Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 168 165. Keep the clouds open and see the moonlight

Da da da
Amidst the silence, Ang Lee walked onto the stage calmly holding the score in hand.

Under the spotlight, the reunion of old friends who haven't seen for many years is not as easy as imagined.

"Sister."

Li An had already thought of this title before he came to the stage. He was a little younger than Lin Youyou in terms of age, and in terms of status, the other party could already be regarded by him as a professional teacher.

There is no before and after in learning, and those who have achieved it are teachers.

But it's not appropriate for him to call the other party's teacher.

Hearing this address, Lin Youyou smiled into Li An's clear eyes.

She didn't care how Li An called her, because she knew that Li An was a liar.

Compared with what the other party said, she believed more in what she saw.

Ang Lee has indeed changed.

As Jia Mingyu said, the whole person gives people a positive feeling from head to toe.

Her eyes were no longer cloudy, and her spirit was no longer as gloomy as she remembered.

Very good, she thought.

But for some reason, she felt a little strange to the figure in front of her.

This kind of strangeness is not a change in the temperament and image of the other party, but a kind of strangeness that can be detected from the micro-expression.

During the four years of undergraduate university, one of her few hobbies is to observe Li An's every move, and she often feels that this is a perverted hobby.

But it was this private hobby that allowed her to know Li An's every expression like the back of his hand.

After Li An called her senior sister just now, his mouth and eyebrows opened slightly. In her memory, only two people would show such a slightly scared expression on the way to Teacher Wei's house for class.

He has a fear of me?

At that moment, Lin Youyou felt flattered, but then she only felt strange.

She doesn't understand.

Maybe it's been too long since we saw each other, maybe I'm not calm enough in my heart, Lin Youyou adjusted herself, and imitated Li An's action just now and nodded, and said with a soft smile, "Come on."

All of the above happened within two seconds, and the people in the audience only saw that after Li An came to the stage, he called Senior Sister to Lin Youyou, then half turned around and bowed [-] degrees to Ao Tuo.

Facing the first student who bowed first on stage, even without LN's blessing, Ao Tuo gave this clean and handsome Huaguo youth a good impression.

At the same time, he noticed the other party's left hand hanging by his side, with a wide palm and long fingers.

When Li An sat in front of the piano and raised his hands, he regretted that the other party's little finger was not as long as he expected.

Like everyone before they started playing, Otto gave an encouraging smile.

Li An unfolded the score and spread it on the Steinway's music stand. At this time, Ao Tuo and Lin Youyou noticed the dense handwriting and the circles and lines outlined by the pencil on the score at the same time.

What Ao Tuo noticed was the position of the circle and the line, and what Lin Youyou noticed was the writing on it.

Then she noticed again the sitting posture of Ang Lee after adjusting the height of the piano bench. His left leg did not pull back habitually and formed an acute angle with his thigh, and his entire knee joint stood beside his right leg at a right angle.

The initial performance state was completely different from before, and her eyes returned to the handwriting on the music score again, and the question marks in her heart became more intense.

There are only seven pages of music on the music table.

This is the repertoire of Ang Lee's master class today, Beethoven No. 20 Piano Sonata in E-flat Major No. [-].

bid farewell.

first movement.

In front of the piano, after Li An made all the preparations for playing, he naturally hung his hands to his sides and narrowed his eyes slightly.

At this moment, the audience seemed to be impressed by the scene in front of them. Many people adjusted their breathing along with Ang Lee's heaving chest.

After feeling the air flow around him, Li An took a final breath and opened his eyes, as if everything in front of him became softer and more natural.

Raise your hand.

He stared at the three and five fingers of his right hand on the two keys of G and E flat, one white and one black.

Ao Tuo frowned slightly. In Li An's hand position, the thumb did not appear above the keys, but was naturally placed in the area where the keys were not touched.

That is to say, at this moment, Li An's thumb can't touch the piano keys even if it falls vertically for [-] meters.

This kind of initial handstand, which seemed a little weird to others, reminded Otto of something else. He was only waiting for the sound effect of the first group of intervals that appeared next.

"when-"

The full sound is not majestic. With the release of the pedal on Li An's right foot, the little finger of his right hand is very carefully raised, and at the same time the index finger moves down to the B flat note.

"when-"

Then a group of equally substantial but slightly weak descending intervals floated into the air again.

The half-pedaled pedal sent off again.

"when-"

The third sound of pressing the keys with both hands at the same time, the low and dim sound seemed to imply a kind of tragedy.

The delicate farewell motivation, the three sets of descending intervals were completed in the breath of Ang Lee.

Seemingly satisfied with the beginning, Ang Lee's expression after the performance was obviously a little more relaxed, and his fluent sentences were not sloppy.

The full-bodied and granular timbre can be heard clearly by everyone present.

When the theme motive reappeared in another form, his eyes followed the marks recorded on the music score, and accelerated through subtle fingers, further amplifying the reluctance in the parting scene.

