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Channel 4 Series 2 Episode 1 https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-piano/on-demand/76068-002 The new search to unearth more of the UK's most exciting amateur pianists begins with a classically trained boxer, a dance DJ with the voice of an angel, and an 80-year-old romantic FC2 2024.04.28　The Piano　S-2 ep.1　Manchester VK 2024.04.28　The Piano　S-2 ep.1　Manchester DOWNLOAD ( password MFC ) 300 MB https://firestorage.com/download/aeee611a0aba476477f29c507a1d8a3ea8753c61

REVIEW Daily Mail Online https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13360153/The-Piano-viewers-moved-tears-man-dementia-tells-heartbreaking-struggle-syndrome-impressing-emotional-performance-beloved-wife.html 23:20, 28 April 2024 The Piano viewers moved to tears as man with dementia tells of his heartbreaking struggle with syndrome before impressing with emotional performance for beloved wife Viewers of The Piano were moved to tears as the popular show returned to Channel 4 for a second series on Sunday. A man with dementia impressed the crowd, host Claudia Winkleman and judges Mika and Lang Lang as he played at Manchester Piccadilly station. 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 diagnosed 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. 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 future is unknown. 'Duncan is everything to me, I would have him in any situation rather than not have him.' Duncan took to the piano at the station to play a song dedicated to his wife, named Theme for Fran. He said: 'It just gives me such total feeling about the girl I found and the girl I married, the girl I love and always will.' After Duncan's performance, presenter Claudia told Mika and Lang Lang: 'He is going to the concert, it is not a debate. '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 absolutely stunned, I think it will change my feelings for the future because I've always had this secret dream of somebody saying yeah, I really like.' The moment moved viewers to tears, with many taking to social media to express their feelings. One person wrote on Twitter: 'I was doing well until Duncan started playing and now I am in bits.' While someone else shared: 'Fran & Duncan. How beautiful. Total devotion to each other. Dementia is not only heartbreaking for the sufferer 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. Great to have #ThePiano back.' And someone else posted: 'Duncan on #ThePiano I’m gone!' One other viewer wrote: 'Duncan on the piano, his love for Fran spoke through every note played of his music, totally beautiful.' 'Wow that was emotional Duncan needs to get to the final,' shared another viewer, while someone else posted: 'No. Absolutely gone. Duncan and Fran have broken me.' Another viewer commented: '#ThePiano an Oasis of peace & sanity, so needed. I hope Ellis & Fred get opportunities from this but Duncan was a well-deserved winner. He has the most beautiful touch.' '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 simply 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 as well.' ( @TinyLove_CJ )

Off Topic I found Ellis ( a boxer ) was already in a short FILM last year. https://www.causeuk.com/sky-arts-features-cause-uk-film/ A new film championing working-class classical musicians is one of four short films commissioned by Sky Arts in recognition of Leeds Year of Culture. The new films will be broadcast on Sky Arts on Tuesday 19 December at 10pm. Sky Arts launched an opportunity earlier this year in partnership with Arts Council England, Leeds 2023, The Space and Studio12, asking artists to pitch ideas for a short film in response to the question: What’s worth fighting for? Working Classical Heroes tells the powerful story of 23-year-old Leeds boxer, Ellis Arey, who grew up in a council estate and went on to study piano at Leeds Conservatoire. The film culminates in a unique performance. Ellis was supported by Harrogate-based Cause UK, a B Corp agency that specialises in supporting the arts, as well as curating cultural events. The two directors of Cause UK, sisters Clair and Ann Challenor-Chadwick, produced the film and commissioned filmmaker Katie Greenhalf, who directed and edited the 10-minute film. Ellis won the 2022 Leeds Conservatoire Piano Competition sponsored by Besbrode Pianos, the owner of the UK’s largest piano store in Holbeck. Clair Challenor Chadwick, founder of Cause UK, said: “Cause UK has worked with Melvin Besbrode for many years now. An artist himself, Melvin supports new talent who often come and practice the piano at Besbrode Pianos. He told us about this working-class lad who was so unusual in the world of classical piano, because he was also a boxer.” Growing up with a single mum working multiple jobs to put food on the table, Ellis fell in love with classical music after his primary school played it at assembly. From a low-income family, he was eligible for a free music lesson and started learning piano at 11. When he was old enough, he worked part-time at the local Co-op to pay for private lessons. Ellis said: “I don’t really look like a classical pianist. I certainly don’t talk like one or act like one.” He took up boxing after being bullied at school. He said: “I wanted to get tough. But as I started to get into it, boxing grounded me. Boxing has done more for me in terms of getting me on a good path than anything else has.” Cause UK was recognised by the Arts Council as an infrastructure support agency for the arts after the pandemic. One of its projects was supporting the Skipton composer and conductor, Ben Crick, relaunch the newly reformed Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra to support freelance northern musicians. Clair said: “Ben is a real advocate for Yorkshire, and passionate about classical music being accessible to all. He’s down to earth, the son of a council worker and a teacher and the grandson of a miner, so he was perfect to write a piece especially for Ellis, to celebrate working classical heroes.” Ellis is now in his third year at Leeds Conservatoire.

