Book Playlist

The Pirate Queen

by Ariel Lawhon

Ariel Lawhon’s The Pirate Queen is packed with sea-born ambition, coerced duty, betrayal at court, and hard-won independence under Elizabethan pressure. This playlist leans into cinematic drama—storm-dark crescendos, tense strings, and watchful atmospheres—to mirror Grace O’Malley’s mounting conflict from marriage to mutiny to fleet.

20 tracks
dramatic
Sep 29, 2026
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20 songs
1
The Recruit (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Main Title

Klaus Badelt · The Recruit (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

2
Interstellar (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Expanded Edition]

Cornfield Chase

Hans Zimmer · Interstellar (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Expanded Edition]

3
Mountbatten Festival of Music 2025

In The Hall of the Mountain King

Edvard Grieg · Mountbatten Festival of Music 2025

4
Wagner: Works for Orchestra

Ride of the Valkyries

Richard Wagner · Wagner: Works for Orchestra

5
An Evening with the Orchestra

William Tell Overture

Arthur Fiedler · An Evening with the Orchestra

6
You’ll Never Walk Alone

Pomp And Circumstance March No. 1

Edward Elgar · You’ll Never Walk Alone

7
Encore! Vol. 4: Ballet

Swan Lake: Dance of the Little Swans

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Encore! Vol. 4: Ballet

8
May It Be

May It Be

Enya · May It Be

9
A Day Without Rain

Only Time

Enya · A Day Without Rain

10
Orphée

Flight from the City

Jóhann Jóhannsson · Orphée

11
White Eagle (Deluxe Version / Remastered 2020)

White Eagle

Tangerine Dream · White Eagle (Deluxe Version / Remastered 2020)

12
Legend Anthology

Protectors of the Earth (No Choir)

Two Steps from Hell · Legend Anthology

13
Battlecry

Flight Of The Silverbird

Two Steps from Hell · Battlecry

14
Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1, 5 & 6

Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude

Johann Sebastian Bach · Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1, 5 & 6

15
Tranquil Impressions: Musical Meditations for Peaceful Moments

Pavane for a Dead Princess

Maurice Ravel · Tranquil Impressions: Musical Meditations for Peaceful Moments

16
Philip Glass: Piano Works

Glassworks: Opening

Philip Glass · Philip Glass: Piano Works

17
Evolve

Believer

Imagine Dragons · Evolve

18
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Original Game Soundtrack)

Secunda

Jeremy Soule · The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Original Game Soundtrack)

19
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

He's a Pirate

Klaus Badelt · Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

20
A Rush of Blood to the Head

Clocks

Coldplay · A Rush of Blood to the Head

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Genre soundtrack
Era any
Length medium
Instrumental 90%
Environment balanced

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