pianist from the sea

Chapter 184 Is This the Strength of the Xiao Sai Champion?

Chopin’s 24 piano preludes, Fu Tiao has never played this set of works before, but he has heard other people play it, that is, Zhao Chengzhen, who was his opponent, played the whole piece in the previous competition.

This set of works is very difficult, more difficult than everyone imagined, and may be regarded as one of the most difficult works among all the works performed by Fu Tiao.

The difficulty of this set of works is not in technical difficulty, but in the other side, in the performance of music.

A set of preludes, 24 works, 24 interpretations in completely different styles under Chopin's feeling, nearly 40 minutes of performance.

All kinds of everything constitute the degree of difficulty of this set of works.

People who choose this set of works in the Chopin International Piano Competition either have great confidence in their own strength, feel that they are invincible, and will definitely have a chance to touch the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition, or they have no confidence at all , intending to rely on this set of works to take a chance.

Just like Huaguo's normal art test, chances are high for difficult works.

But the results are obvious...

Even Zhao Chengzhen, who is known as the most promising player to win the championship this year, has always been a T0-level player before and during the competition. He missed a bit when he played this set of works in the third round, even in the third round. At the time, he couldn't even keep his position in the top three, and directly lost all the advantages he had accumulated in the previous two rounds.

The difficulty of this set of works can be imagined.

Therefore, whether this set of works is for those young people or those famous pianists, there are very few people among them who are willing to choose this set of works to perform, and the number of Chopin's preludes that you can hear is also very small. Pitiful.

Under the applause of the crowd, Fu Tiao stood in front of the concert, bowed slightly to the crowd, and sat down in front of the piano.

The moment he sat down, all the sounds disappeared, and no one dared to make a sound at this time to disturb other people enjoying the music.

And some students of the Brussels Conservatory who were hiding in the shadows and had no chance to buy tickets for Fu Tiao's concert also poked their heads out at this time, watching Fu Tiao cautiously, waiting for his performance.

Under this tranquility, there is an extremely profound power, like the breath of the earth's veins, rising and falling, continuous.

Fu Tiao raised his head to look at the light above his head, closed his eyes slightly, raised his hands, and landed under the piano with an extremely gentle attitude.

hum...

The piano sounded.

Chopin, Prelude for Piano in C Major, Op. 28-1!

The first, dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach!
Studying Bach's works with the most pious attitude, looking forward to Bach's development of polyphony, and exploring the limit of polyphony.

But in music, it can't just be longing. The feeling interpreted in music should not be Bach's feeling at all.

This is Chopin's work, which is a work beyond Bach's era, originated from Bach, and transcended Bach.

Longing, enthusiasm, intensity, morbidity, panic, these modernity and ever-changing modulations have also become more modern under Chopin's hands.

Therefore, the emotion in the piano sound is extremely full.

Completely different from the divinity in traditional Bach's polyphonic works, in Chopin's music, you can't hear the existence of many gods, and what you can hear is only the enthusiasm that belongs to people.

And the moment his finger fell, the moment the feeling of music came out, the eyes of almost all the professors and teachers in the music school lit up.

They are the most sensitive to music. When your finger hits the first note, they can basically hear your level and your thoughts on music.

So the shock they felt was also the strongest.

And when the first phrase of Fu Tiao was played, the students of the conservatory were equally excited.

After all, they are also the students of the most powerful conservatory in Belgium. No matter how unbearable they are, their level and strength are among the top among the students. Even if their appreciation of music is not as abnormal as those professors, listening to a There is still no problem with Fu Tiao's strength from the phrases.

And when the theme of Fu Tiao's music is completely out, and the 28-1 music with only two and a half sentences is over, everyone present, whether they are ordinary music lovers or have not had much contact with classical music before As for the music, those who have heard Fu Tiao's name and come to support it all recognize it.

Beautiful, very beautiful.

Beauty is indescribable, like poetry.

The professors at the Conservatory of Music became excited one by one, and some of their hands even began to tremble unconsciously.

They are feeling the melody in Fu Tiao's music.

Feel Fu Tiao's interpretation of beauty.

"This Chopin's prelude?" Andre, who originally planned to come to listen to Fu Tiao's encore, couldn't help but widen his eyes. He never thought that Fu Tiao would bring him such a big surprise.

He glanced at Luka beside him, and found that the same was true for Luka. He obviously looked very calm, but his hands were tightly grasping the handrail beside him, his veins were exposed, and he was obviously too excited but still pretended. As if nothing happened.

And Luka also seemed to have noticed Andre's gaze on the side, his body immediately shook unnaturally, put away the hand that was originally grasped on the armrest, hid it in the sleeve, leaned forward, clasped his hands, pretended to be a With an inexplicable look, he asked lightly: "What's wrong?"

