The superstar pianist Lang Lang has played in the great concert halls of the world, at Buckingham Palace and an Olympic opening ceremony, but has never before had to compete with a recorded announcement from station security warning that bag thieves were operating in the area.
So it was on Friday, however, when the man routinely described as the greatest pianist alive found himself between some escalators, a bureau de change and a branch of Reiss, performing on an upright piano to a small crowd of startled travellers at St Pancras station in London.
