pianist from the sea

Chapter 216 London: Platform 9
Not just Zhu Wenliang alone, you can even say that the entire Kapustin lovers and some jazz players in Huaguo were shocked.

Everyone knows Fu Tiao.

Everyone knows that Fu Tiao plays jazz. After all, there are a lot of videos of Fu Tiao playing jazz on the Internet. Everyone also admires Fu Tiao's adaptation of Chopin's works.

What they didn't expect was that when Fu Diao played jazz works, he would choose Kapustin.

This feeling of rushing in both directions simply made them feel sore in their bones.

In particular, Fu Tiao's performance has a special flavor in it, which feels different from Kapustin played by others.

So they sound more comfortable.

In addition, Fu Tiao basically goes to one place a week, just like an anime that is updated once a week, and they listen to Fu Tiao even more comfortably.

Every week, I look forward to what novel experience Fu Tiao can bring to them.

In fact, just as they expected, when Fu Diao went to Lisbon in the second week, he performed the Kapustin concert etude Op40-1, 40- 2, and the subsequent encore held in the Madrid Concert Hall in Spain.

Kapustin Concert Etudes Op40-4, 5.

The five concert etudes of Kapustin presented by Fu Tiao are becoming more proficient and dazzling each time.

The Op40-3 at that time may still be a little bit green, not natural enough.

But when Fu Tiao came to Madrid, Spain, the calmness and humor in his performance almost shocked everyone.

Under their watchful eyes, Fu Tiao played his Kapustin with ease and ease, and the feeling was completely different.

After comparing and analyzing Fu Tiao's performances, they were surprised to find that...

Kapustin played by Fu Diao is actually a rising trend, as if someone is guiding him behind the scenes.

Listening to Fu Tiao's performance, everyone became even more surprised. It was hard to imagine who could have such ability to guide Fu Tiao to play Kapustin's works all the way.

Could it be... Kapustin himself?
Some people have some guesses about the person who directed Fu Tiao. Although it is outrageous, but looking at Fu Tiao's progress, it seems that Kapustin himself is actually guiding Fu Tiao.

Otherwise, no matter how you explain it, you will not be able to explain Fu Tiao's progressive trend.

In fact, just as everyone guessed, Fu Tiao returned to Paris from Madrid, and was standing at the customs gate of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, looking at the old man behind him, and nodded respectfully.

"Mr. Kapustin, thank you very much for your teaching during this time, I have benefited a lot."

"Hahaha, I didn't actually teach you anything, it's just that you learned well. Your ability to learn is beyond my imagination."

Kapustin laughed loudly, reached out and patted Fu Tiao's shoulder, and said casually with a smile.

After he finished in Paris, he was chatting with Fu Tiao about some music. He followed Fu Tiao all the way from Lisbon to Madrid, and finally returned to Paris.

There is no other reason for returning to Paris, but because there are more planes flying from Paris to London. Although you can take a train through the subsea tunnel or take a ferry, but in terms of convenience, it is more convenient to fly from Paris to London.

After Fu Tiao struggled with transportation for a long time, he booked a cheap flight from Paris to London for himself.

As for why you book a low-cost flight...

The main reason is that low-cost airlines are really convenient, especially for Fu Diao who does not bring a lot of carry-on luggage, but only brings some changes of clothes and schoolbags.

He didn't need to buy luggage, and he didn't need to buy food on the plane during the short flight. Apart from listening to Kapustin's recommendation, he set a safe channel for himself and added a little leg space, and there was nothing else. Additional expenses.

This is why Fu Tiao returned to Paris.

Kapustin is also preparing to leave Paris and return to the beautiful country. Unknowingly, he has been in Europe for more than 20 days. He feels that if he stays any longer, Christmas will be impossible.

It is already December [-]th, and there are still two weeks before Christmas.

The streets of Europe have been decorated with Christmas decorations, and the location in front of the city hall in the city center is full of Christmas markets.

Everyone looked very happy and relaxed, happily waiting for Christmas.

Kapustin looked at Fu Tiao, couldn't help smiling and asked, "Fu, do you have any plans for Christmas? Or a tour?"

"Well, it's still a tour, but because of Christmas and New Year's Day, I have to wait until mid-January and February for several performances, and then I can start."

Fu Tiao took a breath of hot air and said with a smile.

"The performance in London should be the last one. After the performance, this year's performance task will be over. I may go back to Berlin to chat with Mr. Claus, or I may go directly to Vienna, but I haven't decided yet. Content is just an idea."

"Is that so..."

Kapustin nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly asked: "Have you ever thought about coming to Moscow and spending Christmas with us? You can talk more about what we haven't finished talking about last time. I feel pretty good." interesting."

"Going to Moscow? It seems...too late."

Fu Diao shrugged helplessly: "If you hand in the visa now, there is a high probability that it will be too late when the visa is issued. I only have the EU Schengen visa here. The visa to England was obtained for me by Deutsche Grammophon. There is still such a short time before Christmas. Time, I have a high probability that the visa will not pass."

