The world's number one pianist

Although Kobayashi Ai's ability fluctuated during the performance, it was difficult to suppress the venue left for her by He Shen.

But it must be said that she still has some ability.

Even if her level fluctuated between Lv10 and Lv9, she could be considered a performer who could barely hold up the stage.

And she also handed this extremely heavy burden to the next contestant behind her intact.

She had no way to control the pressure given by He Shen on the stage, and let these pressures increase and decrease with her thoughts.

After all, when she really stood on the stage, she felt this pressure and was almost crushed directly.

After Kobayashi Ai pressed the last note, a trace of regret appeared on her face.

She had tried her best. After He Shen finished playing, she really felt that she could successfully take over He Shen's baton and take down the venue that had been held up by He Shen.

However, she really didn't expect that the pressure from He Shen would be so great, so great that it was already very good for her to guarantee her performance, and as for performing beyond her normal level?

Don't think too much, it's just a dream.

Kobayashi Aishi sighed, stood up quickly, smiled and bowed slightly to everyone, and then ran off the stage quickly.

She drank too much water before going on stage, and now she has been playing on the stage for more than half an hour.

When she was playing before, her attention was always on the music, and she didn't pay attention to the urge to urinate at all.

As a result, now that the performance is over, the urge to urinate comes up instantly, and she can't wait to fly to the toilet immediately.

When she walked off the stage and looked at the person who was about to go on stage, she was stunned, and then she suddenly realized.

No matter how bad she was, she was a contestant who advanced to the finals of the last session, and the seventh place in the last round of this session.

Most people are actually not as good as herself.

In the concert hall where she was so uncomfortable, the people who came next.

Kobayashi Aishi looked at the expression of the contestant in the audience, smiled gently, bowed slightly to him, and said "Come on" in a tone full of Japanese style.

Then, she took the small cup she had placed at the door and walked away quickly to find a toilet.

The performance of the contestant standing behind her was just as she thought.

It was already very difficult to maintain one's own level, let alone any other breakthroughs.

The contestant behind her couldn't even maintain his normal performance, and there were many emotional disorders during the performance.

As a result, his performance was not satisfactory.

This unsatisfactory performance did not end until the end of the first day.

And all the audience who watched the first day of the competition, in their hearts, only He Shen and Kobayashi Aishi were left with the impression of the first day of the competition.

Only the two of them.

As for the others?

They were just supporting roles.

And when it came to the second day, the third day...

Even more terrifying things came.

In the first round, Liu Yu, who was on par with He Shen, lived up to everyone's expectations and won the second day's competition with an absolutely strong strength.

There were still some very strong players in the competition that day.

For example, in the first round, the foreign players ranked ninth and tenth, one from Poland and one from Italy, were both very strong players.

However, they had no chance to resist Liu Yu.

Although there were many eye-catching performances, it can only be said that there were eye-catching performances, as for the rest, there was nothing.

There should be no problem in entering the next round, but it is hard to say whether they can enter the finals and get a ranking.

On the third and fourth days, the top ten players still performed very stably.

As for the 11th to 20th players behind, they were not so stable.

There were even some people who made some mistakes in their performances because they walked behind Kyouhei Fantian and a player from Spain.

Therefore, they were directly eliminated!

Rao Hao was lucky. There were no particularly strong players before and after the performance, and he performed very stably.

The other Chinese people...

When He Shen finished his daily basic exercises in his piano room and went out to get some water to drink, he looked at the Chinese players who were in the same piano room as him.

Looking at their faces, he clearly found that...

Their faces were very, very bad.

Some people even came back from the piano room and squatted in the corner without saying a word.

No matter who said it, they ignored it.

It was obvious that his performance was not very good.

He might even be eliminated directly.

Under such a gloomy situation, He Shen frowned and looked at everyone, not knowing what to say, so he could only go back to the room to prepare for the next round of works.

Just when He Shen went back, the TV in the piano room suddenly turned into the Chopin Competition channel.

And the results of the Chopin International Piano Competition were also announced.

There were 23 players who successfully advanced to the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

Among them, there were six from Poland.

There were five from Japan.

Two maple leaf countries, three Italys, one Spain, two bear countries, one beautiful country, and one Korean country.

The results of other countries are actually pretty good, and they don’t feel that outrageous. It seems like that’s it.

Everyone basically gets about half of it. Occasionally there are a few less, but it's not an exaggeration.

But China...

Almost, the entire army was wiped out!

Among the list of people who passed the second round of the Chopin International Piano Competition, there were only two people from China who successfully entered the next round.

