Old-time musicians

Chapter 289 Bell, bumble bee flying (5000)

"boom!--"

Don Yetus's solitary shout caused the accumulated energy to be released.

"bravo!" "bravo!" "bravo!!!"

Thunderous applause roared in, and when Master Schillings stepped down from the podium, shook hands with Fan Ning and took the curtain call, the already extremely high sound was unexpectedly raised by another level, almost overturning it. The roof of the hall!

"My title is still... still too cautious and cautious. When the "Tioline Cultural Weekly" was founded, it issued the ambition and declaration of "unreservedly celebrating the truth of art". Now this ambition is gradually drifting away... "

The editor-in-chief, whose palms were a little numb from the slap, began to feel that he had become more conservative in recent years: "...the words 'arrogant' and 'pragmatic' can ensure that my press release does not make any mistakes, but it is definitely not the case." Praising the truth of art without reservation'! What kind of 'little tribute' or 'first attempt' is this? The virtue of self-effacement cannot overshadow the praise of others. The adjective 'small' can only describe the simplicity of its length and structure. , but with all the sublime elements, this is a 'small but great tribute', and a generous beam of inspiration from his Second Symphony to the audience in advance!"

"My titles are always of the highest quality." Ferrege, a senior reporter for "Hoffmann's Gramophone" who was greatly shocked at the scene, was quite proud of his offensive and defensive naming skills, "...if the composer's answer sheet If it is not satisfactory, then "N2 and G9" embodies significant contrast and sharp criticism. Now that Mr. Fanning has successfully explored the sublime, the readers' interpretation of the same title has changed - think we. He has a sharp eye and has every reason to predict that his subsequent "Second Symphony" can be compared with that "Highest Peak"..."

Music critics are always the most rational people, but among the more than 2,000 audience members who gave a standing ovation, the six or seven big names who can dominate 80% of the public opinion in the music critic world were shocked and worried. A different emotion or thought.

Master Schillings did not take the curtain call first, but stood aside with a smile and clapped together with the artists on the stage and the audience in the audience.

Fanning walked to several locations on the stage facing different fans.

He stretched out his arms, pressed his chest, and bowed. Waves of cheers came one after another.

"This composer and pianist is the leader of the spiritual world tonight!"

"This is no longer just notes, music and art! This is a noble power that transcends time, space, region and cultural boundaries and exists in everyone's heart!"

The more general audience turned the endless excitement and praise in their hearts into more enthusiastic applause and "bravo" sounds.

Wonderful art, divine grace, the marriage of love and power...those radiant melodies and exciting lyric fragments are still echoing in the heart of "Voice of Janus" special music critic Hansen Lick who came from across the ocean. .

Obviously, what this New Year's concert brings to the audience is no longer at the level of enjoyment, festival, and celebration.

Its meaning is close to sublimity, truth and the ultimate joy of mankind.

The reason why I use the word "close" is...

"Second heir!" "Second heir of Gilles!"

The "bravo!" sounds from the audience and the names of the conductor and pianist started to be mixed with the shouts of some music fans.

You must know that the only ones who are qualified to be called "torch bearers" or heirs of great masters may be lower-level masters. They spontaneously placed Fanning's title after Schillings, so for this "Beckham Nine" "The evaluation attitude is quite obvious!

——There are already very few people in this world who have a "crescent" understanding of Fan Ning's "character".

Of course, this does not mean that Fanning has been promoted to "New Moon". "Ge" is the sum of the degree of recognition and remembrance of an artist by the world. There is a gap between "very few people think" and "almost everyone thinks". Some people can't cross it in their lifetime, and some people succeed in crossing it during their lifetime but are lost to time after their death. The panning fell back.

To be precise, this performance further solidified Fan Ning's level of "forging a lion".

The artists on the stage began to accept flowers, and many audience members walked around from the steps at the back, giving large bouquets to the chorus members in formal dresses.

These boys and girls had just recovered from the nervousness of going on stage. At this moment, they felt that they had never been treated so warmly. They looked shy and incoherent as they thanked the fans.

It’s too lively on stage!

Of course, symphony concerts are always crowded, but never before has so many people and so many elements appeared at the same time as tonight's New Year's concert!

——In addition to the more than 80 musicians who can enjoy the treatment of being surrounded by flowers today, there are also pianist Fanning, conductor Schillings, as well as Niemann, Marquise, Capron, Virgil, Lausanne and Eliza There were 6 singers in full costume and 61 members of the affiliated choir.

There were many artists, but even more flowers were presented by music fans. After a while, the stage turned into a sea of ​​colors.

Originally, Schillings' halo as a master should be greater than that of Fanning.

But Fan Ning’s piano is so dazzling, telling this great story from the beginning, not only leading to the band, duet and chorus in sequence, but also firmly connecting them together. The wonderful performance can be said to run through the entire work!

This alone was enough to make him as well treated as the master, and if one more factor is added: he is the composer…

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

Fanning, who bowed for the Nth time, was aimed at by more than a dozen gift tubes. Amidst the hearty laughter, colorful ribbons were thrown out, and petals and gold and silver foils were hanging all over him.

