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This playlist moves between the intimacy of Iris’s letters and the scale of a world at war: chamber music and spare piano suggest private grief and hope, while orchestral, electronic, and post-rock textures evoke mounting danger. The final three songs focus on longing, a connection formed through correspondence, and the fragile wish to build a life amid conflict.
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20 songs
1
The Road of Trials
Austin Wintory · Journey (Original Video Game Soundtrack)
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2
On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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3
The Mighty Rio Grande
This Will Destroy You · S/T
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4
Near Light
Ólafur Arnalds · Living Room Songs
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The Path of the Wind
Joe Hisaishi · My Neighbor Totoro Sound Book
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Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18: II. Adagio sostenuto
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody
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Sicilienne, Op. 78
Gabriel Fauré · This is Fauré
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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.
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The Blue Danube (Op. 314)
Johann Strauss II · Happiness - The Music of Joy (Silver Memories)
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First Snow
Emancipator · Soon It Will Be Cold Enough
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The Pearl
Harold Budd · Wind In Lonely Fences 1970 - 2011
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Requiem for the Static King, Pt. 1
A Winged Victory for the Sullen · A Winged Victory for the Sullen
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13
The Night We Met
Lord Huron · Strange Trails
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14
To Build A Home
The Cinematic Orchestra · Ma Fleur
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Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582
Johann Sebastian Bach · Bach, J.S.: Organ Works, Vol. 7
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The Well-Tempered Clavier I, Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846: I. Prelude
Johann Sebastian Bach · A Classical October: Bach, Chopin & More
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Le carnaval des animaux, R. 125: XIII. Le cygne
Camille Saint-Saëns · Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux; Phaéton; Danse Macabre etc.
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The Planets, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets
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Elegy
Lisa Gerrard · Immortal Memory
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