HOW TO PLAY K545

Well, mystery solved - it was Mozart's Piano Sonata no.16 in C major (K545). I found someone else whinging about it on a thread about ice cream vans.

It's a pretty little tune - typical Mozart, starts off sounding rather straightforward, rather like he's lifted it from a nursery rhyme, and then quickly, before you realise, it's turned into some fiendish finger work and flowing scale patterns and trilling counter melodies in the left hand. That'll be the diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle de diddle diddle diddles I mentioned.

He does this - he goes a bit showy with the diddles. Then, just when all that reaches a grand flourish and the left hand stretches down to the lower end of the keyboard to round it all up, he introduces the next section and it's even more prissy and floral and the audience gasps at the growing skill and precision of the pianist.

Back to the first section, round again, throw in a similar sounding section in a minor variant, back to the motif and end with a firmer left hand flourish to show that it is definitely over this time, and that is it. Mozart's Piano Sonata no.16 in C major, K545, first movement... done.

I'll have a 99 please and a can of Fanta.