pianist from the sea

Chapter 99 The Second Round

When Li Diyun came to have dinner with everyone from Huaguo, the Chopin International Piano Organizing Committee also published all the information on their official website, and a brand new news was posted on the main page, letting everyone The audience can see the information from the organizing committee as soon as they open the page.

"October 2015, 8"

"Now, we know the names of the second-round finalists. "

"On October 7th, the first round of the 17th International Chopin Piano Competition was over. During the five-day competition, 20 pianists from 80 countries performed."

"Referring to the rules of the competition, the jury led by Prof. Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń announced the list of 45 candidates who entered the second round, and they came from the following 16 countries: Poland (8), China (7) , Japan (5), South Korea (5), Pretty Country (4), Russia (3), Canada (3), Italy (2), Hungary (1), France (1 ), Croatia (1), Ukraine (1), Czech Republic (1), Greece (1), Latvia (1), England (1), the following is a list of all players who entered the second round. "

"The second round will continue from 9 am on October 10th to October 12th. It will still start with B. Polish player ukasz Piotr Byrdy will be the first to play."

"The repertoire of the second round will have additional restrictions. You must play works with a strong Polish style. To ensure the accuracy of the language, we will attach all the works in the second round of competition for your reference. Among them, You have several works that must be performed."

"One: You need to perform a piece from the following list:  …"

"Two: You need to play a waltz piece from the following list:  …"

"Three: You need to play a polonaise from the following list:  …"

"The performance time of the second round will be limited to between 30 minutes and 40 minutes. All contestants are requested to control the duration of your own performance. If the performance exceeds 40 minutes, the part you did not perform will be considered unfinished , the organizing committee will forcibly stop you from continuing to play depending on the situation."

"Remarks: If you exceed 40 minutes but only the last ending is left unplayed, the total playing time does not exceed 1 minute, the timeout will be forgiven, if your time is too long, the timeout will not be forgiven, please pay special attention to the length Limit, don't cause your performance to fail because of too long time."

"Attention all contestants, this competition has been listed as a national cultural exchange project by the Polish Minister of National Cultural Heritage, all your actions will be recorded and recorded for a long time, please keep your image in front of the camera, please do not Behaving indecently."

"All audio and video recordings of this competition will be recorded in the YouTube Chopin Academy and the Chopin Audiovisual Library."

"The sponsor of this competition is the Bank of West Poland, and the main partner is the Totalizator Sportowy Foundation. The co-organizer of the competition is the Polish Radio Channel [-], and the other partners of the competition are Google, Warsaw Regent Hotel, Lexus, and Warsaw Philharmonic Hall , Technics Music, Steinway Audio, Warsaw National Paper Center, Huaguo Huawei Huawei, Official Airport Chopin Airport, Chopin International Airport Development Committee, Allianz Group, Polish TV
"The competition media partners are: Polish Radio"

"Other partners: Swiss Royal Łazienki Museum, Swiss Fengli Group, Enfu Software, Accor Hotels International, Chopin Association's partner Yamaha."

"This piano competition is provided by the following partners: Steimway, Yamaha, Kawai, Fazioli"

"Honorary Patron of the competition is Andrzej Duda, President of Poland"

This kind of information quickly spread to everyone's attention. Even if they didn't have time to watch the award ceremony of the Chopin International Piano Competition, they also knew the details of the second round of the competition at this time.

In terms of the repertoire of the competition, it is actually a second review for all contestants to see if there is any problem with their choice of repertoire.

If there is a problem, it can be changed later.

However, each of these contestants basically doesn't know how long they have been preparing for. They are extremely familiar with the repertoire required for the competition, and the chance of making mistakes is very small.

The release of this document is just a notice to everyone.

That is... I have sent you the repertoire of the second round of the Chopin International Piano Competition. If you make a mistake, don’t say I didn’t notify you, but you didn’t notice it yourself.

Simply put, this is a disclaimer.

What is more eye-catching is that there are so many sponsors of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

One of the strangest was the National Paper Center in Warsaw.

But if you know what the paper center is for, it probably won't be too strange.

What is this thing for?To put it simply... everything related to paper is under his control.

For example, what about printing banknotes, issuing certificates, and printing documents.

These are all things of the National Paper Center in Warsaw.

The certificate used to issue the entry list in the second round of the Chopin International Piano Competition was issued by the National Paper Center in Warsaw.

And the others... a lot of them are just for fun and to give some money.

For example, Huawei, such as Lexus.

Except for the advertisements you can see during the live broadcast, you can’t see anything at the scene of the game. You have no idea what they are paying for this advertisement fee.

And the Warsaw Regent Hotel...is the hotel they stayed in, the hotel they called the Chopin Hotel before.

It is said that the dinner after the game was also held in this place.

Everyone looked at the list, ignoring many strange sponsors for the time being, and directly looked at the list of players. Afterwards, they laughed and ran into Fao's live broadcast room quickly.

