"First of all, I would like to invite the No. 1 contestant, Gu Wei, whose repertoire is "Haydn Sonata in C major". As soon as Jiajia's words fell, on the side of the stage, a chubby contestant wearing a black tuxedo walked onto the stage.

Gu Wei looked at the audience, and the expression on his face was relaxed and a little arrogant. He is a third-year student in the piano department of the China Conservatory of Music, and has participated in the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition.

The reason why he came to participate in the competition was to "play" and "exercise stage experience". originally thought that it shouldn't be a big problem to get a first, but it was only yesterday that he watched An Quantao's game, which made him feel a little pressure.

Speaking from his heart, after watching An Quantao's performance, he sighed a little to himself, although he had participated in international competitions, but compared to An Quantao's performance, he was still a little lacking in confidence. Fortunately, there was only one An Quantao, and after that, he didn't pay attention to the performance of the players. He is from a professional background, and his eyesight is also very high, but whenever he takes a look, as long as the level is not as good as his, he will generally know what kind of level the other party is at.

For An Quantao, he is only regarded as a professional cow like himself, who is bored and comes here to practice psychology, what about him, even if he wins the first place? This kind of competition itself is not high.

However, there was actually Shi Shucheng as a judge, which still surprised Gu Wei. You must know that Shi Shucheng is the Taishan Beidou in the piano world, and being able to serve as a judge for such an amateur competition has invisibly raised the competition by several levels. For the organizers, Gu Wei also admired it a little in his heart.

Sitting elegantly in front of the piano, Gu Wei brewed his emotions for a while, and his hands were gently lifted, bringing up a series of light and lively notes.

Haydn was an Austrian composer who was well known in the music world and was also a representative of the Viennese Classical School. Most of his music is light and elegant, although not as delicate and royal as Mozart's, but it is very relaxed and elegant, and is loved by many performers.

This is the case with this sonata in C major. The tone of the work is always cheerful and lively, somewhat similar to the style of Mozart's sonatas. Although the technical requirements for the performers are not high, the understanding and mastery of the music requires a very high level.

Gu Wei's hands were extremely relaxed, and the movements on the keys were not large, but each movement looked very comfortable and elegant, and this action fell into the eyes of "professionals" like Shi Shucheng, and he immediately judged his true level.

"Hehe, it's another professional, and I don't know which conservatory it came from." Shi Shucheng smiled and nodded, he is a professional, so he naturally has a natural affection for these professional students. Because of their performance standards, there are rarely some low-level faults and mistakes. In Shi Shucheng's eyes, only such a performance is a basically qualified performance. Those students who have not even honed their basic skills are not professional piano students in his eyes, but just amateurs.

Wang He and Dai Qiang also nodded again and again, Wang He is considered a quasi-professional, and Dai Qiang, the deputy minister, is a complete layman, but looking at the expressions of those professional judges, they also know that the level of this contestant is good. In such a competition, the more high-level players, the higher the level of the competition, the more glorious their faces are, so their hearts are also extremely happy.

Gu Wei played a song, and the audience applauded like thunder.

His performance just now is very elegant, and it does look pleasing to the eye, with a master's demeanor, although the audience is not all knowledgeable, but they can also tell who is good and who is bad.

Sure enough, Gu Wei's score is very high, with a high score of 96.87, although it is not as high as yesterday's An Quantao, it can be regarded as an extremely high score, temporarily ranking second in the two groups.

Shi Shucheng's comments also gave him a high evaluation, and almost didn't point out anything wrong with him. Of course, this piece is really simple for professional students, and in terms of processing, Gu Wei can be said to be at ease and effortless, so that he can play it almost perfectly, so that Shi Shucheng can't say anything. If he is asked to play a tune at the level of "Ghost Fire", I am afraid that he will not be so fluent and free, although he can also play it, but some problems are inevitable.

When Gu Wei walked off the stage, he happened to meet the No. 2 contestant on stage, and the other party's princess-like temperament surprised him a little, and he knew from the host's report that the doll-like beautiful girl in front of him was called Su Anran.

"Come on! Enron wins! I don't know who started it, but in the corner of the audience, dozens of people suddenly cheered loudly.

