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La Comedia humana Playlist
Balzac’s panorama of post-Revolutionary France turns Paris into a theatre of ambition, money, social climbing, and private longing. The instrumental opening moves between elegant salons, public spectacle, and quieter interior lives; the vocal half adds songs of desire, status, betrayal, and the city’s many voices, echoing the work’s shifting social worlds.
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40 songs
1
Sicilienne, Op. 78
Gabriel Fauré · This is Fauré
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2
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: II. Un bal
Hector Berlioz · Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique: Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et aricie
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3
Carmen Suite No. 1: 5. Les toréadors
Georges Bizet · Bizet: Carmen Suites; L'Arlésienne Suites
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4
Suite Les Indes Galantes / Les Sauvages: 21. Air pour les sauvages
Jean-Philippe Rameau · Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Suite
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5
Les Barricades Mystérieuses
François Couperin · Labyrinth
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6
Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K. 141
Domenico Scarlatti · Bach & Scarlatti
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7
Venetian Boat Song, Op. 19 No. 6
Felix Mendelssohn · Novus Promusica Retrospectives: The Art of Anna Miernik
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8
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VII. Träumerei
Robert Schumann · Schumann: Kinderszenen; Kreisleriana
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9
The Four Seasons - Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV 315, "Summer": III. Presto. Tempo impetuoso d'Estate
Antonio Vivaldi · Vivaldi: Die vier Jahreszeiten
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10
Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: II. Alla Hornpipe
George Frideric Handel · Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks / Water Music
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11
Má Vlast, JB1:112: 3. Sarka
Bedřich Smetana · Smetana: Má Vlast
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12
Gnossienne No. 1
Erik Satie · Gnossienne No. 1
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13
Préludes, Book 1: VIII. La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin
Claude Debussy · The Complete Debussy: Préludes pour solo piano
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14
Gymnopédie No. 1
Erik Satie · "Voyage en France"
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15
Le Onde
Ludovico Einaudi · Islands - Essential Einaudi
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16
Comptine d'un autre été, l'après-midi
Yann Tiersen · Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (Bande originale du film)
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17
Nuvole Bianche
Ludovico Einaudi · Una Mattina
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18
The Heart Asks Pleasure First
Michael Nyman · The Piano: Music From The Motion Picture
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19
Opening
Philip Glass · Hope Street Tunnel Blues: Music for Piano By Philip Glass and Alvin Curran
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20
Metamorphosis One
Philip Glass · Valentina Lisitsa Plays Philip Glass
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21
Etude No. 1
Philip Glass · The Glass Effect (The Music of Philip Glass & Others)
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22
The Blue Notebooks
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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23
La bohème
Charles Aznavour · La bohème
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24
Non, je ne regrette rien
Édith Piaf · Eternelle
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25
Amsterdam
Jacques Brel · AMSTERDAM (Edition limitée maxi 45 t)
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26
Göttingen
Barbara · Barbara - N°2
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27
Le poinçonneur des Lilas
Serge Gainsbourg · Du chant à la une !
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28
Tous les garçons et les filles
Françoise Hardy · Francoise Hardy
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29
La javanaise
Juliette Gréco · No. 8
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30
Comme ils disent
Charles Aznavour · Idiote je t'aime...
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31
Padam padam
Édith Piaf · Eternelle
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32
Les bourgeois
Jacques Brel · Les Bourgeois (Vol.7)
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33
Nantes
Barbara · Les 50 Plus Belles Chansons De Barbara
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34
La mauvaise réputation
Georges Brassens · Georges Brassens chante les chansons poétiques (et souvent gaillardes) N°1
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35
Le métèque
Georges Moustaki · Le métèque
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36
La nuit je mens
Alain Bashung · Fantaisie Militaire
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37
Foule sentimentale
Alain Souchon · C'est déjà ça
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38
L'aigle noir
Barbara · L'Aigle Noir
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39
La groupie du pianiste
Michel Berger · Pour me comprendre (40 titres)
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