empire superstar

Chapter 177 Sudden Explosion
After Junyi Nanye arrived, players from several other major competitions also came to Liao Yuan's lounge one by one for a cordial and friendly exchange visit.

After all, according to the strength exposed at this stage, God A of the Huaxia Division is the only player who has exploded in the entire network during the competition.

Many works such as "Castle in the Sky" and "Street Where the Wind Lives" that he played in the competition have been spread all over the world, especially the "War Rhapsody" series, which has been played on the banks of the Danube in Vienna many times. , highly praised by pianists.

Therefore, whether it is strength or popularity, God A is undoubtedly in the first echelon.

Even if there are no accidents, it is a certainty for God A to win the final championship.

The champion of the first event was an American, and the winner of the second event was a Japanese. Now, the third event is the most promising year for China to win the championship. Many domestic media are also rushing to report , aroused the attention of the whole people.

As a result, this competition has become even more powerful.

At [-]:[-] in the evening, in China, many players who followed the One Emperor and Four Emperors International Piano Competition turned on their computers or Donghai Satellite TV to watch the live broadcast.

Ten minutes later, the global finals of the 10rd One Emperors and Four Emperors International Piano Competition officially began.

First up are the top ten judges.

They come from all over the world, and there are even music masters who are in charge of the five major concert halls.

Of course, they also belong to the same organization - the International Music Art Association, which belongs to UNESCO.

Because the One Emperor and Four Emperors Competition is held once a year, its popularity and reputation have gradually surpassed that of the Chopin International Piano Competition, especially the appearance of a contestant like Liao Yuan who can play "War Rhapsody" and other series of works. Caused turmoil throughout the industry.

Not long ago, the great Asian pianist Naoki Ando even expressed his appreciation to God A's work "Castle in the Sky" through Twitter, saying that its piano sound is as pure and beautiful as the sky.

And the special performance for Asian musicians to be held in the Golden Hall also invited Liao Yuan to perform.

These news spread like wildfire among others, and it also completely established Liao Yuan's reputation in the industry.

Liao Yuan has also become one of the representative figures in the current Chinese piano circle, having the same status and popularity as young pianists such as Lin Weiyin and Meng Han.

After the ten judges appeared one by one, the Royal Orchestra of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw played a few pieces of classical music for the audience before officially entering the main topic of the competition.

Five players appeared in turn.

Liao Yuan still wore the mask familiar to the audience, and became the most eye-catching one in the audience.

The audience applauded thunderously, but the scene of whistling and cheering like a concert did not appear.

In the gesture of the contest host Phil, the applause was almost forbidden.

After the five contestants introduced their appearances one by one, the audience fell into silence.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Royal Concert Hall Amster. I am the host Phil Coulson. Now, I will introduce to you the rules of the finals of the One Emperor and Four Emperor Competition."

Under the explanation of the host Phil, the audience quickly understood the rules of the competition system.

As in the finals of each major competition area, the competition still adopts the points system. The winner of each PK event will get one point in total, and the first player to get four points will directly advance.

In other words, a player must defeat four other opponents in a row in order to directly win the championship.

According to the order of the lottery, the first player to play is Lenny James from the wild card division.

Lenny is the only black man among the five players, but he is wearing an off-white tuxedo. He is 32 years old. For ordinary pianists, his hand speed and reaction speed are relatively slow, but Lenny is not at all. This weakness does not exist.

He mainly plays jazz piano, which is a musical genre evolved from jazz music, and it is also a creative category that many black pianists are good at.

Therefore, the piano piece he brought to the Amsterdam Concertgebouw is still the jazz piece he is good at, but it is a difficult pop piece.

After bowing to the audience, when the applause died down, Lenny's hands began to dance on the keys.

His fingers look thick and long.

But every finger can hit the keys properly. The moment he played the piano, the thick and full bass appeared, as if there were two sexy dancers twisting their willow-like waists beside them, attracting the attention of the audience.

This song is called "Dancing Girl", as the name suggests, it makes people want to dance jazz.

