pianist from the sea

Chapter 221 The Glory of Cadogan
Fu Tiao had a lot of conversations with many people at the Royal Academy of Music, not only about Chopin, but also about his own thinking about music and the handling of some details.

Especially Fu Tiao's thinking about music and self-analysis, what all the students listened to was an eye-opener.

It is not a lot of experience for a musician who can basically be regarded as a famous musician to discuss his thoughts on music with them during his growth and analyze how he grew up step by step.

These are difficult to hear in the master class.

Those students listened to Fu Tiao's words, and after their discussion was over, they performed an operation almost in unison.

That is to go to the piano room.

Regardless of whether they have practiced the piano today, they all want to go to the piano room today and practice for a while.

Fu Tiao's music gave them a lot of thinking, and they also began to seriously think about what kind of interpretation their own music should be.

Fu Tiao's music is definitely not suitable for them. Fu Tiao himself said this, his music is only the most suitable for him.

Everyone has their own direction of interpretation that they are good at. There is no need for everyone to gather together and play the same music, otherwise the music will be too boring.

So what kind of interpretation direction should the music they want be?

When everyone returned to the piano room, they couldn't help but start to meditate, looking for the most suitable direction for them.

Fu Tiao, on the other hand, returned to the hotel where he lived, took a short rest, and went to the Steinway sales point the next day. After explaining the situation to the people there, he got the key to a piano room. Practice the piano in it, waiting for the performance on Saturday.

Time flies, especially with repetitive tasks.

Maybe you haven't noticed it yet, and time has disappeared without a trace.

……

Saturday, 06:30 am.

Before dawn, Fu Tiao woke up early, took a cup of coffee from the capsule coffee machine that came with the house, stood on the balcony of the house, and looked around.

This is a four-star hotel, the number of stars is not high, but the location is very good, you can see the Thames in the distance directly from the balcony.

Christmas decorations have filled the whole of London, Fu Tiao looked at it, and the Christmas lights that have not been turned off are particularly bright in the night city.

In the winter morning, it is not too early for me to wake up, but looking at the gloomy sky without any bright colors, there is always a strange refreshing feeling that I have worked so hard and started working before dawn.

Perhaps self-satisfaction?
Fu Tiao just stood on the balcony blowing the wind, thinking wildly in his head, then drank the coffee in the cup, turned around and went back to the house, put the clothes needed for today's performance in the bag smoothly, and walked away go.

He didn't dress up before going there, the main reason was that the suit was a bit cold.

This kind of clothes is most suitable to be worn in spring and summer. It will feel cold in winter and hot in summer.

Therefore, Fu Tiao chose to put on a down jacket and change it in the concert hall.

After packing everything up, he staggered towards the concert hall.

The footsteps are not in a hurry, watching London in the early morning in a slightly leisurely manner.

This place seems to be slightly similar to Huaguo. The sanitation workers have been driving garbage trucks to collect garbage from a long time ago.

Many of the migrant workers were already fully dressed and ran towards their units.

Everything is like those big cities, extremely rushed and messy.

Fu Diao seems to be somewhat incompatible with all of this.

But this is exactly the kind of feeling that Fu Tiao likes, observing the world as an outsider.

The distance from the hotel to the Cadogan Concert Hall is not far, and after only two or three steps, we have already reached the door of the house.

The conductor I saw earlier opened the door of the house, and was slowly cleaning up the garbage around the house in that place.

He didn't have any special reaction when he saw Fu Tiao's arrival, he just got up, propped up the broom in his hand, wiped off the sweat from his forehead, smiled and nodded to Fu Tiao.

"morning."

"morning!"

Fu Tiao also replied to him with a smile, and walked into the concert hall.

In the early morning, the concert hall had not yet turned on the lights, and the room was equally dark.

But this is not very important to Fu Tiao, and he will not practice in this place.

According to the address given to him by the person in charge, he walked up the stairs from the side, walked to the back of the house, which was near the big clock, and opened the door with the key.

This is his preparation room. He is the only one performing in this place tonight, so this preparation room is only used by him.

This preparation room is different from many preparation rooms seen before. There is actually a small window here, through which you can see the scenery outside the window.

Even if the view is not very good, the feeling of having windows and not having windows is completely different.

At the same time, there is a reclining chair for people to lie on their backs, a small coffee table, a wooden clothes hanger, and a brick wall that protrudes outwards on the side of the room against the wall. Marble platform of about 40 cm.

There are some bananas, apples and other fruits that can be seen in all seasons on the platform, as well as a capsule coffee machine and some mineral water for people to use.

Although it is not very expensive, but the comfort is quite comfortable.

