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Chapter 653 Masters Cup semi-finals (fourteen)

The sound of the jingling piano. It is like the clear Xiya Five-tone Palace style, which conveys the unique elegance of Gongshan Kingdom. The melody that has been passed down for thousands of years and has been spread throughout the world is transmitted to everyone's ears through the unique warm tone of Stanwina. A pure Chinese style makes everyone's eyes shine.

Yes, Chen Sa chose the popular "Battle of Liang", but it was not the well-known Richard Clayderman's song, but the version adapted by Chinese composers Chen Gang and He Zhanhao. Compared with Clayderman's version, this version is more faithful to the original, basically showing the theme of love in Liang Zhu, reading and playing together, giving away 18, fighting against marriage in the British and Taiwan, turning into butterflies in front of the grave. However, due to the strong national color and the use of too many five-tone chords, this work is a bit more rigid and less popular elements than Clayderman's version.

But at this moment, such a song with a strong Chinese style was played by such a beautiful Chinese female pianist, and Jiuliang had a different taste.

The slender fingers slowly raised and fell down again and again. Chen Sa's movements were so meticulous. It was like embroidery, and under her performance, the meticulous and lingering love melody in this song "Battle of Liang" also seemed particularly touching.

"Chen Sa is really good at choosing. He starts with such a Chinese music, and her own temperament, maybe there may be unexpected breakthroughs.

Looking at Chen Sa's performance, Zhou Guangren thought to himself. As the only judge in China among the fifteen judges, Zhou Guangren hoped that the contestants of his country could get a better result. For the strength of these people, she was quite clear. Relatively speaking, Chen Sa was the worst among the few people. Although she had won several awards in internationally renowned piano competitions in the previous few years, the highest time was as if she won the third place in the Liszt Cup International Piano Competition two years ago. She was a hard-working contestant, but not a genius player, and Zhou Guangren knew very well.

However, looking at Chen Sa's performance today, Zhou Guangren was surprised. She could see that Chen Sa's "easy" state today has great benefits for pianists to participate in competitions. However, the higher the level of the competition, the greater the pressure the contestants face. It is almost impossible to achieve such a thing as Chen Sa. Zhou Guangren didn't know how Chen Sa adjusted his mentality so well.

However, there is no doubt that Chen Sa's performance in this song can win many impression points from judges and audiences. The song is famous enough, and the person is beautiful enough. Most importantly, the performance is very interesting. In the past two years, as Chinese culture gradually heats up around the world, Chinese music has also begun to attract more and more attention from the international music industry. Chen Sa's move undoubtedly caters to this trend.

The song "Liang Zhu" adapted by Chen Gang and He Zhanhao has many techniques. Although it also contains several themes of Liang Zhu, it is mainly based on the theme of love. It only expresses different emotions through the continuous changes in the themes on the left and right hands and the form of accompaniment. Its artistic achievements are not high. It is precisely because of this that this version has been created for so long. It has not really spread and is far less famous than the violin version.

Chen Sa's performance undoubtedly attracted the attention of the audience. It has been so long since the competition began. No pianist has ever played such a pure Chinese style song, and this song is so famous. It is called the Chinese version of "Romeo and Juliet" and naturally attracted people's attention.

However, there was a look of regret in one person's eyes.

This person is Lu Wei.

"It's a pity that a good song is, but Chen Sa's condition is so good." Looking at Chen Sa's performance, Lu Wei shook his head secretly. He had seen this song a long time ago, but he didn't touch it again after playing it once. There was no other reason, just because he felt bad, it was very bad.

The first impression that this version of Liang Zhu gave Lu Wei was that the chord arrangement was very unreasonable. In order to show that this is a Chinese-style work, the composer used many five-tone chord connections. Although these connections make sense in music theory, they are not that comfortable to be honest. Especially in some places, those fast colorful melodies with both hands, Lu Wei believes that it is purely a show of skills, which is a barrier to inserting them into the hard to increase the difficulty of the song itself. There are many Chinese songs like this, and Lu Wei has never understood why these composers do this. Is it just to show their professionalism and the difficulty of the composition? But a piece of music should first make people feel good. People here refer to most people, not those so-called "insiders".