You must know that on the first day, Fao directly cursed the two of them to death, saying that Yu Tianyou and Fu Tiao would definitely not be able to enter the second round.

The result now?Both of them got in!
what is this?This is poisonous milk, right?

However, when they entered the live broadcast room, it was already too late, because Fao had already knelt on the ground and apologized to all the viewers.

"I apologize, my fault, my vision is too poor, my short-sightedness, my understanding of music is too low, I don't know anything..."

"But... I was really wronged!"

Fao said while kneeling, then slowly got up, looked at the tangled expressions of everyone, and shouted for injustice.

"Fu Diao is actually okay to say. When Fu Diao was able to enter the first round of the main match, I originally said that he was a bastard and had little chance to enter the second round. This is based on his performance in the qualifiers, isn't it? Tell me about it yourself, how well did you perform in the Fu Tiao qualifiers? Huh? Tell me about it yourself!"

"Fu Tiao's performance was really bad at that time. Is it strange that I made this judgment directly? If I didn't make this judgment at the time, I would be stupid."

"Did I say that when I heard Fu Tiao play for the first time, this year Fu Tiao's performance is really awesome, and Fu Tiao is the Hua country player who is most likely to enter the finals this year. All players are highly likely, did I say this? Am I right? Think for yourself if what I said is wrong.”

"But... this Yu Tianyou, I really don't know how he did it. I admit it. I don't think I misunderstood Fu Tiao. The first time I saw Fu Tiao, I knew he was awesome. Forced, but I really don't recognize Yu Tianyou, even if you force me to recognize it, I can't recognize it? Yu Tianyou really can't do well in my place!"

"If there is no miscalculation of Yu Tianyou's score, it is about 18 points, which is a very common and average value. Below this value, he should be around 50-70. He can definitely be regarded as the best performer in the second round. Poor, even if the admission of 45 people is not much different from 60, but this score is really bad! Even if he has entered the second round now, I still don't believe that he can enter the third round."

"To put it simply...the player in front of Yu Tianyou is Hua Guoyuan No. [-], and now he is the No. [-] seed. Everyone understands it. Does Xu Zi's strength need me to repeat too much? Everyone should not disagree." Do you know Xu Zi’s strength? I remember that when we were analyzing the players on the last day, Xu Zi was me, and several other friends from my side who came to be guests recognized that he was awesome. No matter who played behind him, Except for the most powerful people, such as Fu Tiao and others, no one can gain the upper hand in this position."

"And who is behind Yu Tianyou? You won't forget, right? Behind Yu Tianyou is that Yang Yike, who is from the University of Canada and a student of Deng Taishan, the judge teacher. He doesn't even need to think about it." That kind, he can definitely enter the finals, otherwise you absolutely cannot imagine how Deng Taishan would let him in."

"Here's a few words for those who don't know Deng Taishan. Deng Taishan is the judge of this year's Chopin International Piano Competition. Needless to say, his personal performance ability, he won No.1 when Argerich was a judge. , is very strong, and compared to the development of his performance, he personally prefers the development of teaching, if I remember correctly."

"Since the previous sessions, Deng Taishan's students have kept getting high rankings in the Chopin International Piano Competition, and they are getting higher and higher. Among them, except for Deng Taishan, his students are selected from the world's best Besides, his own teaching ability is also extremely outstanding, it can even be said that his teaching ability is stronger than his performance ability.”

"In this case, Yang Yike is also one of the most able to enter the finals this year, is there no problem?"

"The one in the front is a player who has a chance to enter the final, and the one in the back is a player who is almost stable in the final, with Yu Tianyou in the middle... Do you want me to say anything about this?"

Faol shouted grievances frantically, with a sad and indignant tone.

"Yu Tianyou's performance is really ordinary. There is not much difference from the works in the qualifiers, and the improvement is not great. I think there is a problem with Yu Tianyou's inability? There must be no problem, okay? , it’s useless for you to come here and mock me for predicting that none of the contestants will guess correctly, if you ask me to guess again, I will think Yu Tianyou won’t make it to the second round, okay?”

Seeing that what he said is so true, many people have already believed it. After all, Yu Tianyou's performance is really not as good as Xu Zi in the front and Yang Yike in the back. This is for sure.

However, it is uncertain how many points can be obtained. It may be slightly higher, but not too much.

The barrage also went up.

"Indeed, if you think so, I also think Yu Tianyou can't get in, no matter how you think about it, can't you?"

"But let me tell you something, does anyone know how Yu Tianyou got in?"

"It doesn't matter how Yu Tianyou got in, as long as he can get into the second round!"

"Indeed, no matter what, at least Yu Tianyou entered the second round, which happens to make our Hua country only one player less than Poland, which is not bad."

"..."

Seeing that everyone gradually changed their conversations and stopped laughing at him for knowing nothing about the game, Fao breathed a sigh of relief and looked back at the list of games.

It’s actually no problem for Polish players to occupy eight seats. After all, this is a competition for other countries’ composers. The problem is the small number of players. You must know that in the past few sessions, the championships were given to the Poles instead of other countries. .

