pianist from the sea

Chapter 165 The Wind Blows Berlin
The music stopped temporarily, and the concert hall was quiet. Fu Tiao removed his hand from the piano, looked at the piano in front of him, and couldn't help but smile slightly.

Really, I haven't played jazz for a long time, and I almost forgot how cool it is to play jazz.

He has been playing classical music before, and every day he thinks about how to improve his feeling for music. Since the last time he played jazz, Fu Tiao thought about it for a long time, but he forgot when the last time was.

It seems that it was still in April, when I just came here, I found a jazz bar and played casually there.

Oh no, when he returned to China, it seemed that he also played some, but not much. At that time, the main attention was on Chopin, preparing to participate in the competition.

What about the back?It seems that I haven’t played much since then. I originally planned to go to that bar to play and have fun after the Chopin International Piano Competition, but I don’t know why, but I suddenly forgot about it and never went , continue to be busy with things after the game.

Of course, although he has not played jazz for a long time, jazz has not become dull in his hands. Instead, he has sharpened his jazz through the previous classical music training.

When he was playing jazz, he changed from playing casually on the boat, not caring much about the logic of the music, just to make his performance stronger and more refreshing, to now thinking about the essence of music and how to make music It's more interesting to show.

In this kind of non-stop thinking, his control over music has also become deeper, and he is more able to interpret several completely different interpretation methods with very simple changes.

For example, the strange chord he played in his hand just now, if it was him who was still on the boat before, he would most likely turn this into a small easter egg and simply fool it.

The result is now...

After he just played such a strange chord, he went through several completely different solutions in his mind. Apart from many jazz methods, he also thought of the more classical solutions used by those classical musicians.

Many people were joking before that the ancestor of modern jazz should be Beethoven. In Beethoven's sonatas, the prototype of jazz has appeared, with dominant seventh chords, chromatic progressions, and swing rhythm types.

Many things already had the most basic underlying logic in the Viennese classical period, and these underlying creative logics brought many new ideas to the music of the Romantic period.

Even if these things are not in the same development trend as modern jazz, music itself is interlinked.

After you go back and analyze it, you can find that many works do not have that jazz feeling in them, but the chords used in them are almost the same.

For example, the chords don’t use the dominant seventh chord to solve the main chord, but use the dominant seventh, 7, and 9 chords of the seventh chord to drop the 11th tone, ignore the main chord and the third tone, and then solve the main chord. Such a very strange solution method.

Fu Tiao's solution just now used one of these classical solutions, which directly opened a new door for him.

The music itself is a process from soothing to tension and then to soothing. For example, in the simplest transition from 1451 to [-], the fourth and fifth chords in the middle are obviously much more tense than the main chords, especially the fourth and fifth chords. Ultimate, there is a very obvious solution.

This also makes the colors in his music extraordinarily rich, even reaching a gorgeous level.

The music keeps hovering between tension and relief, giving the music endless changes.

The performance of all these made Fu Diao almost forget what he was doing on stage when he played the work that he had just improvised, and turned to playing with chords with all his heart.

If he hadn't played several times, as usual, he looked up at the audience around him to interact with them, and found that he was now in a concert encore instead of his personal jazz music stage. Almost overturned.

Of course, it's not the overturned car that played poorly, but the overturned car that abandoned the main melody he wanted to play.

So Fu Tiao looked at the keyboard in front of him and couldn't help but be filled with joy.

Especially when I feel that my level and strength can still improve, that kind of joy can't be concealed.

It was an idea that he had never approached before, and it was interesting, very interesting.

With all that in the background, though, this is not the time to think about it.

Fu Tiao couldn't help smiling, put the matter behind him, stood up and bowed slightly to everyone.

Whoa!
The applause became more enthusiastic.

Now anyone can tell that Fu Tiao is awesome, so the group of people who applauded more perfunctorily before also applauded vigorously, and they were all cheering for Fu Tiao's performance.

Fu Tiao couldn't help but bow for him, thanking everyone for their support.

After Fu Tiao bowed three or four times to the crowd, he returned to the backstage, looked at Sir Simon and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, and said with a smile.

"How is it, Sir Simon? My performance just now?"

"Very good. I never thought that the jazz you just played could be played like this. It's a very interesting version of Chopin's Impromptu Fantasy." Sir Simon also smiled and said to Fu Tiao, and he said slowly: "Actually, not only the audience didn't expect, even I didn't expect that you would actually play jazz on this stage."

"What's wrong? Can't jazz be played on this stage? Sir Simon, I still remember what you said to me at the time." Fu Tiao joked to Sir Simon with a smile: "That's not what you told me at the time, you At that time, it was said that you can play whatever you want, as long as the work is not too controversial, such as works involving discrimination and religious beliefs."

Sir Simon looked at Fu Tiao and couldn't help sighing, with a complicated face on his face: "I did say that at the time... But I never imagined that the jazz you played could be so... dazzling?"

"Dazzling? Isn't it good to be dazzled?" Fu Tiao was taken aback, slightly puzzled.

