Please, come home and practice the piano

Chapter 368 69. Recording Adventures 【Part [-]】

It is similar to the recording process in the morning, except that there is only one piano left on the stage, and there are two more audience members in the audience.
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Half a minute after the recording started, Ang Lee was sitting in front of the piano playing Beethoven Sonata No. 13. The atmosphere in the concert hall gradually took on a peaceful state under the rendering of the music, making people feel like they were bathed in the warm sun in the afternoon.

Perhaps this stems from the tonality of this work, the E-flat major is always warm, and Beethoven replaced the traditional allegro with an unusual andante at the beginning of the first movement of this work.

The slow harmony progress means that no matter who plays, you will not hear too complicated harmony changes at the beginning of the music, and the music color may become monotonous, but another great thing about Beethoven is that From the beginning of his composition career in the middle, he has been able to play with dominant chords with ease.

Soothing emotions, subtle changes in color and intensity, all of which are a test for the player.

How to deal with it?Notes are on the score, different people have different opinions.

Ang Lee's handling is not smart, he didn't overdo it by keeping the music in a moderately weak state, which may keep the music in a natural and harmonious state, but this kind of ease is undoubtedly dangerous.

Because once you get the music to 36 bars, the sudden intrusion of the middle allegro will derail everything.

Therefore, Ang Lee boldly chose to increase the depth of the down-key on individual notes in the six soft-plays repeated at the beginning. Focus on those emphasized notes so as not to disorient the listener in the afternoon laziness.

Going back to the performance of piano music itself, the player needs to use his hands and brain to lead people's auditory nerves and consciousness to move forward to the goal he set.

It's easy to say, but it's not so easy to do. The requirement for the middle and deep lower keys of the soft playing is not only the ability to control the three joints to the fingertips, but also the comprehensive control of a series of ten-bar music.

First of all, the performer must know which tones to emphasize in this paragraph, what strength to use to emphasize, and whether the first fifth interval should be played a little louder than the latter fourth interval.

Then sort out all the questions and so on, and form a complete playing idea.

In the end, you have to keep trying to verify whether this kind of performance will break the soft tone of the music and at the same time make the music achieve the expected performance.

After several attempts, Ang Lee chose this slightly tightrope approach.

He was lucky enough to master the passage in just one morning.

Of course, in addition to luck, he also benefited from his finger skills.

It's a pity that including Qin Yong, he can only feel that Ang Lee's performance is more delicate than that of the other party's concert. Perhaps Wu Fusheng, Liang Chunyulin Youyou and the others sitting here can say something more.

But even so, Qin Yong still sighed a little. This is the scary thing about Li An. No matter what he is busy with, you can always see a little bit of progress in his piano performance.

At this moment, the speed of the music came to a new world, which was in stark contrast to the previous part. The wild fingers on the keyboard seemed to be finally released from the shackles, giving people a sense of freedom to come and go from heaven to earth.

Indeed, watching performances without listening to music gives people a very passionate visual enjoyment.

But no matter how good a movie is, watching it four or five times in a row will make people feel a little boring.

This is the fifth time that Ang Lee has played Bei Shisan since after lunch. Wang Panpan, beside Chen Xuan, felt drowsy.

Chen Xuan herself was somewhat drowsy, and she just waited for the second movement to refresh her again.

The music is reproduced through the andante, and finally stops at a half-note chord.

In front of the piano, before Ang Lee took his next breath, his fingers had already pressed the first note of the second movement, seamlessly connecting the two movements in one go.

From C minor, a slightly mysterious beginning.

Chen Xuan was sure this was the feeling, the quietness was long and rough, like a primitive cry from outside the ancient world.

Wang Panpan's head finally dropped at this moment.
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In the next twelve minutes, nothing happened in Ang Lee's performance, just like the stability of the first movement.

Ang Lee thought it was pretty good this time. In fact, he still thought so after listening to it. With his current level and understanding of the repertoire, the effect of playing without mistakes is just that.

Of course, there are things that he is not satisfied with, but that is already beyond the scope of his own ability.

If he insisted on nitpicking, it would probably be the few basses at the beginning of the first movement, and he felt that it would be good enough if he played it a little lighter.

"Take a break and do it again?" the old man asked with concern.

Li An stared at the video and shook his head, "Thank you Brother Bian, let's do it this time."

Playing it again may not satisfy Ang Lee, he knows that this place has something to do with the sensitive Steinway.

Seeing this, the old man nodded, he didn't think there would be any next time in this place, but, "Do you need me to fix this place?"

Standing behind the two of them, Qin Yong knew that Li An definitely didn't want others to touch his original sound performance, so he mentioned Li An's old words, "No need, just let it be."

After finishing speaking, Qin Yong raised his hand to look at the time, and asked Li An, "Are you still resting?"

"No rest," Li An also wanted to end it early, don't wait until eleven or twelve o'clock when we go home after dinner. "Give us 10 minutes."

When Li An returned to the hall, Chen Xuan was auditioning on the stage.

