Reborn Liverpool

Chapter 64 Piano Concert

The venue for Zhang Mai's performance is the Wigmore Hall in London, and the time starts at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday. The arrangement of the "Sun" is very ironic, because this round of the Premier League also starts at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. post.

Wigmore Hall is located near Oxford Street, the shopping center in London's West End. It looks quite big from the outside...but when you go in, you will find that the concert hall is quite small.

The Wigmore Concert Hall was completed on Wigmore Street in London in 1901. It was built by the German Bechstein Piano Company. The next door to the concert hall was the Bechstein exhibition hall in London at that time. It was called Bechstein Music before World War I. The hall was later confiscated by the British government due to war hostility and renamed to this day. It is now a world-renowned chamber music hall.

With its special "shoebox" shape roof design, Wigmore Hall has excellent acoustics, and the small audience capacity (600 people) makes the concert hall a comfortable venue for chamber music and piano recitals. best place.The current main function hall and some dressing rooms in the backstage are still named after "Bechstein" - the Bechstein room. It can be said that the name "Bechstein" is spread all over the concert hall.

The performers here are mainly classical musicians, ranging from masters to new stars, and there are some experimental classical music that are more suitable for young people to listen to. In short, it is very suitable for middle-level and high-level classical music fans.The sound effect is very good, this is not a place suitable for large-scale performances, but it is very suitable for recital (recital).

The stage area is small, with a round front and back, and a "Bechstein" performance-grade grand piano is placed in the center. "Bechstein" is compared with "Steinway".It is like the "Rolls Royce" and "Mercedes-Benz" in the automotive industry.

Zhang Mai and Ms. Kimura Yoshitomo arrived at the Wigmore Hall in the morning, and accompanied by Crott, the "Sun" and relevant personnel from the British BBC, who arrived in advance, visited this historic music sanctuary. Zhang Mai I also know that in addition to holding more than 400 concerts every year, Wigmore Hall also provides weekly broadcast content for the British BBC Channel [-] (Classical Music).

Zhang Mai also likes the decoration and atmosphere of the main function hall very much. The ocher-red wall, the white dome and the shadow wall inlaid on the wall, the dark red carpet and the side-by-side reclining chair covers, as well as the The chair-height stage is full of intimacy and comfort, as if returning to the small commune auditorium in the 60s.

"The Sun" did not make it difficult for Zhang Mai on the solo repertoire. Beethoven's "Moonlight", France's Paul Cénéville and Oliver Tucson's "Dream Wedding" and South Korea's Lee Runmin's "Kiss The Rain" are all It is a solo piece that is recognized as pleasant and not too difficult in the world.

After two o'clock in the afternoon, the invited guests slowly filled up the front rows. There were about 200 people. Because it was not a closed personal work meeting, the concert hall was still selling tickets to the outside world. There were tourists and music lovers one after another. Came in and sat in the back.

Zhang Mai, who was waiting in the backstage dressing room, had already changed into the court costume for the performance. Accompanied by Kimura Yoshitomo, who was dressed in furisode kimono and radiant, he received well-known guests who came to visit the backstage from time to time.

Looking at Yoshitomo Kimura with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, the kimono embroidered with gorgeous peonies on a bright yellow background, tall cloud temples and transparent bright makeup, the whole picture is a beautiful oriental lady.

Fortunately, the young master has a tall and straight figure and a face that defies the sky, otherwise he would really be the bodyguard of the Japanese lady!
Assistant guest Stephen Hoff is the most popular piano superstar in Britain today. He has been unanimously praised by the upper class and elite culture in his early fifties, and has won the prestigious "MacArthur Award". Come on, it must be the handwriting of the British BBC.

Zhang Mai's number one fan in England, Lineker, the famous Leicester City star and the current host of the British BBC Sports Channel, also came, and brought a group of celebrity friends from the sports world to help Zhang Mai, and started immediately A new round of gambling: Zhang Mai will definitely play more than ten syllables wrong today!

At three o'clock sharp, the kick-off of the Premier League around the world, Zhang Mai also came on stage and started his own performance.

The first is Beethoven's "Moonlight". "Moonlight" is also called "#c Minor Piano Sonata". It is said that Beethoven composed it because of his lover's empathy.