In any case, when he heard the melody handed over to the left hand and his right hand was left flying back and forth in the high notes of the piano, playing those fast little chariots, Lu Wei completely lost interest in listening because he really couldn't hear what the music was expressing.

Of course, just as Chen Sa's final performance ended, the hot oriental melody in the work of the Palm Tak still sounded. It really made those foreign music fans feel very novel and very good.

"Look, foreigners were also shocked by our "Battle of Liang"! The famous song is the preparation song. I think Chen Sa might have a partner today. Liu Qihai couldn't help but exclaim when Chen Sa finished his first song.

"Yes, look at the foreigners' applause. It hurts. But I wonder if they understand what this piece of music means. Chen Yun raised his head and smiled and said to Liu Yunhai, "Haha, it doesn't matter whether he understands it or not. As long as it can shock them, music sometimes has to pay attention to a kind of hazy beauty. Okay, stop talking. Chen Sa has to start playing and adjusting it for a while, and Chen Sa began to play the second work.

This time, Chen Sa chose Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody" No. 2.

Compared with "Hungarian Rhapsody" No. 6 and No. 2, the popularity seems to be lower, but this does not reduce the influence of this song in the piano world. Many pianists like to play this song in their concerts, half because of its fame and half because of its difficulty.

"Dongdong!" Two heavy key main chords sounded, and Chen Sana's two jade arms, like lotus nodes, burst out with strong force. The two chords with split rhythm were very tense. In an instant, the Stanway piano seemed to have changed from a gentle stretcher to an impulsive young man.

The wrists are hung very high. Since this song is filled with this melody with strong syncopation and strong force from beginning to end, this posture must be used to achieve the required force.

Modern piano teaching theory, the force of the player acting on the keys has been divided into very detailed. The same note can be played by the force of the fingers according to the different strength marks. It can be played by the force of the wrist, by the force of the forearm, the second arm, or even the whole body. Of course, this division is not absolute. When playing the piano, the muscles in the whole body are in a very relaxed state, and even without exerting force, they will cooperate with the keys.

At this moment, Chen Sa's performance is a common posture when many pianists usually like to use the whole body force to apply on their fingertips, which can further strengthen the sense of passage of the arm and facilitate the integration of strength. Many beginners of piano students are often confused when they see some pianists' performances, because at the beginning, their teachers always tell them that their wrists must always be parallel to the keys. When they move, they can only move left and right, and must not move parallel. Therefore, when they see some pianists playing, they often hang their wrists like Chen Sa or sometimes press them down. They often don't understand why.

In fact, the reason is very simple. At the beginning, the emphasis on parallelism of wrists is mainly to exercise the independence of fingers. Because beginners sometimes have not flexible fingers, their wrists always unconsciously want to "help" when lifting their fingers, resulting in the fingers becoming lazy. In order to avoid such a situation, the piano teacher asks students to keep their wrists parallel to the keys.

Moreover, in the early stages, most of the students practiced works with relatively uniform and stable strength. They did not require too much movement. When the independence of the fingers has been exercised well, they gradually came into contact with some works that have certain requirements for strength, speed, and expressions, they needed to participate more and more in the performance, rather than just acting as a simple "channel" of power delivery.

However, in Lu Wei's opinion, it is not necessary to adopt such a posture to obtain the tone he wants. As long as the muscles in the whole body are properly coordinated, even if the wrist does not make such a large movement, he can also obtain very fast and transparent chords, and he can do this himself.

No. 2 of this song "Hungarian Rhapsody" focuses on tragic style, and in the middle, it has a long and fast show of skills. Chen Sa chose this song and probably also had the idea of ​​showing off her basic skills. In fact, it is not just her, but almost any contestant who participates in the competition will choose a song by Liszt to show his level. Who made Liszt called the "piano devil" and who made his songs the most difficult in the world?

Chen Sa's Mad 2 was completed very well. There was no wrong sound from beginning to end, and the rhythm was very accurate. As for expressiveness, it can be called medium and upper-class.

Chen Sa's performance in the next two works was also quite good. She was in a relaxed state and basically performed well. Although these four songs were not too difficult except for Mad 2, the stable performance also won her a lot of impression points. "Guao score was also considered a middle-class score in the competition in the past few days.

Amid a burst of enthusiastic applause, Chen Sa walked off the stage.
Chapter completed!
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