He walked onto the stage, "Go change your clothes?"

Chen Xuan put the flute on the piano in response, "You accompany me."

Needless to say, Chen Xuan, Li An naturally had to be responsible for the security work in the backstage passage, but he didn't expect Chen Xuan to ask him why he didn't come in at the door.

"No, no, no." Li An knew that Wang Panpan was changing clothes here in the morning, and there were other people's things in it. It would be bad for him to see some girls' things when he went in. "I'll wait for you at the door, and change slowly."

Chen Xuan smiled: "Panpan's things have already been packed."

Li An heard that half of his left leg had already stepped into the door: "Hehe."

Chen Xuan prepared two sets of dresses for today's recording, one is black and the other is also black.

Taking out another set from her handbag, she began to undress, "Congratulations, Teacher Li."

"Ok?"

Li An was leaning against the mirror and carefully observing the mirror. Different perspectives brought him different experiences, so that he didn't understand Chen Xuan's question, "Where does joy come from?"

"A quarter of the track is done."

After finishing speaking, Chen Xuan threw the dress she took off aside, and looked at Ang Li in the mirror, "There are three songs left."

Li An smiled: "I don't know when the next game will be."

In the preview of the end of the previous concert, Bei Shisan was indeed one of Ang Lee's next Beethoven specials.

"Didn't Fu Tianming talk about summer vacation?"

At noon the day before yesterday, Li An asked Fu Tianming and his wife to have dinner, and helped Qin Yong talk about the production of the promotional film. Chen Xuan accompanied him. During the meal, Fu Tianming also talked about the preparations for the second concert.

"Didn't I say nothing at the time?" Regarding the second scene, at least from the current point of view, Li An felt that the summer vacation could not be held. If you can’t play something new, then it’s really unnecessary, will you hold a concert for the sake of holding a concert?”

Chen Xuan nodded, "Understood."

"Of course, if I can make money, I would definitely like it." Li An couldn't help laughing as he spoke, and asked calmly after a while, "Tickets will be sold for the next show, do you think anyone will buy tickets to listen?"

"Be confident," Chen Xuan pulled up the zipper point on her side with a tear, and then stretched her chest in front of the mirror, "Someone will definitely buy it."

"I hope," Li An sighed, "Hong Hao will come to Rongcheng to give a recital in June, how much do you think the lowest ticket price is?"

"I don't know." Chen Xuan began to touch up her makeup.

"Don't know?" Li An wondered, "Isn't he from your Huaguo Academy, a student of Mr. Zhao Weilin?"

Chen Xuan: "Ms. Zhao has so many students, and not all of them end up in our school."

Maybe he remembered it wrong. When he read the introduction that day, Li An remembered that he saw the words Huaguo Conservatory of Music. He thought he would look it up again. When he touched his trouser pocket, he found that the phone was still in the bag of the auditorium.

"Anyway, it's a young performer who has been quite popular in China in the past two years. He won an award in France the year before last. Although the competition is not big, it is also a level higher than the Youth Competition. I think the pre-sale ticket price of him is in Chengdu. The lowest is only 80."

Chen Xuan put down her lipstick, walked up to Li An, raised her hands and grabbed Li An's cheeks from both sides, pulled and said in a naughty voice, "Why do you want to compare with others? Say it with me, Li An Teachers are the best, say."

Li An was amused by Chen Xuan's cute tone, but his face was controlled by the other party, and he babbled a few bubbles.

"That's right."

Chen Xuan let go of her hand, took a step back and turned around, and the skirt around her legs also fluttered.

"How about it, which one looks good." Her voice was full of expectation.

Li An frowned, again?

Which one looks good.

He had to say that Chen Xuan's dress looked more solemn at the moment, and the pure-color lace-free skirt gave people a rather restrained feeling.

But if Ang Lee is asked which one he likes more, he will say the first one in his heart, because the first one looks more youthful.

"They all look good." Li An tried to avoid this question.

"Cut," Chen Xuan knew it was the answer, and suddenly hummed in her heart, it was the answer every time.

And she still can't say that the other party is perfunctory, if she says 'you are perfunctory', then she has stabbed a hornet's nest.

Li An immediately showed an expression of being more wronged than Dou E, and then nodded with her fingers and told her, first, what is good about this one, and why is it suitable for you; second, what is good about that one, and why is it suitable for you third
In the end, she herself felt that Li An was wronged.

But she just felt that Li An was perfunctory when he answered her for the first time, okay, then I will change it in another way.

"Okay," Chen Xuan said, raised her hand and hooked her left shoulder strap, then tilted her head and squinted her eyes and smiled, "What about now?"

Li An nodded humbly, and for a moment, "Looking at it this way, this set is even better."

After getting the answer she wanted, Chen Xuan was very happy. If it wasn't for highlighting the difference from the three-person ensemble video, she wouldn't be bothered to make such a fuss. She stepped forward and took Li An's arm, "Let's go, boyfriend."

"You're very naughty today."

