Chapter 190: The Piano Player – Maxim
As the last heavy note fell, Hong Ning's first piece, "Pagani Rhapsody", ended. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
As for the repertoire he was going to play this time, of course, he had prepared it beforehand, so the next piece was all in his head.
He had ten minutes, and after this song, Hong Ning prepared three more tunes.
And unlike this "Pagani Rhapsody", it is ...... The next three pieces he will play...... Not of this world!
Or rather...... Belong to the world before it was modified!
Although Hong Ning was not an avid classical music lover before, he had heard some piano music before because of his natural love for music.
Therefore, after the performance of this piece, Hong Ning did not linger too much, and after a few seconds of gasping, the ten fingers of his hands touched the keys again......
The first "original" piece he prepared was from one of the world's most famous and favorite pianists of Hong Ning - Maxim from Croatia!
Maxim, rather than saying that he is a great pianist, Hong Ning wants to say that he is a superstar who subverts classical and pop!
That's right, he can be said to be the most iconic person in the piano world, with a height of 2 . 07 meters, with a handsome face with the charm of a typical Eastern European man. Evil and a little cynical smile, hair dyeing, a casual outfit, plus earrings, necklaces, tattoos, it really looks like an idol pop male singer, but ......
He is indeed a talented piano genius! He is a piano saint who can play 16 notes in a second! He was known as the "Piano Player", and his speed at which he played the piano was almost unmatched in the world at the time!
However, his strength is not mainly due to his speed, but ...... Although he plays classical music, he does not perform classical music, and his way of playing and inner feeling are a kind of modern musical temperament.
He is quite closely integrated with the pace of the times, and his playing style is unique, which is completely different from people's previous understanding of piano performance.
Of the three pieces prepared by Hong Ning, two of them are his works.
The first is considered to be Maxim's number one work, and it is also his must-play repertoire at every concert - "Croatian Rhapsody"!
This is probably one of the most famous piano pieces in the world.
Meantime...... It's an epic piece of music born in the midst of war!
Maxim lived in a small town called Šibenik on the Adriatic coast of Croatia, in 1900, the war broke out, in the town where he lived, thousands of grenades exploded every day, Maxim was only 15 years old at the time, he began to practice piano at the age of 9, although the war was in full swing, but he and his mentor Maria were adamant that they should continue to study music!
In such a dangerous environment, it was his piano that supported Maxim, so he experienced and deeply experienced the cruelty of war.
And this "Croatian Rhapsody" is a piece composed for post-war Croatia, and therefore, people can feel the tenacious spirit of unyielding resistance in the war from this song!
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Hong Ning's expression suddenly became solemn, and under everyone's gaze, his fingers pressed!
Suddenly, the crisp sound spread out from his fingertips, and then clearly transmitted to the ears of tens of thousands of people at the scene and 100,000 people watching in the live broadcast room through the live sound!
Hong Ning didn't know how many times he had heard this song before, and he had also learned it, the score was deeply engraved in his mind, his hands played this epic music from the war quickly and fluently, and for a moment, he actually felt that he was in the midst of the war in Croatia at this time!
The sound of grenades flying by, the screams of women, the cries of children, and the messy footsteps of people running in all directions seemed to ring......
A pathetic and heroic emotion arose under his fingers!
Of course, this emotion is also transmitted through the notes played by his hands, and it reaches all the people who are listening to him play the piano now!
Whether it was the judges' seat or the audience's seat, although none of them knew this song, at this moment, almost everyone closed their eyes and felt the pure, shocking music!
In front of each of them, it was as if such a scene appeared at the same time......
[The clouds take on a melancholy gray color in the sky.]
Collapsed walls left a mess of rubble on the floor
Dust swayed in the air
Finally settled, back to the dirt
In the ruins of the devastated walls after the war
It blooms with a small white flower of an unknown flower
Postwar
The smoke of gunpowder, which had not yet dissipated, diffused in the air
The sky was a little overcast
A small white flower whose name I can't name
Swaying slightly in the wind
It watched people walk around
Look at the chariot
The tank threatens to destroy its roots and soil
I also watched the birds occasionally stop in a panic
The little white flower floated around, I don't know how long it was, and it finally fell slowly from the sky
Lying peacefully on this blood-soaked land......
