pianist from the sea

Chapter 192 North American Shock
"The classical pianist closest to the god of jazz?"

Nick couldn't help repeating, without any hesitation, he reached out to take the magazine from Bruce's hand, looked at the page he had just turned, read it carefully, and then frowned tightly.

This is a very simple concert gossip, simply discussing the performance of some recent pianist concerts, so this article only occupies a very small part in the magazine, but it is able to have this title, and this title is still It's interesting that no one has rejected it.

This "Gramophone" magazine is not an ordinary second- and third-tier magazine. Anyone can get on it. It's not the kind that can write headlines in a particularly eye-catching way, and even Tramp is fucked. The title, and then the whole article has nothing to do with the title of the small magazine.

The title written in the phonograph must match the article, and it also needs to be well-founded. The reviewer in charge of this comment needs to have a general memory of the commented person, and must not be too exaggerated, so that he can be on the board Magazine.

Therefore, even if you praise, in fact, the praise will not be particularly arrogant, especially unpredictable.

The content written in this magazine is the closest to the classical pianist of the god of jazz, which makes Nick, a jazz professor, a little bit interested.

Although he is only a jazz professor now, you must know that he was born studying classical music before that, and he did not study classical music in the beautiful country, but studied classical music at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, and I have been studying until the Master, which is the position of the master.

It turned out that after he came to the beautiful country to continue his studies and started to play, he was actually asked to play jazz all the time. After playing, he became a professor of jazz, which had little connection with the previous classical music.

Therefore, he was very interested in this title.

The closest thing to a jazz god is a classical music pianist.

This is very interesting.

Nick walked forward while flipping through the music score in his hand with a calm expression.

He first looked at who the author of this article was. It was written very clearly. He knew the German musician Andre Hardt. He was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Their school had a relationship with the Berlin University of the Arts. Through communication, he also had a few words with this Andre.

This person is a very peaceful person, there is no element of discrimination in it, as far as Nick feels, the concept that this person upholds is that everyone is a person, a pure person, not LGBT. He doesn't care about your sexual orientation or your skin color, he just treats you as a normal person.

It is precisely because of his behavior that Nick has a deep memory of this person, and also remembers that this person's jazz performance is also very good. Recently, many people from Hollywood and some record companies will ask him to write some new songs. work.

Although he is currently working at the Berlin University of the Arts in Germany, he is actually traveling all over the world, and his popularity is not bad. No wonder he was invited by Gramophone Magazine.

After browsing through this person's information, he began to look at what he wrote, and then he couldn't help but froze.

"My friends, let us welcome the appearance of the strongest classical pianist who is about to step into the field of jazz, Fu Dio! This is a unique top pianist who is enough to shock people to the bone. I am grateful and joyful for his performance, I deeply love his performance, he is the strongest I have heard this year, and he is also the most perfect for classical music jazz adaptation, classical pianist!"

To actually praise people in this way, even in the West with a particularly open attitude, his way of praising people is extremely rare.

No, not just rare, you even said rare.

Nick continued to look down.

"Maybe some people don't know who Fu Tiao is, so let me introduce to you. He is the champion of this year's Chopin International Piano Competition and the classical musician who won the Best Concerto Award at the same time. His interpretation of Chopin is well preserved. On the basis of Chopin's original taste, he also added many unique flavors that belonged only to him. , you can't hear his taste at all.

In recent days, Fu Tiao started his first tour in Europe. He started from Warsaw and headed west all the way. He first came to Berlin, then Amsterdam and Brussels. It is a pity that because of his insufficient preparation, he sold all over the world. All the tickets sold were sold out very early. Even I wanted to listen to his concert. I bought it from my students. The price I bought exceeded the original price. The highest price even reached an extremely rare ten times!
Although I don't know who will choose to sell their tickets, Fu Tiao's tickets are completely sold out, and you can't buy them on the official websites of various concert halls or on Fu Tiao's personal page on Deutsche Grammophon. Unfortunately, if there is a chance, I really want to listen to more live Fu Tiao.

Because of his presence, the kind of music he plays...you just can't hear any similar feeling anywhere else.

At the beginning, I didn’t know why Fu Tiao’s tickets were so expensive, but I was honored to get Fu Tiao’s tickets in Brussels from my students, and I was able to enter the frontmost position of the concert hall to listen to Fu Tiao’s performance , after I actually listened to Fu Tiao's performance, I finally understood why Fu Tiao was welcomed by so many people.

