pianist from the sea

Chapter 195 Street Piano Battle
Although the stations in Paris are very chaotic, there are blacks and thieves of different shades everywhere, but to be honest, the overall artistic sense of Paris design is still very strong. If there are not so many blacks and thieves, this station is really very pretty.

The facilities inside also look very modern, and there is a very obvious difference from the traditional feeling of Europe as a whole.

The three of Fu Diao walked towards the place where the sound of the piano was heard in the distance. Before they had gone far, they saw an upright piano placed on the side of the armrest. on that person's performance.

After the three of them walked up the stairs to the floor where the piano was, everything here became clearer.

This is a Yamaha upright piano with an unknown model. On the top of the piano is a very obvious paper foam card with the words "A VOUS DE JOUER" written on it.

"What does this mean?" Fu Tiao looked at the two people beside him.

Before the girl next to her said anything, Zhao Chengzhen directly explained: "The direct translation is up to you, but normally, we will translate it as your turn, it's your turn, put it here Just play casually, don’t care about anything.”

"Um……"

Fu Tiao nodded thoughtfully, and continued to look at the passerby in front of him who was playing.

This passer-by seems to be a professional pianist. From the perspective of Fu Tiao and Zhao Chengzhen, this person has a very strong sense of piano strength. It is obvious that he has professional training in piano performance, not Ordinary passers-by who play well.

In fact, don't look at this person's hands, but just listen to the feeling of this person's performance, and you can also find that his level and strength are very good.

First of all, his timbre is very delicate, and the transition of the phrases in the music can be performed very well on this occasion and on this piano. You can clearly hear all his thoughts on music, and know that he wants to use music. express something.

Secondly, when running in many parts of the music, his hand floats above the piano as if it is parallel and still, and the feeling of each note falling is very clear and full of grain.

This graininess and the running of the fingers may not be achieved by many ordinary practitioners after years of practice. Many people even drive their arms to fly up and down when their fingers run. It seems that there is no difference. The two are the same. You can make the music run, but in fact the difference is huge.

It may be that your arms flutter slightly up and down, and the music in your hands will tremble a little, which will destroy the overall feeling of the music.

Laymen don't feel much, and insiders can hear it as soon as they hear it.

And the in-depth study of countless details is the main reason why professional pianists are pianists, and even become master-level figures, rather than ordinary music lovers.

With the fall of the last few chords, the pianist who was sitting on the piano bench waved his arm, and the applause of the passers-by immediately sounded, and everyone immediately cheered for him.

"Bravo!"

"Good playing!"

"Great!"

"..."

Although there may still be a lot of gaps compared to paying money to listen to performances in concert halls, on this occasion, on this street piano, it is already very good if you can play, even if you play well, the audience will be very happy. Applaud you cooperatively and support your performance.

Fu Tiao and Zhao Chengzhen also applauded and supported the performer, and yelled a few words together with the audience around them. The performer who called out felt a little embarrassed, and scratched his head with a silly smile. He stepped aside and gave up his position.

After all, this wasn't his piano. He had been playing it for a long time before, so he had to let someone else play it.

If there is really no one, he will continue to go up.

Everyone around looked at each other, but no one moved. After a while, an old man went up to play a piece similar to Little Star. It was very simple, but it also won encouraging praise from the audience.

Seeing all this, Fu Tiao couldn't help but smiled and said, "I feel that no matter who goes up, the popularity may be about the same, and there won't be many changes."

"But the audience can definitely feel the difference in strength between the one in front and the one behind. If it's good, they will shout more excitedly."

Zhao Chengzhen couldn't help laughing while talking, then held back her smile, took two steps forward, turned to look at Fu Tiao, and said with a serious expression.

"So, do you want to do it again? Compare it with me again? This time we will not play some classical works. There are too many details in the classical works, which cannot be expressed on this stage and this piano. Therefore, we will Let's compare improvised works, popular works, and some modern works?"

"Are you sure?" Fu Tiao confirmed.

"Sure!"

"Since you are sure, there is no problem."

Fu Tiao nodded without any hesitation.

It is not very difficult for him to play the piano temporarily, even if he does not use classical music.

Zhao Chengzhen was very happy to hear Fu Tiao's agreement. He turned his head to look at the piano, couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and said with a smile.

"It's fine if you agree. If that's the case, then I should go first, the same as in the Chopin International Piano Competition before? Or do you want to go first?"

"I can do it, you decide."

"Then I'll go first."

Before Zhao Chengzhen finished speaking, he had already turned around and walked towards the piano with a very handsome figure.

The girl on the side who followed Fu Diao from Brussels looked at Zhao Chengzhen with glowing eyes.

For her, Fu Tiao is a god, while Zhao Chengzhen is an idol.

