Not everyone is the protagonist of the competition, and the Chopin International Piano Competition is brushed down with half the number of people in each round.

160 people, 80 people, 40 people, 20 people, 10 people.

You have to climb, keep climbing, and more than half of the people you have a chance to move on to the next round, get a higher position, and finally run in the direction of the championship.

The six months since the end of the Qualifiers for the Chopin International Piano Competition are not for the contestants to rest, but actually for the contestants to make final adjustments, so that they can transform their music and make the music more suitable for the Chopin International Piano Competition.

It's a pity that in the past half a year, some people have run fast and game people have run slowly.

Like Fu Tune, who ran fast, from an ordinary player who was not particularly optimistic about everyone, gradually moved towards the finals and became the finalist list in everyone's hearts, and even people from NHK TV came to Fu Tune to follow up and shoot, intending to make a documentary of his experience.

And like those who run slowly, such as Yu Tianyou, who Fu Tiao heard at this moment, he lost a lot of opportunities, and gradually became a player at the end of the crane from a player in the middle and back.

His music is actually very similar to some people's music, that is, it follows the genre of that sweet feeling.

The strongest player in this genre, and also the most beautiful in terms of musical interpretation, should be Kyohei Tanda, but he didn't come to compete this year, and he spent his time watching the competition with Aimi Kobayashi.

The rest are some European players, who have a sweeter feeling for Chopin and are more inclined to romance, the romantic kind of romance.

Even the Chopin Nocturne Op37-1, which Fu played before, was obviously bitter, but they would play it with some romance.

Of course! They certainly wouldn't choose this piece as their piece, after all, they were better at playing more romantic pieces.

Yu Tianyou's performance is honest, not particularly bad, and it can even be said that it is not bad, compared to the feeling that Fu Tuo heard in the qualifiers before, he is now playing Chopin more deeply.

Unlike Fu Tuo, his in-depth direction is biased towards Chopin's feelings, which means that his Chopin is more like Chopin.

The problem though...... His improvement has been too small, and his interpretation of Chopin is not as good as that of many other players.

That is, you can hear very clearly Yu Tianyou, who was the first player to play in the evening, and his performance level is not as good as Xu Zi, who was the last player to play this afternoon.

After such a long interval in between, roughly estimated that it would have been three or four hours, you can still feel this feeling so clearly.

Then only one thing can be proven......

It will be difficult for Yu Tianyou to make it to the second round.

Especially when there is Yang Yike behind him.

waited until the last note ended, and after Yu Tianyou got up and stepped down, he did not recover from his trance.

When he woke up, he had unconsciously returned to the concert hall, sitting next to Fu Tiao, staring blankly at the stage.

Just as he thought, he opened a good field for the game scene, and Yang Yi behind him took it directly and perfectly, and he didn't even need to warm up.

In this case, it is completely someone else's wedding dress.

For a while, Yu Tianyou didn't know what to say, so he could only look at Yang Yike, who was playing, and smiled helplessly.

"Sure enough, my strength is still too weak, this Yang Yike feels really good to play, if I remember this Yang Yike, he seems to be a student of Deng Taishan? I studied with Deng Taishan for two years, and then I came to this stage to play, but it is said that he is from Sichuanzhou? ”

Fu Tiao nodded, glanced at Yu Tianyou, not sure if he had come out of his sadness, so he could only speak with a little hesitation: "He does play well, he seems to be the youngest player in the Chopin International Piano Competition?" ”

"He is indeed the youngest player this year, but it's a pity that his Chinese dialect is more ordinary, obviously with a Chinese face, but in fact, if you look at it, he is still similar to those Eric players, alas, it's a pity, when will Huaguo be able to produce a particularly awesome player? Like Li Diyun, the pure Chinese education taught by the professors of Huaguo himself won the victory of those who studied with foreign teachers. ”

Yu Tianyou sighed.

Fu Tiao looked at him and couldn't help but smile and pointed at himself.

"Me."

"You? Oh yes, and you, I forgot about ......."

Yu Tianyou glanced at Fu Diao and thought about it, as if there was really no problem.

As he just said, Fu Tiao was indeed a student taught by a professor from Hua Guo, and he also had the ability to advance to the finals of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

Fu Diao: He really has a chance to win the championship!

Yu Tianyou thought about it and smiled back.

"So...... Come on, Fu Tune! ”

……

The first round of the Chopin International Piano Competition soon came to an end, and with the last contestants finishing, the staff kicked everyone out of the concert hall and went backstage to the concert hall with the score sheet written by the judges.

At this moment, the backstage of the concert hall is already full of judges.