"No, it's alright..."

Andre shook his head slightly, continued to look at Fu Tiao who was sitting on the stage, and whispered in his heart.

"Let's not worry about Luca for now, but having said that, the level of Chopin's prelude, if I remember correctly, this prelude is definitely in the top three of the most comfortable preludes I have ever heard, right? more than?"

Although he teaches jazz, his ability to appreciate the beauty of music is not weak, and can even be regarded as a very strong group, otherwise he would not be able to enter the Berlin University of the Arts as a jazz teacher.

And one thing he's pretty sure of now is that...

Fu Tiao did not use his full strength to perform this set of works.

It is not clear whether Fu Tiao himself does not want to use his full strength to perform, or he is not suitable for this set of works, but from the current point of view, Fu Tiao's performance of this set of works may not even show [-]% of his strength.

Just like playing music.

Normally, this set of works should be very difficult, especially in terms of interpretation. If you want to interpret this set of works perfectly, it must be very difficult, but now under Fu Tiao's hands, it seems like There is no such difficulty at all.

Freehand.

Not only is the interpretation of Chopin's feeling very well, but while having the Chopin feeling, you can also feel the unique and unique music that belongs to his own style in the music that Fu Tiao has retained in the music.

The feeling of the ever-changing sea.

Just like the first piece of Chopin's Piano Prelude just at the beginning, you can easily feel the soft feeling of the tide flowing and gently licking the soles of your feet on the beach.

The flow between the phrases is like the breath of the sea, one after another, continuous.

At the same time, the emotions in the music also give everyone more room for imagination, not just limited to the tone set by Fu Diao for the music.

And when it comes to the second piece, the music is based on a larger tone of the whole piece, about the dialogue between life and death.

This set of works is all about this theme, and this second work in A minor is actually more like a prophecy, a preview of death.

Under Fu Tiao's interpretation, this trailer becomes more full of tension.

At this moment, everyone has heard the details of Fu Tiao's music.

"Wait, this detail? This metaphor? And this contrast?"

Luca, who was sitting next to Andre, hammered his thigh violently, and then hugged him tightly. He couldn't help grinning a little, which made Andre jump in fright.

But even so, he never gave up looking away from Fu Tiao at any point.

For him, Fu Diao's music is more than just shocking, it is already a model of music.

Do not……

No, this is not a model, but a perfect model pretending to be a model.

You feel very relaxed and easy watching Fu Tiao's performance, as if you can learn something from Fu Tiao's performance, but in fact, when you really watch and listen carefully, you will find...

You will learn nothing.

All you can feel is the bottomless strength.

It seems very simple. Once you play Fu Tiao in that place, you can know what kind of emotion Fu Tiao wants to express in this place, and what kind of performance the music in this place is like.

But if you go back and give it a try, you will find something very scary.

You can't play the timbre of Fu Tiao, let alone the musical expression of Fu Tiao.

Piano, or a lot of music seems to be very simple, give you a sound, give you a musical symbol, such as F, forte, tell you to play a forte in this way, anyone can do it.

However, how to express this strong sound, how strong this strong sound should be, and what the state of the music is, all these constitute the difference between ordinary players and top players.

And Fu Diao is such a top powerhouse.

You can hear everything you want to hear from Fu Tiao's music. Chopin's feeling is interpreted extremely cleverly without any mistakes. This is simply a model of music.

However, this is not a template, it is just a model, what you see is always only the appearance, and you can't see how complicated it is inside.

In addition to having Chopin who is as precise as a scalpel in his music, you can also hear his own things in his music.

This kind of thing cannot be imitated, but it is like Pandora's box, attracting you to imitate.

Not just the second song, but all the subsequent works, all of them.

The third piece, Piano Prelude in G major, 28-3.

It kicked off with a soothing prelude, followed by a more rapid sixteenth note accompaniment by the left hand, interpreting the "active" marked at the beginning.

There is no slightest abruptness, the relief at the beginning is obviously slow, but it seems to have foreshadowed the activity in the future.

Under the extremely fast accompaniment of the left hand, the main theme of the right hand is still based on the beginning, interpreting another kind of slightly bleak contrast.

Two hands, two completely different timbres, just like polyphonic music, while the two influence each other, they can still play a sense of independence without interfering with each other.

With the progress of time, this sense of independence eventually tends to unity, and slowly dissipates in the high voice, replaced by two faint chords remaining in the air.

At the moment when the chord completely dissipated, Fu Tiao didn't give anyone a chance to breathe, and his fingers dropped again.

Piano Prelude in E minor, 28-4, Cantonese.

