The Queen Elizabeth Piano Competition is being held vigorously, and the world music scene is quite eye-catching, after all, it is the top competition in the industry, and it is being vigorously reported all over the world.

Many related words have been on the real-time search list of social networks in various countries for many times.

Some of the more top-notch pianists are also sought after inside and outside the industry, and their popularity is unmatched for a while.

It can be said that during this time, the exposure of pianists increased exponentially.

The auditions are finally over, and the knockout rounds begin immediately.

The pianists will be broken up and randomly join one of A, B, C, and D, and the players in each group will need to play one of the pieces in a fixed list given by the organizer within a limited time.

It is worth mentioning that the first place in each group will qualify directly, skip the semi-finals, and guarantee the finals.

This greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the players.

After the official start of the competition, a large number of fans on Twitter and Facebook discussed the competition status of each group every day, and netizens also gave various analyses of the first candidate in each group.

People praise many great pianists in Europe and the United States, but they are not very optimistic about Asian pianists.

Because most of the repertoire played in the knockout round is some classical repertoire, after all, the origin of classical music is in Europe, and Asian pianists may be proficient in pop music, but in classical music, it is obvious that their player camp is stronger, and there are many disciples of some piano masters to participate.

Of course, all this discussion does not include Liao Yuan.

Liao Yuan is a monster, and he has jumped out of the category of a player.

Because in the list of repertoire given this time, there is actually a work by Liao Yuan - "Immortal Movement".

In the two years since the release of this piece, it can be said that it has stumped countless academic children, and this is an existence comparable to Liszt's twelve extraordinary piano etudes, and it is a piece of music that tests absolute hand speed.

Even some masters struggled to play this piece, and although it was not on par with Rasan, the speed requirement was definitely higher than that of all the current pieces.

Therefore, when it appeared in the list bar, the contestants were almost full of grief, but fortunately, the repertoire was not specified, but randomly distributed.

So, unless you're unlucky enough to get this monster piece out of twelve, most people still have the chance to play something like Liszt's "Memories of Don Giovanni" or Debussy's "Moonlight."

Liao Yuan was assigned to Group C, there are not too many god-level players in this group, only one president of the International Association of Young Musicians in the United States is quite famous, and he comes and goes like a star-studded posture.

In comparison, Group A is full of famous artists, among them, Laura and Lin Weiyin are also in this group.

On the first day of the knockout round, Liao Yuan did not have a chance to play.

But even so, the players in the entire Group C also know that the first place in this group has a high probability of being won by Liao Yuan.

Because in addition to "Immortal Movement", Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No. 2" and Liszt's "Paganini's Great Etude No. 3 "Bell" are all Liao Yuan's strengths.

In particular, the track "Bell" has long been exposed on the Internet Liao Yuan's version, with more than 100,000 likes, and this version is even circulated by many people as a teaching material, which is enough to get a glimpse of Liao Yuan's power.

Soon, two days passed.

In these two days, Lin Weiyin of Group A appeared on the stage to perform the "Piano Sonata in A minor", which is a piece in Mozart's collection and a song widely circulated by the public.

According to the rules, the judges did not announce the scores on the spot, but after the performance of all the players in the knockout round, they would be announced on the official website, and the first place in the four groups selected by the competition party would be screened out and sent to the finals.

In addition to Lin Weiyin, Gao Feiliu, Zheng Junyi and others in Group B also performed one after another.

The time came to the third day, and Liao Yuan finally played.

Among the twelve classical pieces, Liao Yuan drew the first piece of the famous French composer Maurice Ravel's masterpiece "The Ghost of the Night": "The Water Demon".

The whole piano piece is full of weird fantasy atmosphere, very skillful, and uses transparent and complex music to interpret the mournful love of the water elves, which is quite expressive and profound.

Like the famous pianist Debussy, Ravel was one of the famous Impressionist composers of the 19th century, and he pursued the perfection of technique throughout his life.

He once said to his biographer, Manuel: "My goal is technical perfection, because I know that this goal will never be reached, so I ask myself to keep moving closer to it." ”

Liao Yuan is not familiar with Ravel's works, but this does not prevent him from playing.

Since the announcement of the knockout repertoire, he has also quickly studied all the repertoire carefully.

For Liao Yuan, even on the first day of his debut, he didn't panic at all, after all, at his level, the ability to sight-read can be said to be commonplace, as long as there is a score, there is no song that he can't play live.

Not to mention the past two days, he has also practiced a little in private.

Therefore, when he appeared on the stage and played "Water Demon" perfectly with absolute hand speed and emotion, no one knew that three days ago, Liao Yuan was still in a strange state with a blank eye on this song.

Under Liao Yuan's performance, there seemed to be a storm roaring at the scene, and in front of people, a drop of water fell from the sky, flowing along the blue glass window, and the sound of the piano was like a woman singing in the abyss at this moment.

The difficulty in playing this piece is that it needs to touch the keys with the right hand lightly, steadily, and quickly but not chaotically, in order to express the fluidity and granularity of the water, and requires the player to have devilish skills, which is not difficult for Liao Yuan.

Therefore, a short few minutes passed, and when the sound of the piano died down, the song "Water Demon" was officially completed.

But people are still immersed in the treacherous and gloomy sound of the piano, only to feel a female voice laughing and singing in their ears, and feel chills all over their bodies.

When Liao Yuan got up and left the scene, people suddenly woke up from a big dream and applauded vigorously.

A good performer is like this, no matter what kind of music it is, it can easily move the emotions of the audience.

At the same time, Liao's performance was transmitted to the rest of the world through live cameras, causing heated discussions among all the spectators who were following the match.

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