For all the modernists in the audience, Spotify Classical Playlists has created a 38-song collection of music from (and inspired by) the work of novelist James Joyce.
Here’s more about the list from Spotify Classical Playlists: “[it includes] Syd Barrett‘s Golden Hair (based on a poem from Chamber Music), Kate Bush‘s Flower Of The Mountain (based on Molly’s soliloquy), Jefferson Airplane‘s Rejoyce, John Cage‘s Roaratorio (based on Finnegans Wake), Finnegan’s Wake by The Dubliners … The playlist starts with Eolian Episode from Ulysses, mixed to Satie‘s Gnossiene, and ends with April/ALP from Wake, mixed to the music of Oval, both passages were read by Joyce himself, and mixed by DJ Spooky.”
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James Joyce Spotify Playlist
James Joyce – Eolian Episode
Mary O’Hara – Silent O Moyle
Patricia Sabin – I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls
John McCormack – Oft in the Stilly Night
Alessandro Bonci – La Rookie: I’ll sing thee songs of Araby
Unknown – Love’s Old Sweet Song
Edwin Biltcliffe – Brigid’s Song
Kjell Bækkelund – Blumenlied, Opus 39
Josef Locke – The Holy City
Enrico Caruso – Martha (Italian): Martha Oder Der Markt Zu Richmond: M’appari Tut Amor
Ian Caddy – Maritana: Act II, Scene 1: Song (Don Caesar)
James Griffett – The Bloom is on the Rye: The Bloom is on the Rye
John McCormack – The Low Backed Car
Declan Hunt – The Croppy Boy
Dick Robertson – Sweet Rosie O’Grady
Sally Silver – Killarney
John Browning – Barber: Nuvoletta Op.25
The Ambrosian Singers – Sullivan: The Lost Chord
The Dubliners – Finnegan’s Wake
Lucy Shelton – Del Tredici: Syzygy for soprano, horn, chimes and chamber ensemble (1968) – Ecce puer
Lucy Shelton – Del Tredici: Four Songs on Poems by James Joyce – 4. Monotone
Lola Harding – 2 Settings From Finnegans Wake: No. 1. Isobel
Califone – VIII
Syd Barrett – Golden Hair
James Goldsworthy – Joyce Cycle: Sleep Now
John Cage – Roaratorio: An Irish Circus On Finnegans Wake – Part Four – To End
Kate Bush – Flower Of The Mountain
Jefferson Airplane – Rejoyce
Toru Takemitsu – Riverrun
Toru Takemitsu – A Way A Lone
Paul Polivnick – RiverRun: II. Leafy Speafing
Musicians Accord – Chamber Music – Monotone
DJ Spooky – April/Anna Livia Plurabelle (Finnegan’s Wake) – Remix