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Before the Coffee Gets Cold Playlist
by 川口俊和
A quiet, gently shifting instrumental journey through the café’s intimate Tokyo atmosphere: delicate piano and chamber music evoke carefully brewed coffee, tentative reunions, and the ache of words left unsaid. Japanese film-score textures and measured classical pieces carry the playlist from wistful anticipation toward the tenderness and acceptance at the heart of the story.
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20 songs
1
Umebayashi: Yumeji's Theme (From "In the Mood for Love")
Shigeru Umebayashi · Mirage
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2
aruarian dance
Nujabes · samurai champloo music record departure
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3
Kiss The Rain
Yiruma · From The Yellow Room (The Original & the Very First Recording)
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4
Light Dance
Akira Kosemura · How My Heart Sings
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Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19
Maurice Ravel · Ravel: Complete Works for Solo Piano
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Ravel: Jeux d'eau, M. 30
Maurice Ravel · 40 Most Beautiful Piano Classics
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Gnossienne No. 1
Erik Satie · Gnossienne No. 1
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The Girl With The Flaxen Hair
Claude Debussy · The Most Relaxing Classical Music In The Universe
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Prélude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4
Frédéric Chopin · The Pianist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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10
Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 3 in A-Flat Major
Franz Liszt · The Source
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Songs Without Words, Op.19b: No.1 Andante con moto in E major
Felix Mendelssohn · Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Op.19b
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Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 7 in F Major, Träumerei
Robert Schumann · Piano Recital: Bach, Mozart, and Schumann
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Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique": II. Adagio cantabile
Ludwig van Beethoven · Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos.8 "Moonlight", 14 "Appassionata" & 23 "Pathétique"
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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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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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Méditation from Thaïs
Jules Massenet · Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.1
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Salut d'Amour, Op. 12
Edward Elgar · Songs from the Arc of Life
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Largo From Xerxes
George Frideric Handel · The Most Relaxing Classical Music In The Universe
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Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prelude
Johann Sebastian Bach · Relaxing Classical
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