And Dongying South Korea's players are similar to Huaguo, only half of them are left, but the proportion of South Korea is lower, which is nothing to talk about.

Several well-known players are still on the list, if they perform according to the B given by the organizing committee...

Now Fu Diao might meet Zhao Chengzhen directly?
If the two of them keep colliding and no one makes a mistake, every time the two of them collide is a focal point.

The strongest Chopin and the strongest ego.

After those who made up the numbers in the middle were eliminated, it felt like the game... was more condensed.

In addition to the focus positions of these two people, there is another focus position, that is Xu Zi and Yang Yike.

The two of them were also a relatively conflicting duel, except for Yu Tianyou who appeared from nowhere in the middle, they were almost exactly the same as Fu Tiao Zhao Chengzhen.

The duel between the two focus positions is quite pleasant, and it will also make the judges think more about the direction of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

Therefore, no matter what, these two games must be watched.

Of course, what you listen to in the Chopin International Piano Competition is definitely not confrontation. The most important thing to listen to is definitely the players' understanding and thoughts on music.

To be honest, some other top players can also listen to it.

For example, those who have the ability to enter the finals are mainly Fu Tiao, Hamelin, and Kobayashi Aishi.

These are the key points that need to be paid attention to in the second round.

Fao continued to speak a few words to the screen, and after explaining some things to the crowd, he turned off the live broadcast, returned to the room and began to relive the performance of the previous players.

He had to think carefully about whether Yu Tianyou's performance could really reach the level of the second round after removing the influence of the two players.

But compared to Yu Tianyou, what he cares more about... is Fu Tiao.

He feels that there is a special feeling in Fu Tiao's music, which is very strange and fresh.

This novelty... made it impossible for him to escape from it.

Even though the first round was over, he still wanted to listen to Fu Tiao's performance in the first round.

In addition to enjoying the shock that Fu Tiao brought him, he really wanted to study Fu Tiao's music and see how shocking Fu Tiao's music is.

……

On October 8, the results of Chopin's first round competition were announced.

Intermission on October 9th.

Everyone went where they wanted to go.

It is said that someone did not wait for the results to come out on the [-]th, so he flew directly to Paris by plane and chatted with his teacher.

There were also people who spent the past two days getting a good night's sleep.

Yu Tianyou walked around Poland, since he successfully entered the second round, he completely let go.

For him, the Chopin International Piano Competition is almost over.

If it doesn't make it to the second round, then it's the end of failure and a decade wasted.

And entered the second round, proving that the past ten years have not been in vain.

Among the young performers in the world, they are the 40 strongest Chopin performers. This name is also nice to say.

At least it sounds better than 160 people.

As for the third round, Yu Tianyou didn't have any thoughts at all, especially when he heard that he had won the second round.

Therefore, he has completely relaxed now, except for the most basic piano practice every day, the rest of the time is spent playing outside.

It sounds like a bit of a bad show, but in fact, Yu Tianyou is not the only one who is also playing around. There are many other players.

Even some players who can be considered as the reserve team for the finals didn't practice piano much.

For them, there is nothing to be learned from practicing the piano.

In just one day, what can you change?You most likely can't change anything.

Even if you practice too much, it will make your music less confident, which will lead to failure.

Therefore, the vast majority of players choose to relax, and only a few people continue to practice in the piano room.

They also practice the piano not to improve, but to maintain their state.

Fu Tiao originally wanted to continue practicing the piano, but after he sat in the piano room and couldn't get in, he returned to the hotel in a state of disrepair, looking down at the land of Warsaw.

I don't know if it's because of the government's governance or because of the condescension, but he always feels that the land in Warsaw is fresher than before.

At least the smog surrounding the entire city has dissipated a lot.

It's a pity that the weak sunlight still can't penetrate the city through the smog.

Looking at the city, Fu Tiao felt a sense of pressure for no reason, which made him not want to think too much, but just wanted to have a good rest.

Fu Tiao turned around helplessly and returned to the bed, fell into the bed with a thud, stared at the ceiling above his head and couldn't help but be dazed.

Others have their own direction, even when they are not practicing the piano, they still have their own things to do.

For example, Yu Tianyou found a tour group to visit Warsaw. He invited himself before, but he didn't agree. After all, he always felt that traveling during the competition was a bit too indulgent.

Others went to city parks.

If the weather is good and the sun is shining today, Fu Diao is actually willing to go.

It's a pity that the weather today is really mediocre, cloudy and hazy.

So what should I do?

Fu Tiao hesitated for a while, then turned around and went to the jazz bar he had been to before, listening to other people's jazz, and he also played a few times during the intermission, which was well received by everyone.

Before he could make a splash, though, he turned away, not wanting to spend most of his time on it.

After all, he had a game the next day, so he had to rest well.

Time soon came to October 10th.

The second round of the Chopin International Piano Competition officially begins.

(End of this chapter)