Chapter 192 The accident scene where the ensemble started
Three days later.
The fourth competition day of the International Mozart Competition.
Qin Jian woke up to the alarm clock at half past seven in the morning and went to the piano room alone again.
After two full days of practice, he could roughly complete the notation of the entire piece of music.
08:00.
Start with a scheduled one-hour warm-up exercise.
Under Chopin's hand position, various musical scales intertwined and cut through the streets in the early morning. The staff who came and went passing the door of the piano room would stop for a moment.
09:00.
When the alarm clock on his cell phone rang, Qin Jian stopped his warm-up exercises, sighed softly, stood up and relaxed his body.
Fifteen minutes later, I returned to the piano again, opened the space panel, and started processing the details of the first movement of Passion.
As the sheet music of the sonata collection in front of him slid, his fingers slowly moved.
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At the same time, Room 206, Apartment Building No. 12, West Building, Shuimoyuan Community, Nanshi.
The room with the curtains closed was extremely dark.
Waves of depressing piano sounds, like a nervous state with a little bit of frustration.
The woman in front of the piano had her hair disheveled, her eyes calmly looking at the extremely complicated music score in front of her, and her white hands jumping back and forth on the keys.
It's dazzling.
At the most exaggerated moment, the woman seemed to play more than ten notes in one second.
If you listen carefully, each sound seems to be independent and clear.
Full of graininess.
However, the fierce percussion rhythm and continuous dissonant chords make it difficult to enjoy a normal and beautiful music.
There is no strict harmonic structure of classicism, no gorgeous fantasy of romanticism, only profound abstraction that is full of collapse.
Yes, Bo one Pu two La three.
This one, together with Brahms’ First Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, is one of the three most difficult piano concertos in the world——
Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 2.
"This is a sound for the devil." On the day of Pu Er's premiere in 1923, a commentator said so.
The second difficulty lies in the contrast between control and tonality. The requirements for the pianist's sense of music are too high, let alone skills.
And at this moment.
It is such a piece of work that exudes some indescribable beauty when played by just one person on an ordinary upright piano without the concerto of a symphony orchestra.
With the stormy Allegro, the woman in front of the piano became wider and wider, and her hands on the keys swung back and forth more and more frequently. A sense of grand symphony gradually appeared in the music.
Just for a moment, it was silent again.
Sudden.
The sound of the piano once again returned to the baptism of the storm. The veins on the woman's hands popped out, and the backs of her hands were pressed against the keyboard. With a very disdainful noise, her hands quickly moved from the alto range to the treble range.
In the end, two sets of chords gently passed through a stormy sound sequence.
Close hand!
The picture freezes.
It was as if at this moment, the whole world was quiet.
After half a while.
The woman's heaving chest gradually calmed down.
With a beeping sound, she gently pressed the red dot recording on the phone screen.
【00:35:43】
After looking at the length of the recording, she hesitated for a moment and then sent the recording file.
[Recipient: Zhou Rong]
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Halfway through the fourth day of the Mozart Music Competition has ended, and the preliminary rounds of solo sharing in all major categories have ended.
According to official reports, all competition results will be announced before 2 p.m. tomorrow.
At the same time, the ensemble competition also comes.
12:16.
Qin Jian finished his morning practice and returned to the hotel.
Old Porter made a rare reappearance after disappearing for two days.
noon.
After a simple lunch, the three of them, one old and two young, went to the Tokyo Opera Concert Hall together to start the final preparations for the afternoon piano ensemble competition.
After final consideration, Qin and Jian decided to choose the Kawask series piano, which is more sensitive to touch keys, as the designated piano for the competition.
For this reason, Qin Jian specially asked Old Porter to do some small tricks on the hammer in the high range.
Ready together.
14:00.
Two ancient bells rang in the concert hall, and the piano ensemble competition officially kicked off.
Judging from the occupancy rate of the concert hall, it seems that the duet competition is more popular, and even the second-floor corridor is full of spectators.
As the host's announcement came to an end,
The first group of contestants took the stage. They were a pair from South Korea who looked like teachers and students, and the pieces they played were works by Schubert.
Throughout the melody with the high-pitched voice as the main theme, the obviously older performer takes on the more complex and dense parts of the ensemble.
His playing is more like a solo.
The bass player is just playing some simple chords.
"That's not quite right."
Looking at the four hands with seriously uncoordinated notes on the big screen, Qin Jian was a little confused. He had played this piece with He Jing before.
"cao, Bangzi changed the music score!"
Gradually, many people in the audience discovered this problem.
"stop."
With an exclamation from the judges' table, the performance on the stage stopped.
The person who spoke was a European judge. He stood up and looked very excited.
Then, there seemed to be a heated argument among the judges, which also caused the competition to be paused at the beginning.
But not long after, a staff member walked backstage from the judges' table holding a note.
After a while.
The host's voice sounded again in the hall.
Following a burst of jabbering English speeches, the contestants' seats in the audience instantly fell into a commotion.
"What's going on? What is he talking about?"
Qin Jian quickly asked aside.
Duan Ran frowned, "It probably means that the qualifications of the first group of contestants have been cancelled, and their results will not be included in the ranking. If the subsequent contestants modify their works without authorization, they will be dealt with in this way."
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A brief interlude.
The game continues.
After the unpleasant start, each group of contestants that followed seemed to become extra cautious.
For a while, the atmosphere in the stadium became a little depressing.
However, during the half-time match, Qin Jian also discovered some relatively strong combinations. Among the pairs from Australia that just ended, the player who played the bass part was the player who recently competed in the professional youth group.
The one with the loudest voice.
The strength of the pair of Japanese local players who are playing Slavic dance music at this moment cannot be underestimated.
The ensemble is not meant to be played alone. In this process, the degree of tacit understanding of cooperation is greater than individual ability.
"How are you? Are you feeling stressed?" Qin Jian asked lightly.
"It should feel easier." Duan Ran nodded, "However, the threshold for registration for the ensemble group is already low, so there is nothing interesting in the preliminary round. The real showdown should be in the final."
As applause rang out, the two contestants bowed and left the stage.
"The next group of contestants, Chi Heng/Fang Zongyao, are from China. The competition piece is Hungarian Dance No. 7, and the designated piano is yamah."