The world's number one pianist

After He Shen left the stage, the crowd below the stage was still cheering, making it difficult for the next contestant to find a suitable time to appear.

And when he finally found an opportunity to appear, all the audience's expectations of him were too high, which made his psychological pressure too high again.

Although he did not appear in a scene similar to the previous girl who failed to play on the stage.

However, his performance was still not very satisfactory, and unfortunately he left the stage with a very poor score.

Although he did not know his score, he could see it from the state of the scene.

His performance was very bad.

His journey to the Chopin International Piano Competition may also come to an end here.

There was no way to do this. The pressure He Shen gave him in the front was really too great, so great that he didn't know what to say for a while.

Not only him, at this moment, the hearts of all the contestants in the backstage waiting room could not help but speed up.

Beating very hard.

Nervous, especially nervous.

Under the pressure given by He Shen, they became very nervous, and most of them were shaking.

He Shen made the live tune of the concert too high, so high that they couldn't take it for a while.

Therefore, they could only leave the stage helplessly and face failure.

This situation was not relieved until two or three contestants left the stage with pale faces.

Most of the audience realized at this time.

Not everyone has the strength to win the championship.

In fact, most of the contestants are just very ordinary performers.

And now it is only the first round of the competition. There is still a lot of gap from the later competitions. At least 40 people have to be eliminated!

Therefore, it is normal that the current competition is not particularly good.

With the change of the mentality of the audience, the tense atmosphere in the concert hall was relieved very well.

At this time, everyone slowly breathed a sigh of relief and played their own works peacefully.

As for the previous contestants who failed to perform directly because of He Shen's overpowering pressure...

Who would care about them?

Most people only remember the winners' rankings, for example, everyone knows Argerich, Zimmermann, Li Diyun, and some particularly powerful pianists.

As for the contestants behind, basically, except for people from their own country, people from other countries rarely care about them.

The main reason why Chinese people know Chen Sa is because Chen Sa and Li Diyun won two of the top six places in the Chopin International Piano Competition.

One first, one fourth.

It is precisely because of this that they remember Chen Sa who ranked behind.

It is really difficult for others to be remembered by everyone.

Even if you may remember the second and third place winners of the competition now, what about decades or a hundred years later?

At that time, unless they can really make a way in the classical music industry.

If not, their names can be remembered by even fewer people!

It may even disappear directly.

Just write the name of the winner in a certain entry.

There is not even a personal entry, just a very ordinary name hanging there, becoming the background board of the champion...

As the Chopin International Piano Competition continues, the concert scene is getting more and more lively, and the strength of the contestants who appear later is getting stronger and stronger.

Countless contestants behind, stimulated by He Shen, began to give up all their hiding, and showed their strongest strength to all the judges.

They dare not hide their strength at all now.

If they hide it now, what should they do in the finals of the competition later?

In the first round, everyone will hold back a little bit and let their strength slowly show.

How could someone suddenly play so well and directly raise the level of the competition to a higher level?

Therefore, if they don’t show their level now, they will calculate the overall score in the finals later.

They might be eliminated just a little bit short?

Therefore, everyone brought out all their strength and put it on the stage.

The level of the Chopin International Piano Competition has been directly raised to several levels under the interpretation of everyone.

It was so high that they found it hard to believe for a moment.

One judge even tweeted after the competition.

"This year's competition may be the one with the highest quality in history!"

"Starting from He Shen from China, his performance shocked everyone. There is such a young contestant who can play so well when playing music, and can make the music present so many changes in his hands!"

"The depth of his music even makes people doubt his age. They suspect that he is definitely not an ordinary 20-something, but an old monster who traveled through time, or he is possessed by an old monster. His real age must have reached 40 years old, or even older!"

"After He Shen finished playing, I almost thought that this competition might end directly, because He Shen's interpretation was so beautiful that we directly decided to make him the champion. At this time, the next contestant came out!"

"This contestant has a slightly bad background. He is a disciple of Deng Songshan in our jury!"

"According to common sense, when we judge the students of these judges, we may slightly reduce the scores. After all, they have the home advantage. They learn from the judges of the Xiaosai. It is easy for them to know our preferences and play the piano according to our preferences."

"However, this contestant named Bruce (Yu) Liu, his musical expression directly reminded me of He Shen!"

