Jeff Buckley's version of "Be Your Husband".

 

"When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You" by Marvin Gaye.

"Nickels and Dimes" by Billy Cobham.

 

"Only in Dreams" by Weezer.

 

"Power" by Stanley Clarke. Tony Williams stars on drums.

 

The first movement of Julius Röntgen's "Gaudeamus" Piano Trio No. 10 in A Major, performed by The Storioni Trio.

"Finished I Ain't" by Ghostpoet.

"Could I Be Falling In Love" by Syl Johnson.

Roland Hayes performs "Go Down Moses".

"Mayday" by King Cobb Steelie.

"Retrograde" by James Blake.

The great Irma Thomas performs "The Same Love That Made Me Laugh".

"Take The Long Way Home" by Faithless.

"La Femme Fetal" by Digable Planets.

 

"My God Is The Sun" by Queens of the Stone Age.

"In The Water Where The City Ends" by Simone White.

"Waltz for George" by Public Service Broadcasting.

"On The Other Side Of The World" by Matthew Halsall.

"Cities" by Talking Heads.

"French Disko" by Stereolab.

 

"Yaad-e-nabi gulshan mehka" by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

 

"For Tomorrow" by Blur.

 

Dinu Lipatti's Birthday

Here he plays Domenico Scarlatti's Piano Sonata in D Minor (K9 or L413 depending on your cataloguing preference).

Paul Robeson performs "Go Down Moses".

 

"Breathing Light" by Nitin Sawhney.

 

"Through The Collapse II: Gentian Truth" by Altar of Plagues.

 

"Entertain" by Sleater-Kinney. I think The Woods is Ivy's favoruite album at the moment. In so far as a two-year-old can have one...

"Madame Zehae Ala" by F. Kenya.

 

Chris Wood performs "One in a Million".

"Ambiguity" by David Thomas Broughton.

"Lacrimosa" from Zbigniew Preisner's Requiem for my Friend.

 

"One More Hour" by Sleater-Kinney.

"Spottieottiedopaliscious" by Outkast.

 

"Right On" by The Tony Williams Lifetime, one of Ivy's favourites today!

"Blues from Down Here" by TV On The Radio.

Scelsi's Piano Sonata No. 3, played by Elisabeth Klein.

"A.M. 180" by Grandaddy.

"Do The Evolution" by Pearl Jam. Fantastic video...

"Endings" by Wife.

"The Things You Notice" by Marnie Stern.

"Seconds" by Pulp.

"Jubilee Street" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

"Scattered Black and Whites" by Elbow.

"You Set The Scene" by Love.

 

"Taki pejzaż" by Ewa Demarczyk.

"Dead Bodies" by Air.

"Fernand" by Jacques Brel.

Today marks the 138th anniversary of Maurice Ravel's birth. Here, Vlado Perlemuter plays "Gaspard de la Nuit"...whilst chewing gum! Thanks to The Piano Files with Mark Ainley for bringing this performance to my attention.

"Bumble Bee" by JJ72.

"Unseen Harbor" by Mono.

"Waking Up Dead" by Eyes On Film.

"Little Man" by Atmosphere.

"Hunting Song" by Pentangle.

"Slow Show" by The National.

Van Cliburn has died. A hero in both the USA and Soviet Union following his triumph in the first International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, many of his recordings remain highly coveted. Here he plays Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12.

Richard Street of The Temptations has also died, after a short illness. The Temptations' legacy hardly needs restating - this is "Masterpiece".

"Everything Is Everything" by Lauryn Hill.

"Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)" by Donny Hathaway.

"A Funky Thide of Sings" by Billy Cobham.

The great Sister Rosetta Tharpe performs "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?"

 

Richard Dyer-Bennet performs his version of Lord Byron's "So We'll Go No More A-Roving".

"Shadow Of A Doubt" by Sonic Youth.

 

"Care of Cell 44" by The Zombies, from Odessey & Oracle.

 

"Two Sisters" by The Kinks.

 

"Flowers in May" by Simone White.

 

"Martha" by Tom Waits.

 

"The Rules" by Ben Kweller.

 

"Rat" by Unsane.

"Ces gens-là" by Jacques Brel.

"Fondu au noir" by Cœur de pirate.

"Paper" by Explode Into Colors.

Dohnányi performs his own "Variations on a Nursery Tune", accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir Adrian Boult.

 

Nina Simone's version of "The House of the Rising Sun".

"Strange Fruit" by Billie Holiday.

 

"Devil's Waitin'" by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

 

"Pioneer to the Falls" by Interpol.

 

"Terminus" by Unwound.

 

"Ali Maula Ali Maula Ali Dam Dam" by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

 

Radu Lupu plays Schubert's Piano Sonata No. 18 in G Major, D.894.

"The Unravelling" by Aereogramme.

"Asinine" by The Transpersonals.

 

"Tannhauser/Derivè" by Refused.

The legendary Josef Hofmann plays Liszt's solo piano transcription of Schubert's "Erlkönig".

Elvis Presley performs "Suspicious Minds" live. Sensational bass playing by Jerry Scheff.

"Wickerman" by Pulp.

"Neil Jung" by Teenage Fanclub.

"Trailer 3" by Mono & World's End Girlfriend.

 

"Tom the Model" by Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man.

 

"Baby Please Come Back Home" by J.J. Barnes.

 

"Two Dope Boyz (In A Cadillac)" by Outkast.

"Next Exit" by Interpol, worthy of a dance according to Ivy!

Alas, The Mars Volta are no more. Thanks for the wonderfully crazy drumming/guitar work and lyrics. This is "Drunkenship of Lanterns" from De-Loused in the Comatorium.

 

ABM plays "Chiariana" in a live performance of Schumann's Carnaval. Ivy was humming along to this (sort of) earlier.

"A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days" by The Chameleons.

Arthur Rubinstein plays Chopin's Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major.

 

"Blue" by Joni Mitchell.

"I Can Sing A Rainbow/Love Is Blue" by The Dells. A Chess/Cadet Records classic.

"My World Is..." by Blu & Exile.

"Something Sweet, Something Tender" by Eric Dolphy.

 

"The Beekeeper" by Dessa. The intro made Ivy gasp!

 

Miles Davis' version of "Nature Boy", from 1955's Blue Moods.

"Poltergeist" by Deftones.

 

"A Child Is Born" by Kenny Burrell.

 

Dinu Lipatti plays Chopin's Mazurka No. 32 in C Sharp Minor.

 

"Habitat" by Mos Def.

 

"The Gardener" by The Tallest Man on Earth.

 

"Blind Willie McTell" by Bob Dylan.

 

"Mercury" by Bloc Party.

"Hollow Mountain" by Efterklang.

"Naval" by Yann Tiersen.

"Heaven or Las Vegas" by Cocteau Twins.

"No Church in the Wild" by Kanye West and Jay-Z, featuring Frank Ocean.

"Fiend Discovered/Main Titles" from Marc Wilkinson's soundtrack to Blood On Satan's Claw.

"Yebo" by Mtume.

Claudio Arrau plays Chopin's Fantastie-Impromptu.

"Oats in the Water" by Ben Howard.

Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same live performance of "No Quarter".

"Faster Than The Setting Sun" by Fyfe Dangerfield.