On the way back to the stage, Li An couldn't help but asked, "What's wrong?"

"Don't you like it?" Chen Xuan asked back.

It's not a matter of whether he likes it or not, Li An felt that Chen Xuan had been acting strange since she was on the stage just now.

"really like."

Kong chewed a couple of mouthfuls of air before stopping at the backstage entrance.

"Huh?" Chen Xuan turned her head, "What's wrong."

Four eyes facing each other.

For a moment, a strange smile appeared on Li An's face, "It's not enough, Mr. Chen, it's just a video recording, take it easy, don't think so much."

Hearing Li An's words, the corners of Chen Xuan's mouth that were raised one second lowered the next second, and then his expression returned to the calm and indifferent expression that Li An was most familiar with.

Seeing this, Li An smiled again: "Hey, this face has changed, you have to pay to watch it."

In the next second, with a "puff", someone was hit with a hammer.

In the auditorium, Wang Fenfen, who was looking forward to it, vaguely heard a pain coming from the entrance of the stage.

Then nothing happened.

She waited another 5 minutes, still nothing.
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All the hard work in the past ten days will finally be tested today. Until the second when she walked on the stage alone, Chen Xuan realized that she still hadn't broken through the barrier in her heart.

During the sound audition, there was no Li An beside her, and there was no one in the audience. The scene was very similar to the scene of her blind re-examination.

She herself is a bit strange,
As for Mozart's Flute Concerto in D major, she is no longer the art examinee, and now she can confidently tell everyone that this work has no technical difficulties for her.

Whether it's breath or vibrato, whether it's Huacai's handling or the control of the three movements of the whole song, she is already handy.

But when she stood on the stage again and prepared to play this work, she still felt a kind of confusion in her heart, not knowing how to play it.

Li An couldn't describe his understanding, but he understood Chen Xuan, so after the night when the repertoire was set, he didn't mention this issue again. At that time, he didn't know much about this work.

Now that he has a certain understanding of this work, his idea is that if Chen Xuan wants to solve the troubles caused by this track, he must first face it boldly, play it, and play it on the stage. Blow, not blow to [-] in the classroom or bedroom.

Obviously, there is no need to say more about the words of enlightenment, Li An believes that Chen Xuan also understands in his heart.

What he needs to do is to help the other party take this step.

"In this case, why not leave it to me, let's go back to plan A?" Li An tried to propose a solution.

"No, who are you looking down on?" Chen Xuan raised the corner of her mouth and strode into the backstage door, "And we agreed."

Li An smiled and followed.

Returning to the stage again, Chen Xuan at least felt more at ease. In fact, she didn't need Li An to tease her or anything, as long as he was by her side, it was enough for her.

Maybe she is still not ready for this work, but unlike back then, her soul is no longer alone.

Picking up the flute, she stood next to the piano and played the same note with Li An's piano.

After confirming that it was correct, the two nodded to each other.

Chen Xuan returned to the center of the stage holding the flute, uttered lightly facing the camera directly in front of her, and then smiled.

After a while, there was an "ok."

All equipment on site is in place.

Five seconds later, Ang Lee raised his hand and dropped his fingers, and the bright sound of the piano immediately enveloped the stage, and the delicate ABAB legato sound pattern was as delicate as a string under his fingers.

Qin Yong's eyes lit up.
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Plan A: Follow Ang Lee's handling.

Plan B: Follow Chen Xuan's handling.

The two argued for a long time last night before Chen Xuan won.

The reason why An Li argued with Chen Xuan on this issue, even including the various arguments with the other party about Mozart some time ago, was to keep Chen Xuan in a high-level "combat state" during the period when he was struggling with whether to participate in the competition.

He hopes to use the key of Mozart to unlock Chen Xuan's heart and liberate the wings imprisoned in it.

He knew that Chen Xuan liked the flute, which was no less than his enthusiasm for the piano.

Isn't that what it's like to like someone, care about what you care about, and then put it into action.

Of course, in this process, Ang Lee also gained nothing. For example, on the issue of whether the piano can imitate the sound characteristics of other instruments, he currently has the upper hand.

With the emotional piano accompaniment to the first section of the flute, Chen Xuan held the flute to her mouth.

A precise empty half-beat, the sound of the flute, the ethereal silver-textured flute sound rushed straight into the sky above the stage after a gorgeous and clear trill.

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Two hours later, a group of five people finished the recording work and finally came to the old Yutou of the He family who had been playing for a whole day.

After Li An got out of the car, he realized that Lao Bian was not bragging, and it was difficult to find a parking spot near the restaurant.

Chen Xuan, who got out of the car behind Li An, also seemed to be in a good mood. She looked around, and suddenly her eyes fixed.

A familiar figure appeared in the distance, a very familiar figure from the back, who is this, so familiar, but she couldn't tell who it was for a while.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Chen, this way."

Chen Xuan looked away and followed the large army.
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"Director Xu, you must have eaten this fish head many times, right?"

"The first time, and my name is Xu Li."

(End of this chapter)