"One is pure Chopin, which completely separates himself from "I want to make myself a Chopin and play like Chopin!"

"And this Bruce (Yu) Liu, when he interprets music, has a very strong personal shadow in it, which makes all the judges have to admire his perfect performance!"

"If these two people can compete on the same day, that would be great, so that I can clearly distinguish which of the two people here interprets more excitingly!"

"Unfortunately, we don't have such an opportunity to let these two people meet..."

"If I guess correctly, the official meeting of these two players may have a little chance until the finals."

"..."

In addition to this judge who evaluated He Shen and Liu Yu, other judges also expressed their views on the competition on a certain Twitter account.

Their views are mostly the same.

They believe that He Shen's performance in the preliminary round, that is, the first round, directly shocked all of them, and even believed that He Shen is definitely the player with the most hope of winning the Chopin International Piano Competition this year.

But Bruce Liu, also known as Liu Yu, who came later, and the one from Japan, Fan Tian Kyohei.

No, in addition to these two, there are even some other contestants, all of whom left a very deep impression on them.

In China, in addition to the contestant He Shen, there is another contestant, a very young contestant who just turned 18. His interpretation made everyone feel a little interesting.

When he interpreted some works, he used some very special interpretation methods. The feeling of the interpretation made everyone feel weird at the first time, and they were curious about why he interpreted it like this.

But soon, everyone was able to react and use his interpretation.

At this time, this contestant who also came from China brought everyone that kind of interesting feeling.

Unfortunately, he was too young, and the deeper things in the music were not interpreted at all.

However, this feeling was liked by many judges, and was also listed as a seeded player in the finals by most judges.

There are also contestants from Spain and Poland. There are a few people in each country who can play performances that move everyone.

No one was giving up.

Everyone showed their best strength in front of the judges, telling them their strength, which shocked them.

Soon, after all the judges gave their evaluations, the Chopin International Piano Competition Organizing Committee also uploaded the results of the competition and the video to the competition-specific APP and website for everyone to refer to.

Although the educational environment and other things of these contestants may not be fair.

However, the Chopin International Piano Competition Organizing Committee at least hopes that it can make the links fair and transparent.

All the judges' scores and all the contestants' videos are uploaded to the official website of the competition, and anyone can check them at will.

It is still no different from the preliminaries.

These people also put up the personal preferences of the Chopin International Piano Competition judges.

All the audience can clearly see that these judges like various playing styles in the Chopin International Piano Competition.

For example, what style do these judges like, a more profound Chopin or a more romantic Chopin?

This can also show what the judges think of Chopin.

Try to be fair, just and open in all aspects.

Soon, people in China also uploaded these videos to the PiliPili website in China for everyone to watch.

Unfortunately...

The first reaction of people in China was not to watch the performance of each contestant, but to see how many Chinese contestants survived in this competition?

Everyone quickly clicked on the list of qualifiers for the Chopin International Piano Competition, from 80 to 40 in the first round.

The Chinese contestants, from the original more than 20 people, nearly one-third of the number, only 10 people were left in the first round...

Just reached the level of 10 people.

The faces of the people gradually changed a little.

The competition was really very cruel. Originally, I thought that more than 30 contestants would enter the first round from the preliminaries, but only less than 10 people were lost.

Now that we are entering the second round from the first round, the loss should be less, right?

Even if you make it to two-thirds, you should lose a few people...

What's the result now?

There are only 10 people left in the original team of more than 30 people.

And among these last 10 people, there are even people from three small places.

And a lot of contestants who studied in other countries.

The contestants who really studied in China and successfully entered the second round of the Chopin International Piano Competition, now at this glance, there are probably only the last few people left.

Probably, there are three people...

These are the real contestants who studied purely in China.

Among them is He Shen.

Everyone's face became extremely ugly, looking at this list, I don't know what to say.

"What's going on? Where are all my people? I have more than 20 people, how come there are only the last 10 left?"

"Are these judges discriminating against Chinese people? It's really disgusting. Why did they eliminate so many Chinese people?"

"A didn't make it in? Why didn't he make it in? You went to see A's performance. His performance was no better than those from other countries? Why can't such a person make it in?"

