Chapter 157: The Crown Battles the Past and the Present

"Sorry......"

Fu Tiao looked at Sir Simon with an embarrassed face, very embarrassed: "I...... I'm asleep, but Sir Simon, your playing is really perfect, I love the kind of thinking about life and death in your music, facing death calmly, and the despair of witnessing the giant collapse in front of you, this feeling is really good! ”

"Aha, thank you so much, even if you fall asleep listening to my music, this is still a very good answer."

Sir Simon was amused when he heard Fu Tuo's words, and joked at Fu Tuo, and then saw that Fu Tuo seemed to be more and more embarrassed and embarrassed, so he immediately comforted Fu Tuo.

"But you don't have to worry too much about listening to music and falling asleep, music itself is something to enjoy, whether it is to make people feel everything that the player wants to express, or to make the audience want to sleep comfortably, all this is what we players want to do, you can listen to it and fall asleep, it just proves that we play well, don't take it to heart."

After that, he raised his head and thought about it, turned his head to look at Christine behind him, and asked her, "I remember correctly, we have a permanent audience here, and he seems to fall asleep every time?" Whatever we play, he can enjoy it as a lullaby, who is he called......"

"Hans Dick, old Dick, as his name suggests, is a very fat man, with slightly gray hair, and his position is often uncomfortable for the people on both sides, so we have to put him in a corner."

"Oh, yes, old Dirk, I forgot, I've been getting older lately."

Sir Simon turned his head to look at Fu Tuo, coughed lightly twice, and explained: "Dick, in German is sticky, fat, stout, not the same as English, and there are people with the surname Dick in English, I remember mostly in the beautiful country, this surname is very common among the older generation, this old Dick is a very famous audience on our side, maybe because he is too fat, he will fall asleep every time he listens to our music, but it is very interesting that once we are finished, he can always get up at the first time, Shout Bravo! Interesting, right? ”

"It does ......"

Fu Tiao couldn't help but cough lightly twice, hiding the embarrassment in his heart, and smiled awkwardly at Sir Simon.

Sir Simon had been comforting him, but at any rate he had always felt a little strange, for it was not always a good thing to fall asleep at a concert rehearsal.

But fortunately, Sir Simon, Taylor, and Christine didn't pay much attention to it, so Fu Tiao skipped the matter and didn't mention it more.

What can I do, just make do with it, and I can just turn my face and not cooperate?

Fu Tiao got up again, tidied up his clothes, smiled slightly at Sir Simon, stretched out his hand and said, "Then let's get to know me again, hello, Sir Simon, my name is Fu, I am called Fu Tiao, Fu is my surname, Tiao is my name, you can call me Tiao." ”

"Oh, I know, the rules of your call in Huaguo are completely different from ours, Dior." Sir Simon also smiled and shook his thick hand with Fu Tuo, who suddenly felt the furrow in his hand, like a deep trench, "Klaus of Deutsche Grammophon and I have talked, as early as half a year ago, he had a reservation for this year's performance, although the performer has not been set, but the time has been set almost, that is, this Friday night, eight o'clock to nine o'clock, divided into two halves, is the repertoire ready?" ”

"Well, the first half is Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, and the second half is my repertoire for the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition."

When Sir Simon heard the First Piano Concerto, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, looked at Christine and Kirill behind him, looked at their affirmative expressions, couldn't help but rub his eyebrows, and said helplessly: "I'm sorry, I've forgotten a little bit, I'm older after all, since I did Chopin's First Piano Ballade......"

Sir Simon pondered for a moment, then said to Christine next to him: "Then I'll go on, I haven't played Chopin's First Piano Ballade for a long time, who did I play with last time?" Diyun Lee? Argerich? Barenboim? Forgot about ......."

He rubbed his head in a little pain, trying to remember his cooperation with others, but he couldn't think about it for a long time.

In addition to his own forgetfulness, the number of piano concertos he has recently performed with the ensemble is decreasing, which is also a problem.

Sir Simon is old after all, or rather, the top pianists of the older generation are almost all old, the most awesome person, the best classical music pianist who sells tickets, it is the turn of Lang Liangyue's generation in Huaguo, he is the only pianist who can ask for a share with the theater, don't look at this low demand, but in fact, almost no pianists dare to do this.

To be able to ask the theater for a share, there must be money to be made, and the attendance must be higher than six or seven percent.

Lang Liangyue is one of the few top pianists in the world, almost full, and his ticket price is several times higher than that of other top pianists, which is why he dares to ask for a box office.