It's a great feeling to see idols and gods confronting each other.

Although I feel that idols may not be able to defeat God, they will be easily crushed by God, but...

This kind of knight charging towards the windmill like Don Quixote is simply too handsome!

"Zhao! Come on!"

Seeing Zhao Chengzhen sitting on the piano bench, she couldn't help but screamed excitedly.

On the other hand, Zhao Chengzhen turned her head and smiled at her very elegantly, then raised her hand.

It wasn't like the concert hall where everyone was quiet by raising their hands, but the crowd watching him looked at him curiously, and they were much quieter.

Zhao Chengzhen didn't care about these noises.

This is the case when performing on the street outside. Compared with the inner communication in the quiet environment of the concert hall, in this large environment, it is more about communication with yourself.

In this case, if you play some very slow works, for example, the old lady played just now, I don’t know the name, but it sounds a bit like a little star’s nursery rhyme, use this kind of work to attract others, and Fu Tiao's attack on the front is simply asking for a dead end.

Everyone is very busy. Those who come to this station to listen to the street piano are basically drivers.

This group of people don't go to a restaurant to eat or play with their mobile phones. They come here to listen to you play the piano not for enjoyment, but for fun, a place to relax.

So it is impossible for you to play some particularly slow works.

And those fast works, such as some of Chopin's works, have relatively thin textures, and there is no way to show the beauty of Chopin's music in this kind of space, and you can't choose either.

The best choice in this place is to play some well-known and brisk works.

The second is purely virtuoso works.

Therefore, Zhao Chengzhen did not hesitate too much, and directly started to show off his skills.

After all, he is also a person who has won a lot of championships. Even if his strength may not be able to beat the bastards in the first echelon, he is not bad.

In particular, he did not participate in the tour after the competition, but went directly to the school to find a teacher to continue practicing, analyzed his weaknesses and Fu Tiao's strengths with the teacher, and kept learning and analyzing.

After working hard for so long, he really didn't believe that he couldn't beat Fu Tiao!

He looked around and thought for a while, then immediately dropped his fingers.

boom!
The huge roar of the chord directly shattered everyone's reverie and drew everyone's attention to him.

No one could have imagined that the piano could make such a loud roar.

Especially compared with the previous two people.

Whether it's the old lady or the professional pianist who played before, they didn't play as loudly as Zhao Chengzhen.

If it's just ringing, it's fine. After all, children smash the piano, who wouldn't smash it.

But at the same time, Zhao Chengzhen arranged many, many melody lines for his own chords, and built a very thick musical texture.

His piano sound is not only loud, but also very heavy and continuous, standing in front of everyone like mountains.

This feeling instantly attracted many viewers who were doing nothing to walk towards his position.

Fu Tiao's eyes lit up slightly when he heard Zhao Chengzhen's performance, and he nodded thoughtfully.

"This feeling is not bad. Although the melody of this work he played is relatively weak, or there is no sense of melody at all, his ability to control the music texture is still good, and the overall arrangement is not in accordance with the Ordinary piano arrangement, but it is a bit similar to a band or... an organ arrangement?"

Fu Tiao looked at Zhao Chengzhen and commented casually.

Obviously, Zhao Chengzhen's current level has improved a little bit.

This improvement is not in the understanding of Chopin, but in his finger skills.

He seems to be more proficient in controlling the chord skills, and he has done a very good job in manipulating the chords to interpret the main melody.

It's a pity that the main theme he is improvising now is almost equivalent to no, so even if the chords in his hands are very good and can attract some audiences, if he only has these things, he may be limited to this.

Not far from Fu Tiao, the professional pianist who had just finished playing, he couldn't help being stunned at this moment.

Others may not know who Zhao Chengzhen is, but he does. He is very familiar with Zhao Chengzhen.

Just like the student of the Royal Academy of Music in Brussels next to Fu Tiao, he is a student of the Paris Ecole Conservatoire, and he came here to play.

Strictly speaking, he is still Zhao Chengzhen's senior, and he entered school a little earlier than Zhao Chengzhen.

It's just that he worked hard for a long time before barely graduating, and in the year he just graduated, Zhao Chengzhen came in.

And he just came in and achieved a few consecutive jumps, and then he was just an ordinary name in the conservatory, but in fact he just studied alone with that teacher.

Looking at the comparison between himself and Zhao Chengzhen, he was very envious and respectful of this nominal junior.

Now after seeing Zhao Chengzhen coming and listening to Zhao Chengzhen's performance, he felt like his skin was going to get goosebumps.

only……

A trace of curiosity could not help but arise in his mind.

Just before Zhao Chengzhen smiled at a person on the side, who is that person?Zhao Chengzhen is typically not smiling at school...

