I play the piano in the comprehensive world

Yukihisa Matsuda was the first person to snatch up tickets. After he finished buying tickets, the [-]-seat tickets for the side hall of the Paris Philharmonic Hall were sold out, and there were only a few tickets left for the next day. The position of the corners.

"So popular?" Matsuda felt that the speed of ticket sales was a bit strange. When he clicked on the promotional webpage, a large recent photo of Gou Juanjing on Barcelona immediately popped up, occupying the entire page.

Matsuda: "..."

OK, he found the reason.

Exit and look at the repertoire again. The first half of the songs were all the repertoire of the Barcelona game. There is nothing to say, but in the second half, Matsuda's eyes were locked on Beethoven's sonata Op.110*.

He also read a lot of Gou Juanjing’s comments after the game. He was technically impeccable, and his music expression was obviously outstanding among many players. He can really play with the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra, which is enough to prove his strength to a certain extent. There is nothing wrong with the champion, so there are only two points of criticism in the end. One is his appearance, which has become a bone of choice for music critics, and the other is his selection of songs.

The three times he played were all selected pieces for the competition. Although each piece showed his different characteristics, the overly superficial symbolic meanings (dongfeng, moonlight, water) still made some judges feel that his performance on profound themes was insufficient. stay at the technical level.

Matsuda disagreed after hearing his "Moonlight Sonata", but for most ordinary listeners, this seems to be a problem.

Matsuda was aggrieved and there was not enough evidence to refute.Obviously, this is not just a problem of dog rolling. Basically, all young musicians have this problem more or less, even a large number of experienced conductors including Matsuda.

For example, Sun Rui, who debuted at the age of 10, has been active in the music industry since she was a child. As she got older, similar criticisms began to follow one after another. The recent concert was even worse, and the negative reviews on the Internet were overwhelming. , most of her superb skills are just a passing sentence, and the lack of expression and lack of musicality are infinitely magnified, which makes Matsuda feel glaring.

It's not that music critics deliberately find fault, and exclude those who follow suit and attract attention. The reality of the music industry is so cruel.It is necessary to improve one performance after another, have more bright spots and ideas, and be able to accept failures and criticisms in order to climb up step by step.

If you stop, you will be knocked down, and if you don't move forward, you will fail.

Even Liszt had the same criticism when he was young, so that even now, ordinary people who are far away from the classical music circle still have the impression of him as a "showman".

Matsuda stared at the page for a while, then worries emerged in his heart: I hope he is not acting out of emotion.

After being in the circle for a long time, I know that it is impossible not to read the comments of music critics, and it is also impossible to take them completely to heart.

With such complicated feelings, Matsuda waited until the day of the concert and sat in the auditorium.He looked around and found that the scale of this concert was larger than he had imagined. The cameras and recording equipment were ready, and the staff kept shuttling among the audience who were seated one after another. Obviously, there were other arrangements.

The position Matsuda bought is in the No.12 row, at the back, but the position can clearly see the player's hands and pedal movements, and he is already very satisfied.After he reconfirmed that the program list had not been changed, he looked up and found that the bosses had entered the arena.

Zimmerman, Auclair and other judges in Barcelona had internal votes, and they were all in the best three, four and five rows. Matsuda paid attention to their seat numbers, but they were not in the best seats.When the concert was about to start, he saw a few tall figures taking their seats calmly. They were the most famous music critics in Paris, Schoenberg, Said and Leibrecht.

One is enough to make people nervous. Now that the team is here, he will start to panic if Matsuda doesn't play.

Isn't this a rookie's debut concert?Why do you provoke so many big bosses?

But he soon lost his mind to think about it. Songtian, who came here alone, found himself a little excited. He had been in the music circle for many years, and he hadn’t had this kind of fresh excitement for a long time. Before going out, he brought two packs of tissues to make sure he Nothing goes wrong.

As a compatriot and in Paris for a long time, Matsuda has a strong resonance with Goujuanjing's piano.

Goujuanjing came on stage.