The linear melody and abundant poetry give people a touch of melancholy.

Until the Allegro entered, Ang Lee raised his arms high and fell straight down with a deep keystroke to arouse the music emotion.

The thick half-tone descending and the reappearing motivation above the melody go hand in hand, and the bright golden sound gives people a broad vision and makes the listener open-minded.

Throughout the Allegro passage, the gorgeous and smooth melody progress always gives people a relaxed and natural look, without any pre-prepared precision.

The fast and dense sound group was like walking on the ground. Li An didn't intend to show anything to the audience, but in the eyes of everyone in the audience at this moment, the fingers on the piano calmly shone brightly.

No one is worried that Ang Lee will make a mistake on the next note, and no one has time to think about it.

The majestic theme enveloped everyone at the scene.

Although there is no bold sentence reading, no almost exaggerated contrast between strength and weakness, but the clear and unambiguous fingering phonation makes everyone want to keep listening like this.

If the blond girl shows music thinking in front of the piano.

So what Deng Shiqi showed was his performance temperament.

If what Ma Yu showed on stage was talent.

Then Ang Lee showed a calm demeanor in front of the piano.

Ang Lee's playing is too steady.

Even if the two themes are repeated until the third time and proceed to six bars, the music finally moves to the dominant seventh chord of E-flat.

This should have been an exciting moment.

He still breaks down the complicated sound flow, as if trying to make people hear the notes here, not the emotions.

In the transition to the finale, the motivational metamorphosis like a spark is fleeting in his hands.

In the ending part after the reproduction part, the music is still firmly controlled in the palm of the performer.

Raise your arms!

Finger drop!

With his last raising of his hand, the brilliant major chord sound at the interval of two sounds finally disappeared in the flowing air.

Close hand.

Quiet.

"Wow———————————"

Moment.

The spontaneous applause from the audience overturned the stage less than 80cm high, and someone blew a sharp whistle among them.

After the music ended, the question of who is the boss today seems meaningless.

Ang Lee, who had disappeared for nearly three years, reappeared on the campus stage with the first movement of farewell, in exchange for the respect of everyone present.

The blond girl admired this senior brother. In fact, she had heard the revolutionary etudes played by Ang Lee in the piano room when she was in the first year of undergraduate studies.

Listening to the other party's performance again today, she only felt that her heart was surging.

It was the first time for Deng Shiqi to listen to Li An play the piano in a real sense. On Teacher's Day, Li An gave him the warmth that he has rarely seen in these years as a member of Wei's class, especially the kind words from the other party when he toasted. : We are all family, don't be so polite.

At that time, he had a premonition that the quality of the piano is seen in the quality of the piano. Although this senior brother only graduated from a bachelor's degree, he must be good at playing the piano.

Hearing it now, he still thinks the other party is too simple.

Deng Shiqi, who was so proud in his bones, said convincingly,

Ma Yu, who was also applauding at the moment, was in a much more complicated mood.

He knew what kind of virtue he was, but he even looked down on what Li An had done in school.

He doesn't feel that he is worse than Ang Lee, and he doesn't feel that he plays worse than Ang Lee.

Why did the opportunity fall to the other party?

He didn't accept it, he really didn't accept it.

However, three years later, he has been recommended to graduate students and will go abroad at the end of next year. He feels that apart from Lin Youyou, there is no one in the whole Wei family class who is better than him.

The teacher's eyes finally focused on him.

At this moment, Ang Lee came back, and he didn't even look at him once. He was enjoying the applause of course on the stage, including his own.

Ma Yu felt very sad.

Because the other party was only one and a half years older than him, everything he showed was what he longed for in his heart.

Ji Yang still had the same expression as before, looking at the stage with a proud smile on his face, in contrast to this was naturally the three left-handed Li Muyan in the back row.

The two boys lamented that their sparring teacher was a king.

Li Muyan felt a little ashamed for thinking that Li An was just an undergraduate and looked down on him. She had always admired the strong, but she still couldn't stand the other's worrying preaching.

Wei Sanwan lamented Li Ang's progress, and he still clearly remembered the last time the other party played farewell at his home.

The young teacher next to him looked at the stage and said softly to him: "The two of the 14th grade are incredible."

These two are naturally Li An and Lin Youyou.

At this moment, Lin Youyou can be sure that what happened to Li An in the past three years.

Ang Lee has really changed, his fingers are more decisive, and his wrist skills are more skilled.

But also became cautious, became careful.

It has become hopeless.

She didn't know where Li An, who used to sit in front of the piano and was not afraid of Wei Sanwan's curses, and wanted to play himself, went.

Different from the vision of everyone present, Lin Youyou could hear that Li An's steady performance was actually just a lack of self-confidence.

Everything is played, it's like nothing is played.