In the first round, there were about twenty-four people, in the second round, there were eleven people, and in the third round, only the last two people were left.

He Shen, and Rao Hao.

This time, Rao Hao was not ranked higher. His position this time was among the bottom among the top 20.

Seventeenth place!

Several other players who were favored by the Chinese people were eliminated.

Even He Shen, because in this round of competition, there were some works that he was not particularly good at, and his ranking did not reach the first place.

Just an ordinary second place.

If it is the total score given by the judges in the second round, He Shen is two points less than Liu Yu.

If the total score is calculated, He Shen loses one point to Liu Yu!

The difference is not big.

He Shen looked at this result and didn't say anything. He just slightly controlled the players behind him in the second round to make it difficult for the players behind him to advance.

But Liu Yu was not within his control. It was really, really normal for him to get this score.

After all, he was already in second place in the last round.

He has studied with Deng Songshan for so long, just for this competition, so he must be a little more complete than himself in preparing the music. This is normal.

But the next round, the third round...

He Shen looked at his repertoire and smiled slightly.

In the third round, Liu Yu could not win so easily.

The one-point gap can still be pursued now, and it is not particularly difficult.

At the very least, the concerto in the finals, my own piece, is a complete masterpiece, a masterpiece that I have carefully prepared for a year.

It's basically on the same level as my own Chopin piano ballad.

As for the third round…

In the third round, I have a very, very big work.

Chopin's complete set of preludes.

That whole half-hour of master-level performance...

He Shen took out a lollipop from his pocket, put it in his mouth, and continued to study and play some other works from the third round.

He wants to bring his Chopard to a higher level in the last little time.

He Shen returned to his piano room and continued to practice seriously.

The video of advancing from the second round to the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition was also carried by everyone and sent to Station P.

A group of P station users who were waiting for Chinese players to kill each other looked at the videos, which were almost all in English, without even watching them, and commented directly.

"How is it? How are the domestic players in China doing in this round? How many people successfully entered the next round?"

"Why are they all in English? Is there anyone who can cook cooked meat in Chinese? I can't understand English!"

"That's right, I don't understand the bird language, please speak some Chinese."

"Wait a minute, I took a look and gave you a rough translation. To put it simply, almost the entire army was wiped out! Gone!"

"Huh? What are you talking about? China is gone? Are you kidding me?"

"Yeah, this joke is not funny!"

"It's very simple. Just listen to the pronunciation of the names. It's easy for Japanese people to hear them. Although foreigners can't understand them, you can at least tell that they are foreigners. There are only two people with real Chinese names. ! Shen He, and Hao Rao! "

"No, I didn't understand. Where are the others? I remember that I particularly liked a Chinese player named Sun Tong. What about him? Is he gone?"

"There is also Teacher Chen Xuekuan. His performance is also very good. I remember that he was also in the first round. He is considered to be in the upper class. Are these two people gone?"

"Don't bully me for not watching the live video. Let me tell you, our Chinese players all performed very well. How could it be possible that they were all gone and only He Shen and Rao Hao were left? I don't believe it!"

"Why don't you believe this? Just wait and see the cooked meat and the translation of the official list. Even if you can't understand the names of other countries, you can still understand Chinese English, right?"

"Come on, the last round was already frustrating enough, and this round, as you said, there are only two people left? How can we play this?"

"I once thought that our number should slowly decrease according to an arithmetic sequence, but who would have thought that this is such a direct arithmetic sequence?"

"More than 30 people, more than 20 people, more than 10 people, 2 people, and every time the people who were chopped were Chinese, right?"

"I can't do it. Please go to the official website to get the data! How can so many people enter the third round?"

"..."

Everyone was talking about it, and soon someone pulled out the promotion list from the official website and the translation of the video.

Everyone was stunned when they looked at the list and saw the only two Chinese people left on it.

This is not fake, this is actually not fake?

In the second round of China, there were so many players, but only two people made it?

Just He Shen and Rao Hao?

What about the other players? Where are my many players? Just like that...everything is gone?

For a while, the crowd was indignant and gloomy.

Previously, the number of contestants dropped from more than 20 to 11, which they thought was very, very excessive.

But this time, the number of contestants dropped from 11 to 2?

What is this? This is a naked black-box operation!

"I can't understand it. Are all these judges blind? Or deaf? So many people's works are so beautiful, but they can't hear them all, and they kicked them all out of the competition? What is this for? Rejecting the Chinese market?"

"Haha, this is the supreme Chopin International Piano Competition? It's really funny. So many places were given to Poland and Japan. Isn't it because they give you more money? Why are you so anxious to fill in your father?"

