The world's number one pianist

"Huaguo, He Shen!"

"Piano selection: Fazioli F308"

"Work selection: Chopin Nocturne Op32, No1"

"Chopin Piano Etude, Op25, NO11 (Winter Wind)"

"Chopin Piano Etude, Op25, No6 (Third Degree)"

"Chopin Piano Ballade No. 2!"

The announcement on the stage sounded, and the audience immediately began to applaud vigorously, giving He Shen and the others the biggest applause.

The sadness that the previous contestant gave them had completely disappeared, and all that remained in their hearts was this expectation.

Looking forward to what kind of Chopin the next contestant would use to interpret his inner world.

Let them feel the beauty that belongs only to Chopin!

And...

While applauding, everyone looked at the stairs where no one had walked out yet, with a curious look in their eyes.

And this person was the top contestant in the previous preliminaries.

In a preliminary round where the score was not included in the total score, he was already able to get a top five score.

Now, the score of the competition is about to be included in the total score. Every piece he plays will have a huge impact on the subsequent performance.

In addition, if they remember correctly, the left and right pieces played by this contestant from China are different from those in the preliminary round. They are all new works.

So what kind of work can this contestant interpret? Is it possible to be better and stronger than in the preliminary round?

Everyone's eyes are full of expectations, looking forward to He Shen's interpretation.

The staff standing at the door, after waiting for the announcement to end, let go of their hands, nodded slightly to He Shen, and signaled.

"Okay, you can go on stage now."

"Well..."

He Shen nodded slightly, took out a lollipop that had been in his pocket, threw it into his mouth, and then bit it hard.

Bit all the candies and hold them in your mouth.

The diffusion of sugar in his mouth made He Shen's slightly nervous mood disappear without a trace.

He Shen slowly exhaled a long breath, picked up the hand towel in his hand, slowly wiped the sweat in his hand, and slightly moved his shoulders.

After making sure that he was completely relaxed, he put the hand towel back into his pocket, nodded to the staff, stepped onto the stairs, and walked towards the concert hall.

Boom!

The applause was extremely warm, and it reached its climax the moment He Shen walked out of the stairs. Everyone was looking at He Shen with extremely expectant eyes, clapping their hands vigorously.

They gave He Shen the greatest respect and expectation in their hearts.

He Shen walked down the steps of the orchestra slowly, walked to the front of the stage, where the piano was placed, and leaned his left hand on the edge of the piano, and bowed slightly to everyone.

The applause, which had been slightly weakened, suddenly entered a new climax again.

Countless judges sitting at the front of the high platform on the second floor looked at the lively scene around them and nodded with interest. They looked at each other and smiled.

"It seems that this contestant is very popular?"

"Well, in fact, the main reason is that the previous contestants are all ordinary contestants. Their performances cannot arouse the audience's nature."

"Yes, I heard that this He got the fourth place in the preliminaries before, second only to Fan Tian Kyohei from Japan, EVA from Bear Country, and Liu Yu, a student of Professor Deng from Maple Leaf Country."

Everyone immediately looked at Deng Songshan who was sitting on the side and looked at his expression tentatively.

Unfortunately, Deng Songshan just smiled and looked at He Shen who was sitting on the piano bench on the stage, adjusting the height and front and back distance of his seat, without saying a word.

All the judges could not see anything from Deng Songshan's face, nor did they show disappointment. They just continued to talk to others casually as usual.

"Yes, the main reason is that there was a contestant who failed because of excessive nervousness."

"Yes, a contestant who failed because of nervousness can make the audience look forward to the next contestant and expect him to play better works."

"Unfortunately, this advantage no longer exists for us judges! We treat every contestant equally."

The judges looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

They are all the top six in the Chopin International Piano Competition, that is, the contestants who won the rankings.

Therefore, they can look at the works of these contestants with a very objective and fair attitude, analyze and judge these contestants, and how their performances are.

After all, they also came from that era.

Argerich glanced at the people who were discussing casually around him, slowly raised a finger, pointed at He Shen on the stage, and said lightly.

"Quiet, listen!"

"He is about to start..."

All the judges immediately turned their eyes back to He Shen, looking at He Shen who was sitting on the stage.

Although they can joke around, they will never joke around during the official competition.

He Shen didn't know that the judges behind him were talking about him.

He Shen took out the hand towel from his pocket, folded it into a small square, and placed it on top of the piano.

Looking at the large Ji Mengting written on the hand towel, as well as the names of Zhang Wei and Li Hua, he couldn't help but smile.

The gifts they gave him felt good?

I should thank them later, or give them more piano homework after the competition is over?

For example, the form analysis and performance technique analysis of all the works I have learned?

