A collection of 25 TV reality show episodes of Ricardo Musica expeditions, each featuring me playing a different Mozart piano concerto in unusual places around the world. Accompanied by videos of each full live performance.

Each Ricardo Musica TV reality episode will recount various logistical, musical, cultural, social and personal challenges we overcome in the course of one day visiting one unusual location to play one or more Mozart piano concertos:-

• how we reach it and leave it intact (with grand piano in each case)

• how we give there, towards the end of that one day, one complete live performance of one or more of Mozart's 27 piano concertos —a  different one in each of around 27 locations — with local musicians if any. Each location = one episode and at least one piano concerto played live complete

• each episode will contain highlights of each performance. We'll post a separate video of the entire live performance on our YouTube channel.

Is it doable? Will we make it there and back? Will we get the music right? Will we find what we're looking for? What will the locals think? Will the film and sound crews do a good job recording it all? Will we have the money to do it?

Twenty-seven concertos to get done. How, when, where, who? Follow as we digest the latest urge and an infinity of unusual venues in unconventional locations. Any ideas? How do we choose the concertos, the locations, the venues? How do we cover expenses in advance? Watch our fixers do the arithmetic, networking, planning and logistics. Recruit some players to take with us. Pre-sell to TV stations, sponsors, advertisers etc.? If not, how can we afford it? 

Decided, funded and organised, let's get there. Not always easy. Challenges, obstacles, flat tyres, insane itineraries, nail-biting adventures. Will we run out of money? Who will quit first? Will the grand piano survive? Will we make it? 

We are welcomed (or not) by our local contacts. Is the air breathable, the water drinkable? Introductions, socialising, exhorting, exploring. Did I bring the music? Where's my box of nail clippers? Where can I buy my preferred brand of chocolate-coated dental floss? 

Let's put our phrasebook to good use. Where is the nearest postilion? Where can I telegraph the steamship company about my reservation / request for an outside cabin / missing trunk / complaint about the fish course? Please ask a doctor to come to my hotel room immediately for I have ascites / mange / leprosy / dandruff / a hangnail. Where can I obtain without prescription Tiffgler's balsam embrocation? 

(Serious travel tip: apply direct to a very itchy mosquito stab a dab of strong anti-bacterial toothpaste and a little water and forget about it. More effective, in our experience, than anti-histamine and 1% cortisone.)

We venture to locate and audition local musicians (who might have never heard Western classical music). We are most interested in their local instruments and musical ideas. A quest for other receptive types. One of the grand piano's three legs is missing. Who will notice? Where's breakfast?

At the appointed hour on the appointed day at the appointed place shall also foregather film crew, sound recordists, director, piano tuner, other players if any, local helpers, local TV if interested, and various others. Each of us will know the basics of what we're about, and will have been thinking about it a while, but there will be elements of novelty for everyone. Is the chemistry right?

Each musician practises his part by himself for a while, in his own quiet spot. Setting up and tuning the grand piano. (What if it's now a quarter-tone sharp?) Which way up that pesky paper with all the dots? Technical problems of playing. Memorising. Interpretation: what works musically and doesn't. New readings of old favourites. What would sound familiar to Mozart (1756-1791; we'll hold seances and ask him). Intriguing peek into individual music-making. At least one Ricardo Musica master class. Now you're hooked.

The players have mastered their respective parts individually. Now let's convene for a short while and run through it together. Nothing hack. No dysplaying or other clowning. No conducting. No compromises. Do we all know the music backwards? Why not? How does it sound? Squeezing the last drop of sklernsk out of every note. Distinctively fresh and original. Intriguing peek into collective music-making. Fascinating back stage view of how a performance is assembled. Lunch.

An interlude. Franklin Engelmann and Charles Kuralt style, I'll be going out and about with a huge microphone, handheld video camera and professional pocket recorder, in search of fun and good conversation. You'll feel connected to genuine folks you thought had become extinct. We'll talk about local culture and customs, flora and fauna, attractions, distractions, birdsong, history, architecture, controversies, businesses, industries, eccentrics, weirdos, poverty and wealth, joy and sadness, life and death.

We've accomplished much. It's now tea time. More eating, preferably involving chocolate spongecake or similar. Napping, strolling, relaxing, ruminating. Is the piano surviving the local climate? Do we have enough entertaining footage? Do we go in search of more adventure or not? Let's track down interesting local stuff to sell on the Ricardo Musica online store.

Each episode's afternoon or evening culmination: now we'll play the designated practised rehearsed Mozart piano concerto(s) live, spontaneously, right then and there. No big-deal ticketed events. No concert format. No concert seating. No conventional concert atmosphere. All free. Somewhere unconventional, for anyone around at the time. Makeup, costumes, disguises. Savvy advertising and product placements. 

We don't care if no-one is around except us and the film crew. (The audience we do care about is the multitude who will enjoy the two recorded products below.) 

Will we get through it?

Let's score some dinner. We'll go house to house as needed. Watch us do chores. Where to sleep? Putting the piano and other instruments to bed. Time for a late supper and an attempt to make chocolate mousse. More local experiences: cooking talents, produce, recipes, sounds, sights, smells… Midnight snack now overdue, surely?

We've barely got to know you — so much more to play, discover, enjoy, consider, eat and discuss before we go. But in twenty-four hours or less — before we're run out of town —we'll be picking up the pieces, piling into the minibus, bidding "Goodbye!" and slogging on to the next or wherever. Another concerto or two in the can. 

All this to create two principal products per expedition:-

TV REALITY SHOW — over time, a series of twenty or more episodes — each of around 40 minutes — each in a different unusual location — each featuring fun, adventure, music-making as I go around the world playing all 27 Mozart piano concertos live with local musicians — extracts from each live performance. Hopefully sold to TV stations. Sponsors, advertisers and their products appropriately spotlighted

FULL PERFORMANCE VIDEO — over the same time, a separate companion series of twenty-seven videos, posted on our YouTube channel, featuring each episode's complete live performance.

Who's who, what's what, and our special Oil Can Nossen animation. See who has done the playing, organising, advertising, sponsoring, lighting, filming, sound recording, makeup, costumes, Szrabe's gowns, transport, editing, other post-production, etc.