The leader was his piano teacher, Sir Viadrin.

Fanning had a unique idea to order a batch of gift tubes and put them in the small slots between the seats in the VIP area in advance. This is not common in serious concerts, but today is the New Year's concert. Everyone just felt that the director's ideas came one after another, and the atmosphere was more enthusiastic. The audience who had not noticed this element before cheered more excitedly.

"Its 'creation' does not represent my free will at this stage, but its 'interpretation' is what I expect. I just want to gather all the friends who are still here and can come together on this New Year's Eve in the old industrial world with snow and ice, to share the joy and happiness of the festival..."

Another wave of gift tubes fired with a "bang bang" sound.

Fanning laughed and brushed away the gold and silver foil on his hair, and then saw the young master Niemann jump off the stage and grab two of them, and rotate the firing handle towards his friend Schillings.

He also saw Kaplun blushing with joy, and his wife and daughter came on stage to help him pick up the ribbons on his body; he saw Lu sitting behind the timpani in the "fire dead corner", holding two hammers and smiling at the messy stage in front of him; he also saw the Marquis and his wife McAdam and several leading girls throwing flowers to the audience with force, causing cheers one after another.

"Thank you, the children sang so well and lived so happily. It was so touching." Hamilton was helped to walk to Fanning and tremblingly held up a small bouquet of magnolias.

Fanning saw tears flashing in the corners of the old lady's wrinkled eyes, and he took it and bowed deeply.

"I hope you have a good time tonight."

One person returned to the audience, and the other retreated to the aisle on the side of the stage.

But obviously, this first round of carnival after the dinner did not satisfy everyone's appetite.

I don't know when, the scattered applause of more than 2,000 audiences has become uniform.

"Wow!——"

Fanning, wearing a tuxedo, returned to the stage again to take a bow, and then sat in front of the piano.

"Great!——" "Wow!——"

The audience was boiling.

"It's a piano encore! Not an orchestra!"

"Great, now we can really listen to a piano solo, what will he play? A Gilles Romance?"

"No, it's definitely a new piece! Don't you know the grand occasion of Santarambuie that night?" The two fans had a brief discussion, and then quickly fell silent with the hall.

After a few sporadic coughs disappeared, Fanning stretched out his right hand and struck a crisp octave D sharp double tone in the high pitch of the piano.

"Ding ding ding dong dong, ding ding ding dong dong, ding dong dong, ding dong dong..."

Then, his right hand began a clean and neat long-distance jump around the G sharp minor theme melody below and the D sharp fixed tone pattern above like a small bell, and his left hand accompanied it with a very economical chord wave.

"Is this the bell? New Year's concert... New Year's bell... This is very appropriate!"

As early as when Fanning struck the first few octaves, a considerable number of insightful listeners felt his unique musical character.

The first encore was the third piece of Liszt's "Paganini Grand Etudes" - "The Bells"!

Soon, the crisp, ethereal, and highly technical music theme under Fanning's fingertips attracted the audience.

After listening to Paganini's "Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor" in 1831, Liszt was shocked and composed the "Grand Fantasy of the Bells" full of fantasy and improvisation in 1834 based on the rondo theme of the third movement. Unexpectedly, after writing it, he found that it was too difficult and almost no one except himself could play the effect. So in 1838, after a lot of simplifications, it was included in the first edition of "Paganini Grand Etudes" and dedicated to Clara Schumann.

But Liszt really didn't expect that it was still too difficult for pianists to play perfectly, so he had no choice but to simplify it again in 1851, eliminating more showy passages, retaining only the most exciting parts, and adding some "pleasing" cadenzas - this third draft, which was downgraded to "the easiest simplified version that can be played visually and mastered quickly" in his eyes, was the "Bells" that was most widely circulated in Fanning's previous life. It is almost one of the first works that fans think of when talking about Liszt.

Of course, a basic common sense is that the gap between people is sometimes unimaginable. The skill gap between Liszt and those pianists at that time may be greater than that between pianists and piano children. In his eyes, "the easiest simplified version that can be played visually and mastered quickly" is something that no normal person would believe, such as the audience listening to Fanning's performance in the audience -

Originally thought that the composer wrote a New Year's lyrical ditty depicting the sound of bells, but after listening to it for less than a minute, they gradually showed stunned expressions.

After the clear and melodious first theme ends, in bar 22, Fanning begins to present the second theme by alternating between both hands.

The accent marks on the weak beats and the chromatic harmony create a swaying and playful image. In the theme jump of sixteenth notes, there are fast thirty-second auxiliary sound groups. The high touch accuracy requirements have begun to make many piano learners in the audience, especially the ladies with relatively smaller hand spans, feel daunted.

In bar 43, the first theme begins to vary. The main melody is transferred to the left hand, and Fanning's right hand begins to strike in the high pitch area of ​​three different octaves in turn. Three different timbre D sharps rang out, like someone shaking a string of bells, bringing a strange color to the melodious and joyful atmosphere.