"That's it, then it's a pity."

Kapustin looked at Fu Tiao with regret and said.

He had a really pleasant chat with Fu Tiao recently, especially for his works. Fu Tiao's thinking process gave him a deeper understanding of his works.

At the beginning, because he was not a teacher-student relationship, he didn't talk very deeply, he just explained his creative logic and some of his thoughts.

And in order not to affect Fu Tiao's performance, he also specifically told Fu Tiao that it is not necessary to follow his ideas. His idea is just a reference, and how to play depends on Fu Tiao himself.

After all, for the performer, what the composer thinks is just a reference, and how to perform depends on the performer's own thoughts.

Take Rachmaninoff's works for example. He has many recordings of performing his own works, and his technique is also very strong. He is definitely not the kind of composer who writes works that he can't perform.

But he seldom premiered his works by himself. Instead, he gave the works to Horowitz, the king of piano at that time, to perform. The taste, in addition to all are Horowitz's own characteristics.

Listening to Horowitz's performance, Rachmaninoff didn't care at all, but admired his interpretation method very much.

Like Rachmaninoff, Kapustin had this in mind.

But what he didn't expect at all was that Fu Tiao was able to draw inferences from one instance and think of some details that he didn't think of when he fully understood his compositional ideas.

Listening to Fu Tiao's explanation, he even admired himself a little bit, he didn't know what he was thinking at the time, and he was able to write such a wonderful pen.

The more I chat with Fu Tiao, the happier I am. Now Fu Tiao is going to London to hold his last concert in 2015, and he has to go back to Moscow for Christmas, so he is still a little bit reluctant.

He reached out and took Fu Tiao's hands, shook them firmly, and smiled very solemnly.

"Anyway, if you have anything you don't understand, you can come to Moscow to find me at any time. Although I haven't been on stage for a long time, I still have a say in music creation. As long as you want, you can come anytime Find me."

"Well, no problem, see you later."

Fu Tiao smiled and talked with Kapustin. After the two held hands again, Kapustin left with the jealous student and walked towards the plane flying to Moscow.

Fu Tiao, on the other hand, walked to the other side, to where he was going next.

His tour has traveled to six cities so far.

Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Lisbon and Madrid.

London was his last city of the first half.

In the second half, there is no chance to go until next year.

Geneva, Milan, Vienna, Budapest, Moscow, and two domestic games.

When the performance in Moscow is over, it will be around February 2th, Chinese New Year's Eve 6, and February 29th, Chinese New Year's Eve 2th, and we can rest for two or three weeks before proceeding with the subsequent tour.

Running around for the past few weeks, Fu Tiao was a little tired, but it was acceptable.

Fu Tiao shook his head, and after a long sigh of relief, he took the shuttle bus to another terminal. After waiting there for a while, he boarded the scheduled low-cost flight, EasyJet.

The waiting time was not long. After waiting for a long time, everyone boarded the plane. With a burst of acceleration, everyone left the land of Paris and flew towards London.

Fu Tiao seems to have gotten used to the plane, and when he was on the plane, he only felt nervous when he was pushing his back when taking off, but at other times he didn't have any nervousness in it, and he looked at it calmly and steadily. Everything around, then picked up the music score and flipped through it.

The man next door looked at Fu Tiao in a little surprise, and after looking him up and down, he always felt that he might have seen Fu Tiao somewhere.

But after thinking about it, he couldn't figure out who Fu Tiao was, so he could only shake his head, intending to put this idea aside.

He just pretends that Asians have similar faces, and it's hard to tell who's who.

The plane soon arrived at London's airport, Heathrow Airport.

This is the most prosperous airport in Europe. If we simply discuss the number of incoming flights, this airport can even be regarded as the second in the world.

The only airport with more outbound flights than him is Dubai Airport.

It only took more than an hour for the plane to take off and land, and then it stopped in the hangar away from the terminal building. Following the guidance of the ground personnel, Fu Diao got on the shuttle bus and headed to Heathrow Airport. Go out of the station.

Compared with the previous treatment in Europe where there were many people picking up and dropping off, when I came to London, it was much less.

But in the same way, Fu Tiao will not encounter language problems in London.

After all, they all speak English. Although Fu Tiao's English writing performance may not be particularly good, there is no problem with his oral and listening English.

For example, Fu Tiao could clearly hear the buzzing announcement at the airport where hearing tests in every place were a serious problem.

Although it's useless.

Fu Diao stood at the exit, lifted his package a little, then walked towards the ATM with an extremely calm expression.

Because he stayed in Europe for a long time, he didn't have any pounds on him, but he had prepared euros. Before coming to England, he even forgot that the money spent in England was spent in pounds.

But fortunately, when he got out of the station and looked at the signs that were completely different from the euro logo, he quickly remembered it, ran to the ATM, and took 500 pounds of cash for himself.

