Ivan Ivanovich is a piano genius from the Russian St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music. He enjoys a high reputation in Russia and is known as the only Russian pianist "close to Kissin" in recent decades.

As a pianist who has been highly anticipated by many Russian music fans, Ivan Ivanovic has tried his best to reach the quarterfinals.

If you don’t participate in the Masters Cup, you will never know what the Masters Cup means. In the Russian piano world, Ivan Ivanovic is the top presence. However, when you come here, a player who comes out at will has the strength that is not inferior to him. Especially in the first day of the competition, the player named Chen Hao from China really put a huge pressure on many contestants, including him!

If you don’t compare, you will never know where the gap between you and others is. Ivan Ivanovic, who thinks he is at the top of piano skills, will never dare to think so again.

Of course, since you have come to this stage, you must do your best, and even in the hopeless final, you must strive to achieve your best level!

Ivan Ivanovic walked to the center of the stage and sat down in front of the huge Stanway piano.

Facing this piano, Ivan Ivanovic felt a little excited. Even at his alma mater, there were only two top pianos. In his usual performance, he had few opportunities to come into contact with such top pianos. Of course, this is also because his reputation has not reached that level, and the income of top pianists is also very considerable. It is not difficult to own a performance-level Stanway. There are even pianists who have to carry the piano he is used to using no matter where he performs in the world. This seemingly "willful" approach costs even more amazing.

Sitting in front of the piano and getting the sign that the judges could start. Ivan Ivanovic adjusted his breathing, then held it up and landed towards the keys at a small angle!

A gorgeous, light piano sound slowly flows out from the fingertips. This is the last song of Liszt's super skill etude, called "Chasing the Snow". Behind the seemingly soft name, it requires complex and difficult skills to complete.

The reason why Liszt's etude is called a super skill etude is because of its profound performance skills. Just like this song "Chasing the Snow", the music gives people the feeling of being covered with a layer of veil, which is so gentle and so soft from beginning to end. However, it is not easy to create such an effect!

Ivan Ivanovic's hands rose and fell quickly and briskly on the keys. Each of his finger lifting movements was very small, but very flexible. If it was seen from a piano beginner, his performance might be completely opposite to the skills taught by the teacher. For example, the teacher said that he should raise his fingers high, but every finger lifting movement was so small that he could not even feel that he did not even look at it carefully!

However, every sound that comes out from the fingertips is so clean and even. Obviously, this is due to the profound basic skills. In the initial practice, whether it is raising your fingers high or relaxing your wrists, etc., it is all to regulate the playing habits of the beginners. For piano players who have reached such a level, all their skills have become natural, just like the state of particularity in Chinese calligraphy and painting. They have passed the stage of pursuing "likeness of form" and have entered the level of "similarity".

Chu Yang sat quietly in the contestant's rest area, watching Ivan Ivanovich's performance on the stage. This pianist from Russia has a very delicate style and a hint of German rigor. Chu Yang likes this style very much. This person's playing style is very similar to Kissin, and he has impeccable basic skills in the most basic technical links. When they play, they can often handle every strength and speed symbol in the score very well, and the rhythm is like a machine, and they never make mistakes.

Perhaps some music fans don’t like this kind of performance, and think it’s rigid and lose the agility of the music itself. But there are many fans who like it. Of course, Chu Yang understands the most perfect techniques of such pianists to perfectly display the beauty of music rhythm.

Chu Yang admires such pianists very much, and such talents are also what the Leshen Sect needs most. In Chu Yang's view, such pianists are like white paper of excellent quality. They already have a very good foundation, but their understanding and understanding of music have been deliberately ignored by them in their previous performances. Chu Yang can have countless ways to make them fly over technically in a short period of time for such people.

Similarly, if a performer who has formed his own musical concepts and aesthetic tastes, especially his aesthetics, is still of a relatively low-level category. No matter how famous he is, Chu Yang will not have much interest. Because in his opinion, such a pianist is like a long-standing handicraft, and it is difficult to perform secondary processing.

Chu Yang carefully watched all Ivan Ivanovich's performances and secretly recorded his name. In the past two days, when there was no competition, he would also come to watch other contestants' competitions on site, with only one purpose, to discover talents for the Leshen Sect. He looked at people, not fame, not nationality, but only to technology. In the past two days, Chu Yang's small notebook has recorded the names of more than a dozen people. These people are not the best performers in the competition, but in Chu Yang's opinion, these people have the best growth potential.

Of course, Chen Hao is not listed here. In Chu Yang's opinion, Chen Hao has a problem with his character. Although he has mastered the sound of killing, Chu Yang does not see his strength. Chen Hao is just at the early stage of Qi refining. Even if the sound of killing has a strong attack power, the huge gap in strength makes Chu Yang not take him seriously at all. Moreover, in Chu Yang's opinion, Chen Hao's character is destined to make no big achievements in his enjoyment.

He was very surprised why Jiao Xian chose such a person to teach the Leshen Jue. Logically speaking, if she really did it for the sake of the Leshen Sect, she shouldn't have chosen people so hasty. And Chu Yang also believed that as a Qin Ling born from the Leidao, she would not even have the ability to recognize people. At least Qingmu, Gong'er, Shang'er and others were very accurate in their understanding of the Leidao.

Ivan Ivanovich has finished his performance. The one who followed the stage was Korean contestant Kim Ji-ho. This is a typical Korean, with long hair like the male protagonist in the Korean drama, a delicate and a little cheesy face, and very white skin. It should be said that such a man should be more in line with the aesthetics of the current little girls. According to a more popular word, such a man is a "young young man". However, since he is from South Korea, it is unknown whether the face that is too beautiful is still "original".