"It's outrageous. Look at B. B didn't make it in either. In addition to AB, there are CDEF. None of them made it in. These people were heavily praised by the domestic people before!"

"That's right. Although these people were not the favorites to win the championship before, at least, the strength of these players is there. Everyone knows their strength just by looking at them. Why didn't they make it in?"

"It's a conspiracy! It's definitely a conspiracy! These judges are discriminating against us Chinese people!"

"It's so disgusting. How can such a competition continue to exist?"

"Stop arguing. This is their territory. You play by their rules. When people are subject to their restrictions, this It's normal!"

"The rationalist is here? So you are not the one competing, right? You went to the competition and watched yourself being eliminated because of your Chinese identity. What do you think?"

"That's right, so many contestants were eliminated just because we are Chinese. It's really pure shady!"

"Hehe, stop arguing. If you are so good at arguing, why don't you go to the competition? Change the rules of the game and make the game turn for you?"

"Yes, look at Japan and South Korea. Why didn't their contestants get eliminated like us Chinese? Aren't they all Asians?"

"Huh? Are you referring to those two lapdogs, the lapdogs who kneeled down to lick the stinky feet of Westerners? They have no dignity, so what's wrong with you giving in to them? They are no longer considered Asians!"

"That's right, this competition is really disgusting!"

"..."

When everyone saw that there were only ten Chinese left in the competition, they began to panic and began to think that it was because of the competition. There was a shady deal in the competition, which caused so many Chinese to be eliminated directly.

So many promising contestants were eliminated just like this.

I really started to panic...

Before, seeing so many Chinese people enter, and with He Shen as the pillar, everyone felt that this year's Chopin International Piano Competition should definitely be considered the Chopin International Piano Competition in China.

Basically, about half of the contestants are Chinese. What an honor!

This feeling reached its peak at the end of the first round!

The original one-fifth of the contestants were Chinese, but now it has become one-third!

This feeling simply made everyone climax, and made them lose other thoughts in their brains. Some people only have one, China is the first!

I even think that by the time the second round comes, it will probably become one-half of the Chinese.

Then in the third round, two-thirds of the Chinese.

In the fourth round, the final round, eight out of 10 people are Chinese, four-fifths of the Chinese are Chinese, and there are only a few foreigners to make up the number.

But now...

The original one-third of the contestants were eliminated by more than half, leaving only the last 10 people.

Although the strongest seeded players are still in the competition venue, which makes them feel a little relieved.

But eggs can't be put in one basket. They can't rely on He Shen all the time, and rely on He Shen to win the Chopin International Piano Competition with all of them.

There must be someone to cover for He Shen, so that China's hope will become a little bigger.

But now, there are only the last 10 people...

They can't imagine how many people can stand on the field of the Chopin International Piano Competition when the third round comes.

And when the fourth round comes, will there really be Chinese people who can stand on the field of the Chopin International Piano Competition?

This feeling of sadness instantly spread to everyone's heart along the Internet, making them madly abuse the Chopin International Piano Competition Organizing Committee for a while.

Trying to use this method to let the Chopin International Piano Competition Organizing Committee take back their results and re-judge.

But unfortunately, the Chopin International Piano Organizing Committee did not pay attention.

All the scores given by the judges are already there, and even the reasons why they evaluated this contestant in this way, why they like it, why they hate it, are all put on the stage, showing it to everyone, telling them why.

Therefore, it is impossible for them to take back their decision just because of a few people's protests.

After all, for the Chopin International Piano Competition Organizing Committee, the judges are also human beings, and they naturally have their own preferences.

Maybe some people don't like contestants from China, but this is also based on their similar levels.

If a bunch of people from Wakanda came to the Blind A Bing Chinese International Erhu Competition, a group of dark contestants competed with the Chinese, would the Chinese judges be able to maintain a particularly fair evaluation?

Almost impossible!

Unless the contestant from Wakanda plays better than all the Chinese contestants, there is a slight possibility.

If there are only contestants of similar levels, they will naturally choose the contestants who are closer to them.

After all, this is their instrument and their rules of the game.

You come here to participate in their games and their rules of the game, so you must abide by their regulations.

Who told you not to be strong enough!

For a time, the crowd was indignant...

But there was nothing they could do.

After all, this is someone else's game...

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