The concept behind the hugely successful first season of Channel 4 show The Piano was simple: amateur pianists played in major train stations, without knowing they were being secretly watched by singer-songwriter Mika and Chinese piano virtuoso Lang Lang.
Previously Lucy Illingworth, a blind Yorkshire girl who won the first series aged 13, captured the judges’ attentions in series one after performing Chopin's Nocturne Opus 9, No 1 in B flat minor at Leeds Station. So the secret is very much out now – anyone who spotted presenter Claudia Winkleman in a train station would surely know what was going on.
He “banged out” a Chopin piece, then Mika appeared and Winkleman says: “I’ll never know what you said to him, but Mika whispered something to him and he did it again – and it was like a totally different piece of music.” All three can agree on one thing in this show: you never know what you’re going to get. Lucy actually won the first season with her rendition of Debussy’s Arabesque – but it’s not always about advanced classical music. “We never know what’s going to move you,” Mika notes.
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