Chapter 953 Emotions
Sitting in front of the piano, Chu Yang stretched out his hands and gently covered the keys.
Liszt, a very special composer and pianist, at least in Chu Yang's heart, thinks so.
People all think that this is a piano master who has worked hard all his life to pursue higher piano skills, but only Chu Yang knows that what Liszt has in his works is far more than skills. There are more things in his skills, which is his spiritual world. When he first played Liszt's works, he felt it.
People say that Chopin is a piano poet. In fact, Liszt's ability to write poetry with a piano is no less than that of Chopin. Each of his twelve super skills piano etudes is a poem.
Just like this song "Hunting", although the first impression is "fast", it is fast from beginning to end, and there is no fastest, but faster, it seems that the whole song is pursuing the word "fast". But if you really play this way, you will really distort this song.
Most pianists cannot understand the poetry in Liszt's works because they cannot even achieve the most basic skills. Most of them stop in front of the exaggerated technology and mistakenly think that this is the entire spirit that Liszt's works want to express, but they are wrong.
Skills are just a means, a means to express his inner music.
With his ten fingers gently stroked the keys, and as he relaxed slightly, the weight of his muscles naturally fell on the key surface, and he clearly felt the right support force transmitted from the key surface.
This old Star Sea 118 has undergone a transformation under the re-forging of Ou Yezi, a skilled craftsman! Under its worn-out appearance, it has the most gorgeous heart. It is no less than the touch and tone of a top-level piano playing!
The melody of "Hunting" naturally appeared in Chu Yang's mind, and he didn't even have to deliberately recall the tune and structure of the song.
Chu Yang remembers a piece of music, and the way he memorized the score is different from that of all pianists. He memorized the score, but he memorized the meaning of the song!
For a song, first understand its "shape" from the score. Then, after playing, it forms muscle memory, feels its "meaning" during the performance, and finally gets "meaning" and forgets "form". This is Chu Yang's unique way of notating.
If this were not the case, he would never be able to write down all the piano works like a sea of smoke!
For a person who practices music, remembering the meaning of a song is equivalent to remembering the whole story of this song firmly!
In the specific performance, Chu Yang can even temporarily modify some unreasonable rhythms and notes in the original song. Such modifications seem to be a mistake in the performance. In fact, every modification is the finishing touch, making the original song more perfect!
For such an etude with super fast speed, no one can hear any of the few notes that are occasionally played or missed due to unskills, let alone Chu Yang's "wrong" of deliberately improving in a better direction.
Chu Yang closed his eyes slightly, his fingertips against the keys, and a huge spiritual force gradually began to communicate with the piano along his fingertips. This old Xinghai piano that had been transformed seemed to feel Chu Yang's call at this moment, and the piano body even let out a low sound of joy!
The instruments are inducing with the performers, which is a phenomenon that only occurs on the instruments that produce vague instrument spirits. It is like a peerless sword, encountering a wise swordsman!
Ten fingers suddenly fell, as if they instantly turned into millions of afterimages, sweeping past the keys!
A burst of music like a waterfall poured down from the fingertips!
In an instant, the sound of the piano seemed to fill the entire room like sunshine!
Music, music everywhere. The kind of music that makes you careless about other things after listening to it, rushes into the body, from the eyes, from the nose, from the sensory organ of any body...
Chu Yang half sat on the piano bench, his legs freehand, one in front and one behind, and his ten fingers were like happy elfs, jumping on the keys to dance gracefully!
Fast?
Perhaps the notes that gush out of your fingertips are so dense that you can think of as "fast".
However, the music flowing from your fingertips does not give you a slight feeling of "fast" or "urgent".
The left arm was freehand on the keyboard, and a series of fine finger movements were completed like a natural result, bringing out arpeggio as soft as a rainbow. The sound was a string, like a shiny light belt, a beautiful wind chime...
The beautiful music is like a slowly unfolding scroll, exquisite and beautiful, grand and chic!