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When Hong Ning was playing this song, no one spoke at the scene, and even the live broadcast room suddenly became silent, with only a few barrages floating by.
At this moment, everyone is feeling the music with their hearts, whether they have a high level of literacy in music or not, they can feel the majestic and high-pitched momentum contained in this song under Hong Ning's hands, and they are shocked!
Even, many people can't help but shed tears in the corners of their eyes!
Even on the professional judges' bench, Xu Lao, who was deeply skeptical of Hong Ning at the beginning, and the man in the audience who was dismissive of Hong Ning at the beginning, they have completely thrown away their previous ideas!
In fact, hearing Hong Ning's song, they, the professionals, were even more shocked than those ordinary people!
Because they all found ...... It's a tune they've never heard before!
Such an epic piano piece, if it had appeared in this world before, then it was impossible for them not to have heard of it!
So...... There's only one reason......
This song must be his original!!
Although the difficulty of this piece is not top-notch, about 6 to 8 levels, in any case, it is definitely not possible for ordinary people to create such a smooth, hearty and memorable song!
In this piece, they can hear a lot of things, even if they can't directly and accurately associate the scene of rebirth after the war, they must be able to clearly feel the magnificent, moving, and soul-piercing emotions hidden under every note!
At this moment, these piano masters, piano experts, and piano lovers all have a strong sense of awe in their eyes when they look at this young pop singer!
However, after Hong Ning finished playing this piece, he didn't give them a chance to breathe, and even started playing the next one!
And...... It's another tune none of them have ever heard!
The second piano piece prepared by Hong Ning for Maxim is also his fastest piece - "Wild Bees Flying"!
This piece was not composed by Maxim, but was reinterpreted from the original classical version, which is also the most famous.
Maxim's "Flying Bees" is one of the fastest piano pieces ever made in the world, and is considered by many to be one of the ten hardest piano pieces in the world!
As its name suggests, this piece plays like the sound of a swarm of wild bees dancing in the air!
Before the rhapsody of "Croatia", Hong Ning chose to play it more because of his love for that piece, so this one ...... The main thing is to show off your skills.
He'd used the "hand post" before, so now he can play this piece even faster than Maxim's version! It can even reach the speed of the original world, played by a famous Russian piano in 1998, known as the fastest version of "Flying Bees"!
So after playing the Rhapsody of "Croatia", he took a few quick deep breaths and began to play this perverted piano piece!
Now he has played two very fast pieces in a row, and when he played "Croatian Rhapsody" just now, he was completely immersed in it, and finally played it to the extreme, but at the same time it was very physically demanding.
He was sweating profusely by now, and could feel his shirt completely soaking wet, with a few droplets of sweat running across his cheeks.
But although he was tired, he played very well!
Hong Ning never knew that playing the piano could be so enjoyable! He's really enjoying the feeling right now!
So he really should be thankful for his superstar system, otherwise he might not have been able to have this experience for the rest of his life!
His hands touched the keys again, this one was indeed faster than the previous two, and Hong Ning felt that he was already at his current limit!
But it was just about to arrive, and he didn't use all his strength to bounce to the point where he could do the fastest, but Rao was like this, and everyone on the scene was already completely frightened by his amazing hand speed......
Although this piece does not have the same magic that can bring a strong sense of mood and immerse people in it like the previous "Croatian Rhapsody", it is ......
It's so fast!
Simple and crude, it's just one word...... Fast! So fast that his throbbing fingers are completely invisible to the naked eye! It's so fast that the notes that are tightly connected are like a rushing stream, and the flow continues!
It's like a large number of wild bees appearing in front of you, "buzzing" in your ears!
And this piece also sounds very smooth, so in the eyes of those who think that this is Hong Ning's original tune, this is still very remarkable.
The judges in the professional judges' seat were already dumbfounded, and that old Xu excitedly rose and fell his chest up and down rapidly, and his eyes were round.
In the audience, Luo Rui and his party swallowed wildly, even if they had seen Hong Ning play "Pagani Rhapsody" before, but they had not heard these two original songs, they were also deeply shocked, but now they were the same as everyone else on the scene, they did not speak, did not discuss, because ...... They don't want to miss a minute of such an epic live performance that is hard to see in a lifetime!
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