A couple of quick ones today. Ludovico Einaudi's I Giorni (#84) is probably the least classical piece of music in the countdown so far. It's beautiful piano music sure, but it would fit better in an Instrumental Pop playlist than Classical Greats. As the YouTube commenters point out, it's hard to dislike Einaudi's simple, emotive melodies. Slap this over the credits of any film for instant catharsis. You might be able to tell, I'm a little ambivalent about Einaudi. Is he that

Has it become a cliché to talk about pre-lockdown art as being prescient? It's a word I keep reading at the moment. As if, like animals before an earthquake, the world's artists somehow sensed what was coming. Here's another offering with seemingly prophetic insight - Alone, not alone by instrumental composer Tiny Leaves (aka Joel Pike. Full disclosure: we're friends). The video for this release was produced by Joe Almond. As the title suggests, this is a piece of contradicti

Public Service Broadcasting isn't a band name that evokes scenes of sweaty, emotional fans chanting euphorically, but that's exactly what you get in this live video from 2016. This glorious combination of synth-rock with AV from NASA's archives is as compelling as, well, the gravitational pull of a small planet. This is living documentary. PSB play out the story of one of our greatest scientific achievements and actually arouse a fitting emotional response. A commenter report