REVIEW Wales Online https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/channel-4-piano-viewers-in-29075479 22:04, 28 APR 2024 Channel 4 The Piano viewers 'in bits' as man with dementia achieves 'secret dream' Duncan won over the hearts of the viewers and the judges on Channel 4's The Piano Popular Channel 4 show The Piano is back and viewers were moved to tears in the latest episode as a man with dementia wowed the crowd, host of the show Claudia Winkleman and judges Mika and Lang Lang. The series sees a piano taken to different train stations in the UK, in a bid to find Britain's best amateur pianist. In each episode, after everyone has performed, Mika and Lang Lang have to select one person to play at the special end-of-series concert. In the first episode of the new series, which began on Channel 4 on Sunday, April 28, Duncan won over the hearts of both the judges and the viewers at home. Performing at Manchester Piccadilly station Duncan, 80, was there with his wife Fran. Duncan has been playing the piano since he was four years old and the couple have been married for 42 years. Duncan has been diagnosed with dementia for two years and talking about 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 future is unknown. Duncan is everything to me, I would have him in any situation rather than not have him." Taking to the piano Duncan dedicated his song, called Theme for Fran, to his wife. Talking about the song, Lang Lang said: "It's beautiful... very romantic," and Duncan said: "It just gives me such total feeling about the girl I found and the girl I married, the girl I love and always will." After the performance, Claudia went up and told Mika and Lang Lang: "He is going to the concert, it is not a debate. It is important to have somebody like that and the fact he can speak through the piano." At the end of the show, Mika and Lang Lang did select Duncan to go through to the final concert. Duncan said: "I am absolutely stunned, I think it will change my feelings for the future because I've always had this secret dream of somebody saying yeah, I really like." Many viewers at home were emotional watching Duncan's story. One said: "Aww. Love this couple. #ThePiano". Another added: "Oh my goodness, I am new to #ThePiano on @Channel4 and I’m in bits already" and "Omg.... I'm (crying emoji) already and he’s not even started playing #ThePiano". A fourth said: "Oh Jesus, this story got to me even before the dementia was mentioned.... #ThePiano". And: "I was doing well until Duncan started playing and now I am in bits #ThePiano".

