pianist from the sea

Chapter 172 No way, there are new ones?

Nothing was beyond Wu Hong and Chen Ying's expectations. Fu Tiao's extremely perfect performance in the Royal Concert Hall of the Netherlands was still the same as before, and there was no possibility of overturning.

Compared with the previous performance in Berlin, this time Fu Tiao's performance in the Amsterdam Concert Hall has many new works.

For example, Chopin's Piano Ballade No. [-], Piano Scherzo, Etudes, etc., which were not performed before, are much more performed this time than before, to the level of a little surprise.

Chen Ying looked at Fu Tiao excitedly, her eyes full of admiration.

This time, Fu Tiao's performance directly showed everyone his strong professionalism, and Chopin's works are really easy to come by.

Chen Ying is also the one who has heard all the works of Fu Tiao in the Chopin International Piano Competition. She has heard all the works from the first round to the third round. She even listened to it no less than a few times.

And now in the Amsterdam Concert Hall, in addition to hearing Fu Tiao's performance in the third round, she also heard many works that Fu Tiao had not played in the Chopin International Piano Competition in the first half.

It is certainly impossible for Fu Tiao to play these works directly without any preparation. This must be a work that Fu Tiao has prepared for a long time.

According to common sense, the degree of completion of these works is definitely not as high as those produced by Fu Tiao in the Chopin International Piano Competition, but in fact it is a little bit counter-logic.

The degree of completion of these works is actually almost the same as the degree of completion of the second half!You can't even hear some of the previous works Fu Diao, which he hasn't played.

What is this concept?This is simply supernatural, right?
This simply seems to show that Fu Diao has let go of the Chopin International Piano Competition. He still has a lot of inventory left in his hands, but he just picked out a few works and completely defeated Zhao Chengzhen, the heir of the French School of Music. .

With this strength, Chen Ying no longer dared to think about it.

Regardless of how much Fu Tiao's strongest strength is, just discussing Fu Tiao's ability in Chopin's repertoire, he is already several times stronger than the most powerful person Chen Ying knows in school.

Of course, there was another possibility, but this possibility was less likely and more shocking. Chen Ying subconsciously ignored this possibility.

This may be...

Fu Tiao perfects a piece of work very fast, which is not what other people think at all. After preparing for a Chopin International Piano Competition for two or three years, he only prepares a few works. It takes less than half an hour, and it may really only take a few hours to complete a whole piece of work.

At most, maybe a few days.

There used to be a saying in the Conservatory of Music, how to judge whether you have talent or not...

You only need to do one thing to judge your talent. If you take a professional class on Thursday, then after you finish taking Thursday, you will run around the world, travel everywhere, don’t care about anything, play six days a week, and stay up late on Wednesday Play all day.

If you can return to class perfectly the next day, then it proves that you are really talented in music, if you can't... then get ready to be criticized by the teacher.

Chen Ying always took this sentence as a joke before, but never took it seriously. After all, practicing seven days a week felt that the time was very tight, and there was not enough time. The requirements for returning to each class were so high. How could it be possible to practice seven days in one day?
But now, the thought that flashed through Chen Ying's mind made Chen Ying shaken.

"However, if it's Fu Tiao...isn't it impossible?"

After Fu Tiao's first half ended, when the midfielder took a break, Chen Ying looked at the stage, bit her finger, and whispered subconsciously.

This sentence startled Wu Hong, who was about to go to the toilet, and looked back at Chen Ying, a little puzzled.

"Ah? What are you talking about? What guest officer can't?"

Chen Ying woke up suddenly at this time, seeing her boyfriend beside her like that, couldn't help but feel a little funny, so she reached out and patted him.

"It's nothing, I'm just thinking, Fu Diao played a lot of works in the first half, many of which he has never performed publicly. How did he play the one-and-a-half-hour-long works."

"Why did it pop up, that's how it popped up..." Wu Hong was puzzled, and after thinking about it again, he also woke up suddenly, looking at Chen Ying, his pupils trembled.

"I knock? Wait? What did you just say? Just now, most of the works that Fu Diao performed in the first half have not been performed in public? Do you mean that?"

"Well, at least Fu Tiao has never played in the first, second, or third rounds of the Chopin International Piano Competition." Chen Ying nodded with great certainty.

Wu Hong asked stupidly: "Then what about the fourth round..."

"Pfft... are you stupid? The fourth round is the concerto round, and there is no concerto today, how could he play it." Chen Ying almost didn't laugh when she heard that, and lightly tapped Wu Hong's shoulder.

Wu Hong rubbed his shoulders that had just been beaten by Chen Ying, and forgot to smirk, his eyes were only filled with incomparable shock.

"If what you said is true, then Fu Tiao's ability to memorize scores is really enviable. Whether it is the amount of his repertoire library or the speed at which he accepts new works, this speed is amazing. Envy."

