Running order of the 'culturescape':

• A Young Blackbird Dies in My Hands, Appernack
• Hamlet soliloquy 'I have of late but wherefore I know not...' from the film Withnail & I (1989, Richard E Grant as Withnail)
• Dido's Lament - 'When I Am Laid in Earth' from Dido & Aeneas, Henry Purcell - Kirsten Flagstad
• Philip Larkin reading his poem Home Is So Sad
• Chopin's Prelude 13, Op.28 played by Alfred Cortot
• 'The Optimism of Melancholia | Slavoj Žižek | Big Think' (excerpt)
• Fading Lights Are Fading, Set Fire To Flames
• Clip from Melancholia - 'Justine and Claire' (2011, Lars von Trier)
• Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde prelude
• Various field recordings from freesound.org

For more info about the curator: neil-fitzgerald.com

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