Voyage Au Bout De La Nuit Playlist
Céline’s journey runs from the trenches of the First World War through colonial Africa and industrial America to a bleak, exhausted Paris, following Bardamu’s flight from violence and his growing distrust of every promise of progress. The instrumentals trace that shifting landscape—from mechanized dread and restless travel to moments of uneasy stillness—while the songs evoke war’s absurdity, colonial exploitation, precarious labor, and Bardamu’s alienated, unsparing view of humanity.
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The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives · Ives, C.: Universe Symphony (Completed by L. Austin) / Orchestral Set No. 2 / The Unanswered Question
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64, Act 1: Dance of the Knights
Sergei Prokofiev · Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto
Dmitri Shostakovich · Shostakovich: Complete String Quartets
The Rite of Spring, K 015: Part One: The Adoration of the Earth: The Augurs of Spring (Dance of the Young Girls)
Igor Stravinsky · Eötvös Conducts Stravinsky
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: Variation XVIII. Andante cantabile
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rhapsody
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