Compared with Chen Ying who can clearly feel Fu Tiao's strength in music, especially in piano, Wu Hong is not so keen on piano. He played a saxophone work and a piano work at the same time. , he definitely prefers to listen to saxophone works, and is more able to feel the strength of the saxophone player.

This is the main reason why he has a vague feeling about Fu Tiao's strength.

but……

Now regarding the strength that Chen Ying just mentioned, even if he didn't learn the piano, he can still feel it very clearly, after all, he also needs to memorize scores.

Memorizing scores is a very difficult problem for all students who study music. Many people who study music will be troubled by this problem and even feel headaches.

There are even some people who can't sleep all day because of the problem of memorizing the score, and are studying how to memorize the entire work every day.

Many people may think that reciting scores is not very simple?You play it every day, hundreds of times, and let your body memorize this work completely with muscle memory, isn’t it straightforward?

As long as the body can remember, then what are you afraid of?
It sounds pretty good, but the problem is... this is not the goal of memorizing scores, and body memory is extremely unreliable, and it can even be regarded as a dross in learning music.

All people who use their bodies to memorize music scores will eventually encounter a problem, that is, forgetting.

Physical memory is easy to forget. Under normal circumstances, forgetting is actually okay, and it can be followed directly after a few times. But what if it is in some particularly stressful occasions?For example, a certain exam, a certain concert, or some other time?

In these places, if you use your body memory, can you still remember the content you need to play particularly clearly?
Obviously, totally impossible.

Therefore, for those who study music, physical memory is the most unreliable memory method, and the most reliable memory method is to memorize the content above by rote, just like memorizing Chinese documents.

For example, the first note of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody is #C octave, the velocity is F, and it needs to be played twice, and then jump to the top note.

Chopin's first piano ballad, the beginning note is the octave of C, followed by the Napoli sixth chord, C, As, Es, H, and so on.

If you just memorize it like this, it is actually not enough. If you let a professional music student give them a few pieces of staff paper, let them silently write hundreds of bars, tens of thousands of notes, plus all the emoticons, Musical terminology, they can write it down for you completely and exactly.

Not only that, but he can even analyze the direction of the chords for you, and write the chord symbols below.

This is the way to completely memorize this work.

It sounds tiring, and it even feels like memorizing a whole list of teachers. This is not just a feeling of tiredness, it can be regarded as pain.

Almost every professional piano learner has to memorize more than a dozen pages of music scores in this way within a week of getting new scores.

You know, this is just the simplest and most basic memorization score.

It took so long to memorize the score, it was so difficult, so what happened next?
Normally, for a brand-new large-scale work that can be used as a repertoire for a concert, basically within a month, you need to complete it completely. This pressure can no longer be simply counted as big, but very painful.

Wu Hong, Chen Ying and others were deeply in this pain and couldn't extricate themselves. They didn't have the mind to take care of other content at all, so they were very sensitive to the pain of memorizing scores and the reserve of concert repertoire.

As a result, now, they heard Fu Tiao's concert, watched Fu Tiao shine on the stage, showing extraordinary musical literacy, and there is no limit to the concert repertoire inventory.

Not to mention anything else, just the amount of repertoire in the first half of Fu Tiao, if it is prepared for Wu Hong and Chen Ying, if it is not required to reserve the repertoire, it is simply to practice it to the level of the concert, not to say After practicing, throw it in the repertoire library and review it non-stop.

So with the current performance and these temporary extra works, they definitely need to prepare for the first half of the year for nearly a year to practice this amount of repertoire.

But to reach the level that Fu Tiao has shown so far...

This is not how long you plan to achieve it, but it needs to be prepared slowly with time and effort. If it is barely enough to reach the edge of Fu Tiao, they will need at least several years to specialize in this work for a piece of work. The first work, all the details are polished in place, coupled with their talent in music, they can barely do it.

Therefore, they don't consider Fu Tiao's own level of musical strength, but only consider the number of repertoires that have been shown so far. This alone is enough to make them feel desperate.

Whether this is Fu Tiao's stored repertoire, or this is Fu Tiao's practice in recent weeks, it is enough to shock people.

However, the reality may be more shocking than they thought.

These works were temporarily selected by Fu after he was transferred to the Royal Concertgebouw, feeling the environment in the concerthall.

From the selection of works, to the completion of practice, and then to processing them to a level that can be performed in the concert hall, it may take only two or three days, and Fu Tiao still insists on an 8-hour working system, and within 8 hours, it will take The kind of fishing.

If it is actually counted, it may not even be 24 hours. Fu Tiao has processed these works and packaged them to the level of the second half of the solo performance he performed in the Berlin Konzerthaus.

It may sound a bit too scary, but for Fu Tiao, all this is actually a bit natural and not difficult.

Because his level itself has reached this level.

The works he played did not need special treatment at all, he only needed to memorize these works.

