When I clicked on the German link, I found this translation of the section where Mika talks about writing his album while his mother was fighting cancer. I think it's clearer than the translation above.

"I had to write the MNIMH album to pretend she wouldn't die and to make peace with the relationship I had with her. That was the process of this album, and it wasn't easy. But my mother was right, as always."

2 hours ago, dcdeb said:

 

I noticed Yasmine (and Julien Granel and Oli without Big Flo) at around 28 minutes (in Relax), then I noticed Mika's dad, followed a few seconds later by Beau and Yasmine, with Fortune and his husband (holding a little girl I suppose is Yasmine's daughter?) around 34 minutes (toward the end of Jane Birkin). I also saw Fortune and Beau and Paloma at other times.

 

I also saw several MFCers throughout the whole show!

Thank you! I'll look for them when I watch the show again. (The only names I don't know are Julien Grand and Oli but I'll see who is standing with Yasmine.)

2 hours ago, Hero said:

It's not time yet is it? 9.25 

2 hours ago, linzijay said:

I thought it was 9:15? And then MIKA said 21:00 in his story so it’s a bit confusing. This gives me hope though.

 

I thought it was at 9 too

6 minutes ago, dcdeb said:

I also wanted to mention how cool it was to see familiar faces in the audience, including Mika's family!

Do you remember when that was? His sisters ?

1 hour ago, QueenBigFat said:

Nope, not on ipad.

the other link works then stops.

i think that's it for me.

Sorry it didn't work.

Let's see what comes after the commercials

5 minutes ago, Hero said:

The listing says 9.25. Nearly there! 

what link are you using?

I hope someone records it

Now I have a series of random videos with Q Silelnce

why am i still getting Quotidien?

8 minutes ago, Kumazzz said:

 

 

https://www.infinite-streaming.live/tmc

 

You can capture-record (HD) if you like.

 

 

 

 

For some reason this link doesn't seem to work for me. Thanks anyway 😊

4 minutes ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

You do nothing.

Now you see the live program on TMC.

So when the time comes you will see the concert.

Below the screen there is a timeline and on the right you can see the concert.

It will change into color screen when it starts.

Thanks for the suggestion. At the moment I'm getting a live program with the link that is used in the US

4 hours ago, linzijay said:

This TMC live stream site has been working for me within the US so far: https://www.livehdtv.net/tmc/

I think this works for me too in Italy.

On 6/12/2024 at 12:07 AM, Kumazzz said:

 

Hope it works in US.

 

https://www.infinite-streaming.live/tmc

This is the image I get when I click on the link you posted.  What will I have to do when it's time for the 9.15 broadcast? Click on TMC that's listed on the right? Is there anything else I have to do?

24 minutes ago, Sara MG said:

Se mai facessero the piano in Italia con chi vi piacerebbe vedere Mika?

Non intendi un pianista di musica classica come Lang Lang, vero? Intendi un/a cantante che suona bene il piano?

1 hour ago, peroalessandra said:

In my opinion when Mika sayed about a project in a new language It was too much time ago to be related to the piano...maybe he had already contacts with spanish TV because he was already known there as  brilliant on TV but i think that the project of the piano in Spain in particular has Born After the succes of the piano UK, so i think it is more recent...that' s only my opinion...anyway if this helps him to have a greater public in a new country i am Happy for him ❤️

If Mika was talking about a NEW language, it couldn't have been Spanish then. 

Anyway, I guess I underestimated his ability in Spanish.

I'm happy for him too if this edition of The Piano is useful/enjoyable for him. I wonder if the show will eventually be broadcast in Mexico and South America as well - that too could help to increase his fan base. 😊 

Didn't Mika say some time ago that he was working on a language? But he already speaks Spanish a bit so I guess he needs to improve his ability to communicate.

9 minutes ago, Kumazzz said:

 

Andrew Lloyd Webber, he did.

 

 

Ah, of course I know the name. Funny I didn't understand 😄

Thank you 😊

19 hours ago, Kumazzz said:

Unfortunately, my VPN ( Tunnel Bear ) doesn't work... here is a screen captured file ( missed a few seconds )

 

ITV This Morning

https://www.itv.com/thismorning/articles/meet-the-inspirational-piano-player-that-defied-odds

 

Meet the inspirational piano player that defied odds

 

Tuesday 11 June at 11:50am

 

There wasn’t a dry eye in the house when 22-year-old Brad Kella performed his personally-composed piece on The Piano in Sunday night’s finale. The powerful piece, dedicated to his foster parents, won him the title of ‘Performance of the Night’ and has put Brad one step closer to achieving his dream of becoming a film composer.

 

Brad joins to tell us of his own story from growing up in the care system to inspiring the nation with his music.

 

 

 

 

The presenter mentions a famous musician (who knows  a lot about musical scores) who tweeted about Brad. Did anyone catch his name?

I prefer praise that doesn't try to knock someone else (Simon Cowell and his show) but otherwise I love this review. (Some of the pics from The Piano are cut in half - go to the yahoo website to see them in full.)

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/the-piano-succeeds-britains-got-talent-fails-124644191.html

Ian Hyland

Updated Mon 10 June 2024 at 2:46 pm CEST·5-min read

The second season of Channel 4's The Piano has proven that, sometimes, the simplest ideas can produce the most amazing results. Install some TV cameras at railway stations across the UK and invite members of the public to come and tickle the ivories of a grand piano you’ve left on the concourse.