As I just said, there is a unique feeling in Fu Tiao's music that belongs only to him.

During the performance in Brussels this time, Fu Tiao played two sets of works, one is Chopin's Prelude, and the other is Chopin's Etude Op10. Neither of these two sets of works is extremely rare. The relatively rare ones are Chopin's preludes, but even if they are rare, you must have heard these two sets of works.

Under Fu Tiao's performance interpretation, these two sets of works, especially Chopin's set of preludes are enough to enter the top three positions of the most interesting and beautiful preludes I have ever heard. Fu Tiao's personal style has a very A strong general feeling, and the set of preludes he played is just like his sea style, with endless changes, just like you can never know what the next piece of chocolate in the chocolate blind box is, and you have no way to guess What kind of surprise will Fu Tiao give you in the interpretation of the prelude.

As for the Chopin etude performed by Fu Tiao, I am not particularly good at talking about it, because I only have shock in my heart.

Fu Tiao brings order and clarity to the heart of Chopin's most daring firestorms, for example, in Op. The voice may be a thoroughly modern one, but you get the sense that he is speaking to the souls of the revered masters of the past, especially the spirit of Corto and Fisher!This is simply a flawless interpretation!

The combination of infinitely polished and shaded piano technique gives his performances a distinction and quality of the rarest kind.

His technique in op10-1 is incomparably superb, his will is unwavering, and it is accompanied by a very gorgeous curtain call. You can't imagine how magical his improvisation on the last page is.

The texture of his music is translucent and has its own breath, like his rubato in 10-3, like Rubinstein, he is a great and natural keyboard singer.

I swear, if Chopin heard this performance, he would shout again: 'Ah, Papa! 'If he had heard the show...

Fu Tiao's performance is amazing.

I have been saying to my students recently that if you want to learn Chopin, you have to listen to Fu Tiao, because his Chopin represents the greatest and most powerful Chopin I can imagine. One, but you must not listen to Fu Tiao's Chopin before you finish the practice, because that is Fu Tiao's music, not your music..."

Nick couldn't help being a little stunned when he saw such content. Although he is a jazz player, he could hear from the critic's words how much he praised Fu Tiao's classical music.

Words of praise even overflow from the score in hand.

It even looks a little gross.

But now there is a problem, that is, isn't this Andre a jazz person?Nick's only impression of Andre is that he taught jazz at the Berlin University of the Arts. Why did he suddenly switch to classical criticism?
But there is one thing to say, this Andre's talk is quite interesting, Nicole, he really wants to go to Fu Tiao's concert now, to see what kind of personal style Andre is talking about a feeling of.

If Fu Tiao has a concert in North America...

Regardless of whether it is Beautiful Country or Canada University, as long as Fu Tiao can come to hold a concert, there is no problem for him to fly to listen to a special concert, provided that Fu Tiao will come.

But judging from the current situation, the possibility of Fu being transferred does not seem to be high.

Nick looked at Bruce who was leaning against him and was also looking at the content above, and couldn't help asking: "Bruce, you know Fu Dao, Fu Kai, Fu... well, the names of Chinese people are really hard to pronounce, Fu, yes, you know Has Fu Dao decided to hold a concert on our side?"

"Dior? Dior, don't I remember?"

Bruce watched Nick couldn't help but took out his mobile phone and started searching, looked at the content on it and shook his head slowly: "No, he didn't come."

"Dior, does he read Dior? It's still a good read..." Nick re-read it a few times, and said to Bruce: "So where will the concert after Fodio be held now? Where are the tickets? ?do you know?"

"Currently the four games that are open for sale below have been completely sold out, and now there are only four games left for next year, so..."

Bruce shrugged his shoulders and said casually: "The next few games have not yet opened for pre-sale, but I see what Andre said, these tickets should sell out quickly, you may ask your agent in Universal , maybe he can get some tickets, if I choose, I think you can ask if you can get Fu Tiao's tickets for the Golden Hall, he should have no problem going to the Golden Hall later."

"Okay, I'll ask."

Nick nodded, not paying attention to Fu Tiao's concert for the time being, and continued to read.

After all, judging from Bruce's words just now, Fu Tiao's concert tickets should be relatively difficult to buy, and the possibility of not being able to buy them is relatively high.

