The world's number one pianist

He Shen stood in front of the door of the music backstage, took a few quick breaths, let go of the remaining tension in his heart, and stretched out his hand to pinch the hand towel printed with the words Ji Mengting and the three people.

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Let the sweat on the palm of his hand be completely absorbed by this hand towel, becoming extremely dry and smooth.

Now, for He Shen, this should be the most tense game.

In this game, if he can't pull the score back, the next round, that is, the final round, will be even more difficult.

If He Shen is not wrong, when it comes to the finals, everyone will choose the same piece.

Chopin's First Piano Concerto.

That is, the piece that he plays best.

Since most of the contestants only need to prepare this piece, the difference in the works is required to be the greatest!

To show the difference of each contestant to the greatest extent is the requirement of the last round.

Although He Shen's works in the last round of the competition basically reached the peak of Lv10, for those judges, the difference is not particularly large.

After all, he was interpreting the feeling of Chopin.

Therefore, the possibility of widening the score is very low.

And now is the best time to widen the score!

He Shen gently pulled the collar in front of his throat to let out the turbid air in his heart.

At this moment, the previous contestant had finished playing and walked down from the stage amid the applause of the crowd.

He looked at He Shen and just bowed slightly, without saying anything.

And He Shen didn't say much. After he left, he stood in front of the stairs and moved his shoulders.

The surrounding cameras all surrounded him, filming all his expressions, trying to show everything about him to all the audience.

He Shen didn't care about the cameras around him. He just stood at the entrance of the stairs and waited for a while, and then the voice of the staff slowly appeared.

"The fourth contestant, Hua Guo, He Shen!

Piano selection: Fazioli F308!

Performance track 1: Mazurka, Opus 24, Serial No. 1, G minor

Performance track 2, Mazurka, Opus 24, Serial No. 2, C major

Performance track 3, Mazurka, Opus 24, Serial No. 3, A flat major

Performance track 4, Mazurka, Opus 24, Serial No. 4, B flat major

Performance track 5, Chopin Piano Prelude No. 24, Opus 28!"

As the voice of the staff ended, applause from the stage rang out instantly.

However, in addition to the applause of these people, there were also whispers from some people.

"Eh? Wait, this is... the first day of the third round, all the pieces started to be overlapped?"

"Well, it's interesting. He Shen, the first in China, is playing against Porter, the first in Poland. Both of them are playing the same piece. Now it really depends on who plays better!"

"I thought that the pieces would be completely overlapped in the last round, but I didn't expect that they would start to completely overlap in the third round."

"If He Shen's performance is not as good as that of Porter from Poland, he should be eliminated directly, right?"

"Of course, but I think that He Shen's level is generally a little better than that of Porter from Poland. After all, he is now second in the total score, only one point away from the first place!"

"But who knows, He Shen's playing style is not in the same direction as Porter's. Maybe both of them can advance? After all, Porter plays really well!"

"Indeed, to be honest, I really don't want either Porter or He Shen to be eliminated directly."

"Yeah, it's a pity, this is a competition, now it all depends on He Shen's performance..."

Everyone looked at He Shen, with a hint of strange expectation in their eyes.

They hoped that He Shen played better than Porter, but also hoped that He Shen played worse than Porter.

After all, they hoped that both of them could enter the finals.

Standing at the back of the concert hall, Porter, who had just entered the music hall, could not help but be stunned at this moment, looking at He Shen with an extremely complicated expression.

He originally did not know why He Shen told him to come on, why he encouraged him.

But now, he knew...

He Shen's strength is too strong!

He Shen, who is so strong, accidentally chose the same piece as him, exactly the same, without any difference in the selection of songs.

If there is a little difference, it is actually okay, most people can still accept it.

But all the works are exactly the same, then it is very regrettable...

They will be put together directly for direct comparison.

Comparing with everyone, who will be better!

He looked at He Shen, shook his head slightly, sighed, found the steps and sat down, not knowing what he was thinking.

He Shen didn't care about the looks of these people. After waiting for the voice of the staff, he straightened his clothes and walked towards the concert hall without any expression.

Surrounded by two or three cameras, He Shen walked to the center of the stage, holding the piano with his left hand, and bowed slightly to the crowd.

