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A sequence of intimate piano and chamber works recalls the novel's movement between a modest farm-country present and Livia's younger life devoted to music. Baroque dances echo the title and the book's structure, while later, more searching pieces suggest artistic promise, abandonment, and the ache of a love remembered; the final songs give voice to that unsettled past.
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20 songs
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Les tendres plaintes
Jean-Philippe Rameau · Rameau: Les tendres plaintes
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Les Barricades Mystérieuses
François Couperin · Labyrinth
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Sonata in D Minor, K. 1
Domenico Scarlatti · Night Passages
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Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Mozart: Piano Sonatas K.310, K.311 & K.533/494
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4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899: No. 3 in G-flat major
Franz Schubert · Schubert
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Intermezzo In A Major, Op. 118, No. 2
Johannes Brahms · Brahms Intermezzi
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Romance in A Minor
Clara Schumann · Schumann, C.: Complete Piano Works
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Notturno in G Minor
Fanny Mendelssohn · Mendelssohn-Hensel, F.: Piano Sonatas in C and G minor
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Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 19: No. 6 in G Minor (Andante sostenuto) "Venetian Gondola Song", MWV U78
Felix Mendelssohn · Mendelssohn
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Janáček: On an Overgrown Path, Book I: No. 1, Our Evenings
Leoš Janáček · Janácek: Piano Music
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Opus 23
Dustin O'Halloran · Piano Solos, Vol. 2
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Romance in D-Flat Major, Op. 24, No. 9
Jean Sibelius · Sibelius: Complete Original Piano Music, Vol. 2
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Música Callada: I. Angelico
Federico Mompou · Mompou: Música Callada
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Danza Española Nº 5 en e Menor, Op. 37: Andaluza
Enrique Granados · Danza Española Nº 5 en e Menor, Op. 37: Andaluza
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Mélancolie
Francis Poulenc · Poulenc : Pièces pour Piano
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The Garden of Fand
Arnold Bax · Bax: Tone Poems, Vol. 1
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Piano Quintet in A Minor, Op. 84: III. Andante - Allegro
Edward Elgar · Elgar: Cello Concerto & Piano Quintet
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Song To The Siren - Remastered
This Mortal Coil · It'll End In Tears (Remastered)
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I Can't Make You Love Me
Bonnie Raitt · Luck Of The Draw
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