The world's number one pianist

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The person in charge of the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall reached out to hold He Shen's hand with a smile on his face: "It's been a long time since I last collaborated with you. I didn't expect you to come back after so many years!"

"Come back for a concert. Google search to read"

He Shen also smiled and added: "Beethoven!"

"Ah, Beethoven!" The person in charge of the Berlin Philharmonic Hall nodded with nostalgia: "One of the German 3Bs, Bach, Brahms, Beethoven! The three top musicians in Germany!"

"I didn't expect that this time you actually want to challenge the greatest music saint among these 3Bs, Beethoven!"

Speaking of this place, the person in charge of the Berlin Philharmonic Hall immediately took a small step back, turned his body sideways, stretched out his hand to push towards the road in front, and spoke with great respect.

"No matter what, please come with me first!"

He Shen nodded and led the three people behind him, following the steps of the person in charge of the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, and walked forward.

The Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall is very complicated, with countless staggered stairs and a structure full of artistic beauty, so it is not particularly easy to find the way.

The person in charge in front of me has worked at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall for who knows how many years, and he is extremely familiar with this concert hall.

If newcomers, such as the three behind He Shen, come over, it will be very difficult for them to find a way!

The person in charge led He Shen in the direction of the players' lounge very skillfully. He turned his head slightly and asked casually.

"He, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you doing lately?"

"Everything is normal, just like before!" He Shen nodded slightly.

After hearing this, the person in charge couldn't help but smile and clapped his hands gently: "Very good, everything is the best as usual! In this case, I'm looking forward to He Shen's interpretation of music, especially what you're going to do next. Play Beethoven!"

"But I have a question, why did you choose your first concert to play Beethoven in Berlin instead of Chopin? As far as I know, your Chopin should be the strongest place as your comeback on the world stage. , shouldn’t choosing Chopard be the safest choice?”

After He Shen heard this, he couldn't help but shook his head slightly: "It has nothing to do with safety, everything to do with music!"

"I have done many things in Chopin's music, especially the emotional interpretation at the core of Chopin's music. I will present all the interpretations of Chopin's music that I can produce in front of the audience."

"If you keep playing Chopin, it's just endless repetition!"

"And repetition is not the way to make a pianist grow in a real sense!"

Speaking of this place, He Shen glanced at the three people behind him and continued: "It has been less than four years since my last Chopin concert. My understanding of Chopard has made progress, but there has been no qualitative improvement! "

"All my understanding and interpretation of Chopard are still based on my previous set of logic!"

"The audience can get satisfaction from my music, but I can't get satisfaction myself!"

"Limiting yourself to Chopin will only make your path as a pianist narrower!"

“So, I chose Beethoven to further broaden my understanding of music!”

"It makes my understanding of music deeper!"

He Shen looked at the person in charge in front of him. The person in charge did not deny or confirm. He just smiled and nodded, sighing: "Good! You have a very strong enterprising spirit, which is a good thing!"

"I have nothing to help you. I can only tell you what I think about Beethoven after listening to him for so many years."

"Beethoven's music is difficult to interpret because his ears were not good and he had such a fire in his heart!"

"But the younger the person is, the more fire he has in his heart!"

"An unquenchable fire!"

The person in charge said as he walked.

"I personally feel that this fire is the key to playing Beethoven!"

"This ball of fire is not hitting the keyboard with all its strength and knocking out everything on the keyboard!"

"For example, someone said that Beethoven is like a hammer! Hit it with all your strength!"

"Sounds like it's right!"

"But, that's not the case..."

"Beethoven's fire was in his heart. He wanted to interpret many, many things. He wrote everything he had in music!"

"He uses music to carry out his understanding of music!"

Speaking of this place, the person in charge stopped at the door of a door, turned around and looked at He Shen and the three people behind He Shen. He couldn't help but smile and shook his head slightly.

"Of course, I know you probably understand what I'm saying. After all, you are the master of piano performance, and I am just an ordinary concert hall manager."

"But since you chose Beethoven, the pride of our German name, then I must say a few words about my understanding of Beethoven. Please understand."

"Although I'm not as good at playing the piano as top masters like you, I've attended quite a lot of concerts, and I've gained a lot of understanding of various concerts!"

"Many people are so dull when they interpret Beethoven. Even I can't get excited."

"So, I am looking forward to your interpretation of Beethoven!"

"Beethoven from China!"

The person in charge smiled at He Shen, reached out from his pocket, took out a key, handed it to He Shen, and pointed to the door behind him.

"This place is your lounge. Keep this key. This lounge belongs to you temporarily!"

"This key can also open the door of the stage. I opened the single beam light above the stage for you. You can go directly to test and adapt."

"Practice in your personal lounge or in the big concert hall. It depends on your personal choice. I won't pay attention to this."

"But I personally suggest that when you leave the concert hall, it's best to leave the key with the staff, and then ask them again when you come back."

