The Queen Elizabeth Piano Competition is being held with great fanfare, and the world music community is paying great attention to it. After all, it is the top event in the industry, and it is reported vigorously all over the world.
Many related words have been on the real-time search lists of social networks in various countries many times.
Some of the more top-notch pianists are also sought after by both inside and outside the industry, and their popularity is unparalleled.
It can be said that during this period, the exposure of pianists increased exponentially.
The auditions are finally over and the elimination rounds begin immediately.
This competition will test the players' classical music performance ability. The pianists will be broken up into groups and randomly join one of the groups a, b, c, and d. The players in each group need to
Within a limited time, play one of the songs from the fixed list given by the organizer.
It is worth mentioning that the first place in each group will directly qualify, skip the semi-finals, and be sent to the finals.
This greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the players.
After the event officially started, a large number of music fans discussed the competition status of each group on Twitter and Facebook every day, and netizens also gave various analyzes to the first place candidate of each group.
People praise many great pianists in Europe and the United States, but they are not very optimistic about Asian pianists.
Because most of the repertoire played in the knockout round is classical music, the origin of classical music is in Europe after all. Asian pianists may be proficient in pop music, but when it comes to classical music, their camp of players is obviously stronger, and there are many piano players among them.
Disciples of the master participated.
Of course, all this discussion does not include Liao Yuan.
Liao Yuan is a monster, he has transcended the category of a player.
Because in the list of tracks given this time, there is actually a work by Liao Yuan - "Immortal Movement".
In the past two years since this piece came out, it can be said that it has stumped countless academic students. This piece is comparable to Liszt's twelve extraordinary piano etudes, and it is a piece of music that tests absolute hand speed.
Even some masters have a hard time playing this piece. Although it is not comparable to La San, the hand speed requirements are definitely higher than all the current pieces.
Therefore, when it appeared in the list column, the players were almost in mourning. Fortunately, the tracks were not specified, but distributed randomly.
Therefore, unless you are extremely unlucky and get this monster piece among the twelve pieces of music, most people will still have the opportunity to play songs such as Liszt's "Memories of Don Juan" or Debussy's "Moonlight"
etc.
Liao Yuan was assigned to Group C. There were not many great players in this group. There was only one well-known president of the American International Young Musicians Association, who came and went like a star.
In comparison, Group A is full of celebrities, including Laura and Lin Weiyin.
On the first day of the knockout round, Liao Yuan had no chance to play.
But even so, all the players in Group C also know that there is a high probability that Liao Yuan will win the first place in this group.
Because in addition to "Immortal Movement", Rachmaninov's "Second Piano Concerto" and Liszt's "Paganini Grande Etudes No. 3 "Bells"" that appear on the list are all considered to be Liao Yuan's
Strengths.
Especially for the song "Bell", Liao Yuan's version has long been exposed on the Internet, with more than 100,000 likes. This version is even used as a teaching material by many people, which is enough to give a glimpse of Liao Yuan's power.
Soon, two days passed.
During these two days, Lin Weiyin from Group A performed "Piano Sonata in A Minor", which is a piece in Mozart's collection and a widely circulated piece. Lin Weiyin played it perfectly with her superb skills
After listening to this piece of music, the delicate and deep emotions in the music won unanimous praise from the judges.
According to the rules, the judges did not announce the scores on the spot. Instead, they announced the scores on the official website after the performance of all the players in the knockout round. The first place in the four groups selected by the competition was selected and sent to the finals.
In addition to Lin Weiyin, Gao Feiliu, Zheng Junyi and others from Group B also completed their performances one after another.
The time came on the third day, and Liao Yuan finally came on stage.
Among the twelve classical music pieces, Liao Yuan drew the first piece from the famous French composer Maurice Ravel's masterpiece "Ghosts of the Night": "Naruto".
The whole piano piece is full of weird fantasy atmosphere and is very technical. It uses transparent and complex music to interpret the plaintive love of the water elves, which is quite expressive and profound.
Like the famous grand pianist Debussy, Ravel was also one of the famous Impressionist composers in the 19th century. He spent his whole life pursuing technical perfection, repeatedly scrutinizing and carefully sculpting each work without reaching extreme perfection.
Never give up.
He once said to his biographer Manuel: "My goal is technical perfection, because I know for sure that this goal can never be achieved, so I ask myself to keep getting closer to it."
Liao Yuan is not familiar with Ravel's works, but this does not hinder his performance.
Since the knockout repertoire was announced, he quickly studied all the repertoire carefully.
For Liao Yuan, even if it was his first day on stage, he did not panic at all. After all, at his level, sight-reading ability can be said to be commonplace. As long as there is a music score, there is no piece that he cannot play live.
Not to mention that in the past two days, he has also practiced a little in private.
Therefore, when he came on stage and played "Water Demon" perfectly with absolute hand speed and emotion, no one knew that three days ago, Liao Yuan was unfamiliar with this piece of music.
Under Liao Yuan's performance, the scene seemed to be roaring with strong winds and rain. In front of people, droplets of water fell from the sky, flowing along the blue glass windows. The ticking sound of the piano, at this moment, was like a woman's voice.
Singing softly in the abyss.
The difficulty of playing this piece is that the right hand needs to touch the keys lightly, steadily, quickly and without chaos to express the fluidity and granularity of water. It requires the player to have devilish skills, which is not difficult for Liao Yuan.
Therefore, a few short minutes passed, and when the sound of the piano disappeared, the song "Water Demon" was officially completed.
But people were still immersed in the eerie and cold music. They only felt a female voice singing with a smile in their ears, and felt chills all over their bodies.
When Liao Yuan stood up and left the scene, people applauded vigorously as if they were waking up from a dream.
Excellent performers are like this. No matter what kind of music they are, they can easily move the audience's emotions.
At the same time, Liao Yuan's performance was transmitted to all parts of the world through live cameras, arousing heated discussions among all the audiences who were paying attention to the game.
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