pianist from the sea

Chapter 213 Jazz and Classics

There was warm applause off the stage, and everyone shouted one after another.

Whether it's applause or shouting "bravo", it doesn't mean anything, it's just screams of incomparable excitement, gathering into a sea off the stage and roaring in Fu Tiao's ears.

One after another stood up, and the applause became louder and louder.

First the group of people in the front row, then the middle row, and finally the back row.

The originally incomparably neat theater became disorganized when everyone stood up and applauded. It was just that there were crowds of people, and countless palms collided below, giving out roaring applause.

The applause was even more enthusiastic than during the intermission before.

You can clearly see some old people and young people applauding vigorously off the stage. The applause blushes and their necks are thick, as if their whole body is exerting force.

It even gave Fu Tiao some delusions that these people might be excited and pass out.

These people are not one or two, but groups of people, working hard there.

Fu Tiao's gaze swept across the crowd off the stage, and he seemed to see He Shen who was sitting on the side, and the same was true.

Compared with others around him, he seemed to be more excited, more excited.

Under the applause of the crowd, Fu Tiao couldn't help smiling, leaning on the edge of the piano, bowed slightly to the crowd, then turned and walked off the stage.

The applause was warm, without any stagnation, and everyone was still applauding there.

And when Fu Tiao walked backstage, the backstage staff also applauded vigorously.

"Bravo! Fu!"

"Fu! Spectacle Formidable!"

"Génial!"

"Super!"

"..."

Almost all the staff in the backstage are French, just like in Brussels before, in their congratulations to Fu Diao in the backstage, apart from Bravo, which is the most commonly used in all concerts, it is commonly used in French to express good words.

Such as Génial, genius playing, spectacle Formidable!Super wonderful show!

Although Fu Tiao couldn't understand what these people were saying at all, but from the expressions of the group of them, Fu Tiao could also hear that these people were congratulating himself on his performance, praising and blessing himself.

Fu Tiao thought for a while, smiled and nodded at them, and also bowed slightly.

The applause in the background was even more enthusiastic.

After Fu Tiao sat in the backstage and rested for a while, he made another appearance for the curtain call. After three consecutive curtain calls, he stayed in the backstage for a rest.

The previous person in charge quickly handed over a glass of water and a bottle of champagne, and said to Fu Tiao with a smile.

"Fu, drink some water first. After your performance, let's open a glass of champagne together. This champagne is a bottle that I have treasured for a long time."

"Forehead……"

Fu Tiao took a sip of the water, moistened his mouth, looked at the extremely excited person in charge, couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed, and whispered.

"Sorry, I don't drink..."

"Ah, then it's really a pity, my bottle of wine is a bottle that I have hidden for a long time..."

The person in charge sighed, with a helpless expression: "I didn't expect that you don't like wine. I don't know when the next time this bottle of wine will be used."

After all, he cast a look at the people around him, who immediately understood and brought over a few champagne glasses.

He unscrewed the button of the champagne, instead of shaking violently like in a movie or TV series, and then exploded with a bang, he carefully opened the cork and poured two-thirds of the wine into all the champagne glasses in front of him , and distribute it among the people.

"But forget it, since I'm happy today, let's drink together! Santé!"

"Santé!"

Everyone raised their champagne glasses at the same time and celebrated together.

Fu Diao raised his glass with the others, and after taking a sip of the sparkling water in the glass, he turned his gaze to the concert hall behind him.

The crowd was still applauding, and the applause had lasted for two to three minutes and still did not stop.

Hearing all this, Fu Tiao also understood that he should go out and prepare for the encore now.

After he nodded slightly to the group of staff around him, he smiled and said.

"Okay, everyone, drink slowly, I will go on stage and prepare for the encore."

"Fu, can I ask in advance what your encore repertoire is? Because we need to send an introduction to the encore repertoire to all those who ordered the concert via email after the concert is over."

"Hmm...my encore track."

Fu Tiao raised his head and thought for a while, but he didn't know what he thought of, and said to the crowd behind him with a smile.

"Nothing really, I'm going to play Kapustin's concert etude."

"Capsteen???"

The person in charge looked at Fu Tiao, his eyes froze for a moment, at a loss.

……

The people off the stage were still applauding there, and whispered to each other from time to time.

"Fu's performance this time is really amazing. I really like his Chopin etudes, especially the last winter wind and the sea."

"I have no feeling for the etudes. I still prefer Fu Tiao's ballads. I feel that his ballads can even be compared with Zimmerman's!"

"Zimmerman can't compare, right? Zimmerman's ballads can be regarded as the top in the world, and his four ballads are simply divine!"

"So let's compare, I really like his interpretation."

"Fu's etudes are really good. His etudes are full of flavor. I really like his feeling of the sea."

