pianist from the sea

Chapter 328: Hats off!The genius has appeared!

Fu Tiao never imagined that so many people could gather in the concert hall at this time.

When he got off the car, he looked at the group of fans surrounding the concert hall and was even startled.

Fortunately, compared to fans of girl groups or fans of some young idol groups, fans of classical music are more restrained.

Therefore, they just called Fu Diao's name and greeted him, without doing anything particularly excessive.

Seeing them like this, Fu Diao did not reject their idea. He also smiled and waved at them, indicating that he heard their voices, and continued walking towards the concert hall.

In the concert hall, the previous person in charge of the concert hall was already standing there waiting. When he saw Fu Diao coming over, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. He quickly walked to Fu Diao and complained to Fu Diao.

"Fu, you have no idea how popular you are! My God, the whole of France, no, the whole of Hesse is almost crazy for you. It's really scary. I haven't seen a scene like today for a long time! It’s just a miracle.”

"Really?" Fu Diao said with a smile as he walked towards the concert hall: "It was also the first time that I was stopped outside the concert hall. I originally thought that so many people would come at night. , but I didn’t expect that it’s only two or three o’clock in the afternoon, so many people are standing outside, and they even caught me.”

"Yes, our old opera house often arranges various concert halls and invites many top pianists, but there are still too few like today."

"Maybe it's because I'm a newcomer and they haven't seen me before?"

"Maybe, the last time such a scene happened was when Lang Liangyue came, but most of the people outside at that time were people from your Chinese country, and there were very few Europeans, but it was different today. I went out at that time When I took a look, I found that the number of Europeans was far beyond my imagination, but there were not many Chinese."

"Is that so?" Fu teased: "Perhaps Lang Liangyue is more like a star than a musician?"

"Classical music star? Hahahaha, that's true, but even if he is a star, he is also the most professional star among classical music performers, right?"

"Indeed, Lang Liangyue's level and strength are indeed worthy of him becoming a star of classical music. He is indeed very strong at his limit. I have played with him before, and his level of strength is far beyond imagination."

"But when he came last time, he didn't sell tickets like you do now~ One thing to say is that before you go to the ticket hall in front, there are so many people there. It's really scary. I never thought that , surprisingly the tickets are sold out and there are still so many people buying tickets there.”

"So do you still have room for them here? They can't just wait there, right?"

"Of course not. It's such a pity. When I opened the tickets, I just put all the tickets up without selling them in stages. Now I don't even have a chance to make amends. It's a pity... But they will still have them after the opening. Opportunity."

"Huh? Opportunity? If the tickets are not all sold out, where is the opportunity?"

"After the opening, we will sell backstage standing tickets, which means standing at the very back of the concert hall. There are probably dozens of standing tickets without seats. I don't know, but people will be allowed in depending on the situation."

"When the standing tickets are sold out, are you going to sell squat tickets, party tickets, and hanging tickets?"

"Hahaha, that definitely won't..."

"..."

Everyone walked past the backstage area chatting and laughing, and soon arrived at the stage of the concert hall.

Here, the piano selected by Fu Tiao has been placed in the concert hall in advance, waiting for his use.

Fu Tiao stepped forward and ran through a few etudes. After confirming that there were no problems, he nodded.

"Okay, there's no problem. Just leave the piano here and don't need to continue to adjust it."

"Okay, I'll tell the piano tuner what exactly are you going to play tonight? I'm really curious."

"You haven't listened to my advance rehearsal? I remember you were here? You listened for a long time and sat in the last row very far away."

"I'm sitting so far away and you can see it? Well..." The person in charge scratched his head awkwardly, and then whispered: "I must have heard it, but the feeling when you say it is definitely different."

"Well, it's actually a very simple work. No, to be precise, it should be a very interesting one."

Fu Tiao's fingers crossed the piano, and after pressing a note at random, he smiled at the person in charge.

"Don Juan."

"..."

Time soon came to night.

Countless people gathered around the concert hall, and many tourists from out of town even thought that there would be some kind of activities here at night, so they also walked in.

The ticket office in the concert hall also stopped operating at this time, and instead opened the concert hall to everyone.

People gathered outside and inside the concert hall, making the surrounding traffic even a little inconvenient.

However, this still did not stop the audience's enthusiasm.

They waited with great anticipation for the time to come.

The time quickly went from three or four o'clock to 07:30.

when!
The bells inside the concert hall rang, the door of the concert hall opened, and people poured into the concert hall.

People outside the concert hall also followed the crowd into the concert hall.

They did not choose to continue eating and drinking in Frankfurt's old opera house and wait for the concert to start completely, but chose to take their seats directly.

After all, just outside the old opera house is Goethestrasse, where there are food and drinks everywhere. They had already eaten enough, and what they were looking forward to now was Fu Tiao's next performance.