A Bitter REVIEW i News https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/piano-anodyne-fluff-viewers-idiots-3027772 April 28, 2024 9:00 pm The Piano review: Anodyne fluff that treats its viewers like idiots Even Claudia Winkleman can't compensate for this show's hollow concept, inconsistency and barrage of cliches If you missed the first series of the Channel 4 talent show The Piano, allow me to explain the concept. Contestants are amateur pianists from all walks of life, with varying degrees of musical training, who perform on a train station piano (a nice one, whisked away from the sticky-fingered public soon after filming). Unbeknown to them, two judges – the singer Mika and concert pianist Lang Lang – hide away watching, only to surprise them at the end and tell them that one of them has been chosen to participate in a special concert. It’s as though – and sorry if you’re squeamish – The Great Pottery Throwdown had a ménage à trois with Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents and The X Factor. The only thing is that here, in its second series, the game is up. Due to the success of the programme last year, if you’re invited by Channel 4 to play the piano in a train station and greeted by a beaming Claudia Winkleman you’re probably not going to believe anyone who tells you you’re being featured in a documentary. And so The Piano has solved the problem with a very exciting twist: it’s exactly the same, but now Mika and Lang Lang’s positioning in a staff room just above the main concourse is essentially pointless. First up, the team are in Manchester to hear from the city’s budding talents. I really tried to get on board. I liked all the people featured. But even the most moving personal stories cannot make me enjoy this, the most anodyne fluff you could possibly conceive of in dreams so un-wild even Carl Jung couldn’t read into them. Simply, it treats both its viewers and contestants like idiots. It’s as though the judges – who, by the way, have about as much chemistry as two different bottles of in-date semi-skimmed milk being mixed together – are doing charity work, never moving in their commentary beyond thrillingly original and #BeKind observations such as “never judge a book by it’s cover, it’s brilliant”. The ever-electric, warm and effervescent Winkleman does her best – but all this means is that the highlight of the whole hour is her brief flirtation with a sausage dog named Henry, who belongs to a member of the public who’s stopped to watch. Because the judges are, now for no good reason, in a room above the performers, every performance can be overcut with their commentary, like a TikTok explainer – this means that we don’t actually have the chance to hear or watch the performances in their entirety. Some, like 80-year-old Duncan’s piece written for his wife Fran, are beautiful and moving, but we only see half of them, being subjected instead to more green-top inanities. Again, I’m thrilled for the contestants who get a lot out of playing in public – but it seems to me that those performances would be just as meaningful in a small community, not splashed sensationally over the country’s TV screens. That The Piano is self-confessedly about the stories of its contestants rather than its central instrument means that there is no tangible judging criteria, no benchmark, no consistency. It might as well be Mel and Sue sitting up there, for all I learn about piano playing – and the stakes are extremely low. “Who will be the next… pianist?” asks the voiceover, immediately exposing the hollow concept of this show. I can see what it’s trying to do; I have no doubt the finalists’ concert will be a delight – but do we really need several hours of this before we get there? The contestants are largely very likeable and often talented. So all I can do is lament that they have been dragged into the result of a Friday afternoon Channel 4 meeting in which executives concluded that what the British public really needs isn’t culture or music or even in-depth human stories, but to gorge itself silly on a bottomless brunch of overseasoned sentimentalism.

Radio Times https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/ethan-the-piano-uncle-tribute-newsupdate/ Sunday, 28 April 2024 at 10:00 pm The Piano sees 9-year-old pay tribute to late uncle in heart-warming scenes The wholesome series return for a second season tonight. Channel 4's The Piano made a triumphant return to screens tonight (Sunday 28th April), with a new group of amateur pianists hoping to impress Mika and Lang Lang with their musical skills. 10 pianists all took to Manchester Piccadilly to share their music with commuters, Claudia Winkleman and the judges, and one pianist who blew everyone away was nine-year-old Ethan. Viewers were no doubt impressed that Ethan was already sitting his GCSEs and were warmed by his close relationship with his father, but it was piano skills that left everyone in awe. As he played Nocturne No.20 in C# Minor by Chopin, his father revealed that playing the piano allowed Ethan to express his emotions through music, more so following the death of his uncle. By entering your details, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. You can unsubscribe at any time. Ethan began to play and his father further explained that the song was what had been asked of him by his uncle for his funeral and saw an applause from onlookers. During Ethan's performance, Mika said: "It's totally breaking all the rules in every single way. The rhythm is being thrown into the air, but..." "... But it's beautiful," Lang Lang finished. "I like him." Once Ethan finished his performance, both Lang Lang and Mika got up from their seats and gave the nine-year-old a thumbs up as he exited the station. Unfortunately, Ethan was not chosen to play at the final concert as the judges chose Duncan – a pianist whom Winkleman previously said needed a place in the final. Duncan played an original Theme for Fran, his wife, and there wasn't a dry eye to be seen. Revealing the news that Duncan had earned a place to perform at the concert, Mika said: "There was one moment where we will able to understand why we are doing this all over again. The piano just had its place and the music just made sense and that was during the performance of Duncan." Next week, the trio are headed to Cardiff as they have to make an "impossible" decision on who will get a place in the concert. The Piano season 2 continues on Sunday 5th May at 9pm on Channel 4. Ethan on The Piano. Channel 4

