pianist from the sea

Chapter 115 Zhao Chengzhen's Three Words

Galina was seen differently in different places. Judging from the signal received by the Polish TV station, Galina herself was very imposing and confident.

Especially her slightly high neck, the yellowish light falling from the top of her head, in conjunction with the photography of the Chopin International Piano Competition Organizing Committee, directly photographed her as a princess-like character, waiting for the general Three rounds of competition.

but……

In the eyes of other people around, everyone can clearly see that her hands are shaking.

Even though she put her hands behind her and tried not to show it as much as possible, the shaking of her body made it possible for everyone standing in the backstage of the concert hall to see her nervousness.

For the players who can enter the third round, no one is willing to stop at this place, and does not want to enter the fourth round.

There are 20 people in total, and ten people will be selected to enter the fourth round. Why can't this person be me?

Even if there are still some people who are ranked lower in the third round, they will not give up after seeing their results like Yu Tianyou.

Yu Tianyou was because he knew in the second round that he was lucky enough to get into the third round, even if there was a gap in level, didn't everyone just rely on luck?
It's as if everyone is in the top 20 in the province in the college entrance examination, even if there is a gap between the top 1, you said that if they compare No. [-] with No. [-], can they directly surrender without any comparison?

Certainly not.

So, the same goes for Galina.

She was extremely nervous, looking forward to her performance in the third round, but... all the first contestants have been eliminated. A satisfactory result.

"Galina! Russia! Piano Choice: Kawaii SK-EX!"

"Selection of works: Mazurka Op59-1, 2, 3; Ballad Op23, Op47, Sonata Op35!"

Whoa!
The applause sounded, and Pawel and Olga in Polish TV couldn't help but nodded slightly when they saw Galina entering the stage smiling.

"The first player to play now is Galina from Russia. We talked about her performance before, especially her performance in the first round of the second round. We think she is currently ranked third on our side. The echelon is a ranking from 11 to 20, but this ranking is only based on our performance in the previous three rounds, and it is for reference only.”

"Galina's performance is very typical of the style of the Russian school. The Russian school pays more attention to technical expression and shows the player's personal style through technology. Galina did not escape the inherent impression of the Russian school. The horizontal style on her fingers Compared with others, she is actually the most outstanding group, but correspondingly, her music is not so attractive to people, and there is no way to attract me."

Olga also agreed: "Yes, I think so too, even though our Polish music players are actually more inclined to the Russian school players, but Galina did not show the limits of the Russian school, she The feeling of music in her music is actually a little bit worse, such as the beauty of music and the emotional expression of music. In other words, when she absorbed the advantages of the Russian school, the shortcomings of the Russian school were also taken away. She's extra magnified, which I personally don't think is good."

"All in all, we are still full of confidence in Galina and believe that she is likely to perform beyond everyone's expectations, but we don't have a specific answer to how well she can perform. We can only look at Galina's performance."

Amid the comments from Pavel and Olga, Galina stood in front of the piano, bowed slightly to the crowd, and then sat down.

The concert hall was peaceful, and so was the studio.

They can evaluate the players before or after they play, but they will never give comments during the performance of the players, breaking the audience's appreciation of the music.

In the sight of everyone, Galina raised her hand, and then slowly lowered it, a mazurka with a strong Polish style flowed out from her fingers.

Mazurka Op59 is a very classic Mazurka. At this time, Chopin has broken through his lack of inspiration, and his genius is once again displayed in front of everyone.

And this Op59 is Chopin's breakthrough work.

The first piece, Op59-1, is the work with the strongest emotion among Chopin's works, and even works with original Chopin-style modulation. Unlike other works, this piece has a novelty and is completely fresh The harmonic trend, the sudden melody, and the unexpected ending, all of them are showing the limit of Chopin.

For a moment, the eyes of some judges lit up slightly, and they heard a little bit of what they wanted in Galina's music.

That sense of freshness and genius.

No one can make it to the third round, everyone has something in them, and Galina is no different.

Even though her music is trapped in the expression of the Russian school, her music has a sense of novelty and genius.

This feeling gave a very good impression to many judges.

But at the same time, some judges frowned.

They didn't hear what they wanted in Galina's music. The Chopin they wanted was not perfect, the softness they wanted was almost not fully expressed, and the ego they wanted was too worn. many.

Galina's music has a paradoxical quality to it that makes them very uncomfortable.

Compared with the second round, the points of appreciation among the judges are revealed at this time. Each of them has their own scoring points that they care about, and almost no two judges have the same scoring points.