 

Then throw in a twist — that they are being secretly watched from a hidden location by the best pianist on the planet, Lang Lang and world-renowned plinky plonk pop star Mika — and see what happens. When Channel 4 first tried this trick in 2023, with added Claudia Winkleman, it produced one of the TV moments of the year.

 

A blind and developmentally delayed 13-year-old girl called Lucy absolutely nailed her Chopin recital and left everyone who was watching her either speechless or in floods of tears. Or both.

 

It was easily the most life-affirming piece of television of the year. There was a problem though. The cat had been let out of the bag: Mika and Lang Lang could hide no more. So if the producers wanted to make another series how could they possibly hope to create a similar impact?

 

Mika, Claudia Winklaman and Lang Lang are the faces of The Piano. (Channel 4)

Seven weeks ago we found out. During a quick chat on the train up to Manchester for the first auditions, Winkleman, Mika and Lang Lang addressed the elephant in the room and quickly — and handily — decided that their jumping out of the giant birthday cake moment wasn’t that important to the show after all.

 

It was a bold call. But it proved to be absolutely spot on. The second series turned out to be even more joyful and exhilarating than the first, culminating in Sunday night’s grand final from the Aviva Studios in Manchester.

 

It also provided, on a weekly basis, the sort of genuinely gut-punching emotional backstories that Simon Cowell can only dream about these days. By the way, that must be extra satisfying for Mika, considering Cowell famously turned him down for a record deal over twenty years ago.

 

I don’t want to go too over the top, but one of the stories in last night’s finale could have been the ending of a movie. Alzheimer’s patient Duncan had a last-minute attack of the jitters and requested that his wife and carer Fran be allowed to sit next to him as he performed, in case he needed a verbal nudge.

 

 

 

 

 

He then gave a virtuoso performance, preceded by this address to the audience: "This is by way of saying thank you to Fran. I hope to give her a lasting memory of my love for her. Incidentally, I hope you enjoy it too."

 

The producers could not have scripted it better had they tried. However, the big difference between the backstories on The Piano and the likes of Britain’s Got Talent is that, even though you are fully aware of what Channel 4 is up to, it never feels like the audience or, more importantly, the contestant is being played. I’m not quite sure how The Piano manages to pull it off, but the results are often magical.

 

 

Daria and Claudia in The Piano. (Channel 4)

Perhaps it’s that we are not being asked to vote for anyone or to even have a favourite. We are simply being invited to enjoy each and every one of them.

 

Or maybe it’s because in some cases their life stories are fundamental to their music, rather than being useful bullet points on a judge’s script. There’s also no weary feeling that we’ll subsequently find out that some of them have a record deal or professional performances lurking on their CVs.

 

It could even be that Winkleman, Lang Lang and Mika appear so honest, and genuinely invested in the performances themselves that it rubs off on us.

 

 

 

I trust them so much I even managed to suppress my natural cynicism during the penultimate episode when Mika and Lang Lang threw a surprise wildcard, quirky Glaswegian singer-songwriter Alice, into the final at the last minute.

 

Now, some people may have thought this was because someone upstairs in Channel 4’s inclusion department had realised the two male judges had put five guys and just one girl through to their final six. However, I was happy with Mika’s explanation that the grand finale would benefit from having something a little more poppy on the bill.

 

As it happened, he was completely correct, with the addition of a string quartet further elevating “Edie”, Alice’s ode to her sister. It wasn’t enough though to win her the coveted Performance Of The Night award from Mika and Lang Lang. That went to a 22-year-old budding film score composer from Liverpool called Brad Kella.

Daria & Brad see the Performance space for the first time. (Channel 4)

Brad dedicated his — let’s be honest, pretty bloody breathtaking — piece to his foster carers, Ev and Frank, who had encouraged him to take up the piano back when he was a scared and confused little boy. If Brad’s performance didn’t have you dabbing your eyes, Ev and Frank’s real-time response to it in the stalls certainly would have done.

 

The thing that struck me the most, however, was the way Brad — at his moment of victory, and with no prompting — went along the line of his fellow performers and told them individually how wonderful they all were.

 

And that’s the real essence of The Piano. Nice people being nice. I know, right? Who would have ever thought that would make a great telly show?

1 minute ago, CharlotteL said:

Do we know if they‘re gonna upload another version of the concert episode like last year? Where it‘s just the performances without the backstage cuts?

I'm really hoping so but didn‘t they upload it straight after last year? 

That's what I remember.

How do I "unhide"  a post?    I wrote a comment that was several lines long, but then highlighted the last two since they could give away the winner (in case someone hasn't watched the final yet) and clicked on "hide" and my whole post disappeared.

Lovely, lovely, lovely!  

Lang Lang and Mika should be proud of their work as judges and mentors and I loved how supportive Claudia was of all the pianists (they were great). 

So glad Duncan not only got through his piece but was even able to make the audience laugh (I did too). 

I was really impressed with Daria - thought she might be chosen.

Thrilled for the performer of the night!

2 hours ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

 

 

 

Lang Lang is a world-class pianist but he's still able to  enjoy other people's music and shows it. I like that. 😊

1 hour ago, Anna Ko Kolkowska said:

And the final part when they had to put the show together. I was nervous with all of them 

 I can imagine!  I think all of us viewers who have been following these episodes will be hoping the pianists  do well in the finale, for their sake and joy.