782. Inspirations on the Road to the Northwest Tour of Sanqin Dadi
"Let's run."
Qin Jian paused, "Half of the day is spent on the road, and every time I wake up, I find myself in a completely unfamiliar bed."
“Sometimes I’m so tired that I’m in a daze. I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and don’t even know where I am outside the window.”
Yang Lan nodded: "It sounds quite sad, but I think this process is also a special experience for you."
Qin Jian: "It can be considered an early entry experience (laughs). A truly professional pianist will give more than a hundred concerts a year on average."
Yang Lan: "Speaking of this issue, I would like to ask, according to your statement, how many repertoire does a professional pianist usually need to master?"
Yang Lan's question also aroused the curiosity of the audience.
Qin Jian thought for a moment: "Well - the problem is like this. First of all, we have to talk about the group of professional pianists."
"Like Pollini, Argerich, Talibek, including my old master, they are all-round pianists."
"They can hold a hundred consecutive concerts with completely non-repetitive repertoire, which will involve works from various periods."
"The other type of pianist will focus on a certain period or the works of a certain composer, such as the deceased Master Gould, who was a master of interpretation of Bach."
"This is not to say that the only repertoire Gould is proficient in is Bach's works. His Beethoven sonatas are definitely textbook level, but pianist is only a profession after all, and people's energy is limited. In addition, his body has always been in poor condition.
It’s great, so his repertoire will be smaller.”
"There are not a few professional pianists like him."
"There are also a small number of pianists who are more extreme. I won't give specific examples here. They will openly deny the works of certain periods and favor the works of a certain composer."
"So many factors contribute to the fact that not every professional pianist will master a huge number of repertoires."
"But one thing is for sure, whether it is Pollini, Argerich, Taribek, Shen Qingci, Gould, or Rubinstein, people say that Rubinstein can only play Chopin. It doesn't matter. They all
One of the greatest pianists of this century."
"A conservative estimate is that the number of pieces they can perform from memory should be more than 300 works. I am referring to concert works."
Qin Jian's popularity made the audience gasp in amazement.
Yang Lan followed the audience's reaction and asked: "Then can you reveal your current repertoire to our audience friends?"
Qin Jian smiled shyly: "There are only about a hundred works."
"One hundred." Yang Lan repeated and then paused, "But you are not yet twenty years old this year."
At this time, there was applause from the audience.
Qin Jian hurriedly clasped his hands and explained to the audience: "One hundred works are really not many, and there are only eight concertos among these one hundred works."
Yang Lan was curious: “Does the piano concerto have any special meaning for a professional pianist?
Qin Jian said seriously: "We can almost judge a pianist's professional level by the number of concertos he has mastered. This issue can be discussed quantitatively."
"I'm lacking a lot in this aspect."
After listening to Qin Jian's words, Yang Lan nodded, raised his hand and once again led to a round of applause.
"Wow————"
The applause fell.
"We also have a lot of your fans here today," Yang Lan turned around and looked at the audience and asked relaxedly, "Do you have any questions to ask?"
There was a small commotion at the scene.
An intellectual girl with long hair stood up in the front row.
"Hello Qin Jian, you have played Mozart and Rachmaninoff before, and now you are playing Chopin. What I want to know is whether you plan to play other composers' works in the future, and your future music."
What is the direction?"
"Thanks."
After the girl asked, she sat down and the camera turned back to the stage.
Qin Jian nodded to the audience, and then replied: "Perhaps friends who have just come into contact with classical music should realize one thing -"
"There is no time or pattern to play a composer or to understand a composer."
"Every musician or pianist has his own state of artistic development."
"Then I haven't completely locked in or finalized what I will play in a certain period of time. This will change according to my personal status."
"Eh?" Yang Lan interjected, "Are you trying to adapt to a certain stereotype that everyone has of you? For example, they think that you should play that kind of romantic and beautiful style. It feels like..."
"No, no," Qin Jian waved, "I have considered this issue. For example, after I recorded Mozart's record, some friends around me put the Mozart label on me, and then after winning the Chopin Award, the European media
He put the Chopin label on me again."
"This label is too one-sided."
"I just said that this is determined by personal status. Every piece I have played is what I like. It is not to cater to some external labels."
"For example, someone suggested that Qin Jian, because your technique is so good, you should play Liszt to show off your skills."
"But at the moment I don't feel any desire to sit down in front of the piano and open Liszt."
"If you practice with the idea of showing off your skills on stage, the starting point is a mentality of pleasing the audience."
"I'm not sure whether Liszt, who practices with such a mentality, can impress others, but he certainly won't be able to impress myself."
"So I wouldn't choose Liszt now."
"Similarly, I have always wanted to play the thirty-two Beethoven sonatas, so even though my schedule is very busy recently, I will take part of my time to practice Beethoven every day."
"The same goes for the future direction of music. I will consider the coordinate direction based on the current situation in the future."
Yang Lan: "I understand, that is to say, in fact, the evaluation of a pianist is not that the more diverse your performance, the better. It must be that you can play with a unique understanding, and you must first impress yourself before you can impress the audience.
"
Qin Jian: "That's right, that's it (laughing)."
applause.
Yang Lan: "Actually, I really want to talk about this topic with you next, but before that, let's watch a short clip. This is an interview with your father. Don't mind."
"ah?"
Qin Jian was stunned, and then a picture flashed on the big screen on the stage.
On the screen, Qin Gang is facing a reporter with a mouth.
"Hahaha——" Qin Jian covered his face and laughed, but he seemed to have never seen this still shot on the Internet.