Even if both are musically accurate, one person may only require all the notes to be correct, and he will give a good score.

As for the other person, he doesn't really ask for the correct sound, he just asks for the correct music, as long as you can give accurate musical expression, he doesn't care if your work is full of mistakes.

Of course, don't go too far, it's no joke to play one piece into another piece.

The Russian feel in Galina's music was also liked or hated by some of the judges.

Many judges like the Russian flavor in Chopin, after all, the two are not far from each other, and the culture is somewhat integrated.

And some judges were very resistant.

After all... someone had partitioned Poland and signed a non-aggression pact.

How did two countries that do not border at all sign a non-aggression pact?Are you right?
After the performance of Galina's first work, Mazurka Op59-1, some judges wrote down their scores on the score sheet in their hands.

After all the mazurkas were finished, five or six judges had finished scoring.

The performance of the first and third piano ballades later did not make these five or six judges change their scores, but only allowed more judges to confirm Galina's level and strength and give their own evaluations.

And when the beginning of the last Chopin Piano Sonata No. [-] was presented, all the judges gave Galina their own scores.

Even if she hasn't finished playing, her round of competition is over.

Everyone was silent until Galina's last note fell, and when she let go of her fingers on the keyboard, applause rang out.

Galina was silent, turned her head to look at the crowd off the stage, sighed, stood up with a smile, and bowed gracefully to the crowd.

In this elegance, only she knows how much is really happy and how much is uncomfortable.

The two people on the Warsaw TV station glanced at each other. Pavel didn't hesitate too much, and after a few comments, he passed the words to Olga.

The two discussed a lot about Galina's performance this round, but many people noticed that their attention was not on Galina at all, but behind Galina.

On Zhao Chengzhen and Fu Tiao.

Because everyone knew that this morning's game was between Fu Tiao and Zhao Chengzhen, and they were the focus of everyone's attention today.

Galina?who?Sorry, unfamiliar.

Galina sighed, her expression extremely heavy. There were countless cameras pointed at her around her. She didn't care at all, and walked directly between the many cameras and walked towards the players' lounge.

When she entered the waiting room, Zhao Chengzhen was already waiting on the side, ready to enter the stage of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

Galina didn't know what she thought of, she fixed herself in front of Zhao Chengzhen, and instead of continuing to walk forward, she turned her head to look at Zhao Chengzhen.

"Zhao, come on!" Galina forced a smile and nodded to Zhao Chengzhen: "Come on, win the championship!"

"Huh? Do you like me?"

Zhao Chengzhen was awakened by the voice next to his ear. He opened his eyes and turned to look at Galina with a slightly surprised expression: "You actually support me? I thought almost no one supported me during the entire competition."

Galina smiled, looked up and looked behind her.

The staff is tidying up the stage and preparing for Zhao Chengzhen's piano.

Seeing that there was still a little time left, Galina looked at Zhao Chengzhen and shook her head slightly.

"No, I think you play very well, Chopin has a strong feeling, I like your performance very much, and I really want to play the feeling of your music, but..."

"only?"

"It's just that my strength seems a little weak. The Chopin in my music is not pure enough."

Galina looked at Zhao Chengzhen and smiled, walked to Zhao Chengzhen's side, also leaned against the back of the wall, looked up at the light above her head, her eyes were slightly blurred.

"That's great. In fact, I also really want to play a very perfect Chopin. My existence disappears in the music, leaving only the music itself. I had this feeling once before, but... once and only once , It’s really hard.”

Zhao Chengzhen was obviously even more surprised. He got up and looked at Galina: "But, I didn't hear from your music that you particularly want pure Chopin. You play very pure Russian music. In the music..."

"So, just thinking about it."

Galina smiled at Zhao Chengzhen, reached out and patted his shoulder, and nodded with a smile: "So, come on, win the championship!"

"..."

Zhao Chengzhen didn't know what to say, his expression returned to calm, his eyes were slightly closed, and after taking a deep breath, he looked at Galina and nodded slowly.

"I try my best."

"Okay, come on! I'm done anyway, it's up to you."

"Um……"

Zhao Chengzhen didn't agree to Galina, because he didn't know whether he could beat Fu Tiao.

When the works of the two collide completely, the gap between them will be more thoroughly expressed.

In the past few days, he has been trying to break through, feeling the feeling of breaking through.

Although the number of times he was able to break through and perform more and more, but...he didn't know at all whether he could also achieve the breakthrough state during the competition.

