Chapter 114: Rivalry

The staff stood in front of Fu Diao and Zhao Chengzhen, unfolded the documents in their hands, and said slowly.

"In accordance with the regulations, I must remind all of you that the repertoire of the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition includes:

A Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 35 or B flat Sonata in B minor, Op. 58 or Prelude, Op. 28. A complete set of mazurcas from works: 17, 24, 30, 33, 41, 50, 56, 59, Chopin repertoire of your choice, only if there is not enough time left in the competition to play the above pieces!

I must remind both of you that the third round of performances is 50-60 minutes long, and whether it is too short or too long, it will affect your performance, and you may even be stopped by the judges, preventing you from continuing to play! Please be extremely controllable about how long you play to make sure you don't have any major problems playing! ”

With that, he looked at the two of them, handed out the document in his hand, and placed it in front of them.

"Cho Sung-jin, Mazurka Selection, Op33, No1-4 All, Chopin Piano Prelude All!"

"Fu tune, Chopin's Mazurka, op 33, No. 1-4 all, Chopin Sonata in B flat minor op 35, Lord Bless Poland; , "Heroes" polanthus in A flat major, op53. ”

"Please confirm the work."

The two glanced at each other, and there was a hint of confusion in their eyes at the same time.

This time, the conflict between the two was even stronger than in the second round.

Not only Mazurka in the third round, but both of them chose the exact same Chopin Mazurka Op33, of which the more prominent one was Chopin's heroic polonaise.

This work is Zhao Chengzhen's work that shocked the audience in the second round and won the highest score in the audience, and now Fu Tune would want to choose such a work in the third round?

And the sonata selected by Fu is also the work selected by Zhao Chengzhen in the second round.

Zhao Chengzhen obviously did not expect Fu Tune's choice of works, and when he heard the heroic polonaise, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and turned his head to look at Fu Tune, with a slight puzzlement.

He had no idea why Fu Tiao would choose such a work.

In this way, with the exception of the Chopin piano prelude he played, the works of the two men almost completely collided.

The only difference is that Fu plays an extra piece of Lordship Poland, a piece without any number.

This is the biggest difference between the two.

In fact, not only did Zhao Chengzhen not understand, but Fu Tiao was also a little dazed when he practiced, because he only paid attention to his second round of works before, and didn't care about his third round of works at all.

When the second round was over, he was practicing the third round, looking for a feeling, he didn't think much about it, he just played the work seriously, who didn't practice well when he had nothing to do, who played this work before?

As a result, now that you are in the third round, when the work is officially confirmed, Fu Tuo will react.

I really collided with all of Zhao Chengzhen's works.

Although Zhao Chengzhen's second piano sonata is not as good as him, his hero polonaise is known as the most powerful polonaise in the audience at present, and it is even slightly stronger than the one he played in the second round at that time, the calm Andante and the gorgeous polonaise.

Fu Diao didn't expect that He Shen would choose such a work when he chose a work for him before.

But then again, He Shen himself probably didn't expect that the works he chose would completely collide, right? After all, these works are selected according to Fu Tune's personal style and the policy of the competition.

This can all be ...... is still a collision one after the other, it can only be said that Fu Diao is unlucky.

"Fu, Zhao, I'll confirm with you again at the end, is your choice of work really not changing?"

Zhao Chengzhen's face was expressionless: "Don't change." ”

Fu Tuo shook his head slightly: "Don't change it"

"Okay, now that both sides have confirmed, please sign the documents in your hands, and I will pass your documents to the organizing committee."

"Good!"

Both sides signed at the same time, and after confirming the content of Fu Tune, the staff walked over to Han who had just come in behind, and also announced to him the details of the third round of the competition, Han and Zhao were similar, and the works he chose were Mazurka's Op59 and Chopin Prelude all.

The precedent and precedence of the Fu tune are Chopin preludes, and the original incomparably conflicting performance is just restored under the Polonaise of the Fu tune, and the two will not be so conflicting.

Seeing this situation, Han in the distance was obviously a little excited.

Zhao Chengzhen's expression did not change at all, he picked up his score and walked in front of Fu Tuo, stared at Fu Tune's eyes for a few seconds, looked away, and walked towards the outside of the concert hall.

Even if there is no grudge, there is almost no possibility of resolving between the two.

Originally, it was possible to decide the winner in the fourth round, but now it seems that in the third round, the two of them will decide the winner in advance.

The two are almost identical in their work, and in addition to their personal style, they can very well hear the level of the performer.

Especially when two people are leaning together, you can hear the high and low better.

Zhao Chengzhen and Fu Tune are second and third, and the selected works still collide, if those judges can't hear the gap between Fu Tune and Zhao Chengzhen, then it would be better for them to poke their ears as soon as possible.