For Chopin, Fu Tiao has experienced the Chopin International Piano Competition. He already has his own interpretation method of Chopin. He knows how to interpret Chopin, how to express Chopin perfectly and comfortably.

No matter what Chopin's works you give to Fu Tiao, Fu Tiao will be able to interpret his own, Chopin's feeling.

Realize self-worth on the basis of respecting the original score.

As for memorizing music scores, it is even more difficult for Fu Tiao. He is the kind of person who can completely repeat a piece of music after listening to it once. Now, when he is given music scores, he can use How long does it take to memorize a piece of work completely and accurately?

the answer is……

four hours.

In the four hours, a lot of time is spent on reading and analyzing the music score. In fact, after playing it two or three times, he can directly memorize it.

That is to say, Fu Diao didn't show off to everyone in the concert hall. If he really told the audience in the concert hall that he had only prepared for today's concert for three days, he would have reached the level he is today.

Let's not discuss for the time being whether the mood of the ordinary audience who just came to listen to Fu Tiao will become particularly bad, but simply discuss the attitude of the students of the conservatory.

A large part of those people may really hear these words of Fu Tiao, and lose hope of continuing to learn music.

Four hours worth their work in weeks.

The scariest thing is not that his talent is higher than yours or that he works harder than you, the scariest thing is...

You have worked hard for a few weeks or even a month, and the work you have worked hard to get out of is not as good as others who are talented and do it for a few hours.

What a joke!

Wu Hong, Chen Ying, and other people from the Conservatory of Music who came to Amsterdam from Berlin were completely dumbfounded when they saw the newly added repertoire library of Fu Tiao. Their brains had even stopped functioning, and all that remained was self-doubt.

And those who are not from the Conservatory of Music hear Fu Tiao's performance, and what they feel is only admiration for Fu Tiao.

They originally thought that this time they might hear the same content as last time, but they didn't expect that Fu Tiao still had so many things that he didn't show?

This is too surprising!
As for those who have just started listening to Fu Tiao from Amsterdam, they don’t think so much. They are just shocked that Fu Tiao is indeed Fu Tiao, and the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition really deserves its reputation.

Whoa, the key-down, whoa, the tone, whoa, the interpretation!
Damn, this performance of Fu Tiao is really amazing!
After Fu Diao came back from the backstage break, the audience in Amsterdam became even more excited.

The third round of Fu Tiao's collection of works has crushed the collection of works completed by countless people. After some time and the baptism of concerts, it has become more perfect.

Therefore, when they looked at Fu Tiao, their expressions became extremely peaceful and harmonious, immersing themselves in the music, and quietly appreciating Fu Tiao's musical expression.

When the last note of Fu Diao fell, the entire concert hall erupted in applause comparable to a tsunami.

Everyone was applauding and shouting for Fu Tiao with all their strength.

Obviously this is only a small concert hall with only about 500 people, but with the efforts of these people, the applause and shouts in the concert hall are almost even more lively than a large venue with thousands of people.

Standing on the stage, Fu Diao looked at the people around him, his slightly tense expression gradually relaxed, he couldn't help but smiled slightly, and bowed vigorously to everyone.

The applause became more enthusiastic.

He was a little worried at the beginning, saying that his concert tour had always played the same set of works, and he was not bored, but his audience would already be bored.

He seems to have performed this set of works four or five times.

But judging from the applause at the scene, these people shouldn't have any problems.

Thinking of this, he bowed again to everyone, then turned and walked off the stage.

The applause was still warm, and as time went by, the applause became more unified, followed by a uniform "encore" sound.

Hearing the applause around him, Wu Hong who was sitting on the side couldn't help getting excited.

He poked Chen Ying lightly, then rubbed his hands with an extremely expectant expression.

"Ying! It's coming! It's coming! Fu Tiao's encore, I didn't listen enough last time. I didn't even find the recording when I went back. I just don't know if Fu Tiao can reproduce the encore in Berlin again this time. Already!"

"It can definitely be reproduced. After all, Fu Tiao's level is here. With that relaxed and freehand look at that time, I wouldn't be surprised if you said he played better."

Chen Ying spoke without any hesitation, and then shouted Encore together with everyone.

After Fu Tiao appeared on the stage three or four times in a row, he couldn't resist the strong demands of the crowd. Under the call of the crowd, Fu Tiao walked out of the stage again.

He resignedly sat in front of the piano again, and after the voices of the crowd gradually subsided, he smiled at them.

"Okay, since you all want to hear it, let's do another work, or, come to Dongfeng? Or, the black key?"

After all, without waiting for everyone to speak, he raised his hand without any hesitation, and then pressed the key.

However, before hitting the key, Wu Hong's eyes widened involuntarily, and he spoke in disbelief.

"No way...there are new ones?"

　Normally, if I am not tired at night, I can update at 8 o'clock the next morning.

　　But if I do it too late at night, after 0 o'clock, I will wake up the next morning and write, and it will be updated around this time.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)