pianist from the sea

Chapter 156 Philharmonic and Fu Diao

From the Sony Center to the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall, there is only one traffic light away, and this 200 meters is the distance from the gate of the Sony Center to the gate of the Philharmonic Orchestra. Fu Tiao and Taylor just left A few steps away, they have already arrived in front of this very famous concert hall.

Not only is this concert hall well-known for a long time, its polygonal shape and unique acoustic stand design experience amaze everyone, especially the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in which it is resident.

The rise of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is perfectly integrated with the conductor Emperor Karajan.

The difficulty of playing in such a top-level concert hall is not bad, not too much, but if you plan to jump in the queue, the price will be higher, but if you want the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra to cooperate with you, the difficulty is not the same. It can be settled for a little money, unless you pay a lot of money to play, pay these top artists to come and play with you, otherwise don't want them to leave at all.

As for the Deutsche Grammophon company behind Fu Tiao, because it had already negotiated with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra a long time ago, coupled with the title of the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition every five years, this allowed Fu Tiao to cooperate with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The music band will cooperate to conduct a championship tour.

The first half is Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. [-] in cooperation between Fu Tiao and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The second half is Fu Tiao’s personal stage. This is the content of the tour arranged by Deutsche Grammophon for Fu Tiao. This content is also posted in the concert hall On the bulletin board at the door.

The promotional photos given here in Berlin are different from other places. Here is the photo of Fu Tiao winning the championship, full of vigor, full of grandeur, and infinite longing for the future.

Accompanied by the name of the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition, Fu Tiao is particularly full of vigor.

It is slightly different from Fu Diao's calm appearance now.

When Fu Tiao and Taylor were standing at the door, there was already a serious woman in a gray-black coat with high cheekbones standing in front of the concert hall holding a clipboard. As if piercing into the center of the earth, Gao fixed her body in place and remained motionless.

When her eyes noticed that Fu Tiao and Taylor, who were wearing casual suits, were walking towards her, the serious expressions on their faces finally relaxed a little bit, and they walked towards them with their hips raised. The high heels collided with the ground There was even a hint of iron and blood in it.

She walked up to Fu Tiao and Taylor, nodded slightly to Taylor, then turned to look at Fu Tiao who was backing away a little bit, and forced a smile: "Hello, Mr. Fu, I'm Christina, The person in charge of the theater here is responsible for managing the performance of the repertoire, and is also your negotiator here today, if you have any questions, you can ask me, if there are no questions, then we will directly enter the concert hall."

After all, she glanced at Fu Tiao and Taylor, nodded slowly, without any sloppiness.

Even a bit like the Germans in the traditional impression, rigid and lacking a sense of humor.

Taylor shrugged slightly at Fu Tiao, expressing helplessness, while Fu Tiao shook his head slightly after thinking for a while: "No, I don't have any problems, take me in."

"Okay, please come with me."

After all, she reached out to Fu Tiao and Taylor, and led them into the concert hall.

There is not much difference between the interior and exterior of the concert hall. The strange polygonal building on the outside is supported by countless staggered iron pillars. The complicated road is like the magic corridor of Hogwarts. If you don’t guide you I don't even know where I should go.

Christina seemed to see Fu Tiao's bewilderment, and immediately said to Fu Tiao: "The design concept of this concert hall is to place the performers and conductors in the middle of the concert hall, eliminating the separation between the stage and the audience in the past. , so that the performers and the audience form a new relationship. Therefore, the stage of the concert hall is stacked by layers of audiences, and the audience needs to enter the concert hall from various places outside, which leads to the complexity of the external entrance. However, if you Take a walk or two and you can see the hints we have for the audience during the design process, which can easily help them find their place.”

After Taylor heard it, he couldn't help complaining: "Yes, yes, you are right, but those have to wait until the second time, and it is easy to find your own position the first time."

Christine glanced at Taylor behind her and didn't say much, but continued: "Because Fu, you came today longer than we expected. We originally thought you would enter the concert hall around five o'clock this afternoon. Therefore, our orchestra members are currently rehearsing Mahler's Second Symphony, so we can only enter the auditorium for the time being, and we will arrange the follow-up work after the rehearsal of our musicians is over, do you think it is possible?"

"can."

"Okay, come with me then."

After receiving Fu Tiao's confirmation, Christina immediately took Fu Tiao and Taylor up the stairs, entered a mezzanine in the middle, and walked into it through the door that opened on the mezzanine.

This mezzanine is just below the middle of the concert hall. From this position, you can just walk to the side of the concert hall and look down at the stage from a high position. But also, because this position is too close to the stage, the viewing effect is relatively average. You can only watch When the musicians have exposed the back of their scalps, watching so many Mediterranean-style works under them shake with the Mediterranean-style works, they always feel a little confused.