Not only are there more than a dozen chief judges, but there are also some people who assist the jury.

The chief judges, that is, Li Diyun and Argerich, they are either the champions of the Chopin International Piano Competition, or the most powerful pianists in the world, only in this way can they be invited to become the chief judges of the Chopin Competition.

Unless some people make it clear that they will not participate, they will select some people from the auxiliary jury to join the main jury.

The auxiliary jury is those who won the second to sixth places that year, as well as some teachers and professors from the Chopin Conservatory, who were also in charge of scoring the Qualifiers for the Chopin International Piano Competition.

Argerich had just joined in the fun, and had no intention of joining the jury.

The reason is very simple, the qualifiers for the Chopin International Piano Competition are really too tired, and Fu Diao and Yu Tianyou and others are already a little numb after listening to it for a day, not to mention the judges who need to score.

And those main judges are very few, so they can only let the auxiliary judges behind them come over to help, and change a batch of daily throwing judges every day to ensure the state of the judges.

At this moment, there are dozens of people backstage in the concert hall.

And their selection form was scattered on a long table in the middle of the crowd.

Click......

The door opened, and several of the chief judges walked in from behind the door, and there were not many people coming.

The well-known judges, such as Argerich, Deng Taishan and others, their top pianists who won first place basically did not come, after all, it was too late now, many people needed to rest, and the Chopin International Piano Competition was no bigger than their own sleep.

So after giving their ratings, they hurried back to their homes to get ready for bed.

Unless...... I felt anxious because I hadn't practiced for more than half a year, so I turned around and went to practice.

Well, that's Argerich.

Among the chief judges who came in, after all, the big name was Li Diyun, who looked at the concert hall that was responsible for giving scores with a little curiosity, nodded thoughtfully, and then looked at the staff around him.

"Has the specific score come out?"

"Hello! Li, the scores have all come out, and our staff calculated the average score of all the players according to the method of removing the highest score and the lowest score to calculate the average score as soon as the game came out. ”

Hearing this place, Li Diyun couldn't help but be even more curious.

"Haven't you already figured it out? What else do you want us to come over for? ”

"We're here to decide, Lee!"

An old pianist with white hair walked behind Li Diyun, patted him on the back, pointed to the messy score sheet on the table, and said casually.

"It's not that you don't know that the scoring of the first round of the Chopin International Piano Competition into the second round is not directly divided into 40 people according to the score line, but a specific score range, for example, there are 30 people with more than 19 points, and 20 people from 18 to 19, and the scores of these 18-19 people are very similar, so what we want to judge is who can enter the second round and who can not enter the second round."

Li Diyun was a little confused for a while after hearing this.

"But...... Isn't the game over? Didn't we already give our score at that time? Why ......"

"Because of the influence of the players before and after."

The man immediately interrupted Li Diyun, he looked at the other auxiliary judges around him, and nodded slightly.

"There is no way to affect the previous player, after all, because the previous player played too well and couldn't catch the field, resulting in a performance failure, we can't save this situation, but we still have something to save, such as ...... The previous player was too strong, and the latter player resisted the oppression, but because the previous player gave us a good impression, we gave him a slightly lower score, and these situations are counted as the score for this period. ”

"In this way, those players who can resist the tough offensive of the previous player and can still play their own things will have a second chance on our side, and the margin of 20 people is already enough, as for those who have particularly poor results, those who have reached the top 50, among them, the missing players have been very small."

With that, he looked at the people behind him and added, "Oh yes, if you have a favorite player today, you can also bring it up with me, and let's discuss the players who have entered the second round of the Chopin International Piano Competition this year." ”

With that, he moved his position out of the way for everyone to discuss.

Li Diyun was about to step forward to discuss together, but was stopped by the old man and asked him to watch the group of people discuss.

Li Diyun thought about it, then stood there and stopped, waiting for the final result, and then they made their own decisions.

The top 30 contestants of the Chopin International Piano Competition were quickly placed directly in front of the referee by the staff, and Li Diyun immediately picked up the document in his hand and looked at it, and then nodded helplessly.

Many of the top 30 players this year are familiar to them.

In first place is Cho Sung-jin, whose score is 23.97 points, close to 24 points.

In second place is Hamelin, a very strong player, with 23.56 points.

When he was in third place, this place was Fu Diao, and his score was 23.41 points, a full half point away from Zhao Chengzhen!

It looks like it's very bad, but in fact, looking at the past, Fu called the direction where the judges preferred a small number of people and played such a result, and this level of strength is already very good.

The players behind have fallen below 23 points and reached the 22-point level by the time they reached fourth place.

Then he ran all the way down.