Of course, Chu Yang's focus is not on this. In his opinion, whether a man is a little more masculine or a little more masculine is just a different personal habit. Even if he is a transgender person, Chu Yang feels nothing. After all, that is just someone else's choice and should not be treated with tinted glasses. What he is concerned about is the performance of this Korean.

Jin Zhihui sat down gracefully in front of the piano. After adapting to the spotlight on the stage, he gently stretched his hands and placed them on the keys. Then he gently closed his eyes.

"Zhi Huijun!" In South Korea, countless little girls were waiting in front of the TV and computer, waiting for his performance to begin.

In South Korea, Kim Ji-hui is quite famous and has a lot of music fans. Just like at this moment, the female music fans waiting to watch his competition in South Korea have no millions and hundreds of thousands! There are even some fanatical music fans who have chased Udrecht.

His hands gently leaned against the keys. He fell slightly, and suddenly, Stanway made a soft and light sound of the piano.

Lister's concert etude "Sigh". This is one of the few etudes in Lister's works with gentleness and soothing. However, if you think this song is easy to play because of its gentleness and soothing, you are very wrong.

In Chu Yang's opinion, this song is one of the most difficult works of Liszt.

Liszt's song "Sigh" is also called "The Sea". Both titles are added by others. The melody of this song is very singular, and the main melody is hidden in the arpeggio like the waves. It has a strong sense of layering and controls the strength of the performer.

Chu Yang was ready to appreciate this song "Sigh", but when Kim Ji-kyu made Chu Yang shake his head as soon as he took action!

Is he sure he is shooting Liszt? Not Chopin?

Listening to the rhythm that is fast and slow, and extremely "random" in nature, Chu Yang was also speechless. It is true that this song "Sigh" is extremely dreamy, but its melody is still very rigorous, and it is not the "Rubato" style in some of Chopin's works. It can be played casually and freely.

This Korean pianist may want to show his personality and understanding of music in this song, but in Chu Yang's opinion, this song has been changed beyond recognition under his command.

This guy didn't even understand where the true beauty of this song was, so he just thought he was self-righteous and changed the song, which made Chu Yang feel disgusted. Originally, this was the only person who played "Sigh" in the competition these days, which made Chu Yang look forward to it. After all, "Sigh" is a famous song by Liszt. Based on the principle of taboo, few contestants chose such songs to play. This Korean pianist chose this song "Sigh". Chu Yang just thought he was quite brave and might be a very good contestant. Who knew that this guy was simply ignorant and fearless. Playing "Sigh" like this, he dared to play it on such occasions?

Of course, Chu Yang felt that this song "Sigh" was not very good, but by his standards. For most people, this Korean played it well, and ordinary music fans did not hear the subtle rhythm differences too much. Even the judges, even if they heard it, they might not be completely denying it like Chu Yang. After all, their appreciation level is not on the same level as Chu Yang.

"Tsk, it's really big in the forest, there are all kinds of birds. Playing "Sigh" like this, you can't even have the courage to participate in the competition. It's ridiculous!" A voice of disdain suddenly sounded behind Chu Yang.

"Chen Hao?" Chu Yang heard the master of the voice keenly, and immediately turned his head and saw him.

"Chu Yang, I'm here to watch your game." Chen Hao said with a hint of mocking tone at Chu Yangyang.

"Oh, thank you." Facing Chen Hao's mockery, Chu Yang seemed to have not seen it.

"Chu Yang, you can't win me, the championship is mine." Chen Hao saw that Chu Yang did not take his provocation seriously at all, and a look of anger flashed in his eyes.

"If you have the desire to win in your heart, you will be at a disadvantage if you enjoy the Tao. With your mentality like you, you will never be able to enter the door of enjoy the Tao in your life." Chu Yang said indifferently.

"How do you know Ledao..." Chen Hao blurted out and asked when he heard Chu Yang mention the word Ledao.

"What's there? Music is the way of music. You have been learning music for so long, don't you understand this? Also, why can't I know?" Chu Yang asked back with some amusement.

"It turns out that he was just talking nonsense." Chen Hao felt relieved in his heart, and a mockery look appeared in his eyes again.

"Hmph, it's useless to be able to talk a little, I want to see what kind of performance you can do today." Chen Hao said with a sneer.

Ledao is his biggest secret. When he heard Chu Yang say these two words, he was really shocked. However, when he heard Chu Yang's explanation, he immediately realized that he had misunderstood and was a false alarm.

He came to the scene to provoke Chu Yang today and received the instructions from the sect leader. Of course, he was very happy to do such a thing. Even without Luo Qianqian's instructions, he would come here to provoke him. After all, he now has enough capital to defeat Chu Yang, and facing the humiliation he had encountered, he naturally had to find a chance to get it back!

Chu Yang smiled and stopped talking to Chen Hao. In his eyes, Chen Hao was just a kettle-stringed horse-drawn pawn. He thought he had obtained some peerless secrets. His little cultivation of joy and Taoism was not worth mentioning in Chu Yang's eyes.

Chu Yang turned his gaze to the stage. Before he knew it, the Korean man had finished his performance. Next, the American Maxim, an idol pianist like Lang Lang. Chu Yang had heard of his performance before and was very passionate.

"I don't know what he is like when he plays Lister's work." Chu Yang looked at the tall back and said to himself with interest. (To be continued...)
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