empire superstar

Chapter 385
The Queen Elizabeth Piano Competition is being held vigorously, and the world's music circle is paying attention to it. After all, it is the top competition in the industry, and it is being reported vigorously all over the world.

Many related words have been on the real-time search lists of social networks in various countries many times.

Some of the top-notch pianists are also sought after by both inside and outside the industry, and their popularity has never been different.

It can be said that during this time, the exposure of pianists has grown exponentially.

The auditions are finally over, and the knockout rounds will begin immediately.

This competition is to test the performance ability of the players in classical music. The pianists will be scattered and randomly join one of the groups A, B, C, and D. The players in each group need to For a limited time, perform one of the tracks in the fixed list given by the organizer.

It is worth mentioning that the No.1 in each group will qualify directly, skip the semi-finals, and be recommended to the finals.

This greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the players.

After the official start of the competition, a large number of music fans on Twitter and Facebook will discuss the competition status of each group every day, and for the No.1 candidate of each group, netizens will also give various analysis.

People are full of praise for many great pianists in Europe and America, but they are not very optimistic about pianists in Asia.

Because most of the repertoires played in the knockout round are classical repertoires. After all, the origin of classical music is in Europe. Asian pianists may be proficient in pop music, but when it comes to classical music, it is obvious that their team of players is stronger, and there are many piano players among them. The master's disciples participated.

Of course, all these discussions do not include Liao Yuan.

Liao Yuan is a monster, he has jumped out of the category of players.

Because in the list of repertoire given this time, there is actually a work by Liao Yuan-"Immortal Movement".

In the two years since this piece came out, it can be said that it has stumped countless academic students. This piece is comparable to Liszt's twelve extraordinary piano etudes, and it is a piece of music that tests absolute hand speed.

Even some masters are quite strenuous when playing this piece. Although it can't be compared with Lasan, the requirement for hand speed is definitely higher than that of all current pieces.

Therefore, when it appeared in the list column, the players were almost devastated. Fortunately, the track was not designated, but distributed randomly.

Therefore, unless the luck is extremely unlucky and draws this monster-level piece among the twelve pieces, otherwise, most people will still have the opportunity to play such as Liszt's "Memories of Don Juan" or Debussy's "Moonlight" etc.

Liao Yuan was assigned to Group C. There were not many great players in this group. There was only one president of the American International Young Musicians Association who was quite famous, and he came and went like a star.

In comparison, Group A is full of celebrities, and among them, Laura and Lin Weiyin are also in this group.

On the first day of the knockout round, Liao Yuan didn't have a chance to play.

But even so, all the players in Group C knew that there was a high probability that Liao Yuan would get No.1 in this group.

Because apart from the "Immortal Movement", Rachmaninoff's "Second Piano Concerto" and Liszt's "Paganini Etude No. [-] "Bell"" in the list are all Liao Yuan's works. strengths.

Especially for the song "Bell", Liao Yuan's version has been exposed on the Internet for a long time, with more than 10 likes.

Soon, two days passed.

During these two days, Lin Weiyin from Group A performed "Piano Sonata in A Minor", which is a piece in Mozart's works and is also widely circulated among the public. Lin Weiyin performed it perfectly with her superb skills After listening to this piece, the delicate and deep feelings in the sound of the piano won unanimous praise from the judges.

According to the rules, the judges did not announce the scores on the spot, but announced them on the official website after the performance of all the contestants in the knockout round, and selected the No.1 of the four groups selected by the competition party, and sent them to the finals.

In addition to Lin Weiyin, Gao Feiliu, Zheng Junyi and others from Group B also completed their performances one after another.

On the third day, Liao Yuan finally played.

Among the [-] pieces of classical music, Liao Yuan selected the first piece of the famous French composer Maurice Ravel's masterpiece "Phantom of the Night": "Nyx".

The whole piano piece is full of weird fantasy atmosphere, very skillful, and uses transparent and complex music to interpret the water elf's sad love, which is quite vivid and profound.

Like the famous pianist Debussy, Ravel is also one of the famous Impressionist composers in the [-]th century. He has been pursuing technical perfection all his life, and he has repeatedly scrutinized and carefully crafted each work, so that it is not perfect. Never give up.

He once said to his biographer Manuel: "My goal is technical perfection, because I know that this goal will never be achieved, so I ask myself to keep getting closer to it."

Liao Yuan is not familiar with Ravel's works, but this does not hinder his performance.

Since the announcement of the repertoire for the knockout round, he also quickly studied all the repertoire seriously.

For Liao Yuan, he didn't panic even on the first day. After all, at his level, sight-reading ability can be said to be commonplace. As long as there is a score, there is no piece that he can't play live.

Not to mention these two days, he also practiced a little in private.

Therefore, when he appeared on the stage and performed "Water Demon" perfectly with absolute hand speed and emotion, no one knew that three days ago, Liao Yuan was still unfamiliar with this piece.

Under Liao Yuan's performance, there seemed to be a squalling storm on the scene. In front of the people, drops of water fell from the sky and flowed along the blue glass window. Singing softly in the abyss.

The difficulty in playing this piece lies in the need to touch the keys with the right hand lightly, steadily, and quickly but not chaotically to express the fluidity and granularity of water. It requires the player to have devilish skills, which is not difficult for Liao Yuan.

Therefore, after a short few minutes, when the sound of the piano faded away, the song "Water Demon" was officially completed.

But people are still immersed in the eerie and cold sound of the piano, only feel a female voice singing in their ears, and feel chills all over their bodies.

When Liao Yuan got up and left the stage, people applauded vigorously as if they had just woken up from a dream.

Such is the case with an excellent performer, no matter what kind of music it is, it can easily arouse the emotions of the audience.

At the same time, Liao Yuan's performance was transmitted to all parts of the world through live cameras, which aroused heated discussions among all the audience who were paying attention to the game.
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