This state is unavoidable.

He always felt that he was lucky to play before Fu Tiao. If he played well enough, he could suppress Fu Tiao, so that some of Fu Tiao's previous works could not show a perfect state, even if he played in the end. A piece of work is perfect, and it is difficult to surpass yourself.

But now, especially after hearing the performance of the last work of Fu Tiao's second round, and the previous practice, he began to feel a huge pressure in his heart.

There is a very strong player behind him. If his performance is not perfect, his performance will be directly surpassed by Fu Tiao, and so many points ahead of him may be directly missed.

This pressure made him extremely nervous, and his heart began to beat rapidly.

What followed was an unknown fighting spirit.

He wanted to defeat Fu Diao and tell everyone that he, Zhao Chengzhen, was the number one in the Chopin International Piano Competition, a position that no one could shake.

This is self-confidence, the self-confidence brought about by Zhao Chengzhen winning two international piano competitions in the same year.

With Chopin, he won the No.1 position in other international piano competitions of the same level. In the Chopin International Piano Competition, he has met many players before and defeated them easily.

Therefore, he is very confident and believes that his music is invincible, and he can completely immerse himself in his music to make himself more Chopin.

But the problem now is that Fu Tiao's appearance broke this confidence.

He began to feel a very clear difference between himself and Chopin.

For example, he is still a South Korean player after all, his favorite food is still kimchi, and his habitual coffee is always iced American style.

After all, he is not Chopin, and he cannot be Chopin.

There must be a gap between Chopin and him. If he keeps getting closer to Chopin, can he compare with Argerich and Zimmerman, who are themselves Europeans and Americans, and live more like Chopin and more like Chopin? ?

he does not know.

"Zhao!"

Galina looked at Zhao Chengzhen a little confused, frowned slightly, patted him on the shoulder vigorously, and said with a very serious expression.

"Zhao! Come on!"

"Ah."

Zhao Chengzhen took a deep breath, nodded slightly to Galina, pushed open the door of the preparation room, and walked towards the stage.

As he got closer and closer to the stage, the hesitation in his heart disappeared bit by bit, followed by incomparable firmness.

He believes in himself, in his understanding of music, in his interpretation of music as a representative of the French School of Music, and in his strength on the global stage.

I am Zhao Chengzhen, the No.1 young pianist in the world.

I have been immersed in Chopin's music for so long, and I have studied Chopin for two full years. What else do I have to be afraid of?

He has more than a dozen ways to interpret every detail, and he doesn't know how many times he has studied with his teacher for the control of details.

He believes in himself and will not fail!
"Cho Sung Jin! South Korea! Piano Choice: Steinway!"

"Selection of works: Mazurka Op33-1, 2, 3, 4; Chopin Prelude Complete Works!"

When the host's voice sounded, the corners of Zhao Chengzhen's mouth slightly raised, dispelling all the doubts in her heart, and keeping her heart as pure as possible.

Then, he walked towards the stage, step by step, extremely firm.

He wants to prove himself, to prove that he is the most powerful competitor in the Chopin International Piano Competition!
Galina went back to the house and packed up her things before leaving without having a word with Fu Tiao.

Fu Tiao didn't care either, and leaned on the back of the chair with an extremely calm expression.

He put all his attention on Zhao Chengzhen, he wanted to see how Zhao Chengzhen played in the third round.

Han, another player from South Korea next to him, had a bitter face and lowered his head, hoping that Zhao's performance would not be perfect. He hoped that Zhao would make a little mistake so that he would have a chance to enter the final round.

The people at Warsaw TV station were also excited. Although they only waited for a few minutes for Zhao Chengzhen's performance, it felt like they had been waiting for years.

They were looking forward to Zhao Chengzhen's performance in the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

Zhao Chengzhen took the stage, and his brief introduction also appeared on the screen.

"Zhao, how does it feel to enter the third round? What does Chopin mean to you now?"

"In the third round, as before, I continued to gain more details during the competition. The more you listen and play, the more you can discover how terrifying the details in Chopin's music are. Every detail is soaked in The sense of purity in Chopin’s music cannot be learned in school, only in the competition, I can fully understand what is Chopin.”

"Details determine height, purity determines quality, purity determines attitude, and my music is in the Chopin International Piano Competition..."

"The most perfect details, the purest music, the purest Chopin..."

"pianist!"

After the words were finished, Zhao Chengzhen raised his hand. He stared at the keyboard, pursed his lips, and then slowly lowered his hand.

(End of this chapter)