The Piano テレビ視聴者s moved to 涙／ほころびs as man with dementia tells of his heartbreaking struggle with syndrome before impressing with emotional 業績／成果 for beloved wife
テレビ視聴者s of?The Piano were moved to 涙／ほころびs as the popular show returned to Channel 4 for a second series on Sunday.
A?man with dementia impressed the （人が）群がる, host Claudia Winkleman and 裁判官s Mika and Lang Lang as he played at?Manchester Piccadilly 駅／配置する.
Duncan, 80, was seen with his wife Fran, with the couple having been married for 42 years.
He started playing the piano when he was just four years old but he was 診断するd with dementia six years ago.
Contestant Duncan told how he is still able to play but the couple spoke of how life has changed for both him and Fran since his diagnosis.
A man with dementia moved テレビ視聴者s of The Piano to 涙／ほころびs as the show returned to Channel 4 for a second series on Sunday
Duncan, 80, was seen with his wife Fran, with the couple having been married for 42 years
He started playing the piano when he was just four years old but he was 診断するd with dementia six years ago
Fran said: 'There is a vulnerability there now that wasn't there before and there is an awful lot more t hat I need to do... the 未来 is unknown.?
'Duncan is everything to me, I would have him in any 状況／情勢 rather than not have him.'
Duncan took to the piano at the 駅／配置する to play a song 献身的な to his wife, 指名するd?主題 for Fran.
He said: 'It just gives me such total feeling about the girl I 設立する and the girl I married, the girl I love and always will.'
After Duncan's 業績／成果, presenter Claudia told Mika and Lang Lang: 'He is going to the concert, it is not a 審議.
'It is important to have somebody like that and the fact he can speak through the piano.'
At the end of the episode, Mika and Lang Lang did choose Duncan to go through to the final, leaving the musician shocked.
He said: 'I am 絶対 stunned, I think it will change my feelings for the 未来 because I've always had this secret dream of somebody 説 yeah, I really like.'
Contestant Duncan told how he is still able to play but the couple spoke of how life has changed for both him and Fran since his diagnosis
Fran said: 'There is a vulnerability there now that wasn't there before and there is an awful lot more that I need to do... the 未来 is unknown'
Duncan?impressed the （人が）群がる, host Claudia Winkleman and 裁判官s Mika and Lang Lang as he played at Manchester Piccadilly 駅／配置する
Fran said of her husband:?'Duncan is everything to me, I would have him in any 状況／情勢 rather than not have him'
At the end of the episode, 裁判官s Mika (left) and Lang Lang (権利) did choose Duncan to go through to the final, leaving the musician shocked
The moment moved テレビ視聴者s to 涙／ほころびs, with many taking to social マスコミ to 表明する their feelings.?
One person wrote on Twitter: 'I was doing 井戸／弁護士席 until Duncan started playing and now I am in bits.'
While someone else 株d: 'Fran & Duncan. How beautiful. Total devotion to each other. Dementia is not only heartbreaking for the 苦しんでいる人 but so cruel to their loved ones. It’s unspeakably cruel to watch the person you love fade away.'
Another person wrote: 'Duncan has dementia, but speaks through music. 広大な／多数の／重要な to have?#ThePiano 支援する.'
And someone else 地位，任命するd: 'Duncan on #ThePiano I’m gone!'
One other テレビ視聴者 wrote: 'Duncan on the piano, his love for Fran spoke through every 公式文書，認める played of his music, 全く beautiful.'
'Wow that was emotional Duncan needs to get to the final,' 株d another テレビ視聴者, while someone else 地位，任命するd: 'No. 絶対 gone. Duncan and Fran have broken me.'
Another テレビ視聴者 commented: '#ThePiano an Oasis of peace & sanity, so needed. I hope Ellis & Fred get 適切な時期s from this but Duncan was a 井戸／弁護士席-deserved 勝利者. He has the most beautiful touch.'
The moment moved テレビ視聴者s to 涙／ほころびs, with many taking to social マスコミ to 表明する their feelings
'Bless Claudia Winkleman. That reaction to Duncan getting the news was just wonderful.?She really is the perfect presenter of The Piano,' wrote someone else.
While someone else wrote: 'First episode of The Piano was 簡単に wonderful! Duncan stole my heart as he did at the final concert too. The camaraderie between Claudia, Mika and Lang Lang is always lovely to see 同様に.'
テレビ視聴者s of Channel 4's The Piano were left captivated by the 勝利を得た 業績／成果 on the show's debut from then-13-year-old blind and autistic girl, Lucy Illingworth.
The 十代の少年少女 from Halifax in West Yorkshire moved テレビ視聴者s to 涙／ほころびs with an awe-奮起させるing recital of?Debussy's Arabesque, 主要な 裁判官s Lang Land and Mika to call her a 'genius'.
One year on and the moment was 指名するd for a BAFTA, in a 部類 with scenes from Doctor Who, Succession and Happy Valley.
Also since her amazing 業績／成果 on the Channel 4 talent show, Lucy has 成し遂げるd to a packed 王室の Albert Hall, and left the King and Queen speechless as King Charles III's 載冠（式）／即位（式） concert.
So, where is Lucy now, as The Piano returns to find another hidden musical 星／主役にする??
On her way to The Piano's final, Lucy wowed passers by at 物陰／風下d train 駅／配置する with her rendition of Chopin's Nocturne in B-flat minor, with the ビデオ 存在 見解（をとる）d over five million times online.?
