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The playlist pairs the film adaptation’s own score with restrained piano, chamber, and ambient pieces to evoke the novel’s movement between wartime China and immigrant life in San Francisco. Its reflective instrumental arc leaves room for the mothers’ and daughters’ interwoven memories, while three vocal songs touch on inherited bonds, changing perspectives, and reconciliation.
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20 songs
1
Für Alina
Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Alina
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2
Romance in A Minor
Clara Schumann · Schumann, C.: Complete Piano Works
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4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899: No. 3 in G-flat major
Franz Schubert · Schubert
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Música Callada: I. Angelico
Federico Mompou · Mompou: Música Callada
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Rain Tree Sketch II
Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Complete Works for Piano
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Britten: Cello Suite No. 1, Op. 72: I. Canto primo
Benjamin Britten · Britten: Cello Suites Nos. 1 - 3
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Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
Samuel Barber · Barber: Cello Concerto - Medea Suite - Adagio for Strings
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Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667, Op. 114 "Trout": II. Andante
Franz Schubert · Schubert: Trout Quintet & Arpeggione Sonata & Die Forelle
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Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47: III. Andante cantabile
Robert Schumann · Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op.22; Piano Quartet, Op. 47
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Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8: II. Scherzo - Allegro molto
Johannes Brahms · Brahms: Piano Trios Nos. 1 and 2
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Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90, MWV N16 "Italian": II. Andante con moto
Felix Mendelssohn · Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos.4 "Italian" & 5 "Reformation"
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Thaïs: Méditation
Jules Massenet · Massenet: Thaïs: Méditation
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Mother - Remastered 2010
John Lennon · Plastic Ono Band
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14
Both Sides Now
Joni Mitchell · Clouds
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We Had Today
Rachel Portman · One Day (Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Silk Road
Kitaro · Super Best
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Fratres
Arvo Pärt · Part: Tabula Rasa / Frates / Collage Sur Bach
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Dream
John Cage · John Cage: As It Is
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Edward MacDowell: Op. 51, No. 1. To a Wild Rose
Edward MacDowell · Edward MacDowell: Op. 51, No. 1. To a Wild Rose
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