pianist from the sea

Chapter 118 The ultimate self

Fu Tiao's eyes were extremely softly placed on the piano in front of him, his fingers gently drifted across the piano, and the notes followed the trajectory in his hands, slowly drifting in the air.

The last work Zhao Chengzhen performed was a Chopin scherzo with a very strong rhythm. According to common sense, Zhao Chengzhen's music should be easier to impress everyone in the concert hall.

But actually...

At the beginning of Fu Tiao's music performance, the moment the notes fluttered in his hand, the slightly impatient emotions in everyone's hearts were instantly calmed down, and there was no longer any trace of anxiety, and some were just calm, in the calm With a touch of slight sadness.

It is hidden in the deepest part of your heart, and it is not strong when it is gently fluttered with feathers, but the feeling brought by this work is extremely emotional.

It is like one day in the future, when you bid farewell to your parents and returned home peacefully, obviously feeling very uncomfortable and sad in your heart, but somehow you just couldn’t cry, and you even wondered if you were too cold-blooded, obviously your own Parents have already left, but why can't I cry so sad like in movies and TV?
You live a peaceful life like this, but one day, when the breeze blows through the gauze curtain, you come home, there is no bed made by your mother every day, only a mess, you suddenly realize that they are no longer there.

Open the refrigerator, the food in the refrigerator has not been replenished for a long time, and the ice milk you used to drink every day has disappeared in the refrigerator, even if they tell you every day that the cold is not good, but you just like it, you can’t hear it The nagging, you suddenly realize, are gone.

You went to the store at the door to buy a glass of iced milk, and when you got home, you lay on the sofa and slowly sipped it, feeling the coldness in your stomach, and then you realized that they were gone.

Working late, stretching and getting ready to rest, but there is no hot water and fruit plate prepared by your parents when they wake up in the middle of the night, and you suddenly realize that they are no longer there.

Sadness doesn't hit you like a mountain, but in your life, inadvertently, it floats very gently over the saddest part of your heart.

Fu Tiao's music, just like the sadness that floated through everyone's hearts, directly erased the last touch of excitement that Zhao Chengzhen left for Fu Tiao before, leaving only sadness, the sadness of being alone in a daze in the room.

Everyone under the stage is very young, and most of them are middle-aged and elderly people who started at the age of 40. The sadness left in their hearts is far greater than that of young people who have not experienced the world. For an instant, he couldn't help but froze.

They seem to feel the blood in their bodies flowing back from their fingertips, their bodies are cool, and their emotions are rippling in their hearts, kneading the softest part of their hearts casually.

Sadness starts from a small source, grows rapidly with the performance of Fu Diao, and finally flows into the sea.

For some old people who have a deep empathy for music, the corners of their eyes are soaked without knowing when, and tears flow down slowly.

They have listened to a lot of works, and those that can make them cry and empathize with this level are very rare and almost hard to see.

When was the last time you cried while listening to classical music, instead of crying because of something that happened to you to find empathy?
Some people are a little bit forgetful.

This kind of music is obviously in a good mood, but hearing a piece of music can instantly arouse the sadness in their hearts. They have rarely heard it. , suddenly began to cry sadly.

This performance is very rare.

but……

Fu Tiao's music is not just about making people sad and crying.

His music is full of strength, obviously so sad, but there is always an inexplicable emotion supporting them, so that their emotions will not collapse.

Obviously so sad, but so gentle.

Some of them even felt that they had returned to their childhood, returned to the time when their parents had not left, returned to their parents, cried bitterly beside their parents, grateful for the incomparably precious lost and recovered.

The parents were busy with their work, but suddenly they were hugged by their children. They patted the child's head helplessly and comforted him softly.

The slightly hot lights above the head are like the warm palms of parents, brushing away the sadness in their hearts and bringing their mood back to calm.

Philosophical thinking full of sadness, pure and full of meditative meaning, with a kind Mazurka in his heart.

So mature, so charming.

This is the difference between a top pianist and an average player.

Obviously everyone has the same sound, and even everyone can't make mistakes, but the works performed by these top pianists are better than theirs, better than theirs, and more moving than theirs.

This is the details!

The details of Fu Tiao's music directly shattered the psychological defense of some of the judges at this moment. They never thought that a mazurka could be played to this level.

Shan Yi was sitting on his recliner, his body had been sitting upright at some point, and he was staring at the screen in front of him with an extremely serious expression.

Although he had been listening to Li Diyun's praise of Fu Tiao and other people's praises of Fu Tiao before, he also arranged a recommendation for Fu Tiao, but he didn't pay enough attention to it.

After all, so what if he can win the Chopin International Piano Competition?Didn't he teach both first and fourth?
He even taught Van Cliburn's champions, which were not uncommon in his place.

And it's not that he hasn't listened to Fu Tiao's performance before. Although his performance is not bad and he is making continuous progress, and the progress rate is not bad, he is still a student after all and has not grown into a real pianist.

