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A blend of gently propulsive instrumentals, intricate chamber music and shadowy electronic textures evokes Ankh-Morpork’s busy streets, the Watch’s dogged investigation and the golems’ quiet inner lives. The mood shifts between wry bustle, political unease and hard-won tenderness, with close, restrained arrangements suited to reading indoors.
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40 songs
1
saman
Ólafur Arnalds · re:member
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2
Written on the Sky
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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3
First Date
Thomas Newman · WALL-E (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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4
The Ludlows
James Horner · James Horner - Collage: The Last Work
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5
The Departure
Michael Nyman · Gattaca (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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6
Rain Tree Sketch II
Toru Takemitsu · Takemitsu: Complete Works for Piano
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Gnossienne No. 5
Erik Satie · Satie: 3 Gymnopédies; 6 Gnossiennes etc.
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Les Barricades Mystérieuses
François Couperin · Couperin: Les Barricades Mystérieuses
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Préludes, Book 1: VIII. La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin
Claude Debussy · The Complete Debussy: Préludes pour solo piano
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Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: No. 8, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Claude Debussy · Debussy: Préludes / Book 1, L. 117: No. 8, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
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Suite bergamasque, L. 75: III. Clair de lune
Claude Debussy · Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L. 75, 3. Clair de lune
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Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19
Maurice Ravel · La Danse - Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
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String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: III. Allegretto
Dmitri Shostakovich · Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1, 8 & 14
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14
Finlandia, Op. 26
Jean Sibelius · Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse triste; Tapiola; The Swan of Tuonela
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Gnossienne No. 2
Erik Satie · Satie: 3 Gymnopédies; 6 Gnossiennes etc.
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Gymnopédie No. 2
Erik Satie · Entremont Plays Satie
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17
Opening
Philip Glass · Philip Glass Solo
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Metamorphosis: One
Philip Glass · Philip Glass: Solo Piano
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19
A Walk
Tycho · Dive
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20
Dayvan Cowboy
Boards of Canada · The Campfire Headphase
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Roygbiv
Boards of Canada · Music Has The Right To Children
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22
La femme d'argent
Air · Moon Safari
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23
A New Error
Moderat · Moderat
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24
First Breath After Coma
Explosions In The Sky · The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
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Your Hand in Mine
Explosions In The Sky · The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
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26
Perpetuum Mobile
Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer)
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Music For A Found Harmonium
Penguin Cafe Orchestra · Preludes, Airs And Yodels (A Penguin Cafe Primer)
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Cirrus
Bonobo · The North Borders
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Kerala
Bonobo · Migration
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Everloving
Moby · Play
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Persona
Rival Consoles · Persona
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Blue Rondo à la Turk
The Dave Brubeck Quartet · Time Out
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Sleigh Ride
Leroy Anderson · Christmas Carols
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Adagio in G Minor
Tomaso Albinoni · Albinoni: Adagio in G Minor
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Water Music, Suite No. 2, HWV 349: No. 12, Alla Hornpipe
George Frideric Handel · Handel: Water Music
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36
Humoresque in G-Flat Major, Op. 101, No. 7 (Arranged for Violin & Orchestra)
Antonín Dvořák · Humoresque - Favorite Violin Encores [Expanded Edition]
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37
Pulstar
Vangelis · Synthesizer Greats, Vol. 3 (REMASTERED 2023)
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38
Defeated Clown
Hildur Guðnadóttir · Joker (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Oxygène, Pt. 6
Jean-Michel Jarre · Oxygène
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40
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85: I. Adagio - Moderato
Edward Elgar · Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85 & Sea Pictures, Op. 37
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