pianist from the sea

Chapter 157
"Feel sorry……"

Fu Tiao looked at Sir Simon with embarrassment, and was very embarrassed: "I... fell asleep, but Sir Simon, your performance is really perfect. I like the thinking about life and death in your music very much. The feeling of despair about death and witnessing the collapse of giants in front of me is really good!"

"Aha, thank you so much. Even if you fell asleep listening to my music, this is still a very good answer."

Sir Simon was amused when he heard Fu Tiao's words, and joked to Fu Tiao, and then saw that Fu Tiao seemed to be getting more and more embarrassed, and he immediately comforted Fu Tiao.

"But you don't have to pay too much attention to the matter of falling asleep listening to music. Music itself is something that people enjoy, whether it makes people feel everything the performer wants to express, or makes the audience want to sleep comfortably. All of this is what we players want to do, and you can fall asleep listening to it, which just proves that we play well, so don't worry about it."

After all, he raised his head and thought for a while, then turned to look at Christina behind him, and asked her, "I remember right, we have a permanent audience here, he seems to fall asleep every time Come on? No matter what we play, he can enjoy it as a lullaby, who is he called..."

"Hans Dick, old Dick, just like his name, is a very fat man with a little gray hair. Sitting in the seat often makes the people on both sides uncomfortable, so we can only Put him in the corner."

"Oh, yes, old Dick, I forgot, getting old lately."

Sir Simon turned his head to look at Fu Tiao, coughed twice, and explained: "Dick, in German, is sticky, fat, and stout, which is different from English, which also has the surname Dick I remember most people in the beautiful country. This surname is very common among the older generation. This old Dick is a very famous audience on our side. Maybe because he is too fat, every time he listens to our music Falls asleep to it, but it's so funny, as soon as we're done playing, he's always up and yelling Bravo! Funny, isn't it?"

"really……"

Fu Tiao couldn't help coughing twice, covering up his inner embarrassment, and smiled awkwardly at Sir Simon.

Although Sir Simon had been comforting him, he still felt a little strange no matter what. After all, falling asleep at someone's concert rehearsal was never a good thing.

Fortunately, Sir Simon, Taylor, and Christina didn't pay much attention to it, so Fu Tiao skipped this matter and didn't mention it any more.

What can I do, make do with it, or just turn my back on it and not cooperate?
Fu Tiao got up again, and after tidying up his clothes, he smiled slightly at Sir Simon, stretched out his hand and said, "Then let's get to know each other again, hello, Sir Simon, my name is Fu, and I call it Fu Diao in Huaguo, Fu Tiao It's my last name, Tiao is my first name, you can call me Tiao."

"Oh, I know, the naming rules in your Hua country are completely different from ours, Dior." Sir Simon also smiled and shook his thick hand with Fu Tiao, and Fu Tiao immediately felt the gully in his hand, Like a deep chasm, "Klaus from Deutsche Grammophon had a chat with me. As early as half a year ago, he had made a reservation for this year's performance. Although the performer has not been decided, the time has already been set. On Friday night, from 09:30 to [-]:[-], it is divided into two halves, is the track ready?"

"Okay, the first half is Chopin's First Piano Concerto, and the second half is my repertoire for the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition."

When Sir Simon heard the Piano Concerto No. [-], he couldn't help being stunned for a moment. He turned his gaze to Christine and Kirill behind him. Seeing their affirmative expressions, he couldn't help but rubbed his eyebrows, helplessly. Said: "Sorry, I kind of forget things, I'm getting older after all, since I'm doing Chopin's No. [-] Piano Ballad..."

Sir Simon pondered for a moment, then said to Christine next to him: "Then I'll go, I haven't played Chopin's First Piano Ballade for a long time, who did I play with last time? Diyun Li ? Argerich? Barenboim? Forget..."

He rubbed his head in pain, trying to remember his cooperation with other people, but he couldn't think of it for a long time.

In addition to his own forgetfulness, the number of piano concertos he has recently played with the group has been decreasing, which is also a problem.

Sir Simon is old after all, or in other words, almost all the top pianists of the older generation are also old. The most powerful person, the best-selling classical music pianist, has already turned to Lang Liang from Huaguo. In Yue's generation, he is the only pianist who can ask for a share with the theater. Although this request is low, in fact, almost no pianist dares to do so.

To be able to demand a share from the theater must be profitable, and the attendance must be higher than [-] to [-]%.

Lang Liangyue is one of the few top pianists in the world who is almost sold out, and his ticket price is several times higher than other top pianists. This is why he dares to ask for a share of the box office. If you let other pianists play , Let them participate in the box office, then I am afraid that they may lose money before they make money.