Those well-known players all successfully entered the second round.

And the first player to play, Bies, who didn't care about the first player to appear, unfortunately left the stage in the end.

As for the Chinese players...... It's been eliminated a lot.

Li Diyun looked at the list of contestants little by little, and did not speak for a long time, until the other judges spoke.

"Professor Adam! We've finalized the shortlist for today's game. ”

With that, the man handed the shortlist in his hand to everyone in the judges' area.

Li Diyun also got a list, he didn't hesitate too much, and after taking the list apart, it was as he imagined, there were many Chinese players.

But the problem is that he is Chinese, and he cannot elect Chinese to the second round.

Other judges will not be able to select players from their countries to advance to the second round.

If you want to recommend, you can only recommend someone who has nothing to do with you.

Looking at these contestants with 18-19 points, those judges couldn't help but groan, and none of them spoke.

"Tian Lu, Luo Xin, Shi Boyang, Tang Xinya, Wang Zhu, Wu Yuzhong, Yu Tianyou, Zhang Chuhan, ......"

Li Diyun muttered the names of these people, thinking about whether there was a player among these people who impressed him a little?

He thought about it a lot, but finally shook his head helplessly.

There may be players with good strength among these people, but among these people, it is really very rare to impress him.

Oh no, I should say, not at all.

He had no impression of these people at all, he couldn't remember what was playing among them, and even the names had a feeling that he had only seen them for the first time.

If he thinks like this, it is very likely that the other people around him think the same way?

"I have a little impression of this Jia Zhichao (Yulia)? I remember that the work she played felt very kind of beautiful country, with a little bit of neutral feeling, and this feeling was a little bit fuzzy? Or rather, the feeling of being in a trance? So I seem to have a little bit of a feeling for her. ”

"Well, I seem to have it too, but I feel more average about her, and since you said it, she's not the kind of nobody, so let her in."

"It's not easy to choose, if I have to choose, either there are a lot fewer people, I can choose three or four, or a little more, up to fourteen or fifteen, what's the difference between this and putting it all in?"

"Indeed...... In this way, let's relax the conditions a little more, pull the people below in a little bit, put the number of people to 60, 60 out of 40, so better? ”

"It's okay, but the players behind can impress us, and there is a high probability that there are fewer of them."

"What do you guys think of Nowak? The one in Poland? His Chopin has a Polish feel! ”

"Isn't it normal for Polish players to have a Polish feel? If he doesn't have a Polish feeling, he will be eliminated! ”

"How many are there in Poland? I remember like 5, how many more to put in? ”

"Could it be too much? Although this competition in Poland is a contest, most of the participants are from all over the world. ”

"No, if the Chinese are Chinese, there are many talents in the Chinese country, and there are three Chinese in the first five, I remember? Three, four, or five are all Chinese? ”

"No, the third is Chinese, and the other two are Chinese."

"I feel like 7 to 8 Polish players are about the same, don't be too arrogant."

"Okay, we'll readjust the rankings, there isn't much difference between these people."

"Really, among this group of people, we can be impressed, I can't find it after looking for a long time, I still think about Chopin by Zhao Chengzhen, his Chopin is really beautiful, I really like his Chopin!"

"Who isn't, Zhao Chengzhen is really awesome, why don't we choose some players who play Chopin very well, or turn themselves into Chopin?"

"Don't talk too much, just choose your own honestly, we just pick it out for the chief judge to review, and it depends on who to use."

“……”

While chatting, everyone looked through the resumes of the players in their hands, looking for players who were suitable to enter the second round.

Everyone quarreled for I don't know how long, Li Diyun even felt a little sleepy, and when he wanted to sleep, everyone present finally made a noise about the final second round list.

They placed the list in front of everyone, and all the chief judges roughly swept through one piece and nodded slightly.

"Okay, let's just put this list, there shouldn't be many problems, let's go back and let the staff of the operations department send out this list."

"Yes!"

Everyone left the concert hall with great excitement, no matter how fierce the quarrel had just been, but now they were all chatting and laughing together, discussing their recent lives.

Li Diyun walked to the edge of the list with a yawn, looked at the list, and counted from top to bottom, there are a total of 45 players? This is obviously a bit excessive, but it is still within control.

Now the list in front of Li Diyun is arranged in the order of results, and when I go back to the list on the official website, it will be arranged by the names of the players.

He put his eyes straight to the bottom, he wanted to see which lucky winner successfully passed the second selection of the organizing committee and entered the second round.

As a result, when he saw that name and that nationality, he couldn't help but feel a lot more energetic.

And when he saw the last name, he was stunned.

"He was the last one?"

(End of chapter)