Amid the applause of the crowd, He Shen stood up, sat on the piano stool, and adjusted the distance and height from front to back.

Then he took out a hand towel from his pocket, wiped the sweat off his hands again, and after making sure his fingers were dry, he placed it on the back of the piano.

When the hand towel fell on the piano, there was no sound, but the entire concert hall seemed to have been paused, and everyone's voice disappeared.

Only the extremely subtle breathing of everyone remained.

All of them placed their eyes on He Shen's hand, waiting for He Shen to play.

He Shen raised his head slightly, looked at the glowing ceiling above his head, and couldn't help closing his eyes.

The emotion of music gradually began to brew in his heart.

The emotion that belonged to Chopin's Piano Mazurka No. 24 was surging.

And the amplitude was getting bigger and bigger.

He Shen stretched out his hand and placed it on the piano keyboard. After taking a deep breath, he gave up the control of his arm and let his hand fall freely in the air!

However, just when it was about to fall and hit the keyboard, He Shen's force instantly connected, giving an upward force to offset part of the gravitational potential energy.

When...

The sound of the piano instantly came out of the piano in an extremely round posture, and instantly spread to everyone in the concert hall.

Buzz...

He Shen's hands pressed on the piano keyboard, and the force followed the hammer and lightly hit the piano strings.

The sound waves rippling from the resonance of the three strings instantly gushed out in the air and spread to everyone's ears.

The music began!

Chopin's Mazurka, in the period of Op. 24, gave Mazurka a completely new and completely different interpretation!

It can even be said that the bold piano composition techniques used in this work have reshaped a completely different and brand new Mazurka!

He Shen's hands ran quickly on the piano, and the music also flowed quickly with his running.

He Shen's interpretation of music is also getting deeper and deeper.

In Mazurka, there is a feeling that belongs to Mazurka.

In Chopin's Mazurka, there is a feeling that belongs to Chopin.

In Mazurka counterpoint, there is a feeling that belongs to harmony.

All the feelings are integrated together, and the music becomes particularly perfect in He Shen's interpretation.

He Shen's eyes are completely on his hands, and his spirit is extremely concentrated.

Looking at the music in his hands, his teeth can't help but clench slightly.

F-B, Lydia mode, augmented fourth characteristic interval, a feeling that belongs to Lydia mode!

The accent position is at the last beat at the end of each measure, which is a unique feature of Obelek dance!

Double phrase structure, the last beat of the second section adds a sixth-degree fifth-tone dominant seventh chord, this music writing and playing technique created by Chopin is known as the feeling of Chopin chords!

From the fifth chord to the second chord, that is, the reverse function from the subordinate chord to the subordinate parallel chord, this is the unique folk dance language of the Mazurka.

The empty fifth imitates the sound of the flute, and the special use of the sound...

All the information appeared in He Shen's brain.

His brain began to work frantically, thinking about all the information in the music.

All this information in the music was sorted and sorted, and finally returned to his hands, allowing his hands to interpret everything that should be in Chopin's music.

The music flowed through He Shen's ears, leaving only endless information.

The sense of harmony, phrase, and melody of the music...

Everything is under He Shen's control.

This extremely strong control made everyone's eyes slightly widen.

"Wait, what the hell? What is this?"

"Control, extremely precise and wonderful control, controlling his own hands, extremely accurately interpreting all the musical effects he wants on the piano!"

"This sound, this sense of technique!"

"No, the sense of technique is actually secondary. This contestant has tried his best to make the sense of technique disappear as much as possible in the music. After all, it is hard to hear from his interpretation that he is showing off how difficult his music is!

He actually puts the characteristics of his music completely on musicality!

Let the music in his hands move as close to the direction of musicality as possible, so that the music has more musical characteristics, rather than an ordinary Mazurka without any characteristics!

This is He Shen's interpretation of this piece of music!"

Everyone's eyes were straightened, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

They looked at He Shen, looked at He Shen's slightly bent back, looked at He Shen's hands running wildly, and looked at He Shen's extremely calm eyes.

They even felt that the person in front of them was not He Shen, but... Chopin!

