A new favourite

You know that bizarre advertising campaign that LloydsTSB is currently running, with that melancholy music with the annoying high-pitched female voice on it?

I've just come across the original version of the music for it on Napster, no voice, just piano and violin.  And it is sublimely, transcendentally gorgeous.  It is a tune called "Eliza's Aria" and it was composed by a woman by the name of Elena Kats-Chernin, an Australian composer originally from Tashkent.

I'm now listening to the entire album, 2005's "Ragtime and Blue".  Wow...I can't say anything except how beautiful the music is.

I love when I get turned on to something different like this.  So much so, that I'm off to buy the CD itself from Amazon...