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The Calamity Club Playlist
This playlist mirrors The Calamity Club’s 1930s Oxford emotional weather—quiet loneliness, stubborn resilience, and sudden revelations—using cinematic, mysterious textures that keep focus steady. Instrumentals dominate to echo Meg and Birdie’s interior lives, while the two vocal pieces land like character-driven moments: belonging that’s almost within reach, and hope that arrives quietly but persistently.
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20 songs
1
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: IV. In the Hall of the Mountain King - Remastered 2024
Edvard Grieg · Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2, Holberg Suite & Other Orchestral Works (Remastered 2024)
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Morning Mood
Edvard Grieg · Morning Mood
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Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune (Piano Solo)
Claude Debussy · Classical Impressions, Vol. 5: Echoes & Embers
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Paul Dukas · Fantasia 2000
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Fauré: Pie Jesu (from Requiem in D minor, Op. 48)
Gabriel Fauré · Fauré: Pie Jesu (from Requiem in D minor, Op. 48)
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Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
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Pavane, Op. 50
Gabriel Fauré · The Secret Fauré 2
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Spiegel im spiegel
Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait
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You Are My Sunshine
Jimmie Davis · You Are My Sunshine
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Laura Palmer's Theme
Angelo Badalamenti · Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch: Laura Palmer's Theme from Twin Peaks
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The Green Mile
Thomas Newman · The Green Mile (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Theme From Schindler's List
John Williams · Schindler's List
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Way Out There - Main Title
Carter Burwell · Raising Arizona (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Mission
Ennio Morricone · The Mission: Music From The Motion Picture
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An American in Paris
George Gershwin · Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & An American in Paris
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Solomon, HWV 67, Act III: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
George Frideric Handel · The Essential Handel
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Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 6
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Moonlight Serenade
Glenn Miller · Pure Gold
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Somewhere Out There (From "An American Tail")
James Horner · James Horner - The Classics
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