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The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes Playlist
20 tracks
melancholic
Oct 29, 2026
A gradual shift from restrained, intimate piano and chamber music toward wider, more elegiac textures mirrors Aleksy's movement from anger to closeness and grief. Romanian and other European musical colors nod to the book's cultural roots, while the three vocal songs focus on the difficult, changing bond between mother and son.
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20 songs
1
Balada, Op. 29
Ciprian Porumbescu · Appassionato
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2
2 Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A Major, Op. 11
George Enescu · Enescu: Romanian Poem / Romanian Rhapsodies Nos. 1 and 2
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3
Música Callada: I. Angelico
Federico Mompou · Mompou: Música Callada
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4
The Lonely Shepherd
James Last · James Last - 80 Greatest Hits
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5
Ambre
Nils Frahm · Wintermusik
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Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959: II. Andantino
Franz Schubert · Schubert: Piano Sonata D.959 & Minuets D. 334, D. 335, D. 600
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Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 (Arr. for Cello and Piano)
Gabriel Fauré · Sheku Kanneh-Mason
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8
Elegy
Lisa Gerrard · Immortal Memory
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9
Mother - Remastered 2010
John Lennon · Plastic Ono Band
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10
Mother
Pink Floyd · The Wall
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11
andata
Ryuichi Sakamoto · async
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12
La petite fille de la mer - Remastered
Vangelis · La petite fille de la mer
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13
Elegy For The Arctic
Ludovico Einaudi · 12 Songs From Home
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14
Experience
Ludovico Einaudi · In A Time Lapse
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15
Opening
Philip Glass · Philip Glass Solo
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16
The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
Jóhann Jóhannsson · The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black
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17
Light Through The Veins
Jon Hopkins · Insides
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18
Green
Hiroshi Yoshimura · Green
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19
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 12, Kind im Einschlummern
Robert Schumann · Schumann: Kinderszenen; Arabesque; Fantasie; Träumerei
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