Episode 3: It takes one to (pia)no one

This instrument may seem pretty black and white, but there’s more to the piano than meets the eye. Join David Walliams as he travels inside the piano, discovers its most famous players and explores the unlikely ways it changed music forever.

Each episode is also accompanied by a playlist in Apple Music – you can find those here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/curator/classic-fm/1211395150

Music from:

Beethoven: Für Elise – Ronald Brautigam (BIS);

Mozart: Piano Sonata No.11 ‘Alla turca’ – Fazil Say (Warner);

J. S. Bach: Concerto in G major, BWV 973 – Richard Egarr (Harmonia Mundi);

Chopin: Nocturne in E flat major – Ji Liu (Classic FM);

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’ – Leif Ove Andsnes (Sony);

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 – Georges Cziffra (Warner);

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23 ‘Appassionata’ – Lang Lang (Sony)

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 – Leif Ove Andsnes (Warner);

Chopin: Piano Sonata No.3 – Martha Argerich (Warner);

Round Midnight – Thelonious Monk (Sony/ATV);

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue – André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra (Warner)

Things are Getting Better (Echobass)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23 ‘Appassionata’ – Lang Lang (Sony)

Each episode is also accompanied by a playlist in Apple Music – you can find those here - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/curator/classic-fm/1211395150

Release date

Lydbog: 6. februar 2019