Marcos Balter: Failure is an Option: Playlist

Hear a piece of music you loved in the show and want to learn or hear more? Scroll down for a complete breakdown of all the music used for scoring and illustration in episode five – Marcos Balter: Failure is an Option– along with buy links to the albums.

Movement One: "Reading, Reich and Rio"

0:01—Marcos Balter: Pessoa | Watch | Buy2:24—Marcos Balter: Bladed Stance | Listen | Buy4:33—Os Mutantes: A Minha Menina | Listen | Buy6:10—Steve Reich: Six Pianos | Watch | Buy10:35—Charles Mingus: Work Song | Listen | Buy12:06—Marcos Balter: Preludio No. 4 14:14—Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der Junglinge | Listen | Buy15:37—Luciano Berio: Sinfonia, III. In ruhig fliessender Bewegung | Listen | Buy18:22—Marcos Balter: Memoria | Watch

Movement Two: "Libraries are Magic"

22:02—Jerrold Immel: Theme from Dallas | Listen | Buy23:31—George Crumb: Black Angels, 10. God-music | Listen | Buy26:57—Tristan Murail: Gondwana | Listen | Buy28:55—Jay Alan Yim: neverthesamerivertwice | Listen | Buy31:22—Marcos Balter: Descent from Parnassus | Watch35:34—Marcos Balter: Codex Seraphinianus 38:10—Marcos Balter: Ut | Listen | Buy

Movement Three: "Failure is an Option"

43:07—Paul Butterfield Blues Band: Born in Chicago | Listen | Buy44:35—Marcos Balter: Codex Seraphinianus48:12—George Crumb: Black Angels, 10. God-music | Listen | Buy48:58—Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Op. 74, "Harp" | Watch | Buy51:41—Marcos Balter: Chambers | Listen | Buy57:24—Marcos Balter: Bladed Stance | Listen | Buy