musicians of old

Chapter 289 The Bell, The Bumble Bee (5000)

"boom!--"

The solitary applause from Don Yettus caused the accumulated energy to be released at once.

"bravo!" "bravo!" "bravo!!!"

Thunderous applause roared down the mountain, and when Master Schillings stepped off the podium, shook hands with Fan Ning and took the curtain call, the already extremely high sound was suddenly raised to a higher level, almost toppled Hall roof!
"My title is still... still too cautious and cautious. "Tioleen Culture Weekly" issued a grand vision and declaration of 'unreservedly praising the truth of art' when it was launched, and now this grand ambition is fading away... "

The editor-in-chief, whose palms were tingling, began to wonder whether he had become more conservative in recent years: "...the words 'arrogant' and 'pragmatic' can ensure that my press release will not be sloppy, but it is definitely not the case' Unreservedly praise the truth of art'! What kind of 'little tribute' or 'pioneering attempt' is this? The virtue of self-effacement cannot cover the praise of others, and the adjective 'small' can only describe its brevity of space and structure at best , but with all the elements of the sublime, a 'small but great homage' and 'an early generous beam upon the audience' of the inspirational light of his Second Symphony!!"

"My titles are always up to standard." The senior reporter of "Hoffmann Gramophone" Feleg, who was greatly shocked at the scene, was quite proud of his naming skills both offensively and defensively at the moment, "...if the composer's answer sheet Unsatisfactory, then "N2 and G9" embodies significant contrast and sharp criticism. Now that this Mr. Fanning has successfully explored a sublime, the same title, the reader's interpretation has changed-think we With a sharp eye, and with good reason to predict that his subsequent Second Symphony will be comparable to that 'Supreme Peak'..."

Music critics are always the most rational group of people, but among the more than 80 audience members who stood and applauded, those six or seven big names who can dominate [-]% of the public opinion in the music critic circle, at this time, while being shocked, they also have their own feelings. other emotions or thoughts.

Master Schillings did not call the curtain first, but stood aside with a smile, clapping hands with the artists on stage and the audience in the audience.

Fanning walked to several positions on the stage facing different fans in turn.

He stretched out his arms, pressed his chest, and bowed to take the curtain call. Waves of cheers came one after another.

"This composer and pianist is the leader of the spiritual world tonight!"

"It's not just notes, music and art! It's a noble force that transcends time, space, region and culture, and exists in everyone's heart!"

The more general audience turned the endless emotion and praise in their hearts into more enthusiastic applause and "bravo".

Wonderful art, divine grace, the marriage of love and power... Those radiant melodies and exciting lyrics fragments are still echoing in the heart of the special music critic of "The Voice of Janus" who came from afar .

Obviously, what this New Year's concert brings to the audience is no longer at the level of enjoyment, festival, or celebration.

Its meaning has approached the sublime, the truth and the ultimate joy of mankind.

The reason for using the word "close"...

"Second heir!" "Second heir of Gilles!"

In the sound of "bravo!" from the audience and the names of the conductor and pianist, the shouts of some music fans began to be mixed.

We must know that those who are qualified to be called "torch bearer" or heirs of masters can only be lower-level masters. They spontaneously put Fanning's title behind Schillings. "The evaluation attitude is quite obvious!

——There are already very few people in this world who have a "new moon" recognition of Fanning's "style".

Of course, this does not mean that Fanning has been promoted to "New Moon". "Character" is the sum of the world's cognition and memory of the artist, the degree of separation between "very few people think" and "almost everyone thinks", some people can't cross it in their lifetime, and some people succeed in crossing during their lifetime but are overwhelmed by time after death. The elucidation fell back.

To be precise, this performance further consolidated the level of Fanning's "Forged Lion".

The artists on the stage began to accept flowers, and many audience members went around from the back steps and gave bouquets of flowers to the chorus members in dresses.

These boys and girls had just recovered from the tension of being on stage, and at this moment they only felt that they had never been treated so enthusiastically, and thanked the music fans shyly and incoherently.

The stage is too lively!

Of course, the symphony concert is already full of people, but there has never been so many people and so many elements at the New Year's concert tonight in previous performances!

——Today, in addition to more than 80 musicians, pianist Fanning, conductor Schillings, and 6 people including Nieman, Marquise, Kaplan, Virgil, Lausanne and Elizabeth can enjoy the treatment surrounded by flowers Singers in costumes and 61 affiliated choir members.

There were many artists, but more music fans presented flowers. After a while, the stage became a colorful ocean.

Originally, the aura of the master commanded by Schillings should have been brighter than Fanning.

But Fanning's piano is so eye-catching, it tells this great story from the beginning, not only leads to the band, chorus and chorus in turn, but also firmly connects them together, the wonderful interpretation can be said to run through the whole work!
This alone is enough to make his courtesy equal to that of a master, and if one more factor is added: he is a composer...

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Fan Ning, who bowed for the Nth time, was pointed at by more than a dozen gift boxes. Amidst the joyous laughter, colorful and gorgeous ribbons were thrown out, and flower petals and gold and silver foils flying all over the sky hung on him. .