Apart from Lang Liangyue, Li Diyun also dared to ask for a share of the box office, but it was only a share of the domestic box office.

Argerich is a top pianist among the older generation who is still able to play, and is not bad in memory, and can continue to support her on stage.

Times are changing, and now it is the turn of Fu Diao and his generation.

Fu Tiao seemed to have sensed Sir Simon's aging, so he said to him, "How about... let Kirill take command?"

"Him? He still needs to continue to hone. Even if he has won the best conductor in Germany in 2014, he still has a long way to go."

Sir Simon turned around and smiled at Kirill who had been standing behind, waved his hand, and said to Fu Tiao: "Go, go down, go down from there, let's go to the stage, let me listen How about the Chopin played by the winner of the Chopin International Piano Competition in 2015!"

After finishing speaking, he nodded to the people around him, turned around and walked slowly towards the stage.

Kirill followed closely behind Sir Simon, followed by Christina.

As for Taylor, after he patted Fu Tiao on the shoulder, he followed everyone and walked downstairs.

Seeing that everyone had left the auditorium, Fu Diao couldn't stay here any longer, so he ran down the same way, followed Sir Simon around the concert hall, and finally reached the backstage of the concert hall. Where only cast and crew are allowed.

Pushing open the door, a brand-new backstage completely different from the decadent backstage of the Chopin Concert Hall appeared in front of Fu Tiao. This backstage still adopts the exterior design of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Concert Hall, making it still dominated by golden tones, white and other tones A supplementary design.

The crowd did not take Fu Tiao to wander around the backstage cast and crew area, but took him directly to the door and entered the stage.

Many cast members on the stage were still chatting quietly and did not completely disperse. When they saw Sir Simon coming back, they immediately greeted Sir Simon in a friendly manner, and then set their sights on Taylor and Fu Tiao behind Sir Simon .

Many of them are familiar with Taylor. After all, they are all classical musicians living here in Berlin. Even if you don’t know each other well, it’s okay to say a few words, and you can chat with them when you meet. , so that there is nothing to say.

They are extremely curious about Fu Tiao. Everyone has seen and cooperated with the champions of the previous Chopin International Piano Competitions.

Every champion, their characteristics are different, not all of them are the kind of complete, pure Chopin.

Even pure Chopin, their pure feeling is not the same.

And what kind of feeling will this new Chopin International Piano Competition give them?

They didn't know it, but they were looking forward to it.

Fu Diao looked at the members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and was also looking forward to their music.

Not sure what the difference is between these guys and the Warsaw Philharmonic.

Sir Simon walked to the front of the orchestra again, which was at the podium, looked at the people around him, and nodded slightly.

"Okay, everyone, I don't need to introduce this one. The champion of this year's Chopin International Piano Competition is absolutely excellent, so you also show your excellent strength to let the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition, do a good job." Taste your taste! See if it's your thick, or his hard!"

Speaking of this, Sir Simon couldn't help but blinked slightly at the crowd, and everyone burst into laughter instantly, and the slightly stiff atmosphere before disappeared in smoke.

Seeing that the stage came back to life, Sir Simon immediately said: "Okay, guys, I don't think you have forgotten your Chopin Piano Concerto No. 5, I remember I reminded you to rehearse this work before, and each vocal The team leader of the department, distributed the score to everyone in the orchestra, and began to recall, I will give you 5 minutes, after [-] minutes, I want to hear your voice."

"Yes!"

There was a sudden chaos in the concert hall. The group leaders of each department handed over the task to the chief of the musical instruments, and the chief of the musical instruments distributed the scores to everyone to let them see if there were any problems with their scores. 5 minutes must be resolved within a certain period of time.

And Fu Diao, following Sir Simon, sat in front of the Steinway that had just been transported up.

Sir Simon leaned on the cover of the Steinway, grinned slightly at Fu Tiao, and said with a smile: "Although I don't know which piano you like, but you should not refuse this one. Everything is excellent. The piano of the mean, Steinway, let’s use this piano first, if this piano doesn’t feel good, we’ll discuss the others.”

"Ok."

Fu Tiao nodded, put his hands on the piano keyboard, quickly ran through several scales and chords, and even ran a quick etude to feel the feeling of this piano.

This is an action that every pianist must do before going on stage. If a pianist has no piano experiment at all before the performance begins, either the stage is not important enough for him, and he does not pay much attention to the stage.

Or... this person can't do it.

After all, the feel of each piano is slightly different. You have to feel the strength of your fingers when you press the key, and then think about how to adjust it if you use this strength.

These all take a little time.

