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As I type (and for a few more hours yet) it's World Piano Day. So here's a highly topical playlist that I hope you'll enjoy... not just classical piano solo pieces, but some jazz and rock records where - in my opinion - the keys are, well, key.

Hope you are all taking care and keeping safe.

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Stephen Hough - Brahms: 'Clavierstücke, Op 118 13. No 3 in G minor: Ballade'

John Coltrane Quartet - 'Equinox'
(piano: McCoy Tyner)

Simon Jeffes - 'Silver Star of Bologna'

The Charlatans - 'Just When You're Thinkin' Things Over'
(piano: Rob Collins)

Víkingur Ólafsson - Glass: 'Études - No. 6'

Rubén González - 'Tumbao'

Ruth Willemse - Elgar: 'Sea Pictures, Op. 37: The Swimmer'
(piano: Vital Stahievitch)

Elvis Costello - 'Favourite Hour'

Pascal Rogé - Satie: 'Gnossiennes - No. 1 - Lent'

Grant Green - 'Idle Moments'
(piano: Duke Pearson)

Grigory Sokolov - Couperin: 'Le Tic Toc Choc Ou Les Maillotins for Piano'

Happy Mondays - 'Step On'
(keyboards: Paul Davis)

Imogen Cooper - Albéniz: 'Iberia, B. 47, Book 1 (Excerpts) : No. 3, El Corpus en Sevilla'

Herbie Hancock - 'Canteloupe Island'

Alexei Lubimov - Schubert: 'Impromptu, Op. 90 D. 899, No. 4 in A-Flat Minor: Allegretto'