"After all, in Europe, if you lose a key, it's not as simple as getting a new key."

"I think you should know this."

Speaking of this, the person in charge took two steps forward, gave He Shen a hug, and patted He Shen on the back.

"He Shen, come on, I look forward to your interpretation of music!"

After saying that, he loosened his arm, smiled at He Shen, made a gentleman's salute, turned around, put his hands behind his back, and walked away.

He Shen weighed the key in his hand, said nothing, and stretched out his hand to open the door of the lounge next to him.

The lounge is not big, about 20 square meters.

At a glance, you can see that in the lounge of the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall, there is a small upright piano placed in the corner for all pianists to practice.

Of course, it's just practice.

It's to let them exercise their hands, not to really let them keep exercising their musical sense on this piano.

He Shen walked to the piano and stretched out his hand to knock a few times.

It's obvious that there is no problem with this piano. Everything about this piano is adjusted very accurately.

It will not affect the musical sense of the player.

After confirming that the piano is correct, He Shen reluctantly nodded and turned to look at other places in the lounge.

The lounge of the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall is not particularly large. There is a particularly large dressing mirror inside, which is probably for those female stars, such as artists like Wang Jia, and their logistics teams to use.

On the dressing table under the dressing mirror, there are fruits such as bananas and oranges.

Replenishing energy is similar to the backstage of the previous Golden Melody Awards, with no particular difference.

On the wall, there are photos of people who have worked in the Berlin Philharmonic.

For example...

Conductor Emperor Karajan!

The person who truly led the rise of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra!

Apart from these, there are basically some ordinary sofa chairs, which are very ordinary.

Zhang Wei and Li Hua lay directly on the sofa after they just came in.

Wei Zijie looked at the two of them, and then glanced at He Shen who was observing the surroundings. After hesitating for a moment, he still stood there honestly, not daring to move.

Zhang Wei looked at Wei Zijie, then at He Shen, and couldn't help but patted the sofa beside him carelessly, and said with a smile: "What are you doing standing there? Sit down!"

"You keep standing there, making it seem like we are abusing you!"

"This place is the backstage of the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall. You won't have a chance to come in at other times! Why don't you enjoy it quickly?"

"Ah? Oh oh oh..." Wei Zijie looked at He Shen, and after finding that He Shen didn't refuse, he sat down honestly, still looking around curiously.

Especially looking at the portraits around.

Zhang Wei didn't care about Wei Zijie's thoughts. He just half-recline on the sofa, waved at He Shen, and shouted: "Teacher He, can I ask you a question?"

"Well, go ahead." He Shen heard Zhang Wei's voice, turned around and looked at him, and nodded expressionlessly.

Zhang Wei didn't care about He Shen's indifference, after all, he had long been accustomed to it.

He Shen's indifference was not because he hated them, but because He Shen's nature was like this.

Therefore, he smiled and said, "Teacher He, I am just curious. Why did the person in charge say that this key can also open the back door of the stage? Do all the doors in these places have the same key? Aren't you afraid of accidents?"

"Also, what did he say not to lose the key, otherwise, teacher, you know the consequences?"

He Shen glanced at Zhang Wei in front of him, took out the key that the person in charge had given him from his pocket, and handed it to Zhang Wei.

After he took it, he explained lightly.

"It's very simple, because the Germans want to save trouble."

"This key looks like only one piece, similar to the key we normally use, but in fact, this key is composed of three parts!"

Gu Chen

"First, open some key doors in the concert hall, such as through the part A of the main concert hall where we are. The door lock only detects that the part A matches, then it can be opened."

"Secondly, it is to open the part B of the back door of the main concert hall. If A+B match, then we can open the concert hall we are going to later and test the effect of the piano."

"The best is to open the part C of the door in front of us. A+B+C, all three must match, then we can open our door, the door of this lounge!"

"Therefore, if you lose your key, it is actually equivalent to losing all the keys to the entire concert hall. For the sake of safety, all doors naturally need to be replaced."

"The same is true for ordinary residents. Their building doors, safety passages, garbage doors, and their own doors are also integrated. If one is lost, it is not as simple as making a duplicate key yourself."

"First of all, if you make a duplicate key, especially the kind of key in your house, if the person who made the key for you is found, it will basically be a few years in prison."

"Secondly, you need to replace the doors of everyone in your entire community to ensure the safety of everyone!"

"If I remember correctly, replacing the doors of everyone in the entire community will cost about 10,000 or 20,000 euros."

"Of course, if there are few people, it may be a few thousand euros. It depends on the bill from the housing management."

"Anyway, my neighbor lost it once before, but he bought third-party liability insurance, so he didn't have to pay. There were more than 50 households, and the insurance company paid more than 10,000 euros."

After that, He Shen waved to the three people who were already dumbfounded, pointing to the door of the lounge.

"Let's go to the concert hall and see what's going on with their pianos."

"Wait wait wait! Teacher He..."

