Alan Rusbridger

Alan Rusbridger on the joys of four-hand piano

The piano duet catalogue is vast – and it's one of the few things two people can legally do indoors

The finale of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony for eight-hands, which Alan Rusbridger dares you to sight-read. Image: IMSLP 
issue 19 December 2020

One of the few social activities not yet prohibited under lockdown laws is four-handed piano playing.

I don’t mean sitting side-by-side at one keyboard. That would risk infection and, if snitched on, the possibility of sharing a prison cell with Piers Corbyn. No, the four hands must be divided equally across two pianos, and the instruments must be end-to-end.

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