The latest from Le Musée d’Orsay's 'Box of Nuggets'. Performers of Freda Swain's 1950 piano quartet about the sea, dropped digitally into Henri-Edmond Cross's painting, Après-midi à Pardigon. Amid the AI dross on YouTube, a precious nugget of human creativity. Look at the resources put in play here!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6THV... From the Musee D'Orsay's delightful 'box of nuggets' series of works by 19th-20th century women composers, Louise Héritte-Viardot's 'Flies and butterflies' movement, with the performers digitally dropped into Berthe Morisot's 'Butterfly chase' painting.

For my 71st birthday, the hearteningly vivacious Cachua la Despedida: "I must be made of bronze, Or diamond, or of ruby. Either death is afraid of me, Or I shall not know death." Codex Trujillo, c.1780. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0UC...

Nothing you have seen in your life prepares you for Nestor Vega dancing the Malambo Mayor. You have seen your new look, while I have to go now and practice my zapateados and cepillados. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c4g...

So what we have here is a culturally totemic Mexican ballad, La Llorona, 'The Weeping Woman', back translated - because the story has pre-Hispanic roots - into Mayan, and sung by Leydi Jazmin. The lilting music is so in love with easeful death for the Medea figure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW2D...

Edith Pageaud put this on YouTube a few days ago. She's playing Scarlatti's B minor sonata, K27, in her own transcription:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPjB... More or less anyone can make music on a guitar, but to make a guitar sound like this! Watch her right hand. Consummate artistry.

Fugue for Saxophone in D Minor (Opening). French exponents of joyous pop, Deluxe, are confronting and reflecting a new seriousness in their forthcoming 7th album. Watch the big reveal in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1_...