On the morning of October 21st, Beijing time, the Chopin International Piano Competition organizing committee announced the new champion. On the afternoon of the same day, Li Yundi, who is famous for his Chopin competition, became a hot search for news about prostitution. The variety show "'s brother who overcomes all obstacles" he participated in also marked his mosaic.
In 2000, Li Yundi, who was just 18 years old, broke the 15-year silence of missing the Xiao Sai Gold Award for two consecutive times and won the championship. He also won the Great Polonaise Award for Best Performance, becoming the first Chinese to win the championship. Since then, he has served as the deputy director of the Piano Art Research Institute of Sichuan Conservatory of Music and a member of the Chongqing Political Consultative Conference. He has appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala five times and has always been popular. There is even a youth piano competition named "Looking for the Next Li Yundi"... But in fact, in recent years In the classical music circle, Li Yundi is no longer the "piano prince". There were so many accidents in his live performances that classical music lovers even named some of the most tragic ones as "Gongti Bee", "Nanning Bell", "Zhongshan Bei", "Jin Xiangxiong", "Real Estate Month" and " "Seoul Xiao" (respectively playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" at the Workers' Gymnasium, playing "The Bell" by Nanning , playing "Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1" at the Zhongshan Concert Hall, playing "Hero" at the Academy Awards, and playing at the real estate event "Moonlight" and "Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1" in Seoul).
Zhou Guangren : He played so hard that I couldn’t sit still. To this point
Li Yundi’s piano skills have been highly recognized. The record evaluation book " Penguin Record Guide " published by the British Penguin Publishing Company is a reference book often used by music fans to purchase records. One star represents fair, two stars represents good, three stars represents outstanding, and four stars represents truly exceptional. The key symbol (key) means a highly recommended version of the same track. Rosette guide A certain editor's special fondness for a certain recording is often because it is particularly outstanding in a certain aspect. Yundi Li's "Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1" in " Chopin Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 " (2004) received a four-star key recommendation. In the same album, "Liszt First Steel Association" received a three-star recommendation. In addition, two of his "Liszt Selections" (2003) and "Music in Berlin" (2007) each received three-star recommendations. .
However, by the time of 2012's "Beethoven: Pathos·Moonlight·Passion", the situation had changed. According to an interview with Central Conservatory of Music tenured professor Zhou Guangren in "People" magazine in September 2013, this album was recorded At that time, Li Yundi went to Zhou Guangren to play for her, "I listened to one for the first time. It's completely wrong. He has such a big task, and he actually crams into it. Recording records is not a joke. A task like this lasts half a year." In the past, he was not very well prepared, but he would go to class without memorizing the sheet music. I have never seen such a student." Zhou Guangren said. She also went to listen to the piano solo concert at the National Center for the Performing Arts on December 1, 2012. "In the end, he played Beethoven's piece that I had taught him ("Pathetique "), and he played it so hard that I couldn't even sit still, to the point where I couldn't sit still."
Although Li Yundi said The "People" interview is inconsistent with the facts, but other industry insiders who listened to the piano recital had similar feelings. Music critic Xu Luyang published "Is Yundi Li Still a "Prince" in " New York Times Chinese Website "? "" article, I wrote about my feelings about Li Yundi's three interpretations of Beethoven: "Fragile performance, poor timbre, monotonous intensity levels, clumsy breakthroughs, sharp and harsh accented chords", "It's boring", "Falling into chaos, habitual mispronouncements occur one after another, excessive tension"...
Overseas netizens: Li's version of "Flight of the Bumblebee" may be the most terrifying piano performance of the year
What has changed? Since winning the competition, Li Yundi has been favored not only for his piano skills, but also for his idol temperament. There are also many voices who think that he looks exactly like Kimura Takuya (Kimura plays the same character in the TV series " Long Vacation " pianist). At that time, some promoters also used entertainment-based publicity methods for Li Yundi.In the book "Music Madman: The Story of Chen Shaobao's Music Circle", Hong Kong musician Chen Shaobao recalled that after Yundi Li won the award, Universal Music Group owned the world's most famous classical brand DGG, so it "signed Yundi Li without any rivals." At that time, the classical music market in Hong Kong was very small, and my colleagues in the classical department "seemed to have signed a local singer and brought him over to Hong Kong from time to time to promote and appear on TV. It was almost like operating an idol singer."
In "Chinese Piano Myth Li Yundi" published by Huacheng Publishing House in 2013, Li Yundi confessed to the biographer that the situation of classical music records has been sluggish, and a lot of the company's publicity is to ensure sales. His first two albums used huge publicity efforts to build momentum, such as arranging to play a crystal piano worth 8 million in a large shopping mall in Hong Kong and performing in front of thousands of people in a large square in the city center.
