547. The small list of 80 people is released. New York Steinway's little move?
Among the above four rules -
The first rule stipulates that everyone must play the repertoire, and there is nothing to say about it.
But when it came to the second item, Qin Jian was a little unsure.
He has been hesitating between these two numbers for some time, 41 and 56. The two numbers with completely different styles are his favorites, and he loves both.
Shen Qingci didn't say a word about this, but asked him to make his own decision, but it must be a decision made after careful consideration.
This is the first question at this stage.
The repertoire stipulated in Article 3 may seem complicated, but in reality it is still a choice between two. Either choose one of Chopin's sonatas as an option, or play all the preludes in Chopin Op.28 from beginning to end as an option.
.[Op.28, Chopin’s collection of preludes, contains 24 preludes, all of which are extremely short.]
Among the two options, Chopin's sonatas are a weakness of Qin Jian. Although Chopin only wrote three sonatas in his life, he has not practiced them systematically yet.
So if he were asked to make a choice at this stage, he would choose the latter without hesitation.
Qin Jian believes that it is exciting to connect these 24 works with completely different major and minor colors, different rhythm styles and characteristics and perform them in one breath in the third round of the competition.
And excitement itself is dynamic.
But Shen Qingci's last words last night made him sober up.
“There has never been a finalist in the history of the Chopin Competition who could skip the sonata and reach the final stage.”
Shen Qingci's words do not mean that you cannot enter the finals without playing the sonata in the third round. It can only be said that the players who have entered the finals in history have played the sonata in the third round.
But these words did remind Qin Jian - "Chopin's sonatas were indeed neglected by me."
Due to time and energy, he did not take all aspects into consideration in the previous stage.
This is his second music selection problem at this stage. He has to carefully consider between the sonata and op28.
As for the fourth item, you have to wait until Qin Jian has finalized all the previous works before he can make plans based on the final time total.
"There is still one month left until the time to submit the third round of tracks."
"Um--."
After opening the window of the piano room, a warm breeze blew in. Qin Jian gradually recovered his thoughts and already had a general direction in his mind.
Looking at the people on campus carrying their luggage and walking out, he sighed slightly, "There's enough time."
"start."
Deciding on the repertoire is Qin Jian's first priority at the moment, and he feels that he must start with sonatas.
Turning around and stretching, he sat in front of the piano and started today's morning exercise.
Sonatas are important, but the steps of piano practice should not be messed up.
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Accompanied by various scales and arpeggios playing sometimes fast and sometimes slow in the piano room, two hours passed quickly.
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At half past eleven, Qin Jian finished his morning exercise and took out a piece of bread from his bag for lunch.
After resting for less than a quarter of an hour, he took out three volumes of Chopin's sonatas.
Started practicing with 'Chopin Piano Sonata No. 1'.
"First movement, C minor."
The piano continued to play in the afternoon, and continued to tick.
Chopin's sonatas are also deeply rooted in people's hearts.
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Regarding these three works, Qin Jian has done some homework before, but he has never set aside time to practice them systematically.
This time, he decided to use half a month to touch these three works in detail. As for whether the touch was good or not, he didn't care for the time being. There were still five months before the main competition, so he had time to polish the works.
What he needs now is to determine the repertoire he will submit for the third round in half a month. If it is determined that he will submit a sonata, he must also know which one he will submit.
The afternoon passed quickly.
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At 19:30 in the evening, Qin Jian ended the practice.
"No call~"
After practicing for most of the day, Qin Jian had already given up on Chopin’s First Sonata.
This kind of giving up is not because he thinks this piece is not good, but after an afternoon of practice, he has determined that this piece is not suitable for appearing in his third round.
Of course, this piece is really not much better.
Looking at the work itself, there is a very weak sense of connection between each movement.
The structure and treatment of each movement also reveal a lack of support and imprecision that Qin Jian can feel.
In particular, what puzzles Qin Jian is the purpose of the purposeless "angry phrases" that appear from time to time in the work.
It can be seen that Chopin consciously imitated the dynamics of Beethoven's sonata structure in this piece, but the lines are filled with a weak climax with insufficient foreplay.
There is a saying, just as Chopin himself commented on this work, it was a naive work when he was young.
This sonata was the first sonata written by Chopin when he was in school at the age of 18. It was actually an after-school assignment given to his then harmony teacher Joseph.
So from this perspective, it is understandable that this work is full of unsuccessful exercises, and this bold attempt also provided great guidance for Chopin's later piano creations.
"Today's harvest is good."
It took me an afternoon to sort out the first ‘wrong’ answer, which was a step-by-step progress.
After simply cleaning up, Qin Jian left the piano room.
After passing by for a lonely dinner, I returned to the dormitory and talked on the phone with Duan Ran for a while, and then he started today's translation check-in.
Before going to bed, he opened "Baroque Music and Art History" and read it for a while.
A night of silence.
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Early the next morning, when Qin Jian opened his eyes and picked up his phone, he saw that among several messages from Duan Ran was mixed a message from He Jing.
Clicking on He Jing's information, there was a list that looked very foreign.
Then Qin Jian's eyes searched the list and suddenly smiled.
Although there were all English names in the picture, he quickly found the words ‘Jing He’.
Let it go: Congratulations to Teacher He for advancing to the next round
Let it go: take a look at the stage
Qin Jian was not surprised that He Jing passed the first round of the Fifty States Piano Competition.
After sending the message, he continued to search for other people's names in the form.
Soon, he found the names of Fang Zongyao and Zhao Yinuo one after another, but Feng Ziyan was nowhere to be found after looking through the entire list.
Seeing that there was no movement in the group of six little ones, he didn't ask any questions. After replying to Duan Ran's message, he got up, washed his backpack, left the dormitory again and rushed to the piano room.
At 11:30 p.m., Qin Jian finished his morning exercises and played Chopin's Second Piano Sonata.
"Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor"
"First movement, B flat minor, Adagio."
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Just practicing and thinking about it, this week flew by again.
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May 8.
18:14, piano room.
Qin Jian just finished today's practice and picked up his phone.
A message arrived on his phone just 25 minutes ago.