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Literature or Life

This playlist reflects Jorge Semprun's harrowing journey through the horrors of Buchenwald and his philosophical resilience. The instrumental selections evoke the bleakness and introspection of his imprisonment, while the vocal tracks explore themes of memory, resistance, identity, and the struggle between literature and survival. The blend of classical, post-rock, jazz, and indie elements mirrors the emotional complexity and historical weight of the autobiography.

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May 1, 2026

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by Jorge Semprun

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Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

Arvo Pärt · Gidon Kremer plays Pärt/Weinberg

Music for 18 Musicians: Section I

Steve Reich · Music for 18 Musicians

Shostakovich String Quartet No.8 op.110: Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto

Dmitri Shostakovich · Borodin, Dvorak & Shostakovich String Quartets

Disintegration Loops (1.1 Excerpt I)

William Basinski · Music from The Comedy, A Film by Rick Alverson

Gnossienne No. 1

Erik Satie · Gnossienne No. 1

Spiegel im spiegel

Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait

On Demon Wings

Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Sunset Mission

Fanfare for a Dame (with Carl Davis Conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and the New Antipodean Singers) - 2009 Remaster

Dame Edna Everage · The Last Night Of The Poms

Remembrance

Balmorhea · All Is Wild, All Is Silent

An Ending, A Beginning

Dustin O'Halloran · Other Lights

One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong

Leonard Cohen · The Lost Sessions

Hands

Emily Jane White · They Moved in Shadow All Together

Where Did You Sleep Last Night

Wanda Davis · Where Did You Sleep Last Night

Ghost Town

The Specials · Guitar Heroes: Rock of the 80s

There Will Never Be Another You

Lester Young · World Jazz Day 2023

The Funeral

Band of Horses · Everything All The Time

My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose

Brian Kennedy · On Song 2: Red Sails In The Sunset

The Partisan

Perla Batalla · A Letter to Leonard Cohen

disintegration

Ryuichi Sakamoto · async

Spell She Cast

Luminary Flux · Spell She Cast

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