pianist from the sea

Chapter 178 Wait?This is Encore?
The waiter outside the door obviously didn't expect Fu Tiao's first sentence to be this, and he couldn't help being taken aback, and then his expression was a little strange.

"Well...Mr. Fu, I'm sorry, I'm not very clear about this. There shouldn't be any recording equipment for you to use in this hotel, but if you really need it, I can help you ask Harry Sir, maybe he should have something to do."

"Then please, as for Mr. Harry's dinner invitation tonight, I can attend."

"Okay, I see, I'll speak to Mr Harry."

Fu Tiao nodded slightly to the waiter, and the man immediately bowed slightly and took a few steps back, then turned and ran back.

This Mr. Harry was the rich businessman who was extremely excited and excited after hearing Fu Tiao's performance, and he was the one who opened a house for Fu Tiao and now lives here.

Although I don't know how much money he has, but seeing that he drove nearly a thousand euros a night, his face didn't change much. Perhaps he should be worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of euros.

It is not clear what this person is doing for Fu Tiao. After all, this person only admires Fu Tiao and likes his interpretation of music, that's all, he doesn't expect anything in return.

Even the dining distance between the two is on a relatively large table.

Fu Tiao still remembers the content of the conversation between Mr. Harry and him during the first meal, except music and wine, all kinds of red wine.

Each course has its own wine pairing.

That kind of table wine is not used to adjust the atmosphere like the white wine drunk in Huaguo. This kind of wine is more used to adjust the taste and make the taste of the food to a higher level.

Because the wealthy businessman was very particular about it, each dish had a small sip of table wine, and there were a lot of flavors ranging from light to strong, from white to red. As a result, Fu Tiao gave up after only a few sips.

But because I heard a lot when I was on the boat before, I was able to chat with that Mr. Harry.

He is quite a nice person, and he has no intentions towards Fu Tiao, just pure admiration.

After Fu Tiao sat in the room and waited for about ten minutes, the door knocked again, and the waiter appeared at the door again.

"Mr. Harry told me that you don't have to worry. If you need to record, you can go directly to the concert hall of the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music to record. He is the director of that school and has invested a lot. It is very convenient to rent the concert hall temporarily. And he has already told the teacher over there that when you go directly there, they will help record it."

The waiter spoke respectfully, then raised his head, and added something to Fu Tiao.

"Mr. Harry said that if you need to record, there is actually no need to be particularly anxious about dinner tonight. Everything is based on your time. We will talk about it when you are free. In addition, if you want, Mr. Harry really wants to I invite you to visit his home, and he hopes to listen to a piece of work he particularly likes live."

"Okay, tell Mr. Harry for me, just say that I am very grateful for his help. As for the live performance, he can send me the work first, and I will see if I can play it."

"No problem! I will bring everything with you! In addition, Mr. Harry has arranged for you the car from here to the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music, and you can leave at any time."

"Okay, let's go."

Fu Tiao nodded, got up, picked up the coat on the hanger, put it on his body, and walked out of the room.

Outside the house, a Rolls-Royce with a simple appearance but a luxurious interior was parked at the door. This car was the welcome car of the hotel. There was already a driver waiting in front of the car. When he saw Fu Tiao coming, he immediately opened the door and stretched out his hand. Send Fu Tiao into it, then trot all the way back to his seat.

The waiter stood at the door and watched Fu Tiao leave, then turned back to the hotel and brought Fu Tiao's words to Mr. Harry.

Perhaps because of the good shock absorption, the vehicle drove very smoothly in the city of Amsterdam, without even feeling much speed, and Fu Tiao had already arrived near the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music.

Before reaching the school gate, Fu Tiao saw a person standing at the school gate, who seemed to be waiting for someone.

When he saw Fu Tiao's vehicle coming, perhaps he had already made a notification, the man's eyes lit up instantly, and he immediately greeted him with a smile. After Fu Tiao opened the door, the young professor immediately walked up, smiling. He stretched out his hand and said to Fu Tiao.

"Fu? Really? I'm Aiden, Aiden Bluman, I'm very glad that you can come to our Amsterdam Conservatory of Music. Mr. Harry has already notified me and told me about it, so we have already prepared in advance You don’t have to worry about the concert hall and recording equipment you need.”

"Thank you."

Fu Tiao smiled and shook hands with Aiden, then walked towards the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music.

Although he had been in Amsterdam for a few days, he basically didn't spend much time in the city, and spent more time near the concert hall. He didn't even know where the door of the Amsterdam Conservatory of Music opened.

But when he walked near the conservatory and was about to enter, he finally understood why he had no impression of this conservatory at all, and he might not even know that there was a conservatory in this place.

The reason is...