But when he really heard Fu Tiao's music, he felt his lack of knowledge about Fu Tiao.

Fu Tiao's impression on his side at this moment has completely changed!

He is no longer an ordinary piano student, but a top pianist with unparalleled prospects in the true sense!
His originally slightly wandering eyes also gradually shrank, locked tightly on Fu Tiao's body, and his body began to become tense.

The brain began to spin rapidly, thinking about everything in the music and Fu Tiao's performance.

He didn't know when a person sat next to him, and his wife who was about to go to sleep suddenly came back. She also fixed her eyes on Fu Tiao in front of her, and said softly.

"Great."

"Well, it's really great."

"The details in his music are done very well. I like the details in his music very much. It is Chopin's Mazurka at the beginning. His use of some dissonant intervals is amazing! Especially the harmony of the music The direction is very clear!"

My wife quickly said, she became much more energetic, and her brain also started to spin rapidly.

She was born studying harmony, so she is very sensitive to harmony. She can clearly grasp the context between harmony, clarify the relationship between harmony, and is very concerned about the sound of harmony.

"Fu Tiao has a strong sense of logic in his playing. Each of his voices has its own timbre. There is no place to fool the past. This strength is really terrifying. I have taught for so many years. I have never heard a student who can separate all the voices in the music and play it without confusion."

"So you are students, and Fu Tiao is a pianist who can participate in the Chopin International Piano Competition."

Shan Yi smiled at his wife, shook his head slightly, and looked at Fu Tiao on the TV in front of him, his eyes were also full of shock.

Fu Tiao's performance in the third round was really too shocking, so shocking that he didn't know what to say at all.

As his wife said, there is no student who can play the mazurka so well, and the relationship between the harmony is so harmonious.

Not only students, but even some pianists he has seen who have already competed on the world stage, almost no one can play like Fu Diao.

Don't talk about those young pianists, you can talk about some top pianists who have successfully won top contracts, how many of them can play like Fu Diao?

Shan Yi thought about it, he probably didn't hear it this year, if there is no sudden outbreak of god-level performances in November and December, then this year may not hear any god-level performances that can be compared with Fu Tiao up.

but……

Unicorn shook his head.

The TV at home is still a bit old, and the sound quality I hear is a little bit poor, and many of the details are swallowed by the TV, and they can only hear that Fu Tiao has made details through the comparison before and after. This is really true. It's a pity.

Shan Yi suddenly said, "Shall we go back and buy a new TV?"

"Huh? Haven't you always been reluctant to part with this TV that your student bought as a gift for you? It's been so many years. You haven't been willing to change it. I told you so many times that you didn't listen to it. Even you The student told you to change it and you didn’t change it, so why did you suddenly remember that you need a new TV today?”

"It's not an exchange! It's a purchase!" Shan Yi corrected his wife: "This TV cannot be exchanged. This is a gift my student bought for me with the prize money earned from foreign competitions. This must not be exchanged! This TV will not be exchanged!" Put it in our room, we will change to a new TV with better sound, so that the details in the music can be heard more clearly!"

"Then why don't we just buy a new player device?"

"It seems to be... okay?"

Shan Yi raised his head and spoke hesitantly, but when he listened to Fu Tiao's performance in his ear and saw the brilliance of Fu Tiao on the stage, his expression immediately became extremely firm.

"I will buy it tomorrow! Be sure to buy it before the final of the Chopin International Piano Competition! The performance of the Fu Tiao Mazurka in the third round is really perfect. I have no way to imagine his performance in the final! If he can continue .”

"Good good..."

My wife spoke helplessly, and then turned her gaze to Fu Tiao who was playing, and her expression became a little gentle: "Speaking of which, Fu Tiao should be the most perfect Huaguo piano we have seen in recent years. Home? Is it possible that we can produce more top piano talents in the future? After all, he came from our Huaguo?"

"Fu Tiao is different. His genius cannot be summed up by Huaguo education. He is like Li Diyun, shining like the sun, instead of relying on the sun's light like the moon."

Shan Yi shook his head lightly, looked at Fu Diao on TV, and said with a serious expression, "If he can keep going, after the Chopin International Piano Competition, he will settle down for a while and not be disturbed by outsiders, his future achievements will definitely be very impressive! "

"Yeah, if he can settle down and not be disturbed by outsiders."

The wife also said softly.

……

It's not just univocal, some people in other places almost went crazy.

Needless to say, Fao has the greatest support for Fu Tiao. He has been expecting Fu Tiao to beat Zhao Chengzhen and play extremely perfect music.

When the first sound of Fu Tiao came out, he immediately stood up and clenched his hands into fists.

And when Fu Diao played to the end of the first bar, he slammed his fists on his legs, grinned, and tried to release his inner excitement without affecting other people.

He didn't know why he was so excited, but it seemed very reasonable when he thought about it carefully.

It was as if there was no hope at all, and even in the darkness, a beam of light suddenly appeared.

