For this seemingly peaceful but full of sharp questions, according to people who were at the press conference at the time, Leknin did not answer the question directly, he just said-

'Music competitions are like life, we have to accept the inequalities in life. ’

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And with the official release of the small list, naturally a few people are proud and a few people are worried.

The five-year format is cruel for the contestants who did not make it to the small list this time, maybe they were just because of a trivial mistake, or maybe it was just because of the rainy weather in the days of the competition, which caused the judges to feel that the minor key works were more appropriate for the occasion and the major key works they prepared were mostly not, or maybe they were really not ready.

Either way, their piano path will continue, but as competitors this time, they are out.

It's a pity that they missed this one, and they have little next time to speak of, and no one can predict how many new talents will emerge in the next class in five years' time.

This is the Chopin Competition, and it is brutal.

It's so cruel that many of the qualifiers can't really relax.

On the afternoon of the press conference, the 160 players were released in full of the qualifiers.

Just log on to the official website of the 17th Chopin International Piano Competition, and on the homepage, there is a play button next to each photo, click to watch.

Audiences around the world can comment on the 160 performers on the Internet, and while they can't change the list that has already been released, that doesn't stop them from sharing their opinions on the results.

In the Internet era of national experts, cats and dogs are vigorously advocating freedom of speech.

They judged the contestants, and they had the attitude that I would do it and I would do it.

However, compared with this kind of brain-dead remarks, there are more seemingly professional analysts who analyze the reasons for each of the promoted players clearly, and those players who did not make the cut have enough reasons in their analysis that they should not advance.

It is in response to the saying that the victor has power without reproach.

The video of the 160-person qualifier spread all over the Internet in a few days, but this spread was only aimed at the entire classical piano music circle and the melon eaters who watched this circle.

However, there are only a very few cats and dogs who have eaten the masses, and most of them are true fans of Chopin and the pianists.

Among these fans, some people came to Chopin because of their favorite pianists' Chopin's works, and some approached individual pianists who played it because of Chopin's works.

Among the 80 people who were out of the competition were already famous pianists, such as the talented pianist Kohl from Israel.

Last year, he had just released a collection of Chopin's ballades with Bis, but his name did not appear on the 80-member roster, which is bad news for fans who are ready to buy tickets to see his next live match in Warsaw.

As a famous pianist who suffered Waterloo at the Chopin Qualifiers, Cole was by no means the first to do so, and the 12th Elsner, who had the aura of a quasi-champion before the competition, also fell in the qualifying stage.

Similar situations have occurred in almost every session.

Maybe the judges will look away, but this is the Chopin Competition, so Cole is not destined to be the last to suffer such a situation.

Or to borrow a phrase from Leknin.

Music competitions are like life, and we have to accept the inequality of life. ’

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After talking about the above unpleasant things, let's move on to those that can be proud. 110 Literature

While the list of 80 players who made the cut was not announced in a ranked manner, Shkleiner was announced in order of A to Z based on the initials of each player.

But even so, the first player to be announced will make everyone pay special attention.

So "Adams" was the lucky man.

I don't know what he thinks about this, but judging from the video of his competition, whether he is a well-known pianist or not, his performance in the video is enough to impress anyone.

He was indeed lucky compared to Cole, as he impressed most of the judges.

However, this luck is not without a trace, and the official release of five works by Adams.

In addition to the three difficult etudes, when most of the other contestants chose to use mazurka and nocturne as the transitional qualifiers, Adams directly came up with Fantasia in F minor, which should be left for the first two rounds of the main competition.

This shows his prudence.

There is also Ivanov from Russia, the national team seeded player who was declared by Russia to be highly anticipated, and his five compositions were praised by the public as soon as they were announced.

Once again, the delicate sensibilities of the traditional Russian piano are in perfect harmony with the music of the Romantic period. The Russian media praised their lads.

Among these outstanding taboo male players, there is also a very controversial figure, especially in the professional academic circle - Qin Jian from Huaguo South City

As soon as his five works were released, they received the attention of a large number of people, especially foreign insiders, many of whom had great expectations and wanted to hear how the beautiful Oriental young man who interpreted Mozart would interpret Chopin this time.

As a result, most of the vast majority of people were stupid after listening to it, what did they hear?!

24-year-old Argerich?

28-year-old Pollini?

30-year-old Stouff?

34-year-old Deng Taishan?

They don't understand why the classics of these four men are so interpreted under one face and under the same hands———

"So realistic. These words come from an old Neapolitan fan who has witnessed 14 Chopin competitions.

It's so realistic that if you don't watch the video and just listen to the music, more than 95 percent of your ears can't tell who is real and who is fake.

There are too many young people who are excited by this kind of criminal artistic beauty, especially the handsome face full of three-dimensional sense sitting in front of the piano in the video, and the indifference in his eyes from time to time during the performance, like a wise old man's bland interpretation of life.

All of this is combined, the main competition has not officially started, Qin Jian only relied on four video videos, with the huge gimmick of the Chopin competition, really, for the first time, a large number of fans circled, and most of them were young women.

This is certainly understandable.

It is also understandable that these four videos have also caused him to be criticized, and most of his critics have accused him of violating the core purpose of Chopin's competition and trying to win the attention of the judges in an opportunistic way.

There are even extremists who believe that Qin Jian's behavior should not be included in the small list of 80 people.

Of course, Qin Jian's fans were not happy about this, they couldn't accept that their idol was attacked like this, and the sane fans also took out the last piece Qin Jian played Nocturne in B major.

"Don't say much, listen to yourself, and everyone who understands understands. ”