Second Piano Concerto

It all happened so quickly, it was as if they had just been through a long pause, so long in sight, that it ended abruptly and everything went back to normal.Chen Ganning hadn't recovered from the anxiety and despair just now, and she didn't care to think about what Qin Haiou's actions meant, when she saw the staff of the concert hall rushing forward to grab the doorknob, pressing it, and pulling it—then The door that had been closed for a long time was finally opened, and the noise from the auditorium poured into the door along with the lights of the stage.Yu Song took the lead and walked out with a baton in his hand. Seeing this scene, the eager audience immediately put aside their doubts and guesses just now, and burst into warm applause.

Chen Ganning's heart was in her throat, she wasn't sure if Qin Haiou was still nervous, if he was really ready to go on stage.But at this moment, she saw Qin Haiou's calm and focused expression, his face was illuminated by the lights of the stage, and his eyes were extremely firm and bright.He walked quickly towards the stage facing the light, and his straight back quickly merged into the lights and applause.The back view coincided with the scene in Chen Ganning's memory. When he took the stage last time, he looked so fragile, as if he might collapse at any time, but this time, he made her feel an unshakable power, as if from now on. Nothing can overwhelm him.

The door closed behind Qin Haiou, blocking Chen Ganning's view.Chen Ganning stood there in a daze for a moment, her whole body relaxed, and her hands and feet felt weak.At this time, a sigh of relief came from beside her, she looked back, and saw Yu Doudou was covering her face to suppress her shock, and when she realized that someone was looking at her, she hurriedly put down her hands, revealing the joy of life-saving in her eyes.This joy became much lighter due to her deliberate restraint, but Chen Ganning felt the same way, and it was very obvious in her eyes.The two of them didn't speak for a while, and after they collected their minds, they went to the monitoring screen in the backstage to watch the real-time picture of the venue.

The conductor and the pianist finally took the stage, and the applause from the audience was especially warm and lasting because it lasted for 3 minutes.But Qin Haiou didn't pause because of this, and immediately sat down in front of the piano after saluting.Now he can't feel everything outside the stage. The music brewing in his heart and the enthusiasm ready to go make him forget the audience, the world around him, and even himself.But in just a few seconds when he stepped onto the stage, he suddenly made a decision on the spur of the moment.

Seeing that the concert was going on normally, Wang Yifu felt relieved and let go of the small pill box in his hand.But Tan Shuo did not relax because of this. From Qin Haiou's appearance to sitting down, he has been watching his every move. He is worried that what he sees in front of him is just a superficial appearance, and that Qin Haiou may make a mistake at some point. .

The conductor and the pianist took their positions, the applause in the auditorium stopped in due course, and the venue fell silent again.Yu Song on the podium turned his head to look at Qin Haiou in front of the piano. After receiving the affirmative look from the other party, he raised his baton and the music started.

It wasn't until Qin Haiou's fingers touched the keys that Tan Shuo finally breathed a sigh of relief.After getting along for more than a year, he has become very familiar with the performance effects of Qin Haiou in different psychological states.At this time, when I heard Qin Haiou's piano sound, the strength, expression, and touch of the keys were all good, as if I had returned to the piano room of Xiaopengmen, but I had a stronger desire to perform and just the right excitement than before. Tan Shuo knew that Qin Haiou was in good condition, and he finally put his heart back into his belly, and he concentrated on enjoying the music.

Qin Haiou broke free from all the shackles, roamed freely in his own music world, and finally released it completely on the piano.Under the perfect cooperation of the conductor, the pianist and the orchestra, the music advances forward, starting with the cheerful, magnificent and bold main theme, and then enters the beautiful and flexible sub-theme, and then unfolds layer by layer, reaching the dazzling and dazzling performance by the pianist solo. Cadenza of the technique.This brilliance was born in Qin Haiou's original impromptu performance, and was carefully polished by Tan Shuo. The whole section is ups and downs, dazzling, and fully demonstrates Qin Haiou's personal ability.The end of the cadenza is linked to the reappearance of the first movement, and finally, the theme of the main and subparts is reproduced in the brilliant ensemble of the orchestra at the same time.The piano, controlled by Qin Haiou alone, intertwined and merged with the whole band in the confrontation, and finally pushed the first movement to a climax.

At this time, the audience at the scene had already been conquered by the music they heard.The music's unique style and rich tones, talented creative techniques and strong romantic feelings made them fall in love with it immediately.And Qin Haiou's impeccable technical ability, deep understanding of music, and absolute control of the music in the performance also shocked the audience again.

After the first movement, the music quickly enters the second movement.This is a quiet and long-lasting Adagio, as mysterious and sentimental as the singing voice floating in the evening mist in the mountains, and it is touching.The movement weakens at the end, and everything in the mountains seems to be silent.But after a moment of silence, the third movement begins.As soon as this warm and joyful allegro movement appeared, it lit up the concert hall like a dancing flame. As the music gradually reached its climax, Qin Haiou's flying fingers were dazzling. The audience almost forgot to breathe and their hearts beat. With the unrestrained rhythm of the piano.But at this moment, Tan Shuo suddenly got excited and almost jumped up.At the same time, the conductor Yu Song was also frightened, the music was in his head, and the score was in front of his eyes, so he judged in a split second that Qin Haiou's performance was different from the score since the last measure.

