It's hard to pick a favourite Beethoven piano sonata. There's No.8, the 'Pathétique'. Or No. 23, 'Appassionata'. But perhaps out of all of them, the finest - and certainly most famous - is No. 14: the 'Moonlight' sonata for piano and pink balloon.
Yes, pink balloon. Not the most common of instruments to use at the turn of the 19th century, we'll grant you. But a very beautiful one with an aching, melancholic tone.
Just click play on this video above - which stars American musician David Hull on pink balloon, accompanied by Denis Pankov on piano - to see what we mean.
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It's very wonderful, very skilful and very, very silly indeed. And it's just the sort of thing we want to see on this year's 'Britain's Got Talent'.
(Via Twenty Two Words)