After all, this is just a preparation room for the performers, not a hotel or an exclusive room.

Fu Tiao looked at everything in the house with great satisfaction, took out the clothes in the package, put them on the hanger, patted the folds on them lightly, made the folds as invisible as possible, then took out his music score, put it on the on the piano in front of you.

The next step is to practice the piano, continue to practice the piano, and prepare for the concert tonight.

Fu Tiao put his finger on the piano keyboard, pressed it slowly, felt the flow of the music, and thought about his own music.

Kaka…

About two hours later, around nine or ten in the morning, there was a knock on the door of the house, and the previous person in charge appeared at the door with the form in his hand.

He looked at Fu Tiao and said with a smile.

"Fu, let me confirm with you one last time. For tonight's repertoire, you plan to play Chopin's four scherzos, as well as Chopin's Mazurkas and Polonaises in the first half, numbered..."

He reported a lot of numbers, then looked at Fu Diao, and asked tentatively, "Is that right?"

"Yes, no problem."

"Okay, then I would trouble you to come here and sign for confirmation."

Fu Tiao got up and walked to the person in charge, took the form in his hand, confirmed it again, signed his name at the bottom, and handed the form back to the person in charge.

"It's signed, is there any question? For example, is there anything that needs my attention?"

"No, not anymore..."

The person in charge shook his head, and was just about to leave when he suddenly remembered something and asked Fu Tiao, "Oh, yes, I almost forgot, I just wanted to ask you, we have a video recording function here, do you want to record and archive it?" ?Because Deutsche Grammophon didn’t tell us, so I don’t know whether to archive it, but this year should be your last concert, do you want to try it?”

"Archive..."

Fu Tiao froze for a moment, groped his chin and couldn't help thinking, and then asked.

"I think you can give it a try. Does it cost money? How much?"

"It's not much, it's very cheap, especially compared to renting our concert hall, which costs only a few hundred pounds. If you need it, we can even add opening and ending credits for you."

"Is that so..."

Fu Tiao nodded silently, didn't say much, just said to him.

"You can ask Deutsche Grammophon to see what they think. I'm not responsible for this."

"Okay, then I'll ask, you continue to rest and prepare, and I will notify you before the concert starts!"

The person in charge didn't feel regretful, just smiled casually.

But just as he was about to leave, he thought of something, turned his head and said to Fu Tiao.

"Before the concert starts, in the small lobby at the front desk, the bar will be open. If you like, you can go to that place for a drink or two. Our director and the orchestra manager will also be there, everyone. Have a good chat."

"Okay, I know."

Fu Tiao smiled and closed the door, allowing the room to return to peace.

He turned his head to look at the piano in front of him, shrugged helplessly, and continued to prepare for piano practice.

For him, getting acquainted with those people is not necessary.

It was useless to meet these people until he had no intention of leaving Universal.

After all, it is very difficult to rent these large concert halls to individuals. You must have a brokerage company and let the brokerage company negotiate to make it happen.

Especially for medium and large concert halls with more than 800 people, that is, the Cadogan Concert Hall and the previous Gavo Concert Hall.

If there is no brokerage company, you must at least have a sufficiently capable broker, or you yourself are a brand to be possible.

Such as Lang Liangyue.

Fu Tiao is still attached to the Universal Company and has no intention of leaving, so he just keeps in mind what the person in charge said.

If the piano practice is finished later, he may go to the lobby to have a look.

If he hasn't practiced well enough, he probably won't go.

What matters is how prepared he is.

Fu Tiao put this matter behind him and continued to prepare his own work, waiting for the evening concert.

……

The winter sun is always fast, especially in England, which is so close to the north.

It was just after nine or ten in the morning, and it was completely dark at around four or five in the afternoon.

The Christmas lights hanging all over London's branches illuminate the city brightly.

From time to time, there was a burst of heat from the stalls on the roadside. There were vendors making crepes and churros, as well as vendors selling mulled wine.

Outside the Cadogan Concert Hall, there was already a crowd of people wrapped in coats steaming, laughing and talking casually while holding a glass of mulled wine.

The lobby inside the house was also full of people.

It's just that they didn't wear overcoats in the room, and they didn't hold mulled wine, but chose drinks such as champagne and ordinary red wine.

And occasionally a few people will choose cola or sparkling water.

At this moment, everyone is extremely excited.

Tonight is Fu Tiao's special concert in London.

As a newcomer in the music industry who is currently gaining fame, coupled with the turmoil caused by the previous concerts in Europe, this made everyone look forward to it even more.

Even when they were chatting, it was obvious that they might talk about each other's work or their vacation experiences, but as they talked, they still involuntarily turned to Fu Tiao and began to discuss tonight's performance.