Its leader is impressively his piano teacher Sir Viadrin.

Fan Ning ordered a batch of gift boxes ingeniously, and put them in the small slots between the seats in the honored guest area in advance. This is not common at ordinary serious concerts, but today is the New Year's concert, everyone just thinks The supervisor came up with ideas one after another, and the atmosphere became more enthusiastic. The audience who hadn't noticed this element before cheered even more excitedly.

"Its 'creation' does not represent my free will at the current stage, but its 'deduction' is what I expected. I just want to put what is still there and what I can come to on this snowy New Year's Eve night in the old industrial world. Friends from all over the world gathered together to share the joy and joy of the festival..."

Another large wave of gift tubes emitted a "bang bang" sound.

Fan Ning laughed and brushed away the gold and silver foils from his hair, and then saw the young master Nieman jump off the stage to snatch two of them, and then turned the launch handle on his friend Schillings.

He also saw Kaprun blushing with joy, his wife and daughter came to the stage to help him carry the ribbons on his body; he saw Lu sitting behind the timpani in "Dead End", holding two mallets and smiling at the messy scene in front of him. On the stage; I saw the Marquis McAdam and several chief girls throwing flowers to the auditorium vigorously, which caused cheers one after another.

"Thank you. The children sang so well and had such a good time. All this is really touching." Hamilton was supported by someone and walked up to Fanning, tremblingly holding a small magnolia bouquet.

Fanning saw the old lady's wrinkled eyes twinkling with tears, and he quickly bowed deeply after taking it.

"Hope you're having a good night."

One turned back to the auditorium, and the other retreated to the aisle on the side of the stage.

But obviously, the first round of carnival after the dinner couldn't satisfy everyone's appetite.

At some point in time, the scattered applause of more than [-] audience members has become uniform.

"Wow!--"

Fanning, in a tuxedo, returned to take the curtain call again, and then sat down in front of the piano.

"Yeah!—" "Wow!—"

The audience erupted.

"It's a piano encore! Not an orchestra!"

"Great, this is really listening to the piano solo completely. What will he play? A Gilles romance?"

"No, it's definitely a new work! Don't you know the grand occasion of that night in Fort Santaram?" The two music fans had a brief discussion, and then quickly fell silent with the hall.

After the few sporadic coughs disappeared, Fanning stretched out his right hand and struck a crisp octave D-sharp double note on the high register of the piano.

"Ding ding ding dong dong, ding ding ding dong dong, ding ding ding dong, ding ding dong..."

Then, his right hand revolved around the G-sharp minor theme melody at the bottom, and the D-sharp fixed pattern like a small bell at the top, and started a clean long-distance jump, and his left hand accompanied it with extremely economical chord tones.

"Is this the bell? New Year's concert... New Year's bell... This is very appropriate!"

As early as Fanning hit the first few octaves, a considerable portion of discerning listeners felt his unique musical character.

The first encore is the third piece of Liszt's "Paganini Etudes" - "The Bell"!
Soon, under Fanning's fingertips, this crisp, ethereal, and extremely technical musical theme attracted the audience firmly.

After listening to Paganini's "Second Violin Concerto in B Minor" in 1831, Liszt, who was greatly shocked, created the rhapsodic and improvisational "The Bells" in 1834 based on the roundabout theme of the third movement. Unexpectedly, after finishing writing, he found that due to the difficulty, almost no one except himself could play the effect, so he made a lot of simplifications in 1838, included it in the first edition of "Paganini Grand Etude" and presented it To Clara Schuman.

But Liszt really didn't expect that it was still too difficult for pianists to play perfectly, so he had no choice but to simplify it again in 1851, eliminating more virtuoso passages and only keeping the most exciting passages. part, with some "fun" brilliance - this third draft, downgraded to "the easiest simplified version that can be played and quickly mastered" in his eyes, is the most widely circulated song in Fanning's previous life "The Bell", it is almost one of the first works that fans think of when they mention Liszt.

Of course, a basic common sense is: the gap between people is sometimes unimaginable.The skill gap between Liszt and those pianists at that time may be even greater than that between pianists and piano boys. In his eyes, "the easiest simplified version that can be played and quickly mastered" is something that no normal person would believe. For example, the audience listening to Fanning's performance in the audience——

Originally thought that the composer had written a lyrical ditty for the New Year's occasion depicting the sound of bells, but after listening to it for less than a minute, they gradually showed dumbfounded expressions.

After the crisp and melodious first theme ended, in the 22nd bar, Fanning began to present the second theme by playing with both hands alternately.

The accent mark that is wrong with the upbeat, and the chromatic harmony progress create a dangling and playful image, and in the theme jump of sixteenth notes, there is a fast 32-point auxiliary group, which shows the The high precision of touch keys has begun to make many piano learners in the audience, especially the ladies with relatively smaller hand spans, daunted.

In bar 43, the first theme begins with variations.The main melody was switched to the left hand, while Fan Ning's right hand began to strike in the high-pitched range of three different octaves in turn, and the D-sharp sound of three different timbres sounded like a string of bells, melodious and joyful Added a touch of strange color to the atmosphere.