He Shen shook his head and exhaled a breath of turbid air, letting himself put aside these unnecessary thoughts.

He just raised his head slightly and looked at the ceiling above his head.

Looking at the light on the ceiling, He Shen gradually closed his eyes.

The music, in his mind, has begun to move.

Chopin, Nocturne, OP32,

Re-enactment of the two-part form.

B major, 5 sharps, F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp, A sharp.

Adante Sostenuto is a long andante.

4/4 beat.

He Shen had heard Dan Yi briefly talk about this piece before, and he talked about the content contained in this piece.

Chopin and a young woman fell in love with each other, and their feelings were almost at the level of marriage.

Chopin's parents did not refuse, but the other party's parents refused.

They believed that the daughter of a warlord could not marry an artist who had no fixed place to live!

Under the interference of their parents, the two gradually drifted apart.

And Chopin, at this time, also felt the extremely sad Polish proverb.

"The master's grace will eventually only stay at their threshold."

He Shen seemed to be able to feel Chopin in his heart, in the dark night, under the candlelight, frantically writing letters to the woman on paper.

Unfortunately, because of the obstruction of their parents, the communication between the two people became weaker and weaker.

In the end, it stayed in the most beautiful memory.

Just like...

He Shen slowly opened his eyes and looked at the piano in front of him. His temperament changed instantly.

His temperament was no longer so cold. He didn't care about anything and only thought about art.

His temperament was now filled with sadness and grief.

The kind of sadness that could not be touched by love.

In the eyes of everyone, He Shen raised his hand and then slowly pressed it down.

Buzz...

A sound as quiet as a deep pool came out of the piano.

The timbre that He Shen gave to this piano slowly came out of the piano in Fazioli's extremely stable and thorough transmission.

Make this sound deeper.

More elusive.

The sound is very, very beautiful, very, very beautiful...

Under this beauty and beauty, there is a very deep level of pain and sadness.

Just like a person, slowly confiding in your ear.

Slowly narrating the beauty in his heart, and the sadness under this beauty?

All the audiences under the stage were attracted by He Shen's performance. They leaned on their backs and quietly enjoyed the music.

Listening to He Shen's narration on the piano.

However, the group of judges behind him did not relax at all. They all looked at He Shen on the stage with shock in their eyes.

He Shen's work did not catch everyone's ears at the beginning like the previous Chopin's First Piano Ballade, which shocked them when they heard the first note.

But now it is completely different. There is no shock at the beginning, but the connotation of the music makes them all stunned.

This kind of feeling of narration may not feel anything when listening normally. It feels very sparse and ordinary. There is no feeling, just very, very ordinary.

However, you can listen very seriously.

There are no extra thoughts in the brain. Just want to listen, willing to listen, to listen to this work in its entirety.

This kind of inner attraction, this kind of inner strength?

This piano level...

The judges looked at each other. Although they could still remain calm, their eyes were still filled with shock.

"This level is definitely not the level of a 25-year-old! His performance is too strong!"

"You can't tell from the outside, it's like a very ordinary nocturne, but the interpretation of the inner strength is really too deep! Is this really the level that a 25-year-old can play?"

"The music is very thorough, and the musical expression is really terrifying. It's hard to imagine that this person is only 25 years old!"

"That's right, this person is actually 25 years old?"

Everyone looked at He Shen and didn't know what to say for a while.

They are also players who rose to prominence in the Chopin International Piano Competition, so they know better than anyone what kind of interpretation the players who have the potential to win every year give when interpreting a certain work.

Even if there were players of He Shen's level before, these players are very, very rare.

And these players are basically players who have steadily suppressed their peers in the entire class.

With an unrivaled attitude, they stood on this stage and announced their arrival to the world of classical music.

For example, Argerich, Zimmermann, Li Diyun, and Zhao Zhencheng before.

These people, they all crushed all other contestants with an attitude that no one could resist.

No matter how high the honors of those crushed contestants were before, and how many people liked them.

They all gave way to the strongest contestant of the year, as if they were run over by a bulldozer, so that he could enjoy the highest honor of the year.

Could it be that there will be another one this year?

Shouldn't such a person only appear once every ten years?

Why do they appear so frequently?

Those who were in the same class as Argerich, Zimmermann, and Li Diyun all showed a trace of embarrassment that was not easily noticed on their faces.

When they looked at He Shen, they thought of those real big guys in their class!

The kind of big guys who stood in front of them and made them unable to resist the slightest emotion.

The kind of big man who can't be stopped even if he goes all out.

Can there really be another such person this year?

According to common sense, the competition this year should be very intense, and all the contestants will fight to the death.

In the end, only one person won with a slight advantage.