It's not that Yingjili can't swipe the card, but because he's used to staying in Europe, Fu Tiao always feels that cash is still safe.

If you encounter some small shops or restaurants that do not accept credit cards, it is always convenient to prepare some cash.

Yes, it refers to those Chinese restaurants.

So after Fu Tiao was fully prepared, he put the wallet full of 500 pounds into his bag, walked to the automatic ticket vending machine, bought a three-pound ticket, and walked towards the city center according to the staff's guidance.

After Fu Tiao randomly found a seat and sat down, the car door gradually closed, and the car drove slowly towards the center of London.

English and European styles are similar, but slightly different.

For example, right-hand drive cars, and as an island, you can always smell a bit similar to the salty smell blown by the sea breeze over Dongying.

Looking at the scenery outside the window, it seems to be a little different from the endless plains and dense forests in Europe.

But if you are asked to point out the difference, but there is no way to explain it specifically, you can only feel that this is the characteristic of English.

After all, this is an island, a huge island, smaller than Dongying.

Even though this was once the core of the world, an empire where the sun never sets was established, and all the land under the sun was the territory of the empire, but their homeland was just a small island.

Compared with European music, this place seems to pay more attention to the literary economy, and the overall impression is that of a bookish nobleman, not a nouveau riche like a beautiful man.

Therefore, the gentle and elegant atmosphere is more popular.

The vehicle shuttled through the countryside, and it didn't take long to see some high-rise buildings.

It was a sign of the impending drive into central London.

This is an old capitalist empire. Unlike those places in Europe, the economic buildings here are more developed and there are more high-rise buildings.

It's hard to say what's wrong with this place, other than to say that the local cuisine can be regarded as a gourmet desert.

But in contrast, it is precisely because of the developed economy of this place that in this place, if you have money, you can eat delicious food from all over the world.

They no longer care about their own local creations at all, but have begun to enjoy the enjoyment brought by economic globalization.

What about the poor food in your own country?I can easily eat all over the world in one place.

It’s just that ordinary people suffer so much, and what they eat most often become fast food such as fish and chips and burgers.

But there is one thing to say, the English side is actually very good, they can still have fish and chips, and the German side is even worse.

No one eats their authentic German food, and they treat it as a food that can only be eaten once at a banquet. Except for tourists, who eats roasted big elbows every day?
They eat all kinds of bread every day.

Toast bread for breakfast, sandwich bread for lunch, cold bread at night, all three meals are bread, and the main focus is devout ascetics.

No matter how bad the people in England eat, their breakfast is much better than the people in Germany.

You have to know that English breakfast can even be one of the most luxurious breakfasts in the world.

But none of this has anything to do with Fu Tiao, and he doesn't live in London, he just came to perform.

The subway that Fu Tiao took soon stopped at the railway station platform in the city center, King's Cross platform.

Before Fu Diao got out of the car, he could already smell the smell of fish and chips in the air.

And the mixed smell of perfume on the bodies of various people around.

London deserves to be the top city in the world, not even one of them, and the traffic here is more than one.

All kinds of trains stop here, and then drive to various places.

There is also the Eurostar train that runs through Europe and England.

Compared with Paris and Berlin, everything around is so prosperous, and even has a slight feeling of being in China.

Seeing all this, Fu Diao even felt a little bit at a loss.

Inside the station, Fu Diao didn't know why he saw a group of people crowded around several pillars to take pictures.

There was a cart half stuck in the wall, surrounded by a group of people holding carts full of luggage and making a look like they were going to hit the wall.

What kind of attraction is this place?Or……

Is this the custom of people in England?Hit the wall with your luggage trolley before you go?Hit the wall to get out?
Fu Tiao looked at these people and the 9 sign next to them and couldn't help but have question marks all over his head. He couldn't understand the behavior of these people at all.

It is only possible when it is performance art.

But then again...

Does this 9 have any special meaning?This is the platform where I first saw the score.

Many questions flashed through Fu Tiao's mind, but he was too embarrassed to ask these people what their actions meant, so he could only secretly keep these thoughts in his heart, and walked out of the station.

But before he walked out of the station, he was attracted by the billboards inside the station.

On the billboard, he seemed to see a familiar face.

He couldn't help being stunned, backed up and took a few steps, looked at the poster on the huge billboard, saw the extremely familiar expression, so familiar that he could see it every morning when he washed his face, he couldn't help being stunned.

Is this a poster for his concert?
Compared with Berlin, Brussels, and Paris, there were almost no posters for publicity, but some were placed at the entrance of the theater. My own posters... have actually been posted in the central London station?
Was Deutsche Grammophon too much money, or...

Have you become so famous without knowing it?
　I finally finished it before 12 o'clock, and I have a headache finding the information in this chapter...

　　But why no one cares about me orz
　　
　
(End of this chapter)