When the song ended, the audience burst into applause.

The technique and the texture of the tune are up to standard, but for many people, it seems that some of the amazing feeling is missing.

Soon, the second player, Billy Broad, came on the stage. Billy came from the European division and had come back for the third time. The pressure on Billy was still enormous.

In the end, he made his debut with an adaptation of Chopin's "Winter Wind", but the number of votes was far lower than that of "Dancer".

"I would mention that the competition may lean more towards original pop."

After the game, a judge spoke up.

After Linney won, he accumulated one point, and the second player was Christopher Grace of the North American division.

Christopher, like Billy, is a player who has participated in the One Emperor and Four Emperors Competition. However, last year he stopped in the top ten in the competition area, but this year Christopher's piano skills have greatly improved, and he has passed through consecutive trials in the North American competition area, and finally won the Tickets to the finals.

But standing on this stage, everyone is No.1 in their respective divisions, and no one is weaker than the other.

Even Liao Yuan can't guarantee that he can win. Therefore, recently, he will take time to practice the piano, including after arriving in the Netherlands, Liao Yuan will still take time to practice seriously in the hotel.

However, in this competition, apart from competing in piano skills, the contestants' creative ability is especially valued.

But creativity is Christopher's shortcoming. Therefore, in the second game, the black player Lenny scored another point.

This made many people secretly surprised, but when they saw the next contestant, everyone smiled.

God A is here!
"What piece do you want to play?"

The host Phil looked at God A's mask and asked with a smile.

Liao Yuan replied: ""River-Flows-in-You"."

"I'm looking forward to hearing the name!"

Phil said excitedly, "Please."

Liao Yuan walked onto the stage and took Lenny's seat.

After the applause from the audience faded away, he raised his hand and lightly pressed the keys.

When Lin Ni watched Liao Yuan play the first key from the audience, he was a little dazed. Within three seconds, when the tone came to his ears, it rushed into his hands.

Immediately, he sighed.

Lost.

Can't compare.

Some music, listening to it for only three seconds, can make a real pianist imagine the melody behind it.

As the ten fingers flew lightly, the flowing light overflowed, accompanied by the crisp sound of the piano like raindrops.

The difficulty of this song is not too great. It is the closing music of Liao Yuan's university library in his previous life. In addition to fluency, there is also the fullness of emotion. The speed of this song is very regular, beyond the law Outside the speed, it sounds a bit out of date.

Liao Yuan once played this piano piece at the opening of the Academy Awards in his previous life. The world has mixed praises and criticisms, but now, his hands can easily play the music he wants. He knows that no one will not like this kind of music. like.

The audience was silent, and many people's eyes flickered.

Even the judges kept nodding their heads. Although they didn't speak, they showed a look of enjoyment during the listening process.

amazing?

No.

Some are just warm, strong, independent and other beautiful emotions.

It is fundamentally different from Lenny's jazz piano music, which is more fresh and natural, like a ray of spring breeze blowing through people's hearts.

After the song ended, Liao Yuan stood up and saluted the audience as a gentleman.

There was thunderous applause.

Lenny walked up to the stage step by step, and the moment he passed by, he stretched out his hand to Liao Yuan, showing his white teeth: "It's a very nice song."

Liao Yuan was taken aback for a moment, and finally reached out to shake hands, and said with a smile, "Thank you."

Lennie sat down at the piano.

He looked a little nervous, his hands on the keys, and he seemed a little overwhelmed.

What kind of tune should be played to be able to win?
In just a moment, Lenny thought a lot, but what finally landed on the keyboard was still the jazz he was familiar with.

He didn't dare to take the risk of playing other types of music, he only played the type of music he liked and was good at.

Soon, a song "May's Wheat Field" with a strong jazz style was played.

Although the audience continued to applaud, when voting, out of the 2037 votes in the audience, 1673 votes were cast for God A, and Lenny only got more than 300 votes.

This kind of strong crushing was absolutely not seen in the first two games.

It can be seen from this that Liao Yuan's popularity and strength are strong.

