() Three days later.

The fourth day of the Mozart International Music Competition.

Qin Jian woke up at half past seven in the morning under the alarm clock and went to the piano room again alone.

After two full days of practice, he was able to roughly complete the entire scoremap.

08:00。

A timed one-hour warm-up exercise begins.

Under Chopin's hand, the various scales intertwined to cut through the streets in the early morning, and the staff who came and went through the door of the piano room would stop for a moment.

09:00。

The alarm clock on his mobile phone rang, Qin Jian stopped his warm-up exercises, sighed lightly, and got up to relax his body.

Fifteen minutes later, back in front of the piano, the space panel was opened, and the details of the first movement began.

As the score of the sonata in front of him slidied, his fingers slowly waved.

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At the same time, Room 206, Apartment Building No. 12, West Building, Nanshi Ink Garden Community.

The room was darkened with the curtains closed.

The suppressed sound of the piano seems to be a little frustrated in a nervous way.

The woman at the piano wore her hair loose, her eyes calmly looking at the incomprehensible complexity of the music in front of her, her white hands jumping back and forth on the keys.

It's dazzling.

At its most exaggerated, the woman seemed to play more than ten notes in a second.

If you listen carefully, each note seems to be independent and clear.

Grainy.

But the intense percussive rhythms and continuous dissonant chords make it difficult to feel a musical enjoyment of normal beauty.

There is no strict harmonic structure of classicism, no gorgeous fantasy of romantic glamour, only a deep abstraction that fills the edge of collapse.

Yes, Bo Yi Pu 2 La 3.

This one, together with Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, is known as the world's three most difficult piano concertos.

Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 2.

This is the voice of the devil. On the day of his premiere in 1923, there were commentators who said so.

The difficulty lies in the contrast between control and tonality, and the requirements for the pianist's musicality are too high, let alone the skills.

And at this moment.

It is such a work, played by one person on an ordinary upright piano without the concerto of a symphony orchestra, but it exudes a certain indescribable beauty.

With the stormy Allegro, the limbs of the woman in front of the piano are getting bigger and bigger, and the hands on the keys are swinging back and forth more and more frequently, and a sense of grandeur and symphony gradually appears in the music.

It was just a moment, and then it fell silent again.

Suddenly.

The sound of the piano returned to the baptism of the storm, the green tendons on the woman's hands burst out, and the backs of her hands slammed against the keyboard, and under a very disdainful noise, her hands swept rapidly from the mid-range to the high-range area.

Finally, between the wind-swept sequences, two sets of chords were gently crossed.

Stop!

Freeze frame.

It was as if in this moment, the whole world was silent.

Half an hour later.

The woman's undulating chest gradually subsided.

With a 'tick' sound, she gently pressed the red dot on the recording on the phone screen.

00:35:43

Looking at the length of the recording, she hesitated for a moment before sending it out.

Attn: Zhou Rong

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The halfway point of the fourth day of the Mozart Competition has come to an end, and the preliminary rounds of solo sharing in all categories have ended.

According to the official announcement, all the results of the competition will be announced by 2 pm tomorrow.

At the same time, the ensemble competition also came.

12:16。

Qin Jian finished the morning practice and returned to the hotel.

Old Potter reappeared after disappearing for two days.

Midday.

After a brief lunch, the two young and the old came to the Tokyo Opera Concert Hall to make final preparations for the piano ensemble competition in the afternoon.

After final consideration, Qin Jian and his wife decided to choose the more sensitive kava SK series piano as the designated piano for the competition.

For this reason, Qin Jian deliberately let Old Porter move some small hands and feet on the hammer in the high register.

Ready to go.

14:00。

Two ancient bells rang in the concert hall, and the competition of the piano ensemble officially began.

Judging by the seating rate of the concert hall, it seems that the duo competition is more popular, and even the second-floor corridor is full of spectators.

As the curtain fell on the host's announcement

The first group of contestants, a pair from South Korea who looked like teachers and students, took the stage and played a piece of Schubert's work.

Throughout the melody with the treble part as the theme, the noticeably older player takes on the more complex and dense parts of the ensemble.

His playing is more like a solo.

As a bass part, the player is just playing some simple chords non-stop.

"Not quite right. ”

Looking at the four hands on the big screen where the notes were assigned to the column and were seriously incongruous, Qin Jian was a little puzzled, he had played this work with He Jing.

"Cao, the stick changed the score!"

Gradually, many people in the audience discovered this problem.

“stop。 ”

With an exclamation from the judges, the performance on stage stopped.

It was a European judge who spoke, and he stood up and looked extremely atmospheric.

Then, there seemed to be a heated argument between the judges, which led to a pause in the competition.

But it didn't take long for a staff member to walk backstage from the judges' bench with a note.

A moment later.

The voice of the presenter rang out in the hall again.

With a burst of chattering English speeches, the audience instantly fell into a commotion.

"What's the situation? What is he talking about?"

Qin Jian hurriedly asked to the side.

Duan Ran frowned, "It probably means that the first group of contestants has been disqualified, and their results will not be ranked, and if the later 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 unpleasantness of the opening, each group of players who came out next seemed to become extra cautious.

For a while, the atmosphere in the arena also became a little depressing.

However, in the half-time schedule, Qin Jian also found some stronger combinations, just in the just-concluded pair from Australia, the player who played the bass part is the one who has been more popular in the professional youth group recently.

And the strength of the pair of local players who are playing Slavic dance music at the moment should not be underestimated.

The ensemble is not a solo player, and in this process, the degree of tacit cooperation is greater than the individual's ability.

"How's that, is there any pressure?" Qin Jian asked lightly.

"It should feel more relaxed. Duan Ran nodded, "However, the threshold for the ensemble group to register is already low, so there is nothing to see in the preliminary round, and the real showdown should be in the final." ”

With the applause, the two contestants bowed and left the stage

"The next group of contestants, Chi Heng/Fang Zongyao, from China, participated in the repertoire Hungarian dance music No. 7, designated piano, yah. ”