The tail of the white baton fluttered slightly, and the left hand tightened at the same time, and the grand sound of the entire orchestra came to an abrupt end in the highest part of the piece. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Okay, good, thank you for your cooperation, now take a 30-minute break."

Sir Cai Qingde slowly relaxed his body, his eyes swept over all the members of the orchestra, and he bowed his head to them slightly, and then said with a smile.

There was a hum in the large rehearsal hall of the Hong Kong Festival Orchestra, which was the slight sound of the orchestra members putting down their instruments and talking softly, looking through the scores for the next rehearsal, or getting up to leave the playing position.

The rehearsal hall was still quiet at low decibels.

Sir Cai Qingde carefully put his white baton with a custom-made ebony ivory decorative handle that had been used for decades into a special box, placed it very carefully on the podium, and then beckoned to the position of the piano, and then walked towards the door of the rehearsal hall.

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Back in his dedicated lounge, Cai Qingde put himself comfortably into the rattan chair, drank two sips of the warm tea prepared for him by his assistant, shook his head, and then sighed softly.

"It's always ...... I owe a little, Sun Yun, you should know, right? ”

As a conductor, he certainly knows best how every performer in the orchestra is in shape and performing, especially Sun Yun, the pianist who plays the lead role. During the rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor" just now, Sun Yun's whole state made Cai Qingde faintly worried. Rehearsals have been going on for more than a month now, but Sun Yun's performance is still a little short of his peak state.

In terms of pure piano playing technique, Sun Yun's performance is impeccable and perfect. After Ye Zi's comprehensive "treatment" and Sun Yun's own daily qigong practice for the next six months, Sun Yun has even improved slightly in many difficult performance skills, and is still making progress and improvement.

This is a very rare thing.

Performers in their forties are the most mature and excellent stage of a performer's life, full of physical strength, rich experience, and stage experience has accumulated enough qualitative change. However, purely in terms of performance skills, the performers at this stage are generally already stereotyped, and there are very few precedents for making breakthroughs. What's more, Sun Yun has been away from the performance stage for ten years because of the difficult disease of his hands that stumped doctors all over the world, and his performance skills have not regressed, which is already commendable, and it is unbelievable that he can continue to improve and continue to improve.

But Sun Yun really did it.

Although there has not been much progress and only a little improvement, we must not forget that Sun Yun is a first-class pianist who is famous in the world music scene, and his performance level has reached a very high level. It is really not easy to make a breakthrough on this basis, even if it is only a little bit. All this is completely dependent on the improvement of Sun Yun's physical fitness, which is of course inseparable from Ye Zi's original "treatment" and Sun Yun's subsequent daily hard practice of qigong.

But compared with the rapid recovery and continuous improvement of his performance skills, Sun Yun's current performance is always missing something, a little bit ten years ago Sun Yun did not need to deliberately look for something that he could have - self-confidence!

The one for yourself and the future - real confidence!

Now Sun Yun is caught in that kind of unwarranted anxiety almost every moment, and this anxiety is reflected in his performance, that is, the lack of self-confidence.

It's a hell of a thing!

Although the symptoms on his arm have long recovered, the words "piano performance" and "pianist" are no longer embarrassing words for Sun Yun, and returning to the stage will really become a reality in the near future, but ...... The scars left in the depths of Sun Yun's heart by the torture of ten years of illness are not so easy to completely erase. It's like a ghost, haunting Sun Yun at any time when he's playing.

Sometimes, it is quietly evoked by a familiar melody that has been played countless times; Sometimes, it is gently awakened by a performance that has been deeply embedded in the bones; Sometimes, for no reason at all, it just pops up.

Every time it appeared, Sun Yun's heart was filled with gloom.

……

"I know, Sir," Sun Yun lowered his head slightly, and said in a very soft voice, "I know." ”

Cai Qingde sighed lightly again: "Sun Yun, I don't want to put more pressure on you, but the day of the concert is not far away, you must find a suitable way to solve this problem as soon as possible." ”

"Otherwise......"

Otherwise, Cai Qingde didn't continue, but both of them knew in their hearts what it was.

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On October 10th, which will be the official day of Sun Yun's first comeback concert, there are still two full weeks to go, but in fact the time is quite short. Cai Qingde and his Xiangjiang Festival Orchestra have been rehearsing for more than a month for Sun Yun's two comeback concerts, and Sun Yun himself has prepared enough heavyweight works to support the two comeback concerts, including Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, and Sun Yun's best Beethoven piano sonata.

Sun Yun's comeback is a major event for the Xiangjiang classical music scene, and it is also a grand event.

A few months ago, Sun Yun held a press conference to announce his comeback, and as soon as the news was announced, it was immediately warmly welcomed by Xiangjiang classical music fans. For Sun Yun, a talented pianist who has already given his first special concert at the age of 15, fans love him from the bottom of their hearts, and many of them have collected vinyl records from that special concert, and the two piano concertos played by Sun Yun have become classic interpretations in the hearts of Hong Kong music fans. Sun Yun's every move in the international music scene made them rejoice, and they cheered in unison that the Hong Kong music scene once again came out of a world-class great performer. The news of Sun Yun's illness and Sun Yun's forced to leave the music scene made them sad, and they repeatedly lamented that the Xiangjiang music scene had lost an internationally renowned musical genius. Many music fans even shed tears for this, and many music fans looked for various ways to treat Sun Yun's stubborn illness through various channels.

Ten years later, when they learned that their former idol had finally overcome the disease and was ready to step onto that glorious stage again and restart their playing career, the classical music fans in Hong Kong were excited, happy, and crazy at the same time.

In just two hours, the 2,800 seats for the two concerts in the City Hall Concert Hall were sold out by the flocking Hong Kong classical music fans, a scene that used to occur only occasionally when the world's top five orchestras visited and when the world's top performers, singers and musicians came.

In the hearts of Xiangjiang classical music fans, the name Sun Yun is no less than those super-first-class performers who occupy the top of the pyramid in the world music scene, even if this view is beyond the ability and fame that Sun Yun actually has, but they are so stubborn.

This is our own world-class performer, even if it has been silent for ten years, so what!

This is the proud voice of Hong Kong classical music fans.

Sun Yun and Cai Qingde are very clear about the voices of music fans, how can they live up to this heavy expectation! All they want to do is dedicate two high-quality unambiguous concerts to the fans.

But now, if we can't solve the ghost that may emerge in the depths of Sun Yun's heart, these two concerts are likely to turn into two very embarrassing comeback declarations, which are very appreciated by classical music fans in Hong Kong. If this really becomes the case, then everything, including Ye Zi's "treatment" of Sun Yun and Sun Yun's own uninterrupted qigong practice, will become completely useless.

This is something that Sun Yun and Sir Cai Qingde, including Ye Zi, who is about to come to Xiangjiang to assist in the comeback of his mentor, are absolutely unacceptable. (To be continued.) )