Sweat appeared on Linney's forehead, but the result was settled. After accumulating two points, he lost the game in the third game.

Liao Yuan accumulated one point and started defending the ring.

Nanye Junyi's face was very ugly.

He has no certainty of victory, especially after seeing the 47-second "Flight of the Bumblebee" two days ago, and now seeing "River-Flows-in-You" as an emotional pop song, Shunichi Minano My heart was filled with gongs, drums and thunder.

He thought of a saying in Huaxia, if you fail to start a teacher, you will die first, which will always make the hero burst into tears.

Nanye Shunichi left tears of regret in his heart.

Why didn't I participate in the first and second competitions that year.

Why do you want to compete with God A on the same stage?
Although there were countless messages in his heart, Junichi Minano remained calm on the surface. He went to the stage, thinking while walking.

What are you going to play?

Minano Shunichi was a little embarrassed.

He found that there seemed to be no dead ends in God A's body, whether it was in the emotional expression of the work or in technology, God A almost completely crushed everyone present.

This is almost the level of a hall-level grand pianist!
Thinking of the handsome young face under the mask of God A, Jun Nanye gritted his teeth, and finally decided to come up with the bottom of the box - "Sanada Maru March".

This is a piano piece comparable to "Flight of the Bumble Bee". It surpasses the difficulty of professional level and has performance level and hall level level. It is also a piano piece that his cousin Shuichi Minano has always admired.

It is precisely because of this work that he has the confidence to win the championship on the world stage.

The word Sanada in Sanada Maru refers to a general named Sanada Yukimura in the Neon Kingdom and Warring States Period, and "Maru", also called "Qulun", refers to the Japanese-style castle surrounded by stone walls, The earth barriers and other surrounding areas are divided into blocks.

To put it simply, this song tells the story of General Sanada leading the soldiers and civilians in their full name, waiting for the upcoming invasion in the outpost they built.

The whole piece is majestic, fierce and fast, and the most important thing is hand speed. Even Shuichi Minano, the champion of last year's competition, struggled to play this piece, and it was difficult to guarantee a good sound, let alone express musical emotion.

But Shunichi Minano is different. Because he has practiced this piece of music all the year round, he has developed muscle memory. Eyes flick.

"What piece do you want to play?" The host Phil asked with a smile.

Minano Shunichi said seriously: ""Sanada Maru March"."

So, while the audience was watching, Jun Nanye bowed and bowed to the audience, and then he suddenly woke up from the sluggish state, as if his spirit was lifted in an instant.

Soon, he sat upright in front of the piano, with his hands flat on the 88 black and white keys.

Under the gaze of the people, he took a deep breath, and then, his hands seemed to turn into a hurricane, frantically playing on the keys.

"Ding ding dong ding ding..."

Such as the sound of howling wind, the specific scale can no longer be heard clearly.

Those hands, at this moment, are almost invisible.

No matter how high the quality is, at this moment, the audience in the field couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice.

Liao Yuan also sat up suddenly, carefully observing all the conditions of Junichi Minano.

Different from the large-scale playing movements and exaggerated expressions on the public piano the day before yesterday, Minano Shunichi at this time is extremely serious, his eyes are staring straight at the piano keys without blinking, and his waist is bent as much as possible When he got down, his whole face was almost lying on the keys.

And those hands are flying left and right on the keys very quickly.

Liao Yuan showed seriousness.

He could see that Shunichi Minano's playing style relied entirely on pure muscle memory, and even because it was too fast, in order to produce a more accurate and perfect scale, his two wrists were raised and lowered from time to time, Play the piano with your wrist.

In this way, he seemed to have two extra fingers than ordinary people.

This speed also shocked the ten judges in an instant, and they all looked at each other with a little hot face.

The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves!

Even though they are all great pianists registered by the World Music Association, even when they were young, they couldn't reach this kind of performance speed.

What's even more commendable is that the hand speed is not only fast, but also the emotion of the whole piece is perfectly performed.

(End of this chapter)