He Shen's interpretation of the music almost went straight into their hearts.

They listened to this piece, even if they had heard it countless times, but when they heard He Shen's interpretation, they felt...

This piece should be like this!

Chopin's music should have this feeling!

They even said that this is the real Chopin! Only in this way can it be considered Chopin!

Everyone in the audience was shocked. They gradually began to forget the Chopin played by Porter before. They put their attention on He Shen's Chopin.

Everything cannot be compared. If you compare, you can always find various shortcomings.

For example, the two-tone part of Chopin's Mazurka No. 24 played by Porter before obviously had a little loophole.

In fact, it is normal to have loopholes. Many contestants will play the wrong notes when interpreting.

This is human nature.

However, He Shen did not...

He has not made any mistakes from the beginning to now.

Even if his interpretation has not reached the perfect state, he has not made any mistakes in the music.

There is no loophole anywhere.

It is precisely because of this that Bai Lijun and Porter, who played the same piece in the first performance, seem extremely passive at this moment.

They each have their own mistakes.

And He Shen... no!

Porter, who was sitting on the steps, suddenly raised his head, carefully leaned out, and looked at He Shen on the stage, his eyes were extremely complicated.

He knew that he might be eliminated in this round, but he didn't expect that He Shen would play so well?

And Bai Lijun, who had just come down from the stage and was still in the backstage, turned his face and became extremely stiff.

He Shen, compared with his interpretation, became extremely bad.

Although it may not affect his score much, it will have a great impact on He Shen's score.

Let's say that the person in front of them gave a score of about 23 points, and you alone surpassed him by a lot. Would you give him a score lower than 23 points?

Absolutely impossible!

Even if each judge has their own selection criteria in their hearts, but under such an obvious comparison, it is difficult for them to find a reason, a reason to give He Shen a low score!

So in this case...

Bai Lijun turned his eyes to the Maple Leaf Country camp.

In the center of the Maple Leaf Country camp, sat Bruce Liu, Liu Yu, who still showed a big smile.

He sat there, seemingly not caring about anything.

However, if you get closer, you can clearly see that his smile is much more restrained than before.

He also thought of this when he heard He Shen's interpretation.

If his own contestants did not perform the same song as He Shen and his team, then the judges would probably give a high score that was not particularly accurate.

Then he might be in danger...

Liu Yu and Bai Lijun thought of this at the same time, and both of them looked a little bit ugly.

Bai Lijun felt guilty that he might have caused a little obstacle for Liu Yu's victory.

Liu Yu sat there thinking, thinking about how he should interpret next to barely make up for his score, so that the score of this round would not be widened too much.

If he was unlucky and the gap in this round was widened too much, it would be ugly...

He couldn't help but have a headache when he thought of this.

However, none of them showed any big movement, and the change in their expressions was only very subtle.

If you are not paying special attention to them and know them very well, it is almost difficult to notice this change.

Liu Yu looked at He Shen and couldn't help but sigh. He leaned back a little to calm his emotions.

Now, He Shen's Chopin Mazurka basically has no problems. He should be able to get a very high score, a score that exceeds what He Shen can get when he interprets normally.

Now it depends on what kind of feeling He Shen can interpret after Chopin's prelude.

Chopin's 24 piano preludes, 24 completely different emotional styles.

These things can't improve the score by comparison, but can really show a person's understanding of Chopin.

Liu Yu now only hopes that He Shen's prelude can make a little mistake, so that He Shen's score can remain at 23-24.

In this way, he still has hope of catching up.

If He Shen's interpretation is too perfect, then if he wants to catch up with He Shen, he has to burst out!

When he thought of this place, his pressure was even greater.

He looked at Deng Songshan on the judges' seat, his face was extremely complicated.

"Teacher, what will you choose?"

At this moment, Deng Songshan, who was sitting on the judges' seat, looked at He Shen with an extremely deep face, and no one could see his thoughts.

To be honest, for Deng Songshan, he did not like this kind of particularly pure interpretation that only Chopin had.

He felt that every performer should be himself, interpreting his own ideas about music.

Rather than interpreting a deceased person!

He won the Chopin International Piano Competition with his own unique personal style.