With Zhang Mai's pianist-level skills and rudimentary music understanding ability, in the smooth interpretation of the whole movement, it still fully reflects the intertwined feeling of dreamy tenderness and occasional dark premonition in the work, After the sound of the piano subsided, there was still an inherent gloomy mood in the hall.

The second song is "Dream Wedding", which is familiar to the world. The literal translation of this song from French should be "Lover's Wedding". , until the end of the song is perfect and romantic and cheerful.

Based on his own understanding of the music and the theme of creation, Zhang Mai has made some adjustments in accents and paragraph connections. Compared with Richard Clayderman's version of "Dream Wedding", Zhang Mai's The sound of the piano seems to have a trace of "I can't think about it" anxiety deeply buried in the melody.

After Zhang Mai played two pieces in a row, Stephen Hoff's assistant solo followed. He is good at reinterpreting the repertoire of the ancient performance school. During Zhang Mai's rest time with his eyes closed, Stephen Hoff on stage Three classical pieces were played.

After Zhang Mai took the stage again, he set off a storm of Asian music in Wigmore Hall.

The emotional catharsis of the three familiar preludes can be seen clearly in Zhang Mai's piano sound:
The memories in "The Fact You Left", from nostalgia to the best wishes for each other's well-being at the end, are always tightly entwined with a light and sad theme;

"Kiss The Rain" allows the audience to hear the remembrance of the lost emotions, a touch of sadness, but also some calm and free and easy, the clear and jumping sound of the piano, like raindrops dripping into the water, and those past memories Emotions, like those raindrops, remain fresh and moist in people's hearts. As time goes by, they all disappear like rain without a trace. Indifferent and quiet.

"Castle in the Sky" expresses a kind of poignant beauty with a touch of sadness, knowing the outcome of the tragedy, but full of longing, yearning, forging ahead, indomitable spirit, never turning back, and going forward bravely.

Zhang Mai's repertoire was all over, and the audience and guests all gave a standing ovation. Even the tourists who entered indiscriminately exclaimed that today's tickets are worth it. It is rare to see such a young and handsome oriental pianist.

In the BBC "Match of the Day" program hosted by Lineker that night, he quoted the video of Zhang Mai playing the piano in the afternoon, and admitted that he lost the bet. Zhang Mai only suspected that two syllables were different from the standard playing technique different.

When broadcasting Leicester City's 2:2 draw with Stoke City, Lineker commented in a calm tone: Thanks to Leicester City player Zhang Mai for his hat-trick in the last round, so that we can win in the weekend. In addition to watching the Premier League in the afternoon, you can also enjoy such a wonderful piano sound.

Major London media covering the whole UK also reported on Zhang Mai's piano recital on the second day. Except for the host "The Sun", other media received rave reviews.

Among them, the "Guardian" comment is the most professional:
"Stephen Huff, who came to the scene in person, was full of praise for Zhang Mai, and believed that Zhang Mai's piano level is far above the performance level. If he can devote himself to music, he should be able to knock on the door to the master soon! You know, even He Fu, who is the most popular in England right now, still thinks he is struggling to find the way to become a master."

The "Sun", which has always entertained without a bottom line, is not optimistic about Zhang Mai's future in music:
"Zhang Mai's piano level can't be ranked among the top ten in the world. It's better to play football honestly. The only highlight of yesterday's concert was Zhang Mai's Japanese female companion. There are pictures to prove it. If Zhang Mai can barely be regarded as handsome from the East Pot, then his Japanese female companion is the dream goddess of all British men!".

Zhang Mai is naturally unaware of these media reports and gossip about him, because he went straight to the airport after leaving the Wigmore Hall, and was in a hurry to go to Germany to meet the boss Klopp, accompanied by Klotter and Kimura Meizhi and Dvikov stayed in London to wait for Zhang Mai to pick him up on his return flight.

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Thanks to Ye Fengqiao, Q Bowei, Xixi Yuyu, の空空№, Yan, There Are Eternals and There Are All Directions, True Black Buddha, Little White Rabbit, and 2424 Niu Niu for their tickets. These chapters are a bit off topic, too late Changed, there will be a game coming soon!
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