"My friends, I have a hunch that tonight's concert will be extremely gorgeous!"

"Ben, you are just talking nonsense. Who doesn't know Fu's strength now? You have no way of imagining his influence on Europa."

"It's not the performance season recently, there are very few people performing, and it's winter recently, many people have returned to their hometowns for Christmas, so Fu's influence has become even greater."

"I think that even in the major music festivals next year, all the top pianists will start giving solo concerts, and Fu can still take the lead among those musicians!"

"My friend has heard Fu's performance in Paris. According to him, Fu's Chopin is good enough to catch up with Chopin's first-class pianists. Even those top-class pianists, the gap between Fu and them is just a miracle level scene."

"Yes, compared to those top pianists, Fu's biggest advantage is his stability. I'm really curious what kind of scene Fu can show tonight."

"..."

A mess of voices mingled in the room, and everyone was discussing fiercely what Fu Diao could show tonight.

From time to time, some people ran from the house to the outside to discuss with everyone.

The entire concert hall was extremely lively.

Fu Tiao has also finished his practice at this moment, and his fingers can be regarded as extraordinarily relaxed, and they have fully moved.

He was about to go to the lobby of the concert hall to have a chat with the manager of the concert hall mentioned by the person in charge before, when he saw that there were already so many people in the room, he couldn't help but take two steps back.

Stand in the shade from the side.

It's not that he doesn't want to chat and toast with so many audiences, it's just because he is still brewing emotions, if suddenly a large number of people surround him, there is a high probability that his emotions will break down a little.

Then it's not very good to play.

So he just glanced at it and prepared to leave.

Just as he was about to leave, the person in charge came over at this moment, just looking at the back of Fu Tiao who was about to leave, he immediately followed quickly, leaned over and asked with a smile.

"Fu! How are you preparing? Did you see the people gathering outside? Everyone is looking forward to your performance over there. I haven't seen so many people coming for a long time. Even the tickets for the Royal Symphony Orchestra, Not so many are sold."

He looked nostalgic: "Fu, your influence is really very good, even today our drinks are much better than usual."

"Well, I see, but there are not too many people coming here."

Mediator Fu stopped, looked at the people in the lobby behind him, and saw the group of people chatting outside the house through the crack of the door, and shook his head slightly.

"Your concert hall can accommodate a hundred people less than what I could accommodate in Berlin and Paris before, and it's not as good as my performance in the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam before, so I don't have many people. Feel."

"..."

The person in charge who seemed a little excited at first was almost choked to death by Fu Tiao.

He also turned his head and glanced at the dense crowd behind him, watched them toasting and chatting, and then glanced at Fu Tiao with a sincere face, suddenly he didn't know what to say.

Indeed, their concert hall is indeed a little less crowded than Berlin, Amsterdam, and Paris.

But Paris is only about [-] people more than them. The gap between the two sides is not too big, is it?
Thinking of this, he glanced at Fu Tiao with a complicated expression, and then sighed.

"Well, what you said is indeed correct. The number of people on our side is indeed not as good as other places, dozens of people less than them, but the number of people in this place is also the highest limit we can reach. We haven't had such a grand event for a long time Anyway, thank you for your performance, when we agreed to the invitation from Deutsche Grammophon, we never imagined that it would become what it is now."

He thought for a while and added.

"Fu, your influence is really great, so I hope you must persevere, practice hard, and let yourself move towards a more successful direction."

"After all, the foundation you have laid on your tour in Europe can really be regarded as a very solid category, especially from our point of view, your commercial value will inevitably increase significantly after your tour. promote."

After that, he reached out and patted Fu Tiao, grinning.

"Although the chances of cooperation may not be great in the future, I hope you can continue to work hard and move towards a higher level of musicians."

"Thank you."

Fu Tiao smiled and nodded at him, turned his head randomly and walked towards the backstage of the concert hall.

Boom!
thump...

thump...

The church bell rang, and it was eight o'clock.

Everyone felt something immediately, and all the people who were still outside also entered the concert hall, took off their coats for storage, and stepped into their seats.

And the group of people who were already inside also returned the wine glasses and entered their positions.

The lights on the roof gradually went out, and the huge spotlights locked everyone's eyes on the piano that was so dark that it reflected light in the center of the stage.

Under the gaze of everyone, the stage door on the side of the stage was opened by the staff, and Fu Tiao's figure appeared behind the door.

boom!
The applause sounded instantly, and under the support of countless applause, Fu Tiao stepped forward, landed in front of the piano, and bowed slightly.

　In the first two chapters, I felt that everyone’s feedback was not good, so I just skipped it and started writing the concert directly.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)