Voyage Au Bout De La Nuit

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Voyage Au Bout De La Nuit Playlist

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

20 tracks

balanced

Nov 2, 2026

5 mixes for this book

A mostly restrained mix of modern classical, chamber music, and spare instrumentals reflects Bardamu’s passage from the trenches through colonial Africa and America to a damaged France. Its shifts between uneasy motion, starkness, and occasional tenderness echo the novel’s bitter satire and the fragile humanity of Bardamu and Molly.

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20 songs

1

The Sinking of the Titanic

Gavin Bryars · Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

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2

The Unanswered Question

Charles Ives · Ives, C.: Universe Symphony (Completed by L. Austin) / Orchestral Set No. 2 / The Unanswered Question

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3

The Protecting Veil - The Protecting Veil - The Nativity of the Mother of God - Annunciation - The Incarnation - Lament of the Mother of God at the Cross - The Resurrection - The Dormition of the Moth

John Tavener · John Tavener, The Protecting Veil

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4

Elegy For The Arctic

Ludovico Einaudi · 12 Songs From Home

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5

Piano Phase

Steve Reich · Early Works

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6

The Garden of Fand

Arnold Bax · Bax: Tone Poems, Vol. 1

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7

Lontano

György Ligeti · Ligeti: Violin Concerto, Lontano, Atmosphères & San Francisco Polyphony

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8

Sections 1-16

Simeon ten Holt · Canto Ostinato

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9

Divenire

Ludovico Einaudi · Islands - Essential Einaudi

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10

Miroirs: III. Une barque sur l'océan

Maurice Ravel · Ravel: Miroirs, Jeux D'Eau, Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte

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11

The River

Brian Eno · Wrong Way Up [Expanded Edition]

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12

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: II. Allegro molto - 2014 Remaster

Dmitri Shostakovich · Shostakovich: Quartet No. 4; Quartet No. 8 (2014 Remaster)

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13

The Blue Notebooks

Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)

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14

Shéhérazade, Op. 35: I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov · Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Shéhérazade

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15

Ainsi la nuit: I. Nocturne

Henri Dutilleux · Adès, Dutilleux & Ravel

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16

Pacific 231

Arthur Honegger · The French Avant-Garde in the 20th Century

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17

Nuages

Django Reinhardt · Nuages

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18

Scaramouche suite, Op. 165d: II. Modéré

Darius Milhaud · Milhaud: Chamber Music

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19

Le banquet céleste

Olivier Messiaen · Messiaen: Organ Works

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Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: III. Moonlight (Andante comodo e rubato)

Benjamin Britten · Britten: Four Sea Interludes

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