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This playlist follows Arthur Kipps from the lonely, salt-marsh atmosphere of Eel Marsh House into the grief and dread surrounding its haunting. The instrumentals evoke the house, fog, and uneasy silences; the vocal songs turn toward isolation, memory, and the human cost of secrets, with the mood shifting between restraint and unease.
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20 songs
1
Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: III. Moonlight (Andante comodo e rubato)
Benjamin Britten · Britten: Four Sea Interludes
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Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle
Modest Mussorgsky · Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Expanded Edition
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Nocturne in C-sharp minor, B. 49
Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Complete Nocturnes
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String Quartet No. 2 in D Major: III. Notturno. Andante
Alexander Borodin · Borodin: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
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Kinderszenen, Op. 15: VII. Träumerei
Robert Schumann · Schumann: Kinderszenen; Kreisleriana
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Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56: I. Stick Dance
Béla Bartók · Feats of Brass
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River Man
Nick Drake · Five Leaves Left
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Wuthering Heights
Kate Bush · The Kick Inside
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Roads
Portishead · Dummy
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The Wind
PJ Harvey · Is This Desire?
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The Testimony Of Patience Kershaw
The Unthanks · Here's The Tender Coming
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The Mariner's Revenge Song
The Decemberists · Picaresque
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Black Lake
Björk · Vulnicura
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The Curse
Josh Ritter · So Runs The World Away
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The Ghost Who Walks
Karen Elson · The Ghost Who Walks
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The House of the Rising Sun
The Animals · The House of the Rising Sun: Best of The Animals
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Song To The Siren
This Mortal Coil · Lilliput
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The River
Bruce Springsteen · The River
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The Windmills Of Your Mind
Dusty Springfield · Dusty In Memphis
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