Sophia Very true Sophia. That story about the tight rope performer is very sad. If I had been there I'd have noticed him, because I can't abide clowns. But thinking about it, Lord V does clown around at times - he's made videos wearing fancy dress outfits, using hammers and musical chicken toys, so he's not above doing whacky stuff to get a laugh. But even then he usually includes some impressive piano playing as well.
I've seen the many responses where people have challenged the choices for this top 10 list, so I did a quick search online to check the levels of these pieces in the ABRSM syllabus. Most of the pieces are grade 8, about 3 are regarded as diploma level and one is regarded as a virtuoso concert piece. There was no grade shown for Mozart's Sonata for 2 pianos - am I missing some widely known "in joke" about this piece? It looks tricky but even a beginner like me can see that it's not as difficult as the other 9 pieces (although if it was written for 2 but he's playing both parts at once that makes it doubly tricky).
Has anyone here played all 10 of these pieces? If so, colour me impressed. 🙂