Britain’s Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte have performed together on the piano for Kate’s Christmas carol concert.
Mother and daughter sat together at the instrument to play a piece they know well by Scottish composer Erland Cooper.
The performance was for the Together at Christmas concert, held at Westminster Abbey on December 5th, and was pre-recorded last week so did not feature at the live event – but it was aired as part of the ITV1 screening of the service on Christmas Eve.
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A special duet playing Holm sound by Erland Cooper to open this year’s ‘Together at Christmas’ Carol Service.
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For the past five years, Kate has staged her celebration of Christmas, and at the inaugural event she surprised audiences by accompanying singer-songwriter Tom Walker on piano as he sang his Christmas song, For Those Who Can’t Be Here.
For her latest performance, the princess played Cooper’s piece Holm Sound using onyl her left hand, while Charlotte played with just her right in Windsor Castle’s Inner Hall.
Cooper said he was invited to the princesses’ recording of his music: “I was so impressed becuase they performed the piece in front of a crew of people,and also the composer who wrote it,and it was lovely.
“We all clapped at the end and celebrated that really sincere, poignant moment.”
The Scottish composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist, originally from the Orkney Islands, often combines field recordings with traditional orchestration and contemporary electronic elements in his work.
He is famed for burying the only copy of the master tape of his first classical album, Carve the Runes then Be Content with Silence, in Orkney in 2021, deleting all digital files of the work and letting nature alter the sound before it was unearthed and released a few years later to top the classical charts.
Cooper said about the mother and daughter performance: “I actually wrote it for my mum, and it’s a piece that’s actually about motherhood, so there’s this lovely sort of bit of serendipity there.
“Little Charlotte’s taking the melody, a bit like bird songs she’s sort of floating the melody and giving it a lilt, and the arpeggio on the chords are played by the princess as well – so a pair of princesses playing the piano.”
The princess and her daughter have enjoyed playing the piece together.
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