Chapter 90: An Incredible Performance

Many people in the audience who don't understand the piano couldn't help but ask, what's going on? Why does everyone in the piano department have the same expression as if they have seen a ghost?

So someone started to popularize science, and this song is the second most difficult song in the world. So some people said, didn't the one just now win the sixth place in the world? Second and sixth are not far off!

The volunteer science popularization staff hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, the gap is too big, "EnglishCountry-Tunes" seconds "Majepa" a few streets!" One belongs to the category of man and the other belongs to the category of God, can the gap not be too big? ”

Wu Di sat at the bottom, but he didn't believe that the fat man on the stage could play "EnglishCountry-Tunes". He heard that someone had played this piece at the Chopin International Piano Competition the year before, but he didn't know why no video had been circulated, and the first and second places were vacant the year before. The third place is said to be a Chinese-American, who disappeared after the game and did not win the trophy. ”

The examiners in the audience saw Cheng Xiaoyu sitting on it and closed his eyes and thought hard, but he didn't believe that Cheng Xiaoyu could play, not to mention him, even in the play, no, no one even played this piece in the whole of China. Everyone who understands thinks that Cheng Xiaoyu just bought a score and came to pretend to be B.

Because of this difficult piano piece "EnglishCountry-Tunes" composed by the British composer Michael Fennisi, it can be said that it can be regarded as very prohibitive in the entire piano world, not because I don't want to play, but I don't dare to play, just looking at the score that seems to be a masterpiece of abstract painting on the screen, it can make people dazzled, and even because of playing this piano piece and there are many people who have a nervous breakdown, so many pianists generally dare not touch it when they have not reached a certain level.

Cheng Xiaoyu opened his eyes, took a deep breath, turned his head slightly and said to Pei Yanchen, "I'll turn the first few pages by myself, and you'll help me later." ”

Pei Yanchen looked at the dense tadpole text like a book from heaven, and felt that he was about to collapse just by looking at it, and said with a complicated expression, "Okay." ”

The piano piece "EnglishCountry-Tunes" composed by the British composer Michael Finissey more than 30 years ago. The reason why it is called the most difficult piano piece to play is that it requires the player's playing technique, as well as the dexterity of the fingers and the speed of reaction, sometimes squeezing 300 notes into a bar on the score, and the fingers and elbows are used when playing.

After the entire concert hall was shocked by the name "EnglishCountry-Tunes", suddenly Cheng Xiaoyu quickly dropped the keys with both hands when everyone was defenseless.

The noise that ordinary people heard like noise suddenly exploded the eardrums of all the listeners, and most of them felt that this messy sound should be disorderly, and some people even covered their ears.

Then someone saw Cheng Xiaoyu's face like crazy, and hit the keys with his elbow.

If you look at it from the side, Cheng Xiaoyu's right hand just maintains a standard parallel state with the keys, and the distance between the two is exactly the length of the fingers after bending.

Playing and playing, Cheng Xiaoyu waved his right hand and turned the pages at once, and the pages of the book rattled, as if these were all part of this music.

Most of the layman audience didn't think he was playing, but more like he was just a psycho slapping the keys indiscriminately.

Then a string of more discordant arpeggios sounded, and the music became sharper and more conflicted, as if the contradictions were intensifying, and the dissonant chords in the high registers seemed to declare the excitement and anger in the player's heart!

Then the music calms down where it shouldn't have stopped, and the sound is beautiful and beautiful, but when combined, it becomes extraordinarily weird, like a suffocating soundtrack in a horror movie, low and eerie, making all listeners feel as if they are in a dark forest, surrounded by longing ghosts.

A soothing and eerie calm is followed by a fierce cacophony of brawl echoes throughout the concert hall.

It's a terrible piece of music that sounds unorganized at first glance, but you're caught up in the spell-like sound of the piano.

The seven examiners had stern faces, Wu Di's face was heavy, He Mingzhe was a little uneasy, and those who really knew the piano knew that Cheng Xiaoyu was not playing in the slightest.

The techniques he used were all impeccable and perfect.

But for most people, this work is too obscure to be understood, and the piece itself is a new way of excavating the piano as an instrument.

This work mainly focuses on timbre rather than specific melody, harmony, and counterpoint. The timbre of the piano is very rich, and this work expresses the timbre of the piano in different registers in a very exaggerated form.

If you want to understand this kind of modern music, you should focus more on the feeling of the sound itself, rather than the feeling of melody and harmony.

Cheng Xiaoyu didn't know that everyone was frightened by his demonic performance, people who understood were frightened by technology, and people who didn't understand were frightened by Cheng Xiaoyu's nervousness.

From here on, Cheng Xiaoyu had no way to turn over the score by himself, the notes on the score were densely packed with a bar, and the extremely fast playing speed made him not even have time to breathe. He had to lie on the keyboard to keep up with the flow of his fingers, and even had to use his elbows again.