After all...... This is already the most basic and simple music discrimination.

Fu Tiao looked at the back of Zhao Chengzhen leaving, pursed his lips, and did not say anything, nor did he explain that this was not a work that he deliberately selected specifically for Zhao Chengzhen, but was set a long time ago.

After all, both of them know that no one can temporarily change the work before the competition, just specifically for the sake of targeting.

Everyone prepares for this competition, which is about two years, and they have prepared four large-scale concert works in two years, and they don't have any extra time to put it in the place for other people, and it is impossible for them to practice better than others in the same few days because others have played something awesome.

There was only one reason why they crashed.

It's luck.

So now it's very simple, either you die or I die.

Since Fu Diao has chosen all of Zhao Chengzhen's previous works, unless Fu Diao can directly suppress Zhao Chengzhen, so that he doesn't have any room to breathe at all, or ...... His road to the championship ended at this place, and there would be no chance of a fourth round at all.

However, can he really beat Zhao Chengzhen directly in the third round?

After Fu Tuo took a deep breath, he slowly exhaled without any change in his expression.

He didn't know, he wasn't sure, but he would definitely give it a try.

Use all your strength, stimulate your full potential, and make yourself more perfect.

Now it was the last time he would be able to play on his own.

Not only is it a head-to-head confrontation with Cho Sung-jin, but also because in the fourth round, it will be a symphony with the orchestra.

It is better to rely on others than on yourself, so ......

Fu Xuan squeezed his fists vigorously, feeling the stimulation of the relaxation of his blood, and then picked up the score in his hand and walked towards the outside of the concert hall.

With an hour to go, he was in shape in the last little moments.

When he got to the music backstage, he didn't have the space to find his state alone.

……

The judges have not all been in place, and they have not received any news from the staff, so they have not seen the-for-tat between the two this morning, everyone is still eating breakfast in the hotel, chatting casually about the first round of the game this morning, with relaxed expressions, and even with a trace of anticipation.

But people in many other places have already learned about the works of Fu Tune and Zhao Chengzhen in the second round of the competition in their own way.

At this moment, the Polish television station has begun to broadcast live, and Pavel and Olga are talking to the TV screen, casually discussing the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition, which they are optimistic about.

"As far as we have seen the news, we can see that the Chopin International Piano Competition is now divided into three echelons, the first echelon of players if strictly counted, is all of us familiar with the three, Cheng Zhen Zhao, Dior Fu, and Hamelin They represent the ultimate of the three directions, I personally like Fu's performance, because I really want to hear that the music of the contestants has something of their own, and I accept students in this direction as the goal. I give them more advice than direct instructions on how to play. ”

Pavel sat down at the table and waved his hand behind him, and behind him appeared a list of 20 contestants for the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

In his speech, the 20 contestants were divided into pyramid shapes, with 3 at the top, 7 in the middle, and 10 at the bottom.

When Pavel talks about Fu Tune, the screen immediately shows the content of Fu Tune.

Even Fu Tune's personal data and NavInfo are attached to the side, just like a game.

After all, this program is set for many viewers who don't know about the Chopin International Piano Competition, so in order to cater to these people, they specially set up a lot of places that are very similar to the game page.

For example, they specially designed to shoot the players and the players, and give the two of them a sign of confrontation.

Of course, all of this is in the middle of the music, and after the music starts, the whole shot will be relatively plain, and there will not be a lot of cluttered shots to distract the audience.

No matter how much you cater to the audience, what you will eventually return to is the music itself.

After Pavel finished talking about Fu, Olga also named her favorite contestant.

Compared with Fu Tune, she prefers Hamelin, because Hamelin herself is a Westerner, and the values of the two sides are relatively close, and her playing style is actually very similar to Hamelin, so she falls in love with Jamelin.

Neither of them chose Zhao Chengzhen, in fact, it was not because they didn't like Zhao Chengzhen, but because they really didn't know what to say to Zhao Chengzhen.

Zhao is on their side, and there is actually a little bit of a perfect warrior feeling in it, and many of his things are perfect, except for his own things in his music.

He pays more attention to the music, to the details of the music, to think, understand, and delve into the details of the music little by little.

It played perfectly, it sounded perfect, people couldn't find the mistakes, but there was no way to like it.

Compared with Zhao Chengzhen, who is so perfect and as pure as a diamond, they prefer a more humane Fu tune and a little gentle Hamelin.

Just as they continued to analyze the second echelon, that is, Xu Zi, Yang Yike, and Kate Liu, the staff gave Pavel Olga a document to the two of them.

He blatantly handed over the document, and the two of them opened it, and then ......

"Wow......"

Olga let out a slightly exaggerated "wow", handed the document in his hand to Pavel, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Teacher Pavel, look at this document, you will definitely feel interesting when you see this document." ”

"Oh?"