The time was getting closer and closer to eight o'clock, and the voices they were still communicating with gradually became quieter. They stared at the edge of the stage and looked at the backstage of the concert hall where a gap was opened.

Countless eyes were watching here, and the staff at the backstage of the concert hall who were looking towards the audience seats couldn't help but swallow.

He feels the pressure.

When I was working backstage in other places before, the pressure was actually not that great.

But this place is the Frankfurt Old Opera House. It is a very old concert hall in itself. The place is not big, so there are very many people packed in and it seems densely packed.

At the same time, it is not a concert for other musicians, but a concert for Fu Tiao.

He didn't know what Fu Diao had done to make so many people like him so much.

Obviously other musicians need to use lights to indicate that the concert is about to start before they go on stage, so that the audience will pay attention to the backstage of the concert hall.

But now the lights haven't been turned on and the concert hasn't started yet, so there are so many people staring at the entrance.

The pressure doubles.

It's really a bit scary.

The staff member looked at the other staff members around him and sighed with a bitter look on his face.

"Today's concert felt so stressful. I can't even imagine how I would look on stage. If it were me, how shaking would I be on stage?"

"Yeah, I was originally thinking about what to say. I can be considered a professional musician who graduated from the Conservatory of Music. After all, I also thought that I would be able to stand on this stage one day. But like today, I can't even stand on the stage. There are no thoughts on stage, this is the first time..."

"Tsk tsk, it's okay. You have to believe in yourself. You can't stand on such a powerful stage. You are more likely to go to the Mozart Concert Hall next door, which is the Chamber Music Hall to perform. The pressure on you there will not be so great. .”

"I...I thank you."

"Hahaha, don't think too much. After all, I feel the same way. The pressure today is really great, especially for the Dorset people, the construction of the concert hall is very tight. It is simply scary."

"Yeah, I almost want to change my job."

"..."

The two of them chatting quietly did not affect the work at hand in the slightest.

Following the opera house's operating manual, they gradually dimmed the concert hall lights and brightened the stage lights to tell the audience that Fu Tiao was about to appear.

After setting other lighting options, he was ready to go to the preparation room to remind Fu Diao that he was about to take the stage.

But he didn't expect that Fu Tiao was already standing in the background at this moment.

"Fu, Mr. Fu, everything is ready. When the eight o'clock bell rings, you can come on stage at any time."

After the two looked at each other, one of them spoke to Fu Diao.

Fu Tiao looked at the two of them, nodded with a smile, and responded.

"Well, okay, I see."

After saying that, he stood at the door of the concert hall's backstage and looked at the audience in the concert hall in the direction where the two people had looked.

The audience was densely packed, oppressing the small concert hall like a dark cloud.

Even just looking at it makes people feel depressed.

Fu Diao couldn't help but let out a breath, shook his head helplessly, and rubbed his wrist.

Fu Tiao had no idea that the sight of him rubbing his wrists backstage was completely in the public eye.

He looked so relaxed and freehand, and his whole body was full of confidence.

They looked at Fu Diao with envy and admiration, and couldn't help but whisper to each other.

"Sure enough, this is Fu."

"It's so handsome. It would be great if I could have Fu's strength."

"This confidence in this person is simply natural."

"He really does look like a great musician!"

"Look, the way he lowers his head slightly looks like Chopin?"

"The eyes are full of sorrow, so deep and fascinating."

"On a stage as stressful as today, I feel like only Fu Diao can be on it."

"Anyway, I know that Argerich will most likely be difficult to get into, because she hates pressure. For Argerich in this kind of stressful situation, it's a bit..."

"..."

It's just that at this moment, Fu Tiao was thinking about nothing else.

He was just a little emotional.

The preparation room of Frankfurt's old opera house is really too old.

Inside is a very ordinary preparation room, with a piano and a chair, and nothing else.

It even felt worse than being in the preparation room for the Chopin International Piano Competition.

At least there's more space over there.I really miss the Elb Concert Hall in Hamburg.

It's a beautiful thing to enjoy the sea breeze, bask in the sun, and play the piano in your hands easily and comfortably.

When can I go back to Hamburg to play again?

It would be great if I could sign a contract with the Hamburg Elb Symphony Orchestra.

I hope Munich’s concert hall can give me a little surprise.

Fu Diao shook his head, glanced at the time, and found that it was already eight o'clock, so he spoke to everyone.

"Okay, I'm ready to go, help me turn on the route light."

"Okay, Mr. Fu!"

The crowd immediately responded and the lights from backstage to the piano were turned on.

Whoa!
Along with the lights came countless applause.

The crowd who had been waiting for a long time immediately applauded with great force and looked at the backstage entrance of the concert hall with extremely expectant eyes.

Under their sight, the backstage door of the concert hall slowly opened, and Fu Diao's figure emerged inside.