At the moment of playing the powerful chord, Cheng Xiaoyu's entire upper body vibrated with it, and that movement looked extremely crisp and energetic, in the eyes of the layman, this may just be a body movement made for the sake of good looks, but only professionals like Li Yunling know the meaning of this action, which is the visual effect caused by the explosion of most of the body's weight in an instant, and the smooth transmission of guò arms to the fingertips.

Some people who practice martial arts say "shaking jin", this is a very advanced technique, but most people use it in vain, or do not do it well, only those who are skilled in the piano can use this skill freely!

A string of rapidly shaking melodies followed the rules of mathematics, and after the rampage in the concert hall, there was an inexplicably cold, rebellious and even crazy lonely melody that floated through the hall like a curse, and everyone got goosebumps.

When Cheng Xiaoyu played the two crisp burst chords, Li Yunling had to admire, she couldn't be more familiar with this movement, she would use such a technique in many songs, and she also knew the technical difficulty behind this movement.

Wu Di looked at Cheng Xiaoyu who was expressionless on the stage, and the pride in his heart was all shattered, he never thought that in addition to Su Yuxi, there were also young pianists who were stronger than him.

He originally thought that on the way to the top, only Su Yuxi was worthy of being his opponent, but now it seems that there are many geniuses in this world, and there are just as many crazy people, and Cheng Xiaoyu is the madman who makes him feel afraid.

Such a performance simply goes beyond the realm of mortals and puts his hand into the realm of God, what can it be if he is not a madman?

And most of the examiners are happy that there is another genius in the play, and they are still a young genius who is better than Wu Di. This sudden surprise is like buying a lottery ticket and winning the first prize.

Although Li Yunling had a thorn in her heart, which made her extremely uncomfortable, she had nothing to say about such a genius, and she had no way to refuse.

But for the most part, they didn't know what Cheng Xiaoyu was playing at all, but the examiners in the front row listened attentively one by one as if they were facing a great enemy, so that many people who didn't know much about the piano didn't dare to make noise.

This piece is not of a very high standard, let alone playing, and I can't understand what is going on. It is impossible to understand this piece if you don't know the modernist composition technique, don't know the twelve-tone system, don't know the atonal music, don't even have a little modernist common sense, and only know whether there is a beautiful melody.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the rhythm of the songs, the diversification of chords, the diversification of the leganuts, and the music and the melody that is not satisfied with the beautiful melody have tended to be more impressionistic music.

This piece is translated into Chinese called British country music, as we all know that Britain is a rainy country, it is not difficult to experience the feeling of the British countryside with impressions, music must be appreciated, but not necessarily ordinary people can not appreciate it is not good music.

The entire eight-and-a-half part of the Lamentation for the Victims of Hiroshima, written by Polish composer Penderecki in '60, uses a well-known new timbre, using thick and heavy groups of chromatic intervals and glissandos, which most people may think of as foreigners.

However, it is not an exaggeration to say that Tan Dun is the first Chinese composer, and his works of paper music have been well received by foreign performances, and it is also modern music that ordinary people cannot understand.

Modernism is not a specific form of genre, it is a general term for the complex musicalism in the modern table, more unfettered and novel expression, not everyone can become a composer, not just scribbling can become a super-modernist, any modernist composer can write what you think is good music.

The variation of the melody of the piano music in "EnglishCountry-Tunes" naturally has its own rules, but such rules may be philosophical, perhaps mathematical, or logical, but they are certainly not written to make the melody beautiful.

But in any case, such a piece cannot be understood by the public, so it can only be called a divine comedy, and only a very small number of people who stand at the pinnacle of piano performance can understand it, but it does not mean that he can accept it.

When the last few notes of Cheng Xiaoyu suddenly rushed out of the piano, and people didn't know when the piece would end, it came to an abrupt end in an incomprehensible way.

Cheng Xiaoyu also stood up from the stool without any delay, looking at the group of confused audience under the stage, staring wide-eyed.

The feeling of most people is that this deep well ice should be playing the piano indiscriminately, and it has finally finished playing.

Many students disagreed, thinking that Cheng Xiaoyu was really cheeky, even playing messily, and standing on the stage with his face, he was just about to applaud, but he found that the situation didn't seem to be very right.

Even many piano students couldn't tell how Cheng Xiaoyu played, so they just looked at the examiner's seat silently.

The whole hall fell into an eerie silence, and the atmosphere of Cheng Xiaoyu on the stage and the audience was like two enemies who wanted to give each other a fatal blow, holding their breath, accumulating strength, and just waiting for the horn to blow.

The examiners who were watching by everyone did not applaud, their faces were solemn, and they just slowly raised the scoreboard, all of them scored 100 points, and only Li Yunling scored 99 points.