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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.
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20 songs
1
Main Title
Klaus Badelt · The Recruit (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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2
Cornfield Chase
Hans Zimmer · Interstellar (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Expanded Edition]
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3
In The Hall of the Mountain King
Edvard Grieg · Mountbatten Festival of Music 2025
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4
Ride of the Valkyries
Richard Wagner · Wagner: Works for Orchestra
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5
William Tell Overture
Arthur Fiedler · An Evening with the Orchestra
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6
Pomp And Circumstance March No. 1
Edward Elgar · You’ll Never Walk Alone
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Swan Lake: Dance of the Little Swans
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Encore! Vol. 4: Ballet
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May It Be
Enya · May It Be
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9
Only Time
Enya · A Day Without Rain
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10
Flight from the City
Jóhann Jóhannsson · Orphée
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White Eagle
Tangerine Dream · White Eagle (Deluxe Version / Remastered 2020)
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12
Protectors of the Earth (No Choir)
Two Steps from Hell · Legend Anthology
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13
Flight Of The Silverbird
Two Steps from Hell · Battlecry
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14
Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude
Johann Sebastian Bach · Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1, 5 & 6
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15
Pavane for a Dead Princess
Maurice Ravel · Tranquil Impressions: Musical Meditations for Peaceful Moments
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16
Glassworks: Opening
Philip Glass · Philip Glass: Piano Works
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17
Believer
Imagine Dragons · Evolve
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18
Secunda
Jeremy Soule · The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Original Game Soundtrack)
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He's a Pirate
Klaus Badelt · Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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