pianist from the sea

Chapter 329 Why is Fu Diao so strong?
Chopin's "Don Juan Variations" is Chopin's second work. It was originally composed by Chopin for piano and orchestra, and was later adapted into a piano solo version.

Due to Fu Diao's personal reasons, he did not have much time to work with the orchestra, so he did not choose to play the concerto version, but chose the solo version that everyone is hearing now.

Among Chopin's early works, this version is of relatively high quality, and it is also Chopin's most famous work.

When the piece was published, Clara Wieck became the first pianist other than Chopin himself to perform it publicly.

Schumann, who was 21 years old at the time, was so moved that he wrote a music review that is still talked about in Leipzig's "Public Music Magazine" in December 1831.

"Gentlemen, please take off your hat... I bow before Chopin's great talent, noble goals and his masterful works!" This was also the first time that Chopin's compositional talent was officially recognized.

It was also the first time that Chopin appeared on the stage of world classical music.

Showing his talents to everyone.

The same is true for Fu Tiao.

Although his debut was not Don Juan, it really established his status in the classical music circle. His true debut work was Chopin.

In the past few years, Fu Tiao has been practicing Chopin.

He never stopped practicing Chopin.

Whether it's Chopin's ballads, etudes, or other types of works, such as Barcarolle and Polonaise.

He keeps practicing to make his music more precise.

And these exercises together created the way I play Chopin's Fu tunes now.

If you let him participate in the Chopin International Piano Competition again, there will be no suspense. He can even finish the entire competition with the highest score.

He could even go out and give a few concerts while studying for the Chopin International Piano Competition.

At this moment, every bit of his fingers running on the piano keyboard is imprinted with his understanding of Chopin and his thoughts on music.

You can't even imagine what it would be like if he played a little more or a little less music.

It seems that when the music reaches this point, it should be played according to Fu's tune.

Only the performance of Fu Diao is the most correct form of music.

Perfect, shocking.

Everyone looked at Fu Tiao who was playing on the piano in front of them in disbelief. They even felt that the person appearing now was not Fu Tiao but Chopin.

Chopin was famous throughout Europe at that time.

Now, Fu Tiao's performance is famous throughout Europe.

Under their gaze, Fu Diao's fingers were not slender, but looked particularly strong and powerful.

The beauty in his music is so beautiful that it doesn't look like it flows from such fingers.

It is different from what many people imagined.

Many people may think that those white, slender, and even particularly soft fingers are particularly suitable for playing the piano. Even when they see someone showing off their hands like this in some videos, they will say that their hands are suitable for playing the piano.

but……

When they actually play the piano and reach a certain level, their hands will basically look like Fu Tiao.

Strong and powerful.

You can very clearly feel the power flowing through his fingers, and you can even see the muscles working in his fingers while playing.

His nails are not as long as those of people with particularly beautiful hands.

Instead, it will be a bit shorter than a finger.

The muscles on the fingertips perfectly protect the nails, so that when the piano is played, the sound will not have too many collisions between the nails and the piano keyboard.

It's hard to say how beautiful Fu Diao's fingers are, but you can definitely say that Fu Diao's hands are just like piano playing hands.

He can easily control the power of his fingers,

Only from such hands can such beautiful Chopin be displayed.

Fu Tiao controls everything in the piano, making the music as soft and beautiful as possible.

Underneath the seemingly calm music, there is an extremely terrifying level of difficulty.

Just like the devil.

The control of this finger strength is simply incredible.

And under such softness, the music officially entered the first theme variation.

hum!
The sound of the piano sounded.

A multi-part ensemble emerges above the piano.

Because there is only a piano, the music presented on the piano will need to be like Bach's three-part and four-part twelve equal temperaments.

Show the layering of the music as much as possible.

Chopin used his own language to interpret Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Fu Tiao used his own style to interpret Chopin's music.

The two are superimposed on each other, and the music is filled with brilliance without losing the flavor of the original song itself.

At this time, no one realized how powerful Fu Diao was.

After all, many of the contents displayed by Fu Diao are still hidden under the music and not presented.

Especially for this multi-part music, if you don’t know much about music, it’s hard to tell how difficult this control is.

To put it simply, all the parts of the piano and the orchestra are placed on the piano, and only one person is used to play them.

Not only do you need to play the feeling of the original piano, you also need to play the orchestra part so that it does not just become a simple accompaniment, but has its own content.

In other words, you need to make at least three people's parts on the piano, and you also need to highlight the parts of each of the three people. You cannot only show one person and abandon the others.

You can imagine how difficult this is.

It's just that such difficulties can't be heard at all under Fu Diao's fingers.