Not only him, but also Argerich.

Therefore, he hopes that the Chopin International Piano Competition can give more players more personal stylistic directions.

Since the appearance of Li Diyun from China, the direction of the entire Chopin International Piano Competition, in his opinion, has gone astray.

Everyone wants to see a new Chopin, not a new performer.

Therefore, he was extremely disappointed. He felt that the Chopin International Piano Competition was going downhill.

Fortunately, there were more and more people who thought the same as him. At least 20% of the judges absolutely supported the Chopin International Piano Competition, which should have a personal direction, not pure Chopinization.

He also felt that this year, there should finally be another Chopin performer with a personal style.

Unfortunately...

They met He Shen!

A Chopin performer whose interpretation of Chopin can almost be regarded as superb.

He himself did not carry much special feeling about himself.

He had only one feeling, that is, the feeling of Chopin!

The extremely pure feeling of Chopin!

Deng Songshan did not like it.

Argerich told him that He Shen might be the kind of player who played whatever he played like.

Deng Songshan did not believe it.

After all, the last player who was so strong and played whatever he played like was called Zimmerman.

Therefore, Deng Songshan did not show any welcome to He Shen's appearance, and even had a little bit of aversion.

He felt that He Shen's appearance might make their efforts go to waste.

The Chopin International Piano Competition has been developing towards the direction of extremely pure Chopin for more than ten years.

And time has also proved that there is no future in the extremely pure development towards Chopin. There are not many particularly strong contestants in the past few years. After they came out, most of them were mediocre.

Since Li Diyun, the Chopin International Piano can be regarded as the most watched competition in the world. The contestants who came out of this competition are basically all masters!

Most people, after winning the Chopin International Piano Competition, have extremely successful careers.

Just like themselves.

But what about now? Now the contestants are required to be particularly biased towards Chopin himself?

Almost no one is particularly talented!

Under countless reasons, Deng Songshan and others, those who require contestants to have a particularly strong personal style, want to interfere with the competition so much, hoping that the Chopin International Piano Competition can get back on track.

But now...

Deng Songshan looked at He Shen and began to fall into confusion.

He Shen's Chopin is really great!

All the Chopins that He Shen played before were almost breaking down the wall in his heart bit by bit, making him begin to doubt whether his choice was really right?

And when He Shen followed the group of contestants with stronger personal styles and began to confront and clash with each other, he finally began to reflect on himself.

My choice...may be wrong?

Deng Songshan looked at He Shen, his eyes couldn't help but slightly condensed, and his teeth clenched.

"Come on, prove it to me, Chopin's 24 piano preludes, use this to prove to me that you are right, you are the kind of player who plays what Argerich said, like what you play!"

"Twenty-four completely different interpretations, twenty-four completely different preludes..."

"What kind of Chopin can you interpret?"

"I'm curious..."

"Are you right, or am I right!"

Deng Songshan looked at He Shen, his eyes were extremely solemn.

Argerich sat aside, seemed to feel something, looked at Deng Songshan, shook his head slightly, smiled lightly, and didn't take it to heart.

And He Shen, naturally, didn't know what Deng Songshan was thinking.

After interpreting the last Chopin piano Mazurka, which represented a great breakthrough, he put his hands down from the piano.

Next, it was the most difficult one.

Chopin's 24 piano preludes.

Although He Shen had brought all these 24 piano preludes to the peak level of Lv10.

However, when he was about to play, He Shen couldn't help but feel nervous.

This work is not easy.

Nearly forty minutes of full concentration, focusing all of his attention on the music.

Each work requires a completely new emotion and completely new thinking.

This is not a particularly easy thing.

No, it can even be said that this is definitely an extremely difficult thing!

He Shen sighed, reached out and took out the lollipop in his pocket. In the eyes of everyone who was extremely shocked, he peeled off the paper that had been opened in advance and put the lollipop into his mouth.

The sweetness instantly rushed to He Shen's brain.

This sweetness instantly calmed He Shen's mood.

He did not pay attention to the strange looks of the people around him, but raised his hand and looked at the piano in front of him, with a slight smile on his lips.

Next, it was...

Chopin, Twenty-four, Piano Preludes!

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