-Philippe Rameau · Debussy – Rameau
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String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7, Sz. 40, BB 52: I. Lento -
Béla Bartók · Bartok: Complete String Quartets
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The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
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Piano Sonata in B Minor, S. 178
Franz Liszt · Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor; Nuages gris; La notte; La lugubre gondola II; Funérailles
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The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives · Ives, C.: Universe Symphony (Completed by L. Austin) / Orchestral Set No. 2 / The Unanswered Question
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The Planets, Op. 32: VII. Neptune, the Mystic
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: I. Largo
Dmitri Shostakovich · Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1, 8 & 14
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Gnossienne No. 3
Erik Satie · introspection
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Requiem, Op. 48: VIII. In Paradisum
Gabriel Fauré · Fauré: Requiem
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The Four Seasons - Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV 315, "Summer": III. Presto. Tempo impetuoso d'Estate
Antonio Vivaldi · Vivaldi: Die vier Jahreszeiten
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