Lift weights lightly.

Freehand.

This is Fu Tiao!

It's just a pity that the presentation of this music only shocked many professionals, and for some people who just joined in the fun, it just sounded good.

However, the next second, the audience who just thought it sounded good could not help but be stunned, and then felt shocked.

Because the second variation has already sounded.

Compared with the first variation, the speed of the second variation has soared so much.

It can even be said to be a complete surge.

It is still a multi-part performance that is not much different from before.

But this time the note duration of the lower part is a quarter of what it was before.

In other words, where one note was originally played, they became four notes.

Fu Tiao's fingers ran quickly on the piano keyboard.

Those sitting at the front looked at Fu Diao's fingers and couldn't help but freeze.

Lucas was completely stunned.

For the first time, he felt that it was his honor to be able to buy the tickets at the front of the Fu Tiao concert.

What kind of luck did I have to be able to buy such a ticket?

He sat at the front, looking at Fu Tiao's fingers flying on the piano, and his brain was even a little confused.

Can the piano still be played like this?
Fingers, can you still play the piano like this?
What kind of monster is in front of me?
He was sitting at the front, and he couldn't even grasp what Fu Diao was playing.

Because in front of him, he even felt that he could not see clearly the workings of Fu Diao's fingers.

Yes, he really couldn't see Fu Tiao's fingers running clearly.

He sat in the front position and could see very clearly.

But he really couldn't understand how Fu Tiao moved his hands.

As soon as my fingers passed by, the sound of the piano emerged.

In those parts that were played particularly fast, Fu Diao's fingers almost disappeared.

His hands seemed to be flying on the piano.

It's even like turning on a player piano.

Just pretending on the piano.

If he hadn't just seen Fu Tiao playing slowly before, Fu Tiao's fingers were still on the piano, he really felt that Fu Tiao was performing magic again.

Why can human fingers be so fast?

And can independence be so high?

In front of him, every finger of Fu Diao seemed to have its own thoughts.

This feeling is especially strong when playing at slow speeds.

He simply couldn't understand what Fu Tiao did.

He put his fingers on the armrest beside him and tentatively studied with Fu Tiao.

He hasn't learned everything yet, just the simplest one, vibrato with four or five fingers.

That is to say, four or five fingers are pressed continuously and alternately, and one, two, and three fingers are placed on the handle and cannot move.

He just tried casually, but found that his finger seemed to have cancer or was sawed off, and there was no way to remove the adhesion in his finger.

He couldn't even do the most basic alternation.

Sometimes even one, two or three fingers will be raised involuntarily.But what about Fu Tiao?

Not only can he vibrato with four or five fingers with incredible smoothness.

Even his first, second and third fingers can play a melody at the same time.

It was already so difficult for him to just control his one, two, and three fingers not to move. Fu Tiao could still play the melody while not moving.

This level of strength is really...

"Shocking..."

Lucas spoke involuntarily.

He looked at Fu Diao in front of him in disbelief, unable to believe what he was seeing.

Fu Tiao's level of strength is too terrifying.

He heard Fu Diao's divine performance before and knew that Fu Diao's piano playing was good, but he only thought that Fu Diao's performance was good.

Before, he was sitting in the far corner of the concert hall, so his feelings were not particularly deep.

At most, it's the same as when I just saw the news about Fu Tiao.

I was suddenly awakened from the fact that the pianist was Fu Tiao.

That's it.

But now, his concept has changed.

For the first time, he felt that Fu Diao's level of strength was so strong.

I felt Fu Tiao's strength very intuitively.

This timbre quality?

The controllability of this finger?
How expressive is this music?

He has always felt that he is just a layman, and at most he listens to more classical music.

He is not an expert and cannot distinguish the subtle differences between several pianists.

But now, for the first time, he felt the charm of music.

The charm of music when different pianists show their musical works.

This presentation of Chopin is really shocking.

It was so shocking that his whole brain was slightly numb.

Now it's just the second variation.

And soon, the music entered the third variation.

By the time of the third variation, the music was no longer the ordinary right-hand main melody, and he added more musical movements.

As mentioned at the beginning of the music, this piece of Chopin's work, or Chopin's early works, were influenced by many other pianists and musicians.

Especially affected by the glorious and gorgeous wind of that year.

That is to say, Liszt's group of people particularly like the influence of showing off their skills.

This piece of his work also began to use more virtuoso content.

If we simply discuss the difficulty of music, this piece definitely belongs to the most virtuoso among Chopin's works.

Therefore, the music becomes more brilliant as it continues.

