The judging rules of the Chopin Prizes are constantly being added or modified in the course of the competition, and each change brings mixed reviews.

Judging from the development of the competition alone, the more and more perfect rules and regulations are bound to keep this world-class music competition alive forever.

Most of the bad voices appear in the current competition, because every situation means that there will be players in the current competition.

After the game, the officials were always unable to give a reasonable explanation for certain situations.

But there is no champion who really can't convince the public.

Someone privately thinks it's fucked up, and the player he likes stops in the first few rounds because of the rules, but the final winner makes him unable to say anything.

This is also the Chopin Competition.

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The hot competition went on to the third round as scheduled.

The tournament has entered the third round, and it is actually more than halfway through.

300 to 160 people.

160 to 77 people.

77 to 40 people.

40 to 21 people.

21 people to x?

The third round is their last chance, and they are just one step away from hitting the final door.

No matter what purpose they come to this arena with in mind, they need to show themselves unreservedly in this round.

Even under tremendous pressure.

Lori, the No. 23 player from Brazil, faced reporters in an interview with reporters after the second round - 'Have you ever thought about bringing home the first trophy for your home country?'.

"I never set my goal to win an award, I saw it as a way to grow artistically," she says. ”

On the same question, the No. 47 from Ireland said: "This is my wish. ”

In the interview, we can see the various attitudes of the players.

The No. 52 player from Sweden told reporters: "I hope to get the opportunity to be seen by excellent agents through the competition, and I hope that I can participate in various competitions as much as possible before the age of 30." ”

If we take a closer look at the Swede, we can see that he has already saved a number of great prizes in major competitions on his resume.

Maybe he hasn't found a suitable agent for him yet, so he's still playing in the game.

Indeed, music competitions pave the way for players to become professional performers.

It is also a common phenomenon in the circle for players to summarize their future career plans through competition after competition.

Dutchman Besca even bluntly said that he had signed an agreement with a Dutch record label, in which he would record and release a CD for him and arrange five solo recitals for him as long as he could put his name on the third round of the chart.

Beska is the epitome of the modern youth pianists who don't have much of a stage to show off their university diplomas.

They don't have a lot of money in their pockets, and they need to get good rankings and results in the big tournament to prove their artistic value to the surrounding people.

As for how artistic value is transformed into commercial value, I am afraid they do not even know how to do the math.

In order to get to where they are today, they spent most of their first half of their lives sitting in front of the piano.

The 88-key combination of the piano may imply some subtle numerical relationships, but Chopin and Bach never taught people how to make money in the score.

Of course.

There are also many contestants with a more purely artistic purpose.

The praise they say to the camera is not unsounding.

No matter what, the game will continue.

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On the third round of matches on October 14th, according to the order of the previous draw, Xiao Lori took the lead in firing the first shot of the third round.

During the entire 55 minutes of performance, her music still did not reflect the enthusiasm of samba music.

Her mazurkas have a clean silver tone and a well-structured sonata.

After picking her up, Fang Zongyao's appearance brought a lot of surprises to the audience.

Throughout Fang Zongyao's performance from the preliminary round to the first two rounds of the main competition, there were highlights to be found in each round, and the unusual repertoire selection route allowed him to show different performance characteristics.

In the third round, he chose Sonata No. 3 as his finale, and in this work he changed his previous delicacy and became rough.

In the first and second movements, he uses more touch force to treat the midrange area, giving it a feeling of fullness.

In the fourth movement, he suddenly changes the sound structure again, and changes to a bass-supported way to accentuate the treble voice.

The contrasting change was as evident as the change in his style from the second round to the third.

His ability to maneuver through change makes it easy to see how well he has prepared for this competition.

Perhaps the only weakness in his performance was that his mazurka was too written, lacking some subjectivity.

But that didn't stop him from winning a full house.

The game is like that, everyone's tactical strategy may have a focus.

In the third round, the contestants were required to play for nearly an hour.

An hour of difficult, highly concentrated performance is a rigorous test of the players' physical strength.

It is not uncommon in the history of Chopin to fall to the best of the best in the third round due to physical exhaustion.

Therefore, in this hour, the distribution of physical strength of the players is particularly important.

They want to make sure they have enough energy to play their best parts.

Fang Zongyao saved his best parts for the end.

The No. 29 Russian woman behind him was the opposite, and she showed the highlights at the beginning of the match.

She chose to open with a mazurka and her mazurka is like what she looks like.

The more you look at it, the more you look at it, the better it looks.

Of the three people in the opening scene, her mazurka is the most complete.

As a Russian player, in Mazuka's later works, she did not carry out the delicacy of the Russian school to the end.

The overall interpretation is intuitive and natural, not pretentious.

An hour of playing in one go.

When he stepped down, he also won a lot of applause.

After the trio match, the first half of the day ended.

At noon, Fang Zongyao had a meal accompanied by Xia Shu and Qin Duan, and after the meal, Qin Jian and the others went to the piano room.

Qin Jian didn't plan to watch the afternoon game, and after observing the morning game, he already knew the process of the third round.

The two went to the piano room at 1 p.m. and left at 6 p.m.

After dinner, the two returned to the hotel to watch the replay of this afternoon's game, Li Xianlong and Ido played well, and Liang Kecheng in the same group continued to decline.

Qin Jian felt that this buddy had gone far.

Before going to bed, Qin Jian took out the score of tomorrow's competition and flipped it up, which made Duan Ran a little surprised.

The silly girl always thought that Qin Jian's mind was already full of various versions of Chopin's scores from all over the world.

One of them hugged his mobile phone, and the other leaned against the head of the bed with a musical score.

Duan Ran flipped through for a while and felt that it was not interesting, she glanced at it and found that Qin Jian was still very engaged.

"Teacher Qin, you can't be nervous at first, are you?" Duan Ran asked, his tone was serious.

Qin Jian squinted at Pikachu on the side, "Then help me relax?"

Duan Ran didn't twist, crossed his arms to block Pikachu, "Refuse." ”

Qin Jian smiled and retracted his gaze and continued to look at it, "Reason?"

Duan Ran's little face was filled with righteous words.

"You're going to play tomorrow, you have to make sure you have to keep your strength!"

Qin Jian was puzzled, "Could it be that I will consume any physical strength?"

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Duan Ran: ?

A cute little question mark.

She always thought it was wrong?