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A restrained mix of eerie chamber music, spare piano, and atmospheric textures follows Otilla from flight into the uncanny quiet of the hilltop house. The music shifts between wary suspense and unexpected tenderness, reflecting the odd, tentative companionship between the girl and the skull without overwhelming the story’s wry stillness.
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Shaker Loops: I. Shaking and Trembling
John Adams · Adams: Shaker Loops
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Entr'acte
Caroline Shaw · Caroline Shaw: Orange
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Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, Sz. 91: V. Allegro molto
Béla Bartók · Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 1 - 6
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Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 in C Major, Sz. 91: III. Non troppo lento
Béla Bartók · Bartók: String Quartets Nos. 1 - 6
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Waves
Toru Takemitsu · Tashi Plays Takemitsu
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Rain Tree Sketch II
Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Complete Works for Piano
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Flight from the City
Jóhann Jóhannsson · Orphée
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A Sparrow Alighted upon our Shoulder
Jóhann Jóhannsson · Orphée
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The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives · Ives, C.: Universe Symphony (Completed by L. Austin) / Orchestral Set No. 2 / The Unanswered Question
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The Sinking of the Titanic
Gavin Bryars · Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
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The Garden of Fand
Arnold Bax · Bax: Tone Poems, Vol. 1
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Aerial Boundaries
Michael Hedges · Aerial Boundaries
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The Pearl
Harold Budd · Wind In Lonely Fences 1970 - 2011
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The How of it Sped
Bing & Ruth · No Home of the Mind
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Metamorphosis: Two
Philip Glass · Philip Glass: Solo Piano
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Metamorphosis: Three
Philip Glass · Philip Glass: Solo Piano
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The Planets, Op. 32: VII. Neptune, the Mystic
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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The Swan of Tuonela, Op. 22 No. 2
Jean Sibelius · Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse triste; Tapiola; The Swan of Tuonela
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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.
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The Firebird Suite: VI. Berceuse
Igor Stravinsky · Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & The Firebird Suite
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