Fu Tiao's fingers were almost as fast as the wind on the piano.

With just a random scratch, a series of brilliant tones burst out from his fingers.

Step by step lotus.

Every step of the fingers brings an extremely bright presentation.

Lucas was completely shocked.

He didn't know what to say at all.

He had never imagined that observing a pianist so closely could give him such a big shock.

Is this Chopin?
Is this Fu Tiao?
Chopin played by Fu is really...

so perfect!

Not just Lucas, but everyone else around him too.

Whether they are people who understand Fu Diao music or people who don't understand Fu Diao music, they can all feel it.

That is gorgeous.

There has always been a joke about how to evaluate a person's artistic level.

When he plays the piano, it depends on how fast he plays, when he sings, it depends on how high he sings, and when he draws, it depends on how well he draws.

Although such an evaluation method is too one-sided for the art itself, it is so one-sided that it is difficult to recognize it as a standard for artistic judgment.

But for many people.

The way to evaluate a person's piano level is really to see how fast he plays.

The best way to show off your skills is to play something that is particularly fast.

The Don Juan Variations now in Fu Diao's hands is a very representative piece of this type of work.

And even people who don't have much taste in music can still tell how professional Fu Diao's music is.

For the group of professional art evaluators in the audience, it is even more shocking.

Among the two thousand seats at the Old Opera House in Frankfurt, there are more than a dozen classical music critics from different places.

They look excited.

What is a classical music critic?

To put it simply, they are the kind of people whose professional level is relatively average, and they will definitely not be able to play the piano well.

But they write well, and their ability to appreciate music is among the best.

Basically all music magazines are written by them.

Many people are even special guests of a music magazine.

The kind of person who needs to submit a manuscript on time every month.

This kind of people basically run around all over Europe.

But they will also gather in certain major music cities and use them as their base.

Berlin, where Fu Tiao was previously located, is one of them.

And the same is true for Flan.

Because France is the hometown of many of them and their main base, many people rushed to buy tickets when they saw the information about Fu Tiao concert tickets and chose the best location to listen to Fu Diao. Play in tune.

Regarding Fu Diao, they all maintained a calm attitude at first.

They have only listened to Fu Diao's albums, such as the most popular one recently, "Fu Diao in the Ruhr", and only this one.

They will not listen to Fu Tiao's "Chopin International Piano Competition Champions Concert" album at all.

After all, Fu Tiao was still young at the time. Even if he became the first in the Chopin International Piano Competition, he was just a newcomer to their group.

Unless the sales of a newcomer's album explode, it's really not worth listening to.

After hearing Fu Diao's album "Fu Diao in the Ruhr", many of them simply recognized Fu Diao's quality as a top musician.

A top musician with a strong professional level.

It's not bad to be able to perform at a divine level.

This god-level venue won the annual award at the Ruhr Piano Festival, well, it’s normal.

And it doesn’t seem to be a big problem to get the qualification to replace Pollini’s performance through the best of the year at the Ruhr Piano Festival.

After all, many music critics who have only listened to Fu Diao's albums and have not heard Fu Diao's performances really have no particular liking for Fu Diao.

This time Fu Tiao came to Frankfurt's Old Opera House to hold a concert, and many music critics actually came with the idea of ​​​​basic manuscripts.

They have seen many, many top-level pianists, and it is not like they have never seen the kind of pianist who overturned countless times after playing a god-level performance.

Fu Diao is so young, it is definitely easy for him to have some problems.

So there is no need to take it seriously at all.

All they can say is...

They originally thought so.

After all, for them, bullying a young person is too young, which is actually very common in the classical music world.

Think about it, as a young man, what are you going to use to fight against those old men and women?

Although the piano skills of those old men and women have declined due to age, their understanding of music is simply explosive.

The food you eat doesn’t have as much salt as others, so how can you surpass those old men and women?
It would be nice if I came over to listen to your concert and write an article about it.

But now, after hearing Fu Diao's musical performance, all of their minds have changed.

Is this Fu Tiao?
Is this Fu Tiao?

This person who is playing on the stage, whose musical performance perfectly matches their imagination of Chopin, and who also has a strong personal style and is so powerful... is Fu Tiao?

The professional skills of this finger are at their peak, and their understanding of music is also at their peak. In some aspects, they are not inferior to those old men and women. The Chopin in their hands can even be regarded as the authoritative version. Just listen to a short paragraph and it will be clear. You can hardly find any top pianist who makes any mistakes that can serve as a model for students to demonstrate.

Is it Fu Tiao?
Are you really sure you're not kidding?

Why is Fu Diao so strong!
(End of this chapter)