The Enlightenment Club: A Playlist
Music plays a key role in my novel ‘The Enlightenment Club’, so I thought I’d compile a playlist for it.
Requiem by WA Mozart. Introit and Kyrie
By contrast, pop from 1974. Sitting in Carlo’s Café with the radio on…
Ballroom Blitz by Sweet
and Sylvia off on her hols
Here's JS Bach, whom the Doctor plays to the Club as an antidote to nihilism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr0f6t2UbOo
Another piece from the Requiem: Dies irae (later, Stella has rather naughty thoughts associated with this section!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKJur8wpfYM
The final aria from Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The ghost of a man he has murdered comes to drag the arrogant Don down to hell (his terrified servant watches). Musically, this version is the best I’ve heard, though there are no subtitles
Here are the ‘lyrics’
Lucy admires Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex.
‘When you look in the mirror, do you see yourself?’ as Stella would later ask.
Contrast from an earlier decade…
‘Not cool,’ says Jeff. ‘But gorgeous…’
One of Jeff’s guitar heroes is Wilko Johnson – here he is, many years past his pomp, at our wonderful local bookshop, Davids in Letchworth.
Time for Stella to let her hair down…
This leads to this popular wedding recessional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKejfYzB3ak
Domine Jesu (Stella can’t get this out of her head when shopping) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXL8zhXCxg0
Lux Aeterna (the ending, similar to the Introit and Kyrie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMzGQp8z2kM
Stella and Alex listen to Mahler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75YmlDR92UQ
At the end of the story, the credits roll to the one and only ABBA
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