"Indeed, but do you know what Fu's encore will play?"

"I don't know. If they are classical musicians, they will most likely play a nocturne? Or other etudes, I don't know..."

"I heard that Fu used to play jazz. Will he play jazz adaptations this time? What works will he adapt...or the previous Chopin works?"

"Looking forward to it, waiting for Fu Tiao's encore."

"Sir Fu is said to have received a lot of praise, and the more I think about it, the more I look forward to it."

"..."

Everyone applauded off the stage while discussing the work that Fu Tiao will perform next, looking forward to it.

Even though they had been applauding for two or three minutes without Fu Tiao coming out, their expectations still didn't die down.

For a pianist of Fu Tiao's level, it is very normal to applaud continuously for two or three minutes to ask for an anthology.

Like before, some people applauded continuously for 10 minutes, and then they pulled out the human player to encore a song. What is this two or three minutes?
Kapustin in the distance also looked forward to it.

He was very curious about what kind of works Fu Tiao would display on such a formal occasion.

The students on the side looked at Kapustin beside him and couldn't help but speak.

"Teacher, what do you think of Fu's performance this time?"

"Classical Chopin has a strong taste and at the same time can maintain its own characteristics. His Chopin should be the group of first-class pianists. As for when he can reach the top of Chopin, it depends on when he is lucky enough to find out A god-level live or album."

Kapustin repeated what he said to Hiromi Ishihara before, looked at the empty stage cheerfully, and said with a smile.

"But what I am looking forward to now is his jazz, especially after talking with me before, he said that he will show some fusion of classical and jazz. I really want to know how he interprets it."

"Teacher, do you know what he can play in the encore?"

"I don't know, but he is Dior Fu. I heard his jazz last time. It's very good. Isn't it a matter of course that I have expectations for him?"

Kapustin's expression did not change at all, saying that he himself expected Fu Tiao's performance as a matter of course.

The student next to him seemed a little surprised. In his eyes, his teacher was the most powerful group of classical jazz composers in the world today. He never thought that his teacher would expect a jazz performance from a classical musician.

Maybe it was when he was in the jazz club before, what did Fu Diao play that impressed his teacher?

The student thought about it, but didn't say much, just stepped aside silently.

Under the gaze of everyone, Fu Tiao walked out from the backstage of the concert hall and reappeared on the stage.

After the slightly weakened applause suddenly ushered in a climax again, everyone stopped applauding immediately, packed up their seats, sat down again, looked at Fu Tiao expectantly, and waited for his performance.

Under everyone's gaze, Fu Tiao didn't feel any timidity or uneasiness. He smiled and gestured to everyone with his mobile phone, and said.

"Now is the time for Encore. You can take photos and videos casually without worrying about leaking or anything."

After hearing Fu Tiao's words, everyone laughed in understanding immediately, and some people who originally planned to take pictures took out their mobile phones openly.

Seeing everyone under the stage take out their mobile phones, Fu Tiao thought for a while and added.

"But pay attention, don't shake your hands when shooting, it's better to keep the picture quality and sound quality stable, otherwise... please don't post the particularly blurry video and audio on the Internet, thank you all."

After all, without waiting for everyone to speak, Fu Diao calmly raised his finger and placed it on the piano keyboard, and then...

Press directly without any hesitation.

Crash, crash, crash...

An extremely light voice sounded.

The decomposition of the chords was assigned to the two hands, and Fu Tiao crossed his hands on the keyboard with a smile on his face, running vigorously.

Under the influence of jazz, the color of the chords becomes very interesting.

Listening to all this, some people who don't know the works that Fu Tiao is playing at this moment can't help being taken aback. They just feel that the works that Fu Tiao is playing now are very interesting, and they can't hear anything else.

You have to know that reality is not television, no one pulls out a colorful banner out of thin air, telling you what work this person is playing right now.

Either it is written in the program book like the program list, or as the person in charge just said, after Fu Diao is finished playing, the audience will be notified by email.

It was precisely because of this that some people who knew what works Fu Tiao played became extremely excited.

this is……

8rd of Kapustin's 3 Concert Etudes, Toccata Petit, Op.40-3.
Some people may think that the name of this name is like a classical work.It is not.

This is what Kapustin said when he created his own work.

He borrowed jazz composition method.

This is a fusion of jazz and classical, and it is also the favorite set of countless top pianists playing encore passages.

His fingers fluttered over the piano keyboard, the music flowed through his fingertips, and every note was extremely charming.

Listening to all this, Kapustin's student suddenly became very excited, and lightly poked his teacher's arm and whispered.

"Teacher, Fu is playing your composition."

"Well, let me listen..."

Kapustin didn't speak, he just listened to Fu Tiao's performance and interpretation seriously.

