Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 962: 222. When the blue flowers bloom [Part ]

From the first sound of the piano, the entire stage seemed to be brought into another world.

The warm French horn slowly lifts up the solemn piano.

At this moment, Teacher Li Ang, sitting in front of the piano, seemed to be emitting a faint golden glow in everyone's eyes.

It was like a ray of sunshine that dissipated all the thick fog on the stage.

However, just as everyone was basking in this peace, the music suddenly changed.

"Dang-dang-dang!"

As Mr. Ang Lee turned his hands, cold and gloomy notes unfolded like a violent storm!

The atmosphere on stage changed so quickly that people who were listening to it for the first time or the tenth time were unable to react.

Liangshan: Wonderful
x Boss: Beautiful

It's a dramatic beginning, both reasonable and unexpected.

The reasonable part is that this is Brahms' music, and Brahms' music itself has this attribute.

The unexpected part is naturally handled by Ang Lee.

The beginning uses a grand description to present the music calmly to the audience, especially to make the audience familiar with this piece of music subconsciously think of the upcoming part -

Since it starts like this, it is natural that the story should develop into a sweet and smooth style that emphasizes sensory aesthetics.

The sweetness and smoothness here are not derogatory. The world-renowned music critic Hahn once used such an evaluation on Perkin's 1976 recording of Schumann's Fantasy and Beethoven's Heroic Variations, meaning that the piano sound has reached the extreme in extension and color carving.

Many pianos that focus on tone modification are attributed to this style.

Ang Lee's gorgeous music at the opening undoubtedly brought the audience into a personal fantasy.

However, no one would have thought that what was hidden behind the beauty was not Zhu Runyu's delicate weaving, but a structure that emphasized verve.

The sharp and powerful touch of the keys brings out the luster of metallic texture, the cool shape builds a majestic and solemn structure, and the three keys and five tones easily outline a grand and upright atmosphere.

In addition to being vigorous, it also has a sense of inexplicable sadness.

Boss X finally understood why Ang Lee lowered the piano stool. He couldn't help but admire this guy's incredibly strong finger skills.

You have to know that this piece of music is played purely with the strength of the fingers. If it were an ordinary person, he would definitely be injured.

However, compared with the musical effect achieved, Boss X thinks that Ang Lee still made a lot of money.

If Ang Lee plays this piece to the end in the same spirit as the beginning, then he can say with certainty that Ang Lee's value on stage will double after the end.

Moreover, this year is the Brahms year. It can be predicted that if Ang Lee can perform this concert successfully, he will receive concert invitations throughout the year.

It was a perfect beginning. Boss X thought that maybe this was the fundamental reason why he came here. He didn't want to miss Lee Ang Brahms' performance.

After listening to Ang Lee's live performances of Baroque and Classical works, Boss X always had a feeling that Ang Lee might be more suitable for playing works from the Romantic period.

Ang Lee seems to be an extremely pragmatic person, but his blood is filled with an extreme fantasy.

This is the real thought he felt through communicating with Ang Lee and listening to Ang Lee's performance, so how would such a person play Brahms, a composer who is extremely complex.

Boss xl had no choice but to book a flight and fly over to find out what was going on.

For the time being, the contrast that Ang Lee creates in the opening is exactly the same as his own appearance and inner image.

Unconsciously, some Brahms fans were asking the question even though they knew the answer. They really wanted to know who the young performer sitting at the piano was.

Why can Bo Er be played like this?

Gradually, no one thought about whether this young pianist from Chengdu could master this piece of music. They just wanted to follow the music to the next uninhabited place.

Just like the beginning.

And only very few people can figure out the mystery after reading the opening.

To be precise, we should start with the piano.

The piano solo part begins from the second bar, and the fourth beat "E flat" is the key point of this sentence. Most performers know that this is a note that cannot be disturbed by any other note, and it must be emphasized separately and specially.

The point is to emphasize.

So is there no other way to highlight it besides paying special attention to it?

Ang Lee did the opposite. He emphasized all the notes except this one. Then, in his dialogue with the orchestra, he always maintained a grand treatment, so that the main chord always maintained an unbroken continuous advancement.