After months of absence, his figure is still youthful and youthful, and his expression is much calmer than that of Matsuda in the auditorium.He entered the stage according to the routine procedure, bowed, and then sat firmly in front of the piano.

This stable aura also infected Matsuda, and he quickly entered the state of "listening" in a somewhat flustered mood.

Soon he was shocked to find out, just a few months.The music of Gou Juan Jing is obviously different from before.

Even a song like "Winter Wind" is no longer a simple gust of wind, but has a little more "sinking" that Matsuda can't explain clearly. It is a sinking of emotional accumulation, maybe it is only temporary, and maybe one day it will be further developed. Qualitative change, in short, this trace of depression now brings a different temperament to "Northern Wind", and the texture of the whole song is different.

What happened during this time?Matsuda had doubts in his heart.

After the intermission, Matsuda ushered in his most anticipated "Piano Sonata No. 31".

A sonata, Sonata, is an instrumental divertimento played by a single instrument or an instrument and a piano. At first, it was a performance type established to distinguish it from vocal singing. Later, it gradually developed into a specific type of music, usually composed of three composed of four movements. *The "Moonlight Sonata" played by Gou Juanjing before is also one of the masterpieces of the sonata family.

Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op.110 is known as the crown jewel of the piano sonatas. Its technical difficulty is not high, but it is two completely different concepts to play it well and to play it well. The understanding of the musical logic and connotation in the phrases, severity, urgency, continuity...all the details together form an answer that belongs to the performer.

The long vibrato with rich metaphors imitates the timbre of the violin and appears in the movement as a transition between the previous and the next; the creative experience of the string quartet is applied to the piano to make the piano performance more colorful and contrasting; Fugue music absorbs and develops, adding more complex and textured elements, so that fugue can be integrated into sonatas; using the tonality and harmony of romantic elements, strengthening the delicateness and emotion of music, highlighting the artistry of Beethoven sonatas Sexual and lyrical...

Only a master like Beethoven can so freely use various musical elements in a harmonious and natural way to create something new from them.There is no longer a piece of music as classic as Op.110. Everyone has their own interpretation and understanding, and everyone can get their own thinking from it.

The third movement of Op.110 is the most shining part of this work. The first half is a song of despair, as if pressed to the bottom by fate, struggling in the mud exhausted, and the second half is the rising star of hope, playing victory horn of joy.

Matsuda has heard many versions of Op.110. Everyone has their own experience in handling this part, but no one has ever handled it like a dog rolling thorn.

like what...

He closed his eyes and let his mind go blank.

third movement.

A cluster of flames appeared in Matsuda's mind, and it slowly differentiated into wings, hovering in the darkness with difficulty.Its wings are so small, it is very difficult to fly, high and low, the darkness is constantly eroding it, engulfing it bit by bit, struggling and hard work are in vain, exhaustion gradually gains the upper hand, the flame bird finally A cloud of ashes remained.

But this is not the end.

The final fugue.

After exhaustion, there is a new flame among the ashes.

Burn, burn.

Up, up.

When never really defeated, this is the strength of Beethoven, and the strength of the piece.

If the ending is not good enough, it can only mean that the end has not yet been reached.

Matsuda looked at the star of hope reborn from the ashes in surprise. The gentle starlight hung high in the sky, bringing a ray of light to the darkness, and giving the flame bird another direction to move forward.

--Nirvana rebirth.

When Matsuda came back to his senses, he felt as if he had watched a movie. When all the plots of the movie were forgotten, the stars of hope and the flame of nirvana were the memories he left after listening to them.

how……

Applause sounded from all around, and he applauded in a daze.

When Matsuda returned home, the flying bird was still in his mind.

——That should be a phoenix... But the current Gou Juanjing is still too young, and his phoenix has not yet fully formed, so I only roughly sketched its appearance.

This is surprising enough.

He is only 16 years old, right?

Why is his musical language ability so strong?

This is Beethoven Sonata Op.110!Not an ordinary tune!

There are some pianists who can't play well in playing the piano all their lives!

Matsuda couldn't fall asleep after thinking about it, so he just got up and looked at the comments on the Internet to see if anyone had the same feeling as him.