La Père Goriot

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La Père Goriot Playlist

by Honoré de Balzac

20 tracks

balanced

Sep 1, 2026

“La Père Goriot” moves through Parisian decline, ambition, and intimate moral fractures—so this playlist alternates between restrained instrumental pressure and lyrics that echo longing, sacrifice, and social hunger. The tracks are sequenced to feel like Balzac’s emotional arc: from watched tenderness, to corrosive desire, to quiet reckoning in the city’s rooms.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Adagio for Strings

Samuel Barber · Klassische Musik zur Beerdigung - Beerdigungsmusik

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2

Piano Phase

Steve Reich · Another Look At the Counterpoint

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3

Disintegration Loops (1.1 Excerpt I)

William Basinski · Music from The Comedy, A Film by Rick Alverson

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4

Melancholia II

William Basinski · Melancholia

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5

Solar Fields - Blue Moon Station

Solar Fields · Chiller Waves

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6

Light Through The Veins

Jon Hopkins · Insides

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7

The Imitation Game

Alexandre Desplat · Movie Soundtracks & Filmmusik - Best of Cinematic Music

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8

The Winter

Balmorhea · Rivers Arms

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9

Flight from the City

Jóhann Jóhannsson · Orphée

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10

Everybody Wants To Rule The World

Tears For Fears · Running 140-160-180 BPM - Uptempo

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11

Hurt

Trent Reznor · Melankhôlia: In Darkness Through the Light (Augmented Version)

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12

Pale Blue Eyes

The Velvet Underground · yearning

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13

Paper Planes

Horseshoe G.A.N.G. · Art of the Freestyle

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14

Young Lion

Vampire Weekend · Modern Vampires of the City

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15

Futile Devices

Sufjan Stevens · The Age of Adz

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16

Slow Show

The National · Boxer

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17

Hero

Family of the Year · Loma Vista

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18

Waiting Room Disco

MRM83 · Waiting for the Agents

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19

The Story

Brandi Carlile · All About - Reclam Musik Edition 5 - Americana

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20

Let’s Play Chess

Luminary Flux · Dream Department

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