The dense arrangement in four-part harmony is like four family members, with the high notes being given first, followed by the low notes with a little more weight than the others.

But if it is an open position, the middle voice forms a bridge between the two outer voices. At this time, the weight of the middle voice is much more important than when it is densely arranged.

It was when Ang Lee was studying and analyzing the sentence that he found the voice part that was directly related to the subsequent sentence, and enlarged the bridge to be able to carry two completely different musical emotions.

That's why there was a successful and unexpected reversal of events.

"when!"

The passionate cadenza was magnificent and ended with a strong chord. Fang Yongbo, who had finally waited for this moment, waved his hand suddenly, and the entire band performed the first theme together. In an instant, the stage was filled with thunder and turbulence.

In front of the piano, Ang Lee immediately stood up straight and put away his arms, then he put away three-quarters of his strength. In an instant, the sound of the piano became like a swimming dragon, half visible and half hidden in the waves of the orchestra.

The entire stage completely merged into one whole at this moment.

Completely integrate yourself, who should be the red flower, into the band?
After a brief and shocking scene, as the piano faded into the orchestra, the orchestra seemed to take over the music.

Looking at Li Ang in front of the piano again, he was still playing calmly, as if the brilliance of the music just now had nothing to do with him at all.

why?
Old music fans have heard too many classic performances of Bo Er. In the second theme, the piano in F minor still has a strong musical pattern. Why did it hide itself so subtly?

The audience could still hear the sound of the piano and feel the heat from it, but their eyes had to be turned to the musicians in other parts.

Perhaps it is with the accompaniment of the piano that those voices gradually bloom with a different luster.

At this moment, Liang Shan had only one sentence in his mind: In my opinion, this song is essentially a symphonic work.

What’s interesting is that Liang Shan has heard such words more than once. They all came from pianists, both young and middle-aged, young and old.

But at this moment, the only voice in Liangshan's mind was Li Ang's.

He originally thought that as a classical music scholar with a rigid background, he would be able to understand what it means to integrate the piano into the entire work.

He also verified his ideas through the performances of some performers.

However, now he felt that his understanding had been somewhat overturned.

Compared to Ang Lee's natural retreat of the piano to a secondary position in the sound hierarchy, those who actively use dynamics to integrate into the orchestra's performances sound like superficial brothers.

The former is, I am part of the orchestra.

The latter is that the band is part of me.

The difference between the two is also intuitively reflected in the state and feeling of the musicians in each part when performing.

Liang Shan could feel that the musicians at this moment were playing their parts with great care.

When more than half of the musicians are so devoted to the music, it is as if the music has grown legs that can run on its own. Perhaps this is related to the overall quality of the orchestra, but it definitely requires someone to guide it on the spot.

Liang Shan did not think that this was Fang Yongbo's great achievement, and he needed to rethink Ang Lee's definition of this work and every question that Ang Lee answered in the afternoon.

Ang Lee seemed to not care at all about what the audience was thinking. He was content to be the cornerstone of the band, leading the music to a bang and ending the first movement.

However, when the piano in the second movement magically soared into the sky again as the protagonist amid the embrace of the strings, the atmosphere on the scene suddenly reached a climax.

It was as if the hero had finally returned, and not long after that, the strings once again became the dominant force in the music.

With the experience just now and the three emotional changes in the first movement, the audience was not surprised this time.

Some "good-natured" audiences have even pricked up their ears and are ready to play a cat-and-mouse game with Ang Lee. They want the piano to reappear next time.

Haha, Ang Lee was caught red-handed in the first key change.

Then, the second theme face fell into the trap again.

Gradually, the audience seemed to discover the rules of piano playing, and they could even predict how the piano would perform when they arrived at a certain place.

It seems like the complete opposite of the first movement.

This time, not only did the musicians' participation increase, but the entire stage seemed to become one whole.

Qin Yong: “It must be very exciting to listen to it live.”

Lao Tang "regretted it."

"I'm the one who regrets it!" Mu Xin spent money to buy the ticket.