A top pianist may be able to get a rough idea of ​​what the piano is like in a short period of time, for example, by dropping a few notes at random.

But they will definitely not play directly.

The first sound that falls must be perfect.

Falling tone, no regrets.

Wait until the first note is casually dropped, and then prepare to adjust your own music. At that time... it will be completely late.

Therefore, after Fu Tiao confirmed that there was nothing wrong with this feeling, he nodded slightly to Sir Simon.

"Okay."

"Okay guys, our champion Dior Fu is ready to finish his music, how about you? Are you ready to finish?"

"Ready!"

Everyone immediately responded to Sir Simon, they were already sitting in their seats, and the score was already placed in front of them.

This music score does not mean that they have not been in touch, and they need to confirm the direction of their performance through sight-reading. This is just an insurance to prevent them from having problems.

When it was confirmed that everyone was ready, Sir Simon stood directly on the podium without any hesitation, picked up the baton placed on the music stand, lifted it vigorously, and then lowered it gently.

hum, hum...

The sound of the violin part sounded immediately, and a music that felt completely different from the previous Warsaw Symphony Orchestra flowed from the baton of Sir Simon.

He controlled his fingers to wave easily in the air, and his mental state was completely different from when he was chatting with Fu Tiao backstage.

When he entered the music, his nerves tensed instantly, and his whole attention was completely on the music, his eyes were extremely serious.

When chatting with Sir Simon before, he would often forget things a little bit, and feel a little confused and vague in everything he did.

But now, those turbidity dissipated instantly.

As if he had rehearsed this work countless times, he raised his hand and landed precisely where he should be every time.

"Violin part, get up, get up a little bit, get your voice up! Chris, I hear your voice drop, get it up!"

"Perfect! Flute, clarinet... come... come, come! Good! Beautiful! So beautiful! I love this!"

"Damn Schneider, you're fishing again. I heard your voice weakened a little. If this happens again next time, you'll get out of here!"

"Okay, great Schneider, this tone is perfect! Just play like this! Do you hear that, Schneider!"

"Hold, hold, send the tone up, push it up, good! Perfect!"

"..."

Different from the formal performance, during the rehearsal process, Sir Simon would often speak, and this voice was just to the extent that Fu Diao could hear it, but the extent that he couldn't hear it from the back.

As far as Fu Tiao heard, Sir Simon and the Berlin Philharmonic may not be as accurate as the Warsaw Philharmonic in Chopin, but in terms of musical expression and logic, the Berlin Philharmonic has achieved Warsaw The philharmonic can't do the extreme.

Even though this is just a simple rehearsal, even though it seems that everyone has not touched this work for a long time, they still showed their professionalism as a top classical music player.

That is, no matter what time they are, they can put themselves in the music.

That being the case...

Fu Diao will not disappoint everyone too much, they have shown their professionalism, so Fu Diao must also show Fu Diao's professionalism.

Anyway...he is also the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

"Fu..."

Sir Simon felt that the time was almost up. He looked at Fu Tiao behind him. He was just about to say something, but found that Fu Tiao was ready and his whole attention was on the piano, so he couldn't help but smile easily. , turned to look at the orchestra, spread his hands flat, and slowly pressed down.

The sound of the band seemed to be controlled by the control keys. Under the precise control of Sir Simon, the sound slowly drifted away.

At the moment when the timbre was about to completely drift away, Fu Tiao's hand suddenly raised, and then slammed down.

collapse!
An extremely precise and unparalleled emotional impact brought the remaining emotions of the previous members of the orchestra, and instantly rushed towards them. Everyone looked at each other with shock and disbelief in their eyes.

Just as they thought before, they have seen many champions of the Chopin International Piano Competition and cooperated with countless champions of the Chopin International Piano Competition. They also know each other well and know the personal styles of many champions.

but……

Almost no one can give them such an incomparable shock as Fu Tiao today. The perfect sound at the moment of falling is like playing with this piano countless times. It is the cooperation of many pianists who have cooperated before. Dozens of times have not reached the level.

As far as the strength shown by Fu Tiao is concerned, among the pianists they have worked with in the Chopin International Piano Competition, they can definitely rank among the top few.

As for why not the first...

That's because those who are ahead of Fu Tiao are all the top pianists in the world, and even among the top ten pianists of the year.

If the conditions are a little stricter, just discuss what they have seen, the cooperation between the winner of the Chopin International Piano Competition and them when they were young.

Then Fu Tiao can definitely rank in the top two, or even the first.

The only one who might surpass Fu Tiao is the top pianist who almost suppressed the entire era.

Argerich.

　Arrive in Germany, update at [-]:[-] tomorrow morning

　　
　
(End of this chapter)