What's this piano piece called?

[heart-of-wessex]

Hello all,

Help! I have had a serious earworm ever since hearing this and I cannot for the life of me think what it's called! It was played at Bournemouth Air Show but was on the live stream which was away from the crowd line, so you can only just hear it in the background, in the video jump to 41:00

Any help appreciated it really is bugging me, it was used in a commercial or two IIRC, but how do you google that!?

Thank you!

James.

 

[davehsug]

I tried very hard, but couldn't make anything significant out. What little I got sounded a bit Bach like, but it could have been anything really! sorry.

 

[RichJF]

Download the Shazam app & turn the volume up loud! It's pretty good for identifying obscure music.

 

[Trackman]

Just throwing this out there, I think it's Beethoven.

 

[swt_passenger]

Shazam reckons it‘s called “fade into darkness”, I think it must be the instrumental version:

 

[najaB]

Shazam reckons it‘s called “fade into darkness”, I think it must be the instrumental version:

That's a good shout - here's a piano version:

 

[heart-of-wessex]

Ahhh! Thank you very much! Didn't even realise it was Avicii, if that came up as a million pound question 'who is the artist of this track' I'd have never have got it!

I thought it was some classical piece, thank you for the help!

 

[androdas]

Which is a cover / sample of Perpetuum Mobile by Penguin Cafe Orchestra released in 1987

 

[najaB]

Which is a cover / sample of Perpetuum Mobile by Penguin Cafe Orchestra released in 1987

I suspect that's more likely to have been used in adverts, etc.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

I suspect that's more likely to have been used in adverts, etc.

It's been used in a fair few over the years. Mobile phone operator One2One used it in the 1990s in a series of ads in which a celebrity would pick a historical figure who they'd like to "have a One2One with". Among them footballer Ian Wright who picked Martin Luther King Jr.

 

[heart-of-wessex]

Ohhh now that has jogged my memory thats the version I was thinking of!

Thank you!

 

[Stathern Jc]

Which is a cover / sample of Perpetuum Mobile by Penguin Cafe Orchestra released in 1987

I'd thought it was earlier than 1987, so had a rummage in the shed and found the cassette version of their LP "Broadcasting From Home", which has done many a mile.
That was 1984 but didn't have this track on it, there a several others that are good listening. One that often crops up in the background of TV programmes and just as likely to cause earworm is "Music for a Found Harmonium".