The Piano review: This show's standout performer? A romantic OAP with dementia, 令状s ROLAND WHITE
The Piano (Channel 4)
Anybody who's ever struggled through Grade 1 規模s and broken chords will tell you that playing the piano isn't as 平易な as it can look.
So imagine what it must be like with Lang Lang, one of the world's most renowned ピアニストs, peering over your shoulder.
The Piano was one of the surprise 攻撃する，衝突するs of last year. It's essentially Britain's Got Talent for the keyboard, and the second series began last night in Manchester's Piccadilly 鉄道 駅／配置する.
Which meant that one moment we were listening to the tricky third movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and the next we heard that the Northern Service train to Windermere was at 壇・綱領・公約 14.
But last night's undoubted 星／主役にする was modest Duncan, 80 (pictured), a retired solicitor who had a love story with a poignant 新たな展開
He and his wife, Fran (pictured), first met in 1964 but she married somebody else. They 結局 設立する each other again, and have been married for 42 years
Now 苦しむing from dementia, he played ― from memory ― a song he wrote for Fran
Claudia Winkleman (centre) 現在のs the show with the help of Mika (権利) and Lang Lang (left) as 裁判官s
At least, I think that's what she said. いつかs it's tricky to tell with rail 告示s.
It was contestant Emma who had Lang Lang hovering behind her. She'd 初めは played The 勝利者 Takes It All, but the 裁判官s weren't at all impressed. Far too 平易な. They asked if she might play something else and she gave a flawless 業績／成果 of a work by Ludovico Einaudi. Pres umably unrehearsed, too.
Lang Lang, by the way, had never heard of The 勝利者 Takes It All, and fell for Mika's joke that it was by Nirvana. The unworldly 星／主役にする has also never eaten a pasty, and didn't know what Marmite was.
The Piano isn't really about music, it's about good stories. First to the 駅／配置する's Yamaha upright was Ellis, who was raised by a 選び出す／独身 parent on a 堅い 住宅 広い地所. He wore a hoodie and a nose （犯罪の）一味, and is a keen boxer.
Yet he had the most delicate touch as he played Chopin's Ballade No. 4. 'One of the 推論する／理由s I work so hard at the piano is that I have nothing to 落ちる 支援する on,' he said. Never 裁判官 by 外見s.
That also 適用するd to Brooke, who looked as if she'd arrived straight from a Love Island audition. She was tall, blonde, and could be mistaken for a beauty influencer. Yet she's 熟考する／考慮するing 法律 at university and wowed the 裁判官s with Poulenc.
First to the 駅／配置する's Yamaha upright was Ellis (pictured), who was raised by a 選び出す／独身 parent on a 堅い 住宅 広い地所
Yet he had the most delicate touch as he played Chopin's Ballade No. 4. 'One of the 推論する／理由s I work so hard at the piano is that I have nothing to 落ちる 支援する on,' he said. Never 裁判官 by 外見s
The Piano was one of the surprise 攻撃する，衝突するs of last year. It's essentially Britain's Got Talent for the keyboard, and the second series began last night in Manchester's Piccadilly 鉄道 駅／配置する
The Piano isn't really about music, it's about good stories
Were you 奮起させるd to （問題を）取り上げる the piano? Because another contestant 証明するd you don't even need lessons. Amy taught herself from YouTube, repeating pieces until she got them 権利.
But last night's undoubted 星／主役にする was modest Duncan, 80, a retired solicitor who had a love story with a poignant 新たな展開.
He and his wife, Fran, first met in 1964 but she married somebody else. They 結局 設立する each other again, and have been married for 42 years. Now 苦しむing from dementia, he played ― from memory ― a song he wrote for Fran. A large （人が）群がる gathered to watch, and he was 選ぶd to 成し遂げる in the show's final concert.
Was it the best 業績／成果? He ha d stiff 競争, but it was certainly the most moving ― and an example of how music can change lives for the better.