テレビ視聴者s of Channel 4 's The Piano were left captivated by the 勝利を得た 業績／成果 on the show's debut from 13-year-old blind and autistic girl, Lucy in the show's 2023 debut
She went on to put in the 'best 業績／成果' at the show's concert finale at the 王室の Festival Hall
In the months after the programme 空気／公表するd, Lucy left the newly-栄冠を与えるd King and Queen speechless during a 業績／成果 at their 載冠（式）／即位（式） concert (pictured)
The ピアニスト, who was born with cancerous tumours in her 注目する，もくろむs and is 大部分は 非，不，無-言葉の, was put 今後 by her mother Candice 今後 for the 競争 as she 手配中の，お尋ね者 to show others how 'amazing' she was and raise 認識／意識性 of her 条件.?
Her 業績／成果 has landed her and the programme in the Best Moment 部類 at the?BAFTA Television Awards - which take place on May 12.
Other 指名された人s in the 部類 are: David Beckham teasing Victoria about her 'working class' しつけ in their Netflix 文書の, Ncuti Gatwa 存在 明らかにする／漏らすd as the 15th Doctor in Doctor Who,?Catherine Cawood and Tommy 物陰／風下 Royce's final 対決 on BBC One's Happy Valley, 法案 and Frank's Story in Sky 大西洋 series The Last Of Us and Logan Roy's death in Succession on the same channel.
Since 記録，記録的な／記録するing the show, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, Lucy has been learning more and more pieces by artists 含むing Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Stevie Wonder.
いっそう少なく than two months after her 勝利，勝つ 空気／公表するd, Lucy wowed the newly-栄冠を与えるd King and Queen, 同様に as tens of thousands more 観客s, at Charles' 載冠（式）／即位（式） concert in Windsor.
She was on the 法案 と一緒に world-renowned artists like Lionel Richie and Nicole Scherzinger.
A few months later, in October 2023, Lucy played to the 王室の Albert Hall, with a repeat of her show-stopping?Arabesque rendition from The Piano 同様に as playing Bach's 序幕 in C to a 十分な house at Classic FM Live.
The 無線で通信する 駅／配置する's 地位，任命する of the 業績／成果 online received their largest 見解（をとる）ing 人物／姿／数字 ever with over 11million 見解（をとる）s.
Pictured: The blind musician (centre) at the 載冠（式）／即位（式） concert with mother Candice, left, and her teaching assistant?Lisa, 権利
Lucy 成し遂げるd with The Piano 裁判官 and ピアニスト Lang Lang at 2023's 王室の Variety 業績／成果 at the 王室の Albert Hall (pictured together)
The ピアニスト is 始める，決める to 星／主役にする in a 70-minute Channel 4 文書の, The Incredibly Talented Lucy, which will 焦点（を合わせる） on her? and her music teacher Daniel Bath (pictured with Lucy)
Lucy returned to the 発生地 two months later to play the ITV 王室の Variety 業績／成果.
That will not be the talent's final TV 外見, as she is 始める，決める to 星／主役にする in a 70-minute Channel 4 文書の,?The Incredibly Talented Lucy.
The film will 焦点（を合わせる） on?Lucy and her music teacher Daniel Bath, who have been working together since the former was just three years old.
Lucy had started plaing the keyboard even earlier - 老年の two, and received lessons from Daniel through the musical charity The Amber 信用.?
Daniel 解任するd 以前: 'I first met Lucy in ball pool at school and I couldn't see anyone in the room at first. And then I saw this little 手渡す sticking out of the ball pool.
'And someone said "Oh that's Lucy". So I put a little keyboard under the 手渡す, and the 手渡す started playing, rather mutinously, Twinkle Twinkle Little 星／主役にする.
'And I thought: "Here's a girl for whom music is really important."
'And it could it be a way of 打ち明けるing her language, her social 技術s, and above all, her enjoyment of life.'
Lucy?was born with cancerous tumours in her 注目する，もくろむs and is 大部分は 非，不，無-言葉の
She started playing the keyboard age two, and had lessons with Daniel from a year later
Daniel said lessons were hard at first as Lucy couldn't listen to a piece for more than 10 seconds before she got impatient and would 押し進める his 手渡すs out of the way
The family 昇格d her keyboard and realised she was composing music in her 長，率いる while sitting on the sofa. She was also able to play 支援する music after listening to it just once.
'From a fairy tale 調書をとる／予約する with a piano on it, she started playing Twinkle Twinkle Little 星／主役にする but it was pitch perfect. It was such a moment to hear that,' Lucy's mother Candice 解任するd.
Daniel said lessons weren't 平易な at first as he had to 人物／姿／数字 out how to teach and make the most of her talent.
When he first started teaching, Lucy couldn't listen to a piece for more than 10 seconds before she got impatient and would 押し進める his 手渡すs out of the way.
By her teenage years, he would play the entire the piece to Lucy before asking her to recite what she remembered 審理，公聴会.
He said: 'You can't teach Lucy, you can only guide her in the 旅行.'
They teach the 手渡すs 分かれて, with Daniel 説 he has to 肉体的に 選ぶ her 手渡すs up at times so they can jump over each other.?
They teach the 手渡すs 分かれて, with Daniel 説 he has to 肉体的に 選ぶ her 手渡すs up at times so they can jump over each other
By her teenage years, Daniel would play the entire the piece to Lucy before asking her to recite what she remembered 審理，公聴会
Lucy's 外見 on The Piano has been 指名するd for a BAFTA Television Award
The pair work together with Lucy putting her 手渡す underneath Daniel's, with Daniel still playing, 圧力（をかける）ing her fingers 負かす／撃墜する gently before she tries the piece on her own.
'She loves to improvise, she loves playing jazz and the social interplay of that', he 追加するd.
Lucy 反応するs to the music with her 団体／死体, 特に her 長，率いる and 脚, which Daniel said he いつかs has to hone her energy to her fingertips.
This was 明らかな in her uniquely captivating 業績／成果s on The Piano, which could earn Lucy a BAFTA on Sunday, May 12.?