This conservatory is simply not too modern!
A whole building with glass exterior walls, like a high-end office building, stands in front of Fu Tiao. Except for the Conservatorium van Amsterdam written on the top, you can't even find out what kind of relationship this building has with the Conservatory of Music. .

If this is an office building of some company, or an office building, Fu Diao would believe it.

Aiden seemed to see the doubt in Fu Tiao's eyes, and he said with a smile while leading the way.

"Is this your first time at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Fu?"

"It's the first time..."

Fu Tiao followed Aiden to the elevator, waited for the elevator, and then looked around at the bright and beautiful decorations, and couldn't help but click his tongue twice.

"But I really didn't expect that the appearance of your conservatory is so new. It doesn't look like a conservatory at all."

"Hahahaha, people often say that. After all, our side belongs to Europe no matter what. Compared with other European and American countries' conservatories that are full of classicism or cultural revival style buildings, our conservatory is indeed new. Some."

Aiden couldn't help laughing: "This building is actually newly built. Our Conservatory of Music has actually been established for a long time. It was established in 1884. The reason why it is so new is that in the past few years, we cooperated with many The Holland Conservatory of Music was merged, and the place in the past could not accommodate so many of us, so we finally decided to build a new teaching building, which is what you see now.”

After all, the elevator door opened, and Fu Tiao and Aiden Bluman entered the elevator together and walked downstairs.

Downstairs is the concert hall where they are going to record this time.

Aiden looked at the elevator going down and explained to Fu Tiao.

"Although our building looks small, we actually have four concert halls and a large recording hall that can accommodate an entire orchestra. As for other necessary equipment such as libraries, self-study rooms, piano rooms, and canteens, there are also Prepare enough to supply all the students in the whole school, according to your Huaguo words, it is called... Marche Suixiao, Chaos Boxing Fist!"

"Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs?" Fu Tiao asked hesitantly after thinking about it.

Aiden's eyes lit up, and he nodded fiercely: "Yes, yes, this is it! Ma Lai is sold, and weapons are available! My words are standard, right?"

"Well, it's...standard."

Fu Tiao smiled helplessly, and Aiden seemed to have heard Fu Tiao's insincere words, and couldn't help scratching his head in embarrassment. He didn't say much, but kept repeating what Fu Tiao said just now.

In the silence of the two, the elevator continued to descend, and finally stopped with a slight shock, and the elevator door slowly opened.

Looking at the opened elevator door, Aiden finally breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately walked out to lead the way for Fu Tiao.

As he walked forward, he asked Fu Tiao.

"Speaking of which, Fu, I just heard from Mr. Harry that you are coming to record some works. I haven't had time to ask you what works you plan to record? Is there anything we can do for you?"

"No need to help, just because the jazz encore I played before was recorded with a terrible recording device, and some people struggled in that place, saying that they couldn't understand what I played, and it always felt weird. weird."

"Huh? Encore was recorded? Is it so miserable? Didn't apply in advance?"

"How could it be possible to apply in advance, if they had applied in advance, I wouldn't have come here to re-record the encore."

Fu Tiao smiled helplessly, after all, being stolen and recorded by someone is a disaster in itself.

If you use good equipment to record, it's actually okay. There are no other problems except that you are not in a good mood.

The point is to use junk equipment to record works with terrible sound effects, and people will treat them as bad performances.

This is very problematic.

Hearing this sentence, Aiden, who was leading the way ahead, expressed more sympathy, and then sighed deeply.

"It's really a bit miserable. This kind of situation often occurs in recent concerts, especially after the mobile phone recording function appeared, this situation has become more and more widespread. It is clearly written that photography is prohibited, but there are still a large group of people holding mobile phones. It’s useless to pat that place, even if we protest, it’s only about an hour to listen to a concert, can’t you even enjoy the music in this hour? It’s not that there is no special time for them to take pictures..."

"Who knows, maybe it's their own preference."

"Hey, maybe this is the era. Each era has its own way. Maybe now it is popular to use mobile phones to enjoy concerts?"

Hearing Aiden's words, Fu Tiao smiled helplessly, but didn't answer.

The two stood in front of a door like this until Aiden pushed open the door, revealing the whole picture of the recording studio and the Steinway D274 that had been placed in the center of the room in advance.

He quickly walked to the console for a while, then nodded slightly to Fu Tiao.

"Okay, Fu, all my equipment has been pre-set. If you want to play, you can just connect it."

"Ok."

Fu Tiao nodded slightly to Aiden, walked to the piano, sat down, put his hand on the piano lightly, and ran around casually twice.

The feel did not exceed his imagination. Although it is not as good as the piano used in the Chopin International Piano Competition, it is not bad. After all, this is the strongest music academy in Amsterdam and even the Netherlands. Different, the resources here will be limited to this school.