Pavel didn't expect Olga to say this, and the document that came now must be the repertoire of the contestants in the first half of today's Chopin International Piano Competition, and since Pavel said so, then the contestants in the first half of today's competition must be very interesting.

Pavel took the document handed by Olga and looked at it, and couldn't help but laugh in the same way.

"Indeed, this file is really very interesting."

With that, he handed the document to the host, gestured to the staff, and then twisted his body to look at the TV display behind him, and spoke.

"We have just received a document about the list of works of the first half of today's Chopin International Piano Competition! First up is the first contestant of the day, Galina from Russia, who performed Mazurka No. 59, Ballade No. 1 No. 23, Ballade No. 37 and Sonata No. 35. ”

"Well, these works are relatively ordinary works, the choice is more popular, the only thing that surprised me is that she actually chose to play Chopin's Ballade at this time, especially when so many top players played the perfect Ballade in front of her, she will choose to continue to play the Ballade, and put the Ballade in the third round, I don't know if the Ballade is his strongest point, or is it ...... That's how she arranged? So I personally thought I could focus on her ballade. ”

"The second and third Zhao Fu and the two let's wait a minute, let's talk about the fourth player first, the fourth player is Han from South Korea, he chose the same works as Galina, all of them are Chopin Mazurka No. 59, but he chose the complete prelude, which is a relatively rare category among all the players, if I pay attention to him, I want to hear the special features of his prelude."

"Of course, if he doesn't have Zhao in front of him, now he has Zhao in front of him, and we have seen the news here, Zhao plays Mazurka No. 33, as well as the complete prelude, you must know that the player who usually chooses all the preludes may not be able to have one a day, but now in half a day, we directly get two players, all of whom need to play Chopin's prelude! Even if I have high expectations for Han, I don't think Han will be able to wrestle with Zhao, who is currently ranked No. 1 in the prelude, especially after listening to Zhao's performance. ”

"Of course, anything is possible, and the music on the piano keyboard is infinite, so we can still guess that when Zhao played the prelude, there was a little problem, and Han didn't have any problems, if so, I think Han can beat Zhao!"

"But...... The battle between players from the same country is not actually the focus of this match, but the most interesting point of this match is what we will see later, the work that Fu Tiao will play in the third round. ”

With that, he waved the document in his hand and spoke to the staff in front of him.

"Director, can you help me put this file on the big screen, I'm afraid I'll hold it in my hand, just me, Parkinson's, they can only see the shaking of the paper at all, oh yes, don't forget to take out the content of Zhao's game."

Everyone laughed, the director did not hesitate, and changed the big screen behind, and only Fu Diao and Zhao Chengzhen were left on the screen.

"Okay, now we only see Fu and Zhao, now we will announce the works to be played by Fu in the third round, Chopin Mazurka 59, this is not a lot of accidents, even if he and Zhao collided, there are actually not many accidents, after all, there are only so many works that can be selected, and it is normal to choose to repeatedly collide together, no matter what the point is...... Fu's work after that! ”

"Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2, Op35, Chopin Untitled Piece, God Bless Poland, Chopona, Hero! Do you see it? If you don't see it, let's pull out the works that Zhao performed in the second round......"

"Chopin's Piano Ballade No. 2, Chopin Piano Sonata No. 2, Chopin Fantasia, Chopin Polonaise Heroes, wow, why are they so similar?"

"What if one of the fantasias, the second piano ballade, was replaced with Mazurka Op53, God bless Poland? Doesn't it just feel like ...... Very much like? ”

"And this Mazurka op53, but today Zhao he also wants to play the work! This one is very interesting. ”

Pavel looked at Olga and said with a smile: "Olga, you should know what this means, right?" ”

"Yes, I know!" Olga also smiled very happily, with an expression that was not too big to see the excitement: "This also means that all the content of Fu will be compared with Zhao by all the judges with a microscope, at this time it is no longer an ordinary difference in style between the two can be directly skipped, but a real comparison to see who plays better!" ”

"This also means that in this morning's game, Fu Diao and Zhao Chengzhen are likely to directly decide the winner!"

Olga's expression was very sure, Pavel nodded with a smile, and the host looked at the two of them discussing with a blank expression, not knowing what the two were talking about.

The two of them discussed for a long time about the work played in this tune, especially the one God Bless Poland, until the time came to ten o'clock.

The Chopin International Piano Competition signaled over there.

"Okay, let's not talk about it for now, the Chopin International Piano Competition is about to start, let's watch the competition first, you can't miss this competition today!"

"Today's game may be the most shocking and interesting game this year, and even in the third round!"

At Pavel's voice, the screen of the match began to change, and the profile of the first contestant, Galina, appeared in front of everyone.

(End of chapter)