Tan Shuo broke out in sweat from being frightened.As soon as he heard it, he knew that the passage Qin Haiou was playing now was not the finalized version, but the extremely difficult version he had created before revising.

Tan Shuo is well aware of this, but Yu Song has never read Tan Shuo's old manuscript, and Qin Haiou has never played this version in rehearsal, so at the beginning of discovery, Yu Song thought it was Qin Haiou who played the wrong version. up.

Although Wang Yifu only listened to the rehearsal once, he was deeply impressed by this extremely difficult passage in the third movement. He even asked Tan Shuo a question at that time. At this time, he listened to Qin Haiou playing for a while, and soon found that it was more difficult than the passage. It's even harder to hear in rehearsal.Of course, he didn't know that Qin Haiou changed his mind temporarily, and thought it was Tan Shuo who later changed this paragraph to be more difficult.Seeing that his apprentice still has the strength to perform such difficult passages, and has surpassed himself at his peak both technically and musically, Wang Yifu feels very gratified and proud.He knows that Qin Haiou has truly matured, and no matter what difficulties and challenges he faces in the future, he will be able to deal with them calmly.

At the same time, Yu Song on the podium was not disturbed by an accident in the piano performance.Although he was very surprised, he still calmly directed the band to continue playing normally, and tried to judge how serious Qin Haiou's mistake was.However, he soon breathed a sigh of relief, because he found that Qin Haiou only increased the difficulty of playing, and did not affect the cooperation between the piano and the band. Or any other dissonance.The experienced Yu Song immediately realized that it was probably not that Qin Haiou played it wrong, but that he played a version that had never been made public in rehearsals on a whim.

The conductor on the stage made a false alarm, but the audience in the audience knew nothing about it.Only Tan Shuo was frightened alone, but he had no choice but to grab Qin Haiou and beat him up, but he was attracted by the hearty performance, and finally he only struggled for a while symbolically, and put that worry to the back of his mind.

Qin Haiou practiced hard for several months and kept holding back his energy in secret. At first, Tan Shuo changed this passage to a simpler one to ensure that nothing would go wrong, but Qin Haiou never stopped practicing this difficult version when he was practicing alone.He did this not to show off his skills, but because this version was written by Tan Shuo without any worries. Qin Haiou believes that it can more fully reflect Tan Shuo's ideas, and is more expressive in music. It is better than the simplified version, so I am reluctant to throw it away.Performance exists only for the sake of music——Qin Haiou dared not forget what Tan Shuo said during the gathering.In the past, he got lost on the road of music because he cared too much about technology. Now that he has lost his way, how can he tolerate that due to technical limitations, Tan Shuo's music cannot be fully displayed!So when he got on stage he decided that he had to play the harder version because that was the best version.Psychological problems are no longer a problem for him, but how have technical problems ever troubled him?For today, they don't know how much painstaking effort and sweat they have put in. Now that they have reached this point, he will never let this performance leave any regrets.

People who used to be familiar with Qin Haiou were dumbfounded at this moment, witnessing that he surpassed the limit of their cognition, making the noble and gorgeous instrument emit a passionate and magnificent sound under his control.It was a fire-like temperament and momentum. Even sitting in the auditorium, Tan Shuo could feel the strings being hot and burning.Just like Qin Haiou once injected a fire into his heart, now, the flame ignited by Qin Haiou is sweeping towards the audience.The music created from the depths of his soul is now vibrating his soul again through Qin Haiou's fingers. This feeling makes Tan Shuo's heart agitated and he can't help himself. He was completely burned by this flame, but his blood boiled even more.At this moment, Qin Haiou's performance ignites the piano, and his music ignites the hearts of the people. After this song, he is also reborn from the ashes. , no one can resist.

At the end of the whole song, the applause in the auditorium was like a sudden surge, flooding Tan Shuo from all directions, but he forgot to applaud, still immersed in the excitement, staring at the stage for a long time without moving.Qin Haiou stood up calmly amid the applause, first shook hands with the conductor Yu Song and the head of the band, waved to thank the band, then turned to the audience and bowed to take the curtain call.The applause in the concert hall reached another climax under his salute, but Qin Haiou raised his hand to signal the audience, asking everyone to give the applause to the composer of the music.At this time, Tan Shuo still nestled in his seat and was lost in thought. It wasn't until Wang Yifu touched him lightly with his arm that he realized that the audience from far and near were all looking in this direction.He hurriedly got up and bowed, just about to shrink back, but saw Qin Haiou waving to him on the stage, motioning him to go on stage.This action made the applause in the auditorium even more heated, and many music fans cheered loudly.Tan Shuo was a little apprehensive, he was really not used to such an occasion.Just as he was hesitating, he saw Wang Yifu pat him on the arm and urged with a smile, "Go!"

Tan Shuo had no choice but to move sideways to the aisle.He was sitting in the middle of the row, with many seats separated from the aisle. The audience in these seats stood up one after another to let him pass, and many of them didn't stop applauding after they stood up.Tan Shuo was so watched by them that he didn't know what to do with his hands and feet. He finally reached the aisle, and he didn't dare to look at the auditorium. He could only stare at the road ahead and walked slowly towards the stage.