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Ninth House lives in the uneasy overlap between elite academia and the supernatural underside of the world—so this playlist leans into shadowed chamber textures, ritual-like repetition, and slow-building tension. The two vocal tracks add brief, human “tell” moments: curiosity, dread, and the pull of secrets that refuse to stay buried.
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Track List
20 songs
1
String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: III. Allegretto
Dmitri Shostakovich · Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1, 8 & 14
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Requiem: Dies Irae
Giuseppe Verdi · Ich mag keine Klassik, aber das gefällt mir!
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Der Tod und das Mädchen, Op. 7, No. 3, D.531: II. Andante con moto
Franz Schubert · Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, Op. 7 No. 3, D. 531 & String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, D. 703
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4
Spiegel im spiegel
Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait
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Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011: IV. Sarabande
Johann Sebastian Bach · Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1, 5 & 6
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Sound and Vision
David Bowie · Sound and Vision 2013
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Immigrant Song
Led Zeppelin · Crate Digging - Rock
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Englabörn - Remastered
Jóhann Jóhannsson · Englabörn & Variations
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Sarabande
Marin Marais · Mara! Meets Marais
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Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30: II. Intermezzo. Adagio
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos 2 & 3
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Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber · Classic
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12
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Maurice Ravel · Human Universe
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13
Der Freischütz: Overture
Carl Maria von Weber · Weber: Der Freischütz
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14
The Great Gig in the Sky
Pink Floyd · The Dark Side of the Moon
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15
Time to Pretend
MGMT · Oracular Spectacular
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16
A Forest
The Cure · Seventeen Seconds
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Space Oddity - 2015 Remaster
David Bowie · David Bowie (aka Space Oddity) [2015 Remaster]
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Hurt
Eric Whitacre · Hurt
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19
The Fear
Lily Allen · It's Not Me, It's You
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String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto - 2014 Remaster
Dmitri Shostakovich · Shostakovich: Quartet No. 4; Quartet No. 8 (2014 Remaster)
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