Late night music.
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I stumbled across this and quite like it. Nothing great, but a decent performance of Siloti's transcription of "The Swan" from "The Carnival of the Animals" (Saint-Saëns).
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Fado is a traditional Portuguese music genre, generally performed with just voice and acoustic instruments, particularly the fado guitar. It's usually mournful in character, expressing resignation, loss, melancholia and longing. Not exactly cheerful stuff, but worth a listen.
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I did come across this - the same song and recording, but with Portuguese text. I find the sound of the language quite beautiful, and the way the vowels elide - is that the right word? - quite fascinating.
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For late-night chill, how about this from Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen and his trio?
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Sound familiar? You'll probably recognise it, though, as it's a cover of "I Close my Eyes (and Count to Ten)", best known from its recording by Dusty Springfield, though the Swedish words are completely different.
Dusty's version is great, but if anything I prefer this one, sung by Anni-Frid Lyngstad, who had a successful solo career before she joined Abba.
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Nice socks, too. Stick with it until 0:40, and you'll see what I mean.
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I'm a big fan of Liszt's transcriptions of songs by other composers. This one, of Schumann's song "Widmung" (Dedication) is one I particularly like.
So here's this young American guy called Matthew Griswold. In jeans and a vest, he looks like he's on the way home from the gym, and has blundered into the piano shop by mistake, but decides to give the new Steingraeber grand a road test.
I thought it was going to be toe-curlingly awful, but actually it's a nice performance of this lovely piece. There's some rather dodgy camera work, though.
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Here are the Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen playing the Allegro from Mozart's sonata for piano, four hands K.521. They moon and swoon a bit too much for my liking, but the fingerwork is terrific.
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