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

David Walliams' Marvellous Musical Podcast

Global

Music, Education, Kids & Family

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0	This is a global original podcast from Classic FM.
0:11.1	Ah, the beautiful sound of the trumpet.
0:14.7	Truly one of the world's most elegant instruments.
0:18.1	Ah, David, that's not a trumpet. Ah, the beautiful sound of the bagpipes.
0:24.6	Truly one of the world's most elegant instruments.
0:27.6	It's a piano.
0:28.6	I don't think it is. I mean, it says piano here, but I assume that was a typo.
0:32.6	But fine, have it your way.
0:35.6	Ah, the piano. Truly one of the world's most elegant instruments.
0:41.1	Hi, I'm classical music expert David Williams, and today we're going to take a look at the piano
0:47.2	and lay out its colourful history in black and white. See another typo. How can you have colour in black and white? Because the keys are black and white. See, another typo. How can you have colour in black and white?
0:55.9	Because the keys are black and white.
0:58.0	This is nonsense and I refuse to continue.
1:01.3	You won't get your biscuit.
1:02.7	I take everything back.
1:04.0	Let's crack on.
1:06.3	The piano is one of the most famous instruments in the world.
1:10.2	It's known for beautiful pieces like Beethoven's Fur Elise, which we're listening to right now.
1:16.1	And when you listen to something as iconic as this piece, it's hard to imagine that there was a time when the piano simply didn't exist.
1:25.0	But for most of history, it didn't.
1:29.7	Morning, fellow 1600s peasant. What are you up to today?
1:34.1	Well, I'm not listening to the piano, that's for sure, hasn't been invented yet.
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