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La Comedia humana Playlist
Balzac’s La Comédie humaine moves through the salons, streets, and provincial worlds of nineteenth-century France, where social ambition and money shape intimate lives. This playlist pairs French Romantic and Baroque colors with chamber music, jazz, and modern instrumentals to follow its shifts from glittering appearances and bustling society to private disappointment and quiet reflection.
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40 songs
1
Suite Les Indes Galantes / Les Sauvages: 21. Air pour les sauvages
Jean-Philippe Rameau · Rameau: Les Indes Galantes Suite
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2
Les Barricades Mystérieuses
François Couperin · Labyrinth
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Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: II. Un bal
Hector Berlioz · Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique: Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et aricie
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Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14: IV. Marche au supplice
Hector Berlioz · Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Waverley
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L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1: Prélude
Georges Bizet · Classical Masterpieces Vol. 5
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Carmen Suite No. 1: 5. Les toréadors
Georges Bizet · Bizet: Carmen Suites; L'Arlésienne Suites
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Prélude, Choral et Fugue, FWV 21: Choral. Poco più lento - Poco Allegro
César Franck · Franck: Préludes, Fugues & Chorals
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D'un matin de printemps
Lili Boulanger · Boulanger: Faust et Hélène
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Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français, Op. 25: I. Assez lent
Vincent d'Indy · d'Indy: Symphonie sur un Chant Montagnard Français, Saugefleurie, Médée & Prelude to Fervaal
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10
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 1, Von fremden Ländern und Menschen
Robert Schumann · Schumann: Kinderszenen; Arabesque; Fantasie; Träumerei
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Carnaval, Op. 9: 1. Préambule
Robert Schumann · Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9 & Fantasiestücke, Op. 12
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12
Liebesträume, S. 541: No. 3 in A-Flat Major
Franz Liszt · Classical Lullabies
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13
La lugubre gondola, S. 200/2
Franz Liszt · Liszt: Sonata in B Minor - Piano Works
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14
6 Songs without Words, Op. 30: No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor 'Venetian Gondola Song' [Barcarolle]
Felix Mendelssohn · Mendelssohn - Masterwork
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15
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21: Ii. Larghetto
Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 - Variations on La ci darem - Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante
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Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11: II. Romance. Larghetto
Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
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Jeux D'Eau
Maurice Ravel · Ravel: Miroirs, Jeux D'Eau, Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte
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Danse macabre, Op. 40
Camille Saint-Saëns · Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 / Dance Macabre / Bacchanale / 3 Rhapsodies
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Le carnaval des animaux, R. 125: VII. Aquarium
Camille Saint-Saëns · Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux; Phaéton; Danse Macabre etc.
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Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78, "Organ": II. Poco adagio
Camille Saint-Saëns · Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 / Debussy: La Mer / Ibert: Escales
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21
Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80: Sicilienne
Gabriel Fauré · James Galway - Music for my Little Friends
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Dolly Suite, Op. 56: I. Berceuse
Gabriel Fauré · Fauré: Dolly Suite; Nocturnes; Barcarolles; Impromptus
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Ravel: Piano Trio in A Minor, M. 67: II. Pantoum. Assez vif
Maurice Ravel · Focus on the Violin - An Essential Classical Stopover
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String Quartet in F Major: II. Assez vif
Maurice Ravel · Fauré / Ravel: String Quartets
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Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35: III. Marche funèbre
Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Preludes; Sonata No.2
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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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Le tombeau de Couperin, M. 68a: I. Prélude
Maurice Ravel · Ravel: Shéhérazade / Tombeau / Pavane; Debussy: Danses / Ballades de Villon
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28
Petite suite, L. 65: I. En bateau (Arr. for Orchestra by Henri Büsser)
Claude Debussy · Debussy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 6
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29
La valse
Maurice Ravel · Kaleidoscope - Mussorgsky, Ravel, Stravinsky
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30
String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11: II. Andante cantabile
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Tchaikovsky / Britten: String Quartets
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Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 10, October. Autumn Song
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, Op. 74 "Pathétique" & The Seasons, Op. 37a
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32
Méditation from Thaïs
Jules Massenet · Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No.1
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Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47: III. Andante cantabile
Robert Schumann · Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op.22; Piano Quartet, Op. 47
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Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: II. Langsam
Robert Schumann · Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129
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35
Gnossienne No. 4
Erik Satie · Satie: Gnossiennes; Gymnopédies; Ogives; Trois Sarabandes; Petite ouverture à danser.
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36
The Blue Notebooks
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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37
A time for us
Nino Rota · A time for us
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38
Paris, Texas
Ry Cooder · Music by Ry Cooder
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Nuages
Django Reinhardt · Electric Django: Radio Recordings 1947
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