While listening to Zhao Chengzhen's performance, he turned his gaze to the side, and then saw a person he hadn't expected at all.

"Wait? This is... Dio Fu?"

He watched Fu Tiao's pupils widen involuntarily, and then swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

If Zhao Chengzhen is the person he admires and looks forward to the most, he hopes that he can reach Zhao Chengzhen's level.

Then Fu Diao is someone he can't reach in his life.

Zhao Chengzhen is such an awesome existence, she is the most powerful student in the school, and she is almost the most star student in the school. She is known as the successor of the French School of Music. Almost everyone yearns for herself to become a player like Zhao Chengzhen.

As a result, it is fine for such a player to lose in the world's top competition with no age limit. In the Chopin International Piano Competition, which is especially biased towards young people, he actually lost to someone like Fu Tiao.

Before that, Fu Tiao did not have any particularly famous reputation. Even in the handicap before the game, the odds of Fu Tiao winning the championship were extremely high, which means that almost no one believed that Fu Tiao could win the championship.

That is to say, Fu Tiao got third in the first round, second in the second round, and first in the third round. This lowered his odds a lot and became one of the few people with the lowest odds. one.

Being able to overwhelm his own idol, the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

He actually appeared at the same scene as Zhao Chengzhen?
According to the statements of the previous group of reporters, Fu Tiao and Zhao Chengzhen seem to have a little bit of conflict. The two should easily fight, right?
Not only did the two not fight, but they seemed to be good brothers?mutual communication.

Seeing Fu Tiao groping his chin and staring at Zhao Chengzhen's performance, the pianist couldn't help but think so.

But soon, he overturned his idea.

Because Zhao Chengzhen's current state does not seem like a simple communication, he is playing with all his strength.

It was just a complicated chord arrangement, and when his theme was repeated twice, he started to change it into a more complicated variation.

From the beginning, it was a bit similar to Brahms' chord arrangement, and he changed it, playing a bit similar to Beethoven's classical and romantic sonata style.

With the change of chords and the complexity of the main melody, he made the pure column chords in his music less and less, and added more and more complex lingering chord decomposition and changes.

At the same time, the main theme in his hand finally had a little melody appearance.

I don't know if he really wanted to show his strength in front of Fu Tiao, but he deliberately made many relatively simple performances extra complicated.

The rotation of his fingers on the piano has almost never stopped. Among the countless allegro notes, the 32nd and even 64th notes are floating on the keyboard. The crackling sound of his fingers and the keyboard makes people feel that the piano may be broken by him at any time. .

The surrounding audience also made a wow sound at this time. Many people looked at him, their eyes lit up involuntarily, and they covered their mouths to communicate in a low voice.

"This feels good!"

"Look at his hands, they play so fast!"

"Not only fast, but also loud!"

"Although I don't understand which piece this piece is, it feels very powerful."

"Have you heard this piece? I'm really curious what the name of this piece is. I want to go home and listen to it."

"Amazing."

"..."

The whispers of the crowd did not affect Zhao Chengzhen's performance at all. On the contrary, he heard the voices of the crowd in his ears, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became even wilder.

Street pianos are different from stage pianos. The most important thing about street pianos is to show off their skills, as long as they sound good and feel good.

If you pay too much attention to the musicality of music.

So……

Definitely lose!

He couldn't help looking at Fu Tiao who was listening to the music seriously.

To be honest, Fu Tiao's level and strength are good, but he feels that the main reason why Fu Tiao was able to beat him in the Chopin International Piano Competition at that time was that Fu Tiao's musicality was more perfect than his.

Now on this stage, musicality is not the most important thing, so what will Fu Tiao do?

Should I play some softer works and rely on the musicality of the music to win as before, or should I fight hard with him?
If you fight hard... then it's hard to say.

After all, the top pianists are all about the same level and strength, and the gap between them is not too big.

His fingers ran quickly on the piano, waiting for Fu Tiao to take over.

But Fu Tiao didn't think too much, just listened to Zhao Chengzhen's performance, and kept nodding.

When he heard a certain place, he felt the same, nodded silently, took two steps forward, and reached the edge of the piano. When Zhao Chengzhen was about to continue with a new variation again, he occupied the center of the music. The high-pitched area grabs the range of the music.

Then, a piece of music similar to what Zhao Chengzhen played before came out, perfectly combining with Zhao Chengzhen's music.

If it weren't for the two people appearing in front of everyone, I'm afraid no one would realize that the music has started to change.

Fu Tiao looked at Zhao Chengzhen, who was a little dazed beside him, smiled lightly, and said casually.

"I know how you want to play, leave the rest to me."

　I went to listen to Zimmermann's concert. The student ticket only costs 10 Euros, and I can sit in the front. That's great!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)