When classical pianist Alexis Ffrench got the call-up to perform at the King’s televised Coronation concert next Saturday, he was in his Leicestershire studio, overlooking a field of sheep who he greets out loud every day on an early-morning “thank you walk” through the Rutland hills.
“It was one of those real pinch-me moments,” he says, of seeing the “rather formal-looking” email drop into his inbox a couple of months ago. “There is surely no more joyful event than to celebrate a new king through music on stage in front of millions of people.”
