The eighth piano sonata "Pathétique" is divided into three movements, and Liu Yufan is playing the first movement at this moment, which is also the most well-known movement in the world.

The tempo of this movement is "Extremely Slow" to "Brilliant Allegro", and at this moment, the beginning part of Liu Yufan's performance is the Extreme Slow.

Strong and weak chords alternate continuously, bringing out the most of the piano's timbre characteristics.

Liu Yufan's hands, slowly, seemed to be a little lazy, almost no finger movements, just put the hand shape in place, and then "fell" on the keys to play a sound. This kind of performance, if it is put in the eyes of a person who does not know how to do it, I am afraid that the basic skills of the fingers are not enough, but only professionals like Shi Shucheng and Chang Hua know the significance of his doing.

This section is extremely slow, seemingly ordinary, and such a slow speed seems to be able to be played by anyone, but in fact it is not.

There are many difficulties in this piece of music, if you don't grasp it well, it will pop up, and it is also similar and unnatural, and professionals will know it when they hear it.

The first difficulty is dynamics.

The English name of the piano is piano, which is translated into Chinese in addition to "piano", which has another meaning, that is, "weak". This also shows that the piano is a "strong and weak" instrument, which is also its charm.

The dynamics required for this very slow plate vary so much that if you don't have a deep understanding of the tune, you won't be able to play that flavor at all. For example, in the strong chord at the beginning, in fact, the fingers only play a supporting role, but the real part of the force is in the shoulder joint. And if you want to play a transparent and majestic chord like Liu Yufan, you have to mobilize the weight of your upper body. With so much weight concentrated on the fingertips, transmitted to the keys, and supported by the metacarpal joint, if this action is really done in place, the bearing capacity of the metacarpal joint is quite high.

Of course, there are many people who can easily "do", but in fact, it is similar but not amazing, more than half of those "weights" because of muscle tension, and can not be transmitted, are "stopped" in the big arm and small arm, only a small part through the palm joint to the fingertips, fall on the keys.

So how can you ensure that it will play well? You need the "help" of the metacarpal joints and wrists, and artificially use force to make the sound louder. It's just that in this way, the sound that comes out is loud, but it must be loud and restless, and it loses its round and heavy beauty.

And like Liu Yufan, the part below the wrist looks "lazy", as if it is very mechanical without a little initiative, it is just a manifestation of complete relaxation, whether it is the big arm or the small arm, including the wrist, it only acts as a "channel", the weight is completely "decentralized", and the final bearer is only the metacarpal joint, so that the sound that comes out is quiet, strong and comfortable!

The second difficulty is rhythm.

Some people always feel that fast tunes are not easy to play, but in fact, slow tunes are even harder to play, especially the speed of "extremely slow boards". Why? Because it's slow, so slow, so slow that you can barely notice its beat. However, it has a beat.

When many people play the first movement of "Pathétique", they handle this piece of music very "casually", and even play the "very slow board" into a "loose board", but they do not know that the two are completely different before.

The "very slow board" has a rhythm, and even if it is slow, there are strict rules about when each chord and each note will come out. But if it is played as a "loose board", it is very casual, and it can come out whenever you want, which seriously destroys the artistic conception of the song, which is also the most intolerable thing for a professional-level professor like Shi Shucheng.

But at this moment, the expression on Shi Shucheng's face was very soft, and there was a hint of approval. Just because, in the handling of this very slow board, Liu Yufan handled it too well, and there were almost no flaws. Shi Shucheng asked himself, even if he played it himself, he would do it to such an extent.

"I really don't know which teacher helped him hone such a fire." Shi Shucheng said secretly in his heart.

It's just that, looking at Liu Yufan's performance at the beginning, many people are a little anxious.

"Yufan doesn't play this song very fast, doesn't he usually play it very fast when he practices at home?" Xue Dongzhe looked at Liu Yufan's performance in front of the screen and muttered a sentence in his mouth. I just watched the previous woman's "Bell", and he was shocked by that hand, is it still a human hand? How can you move so fast?

For a pure piano "layman" like him, the only criterion for distinguishing between good and bad playing is to see who plays fast and well, and compared to the female player named Mo Xi before, Liu Yufan's current play is obviously "very boring".