"Sun Tong advanced to the third round, and I was so angry. Is personal characteristics really so unpopular? Must you be like He Shen and play the same feeling as Chopin? Besides, Sun Tong is not a person who is personalized at will. A very obvious bottom line with personalized treatment, this is the judge of the Chopin International Piano Competition? Forget it, I respect it! "

"Li Li Yuan Shang Score, are the judges the fathers of the Japanese? Let so many Japanese enter?"

"Too ridiculous, just like the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, it's getting more and more ridiculous, boring, I won't watch it anymore."

"Rao Hao hasn't read China's nationality yet, looking down on China?"

"Although I also want to scold the Chopin International Piano Competition, but the above is wrong, it's not that they didn't read China's name, but that their accent is too heavy, they forgot to read it in English, and used Polish..."

"..."

More and more people began to pay attention to this matter.

And soon, in addition to this group of people who only paid attention to the list of qualifiers and didn't pay attention to music at all, those who watched the competition seriously immediately mocked it.

"Why is there a problem? Can't you watch it yourself? Go and see what the judges like!"

"Or, when none of us knew, our P station became stronger and stronger, and there were so many judges for the Chopin International Piano Competition?"

"Where did you say before that the judges don't like performers to have their own ideas? I tell you, your statement is pure nonsense! This year's competition pays more attention to the performers' own ideas!"

"That is to say, if this competition is really about who plays more like Chopin, then without any surprise, He Shen will directly win the championship. That is to say, no one at the scene can understand Chopin better than He Shen!"

"I can even say that He Shen is the pianist who is closest to Chopin in the Chopin International Piano Competition! ”

“If it weren’t for He Shen’s performance being too close to Chopin, He Shen’s score might have been a little higher. If you watch Liu Yu’s performance, you’ll find that his performance also has a strong personal component! Is this what you said, the judges don’t like personal style?”

“To put it more extreme, let’s talk about Rao Hao. Let me put it this way, if Rao Hao’s personal style was not different from others and was a very niche style, Rao Hao would never have made it to the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition!”

“And he successfully made it to the third round because of his personal style. Is this what you said, the judges hate personal style?”

“As for Japan, Japan and South Korea have been developing classical music for many years. Their strength is already the top in Asia. Every year in major competitions, there have even been Basically, they are all from Japan and South Korea. "

"As long as you listen carefully, you should know that although the list of qualifiers for the competition is not satisfactory, it can be said that most of the contestants will have no problem entering the top 20!"

"This year, it is more likely that most of the judges will be fighting among themselves, trying to determine the future direction of the Chopin International Piano Competition, whether it is mainly Chopin or performers."

"Just from the current point of view, I think it is more likely that the competition will be based on the style of individual performers. About 20% of the judges are judges with an absolute personal direction, and only 10% are absolutely Chopin-oriented. "

"Then the interesting part comes. I dare to predict that He Shen can continue to go to the finals and compete for the first place 's position, I don't need to say this, everyone knows it, and Rao Hao should be able to continue, his style is very special and interesting, the judges like it very much. "

"If my idea is correct, then we will directly lock the blood in the third round and even the final round, and lock the last two players. "

"One symbolizes the purest Chopin, and the other symbolizes extreme individuality! "

"The competition will become more and more interesting, and the competition will become more and more exciting! "

"Kobayashi Ai should have lost the first place in this round of competition. She should now compete for the top six. "

"He Shen and Liu Yu are competing for the first place. Except for those from Spain and Japan, there is no one else who has a chance to get the first place! "

"And the two behind them are 3-4 points behind He Shen and Liu Yu in the total score. If this score cannot be made up later, they will probably keep the gap until the end of the game. "

"But overall, they still have a chance to compete for a place, unlike Kobayashi Ai Mi who lost the chance directly."

"As for the others, I can't predict accurately. After all, the Chopin International Piano Competition is only halfway through, and no one knows what will happen next, especially the third round, which is an hour-long round. At this time, most of the contestants' funds have been emptied."

"There is also the final. Everyone must have practiced the concerto for the final, but each of them has only two opportunities to play with the band. At this time, it depends on how much coordination each person can achieve in the two practices!"

"The competition , at this time, it has just begun. Now we have only eliminated some players who are taking advantage of the situation. The real strong ones have only come to the fore at this time. "

"Those players who were assigned to four days at the beginning and tried not to meet each other as much as possible also collided with each other at this time."

"Can the player in front give enough pressure to the player behind, and can the player behind withstand this pressure?"

"The game between these top players is the most interesting point besides their performance!"

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