"No, it's not bad..." Simon shook his head slightly, stood up and looked at the people outside the stage who were still applauding through the gap in the stage door, and said with emotion: "It's just a feeling that your brilliance in jazz will almost overwhelm you." Overshadowed by classical splendor."

After all, Sir Simon turned his head and looked at Fu Tiao with a complicated expression, a little helpless: "Maybe I'm a little old, I always think that your talent in jazz is better than everyone I've ever seen, but your talent in classical The same is true for talents, I have no idea which path you are suitable for."

He pointed to the stage next to him, as well as the audience, and let out a sigh of relief.

"Forget it, no matter what, Dior, congratulations, you let me feel the passage of time, the time may have passed on us old antiques, he no longer has any favor for us, even though our experience is far greater than You guys, come on, Dior, I hope to see you in more places as soon as possible, and witness your impact on the world."

After finishing speaking, he patted Fu Tiao's shoulder, turned and left without any hesitation, and soon disappeared from Fu Tiao's sight.

Fu Tiao was sitting there a lot, and it was difficult to understand the emotion in Sir Simon's heart, but the most important issue now was not this, but the applause outside the room still did not stop, and there were even signs of becoming more and more enthusiastic.

Fu Tiao had no choice but to ask the staff to reopen the stage door and bow again to the applauding crowd, thanking everyone for their support.

Once, twice, three times...

Just simply bowing and returning to the field, there is no way, no way to stop the enthusiasm of everyone.

When Fu Tiao was resting in the backstage of the concert hall, he even wanted to give up on himself a little bit, and wait until they got tired of clapping and clapping themselves, and he didn't even plan to bow for the curtain call.

Bow and call the curtain is also very tiring, right?Especially the curtain call on the stage of the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. This stage is different from other stages. This stage has four sides. Every time Fu Tiao takes a curtain call, he needs to thank all the people on all sides. One time is more than four times. tired.

Therefore, after waiting for a long time and seeing that the applause of the crowd showed no sign of stopping, Fu Diao could only come out to call the curtain again, and randomly picked a work that everyone often listens to for adaptation.

Sitting on the piano bench, he looked at the people around him who became instantly quiet, and even couldn't help laughing a little.

He said helplessly to the crowd: "Although you have always said that you are supporting me, is the strength of your support a little too much? It is already past nine or ten o'clock in the evening... If it wasn't for Berlin Love The location of the music hall is relatively empty, and there are no people around, so playing the piano like this may be scolded by the neighbors, after all, this time is... quiet time."

Fu Tiao's final "quiet time" is spoken in German, Ruhig zeit.

After all, we are in Germany now, and the people in Berlin who can understand German don’t speak 99%, at least there are more than 90%. When everyone heard Fu Tiao’s ruhig zeit, they immediately understood what Fu Tiao meant, and couldn’t help laughing .

This ruhig zeit is one of the most troublesome things for classical music students in Germany, especially if you have a piano at home.

For everyone's normal sleep, you can't practice the piano around eight o'clock, and you can't practice before seven o'clock in the morning.

Even at noon, when everyone is going to take a nap after lunch, you are also not allowed to practice the piano.

The most important thing is to give everyone a better rest for everyone's peace.

Fu Tiao also experienced this in the past few days, so he made a joke with everyone.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the concert hall was relieved, Fu Tiao did not continue to chat with the crowd, but directly raised his hand, put his fingers on the keyboard of the piano, and pressed down hard.

when!
The sound of the piano sounded, followed by Fu Tiao's prompt.

"Chopin's Piano Etude Op10-1, Psalm Fugitive, I hope you like it, and have a comfortable sleep."

After all, Fu Tiao leaned slightly, using his forearm to drive his forearm, and pulled out a beautiful broken chord.

The adaptation of this piece of work shocked everyone, far more than before.

The reason is that Fu Tiao didn't use too many complex things to interpret this work, such as the jazz chord changes that Fu Tiao was thinking about just now, and Fu Tiao didn't use these things very much.

In this work, Fu Diao just uses the simplest movement of hands and chord changes to perform and adapt this work.

Chopin's work itself is the decomposition of chords with the right hand and the chords with the left hand.

Fu Diao has not changed the original appearance of this work, still following Chopin's ideas, running with the right hand and pressing chords with the left.

But Fu Tiao makes the running of the right hand more complicated. In addition to the inner chord, Fu Tiao also adds a lot of new melodies composed of outer chords and semitones, while the left hand is just like before. Use the simplest big jump to run.

This time, compared to the previous Fantasia Impromptu, Fu Tiao played a little simpler, without adding too many complicated things to it, just the purest showmanship.

However, the pure show just brought the purest enjoyment, and the audience off the stage couldn't help cheering loudly when they heard Fu Tiao's performance.

From Chopin at the beginning, the more powerful people can hear the power of Fu tune, to the multi-chord fantasy impromptu later, those who have a little understanding of music, especially those who understand jazz, can understand Fu tune better. The horror of Fu Tiao, and finally this chant fugitive song, no matter whether anyone can hear the power of Fu Tiao.