There is such a momentum before playing, which surprised the audience and the judges, and felt that this piano competition still has a cheerleader.

Gu Wei, who had just gotten off the stage, couldn't help but be happy when he saw this situation, and said in his heart that he didn't know where the contestants came from, and he actually brought a cheering group, she thought she was participating in an entertainment show?

This scene also surprised Su Anran a little, and then she reacted, I am afraid that this is another trick played by her "wealthy" father, as if she was afraid that his daughter would not be prominent. But didn't he know that this was a very dirty behavior?

Fortunately, Su Anran has also participated in many competitions, and the reputation of the flower of the alto piano department is not for fun, although his father helped, Su Anran was just angry for a moment, and then quickly calmed down.

When bowing to the judges, Su Anran saw Shi Shucheng smile at herself, she knew that the other party recognized her.

It's no wonder that the number of "babies" in the alto piano department was originally small, not to mention a teacher with a student, it has almost reached the level of one to three and one to four, in such a density, although Shi Shucheng is not a teacher with Su Anran, he also has an impression of her.

Su Anran sat down in front of the piano, calmed down a little, and began to play.

The repertoire she participated in the preliminary round was an etude.

When it comes to etudes, many people's first reaction is that when they practice their fingers, the second reaction is to think of Czerny, and to associate words such as simple, boring, and boring.

Of course, most of them are beginners, and their view of etudes can be called a kind of prejudice.

There is a kind of etude, called a concert etude, such as Chopin's "Revolution" or Liszt's "Twelve Super Etudes"

This kind of etude, although nominally called an etude, but its technique has long exceeded the scope of etudes, they often have difficult technique and superb expressiveness, so that many performers are daunted, just like the "ghost fire" played by An Quantao yesterday, some laymen or people who do not know much about the piano, will only think it is very good, very good, but they do not understand at all, the technical difficulty behind the piece.

Su Anran admired the player named An Quantao yesterday, well, well, although his name made Su Anran feel a little blushing.

She is a student of the Central Conservatory of Music, and she is from the piano department, and the etudes she plays will naturally not be Czerny, Burgmüller and the like.

This etude, called "Sigh", is not one of Liszt's twelve "Etudes for Super Technique", but it is also a very difficult piece.

At the same time, this is also a song that Su Anran likes very much.

Liszt's "Sigh", strictly speaking, should be called "Liszt's Concert Etude in D flat major", "sigh" is just an artificially given title, but for the piece, it is indeed very appropriate.

This is an arpeggiated etude, however, unlike a regular arpeggiated etude, this piece also has a main theme.

Some people may say, nonsense, which piano piece does not have a main theme?

Well, that's true. However, the main theme of the song "sigh" is a little "special" to play.

What's "special"? Its main theme is played by the two hands apart. Figuratively speaking, when playing an arpeggio with two hands, you have to find time to play the main melody above or below the arpeggio, playing only one note at a time, and changing the next note to the other hand. The most difficult thing is that there is a long "connection" on the main melody on the score, which tells the player that this is a complete melody, and when you play it, it will sound like a "melody".

How technically difficult is it to play only one note at a time, the next note has to change hands, and both hands have to keep playing the arpeggiators used as the background, so that these individual notes still feel like a complete "melody" to the listener? Whoever hasn't practiced it himself, will never know.

When Su Anran was practicing this piece, he didn't know how many times he was told by his mentor before he found some feelings, and now, he has finally practiced to the point where he can compete on stage.

Su Anran, who was wearing a white sleeveless dress, looked like a noble princess, with a pair of pink arms gently undulating, and a sound like flowing water flowed out of her fingertips.

Suddenly, in a burst of arpeggios like flowing water, a soft, but very real sound suddenly gushed out, as if it had been peeled out of the background, like a white snowflake suddenly falling in the wind.

The second note sounded softly, like a continuation of the first. Slowly, these separate notes are connected into a complete melody, which sounds like one hand playing slowly, but only those who are close know that those sounds are actually completed by two hands!

The soft "sigh" is like an ink painting, full of poetic feelings. But only those who play it know how much attention needs to be distracted by this beautiful music at this moment!

(To be continued)