REVIEW The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/28/the-piano-review-cockle-warming-tv-with-a-major-problem-at-its-core The Piano review – cockle-warming TV with a major problem at its core As people play their hearts out on station platforms, this is undoubtedly stirring stuff – but there’s always been something terribly odd plaguing it too The new series of The Piano confronts the obvious problem head on. “I thought we were one and done,” Claudia Winkleman says to the talent show’s judges, Mika and Lang Lang, because everyone will know now that the pair are hidden away somewhere, assessing all the amateur musicians who step forward to take their place at the public pianos stationed at various – well, stations – and selecting the winner from each concourse, who will go on to perform in a special concert at the end of the series. No matter, says Mika, wholly unconvincingly. It was the stories of the people that drove the series, not the big reveal. So, that apparently dealt with, on we go. The Piano is undeniably a cockle-warming endeavour. How could it not be? You’ve got Winkleman’s warmth plus iron control over the scene. You’ve got a variety of ordinary punters who wander up to the gleaming ivories – in Manchester Piccadilly for the opening episode – sit down, and are suddenly transformed into gods of music before an adoring crowd and exclaimed over by the world-renowned pianist Lang Lang and pop musician-of-the-people Mika. The selection process for these punters is still a mystery, but they are clearly a far cry from a random assortment. Everyone has a good story to tell or a revelatory taste in music. The Instagram-ready young blonde Brooke turns out to be a law student who loves classical music and plays Poulenc’s Novelette in E Minor, though narratively speaking she is beaten by Ellis, a boxer from a rough council estate (“high crime rate but we’ve got a Costa, so it’s all good,” he says, deadpan) whose mother saved up to buy him a keyboard from Argos when he was four. There was no money for lessons so he learned through council-funded schemes and his own hard work. He plays Chopin’s lyrical, lovely Ballade No 4 and takes everyone’s breath away. “Do you think he’s aware of how difficult this piece really is?” says Mika. Is that an odd thing to say? I feel it’s an odd thing to say – as if anyone from a council estate who can play such a piece must be a kind of idiot savant rather than a true musician. But The Piano has always had these odd moments, when we are pushed up against our prejudices, because they are (at least as much as the big reveal or the stories) what drives the show. Look, an old man can still play! Look, a nine-year-old who seems to be on the autistic spectrum can play with emotion! There is an unspoken agreement that it is as amazing Amy has pink hair and still likes Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata as that she is self-taught, via tutorials on the internet. On track … Fred, a gap-year student from the Caribbean, who plays Labrinth’s Beneath Your Beautiful.

