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This instrumental sequence moves between shadowed, otherworldly textures and warmer, more intimate passages, reflecting the book’s Afterlife setting and romantic premise without assuming plot details the description doesn’t provide. Its restrained classical and ambient palette aims to sustain focus while allowing the mood to shift from mysterious to tender and back again.
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20 songs
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Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte, M. 19
Maurice Ravel · La Danse - Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
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snowfall
Øneheart · snowfall
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Une Barque Sur L'océan
Maurice Ravel · Ravel
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Andata
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing the Piano 12122020
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Aqua
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing the Piano 12122020
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The White Arcades
Harold Budd · Budd Box (Spotify Only)
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The Witching Hour
Peter Gundry · The Elixir of Life
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Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664: II. Andante
Franz Schubert · Schubert + Beethoven
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Songs Without Words, Book 1, Op. 19b: No. 1 in E Major, MWV U 86
Felix Mendelssohn · Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, Vol. 1
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Handel / Orch. Hale: Keyboard Suite No. 4 in D Minor, HWV 437: III. Sarabande
George Frideric Handel · Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Handel
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Stay
Chad Lawson · You Finally Knew
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The Wasps: Overture
Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony, The Lark Ascending, The Wasps Overture & Fantasia on Greensleeves
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The How of it Sped
Bing & Ruth · No Home of the Mind
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Being Here
Laraaji · Flow Goes The Universe
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Piano Sonata in A Major, D. 664: I. Allegro moderato
Franz Schubert · Schubert: Piano Sonatas, D. 537, 568 & 664
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Songs Without Words, Op. 19B: No. 6 in G Minor "Venetian Gondola Song"
Felix Mendelssohn · Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Works
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Gnossienne: No. 2
Erik Satie · Satie: Avant-dernières pensées (Bonus Track Version)
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The Blue Notebooks
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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Tape Loop 1
Dustin O'Halloran · Love of Your Life (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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