今天弹海顿 I played Haydn today.

在楼下的咖啡馆吃了马粪和卡布基诺，就回来练琴。一首很简单的海顿奏鸣曲，刚呈示部
就背了半小时，还没背下来。我的钢琴也太破，谈快的时候，音都溜溜的。其它人都去玩
儿或看live 8 音乐会了。

我决定在家乘凉。这首曲子小时后就谈过，前几天在唱片店听北欧钢琴家Andnes以惊人的速度演绎之后，立志从弹。那第一乐章的动机就像小女孩儿跳皮筋，让人什么时候听了都亲情好。这曲子看上去不难，太快了可真难，一大串一大串的十六分音符跑的肌肉酸痛，但曲子太有活力了，所以在激情之下一冲到底，音不清楚都过瘾。当然，我要把每个音以及快的速度弹清楚。只有这样，曲子的动感结构才能一耳了然。

海顿太牛了。他的音乐比莫扎特的还有生命力，仿佛青春焕发的少年。活力源源不短。不过Andesenes弹得太好了，比我强百倍，他一气呵成，但又变化多端，触键轻盈，我弹得像赛跑，他弹得像滑冰。我弹得像蠢笨的胖男孩儿，他弹得像优雅的小姑娘。钢琴艺术的真谛在于自然又不失控制。


I ate my brunch at Greenline cafe. They are out of bagel today so I had muffin and cappuccino. I came back to play my piano. It took me half an hour to memorize the exposition part of a Haydn sonata. I realized that my piano is becoming really shabby since whenever I played fast, these keys feels slippery under my hands. It is so quiet in my neighborhood. Everyone else went to see the live 8 concert.

I decided to chill at home. I played this piece when I was a little kid. Its opening theme always seizes my ear whenever I heard it. A few weeks ago, I heard this sonata played by the Scandinavinian pianist, Leiv Olf Andnes. His performance stunned me by its extremely fast tempo and the sharpness of the dynamical structure. I decided to practice and play this piece again. The first movement sounds like rope-jumping of young girls. Its up-beat makes you feel cheered everytime you listened to it whenever and whereever. The piece doesn't look hard when　you read the score, but it is very hard to play it fast. The passages of 16th notes will sour your muscles very quickly. However, the piece is so charming and dynamical, you can not help to run through it to the last note and feel very satisfied even if you missed a few notes on the way. It is like biking down hill in a windy evening. Of course, I am trying to dance it instead of running it. I am trying to keep my elegance while I am performing my triple jump, suc as in figure-skating.But a triple jump needs speed. Without a fast tempo, the dynamical structure of the piece will not be heard.

Bravo to Haydn! He is even more youthful than Mozart. His music is like waterfall running through a gorge. Butta....Andesnes plays way better than I do. His playing is spontaneuous, smooth and his touch is so delicate sometimes and yet doesn't lose the power. I played the piece as if I was in a running race and have the danger to fall all the time; He played the piece as if he is figure skating on ice. I played the piece as if I am a crumsy fat boy; He played the piece as if he is a graceful ballarina girl. The arts of piano playing is being natural and yet having everything under perfect control.

You can find this album at Amazon.com:
Leif Ove Andsnes plays Haydn Piano Sonatas
EMI Classics