REVIEW Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2024/04/28/the-piano-channel-4-review-series-2-claudia-winkleman/ 28 April 2024 • 10:00pm The Piano, Channel 4, series 2, review: X Factor-style sob stories have muscled in on the magic The second series of Claudia Winkleman, Lang Lang and Mika’s hit talent show has too many rehearsed stories – and singers Claudia Winkleman, a smart cookie, had her reservations about the second series of The Piano (Channel 4). “I don’t want you to take this the wrong way,” she tells judges Mika and Lang Lang, “but when we did this the first time I thought, ‘And we’re done.’” That’s because series one was a perfect, self-contained show. The hopefuls had no idea that the pop star and superstar pianist were secretly watching their performances, and that the best of them would be invited to perform at the Royal Festival Hall. With that element of surprise gone, the programme-makers are borrowing heavily from the Simon Cowell playbook. So when a woman called Emma played Abba’s The Winner Takes It All and an underwhelmed Mika said: “It’s just not working,” the next step was for him to ask: “Do you think she can play something else?” Emma was duly brought back, had an equally practised song up her sleeve, and appeared to wow the judges second time around. We have seen this many, many times on The X Factor. The auditionees have been chosen for their back stories, not their talent. Which is not to say they don’t have talent – nine-year-old Ethan, for example, was brilliant. But the music was clearly secondary in the producers’ eyes. Instead we had: a boxer who grew up on a needle-strewn council estate but can play Chopin; a young woman who arrived in the UK as a child refugee; a blind man with a guide dog; and the aforementioned Emma, who wept at the memory of her tough divorce. Young Ethan doesn’t seem to understand a lot of emotional feelings, his father said, but can express it through music. He played a song in memory of his uncle, who died from cancer a year ago. On top of that, there are too many singers. This is supposed to be a piano-playing contest, not a singing show. Like I said, though, Winkleman is a smart cookie. And she knows that viewers love emotional stories, and that those stories will eventually overpower any cynicism. Duncan, aged 80, played a piece he had composed for his wife, Fran. In the preamble video, it was revealed that Duncan has dementia. Claudia went up to see Mika and Lang Lang, to demand that Duncan go through to the final. “It’s not a debate,” she said firmly. “Duncan and Fran need it. And it’s also important to have somebody like that. The fact that he can speak through the piano, that’s what is keeping his disease at bay. And what are we if we are not putting that on the stage?” It was a forceful argument, and it won the day. Duncan, aged 80, played a piece he had composed for his wife, Fran

REVIEW The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-piano-series-2-review-mika-caudia-winkleman-lang-lang-jlctbbx5v The Piano series 2 review — still playing the sweetest music Also reviewed: Red Eye Sometimes I can watch a whole episode of The Piano and remain completely dry of eye. Not a droplet. Last night was not one of those occasions. I was blubbing within seconds of the first piano player striking up, and continued pretty much until the end. OK, I did stop briefly to say, “Eh? You’re having a laugh,” when the world-renowned pianist Lang Lang said he had never heard The Winner Takes It All by Abba. Astonishing. How he has got through the past 41 years as a WTIA virgin is baffling. Ellis, a boxer from a council estate whose mother had saved to buy him a keyboard from Argos, was the first up. He sat in the not beautiful surrounds of Piccadilly Station, Manchester, and played Chopin — beautifully. “For me classical music is the finest form of human expression,” said Ellis, who had the look of a young Sean Bean. He wasn’t put through for the big concert. Lang Lang and Mika, secreted in their room by the lavatories, said Salome, a political refugee from Georgia, had the best voice of anyone they had heard in the competition. She didn’t get through either. Obviously the judges’ “unseen observers” shtick was blown in series one, so they could run after Emma as she left the station to do a Simon Cowell and say, “Play a different song.” Which she did. And she didn’t get through. It was obvious who would be chosen the minute Claudia Winkleman went up to the room by the loos and told them: “What are we if we are not putting that on stage?” She meant lovely Duncan, 80, who has dementia and who played a love song for his wife, note-perfect. He said it made him feel full of emotion about “the girl I married, the girl I love and always will”. Blub. No, you’re the one honking into a hanky. It was the right choice, but even if it hadn’t been, you don’t disobey the woman from The Traitors. Pure, wholesome TV.

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