The piano recorded in the concert hall specially used for recording will definitely not be too bad.

After Fu Tiao quickly ran a few chord scales on it, he nodded to Aiden who was outside the recording room.

"Okay, I'm ready to start recording anytime."

"Okay, Fu, what are you going to record? What's the name? I'll create a new file here."

"It's called... Chopin's Etudes?"

"Chopin's etudes...collection?"

Hearing that Aiden was full of puzzled emotions, Fu Tiao smiled slightly, and didn't answer much. Aiden didn't ask any more questions, but quickly set the name, and waved to Fu Tiao.

"Okay, I've set it up. After hearing two beeps, you can start playing. Also, do you need to turn off the recording function?"

"No need, that's it."

As Aiden's voice fell, Fu Tiao heard two beeps soon.

At the moment when the voice fell, Fu Tiao's hand also fell.

Since that group of people would say something like playing it wrong, then let's just record the normal version by the way.

After all, whether it is the normal version or the jazz version, Fu Tiao is quite familiar with it.

Thinking of this place, Fu Tiao's hands moved more smoothly.

And Aiden, who was sitting in the recording studio at this moment, had a serious expression.

He had heard of Fu Tiao's reputation a long time ago and knew that Fu Tiao was the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

This is why even though he is a professor at the Amsterdam Conservatory, he respects Fu Tiao very much.

After all, even the professors in many of their conservatories, those who have a very deep research on Chopin, those who are 50 to [-] years old, their interpretation of Chopin may not be better than the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

Even if the competition is restricted to those under the age of 30, it is the same.

After the age of 40, there are not many who can make rapid progress in a certain field, and it is rare in the world. If Aiden is asked to say a few things he remembers, he can probably only say He Shen. The others are really good. is not very clear.

Under normal circumstances, if a person can really become famous, then he should be about the same when he was young, and he couldn't suppress an era when he was young, so when he was in his later years, what would he use to fight those peers?

Is it possible that all my peers have tenosynovitis, and few of them can play?

Therefore, after Fu Tiao said that he would come to the Amsterdam Conservatory to perform, he was very excited.

He was very curious about how Fu Tiao's Chopin played, and his understanding of music.

Fu Tiao him, how strong is it.

As Fu Tiao's Chopin etude Op10No1 fell, his expression became more serious.

He was thinking quickly in his mind, calmly analyzing Fu Tiao's performance.

Well, this chord is good, this finger movement is strong, eh?This interpretation is somewhat interesting.

Hey, wait a minute, this place doesn't feel right, huh?Is that how it was interpreted?It's really amazing.

And this place...

Ok……

With the crazy rotation of his brain, his expression gradually became a little tense.

The more carefully you listen, the more you can feel how outrageous the details of Fu Tiao's music are.

this clarity?This feeling of falling keys?The ups and downs of this music?this contrast?

This forte?This soft play?
The corners of his mouth even started to twitch. From standing there listening to Fu Tiao's performance, he gradually turned into sitting and scratching his head.

Chopin's etudes are normally played as music, so they pay more attention to the musicality, and at the same time, they should show the sense of technique as much as possible.

While it sounds skillful, it is also as beautiful as those music-oriented pieces.

The balance between these two is very important, both are indispensable, if any point is missing, the feeling of this music will be completely wrong, even boring to listen to.

Fu Tiao's music has obviously handled this balance well, showing strong musicality while showing skills.

And based on what Aiden is listening to now, it is obvious that Fu Tiao has already put his bombs in, and has not completely let go.

Maybe it's because I don't like recordings, but I always feel closed to the performance of the recordings.

"Dior's level..."

Aiden looked at Fu Tiao, speechless.

For some reason, he suddenly wanted to get a ticket for Fu Tiao's concert.

As long as this kind of recorded recording can be performed so perfectly, what about Fu Tiao's completely open concert?

Aiden couldn't imagine.

However, he never imagined that this was just the beginning.

After the performance of this Chopin Op10-1 etude by Fu Tiao, it didn't stop, but started playing again?

No, this isn't just a normal replay, it's...

Jazz adaptation?

Aiden suddenly realized that what Fu Tiao had just said when he came over was that he was going to re-record his encore, but he didn't record any encore.

The Chopin etude in front of us is obviously not going to appear as an encore track. The weight of this track is enough for it to occupy a pivotal position in the concert.

So that is to say, the encore part that Fu Tiao said he would record is what Fu Tiao presently shows...jazz adaptation?
He listened to the jazz adaptation in front of him in disbelief, even with a hint of dullness in his eyes.

"A classical pianist can play jazz... so well?"

　I still have diarrhea and ran to the toilet several times orz
　　
　
(End of this chapter)