The seven examiners here, including Chen Nan, the youngest teacher, are all elites in the piano industry. They have heard and played this song "Hunting". It can be said that anyone can play this song smoothly and correctly, which is also the most basic requirement for them to become teachers of the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music.
However, at this moment, listening to this song "Hunting", it seemed like they had heard this song for the first time!
Why is it completely different from what I think?
Did this young man play the wrong one?
No, his performance is smooth and gorgeous, natural and precise. With their extremely picky golden ears, they did not hear even a little bit of wrong sound. You should know that it is not easy to hear such a complex song. What they rely on is only an impression of the song. A complete and correct song is like a work of art, perfect, and gives people a whole impression. Any little mistake will make the artwork flawed, which can be seen at a glance and at an ear.
But at this moment, this song did not bring them a little strange feeling. The melody, rhythm, strength, and expression were all impeccable.
But why is it completely different from my own impression?
The seven teachers were immersed in the wonderful sound of the piano while unconsciously thinking about this issue.
It's emotions!
Yes, it's emotions!
In this song "Hunting", every phrase and every note, is familiar to them, but when they are connected by this young man, they exud a completely different flavor! That is the emotion in the music!
In the "Hunting" they have heard and played before, they are always full of gorgeous, exquisite show-offs and exaggerated finger movements. They once thought that this is the most essence of the super etude. Otherwise, how is it called a "super" etude?
But at this moment, this song expressed a completely different emotion under the hands of this young man.
There is no gorgeous skills, or in other words, the skills have been completely hidden behind the music and become imperceptible. A sense of picture that is calm and clear, like pastoral songs, is an impression brought to them by the music as a whole!
They no longer have time to think about or evaluate the good or bad performance of this performance. At this moment, they are like ordinary piano lovers, completely immersed in the emotions brought by this song "Hunting"!
Chu Yang's hands gently undulating on the keys. The sensitive keys faithfully reflect the player's intentions and transform them into a string of lively notes. This old star sea 118 seems to have suddenly transformed into a gorgeous transformation at this moment, from an ugly duckling to a white swan, the gorgeous brilliance emitted by it is incredible!
In just over four minutes of the song "Hunting", Chu Yang completed the song perfectly with almost subconscious actions. From beginning to end, his attention was not placed on his hands, but on technical actions. For him, all the technical obstacles in the field of piano performance have long ceased to exist, and all the rest is performance, performance...
And his semi-free mental state is also a state that all pianists dream of.
The highest level of piano skills is to forget skills! Because all skills are used to serve musical expression!
But unfortunately, most people have never escaped from the shackles of the word "skill" in their entire lives!
Now, Chu Yang uses the most realistic expression to let these piano authorities in the piano department of the Central Conservatory of Music interpret what "forget skills" is!
This song "Hunting" is completely flowing out of my heart!
At this moment, the leisurely and leisurely hunting that Liszt wanted to show in the music and the graceful and tranquility of the pastoral scenery, all overlapped perfectly with the music at Chu Yang's fingertips!
If Liszt was reborn at this moment and heard the song "Hunting" played by Chu Yang, he would probably be moved to tears and be attracted to his soulmate!
The misinterpretations and misunderstandings of his works by countless pianists over the past hundred years are broken and shattered today in such a performance!
This is the real "Hunting", this is the musical world he really wants to express!
Even if he was asked to play in person, he would probably not be able to play better than this young man, because his skills were already impeccable and perfect!
Four and a half minutes, the song ended. The last chord, like morning mist in the wind, gradually dissipated. The dazzled keys finally turned into a string of notes full of tranquil picture, and the extreme tranquility expressed by extreme movement, stayed in everyone's hearts and became the memory that these piano education authorities could never forget in their lives!
The sound of the piano has stopped, but the entire classroom has fallen into absolute silence.
No one spoke, and the eyes of the seven teachers were still in a semi-free state. Their thoughts were still immersed in the artistic conception of this song "Hunting" and could not extricate themselves!
Chu Yang pushed away the piano bench, stood up, looked at Chen Nan who was in a state of distraction, and asked with a smile: "I've finished playing, can I start the next song?" (To be continued)
Chapter completed!