The Everlasting Playlist
These instrumental selections move between chamber-music intimacy, the gravity of historical memory, and spacious, restrained soundscapes for Una and Owen’s crossing of time. The three vocal songs turn toward the book’s questions of legend, sacrifice, and love that persists across distance and years.
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20 songsThe Everlasting
Manic Street Preachers · This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
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Phrygian Gates
John Adams · Adams, J.: Piano Music (Complete)
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Litany, in Memory of Michael Vyner: I. Adagio
Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Complete Works for Solo Piano
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Insight
Dobrinka Tabakova · Dobrinka Tabakova: String Paths
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Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115: II. Adagio
Johannes Brahms · Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
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String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96, B. 179 "American": II. Lento
Antonín Dvořák · Dvořák: String Quartets Nos. 12 & 13
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Andante Cantabile
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Tchaikovsky: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3
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Adagio in G Minor
Tomaso Albinoni · Albinoni: Adagio in G Minor
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Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: II. Lento e Largo - Tranquillissimo
Henryk Górecki · Górecki: Symphony No. 3
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Says
Nils Frahm · Spaces
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Ambre
Nils Frahm · Wintermusik
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The Planets, Op. 32: VI. Uranus, the Magician
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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The Planets, Op. 32: II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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Sicilienne, Op. 78
Gabriel Fauré · This is Fauré
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Pavane, Op. 50
Gabriel Fauré · The Secret Fauré 2
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The Queen And The Soldier
Suzanne Vega · Suzanne Vega
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Intermezzo In E Flat Major, Op. 117 No. 1
Johannes Brahms · Brahms Intermezzi
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4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899: No. 3 in G-flat major
Franz Schubert · Schubert
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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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