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This playlist follows the fragile balance at the heart of Remarque’s postwar Berlin: the warmth of friendship and small pleasures set against economic uncertainty, old wounds, and the shadow over Pat and Robert’s love. Its instrumental opening moves from Weimar-era jazz and cabaret colors into more inward classical and chamber music; the vocal half brings in period songs and later reflections on endurance, longing, and companionship.
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20 songs
1
The Harry Lime Theme
Anton Karas · Vienna, City of My Dreams
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2
Take Five
The Dave Brubeck Quartet · Time Out
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3
Sing, Sing, Sing
Benny Goodman · The Essential Benny Goodman
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4
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin · Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & An American in Paris
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Adagietto
Gustav Mahler · Adagietto
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6
Kol Nidrei, Op. 47
Max Bruch · Sir!
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Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op.45; Intermezzo "Aleko"; Vocalise, Op.34
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String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata': String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata': III. Con moto. Vivo. Andante
Leoš Janáček · Smetana & Janáček: String Quartets
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Theme from "A Summer Place"
Percy Faith · Theme from "A Summer Place" (Remastered)
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10
Petite Fleur
Sidney Bechet · Les Années Bechet
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11
Nuages
Django Reinhardt · Electric Django: Radio Recordings 1947
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12
Minor Swing
Django Reinhardt · Djangologie Vol6 / 1937
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13
Solitude
Louis Armstrong · The Great Reunion
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14
Moanin'
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers · Moanin' (Expanded Edition)
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15
Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116, BB 123: II. Game of Pairs
Béla Bartók · Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra - Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe Suite No. 2
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16
Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt
Marlene Dietrich · Der blonde Engel - Marlene 100
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Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte
Marlene Dietrich · Der blonde Engel - Marlene 100
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18
Mack the Knife
Bobby Darin · That's All
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Bei Mir Bist Du Schön
The Andrews Sisters · World Broadcast Recordings
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