Princess Kate and Princess Charlotte shocked everybody watching the Princess of Wales’s Christmas Carol Concert on Christmas Eve with a poignant piano duet, together with the classical music composer liable for the music. Erland Cooper, the 41-year-old Scottish composer who wrote “Holm Sound,” instructed BBC Breakfast that “it was a big surprise.”
“I’d had a chat with the princess earlier in the year and I knew she enjoyed playing this piece of music with family,” Erland mentioned. “It was a big surprise to be invited to Windsor Castle just last week and hear it performed by a pair of princesses.” At Windsor Castle, Princess Kate and Princess Charlotte “played [the song] several times and then they asked me to have a wee go as well,” mentioned Cooper. “I gave a few pointers, but I didn’t need to. I think I was there as a cheerleader.”
Princess Charlotte performs a piano duet together with her mom, Princess Kate.
(Image credit score: Royal Carols: Together At Christmas airs Christmas Eve, 7.25pm on ITV1 and ITVX. Stream on ITVX.)
Princess Kate and Princess Charlotte play Erland Cooper’s Holm Sound.
(Image credit score: Royal Carols: Together At Christmas airs Christmas Eve, 7.25pm on ITV1 and ITVX. Stream on ITVX.)
“Performing in front of a film crew and the person who wrote the music is a nerve-wracking thing for anybody, I’m sure,” the composer mentioned. He described Princess Charlotte as “very confident” and mentioned, “she played it really well. She plays it so beautifully.” The 2 minute, 55 second music has been streamed 15 million instances on Spotify and has 205,000 views on YouTube, with one commenter saying “Princess Catherine and Princess Charlotte brought me here. I’m staying for the sublime music.”
Holm Sound was initially written for Cooper’s mom, coincidentally additionally named Charlotte. The music is about motherhood and the “full circle moment” of fogeys, kids, and grandparents.The theme of the music was the proper selection for the Princess of Wales’s Christmas Carol Concert, which was centered round “love in all its forms.” The service was targeted on “love within families, through friendships, across communities, or even through powerful moments of connection with strangers. In a world that can often feel fragmented and disconnected, love is the force that reconnects us all – spanning generations, communities, cultures, and faiths.”
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