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Between Two Fires Playlist
These selections trace Thomas and the child through plague-ravaged medieval France: stark, ancient-sounding textures evoke the ruined landscape and the war beyond human sight, while the vocal songs move between mortality, faith, violence, and fragile compassion. The sequence gives space to both Thomas’s damaged conscience and the girl’s unsettling innocence, balancing dread with moments of human warmth.
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20 songs
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Between Two Fires
Paul Young · Between Two Fires (Expanded Edition)
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Lux Aeterna
György Ligeti · Ligeti: Lux Aeterna
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Pictures at an Exhibition (Orch. Ravel): X. The Great Gate of Kiev
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition
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Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: II. The Death of Aase
Edvard Grieg · Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / From Holberg's Time
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The Seal Lullaby
Eric Whitacre · Home
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O Death
Ralph Stanley · O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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God's Gonna Cut You Down
Johnny Cash · American V: A Hundred Highways
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Dies Irae
Giuseppe Verdi · Verdi Requiem
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The End
The Doors · The Doors
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The Mercy Seat - 2010 Remaster
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · Tender Prey (2010 Remaster)
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Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair
Nina Simone · Wild Is The Wind
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In the Pines
Lead Belly · Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 1
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The Partisan
Leonard Cohen · Songs From A Room
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When the Levee Breaks - Remaster
Led Zeppelin · Led Zeppelin IV (Deluxe Edition)
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Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Krzysztof Penderecki · Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
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Quartet for the End of Time, I/22: I. Liturgie de cristal
Olivier Messiaen · Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time, I/22
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Concerto Grosso No. 1: I. Preludio
Alfred Schnittke · Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 1 & Trio Sonata
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The Protecting Veil: The Protecting Veil
John Tavener · The John Tavener Collection
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Chaconne in G Minor, Z. 730
Henry Purcell · Purcell: Songs
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