When facing the piano, the position of this place is even worse. The open piano board directly covers the player's face. You are close to the player, but the problem is that you can't see anything at all.

Therefore, although this place is an A-level area, not many people are actually willing to choose it.

After Fu Tiao entered the concert hall, his gaze swept around from that place, then he moved away and looked at the entire concert hall.

As Christina said before, this concert hall is designed to allow people and performers to coexist harmoniously, so the seats surround the entire concert hall.

Of course, the front seats are the most, but these side seats are not just one or two rows of seats as in the Chopin Concert Hall in the Chopin International Piano Competition, but seven or eight rows of seats.

At this moment, in the center of the concert hall, an orchestra was already organizing there, and in the seats in front of them, there were some spectators sitting there, admiring their rehearsal.

Christina seemed to have noticed Fu Tiao's gaze, and immediately shook her head slightly, pointed to the other side and said, "Let's sit in the middle, wait a moment, some of these audiences are staff members, and one of the benefits of being a staff member is that you can listen to it for free." Rehearsals, and there are some old audiences, many of whom have permanent monthly tickets, so as a bonus, we will occasionally send them some rehearsal tickets."

"so……"

Fu Tiao couldn't help nodding, followed Christine up and walked up, walked to the middle of the concert hall, and sat down at a random place. Some old people around seemed to have noticed Fu Tiao and others coming, and some people pointed at They smiled slightly and expressed kindness, and there were some others.

They put a finger in front of their mouths, glared at Fu Diao, Taylor, and Christine, and hissed vigorously.

Their wide eyes even made Fu Tiao and the others wonder if these people's eyes would fall directly.

However, all this did not have any impact on the orchestra. They were still rehearsing their parts until a man with white curly hair, like a judge's hair in a movie, was wearing a suit from the violin part. Standing up and walking to the middle, another bearded and sturdy man also stood up and stood aside. After the two nodded slightly to the crowd, the sound of the music became slightly quieter.

"This is……"

"Sir Simon Dennis Rattle, a British conductor, served as the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in 2002, but he is about to retire, after all, he is still old, and beside him is Kirill Gar Lijevic Petrenko, Russian-Austrian, he was the best conductor of the year in Germany in 2014, but he is relatively low-key and doesn’t make many records, so not many people know him.” Taylor told Fu Tune introduced.

He seemed to be very familiar with both of them, knowing what kind of situation they were in.

It may be related to his own activities in Berlin.

"Sir Simon probably won't cooperate with you. He is too old. Basically, he doesn't have much contact with other works except for some works that must be played. He has already begun to delegate his rights to Kirill and take Kiril with him. I got in touch with the Berliner Philharmoniker network.”

"Oh, like this……"

Fu Tiao looked at the two and nodded thoughtfully, and didn't say much, just sat there obediently, waiting for their performance.

As far as the orchestra is concerned, they will choose who their co-pianist is. If the ability is too low, they will only accept employment and will not cooperate with that person at all. This is the pride of the orchestra.

The same is true for pianists. As pianists, they also need to review the orchestra. If the compatibility between the two is too bad, everyone will just go through the motions and do nothing else.

However, if the compatibility between the two is good, there is a basis for continued cooperation.

Therefore, Fu Tiao wants to see how this world-renowned orchestra is doing!
Sir Simon stood on the stage, looked at the people around him, nodded slightly, raised the baton in his hand, and in the sight of everyone, swung it to the side with an extreme force, and then pulled it violently!
This catharsis of power even made people doubt whether Sir Simon would die on the stage directly. After all, he was really too old because of his gray hair.

But this swing did not make the band members focus on his body, but the moment the arm swung down, their emotions exploded instantly.

The sound of the violin, which had been prepared for a long time, suddenly sounded at this moment.

Fu Tiao's originally slightly calm eyes fluctuated instantly, and his hands couldn't help but tightly squeezed the armrest beside him.

How does this music feel?
Although he has never communicated with Sir Simon, he seems to have fully understood everything that Sir Simon's music wants to express.

The kind of collapse that collapses in the face of a giant.

Sir Simon's hand drooped slightly, and the sound of the violin began to tremble and become fragile.

Amidst the thrashing of the bass, a piece of music filled with the breath of death slowly emerged from the door of the concert hall.

Everyone's heart suddenly seemed to be caught, and they couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva as they looked at the darkness around them that couldn't be illuminated by the lights.

Death is everywhere, you have no way to escape, you can only hide in place helplessly, waiting for death to come.