Although the level is constantly attenuating, it seems to be getting simpler and easier, but in fact Fu Tiao is only lowering the threshold of listening, and has never lowered the technical content of interpretation.

The skills rushed towards everyone like a tsunami, making everyone suffocate.

Then the more suffocating ones were still behind. Fu Tiao seemed to feel that playing with both hands was not enough. He simply used his left hand to play the content just now, while his right hand added a little fresh chords as a further enhancement of his skills. .

Those professors who were still happily listening to Fu Tiao playing jazz were dumbfounded. Taylor looked at Fu Tiao, obviously stunned, and then looked at the same few stunned professors beside him, and said helplessly.

"Leopold Godowski's adaptation of Chopin's Etudes (Note 1), which is not just a simple adaptation of jazz, I feel that his performance now is a bit like Godowski's adaptation The position of the version of Chopin's etudes among the versions of Chopin's etudes is that it is not known whether he has his own score."

"Obviously...he doesn't have it at all." The professor next to him replied blankly: "This is obviously a pure improvisation, adding many things of his own on the basis of Chopin's etudes, the most important chord progression The trend has his own personal characteristics, and the same is true for this work and the Fantasia Impromptu just now."

"It's okay if there is a score. Without a score, you can perform such a work purely by improvisation. It's really..."

Taylor let out a long sigh and clicked his tongue twice at the crowd.

"I feel like I've been run over by the wheels of the times. I really hope that he can type this sheet music and send me a copy. Later, I will specially form a series of his encore works and make it into Dior Fu Kai Chopin's jazz etudes. Maybe it can be more difficult than Godowski's modified version, but I don't know who can reproduce Fu Tiao's performance... You say, let my students pull out Fu Tiao's score later, and then treat it as Homework for this semester's concert?"

Hearing this sentence, everyone couldn't help but look at him, their expressions became extremely strange.

"Let him chop, let him play?" The professor sitting behind Taylor directly punched him, and said with a smile: "Taylor, just be yourself, Godowski is enough for ordinary students After practicing for a lifetime, you still want them to play this tune that Fu Tiao just changed? He will hate you to death!"

"Hahaha, just kidding, kidding, I can't play it myself, so I won't embarrass my students."

Tyler scratched his head with a smile.

This work is very short, even with the blessing of Fu Tiao's jazz adaptation, it will come to an end in a little after 2 minutes.

After the last note fell, Fu Tiao swung his hand violently, and what he brought to the music was even more excited cheers.

Although Fu Tiao did not play some classical things according to their ideas, these non-classical adaptations far exceeded their imagination.

Some people even felt that the encore pieces they heard were more interesting than Fu Tiao's previous performances.

After listening to this work, they yelled encore again, even louder than before, not caring at all that it was past nine or ten o'clock in the evening.

Only this time, Fu Tiao didn't continue to follow their wishes, but immediately stood up and spoke to the crowd.

"Okay, it's getting late, thank you all the audience for your support, this concert is over, goodbye."

After all, he waved his hand at the crowd, and ran directly to the bottom of the stage without any hesitation, ignoring the more excited encore voices behind him.

Just kidding, one or two new things, and one encore?Just give them a jazz concert.

Fu Tiao hurriedly waved his hand to ask the staff to close the entrance door of the concert hall, forcing himself not to care about the troubles caused by the audience.

The audience in the concert hall shouted An Ke and applauded for two or three minutes in a row, but they couldn't see Fu Tiao come out to call the curtain again. They could only sigh with great regret, let the applause die down, and followed the guidance of the staff , leaving the concert hall.

Fu Tiao watched the crowd disperse through the gap like a cat's eye in the middle of the back door of the concert hall. He couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, smiled at the staff who were still standing there, and then walked out.

At this point, the starting point of his Chopin Universal Concert finally fell a very deep nail, firmly nailed to the territory of classical music.

No matter what, today's performance can be said to be extremely smooth. Among the thousands of spectators here in Berlin, there are definitely people who are attracted by him.

In the long run, Berlin will definitely become one of his ticket holders.

And next...

Fu Tiao couldn't help looking into the distance. Taylor seemed to notice Fu Tiao's eyes, and also looked back at the backstage door, smiling slightly.

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Remarks: Leopold Godowsky (Leopold Godowsky, 1870-1938), a Russian-American pianist, composer, and teacher of Jewish descent, is famous for his playing skills.Born in Russian Lithuania, Godowski is one of the most important pianists in the first half of the 20th century.

His small hands do not appear to be a virtuoso pianist, but he actually possesses amazing finger independence.

Godowski's works are known for being complex and difficult. His piano works not only require superb finger skills, but also use rich harmony and counterpoint, making it extremely difficult to perform.Godowski loved exotic and baroque music, which are reflected in his works.His most famous work is undoubtedly "53 Arrangements of Chopin's Etudes". [This paragraph is added later, free of charge]

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