In a place where I want to do sustain sound processing, I only dare to use the pedal to make a sustain sound. Why can't my hands press it down firmly?

Is it difficult?

When it came to the problem of touching the keys, Li An really surprised her. It is not easy to change the playing habit, but it is even more difficult to change the habit of touching the keys.

Lin Youyou had the same thought as Wei Sanwan at that time, did Li An find another teacher to study in the past three years?

Otherwise it really doesn't make sense.

The problem that didn't make sense to Otto was that he felt surprised after hearing the first movement played by Ang Lee.

Yes, surprise.

Compared with the German-Austrian piano, the Russian piano pays more attention to the strengthening of fingers.

Obviously, Ang Lee's fingers are more concise than anyone on stage today.

He saw all the details of the three sets of motive intervals at the beginning of the music, the movement of the fingers and the release of the two notes in the process of the other party's processing. At that time, the goosebumps on the back of his neck rose.

That's wonderful.

Exquisite and solid finger skills, delicate timbre, all these indicate that Ang Lee's hands seem to be the result of Russian piano training.

but.

However, Ang Lee's handling and expression of music is full of the restraint, rationality and rigor of the German-Austrian piano.

There is no use of finger advantages to change the timbre during the performance, and only stay in the control of the strength.

The melodic lines and singing that the Russian school emphasizes are not reflected in Ang Lee's performance, let alone the color changes of light and shadow and the rich, bold and unrestrained expressions.

A paradox.

Otto was surprised.

Now recalling Lin Youyou's words, Ao Tuo shook his head.

He feels that LN is not the kind of performer who plays with a strong self-style.

But he had to admit that among all the students on stage today, the other party was the one with the best musical literacy and sharp fingers.

Amid the applause, Ao Tuo smiled and motioned Li An to step down.

Li An nodded and got up to play the piano and bowed generously to the audience.

Then sit down again.

"Beautiful fingers."

Lin Youyou moved closer and translated Ao Tuo's first sentence.

Looking at each other, she pursed her lips and smiled, and Li An also smiled, "Thank you."

After the applause fell, Otto moved his mouth and took out a pen to draw three circles on the top of Ang Lee's score.

"The composer wrote Le—be—wohl—over these three intervals—"

"Goodbye."

Otto signaled Ang Lee to play, and when Ang Lee finished playing the first two intervals and was about to press the third set of intervals, Otto suddenly stretched out his hand, and Ang Li immediately understood that the other party would play the left hand part instead of him.

In the next second, the two pressed the keys at the same time.

A major chord impression effect appeared, and Otto did not play the octave C in the bass area but played the E flat.

It is naturally impossible for the master to make a mistake, and Li An began to think that this was the master's intention.

Lin Youyou knew what was going on, but she didn't prompt, and only translated Ao Tuo's words:

"That's what people usually expect when they listen to harmony."

Ang Lee grasped something instantly, and following Otto's words, he thought that Beethoven did not write a harmony trend that people usually expect to hear here, and the music did not stop at E-flat major, but deceptively Around to C minor.

Suddenly a bright light appeared in front of my eyes.

"Hinder termination?"

He looked at Lin Youyou as if expecting a correct answer, Lin Youyou conveyed Li An's words to Ao Tuo, and Ao Tuo gave a thumbs up.

"Try again now."

Ang Lee imagined Le-be-wohl in his mind, the scene of farewell and the end of obstacles, and the key was dropped.

Unconsciously flatten the thumb and little finger of the left hand in the last interval where the obstruction occurs, and use more finger pads to touch the keys.

"when-"

A sound floated up, sounding a kind of poignant sadness, containing a certain sense of uncertainty.

Ao Tuo smiled, this is what he expected Ang Lee to do.

Everyone in the audience could hear it.

This 'three-tone motive' that runs throughout the work, emerges the mood.

Li An pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his head to look at the next two bars of the music score.

Ao Tuo noticed Ang Li's eyes and raised his hand to signal him to continue.

Li An continued this emotion and then moved forward with the keys. This time, the volume of his left hand was obviously a little louder than when he played it the first time.

Obviously, after the obstruction ends, the bass in the left-hand part begins to descend semitones, which is the key to the continuation of the musical mood.

Although he didn't know that the phrase he had completed at this moment was the chromatic fourth in the rhetoric of the eighteenth century.

But after playing the second and third bars, the heavy feeling in the music did not make him feel heavy, but his heart gradually became clearer.

He was hesitating whether to continue playing, after all, this was the scene of the master class, not his piano room.

"Boldly bounce down."

Ao Tuo turned his head to look at Lin Youyou, the old professor was a little confused, the key point was that he couldn't understand what the other party said.

But the next second his attention was drawn back by the sound of the piano.
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Ji Yang in the audience was holding up his mobile phone to record the video, watching the scene in front of him with relish, when suddenly a message came from the top of the screen.

Sister Chen?
(End of this chapter)