Chapter 105: Federico debuts after the curtain ends three times
The eyes of the young man and woman briefly met again.
The facial features of the girl who had obviously put on makeup softened a little, removing part of the sense of alienation.
The speaker next to the big screen continued to sound the host's voice.
"She will bring the following tracks"
"Chopin etude——"
"op25.no2"
no2!?
The moment Qin Jian's eyes flickered, the girl turned around and walked quickly towards the passage leading to the stage.
A spotless white dress looks particularly fresh and holy under the dim light of the passage.
It's just that Qin Jian's eyes unnaturally fell on the other person's right little finger that was pressed against his thigh.
This is the first time Qin Jian noticed it.
It was a little finger with an extremely prominent joint and a somewhat severely bent finger.
"Instructor, Shen Qingci."
…
On the big screen, the audience's enthusiasm continued to rise with the appearance of the girl.
Pure audiences probably only know about Chopin, but they don't know that the three words "Shen Qingci" still represent the person closest to Chopin in China. However, they only need to hear the word Chopin to associate it with the gorgeous elegance that is about to be performed.
In the judges' seat, many people's eyes were different.
When the girl on the stage played the presto movement of a Beethoven sonata in the first round and ended hastily.
She received far more skepticism than praise.
Most judges felt her approach was too personal.
Most of the contestants thought she should play Chopin.
It's as if she must be treated differently because of her special status.
At this time, op25.no2, which is about to be performed between the girl and the piano, has completely whetted everyone's appetite.
This piece deserves everyone's attention, whether on stage or behind the scenes.
'Three degrees.'
This is just a title. Like "Revolution", "Torrent", "Butterfly" and "Gyro", "Third Degrees" is just a musical title among Chopin's 24 etudes.
The difficulty ranking of the entire set of Xiao Lian has always been controversial internationally, but even those commentators who always write art magazines out of touch with reality have to admit a fact.
The 'Third Degree' etude is a piece that many performers cannot conquer in their lifetime.
Every piano player who has experienced Xiao Lian's baptism has been abused by one of the twenty-four targeted techniques at one time or another.
But the scary thing about Third Degree is that 'it's just a piece of work, but almost everyone can encounter a technical difficulty in this piece that they can't solve no matter how hard they try.'
"TM, this fast song is a nightmare." After finishing this round of competition, a certain fat boy had already arrived in the auditorium, applauding along with the audience.
The girl in black dress sitting next to him also had a look full of expectation, "It is said that Shen Qingci sent away the third-degree etude in the fourth round of the Asia International Piano Open Competition fifteen years ago, which was known as R at the time.
The blind pianist Nobuyuki Tojin became a national champion and became famous after one battle."
"It's true or false. Why don't I know? Who did you listen to?"
Feng Xiaopang obviously didn't believe much in this rumor. He thought he knew more about Shen Qingci than the other party.
"Dean Wu."
"Uh... look, she's about to start."
Finally, the audience's applause stopped, and the girl on the stage was ready.
The left hand seems to be completely lying on the keys, while the five fingers of the right hand are like hooks.
The completely asymmetrical hands don't look awkward at all.
moment.
The fingers of her right hand started to move. She pressed down with four fingers and lifted them up instantly. Then she pressed down with two or five fingers. Then she pressed down with one or three fingers. Then she pressed with two or five fingers...
In this cycle, the dense and alternating sound effects quickly expand to the entire venue with the piano as the center.
The girl's right hand was like a typewriter, inputting each set of double tones accurately from the beginning.
After the left hand and pedal were added at the same time, the color of the entire melody changed significantly with the intensity.
The slightly delayed pronunciation of the left hand by 0.1 second makes the entire music fast and slow, and the speed is steady and forward.
"No wonder her left hand is stuck to the keys. She is using a large area of fingertips to touch the keys to cause a delay in pronunciation, thereby achieving speed coordination between her left and right hands."
“The slow crescendo in bar 18 feels like Friedman’s version.”
"I think her speed change is more like Borini's approach."
"Another first-class technical stream."
"This generation is indeed full of monsters."
In the middle and back area of the auditorium, there is also a row of young people sitting there. They came specially for this game today.
…
Backstage.
The five people in front of the screen were silent.
Qin Jian admitted that after Fang Zongyao's Ma Jiepa, he was shocked again by Duan Ran's three times.
Although the difficulty of the third degree varies from person to person, no one can avoid the double tone of the third degree in the right hand.
For a normal adult, how many consecutive groups can be achieved without making any mistakes by dividing the first four and twenty-fifth fingers of the right hand into two groups and alternately lifting and pressing them?
Regardless of the keyboard, Qin Jian had already started to rub his wrist after just pressing a few bars in the air.
Although the overall volume of the girl on stage was a bit low, it was enough to face the previous doubts.
Thinking about the girl's slightly deformed little finger on her right hand, Qin Jian immediately admired the girl on the stage even more.
"come on".
Although he really wanted to listen to the whole song, time did not allow it. Qin Jian sighed softly, stood up from the stool and stretched.
"It's almost time to get ready."
I wandered around the hall muttering to myself, and began to clean up the unnecessary rhythms and melodies in my mind.
The entire concert hall seemed to have briefly fallen silent into the Chopin world endowed with natural scenery, completely replacing the previous splendor, but this dreamy art of disguise was like a sky decorated with birds.
Fleeting.
All that's left are memories.
The last moment when the reverberation spread to the auditorium.
applause.
The girl performed a mysterious grafting of the beauty of nature with Chopin's third etude, which won her applause.
"This child knows what he is playing. Shen is not only an excellent performer, but also a brilliant guide. It is so rare to have such a young man, which is so valuable for the development of music in a country."
"Mr. Xiaolin, there are many outstanding young people in Country R."
"There are too many differences, too many differences."
The girl still had a calm expression, as if she had completed something insignificant. She came to the middle of the stage, bowed lightly, and walked off the stage from the other side.
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"The thirteenth contestant - Qin Jian, recommended by the Quan Provincial Musicians Association"
"He will bring the following tracks"
"Selected Piano Works by Mombo——"
"Girl in the Garden"
"Instructor, He Jing"
The host finished speaking.
The sliding door on the edge of the inner stage was opened.
I saw a young man in black pants and a white shirt calmly walking out.
As soon as the young man appeared on the stage, he looked deep into the auditorium, his wandering eyes seemed to be looking for something. Suddenly, the corners of his mouth pursed slightly, looking particularly gentle under the warm light of the stage.
The end of the young man's gaze.
The woman sighed softly, and with her eyes flashing, she threw away all the unnecessary emotions in her mind, leaving only two words, "Come on."
…
"Sure enough, it's him." In another row of seats not far from the woman, a young man sitting in the middle pushed up the frame of his glasses, with an excited expression on his face, "It's actually Federico Mombo,"
"Brother Heng, who is Mumbo?"
Who is Mombo?
This question not only exists in the audience, but even many contestants can't find the answer in their minds.
Zhao Yinuo was thinking again, Feng Ziyan was poking wildly with a cell phone without a signal bar, and Duan Ran frowned and looked at the leftmost person in the first row of judges' seats.
But on the far left side of the first row of judges' seats, the man's expression seemed a little abnormal, his shrunken pupils were no longer as calm as before, and his thoughts seemed to have been anchored...