In bar 51, the melody returns to the right hand, but the audience finds that the notes have become more dense triplets. While Fanning maintains the long-distance jump melody, his right hand is actually mixed with fast finger rolling!

After being baptized by the series of "deep thoughts" in "Choral Fantasy in C Minor", many senior music critics were dazzled by Fanning's clean and neat showmanship, and their faces were full of the word "admiration".

After a series of semitones, Fanning's finger rolling density increased again, and he switched from the low part to the high part, from 1/2 fingers to 3/4/5 fingers. In the 68th bar, the decorative part changed from finger rolling to trill, and the melody was moved to the middle level by Fanning. While he kept the 3/4 finger trill even and refreshing, he also had to take into account the image of the 1/2 finger melody staccato!

What surprised everyone even more was that this was all just the right hand part!

So music fans magically discovered that the fastest trill above was like the second hand, the medium-speed melody in the middle was the minute hand, and the chords and held notes in the left hand were like the hour hand. They moved in an interlaced manner, forming a wonderful effect like a clock face.

"This writing and playing style... are just right! I'll ask this guy for a copy of the score right after the show! This will be my repertoire for future concerts!!!"

The heavy and steady bass, the melodious "bell theme", and a series of fine and crisp ticking notes made Viadrin's eyes light up and his ten fingers couldn't help but move.

At bar 75, Fanning felt that beads of sweat had seeped out of his vest and forehead, but the high-speed cadenza had just begun.

Each bar here was squeezed into 31, 32 or even more than 40 notes. Fanning's right hand turned into an afterimage and swept back and forth on the keyboard, while his left hand played a few fundamental bass notes like taking chestnuts out of the fire.

Such a fast speed, but the strength is not strong, and there are ups and downs in a wave-like change. This kind of virtuoso way of maintaining decency and elegance is really heart-wrenching.

"The heater... is too strong... it's so hot..." Fanning, whose forehead was already covered with sweat, complained in his heart.

In the long tremolo from bar 84, the melodious bell theme reappeared and gradually transitioned to the second playful theme deformation with a stronger sound effect.

"Why are all the notes so far apart? Such a large jump is simply fatal!"

"Can the eyes see this clearly... The piano player himself can't see it clearly!!"

The audience was dumbfounded to find that the cadenza after each melody note was a large jump movement of both hands, and the direction was still opposite.

From time to time, they saw Fanning playing a dense melody note in the middle range, and then the afterimages of both hands flashed by, and the keys accurately sank several keys far apart. When they saw what happened clearly, the left and right fingers had already accurately stood in the highest and lowest ranges respectively!

"Ding-dang-dang-dang-dang-dang!!"

In the alternation of passionate major chords, Fanning's right hand began to play a thrilling tremolo melody in the high pitch, with a faster and faster speed, stronger and stronger force, and the pedal was pressed deeper and deeper.

A long series of reverse octave semitones of both hands made the color and mind suddenly tense to the limit. With a strong hit of ff, the most intense and violent chord group of the ending phrase finally sounded.

Fanning, whose face was already sweating, turned into a ruthless piano-smashing machine at this moment. His outstretched hands frantically struck back and forth in several major piano ranges. The metallic bass made the audience feel that their heads were about to be stuffed into a big bell, and the whirlwind-like smashing of the right hand was about to break the strings. The whole symphony hall was surrounded by the sound of landslides and cracks!

"Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding-ding, ding!————"

In the last phrase, the right hand repeatedly hits the chords with the force of fff, and the left hand whistles across five octaves from low to high. The last major chord in G sharp minor is shaken, and Fanning's hands are suspended in the air as if opening his arms.

"Bravo!!!"

"Carole Fanning!——"

"Great pianist!! "

The audience burst into overwhelming applause, and even quite a few ladies began to respond with shrill screams.

After Fanning finished the excellent "Choral Fantasy in C Minor" and led the team to perform, he returned to the stage with a burst of virtuosity to perform this "Clock". After his title of "composer and conductor", the fans finally have a new "level" of pianist recognition!

Fanning put away the handkerchief after wiping the sweat, and then smiled and gracefully bowed.

"Click——" When his figure was about to disappear in the side passage, he raised his right hand high and snapped his fingers.

The audience subconsciously looked towards the center of the stage, and found that Maestro Schillings, who was originally listening to the piano, had stood on the podium without knowing when, and had already fallen into the rhythm!

“Da da da da da da da da…”

The band started with a tense sixteenth note full-length performance, with a strong and uneasy momentum, and a tense atmosphere that was on the verge of a sword being drawn!

Immediately, the music directly entered a semitone progression. Dramatically, the extremely strong ensemble sound suddenly turned into a faint buzzing sound made only by string instruments.

The second encore song is Rimsky-Korsakov's four-act opera "The Tale of King Satan", the interlude of the second act, "Flight of the Bumblebee"!

Keep adding more, and keep thanking the leaders!

After the beautiful plot of the New Year's Concert ends, we will enter the end of the second volume. Please watch and cherish it.