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Interesting Times Playlist
A shifting blend of warm piano, orchestral mischief, and gently propulsive electronics follows Rincewind from reluctant dispatch to the bewildering dangers of the Agatean Empire. Playful, uneasy, and occasionally grand, the instrumental arc evokes the novel’s collision of Discworld absurdity, imperial upheaval, and a very unheroic wizard’s instinct to survive.
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40 songs
1
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
John Adams · Adams: Shaker Loops / Wound Dresser / Short Ride in A Fast Machine
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Oxygène, Pt. 4
Jean-Michel Jarre · Oxygène
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Silk Road
Kitaro · Super Best
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Godzilla Main Title
Akira Ifukube · Godzilla (original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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A Walk
Tycho · Dive
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The Host of Seraphim
Dead Can Dance · A Passage in Time
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Aquarius
Boards of Canada · Music Has The Right To Children
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Aqualung
Jethro Tull · Aqualung (Special Edition)
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Emerald and Stone
Brian Eno · Small Craft On A Milk Sea
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The Gravel Road (from "The Village")
James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4
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Divenire
Ludovico Einaudi · Divenire (Deluxe Edition)
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saman
Ólafur Arnalds · re:member
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13
Says
Nils Frahm · Spaces
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14
On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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Arrival of the Birds
The Cinematic Orchestra · The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (Original Soundtrack)
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The Ecstasy Of Gold
Ennio Morricone · Metallica Through The Never (Music From The Motion Picture)
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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - 2004 Remaster
Ennio Morricone · The Good, The Bad And The Ugly [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack / (Remastered & Expanded)]
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A Model of the Universe
Jóhann Jóhannsson · The Theory of Everything (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Beast
Jóhann Jóhannsson · Sicario (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Planets, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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The Planets, Op. 32: I. Mars, the Bringer of War
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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22
The Firebird Suite: Berceuse
Igor Stravinsky · Stravinsky (The Best Of)
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The Firebird Suite (1919 Version): Finale - 2017 Remastered Version
Igor Stravinsky · Stravinsky: Firebird Suite - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet (Remastered)
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Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56: I. Jocul cu bâtă
Béla Bartók · Folklore
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Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56: VI. Maruntel. Allegro - Arr. for Violin and Piano
Béla Bartók · Kopatchinskaja - Say
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Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": II. Largo
Antonín Dvořák · Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World
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The Moldau
Bedřich Smetana · The Symphonies II
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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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Intermezzo In A Major, Op. 118, No. 2
Johannes Brahms · Brahms Intermezzi
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Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: I. Prélude
Johann Sebastian Bach · Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1, 5 & 6
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The Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: XIII. The Swan
Camille Saint-Saëns · Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals: The Swan
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Gymnopédie No. 1
Erik Satie · Erik Satie & Friends
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33
Clair de lune
Claude Debussy · Träumerei - Liebestraum - Für Elise - Clair de lune - Gymnopédie - Sony Classical Masters
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The Blue Danube
Johann Strauss II · Blue Danube Strauss Waltzes
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Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin · Joplin: Piano Rags, Vol. 1
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36
Green Onions
Booker T. & the M.G.'s · Green Onions
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Peace Piece
Bill Evans · Everybody Digs Bill Evans
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38
Blue In Green
Miles Davis · The Jazz Masters - 27 Classic Performances From The Columbia Masterpieces Series
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Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses
Steve Reich · Music for 18 Musicians
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