After adjusting his suit a little, he walked to the center of the stage with a smile, waved to everyone, and then bowed vigorously.

Whoa!
The applause became more enthusiastic.

Under such warm applause, Fu Tiao sat on his chair, stretched out his palm slightly and pressed down on the crowd.

As if the stop button had been pressed, the sounds in the concert hall immediately disappeared, leaving only the sound of everyone's breathing.

Very quiet.

Under this fund, Fu Tiao looked at the keyboard in front of him, took a deep breath, and spoke slowly.

“Variations on Là ci darem la mano”

"Friedrich Chopin, opus: 2, Mozart's Don Giovanni Theme, Variations."

When he finished speaking, his hands were already placed on the piano keyboard, hovering over the keyboard without pressing it.

Under the gaze of everyone, Fu Diao's fingers floated up in an invisible way, then landed on the piano keyboard like a free fall.

hum...

A soft, indifferent voice sounded.

This is the popular duet "Please Stretch Out Your Hand" from Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni"

Là ci darem la mano aria
Variations are variations.

This fragment has been adapted by many composers. Apart from this one by Chopin, the most famous one is Liszt's "Memories of Don Juan".

But Liszt is a combination of many song arias, while Chopin only used this one aria alone.

The unique harmonic vocabulary, Chopin-style processive sentence processing, and the ingenious arrangement of the music made Chopin's style and Mozart's music seamlessly combined, paving the way for Chopin's future piano career abroad.

However, because it was greatly influenced by the brilliant piano performance school headed by Liszt at that time, this piece was written with a touch of brilliance.

And Fu Tiaobian also knew this.

When his fingers fell, he had already started to show off his skills.

It is obviously just a single-note melody, but he uses the technique of pianissimo to wrap the beauty in the music.

Like a balloon.

Smooth and smooth.

The same goes for the movement of the following chords.

His fingers ran so gently on the piano.

Pull this beginning of beauty into the piano.

Release slowly.

The sound of every piano seems so clear and thorough.

It makes people feel the extraordinarily beautiful feeling in the music from their hearts.

The main melody echoes in Fu Diao's hands, rising and falling continuously.

Every ounce of power in the music is full of restraint.

hum...

A simple vibrato can seem to tremble into people's hearts, almost making goose bumps appear.

Pretty.

really gorgeous.

The beauty in music is interpreted to the extreme by Fu Diao.

His music makes it hard to believe that such soft music could come from the hands of someone like Fu Diao.

His fingers traced across the piano keyboard, like a caress on a lover's skin.

Dreamy.

It tugs at the heartstrings.

It seems that he is enjoying his lover's love in a dream.

They feel that this kind of music should really correspond to a soft and beautiful woman.

But it's not a man like Fu Tiao.

No, no, no...wait?
Everyone suddenly realized one thing, that was Chopin.

This feeling is very Chopin.

They suddenly realized that what Fu Diao had just played was very Chopin.

That soft feeling in the music.

Although he is obviously a man, his music has a hint of feminine tenderness.

This goosebump-inducing feeling is very Chopin.

As for Fu Tiao, it is obvious that he is a master at playing Chopin.

He is the winner of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

His interpretation of Chopin's ballads has almost reached the highest peak in history.

With the emotional understanding, everyone's eyes couldn't help but light up.

The feeling of this musical interpretation is really great.

As expected, it is indeed Fu Diao, and it is indeed Fu Diao’s Chopin.

The feeling of the music flowing like waves in the ocean is really great.

But the next second.

The dreamlike feeling in the music was instantly broken.

Thick chords broke the tranquility of the music.

The two are competing against each other.

Fu Diao carefully combined Chopin's content with Mozart's content.

The two appear in front of everyone in a form of integration and confrontation.

The combination of the two combines Chopin's unique lyrical nature and epic epic nature.

Together they formed the Chopin's Don Juan Variations that appeared in front of everyone.

However, this is just the beginning.

The music has not yet completely entered the variation section of the Don Juan Variations.

The most important content of this section is Chopin, not Mozart.

The light and dark in the music collide with each other, and the emotions are gradually transforming.

Under this theme, countless characteristics unique to Chopin burst out.

These characteristics are particularly brilliant when combined with Fu Diao's personal musical characteristics.

Sure enough, this is Chopin.

Sure enough, this is Fu Tiao.

This piece is worthy of being Chopin's most famous work.

Faced with such a work and Fu Tiao's performance.

For the first time, everyone understood the inscriptions of this piece by Clara and Schumann.

Perhaps only Chopin played by a pianist like Fu Diao can be worthy of such an inscription.

"Gentlemen and ladies, put aside your pride and bow with me before Chopin's great talent, noble purpose and his masterful works!"

"Everyone, please take off your hat! Because..."

"The genius has appeared!"

(End of this chapter)