It is a completely different feeling, completely different from the previous interpretation, except that it still retains the trace of thinking about life and death in 28-2 and Fu Tiao's unique sense of Chopin, you can't hear any Any sense of connection with the preceding.

However, when you listen to this work, you can hear a little bit of fate and fusion with the previous ones from Fu Tiao's interpretation.

Piano Prelude in D major, 28-5, very allegro, gorgeous allegro like fireworks.

Piano Prelude in B minor, 28-6, the most famous raindrop among Chopin's preludes, sorrow lingers in everyone's hearts like a cloud and cannot dissipate.

The body even feels a little cold under the music of Fu Tiao, and the surrounding lights seem to become deeper, as if sinking into the sea. As the music gets deeper and deeper, the heart becomes more and more peaceful , as if losing emotion, only the last sorrow remains...

Seventh, eighth, ninth...

……

The duration of each song is not long, it can even be considered short, it may only be a few minutes, the shortest may be tens of seconds, and it will end soon.

Even the longest movement is only four or five minutes long.

All these constitute the Chopin Prelude that Fu Tiao is playing now.

By the time the last prelude was played, everyone had absolutely nothing to say.

Only two words, perfect.

It can almost touch the level of those top pianists.

If it is not for the top group of people, few people will record Chopin's preludes, and it is not easy to compare, then Fu Tiao may directly be called Chopin's top stream.

After all, those masters don’t record this set of works very much, you can only compare them in vain, and it’s not very easy to evaluate. If Fu Tiao has surpassed those masters, it’s not easy to say that when other masters recorded this set of works and surpassed Fu Tiao .

Therefore, almost everyone's evaluation of Fu Tiao's works is basically below the top masters, and even surpasses some masters who are not very good at Chopin's preludes.

Among the Chopin preludes that have been recorded so far, it is enough to be called the top three.

After all, you still have to be humble and don't talk too much.

But in fact, the vast majority of people's evaluation of Fu Tiao has surpassed the top three, almost reaching the first position.

As far as the prelude of Fu Tiao is currently played, it is absolutely number one!

Among the people who are currently listening to the Fu Tiao concert, many of them have heard Zhao Chengzhen's performance in the Chopin International Piano Competition, and they have also heard Zhao Chengzhen's Chopin Prelude.

Compared with Zhao Chengzhen, who was once the biggest opponent, Fu Tiao's prelude completely surpassed Zhao Chengzhen by a large margin.

Even if Fu Tiao didn't use those works in the competition and used exactly the same works as Zhao Chengzhen to compete, Fu Tiao might be able to directly overwhelm Zhao Chengzhen.

Therefore, many people who have listened to the Fu Tiao concert all the way can't help being a little shocked.

"This growth? How long has it been?"

The people sitting under the stage couldn't help but read softly.

Fu Tiao's understanding and interpretation of Chopin is gradually growing in concert after concert.

According to common sense, after the competition, everyone's level and strength can maintain the level of the competition is already very good. As for the growth, it must continue to accumulate for a while before there is a chance, but Fu Tiao seems to be completely the bottleneck.

His understanding of Chopin is still growing. From the current point of view, he has completely surpassed the group of Chopin International Piano Competition a few weeks ago.

As for what level Fu Tiao can grow to...

No one knows.

Probably only those people who are closest to Fu Tiao know when Fu Tiao just started practicing Chopin.

If you count it completely, it may have been less than half a year since Fu Tiao first came into contact with Chopin, and then he understood Chopin and added Chopin to his own music.

And Fu Diao grew up in a real sense, probably from the first round of the competition, after listening to other people's performances, he finally had a flash of inspiration and completely understood how to play Chopin.

This time, maybe two months?

However, whether it is two months or half a year, the contact time between Fu Tiao and Chopin is too short. You must know that many other people who participated in the Chopin International Piano Competition and prepared for the piano competition basically started with two years .

What's more, such as Yu Tianyou, who has participated in three competitions, has prepared for Chopin for more than ten years.

It's just a pity that almost all the people who knew about it were in China and other countries, so they couldn't see Fu Tiao's concert.

The people present had no idea how short Fu Tiao had been in contact with Chopin. Even those who had known Fu Tiao the longest were fans who had followed him all the way from Berlin.

After the last note of Fu Tiao ended, he stood up and bowed slightly to the crowd, turned around and stepped off the stage, the concert hall erupted with cheers and shocking voices.

And Luca sat there a little blankly, watching Fu Tiao's back going away, and couldn't help but doubt life.

"This...is the strength of Xiao Sai's champion?"

　It's not that I don't want to add more, but this time it's more serious than before, and I'm hung up in the hospital

　　
　
(End of this chapter)