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Cellist performs Super Mario Bros with egg shaker to improve the world’s week

Cellist creates brilliant multitrack of the Mario Kart theme, with three cellos and an egg shaker

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Michelangelo's God

Artist brings famous historical portraits to life in hyperrealistic drawings

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Hong Kong Sinfonietta

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Lang Lang: net worth, injury, wife and more facts about the star pianist

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Ennio Morricone, immortalised on the streets of his beloved Rome.

Poignant Ennio Morricone street art appears in Rome, a day after the film composer’s death

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