White Nights | a classical music playlist inspired by the novel

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WHITE NIGHTS

With this classical music playlist inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky's story, we aimed to create our personal soundtrack - one that hopefully captures the atmosphere of the book, as it follows the relationship between the main character, a self-proclaimed «dreamer», and Nastenka.
Like many of Dostoevsky's stories, "White Nights" is told in the first person by a nameless narrator. The narrator is a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited.

«I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year...»

FIRST NIGHT: «It was a wonderful night, the kind of night, dear reader, which is only possible when we are young…»

0:00:00 Schubert (arr. Liszt) - Schwanengesang, D. 957: No. 4, Ständchen (Serenade)
0:05:47 Chopin - Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 1 in B-Flat Minor
0:12:25 Chopin - Nocturnes, Op. 55: No. 1 in F Minor
0:17:42 Chopin - Waltz in F Minor, Op. Posth. 70, No. 2
0:21:03 Chopin - Waltz in E Minor, Op. Posth., B. 56

SECOND NIGHT: «I lived, as they say, on my own, that is, absolutely alone – alone, completely alone – do you understand what it means to be alone?»

0:24:03 Chopin - 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 4 in E Minor
0:26:23 Tchaikovsky - 6 Pieces, Op. 19: No. 4 in C-Sharp Minor, Nocturne
0:30:52 Tchaikovsky - The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 6, June. Barcarolle

«And you ask yourself: Where are your dreams? And you shake your head and say: How quickly do the years fly by! And again you ask yourself: What have you done with your years? Where have you buried your best days? Did you live or not?»

0:36:09 Fauré - Pavane, Op. 50
0:42:47 Bach (arr. Busoni) - Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C Major, BWV 564: II. Adagio
0:48:22 Grieg - From Holberg's Time, Op. 40 “Suite in Olden Style”: IV. Air. Andante religioso
0:59:43 Bach/Siloti - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude in E Minor, BWV 855a
1:04:07 Händel - Suite No. 1 in B-Flat Major, HWV 434: IV. Menuet
1:08:18 Lyadov - Three Morceaux, Op. 11: No. 1, Prelude in B Minor

«That’s all over now! The two of us will be together now; now, no matter what happens to me, we will never part.»

THIRD NIGHT: «It seemed to me that some sort of musical melody, long familiar, heard somewhere before, forgotten and sweet, was coming back to me».

1:12:00 Lyadov - Two Mazurkas, Op. 15: No. 2 in A Minor
1:13:22 Lyadov - Petite Valse in G Major, Op. 26
1:16:14 Lyadov - Three Morceaux, Op. 57: No. 1, Prelude in D-flat Major
1:18:52 Lyadov - Three Morceaux, Op. 57: No. 3, Mazurka in F Minor
1:20:20 Dvarionas - Little Suite for Piano: II. Waltz in A Minor
1:22:28 Dvarionas - Little Suite for Piano: IV. Waltz in G Minor
1:23:38 Haydn - Partita in G Major, Hob. XVI:6: III. Adagio
1:27:51 Glinka - Nocturne
1:32:29 Balakirev - Berceuse
1:39:01 Rachmaninoff - 13 Preludes, Op. 32: No. 5 in G Major
1:42:19 Rachmaninoff - 10 Preludes, Op. 23: No. 10 in G-Flat Major

MORNING: «My nights ended with the morning. It was a dreadful day. The rain beat down on my windows cheerlessly…»

1:48:32 Chopin - 24 Préludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-Flat Major, “Raindrop”
1:55:06 Glinka - Nocturne in F Minor, “La Séparation”
1:59:00 Tchaikovsky - The Seasons, Op. 37a: No. 5, May. White Nights

«My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man’s life?»

All tracks performed by Vadim Chaimovich, except:
Balakirev - Berceuse, performed by Angelo Martino
Rachmaninoff - Preludes, performed by Vovka Ashkenazy

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