Reading playlist War and Peace
Everything burns — the city, the certainties — and still they dance.
Artists and music for this book
Sergei Prokofiev
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Alexander Borodin
Modest Mussorgsky
Why this music
Because the book swings between candlelit ballrooms and cannon smoke, the playlist moves between stately Russian Romanticism and surging orchestral drama. Strings carry the intimacy of Natasha and Pierre; brass and percussion mark the battlefield. It darkens as Moscow burns, then opens again into something quietly vast.