As for whether to go later, let’s talk about it. Anyway, going to Vienna here is not expensive, only a few hundred or nearly a thousand dollars.

If you can get a ticket for Fu Tiao, go and listen to it. If you can't get it...then wait for Fu Tiao to come to North America.

North America is a very big ticket warehouse for classical music. As a classical music performer, Fu Tiao can't just hang out in Europe and not come to North America at all, right?
If it really doesn't work, then go to Huaguo to have a look. It is impossible for Fu Tiao not to go to Huaguo.

As a former classical music player, he has been aroused by Andre's words, and he can't help but want to listen to Fu Tiao's music.

However, as a current jazz player, his main idea now is to continue watching to see why Fu Tiao can be called a jazz pianist by Andre.

He continued to read a little bit, and there was a long section praising the perfection of Fu Tiao's classical music performance. It was not until the middle and back that the content about jazz appeared.

"I know that many people came here because of this title. You may wonder why I have been discussing Fu Tiao's classical music instead of jazz. In fact, the main reason is because I want to tell you that Fu Tiao is first of all A classical music pianist, and secondly, a jazz player. As for why I say that, you may understand if you continue reading.

Perhaps because Fu Tiao's personal style is relatively heavy, Fu Tiao's adaptations of Chopin often contain many of his own styles, especially his jazz.

During Fu Tiao’s current tour in Europe, the most popular one is Fu Tiao’s encore after the performance. After the first performance in Berlin, Fu Tiao will play some encore repertoires. But the repertoire is all Chopin's works, but Fu Tiao will adapt it, and the reason why I went to Fu Tiao's concert is because Fu Tiao's encore encore has become popular in jazz circles.

And the beginning of this fire was actually not good, because it all originated from Fu Tiao’s Encore was stolen and uploaded to the website, and then it was misunderstood and made a mistake in the performance, so Fu Tiao had to re-record it, which relieved everyone However, it is precisely because of this re-recording that Fu Tiao's jazz performance ability is truly displayed in front of everyone.

When I first listened to Fu Tiao's jazz encore, I just thought it was very good and a bit interesting. The arrangement of these chords was ingenious, and the level of strength was not ordinary, but when I really went to listen to Fu Tiao's live performance , I found out that I was wrong, very wrong, completely different from what I felt before. Fu Tiao's jazz return not only did not have any preparation in advance, on the contrary, everything he had was improvised.

You have no way to believe that a set of extremely perfect jazz works, whose chord arrangement is miraculous, and even feels similar to Kapustin’s jazz works, actually came from one person’s live creation, which is simply unbelievable miracle!

This is just a small bright spot of Fu Tiao, if you continue to listen hard, you will find a very strange place, that is...

The harmony progression and chord selection used in all the music of Fu Tiao, without any exception, all come from the classical chords in classical music!

What is this concept?
As we all know, the true sense of jazz is endlessly changing. It actually originated from New Orleans in 1890-1900. Their adaptation of ragtime made it eventually evolve into jazz. With the development of time, Chicago jazz and swing music gradually became popular. However, Bebop, which represents the dividing line between modern jazz and classical jazz, did not become popular until around 1950.

As Chopin was born in 1800, the piano harmony he used is very bold. Even if the texture structure is a little thin, there is still no way to hide its overall beauty. As a cutting-edge character, he restrains himself from using classical jazz harmony characteristics, and restrains his music within the classical.

And this kind of restraint completely sublimates the classical beauty in the music. The combination of classical and jazz is almost perfect, forming a kind of Fu Tiao jazz music unique to Fu Tiao. When he is creating his own jazz music When he was playing, you could feel the aura of the god of jazz shrouding him, and you could even feel the god of jazz commanding his hands behind him, leading him to change the jazz.

Some people may think that only using classical jazz harmony may seem a bit old, old-fashioned and uninnovative, but when you really go to listen to Fu Tiao live, you will fully understand what is classical and what is old-fashioned, Fu Tiao is the kind of person who can truly play out this set of classical jazz things. His control over music makes it impossible to imagine his limit.

However, all of this, judging from Fu Tiao's performance in Brussels, was all created by himself, a temporary performance without any preparation in advance.

The jazz adaptation creation that fits the original song itself very well, coupled with his super on-site adaptability, jointly created this classical pianist that I have seen, who is closest to the god of jazz! "

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