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A restrained, bittersweet sequence of score-like instrumentals reflects the contrast between Róisín’s troubled home and Red’s privileged but troubled family life, then follows the friendship’s warmth into separation and lasting memory. The closing songs bring in Irish voices and a more direct sense of longing, without overwhelming the playlist’s quiet, focused mood.
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20 songs
1
Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma": Variation IX. Nimrod
Edward Elgar · Elgar: Enigma Variations & Pomp & Circumstance Marches Nos 1-5
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Intermezzo In E Flat Major, Op. 117 No. 1
Johannes Brahms · Brahms Intermezzi
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4 Impromptus, Op. 90, D. 899: No. 3 in G-flat major
Franz Schubert · Schubert
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4
Salut d'amour, Op. 12
Edward Elgar · English Festival
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5
Turn Away and Return
Hammock · Everything and Nothing
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Baleen Morning
Balmorhea · Balmorhea
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7
Bent
Kiasmos · Kiasmos
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Elegy For The Arctic
Ludovico Einaudi · 12 Songs From Home
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9
The Departure
Michael Nyman · Gattaca (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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10
Abandon Window - Remaster 2023
Jon Hopkins · Immunity
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11
In a Landscape
John Cage · John Cage: Early Piano Music
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12
Metamorphosis: One
Philip Glass · Philip Glass: Solo Piano
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13
A Pair of Brown Eyes
The Pogues · Rum Sodomy & The Lash (Expanded Edition)
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14
The Island
Paul Brady · Back to the Centre
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15
Elegy For Dunkirk
Dario Marianelli · Atonement OST
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16
Leaving Hope
Nine Inch Nails · Still
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String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110: I. Largo
Dmitri Shostakovich · Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 1, 8 & 14
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18
Música callada I: No. 1, Angelico
Federico Mompou · Mompou: Música callada
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The Protecting Veil - The Protecting Veil - The Nativity of the Mother of God - Annunciation - The Incarnation - Lament of the Mother of God at the Cross - The Resurrection - The Dormition of the Moth
John Tavener · John Tavener, The Protecting Veil
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Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2
Stars Of The Lid · The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
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