Could it be that someone can crush these top contestants who have been waiting for years this year?

All the judges didn't know, they just tried their best to control their inner emotions so that their expressions would not be too strange and be captured by some people in charge of photography.

However...

They looked at He Shen and felt that even without this game, this young man named He could definitely break through the siege and stand at the pinnacle of classical music.

Because, there was music in his eyes!

He Shen's eyes were fixed on his hands in front of him, watching his bony hands running quickly on the piano, and a slight smile appeared at the corners of his mouth.

Music, music flows in his hands.

He can feel the flow of music.

Let the sense of harmony drive the flow of music.

Let the flow of music pass through the fingers.

This feeling made He Shen feel what real music is!

The venue with hundreds of people and the live broadcast of tens of thousands of people completely inspired He Shen's obsession with music.

Now there is only music in his heart.

What he has to do now is to let the music from the depths of his heart burst out completely in front of everyone.

He Shen's shoulders slightly exerted force, allowing his shoulders and the gravity of his arms to press the keyboard in his hands.

He did not smash the keyboard like that, but used the pressure to make the sound of the piano burst out from Fazioli's huge resonance box.

Gentle passion, kind whispers, lingering like questions and answers.

Anger, thoughtful prayers, like a dramatic development.

All emotions accumulated more and more in He Shen's hands.

He Shen's expression became more and more controlled, controlling his hands, so that the emotions in his hands would not be completely vented at the last moment.

Everyone's heart was lifted by He Shen's performance, and their eyes were fixed on He Shen's interpretation, waiting for the final climax.

Everyone knew that this final climax was the final peak of this music.

And He Shen's interpretation of this music, which was so restrained in the beginning, would inevitably be an extremely powerful and shocking performance in the end.

So, what level would he play?

Everyone didn't know, but they watched He Shen's performance with their eyes full of excitement.

They were looking forward to He Shen giving them a completely different feeling.

Finally, more and more emotions accumulated, and the hearts of all the audience were lifted higher and higher.

The corners of He Shen's mouth rose slightly, and his fingers gave a slight pause.

This pause, if in music, might be a 128th note, or a shorter note.

But in the ears of the audience, they could hear very clearly that the emotions were pulled in the air.

Then...

Boom!

He Shen's hand slammed down.

A stormy recitative poured out from the piano, like a resistance to pressure, anger, indomitable, and painful.

All these emotions were squeezed into this nocturne.

As the last few strong notes fell, they fell on the main chord of B major at the beginning.

The scene was extremely quiet for a while.

This interpretation...

Everyone was stunned.

They may not know that there is a saying in China, called "helpless flowers fall."

However, they can all feel this feeling of helpless flowers falling now.

No matter how to make up for it, how to save this relationship, in the end they found that they had no way to save it.

They can only watch this relationship in despair, and declare it over in the music.

Everything ended in the last B major chord.

Just like the beauty at the beginning.

However, the beauty at the beginning symbolizes that the two people met for the first time and were not familiar with each other. When they met, they could only smile awkwardly and greet each other with blushing faces.

The ending, which was similar to the beginning, symbolized that the two people eventually went further and further away, becoming the most familiar, strangers...

It was still an awkward smile when they met, but this smile was completely different from the smile when they first met.

He Shen didn't say a word, but his interpretation could make all the listeners understand this feeling.

This feeling of music.

This powerful strength...

Everyone didn't know what to say for a while, but just looked at He Shen with a strange expression, always feeling that He Shen had a feeling of an adult bullying a child.

Let's not talk about the second contestant in front, let's compare the first contestant with He Shen.

It's just a simplest nocturne, the slowest nocturne played at the beginning.

It's just a nocturne...

Comparing the two people together, you can clearly feel how deep He Shen's interpretation of music is.

And that contestant's interpretation is so superficial.

Yes, both of them played with a very Chopin feeling, and they were very soft.

But the softness of the previous contestant is basically just an adjective, this person played very softly.

And you can completely hear the story and emotions behind He Shen's gentleness.

Although the specific plots may be different, they can roughly feel the background contained in this gentleness.

So...

Everyone looked at He Shen and was silent for a while.

Is this the fourth place contestant in the Chopin International Piano Preliminary?

He Shen raised his hand, without even looking at the people around him, he just smiled lightly and continued to bend over the piano keyboard.

Fingers, slowly pressed down.

Dang, dang, dang, dang... dang...

The extremely pure single tone came from the piano, and even a child who had just learned piano could play it.

However, everyone knew that this was not easy.

Because, next, after He Shen finished interpreting that nocturne, he would usher in a most difficult piano exercise.

Chopin's...

"Winter Wind"

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