The melody returned to the right hand in measure 51, but the audience found that the notes became more dense triplets. While Fan Ning maintained the melody sound of a long-distance jump, his right hand was still mixed with fast fingers!

After being baptized by a series of "depth of thought" in "Choral Fantasia in C Minor", many senior music critics were dazzled by Fanning's clean and neat show off, and the word "convinced" was capitalized all over their faces.

After a series of semitones passed through the sentence, Fanning’s interfinger density increased by one more, and changed from the low voice to the high voice, from 1/2 fingers to 3/4/5 fingers, 68 bars, ornamental voice The whole part was changed from tremolo to vibrato, but the melody was moved to the middle level by Fan Ning. While maintaining the even and refreshing 3/4 finger vibrato, he also had to take into account the skipping image of the 1/2 finger melody!

What is even more surprising to everyone is that this is all just the right hand part!
So music fans discovered miraculously that the fastest vibrato at the top is like the second hand, the middle melody is like the minute hand, and the chords and sustain notes of the left hand are like the hour hand. They move alternately, forming a wonderful effect like a clock dial.

"This way of writing, this way of playing...it's so right! I immediately asked this guy for a score after the concert! This is my repertoire when I return to the concert in the future!!!"

The thick and steady bass, the melodious and moderate "bell theme", and a series of fine and crisp tick-tick notes made Vyadrin's eyes shine, and his ten fingers could not help but move.

In measure 75, Fan Ning felt that fine beads of sweat had already oozed from his vest and forehead, but the high-speed colorful running had just begun.

Every bar here is squeezed into more than 31, 32, or even 40 notes. Fanning's right hand turned into an afterimage and swept back and forth on the keyboard, while his left hand played a few fundamental basses like a chestnut.

Such a fast speed, but the strength is not strong, and there are waves of ups and downs. This kind of showmanship that maintains a decent and elegant way is simply scratching the heart.

"The heater...too big...so hot..." Fan Ning, whose forehead was already covered with beads of sweat, complained incessantly.

In the long tremolo starting from bar 84, the melodious bell theme reappears, and gradually transitions to the second playful theme variation with stronger acoustic effects.

"Why are all the sounds so far apart? Jumping with such a large span is killing me!"

"Is this something that the eyes can see clearly... the person who plays the piano can't see clearly!!"

The audience was stunned to find that the cadenza behind each melody sound was a big jumping movement of both hands, and the direction was reversed.

From time to time, they saw Fan Ning hit a dense melody note in the middle range, and then the afterimages of his hands flashed past, and several keys that were far apart were accurately sank on the keys, and when they saw clearly what happened What, the left and right fingers have already stood on the highest and lowest registers accurately!
"Dang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!..."

In the passionate alternation of major chords, Fanning's right hand began to strike the thrilling tremolo melody in the high register, the speed became more and more compact, the strength became stronger and stronger, and the pedal became deeper and deeper.

A long series of reversed octave chromatic scales with both hands made the color and mind tense to the limit. With a strong blow of ff, the most violent and violent chord group at the end of the sentence finally played.

I saw Fan Ning, with sweat dripping down his side face, turned into a ruthless piano-smashing machine at this moment, with his outstretched hands frantically beating back and forth in several major ranges of the piano, the metallic bass jump made the audience feel like they were His head was about to be stuffed into the big bell, and the whirlwind-like strike of his right hand was about to break the strings, and the entire symphony hall was surrounded by the sound of landslides and earth cracks!

"Dang—————————"

In the last sentence, the right hand strikes the chord repeatedly with fff strength, and the left hand whizzes over five octaves from low to high. The last major chord in G-sharp minor is shaken, and Fan Ning hovers in the air as if opening his arms.

"bravo!!!"

"Carolne Van Ning!—"

"Great pianist!!"

Shocking applause erupted from the audience, and even quite a few ladies began to respond with ear-piercing screams.

After Fan Ning completed the excellent "Choral Fantasia in C Minor" and led the team to perform, he returned to the "Bell" with a burst of virtuosity. Music fans finally inherited his title of "composer and conductor" Finally, there is a new cognition of pianists at the same "grid" level!
Fan Ning put away the handkerchief after wiping off his sweat, and then gracefully called off the curtain with a light smile.

"Bada—" When his figure was about to disappear in the side passage, he raised his right hand high and snapped his fingers.

The audience subconsciously looked towards the center of the stage, and found that Master Schillings, who was listening to the piano, had already stood on the podium at some point, and the beat had already ended!
"Da da da da da da da da..."

From the very beginning, the band played tense sixteenth notes in full, with a strong and uneasy momentum, and the tense atmosphere of daggers and swords swept across in an instant!

Immediately, the music goes straight into a chromatic passage, and dramatically, the unusually powerful ensemble sound suddenly turns into a mere faint hum of the stringed instruments.

The second encore, Rimsky-Korsakov's four-act opera "The Story of King Satan", intermezzo from the first act of the second act: "Flight of the Bumble Bee"!
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　　After the beautiful plot of the New Year's Concert is over, it will soon enter the finale of the second volume, please watch and cherish it.

　　
　
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