a classical playlist for hopeless romantics
- Mar 27, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 10, 2022
Run with me by Jonny Southard
This piece has the characteristic of a modern fantasy book. A sorrowful and heartbreaking romance capturing the painful loss that the main character has just endured because they have to leave all they know behind to be on a quest to accomplish some sort of moral quandary. It is fast-paced as if the time for the main character to complete their journey or goal is slipping by and they have just a limited amount of time before the world could end.
Merry go round of life by Joe Hisaishi
This piece complements Howls Moving Castle flawlessly. It fits the dystopian and magicalness of the film and completely transports you into a new world of Sophie and Howl. It expresses yearning and grief but in a dreamlike manner. It is blissful but underneath, melancholy. It is whimsical, like a last dance in which a couple parts. As in the film, it feels like Sophie falling in love with Howl, along with the suffering she is put through when he risks his life, pleading with him to stay with her but him refusing.
The French Library by Franz Gordon
This feels like the beauty of misery. The romanticism of heartbreak and tears. The path towards healing but the pain of agony that comes along with it. It is quite mysterious at parts it has contemporary and traditional elements incorporated that add to its elegance and eerieness. Towards the middle of the piece, it becomes lighter but quickly returns to its usual numbness, that is dark and painful. It is like a person’s madness and disbelief for a depressing situation. How they appear to be “normal” on the outside but in reality are suffering.
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