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Das Parfum Playlist
A restrained, shadowed mix of French Baroque colors and unsettling cinematic textures follows Grenouille from the crowded streets of eighteenth-century Paris into the obsessive solitude of his craft. The music moves between curiosity, calculated control, and the horror of his pursuit, with intimate chamber pieces suggesting the perfumer’s workshop and darker passages evoking his victims and the novel’s disquieting climax.
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Track List
20 songs
1
Suite Les Indes Galantes / Prologue: 2. Entrée des quatre nations
Jean-Philippe Rameau · Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Suite
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Les Barricades Mystérieuses
François Couperin · Labyrinth
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3
Marche pour la cérémonie des Turcs
Jean-Baptiste Lully · Tous les matins du monde (Bande originale du film)
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4
Chaconne in G Minor, Z. 730
Henry Purcell · Purcell: Songs
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Sonata in D minor, K. 141
Domenico Scarlatti · Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas
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Concerto for Oboe and Strings in D Minor BWV 974: II. Adagio
Alessandro Marcello · Early transcriptions: Händel/Liszt, Marcello/Bach, Bach/Busoni, Mozart/Liszt
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Cello Concerto in D Minor, RV 406: II. Andante
Antonio Vivaldi · Vivaldi: Cello Concertos, Vol. 1
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Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488: II. Adagio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 K. 488; Piano Sonata K. 333
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Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden": II. Andante con moto. Theme
Franz Schubert · Death and the Maiden
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10
The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1; The Isle of Dead
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The Garden of Fand
Arnold Bax · Bax: Tone Poems, Vol. 1
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Main Titles (From "The Cider House Rules" Score)
Rachel Portman · The Cider House Rules (Original Score)
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Journey to the Line (From "The Thin Red Line" Soundtrack)
Hans Zimmer · The Thin Red Line
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14
The Hours: Tearing Herself Away
Philip Glass · Glass: Solo Piano Music
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The Hours: Escape!
Philip Glass · Glass: Solo Piano Music
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The Revenant Main Theme
Ryuichi Sakamoto · The Revenant (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Danish Girl
Alexandre Desplat · The Danish Girl
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Atonement: Elegy for Dunkirk (Arr. N. Raine for cello and orchestra)
Dario Marianelli · Hollywood Blockbusters
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Les tendres plaintes
Jean-Philippe Rameau · Rameau: Les tendres plaintes
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