Zhang Wei, who was originally playing with the keys, almost knelt down in front of He Shen.

He looked at the keys in his hand with a horrified look.

What he held in his hand was no longer a key...

This was money!

Or 10,000 or 20,000 euros, converted into RMB...

Nearly 100,000?

He held the key in his palm tremblingly, handed it to He Shen, and swallowed hard.

"Teacher He, you should keep this key. I, I feel I can't afford it."

"Okay."

He Shen nodded, without any surprise, reached out to take the key from Zhang Wei, put it in his pocket, and walked out the door.

Zhang Wei and the other two immediately followed He Shen obediently.

The backstage entrance of the concert hall is just opposite the lounge.

There is no need for everyone to look for it, they can see it when they go out.

He Shen took out the key again, opened the backstage door, and walked onto the stage.

It was dark around, dark and extremely quiet!

All the lights around the stage were turned off.

Only a beam of dim light on the stage shone on the piano, reflecting on the dark surface, which looked particularly charming.

He Shen stood in front of the piano, ignoring the three people behind him, but sat down directly, opened the piano cover, and reached out to slowly press the piano keyboard.

Buzz...

The sound of the piano sounded instantly, echoing in this concert hall.

He Shen closed his eyes and felt the sound spread in the air.

Feeling the sound flow from his fingertips and hit the wall at the back of the concert hall.

Then, under the acoustic effect of the wall, it rushed back to himself.

From the sound emitted by his hands to the sound after hitting the wall.

The sound emitted by the two together converged in his ears.

He Shen was testing, and he kept giving the piano a special timbre.

He was looking for the most harmonious point, looking for a most appropriate interpretation method in this concert hall.

This is what He Shen would do before every concert.

In addition to constantly moving his hands to ensure that his hands would not be stiff on the stage.

Another thing He Shen did was to find balance.

Balance of melody.

Only by finding balance can we interpret the most perfect music in the subsequent performance.

He Shen quickly experimented on the stage, from single tone to double tone. Then to chords.

From atonal music, to tonal music, and finally to Beethoven's sonata.

Zhang Wei, Li Hua, and Wei Zijie sat in the audience, looking at He Shen honestly, without saying a word.

The spotlight above his head shone on He Shen's body, as if he was covered with a layer of gorgeous clothes.

The laurel crown given by God!

Incomparably holy.

Everyone tried their best to focus not on He Shen, but on the music.

After all, He Shen brought them here not to let them flatter him.

Instead, he hoped that they could follow his concert in Europe and listen to his interpretation of music, so that they could better master more things about music.

They could find the most suitable pace for themselves in their future career as musicians!

Therefore, everyone listened very seriously.

They are trying to listen to He Shen's understanding of the musicality of the acoustic structure inside a concert hall.

They want to hear why He Shen chose such a basic volume and such a basic interpretation.

This concert hall is very large, with 2,440 seats, and the overall appearance is like a vineyard.

The audience is located around the main stage in the form of terraces.

The dome above is not a traditional flat roof, like the flat roof of the previous Chopin International Piano Competition.

This place is a spire design!

The music spreads upward from the middle, hits the spire, and radiates to the surroundings!

Let all the audience sitting around hear almost the same sound effects!

The huge chandelier composed of 72 pentagonal polyamine leaves minimizes the visual stimulation of the audience as much as possible.

And the hindrance to the music is reduced to a minimum.

Therefore, everyone can feel that the feeling of music in various places in this concert hall and the effect of interpretation in other places need to be adjusted a little bit.

Others, such as the Vienna Golden Hall and the Warsaw Chopin Philharmonic Hall, are all shoebox-type concert halls.

Square.

He Shen rarely performs in this kind of concert hall!

After trying countless different interpretations, He Shen slowly let out a long sigh.

He found the inspiration of music, and he felt a little bit of the most correct way to interpret music.

This concert hall is very different from most other concert halls!

He hasn't been here for a long time, and he has forgotten a lot of ways to use this concert hall before.

Now, he finally picked it up again.

He stood up and looked at the audience in front of him with an extremely solemn look.

In a day or two, his first solo concert tour will start.

By that time...

He Shen touched his chin and narrowed his eyes slightly.

He turned to the three people behind him and suddenly spoke.

"Let's go, I've explored enough, let's go back and rest, it's too late!"

After saying that, without waiting for the three people to respond, he turned and walked out of the concert hall.

The three people followed He Shen step by step, and everyone returned to the hotel and entered their respective rooms.

Time, the time for He Shen to go on stage, is getting closer and closer!

He Shen was lying on the bed alone, looking at the ceiling above his head, thinking about his music.

The night was getting darker and darker, and the surroundings were so quiet that it was scary.

But He Shen couldn't fall asleep.

He looked at the ceiling above his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

Finally, He Shen seemed to have made up his mind, and suddenly spoke slowly.

"Start! Beethoven's master experience!"

"Work: Pastoral!"