Perhaps if this music is played by other people, or by Taylor on the side, or Kirill sitting at the front of the concert hall, it is likely to be so much worse. There is no way to play the fear of birth and death.

As for Sir Simon, as a very old conductor, he is almost ready to return to his hometown to wait for his death. His interpretation of life and death almost shocked everyone in the concert hall.

Everyone was shocked by his interpretation, even though it was only a very small rehearsal, even though it was not an official version.

Just listening to this beginning, Fu Diao felt a very deep feeling in his heart.

He wants to hear the whole body, he wants to hear everything in this concert hall.

He didn't want to be able to listen to only a short bit of content. He was very much looking forward to the entire content of this piece of work appearing in this world and shocking everyone.

The feeling in the music was really too shocking, so shocking that Fu Tiao couldn't say anything.

There seems to be traces of this work in his memory, but if it were his previous life, when he was on the boat, he would never have imagined that the timbre of the symphony could be interpreted so perfectly?
Interpreted, so horrible.

All the instruments are integrated together, and everyone is moving towards the same goal, just to interpret the most perfect music. This feeling is really great.

"What's the name of this work?" Fu Tiao whispered to Taylor beside him.

Taylor looked at Fu Tiao in a little surprise, not sure why Fu Tiao asked him the name of this work, he couldn't help hesitating: "Um, Mahler's Second Symphony, what's wrong? Is there any problem? You don't know much about it. Like their version? Or..."

"No, I really like their version, the feeling between life and death, really, it's too perfect."

Fu Tiao grinned. In Sir Simon's music, he even felt as if he had returned to the boat back then, waiting for the destruction with the boat.

Limited keyboards create infinite music, but music is not limited to keyboards, but in all musical instruments.

The piano is a musical instrument, and the thin wire can also be a musical instrument, and even bamboo leaves are a part of the musical instrument.

Music is infinite, the timbre is infinite, and the possibilities of music are also infinite.

How about interpreting the timbre of the piano in the form of a symphony?
So how scary will it be?
Fu Tiao's mind was violently stimulated. Looking at the music in front of him, his heart was filled with infinite excitement.

Fu Tiao likes this feeling very much. He lays his body on his back, let his body relax naturally, immerses himself in the music, feels everything about the music, and enjoys the music.

He listened to the music, and even felt that his soul was no longer in the concert hall. He felt that he seemed to have transcended his own body, observing all this from top to bottom.

He followed Sir Simon's musical construction, followed his steps, and traveled in his music.

This feeling is really very comfortable.

until……

"Fu, Fu!"

Taylor on the side pushed Fu Tiao with a strange expression, hesitant to speak.

"That, Fu, you..."

"Huh? What's wrong with me?"

"No, I just feel that you are sleeping in this place now, is there such a possibility, it's not that, uh, polite?"

"what?"

Fu Tiao didn't expect that he fell asleep comfortably just now, his face turned red instantly, a little embarrassed, he pursed his lips, and said awkwardly: "Sorry, Sir Simon played really well, I, uh, listen It's a little too comfortable, but I just thought of something."

Taylor had no choice but to follow Fu Tiao and asked, "Huh? What?"

"That is, let the sound of the piano be the same as that of the symphony, and play a completely different feeling, such as the bass part and the treble part. It is not a simple division of parts, but it is used as an orchestra to conduct?"

"Is the orchestra conductor..."

Taylor listened to Fu Tiao's words, nodded thoughtfully, smiled at Fu Tiao, and said, "You can try, but this is very difficult. This argument has been put forward by many people. Some people have successfully interpreted it, and some have failed. Interpretation, in fact, it still depends on your own level and strength, but if it is you, I think it may be possible."

"Well, I hope."

Fu Tiao smiled, looked around, and found that people had almost left, only the band members were discussing something, so he immediately got up and said to Taylor: "Professor Taylor, where is Ms. Christina? We Should we go down now?"

"Go down? No, no need."

A cold voice came from behind Fu Tiao, and Fu Tiao couldn't help turning his head to look back. Two acquaintances who had met before and Christine stood behind Fu Tiao.

The white-haired Sir Simon looked at Fu Tiao, happily supported the back of the seat next to Fu Tiao, and said to Fu Tiao.

"Christina said that you slept soundly listening to my performance, I thought it would not be good to disturb your sweet dreams, so I brought Kirill up together."

"How is it? Does my music satisfy you?"

Sir Simon looked at Fu Tiao with a smile and asked.

　Those who enter the country are locked up in a small black room, and those who leave the country are locked up in a small black room.

　　It's over, I'm really a spy
　　
　
(End of this chapter)