Following the host's track preview, Duan Ran appeared on the stage.
The audience burst into enthusiastic applause.
This applause is given to the Chinese girl and also gives her the track list for this round.
The Chinese girl who always chooses to be eccentric in her music selection still brought an unusual expectation to the concert hall at the beginning of the performance.
Offstage, Duan Honglin and Chaoge sat in two corners of the concert hall and watched their daughter's every move on the stage.
The three members of Qin Gang's family also rushed to the scene today. It is reasonable that they should come to support the Duan girl's competition.
Naturally, Shen Qingci, Liao Linjun and others were also indispensable among the audience. Rigel also rushed to Warsaw yesterday after finishing his school affairs.
Relatives, friends and teachers are all in place.
Duan Ran started her current performance, 'op4, Piano Sonata No. 1 in C minor.'
After 20 years and four competitions, Chopin’s Sonata No. 1 once again appeared in the Chopin Competition.
The soft stage light shines on the Steinway piano, and ten slender fingers outline the complicated rhythms on the black and white keyboard.
This complex melody belongs to Chopin when he was eighteen years old. Chopin composed the first piano sonata in his life when he was a dreamy adult.
Chopin only wrote three sonatas in his life, all of which were selected for the third round of the Chopin competition.
Among the 18 contestants who have appeared in the third round of this year, 8 contestants chose the second sonata, and the remaining 10 contestants chose the third sonata.
This situation is largely the same as in previous games.
Perhaps the monotonous melody and single motive of Sonata No. 1 made most contestants not optimistic about it.
After all, no player wants to spend nearly thirty minutes playing so that people will forget about it.
Everyone is here to participate in a competition. In comparison, the First Sonata is not suitable for competition.
Duan Ran also came to the competition, but she decided to play this piece from the beginning.
Compared with the heaviness of the Second Sonata and the grandeur of the Third Sonata, she was more moved by the youthful nature flowing in the First Sonata.
Underneath the difficult melody, she felt a youthful fearlessness.
She didn't care about the final ranking from the beginning, she only believed in her own choice.
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The more grand the competition, the more exciting it will be because of such players. When Duan Ran finished playing the first movement, many Chopin fans on the stage were extremely excited.
They really love Chopin and have traveled thousands of miles from all over the world to listen to the performances of Chopin young pianists who are considered the best in the world.
They like every work of Chopin, but they rarely hear Chopin's First Sonata live in their lives. This work rarely appears in concerts.
And Duan Ran gave them such an opportunity.
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The second movement is a minuet, the only minuet Chopin ever wrote.
Duan Ran's fast and ruthless playing style gives the minuet the simplicity of classical dance music.
In the three and four consecutive movements, her musical thoughts are reminiscent of Beethoven's profoundness, and at the same time, Chopin's inner thoughts are also included.
The slender brilliance and energetic rondo are like a young man’s sweet and imaginative yearning for life.
Although the development of the musical image was not compact and refined at the end due to Chopin's lack of composition skills when he was young.
But when this poem of a Western boy, hidden under many works, is played in the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall by the hands of a modern Eastern girl, is the image that the music itself is trying to create really so important?
This question is not only one that judges should think about.
After finishing the performance of the sonata, Duan Ran began to perform a piece of his own choice.
The composition of three continuous waltzes + one nocturne is extremely innovative.
This made the two teachers in the audience at a loss what to say.
Shen Qingci handed Duan Ran over to Rigel, but Rigel felt that he could not truly communicate with Duan Ran from the beginning to the end.
The other person will only smile like a little fox when he wants to ask for leave.
Rigel was helpless, but he liked this talented girl, and he had always used his own way to guide her as much as possible.
Judging from Duan Ran's current performance, he was very pleased that she had not turned a deaf ear to the things he had warned her about.
But from a competition perspective, he is worried because not all good performances are suitable for appearing on the court.
Of the 21 people, only 10 or less are destined to remain.
Rigel has also experienced this scene.
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As the quiet nocturne ended, Duan Ran began to play the last piece - the mazurka.
‘op33’
The wind blew the trees, swaying back and forth.
The piano sounded, and the free speed of Duan Ran's fingers was like a breeze blowing through the hall.
From 1 to 4, the four sketches bloom in sequence with the beauty of notes, phrases, strengths and weaknesses, and timbres.
The listener must follow Duan Ran's musical thoughts, as if feeling the breath of the wind in the green leaf forest. If you are not careful, you will miss the superb performance and get lost in the forest.
In the judges' table, Ogg was shocked. He felt that Duan Ran's First Sonata was not pleasing to the audience, but this set of mazurkas made him unable to help himself.
He was deeply moved by the delicacy and euphemism in music.
God, there is a magical color in the music, which is not available in Polish performances.
He has no doubts about this self-judgment, just like a Polish person cannot have the beautiful eyes of an Oriental girl no matter how good-looking he is.
When the music ended, he couldn't help but write a 25 on the score sheet belonging to player No. 13.
He knew that it was far-fetched for him to give such a score, but he was a Polish musician and he believed in mazurka.
He had to give the highest score he could for the best mazurka he had heard this round.
Ogg is such an impulsive person.
“Wow——————————————”
Under the applause, Branjano, Andrzej, Talibek, Hovsky and others also started writing.
Argerich already fell in love with this Chinese girl.
Fearless and adventurous, he may seem reckless but will show his integrity at critical moments.
She seemed to see her own reflection in Duan Ran.
But as a judge, she still had to face it fairly. She gave Duan Ran a score of 21 points.
She gave Rachel a score of 22 points. She felt that Duan Ran's overall performance was slightly inferior to Rachel's, mainly in the selection of repertoire other than mazurka.
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Duan Ran was greeted with applause as he met contestant No. 15.
Edmundo's appearance.
The only Polish male player left among the 21 players.
This Polish player, who has been a hot topic since the preliminary round, has been having a hard time. Logically speaking, as a disciple of Branjano, he should have performed more brilliantly in the first few rounds.
But his mediocre performance is not as impressive as that of some players from small countries, let alone compared to Robert, who is from the same country as him.
But Robert was eliminated in the first round, but he advanced.