"At first I fully cooperated, thinking that through this kind of publicity, more people would like classical music, but then I began to get tired of this noisy commercial activity. This is not what I want. Only classical music can promote classical music , it is not a publicity filled with gimmicks, the purity of art lies in this, so we should 'let the music speak and shut up everything else'. So starting from the third album, my attitude is very clear, I will try my best to avoid participating in this kind of promotion. He focuses his time and energy on his own music. Although
once claimed that he was "tired of this noisy commercial activity," his name has been in the entertainment industry since he collaborated with Wang Leehom on the Spring Festival Gala in 2012. Sections appear more and more frequently.
This year, Li Yundi said in an interview: "Everyone will say whether Li Yundi has turned music into entertainment. I think this is not about turning music into entertainment, but about turning himself into entertainment." Later, at the Worker's Sports Concert at the end of the year, he sang Leehom Wang's " Falling Leaves Return to Home ", a photo of him and Leehom Wang appeared on the screen, and rose petals were scattered on the scene.
A year later, on December 31, 2013, Li Yundi was widely discussed again for his work performance, and this time it was due to a mistake in playing "Flight of the Bumblebee". The video clip was commented by overseas netizens as "Possibly the most horrible piano" recital of the year” (possibly the scariest piano performance of the year).
Jiao Yuanpu: Appreciate gratitude and cherish blessings, did Li Yundi hear it? A wider range of doubts about
appeared in 2015. This year, Li Yundi was elected as a judge of the 17th Chopin International Piano Competition. However, he was absent to attend the wedding of celebrity Huang Xiaoming . Music critic Jiao Yuanpu expressed strong dissatisfaction with this move. He wrote an article "Knowing kindness and cherishing blessings, did Li Yundi hear it?" " stated that the Chopin competition is a points system, and the judges will measure the performers' understanding and performance of Chopin through different repertoire in each round. "If he didn't listen to the whole process and had different impressions of the contestants, how would he rate the contestants? Since he decided to go to the wedding, why would he come to judge? What do you think of the contestants?" Jiao Yuanpu once spent 20 years tracking 108 world-class piano players Performer, wrote " Entertainment Black and White: Interviews with World Pianists ". Among his interviewees, there was the pianist Chen Sa who participated in the competition with Li Yundi and won the fourth place, but not Li Yundi.
Immediately after the wedding incident, on October 31, a news article from South Korea's News1 news agency that "Chopin competition judge Li Yundi has frequent on-site accidents" sparked heated discussion among classical music lovers. In the news, when Li Yundi performed with Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Seoul, due to memory confusion, he did not cooperate well with the orchestra, and the performance was interrupted. Shanghai Conservatory of Music Zhao Xiaosheng posted on Weibo on November 2 that the only mistake a music performing artist cannot make "is to interrupt, to stop completely." Stopping means "death." However, for classical music lovers, what makes the whole thing uncomfortable is not just the "car accident" itself, but Yundi Li's attitude. The performance that went wrong was Li Yundi's famous song at the Chopin Competition, which also won the "Penguin Record Guide" four-star belt key "Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1".However, after the car accident, Li Yundi still posted Halloween-related photos on Weibo . It was not until public opinion began to ferment that he apologized to the fans, saying that "due to the fatigue of traveling and traveling, Yundi made mistakes in his performance."
In 2016, Li Yundi's performance accident spread on the Internet again. This time he played the third movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight" at a real estate event. There was no interruption this time, but he was still playing in a hurry. Netizens even drew pictures to point out that one section was composed by himself, and the other section was skipped directly after forgetting the score. However, there is another section that is used to cover up forgotten scores and wrong sounds, and attempts to get through by speeding up... Among the more than 100,000 WeChat articles this year, the classical music review public account "Chao Rentan" published "Big Breaking: Yundi Li" "Abandoned by the Western Classical Music World", the author Yule pointed out: Ever since winning the Chopin championship, Yundi Li has been overdrawing the remaining value of the competition repertoire that year. "Whether it is a record recording or a concert repertoire, Li Yundi always makes a fuss around some of Chopin's works, and rarely touches piano works other than Chopin."
By this time, Li Yundi's piano skills are no longer a secret. On the video website bilibili, viewers can see a video collection titled "Li Yundi's Mistakes and Car Accident Collection", which collects 15 car accident scenes with a total duration of more than 1 hour. Some tracks even have major mistakes on more than one occasion, which shows that he There seems to be a lack of effort to correct after a mistake.
Although many music fans have left him, Yundi Li still has many fans. Fans also nicknamed him "Professor" and "Yunjuanjuan". In the article "Chinese Classical Music Idol Li Yundi's Road to "Prince"", the author pointed out some characteristics of Li Yundi's fans. Some of them learned about classical music through Li Yundi, while others only listened to Li Yundi's performances and did not dabble in other classical music. Home. Music producer Lu Zhongqiang once said in an interview that Li Yundi's success is not only due to his personal talent, but also that his team has accurately captured the audience's interest points and catered to everyone's needs. "The purpose is obvious, which is financial gain. When looking at money, it is difficult to avoid vulgarity. But you have to admit that his team has successfully set a precedent by using an entertainment method to launch a pianist. Clayderman has similarities, but this is the first of its kind in China."
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Chinese classical music idol Li Yundi's road to "Prince"
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