At this moment, Wang Xiaohu, who had been silent for nearly two movements, suddenly asked:

"Teacher Qin, why do I feel like Uncle Fang is no longer in command now?"

Qin Yong: "In fact, I feel that conducting has been about piano since the beginning."

After Qin Yong finished speaking, everyone recalled the past and nodded, as if it was indeed the case.

At this moment, at the end of the second movement and the beginning of the third movement, Yongbo's gentle gesture on the conductor's podium was like stroking his lover's hair.

As soon as the lingering string music appeared, it broke through everyone's psychological defenses.

"Teacher Qin, it seems that the band is still following Uncle Fang's direction."

Several adults knew what Wang Xiaohu wanted to express. The child was simply expressing the present moment when the music was going on, but these words also seemed to remind them to look back.

Immersed in the sweet words of the piano, Teacher Xiaomi went back and reviewed the whole process from the first movement to the present, then smiled and said, "Big liar."

Boss X also realized belatedly that he had fallen into the trap that Ang Lee had set for everyone twice in a row, and he couldn't help but smile. Fortunately, he came, sincerely.

Sitting in front of the piano, Mr. Li Ang, immersed in the Andante performance, revealed a faint smile when he played the passage he thought was the sweetest.

There was no close-up of this smile in the director's broadcast, and almost no one in the audience could see it clearly.

But he did smile.

He was moved by the sweet music and felt happy to be able to play such music on such a stage.

Perhaps there are some designed elements in it. From the first movement to now, Ang Lee does not deny that he put some thought into it.

In the first movement, he even sacrificed a part of the cadenza, which is the easiest part for performers to shine, in order to create three strong emotional turns.

The audience is led to believe that the music will develop in a certain way, only to discover that behind the veil is another veil, and this happens three times.

In the second movement, he appears mysteriously in every corner of the music, sometimes as the piano part, sometimes as the conductor, and sometimes just an ordinary member among many parts.

Combined with his three tricks in the first movement, he makes it impossible for the audience to define his position in this work.

That is, the position of the piano cannot be defined.

That is to say, I cannot define this piano concerto.

In other words, it is impossible to define the author of this piano piece.

Finally, he hopes to use his own musical ideas and performance techniques to help the audience get out of a stereotype.

Let us not define Brahms the composer just yet.

Or maybe what he meant was that Brahms didn't need to be defined by anyone.

As he was playing at the moment, he had no idea how many people in the audience or even in front of the various screens could hear what he was saying.

Perhaps his obscure expression itself is similar to Brahms' music.

Ang Lee's purpose in doing this is definitely not to let the audience see his specialness.

If the audience can feel his strong desire from his musical ideas and say that this guy is really good, then of course he will be very happy about it.

If not, he has no regrets.

The audience is free, and his art is free too.

In a preface, Hugo put forward two concepts of artistic freedom.

One is conceptual art, the other is dream art.

Ang Lee thinks both interpretations are great.

In terms of musical works, the art of ideas is the familiar Beethoven's late works or Bach's fugue art, which are the pinnacle of art.

The classical period was a period dominated by conceptual art. After Beethoven, since the peak had been reached, the only way for future generations was to speculate.

In music, it's a bit like moving from the pursuit of conceptual art to the pursuit of fantasy art.

And it was at this time that great musicians were born.

From Chopin to Wagner to Mahler, the dream art in music has rapidly multiplied.

Starting from classicism, the frontier of conceptual art, people headed towards a completely new world of dreams.

Inner sensitivity is replaced by self-centeredness, and everything in the music seems to be on accelerator.

It was created, differentiated, developed independently, and finally became the master, changing the artistic focus of music from care to indulgence.

However, at this time, did anyone notice Brahms in the corner?

As the last defender of classicism, everything about Brahms seemed too ordinary at that time.

But no one can deny that Brahms' art is also free, just like the third movement under Ang Lee's fingering.

There are always people who will put aside their preconceived notions and listen to any piece of music.

For example, the girl from the restaurant.

Just listening to these poetic notes is enough for her to find the source of her spiritual world.

(End of this chapter)