With Fu Tiao's performance, his eyes became brighter and brighter.

Fu Tiao's fingers are turning quickly on the piano keyboard like a windmill. The fingers of this section are played very clearly as a main theme, but at the same time, the surrounding parts as accompaniment cannot be ignored.

How to balance the performance of the fingers and chord parts is a very big difficulty.

But this difficulty is under Fu Tiao's hands, you can't see any difficult parts at all, you can only feel why Fu Tiao's performance is so simple.

Fu Tiao's fingers easily grasped all the chords and threw them on the main melody, making the melody more gorgeous.

It's not just a classical performance, Fu Diao's jazz swing is extraordinarily jazzy.

As he himself said, the combination of jazz and classical, since someone else has written a work for him, then he will interpret it according to that person's interpretation method to see how it feels.

Obviously, Fu Tiao has done a good job in the fusion of classical and jazz.

You can't even tell whether the piece is jazz or classical.

And Fu Tiao seems to have also played the nature of playing this piece.

The incomparable sense of rhythm, fast and precise expression, all of which made the corners of Fu Tiao's mouth twitch.

this music...

It feels very interesting!

He was staring at the keyboard in front of him, his body could not help shaking slightly with the rhythm of the music, playing with the notes in his hands recklessly.

This feeling is really interesting!

He found many, many improvisations in it, and Kapustin gave an extremely beautiful standard improvisation through his own non-stop thinking.

If you play Kapustin's way, you don't have to think about improvisation at all, because he has already written everything for you.

But he also gives you a little space.

As long as you feel that your improvisation can be better than what he has been thinking about for so long, then you can adapt it yourself.

It sounds simple, but in fact over the years, not many people have been able to adapt this work with their own concept of improvisation.

They just played the content given by Kapustin step by step.

It's not that they don't know how to improvise, but that after they improvised a bit, they found that what they improvised was far from what Kapustin wrote after careful consideration.

It's like an athlete and a toddler.

What about Fu Tiao?
Kapustin looked at Fu Tiao with a smile, waiting for his performance.

This is a small toccata, about 2 minutes long, not long.

He was very curious about how Fu Diao could be played.

Under his gaze, Fu Tiao gradually became excited.

He himself had practiced this work before the performance started. At that time, he just felt that Kapustin's work was well written, and he had no other ideas.

But now under this scene, he somehow felt the true charm of this work.

"It's really... so interesting!"

Fu Tiao's fingers fluttered on the keyboard, and everyone under the stage even looked a little dazzled.

He was listening to his playing, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise.

He thought of impromptu content.

The music of less than 2 minutes will soon come to an end, but before the end, Fu Tiao's fingers changed slightly, and he did not go straight to the end according to the original content of the work, but played a new tune sex.

From the first level that is about to end, we have reached the fifth level of tuning, which is the middle level of the subordination.

He did it all over again.

Kapustin sitting over there was the first person to notice this. After all, he wrote the piece himself. He is naturally very familiar with this fusion of classical and jazz.

His body couldn't help but straighten up, staring fixedly at Fu Tiao in front of him, smiling and waiting for his performance.

It's just that he didn't expect that Fu Tiao completely let himself go.

boom!
Fu Tiao flicked his hand violently, hitting a huge bass in the bass area of ​​the piano.

This didn't end there, his feet sank slightly, and he stepped on the sustain pedal with a small gap.

Compared with directly pressing all the pedals, this kind of sustain pedal does not give much extension, just a bottom noise.

And what Fu Tiao wants is exactly this background noise.

He seemed to be crazy, his hands were almost intertwined, and he played continuous jazz chords vigorously.

At the same time, Fu Tiao did not omit any of the ring fingers that Kapustin wrote in the music before, but used them even more crazily.

Both hands are fingering at the same time!

The monophonic fingers are arranged smoothly, like train tracks, transporting the melody and chords in the middle.

It's not over.

From time to time, Fu Tiao also scrapes out a more splendid octave scratch, as some small Easter eggs, installed on top of the music.

show off.

Extremely gorgeous show off!

Compared with Kapustin's perfect improvisation, Fu Tiao's improvisation has added more virtuoso elements.

The main melody is constantly out of tune, in tune, in tune.

You can even hear the illusion of atonal music from Fu Tiao's music.

"This music?"

The student sitting next to Kapustin was completely dumbfounded. He didn't know whether it was Kapustin's work now or whether it was Fu Tiao's work.

Hiromi Ishihara, who was sitting the other time, was completely excited.

She stared at Fu Tiao, swallowing her saliva, her legs intertwined and twisted.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's it! That's how it should be!"

"This is so cool! This is the kind of unruly and freedom that jazz works should have!"

"This is Fu Tiao's jazz and classical music!"

　Let's see if I can play a video...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)