"Cut, Brother Dongzhe, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, my brother played this "Pathos", which is also a world famous song, Beethoven's, it's very difficult to play, don't look at the front, it'll be Allegro in a while." Liu Xiaoran pouted and said, looking at Xue Dongzhe and Wang Xiaoyong who didn't know how to pretend to understand, she felt funny.

This "Pathos" brother also taught her to play, when he asked for those strength, weight or something, so that her head was several laps bigger, and after practicing for more than two months, the old brother was still not satisfied, because of this, she knew how difficult this song that didn't look too fast was actually how difficult it was to play.

The left hand gently undulated, gradually adding some low chords, the light and heavy sound of the piano, sometimes like a giant hammer and axe, slamming people's heartstrings, sometimes like a gentle drizzle, whispering softly, and grasping the heat in the meantime, gradually brought everyone into the artistic conception of the song.

At the end of a phrase with a pronounced question, the piece finally stops slowing as before, like a total burst of emotion, and a series of rapid chromatic progressions are brought out by the right hand, which completely ignites the mood of the piece!

The arms rise and fall mechanically in small increments, and the Yamaha piano emits an even harmony, and when it ascends to the high register, it is broken by the chords that are "pressed" down by both hands, and in the fierce melody, this feeling of constantly breaking the law makes people's hearts fluctuate and cannot help themselves.

"The use of this kind of power is so familiar!" Looking at the figure in front of the piano, Shi Shucheng showed an incredible look in his eyes, looking at the young man in front of the piano in front of him, the figure seemed to overlap with another pianist.

"Such a trick, and Christian? Zimmerman is like! Shi Shucheng thought to himself.

Christian? Zimmermann was born in Zabze, Poland. He studied piano with his father since he was a child. In 1973, he won the first prize at the Polish National Piano Competition, and the following year he won the gold medal at the Prokfiev Piano Competition in Poland. In 1975, at the age of 19, Zimermann won the first prize at the 9th Chopin International Piano Competition.

Christian? Zimmerman's music has an obvious surname, and his performance has always been known for its delicate balance between sounds, and even precise timbre control, and it has a very "rational surname" character. Even the most intense music is always precise and organized under his hands. Some people call his music "the enthusiasm of the surname Li", and Shi Shucheng agrees with this metaphor very much.

And at this moment, watching Liu Yufan's performance, Shi Shucheng once again felt this "enthusiasm for the surname". In order to show a warm and brilliant feeling, many people will add many extra pedals, or make exaggerated body movements in the accented places to show their inner "excitement" and create a "majestic" and "gorgeous" sound effect.

But Liu Yufan did not do so. His face always has a calm look, as if he is still thinking philosophically under such exciting music.

And the fierce melody does not add many of the things called "warm", but is full of a crisp and precise mood. In particular, the stress chord burst out of the entire weight of the body in an instant, making an "explosion"-like sound, but it was also clean, and the feeling of extreme control was simply pleasing to the eye, and the whole person involuntarily moved with the rhythm!

"It's amazing, he's still so young, how can he pop up "Pathétique" with such a flavor? Such skills and styles are very rare among pianists in China. Shi Shucheng thought excitedly, and at the same time, the shadow of another person also welled up in his heart.

"Alas, I'm afraid that only he back then can compare to the kid in front of him, well, the playing styles of the two of them are really quite similar." Shi Shucheng thought about it, and looked at Liu Yufan's eyes, and the feeling of approval became even stronger.

Chang Hua and Du Mingyin, who were sitting on either side of him, were also secretly looking at Shi Shucheng's expression, looking at his appearance, both of them had a number in their hearts. They are all knowledgeable people, and they understand the level of performance of this young man named Liu Yufan at this moment. At the same time, I also sighed that this trip to the river and sea was really not in vain, and it was not ashamed to be able to serve as a judge for such a competition. Just by virtue of the performance of this young man named Liu Yufan in front of him, it is enough to call them their identity!

"He can actually pop "Pathétique" out of such a feeling! Terrible! Too much like Zimmerman! It turned out that Mo Xi, who seemed to be outside the fugue, was pulled back to her thoughts by Liu Yufan's piano sound, looking at Liu Yufan in front of the piano, Mo Xi did not hide the shock in her eyes at all!

The Curtis Institute of Music is a world-class school, and the purpose of the school is to cultivate "musicians", Mo Xi learned from there, and her skills and knowledge are naturally extraordinary, but at this moment, she was shocked by Liu Yufan's musical literacy.

(To be continued)