Originally thought that this beam of light was just candlelight, which could be blown away by the strong wind in the darkness at any time, but when the music really came out, this beam of light directly wiped out all the surrounding darkness like the sun.

None of them thought that Fu Diao could play so perfectly.

You must know that in the second round, Fu Tiao was still under the slightest pressure by Zhao Chengzhen, and he did not surpass Zhao Chengzhen, but only got No.2 in the second round.

But who would have thought that in the third round, when Zhao Chengzhen performed more fiercely, Fu Diao actually performed even more fiercely than Zhao Chengzhen!

Zhao Chengzhen is just the most extreme Chopin, while Fu Diao represents the most extreme self!

In music, only the self exists, while Chopin is just an ordinary shell.

Use Chopin to tell his own story, even the story the audience wants.

Just like Zhao Chengzhen's Chopin Mazurka Op33, in the music he plays, there is only pure Chopin, you feel very powerful and empathetic.

But in Fu Tiao's music, his most extreme self triggers the audience's thinking about themselves and triggers their own emotions.

Motivating emotions through Chopin's music is just an introduction, and the emotions that are ultimately driven come from themselves.

The ultimate Chopin upper limit is Chopin himself.

And the upper limit of the ultimate self is the extreme of music and emotion!

Fu Tiao's strength was so strong that everyone couldn't believe it, and even thought it was just a dream, which would be completely dissipated with a wave of his hand.

If it weren't for the music that persisted in their ears, they probably wouldn't have been able to imagine that such a work was actually played by a contestant from Huaguo.

Zhao Chengzhen, who was interviewing other reporters in the background, heard the music in the concert hall, his originally indifferent expression suddenly froze, and looked around him suspiciously, waiting to confirm that he was indeed in Chopin International When he was in the piano concert hall, his expression became a little dazed again.

His eyes could not help but drift towards the direction of the concert hall, and his footsteps did not immediately stagger forward two steps.

"Mr. Zhao! Wait a minute, the interview is not over yet!" The South Korean reporter said anxiously to Zhao Chengzhen, but Zhao Chengzhen just waved his hand, turned to look at the reporter, pointed in the direction of the concert hall, and said blankly.

"Now... who is playing now?"

"Hmm...Mr. Zhao, if I'm not mistaken, what's playing now should be Fu Diao, that pianist from Huaguo, what's wrong?"

"Fu... tune?"

Zhao Chengzhen's expression became even more confused. His eyes kept shifting between the reporter and the concert hall, and his expression became slightly weird and distorted.

"The one played in the concert hall is Fu Tiao?"

"Yes."

"Is it true that Fu Diao...?"

"That's right, what we heard was indeed Fu Tiao. I have the program list here. Would you like to watch it, Mr. Zhao? But Fu Tiao should have met you just now. You should have seen him on stage, right?"

"yes."

Zhao Chengzhen stretched out his hand to pinch the center of his brow, his heart was surging.

He couldn't believe that the person who was playing now was Fu Tiao. After all, the music that appeared in the concert hall now was too terrifying.

The emotions in the music even aroused his emotions, and made him think of some slightly sad things.

He had only seen this kind of emotional arousal in some of the top pianists, but now it actually appeared in Fu Tiao's body?

And it appeared directly from the very beginning?
Is it possible...

Zhao Chengzhen suddenly thought of a possibility, and then the possibility became bigger and bigger.

He suddenly realized that Fu Tiao hadn't broken through in the second round, but he was close to him.

So now Fu Diao...

Could it be Fu Diao who has already broken through?
Has his thinking about music and Chopin reached this point?

Pure ego is actually not scary, just like what Fu Tiao played in the qualifiers, almost no one would think that Fu Tiao can enter the second round, and he definitely belongs to the kind of player who was eliminated in the first round.

But now in Fu Tiao's music, outside the ultimate self, there is a layer of Chopin, a Chopin that can wrap Fu Tiao's self.

Just like blowing up a balloon, the bigger the balloon, the better.

This Chopin is that layer of membrane. Your ultimate self must be protected by a strong Chopin to be able to express yourself. If there is too much self, it will only make the proportion of the music unbalanced, and if there is too little self, it will also be unbalanced.

He could clearly hear that in Fu Tiao's music at this moment, the ratio of Chopin and himself reached the extreme, that is, one point is too much, and one point is too little.

How many days have passed, and Fu Tiao has reached the current state?
Inexplicably, Zhao Chengzhen felt a chill in his heart.

When he just stepped down, he actually felt that he was sure of winning the Chopin International Piano Competition.

But now, he feels hung up.

Fu Tiao's strength exceeded his imagination.

He has improved so much, but Fu Diao has improved even more!

So……

What about the third person besides Fu Tiao?Will he improve more?

Zhao Chengzhen couldn't help clenching her fists tightly, pursed her mouth, and remained silent.

The third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition seemed to be more terrifying than imagined.

(End of this chapter)