In addition to Lang Liangyue, Li Diyun also dared to ask for a share of the box office, but it was a domestic box office.

Argerich is a top pianist among the older generation who can still play, has a good memory, and can continue to support her on stage.

Times are changing, and now it is the turn of Fu to tune their generation.

Fu Tiao also seemed to sense Sir Simon's aging, so he said to him, "Why don't you ...... Let Kirill take command? ”

"He? He still needs to continue to hone his skills, even if he has won the 2014 Best German Conductor, but he still has a long way to go. ”

Sir Simon turned to Kirill who had been standing behind him and smiled a few times, waved his hand, and said to Fu Tune: "Go, go down, go down from that side, let's go to the stage, let me listen to Chopin, the winner of the 2015 Chopin International Piano Competition, how it is!" ”

With that, he nodded to the crowd next to him, turned around and walked slowly in the direction of the stage.

Kirill followed closely behind Sir Simon, followed by Christine.

As for Taylor, after patting Fu Tune on the shoulder, he also followed everyone and walked downstairs.

Seeing that everyone had left the audience, Fu Tiao couldn't stay any longer, so he ran down as well, following Sir Simon around the concert hall, and finally came to the backstage of the concert hall, where only the cast and crew were allowed to use.

Pushing open the door, a new backstage completely different from the previous decaying backstage of the Chopin Concert Hall appeared in front of Fu Tuo, this backstage still adopts the exterior design of the Berliner Philharmoniker Concert Hall, so that it is still dominated by gold tones, supplemented by white and other tones.

Everyone didn't take Fu Tiao to wander around the backstage cast and crew area too much, but took him directly to push open the door and enter the stage.

The many cast and crew on the stage were still talking in whispers, and when they saw Sir Simon returning, they immediately greeted him in a friendly manner, and then turned their eyes to Taylor and Fu Tiao, who were behind Sir Simon.

For Taylor, many of them are more familiar, after all, everyone is a classical musician living in Berlin, even if everyone doesn't know each other very well, there is no problem in saying a few words, and meeting is also the kind that can talk, so that there is nothing to say.

They are extremely curious about Fu Tune, and everyone has seen and worked with them in the previous championships of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

Each champion has different characteristics, and not all of them are completely and pure Chopin.

Even if it is pure Chopin, their pure feeling is not the same.

And what kind of feeling will this new Chopin International Piano Competition give them?

They don't know, but they're looking forward to it.

Fu Tiao looked at the Berliner Philharmoniker and looked forward to their music.

I don't know what exactly is the difference between these people and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

Sir Simon walked back to the front of the orchestra, the conductor's podium, looked at the crowd around him, and nodded slightly.

"Okay, everyone, this one should not need me to introduce more, the champion of this year's Chopin International Piano Competition is absolutely excellent, so you also show your excellent strength to let this champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition have a good taste of you! See if it's your coarseness or his hardness! ”

Speaking of this, Sir Simon couldn't help but wink at the crowd, and everyone burst into laughter, and the atmosphere that had been slightly stiff before suddenly vanished.

Seeing that the stage came back to life, Sir Simon immediately said: "Okay, guys, I think your Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 should not have been forgotten, I remember reminding you to rehearse this piece before, the leaders of each voice, distribute the score to the orchestra, and start to recall, I will give you five minutes, after five minutes, I want to hear your voice." ”

"Yes!"

There was chaos in the concert hall, and the leaders of each voice section gave the task to the chief instrument, and the chief instrument redistributed the score to everyone, so that they could see if there were any problems with their score, and they must solve it in five minutes.

Fu Tiao, on the other hand, followed Sir Simon and sat in front of Steinway, who had just been transported.

Sir Simon leaned on Steinway's cover, grinned slightly at Fu Tune, and smiled: "Although I don't know which piano you like, but you shouldn't refuse this one, all places are excellent golden means, Steinway, use this piano first, if this piano doesn't feel good, we'll discuss the others." ”

"Okay."

Fu Tiao nodded, put his hand on the piano keyboard, ran a few scale chords quickly, and even ran a quick etude to feel the feeling of this piano.

This is a must for every pianist before going on stage, and if a pianist doesn't have the piano to experiment before the performance starts, either the stage is not important enough for him and he doesn't pay much attention to it.

Either that...... This person can't.

After all, there are subtle differences in the feel of each piano, you have to feel the strength of the fingers when you play the key, and then think about how you should adjust it if you use this strength.

It takes a little bit of time.

A top-notch pianist may be able to rely on a few notes in a very short period of time, for example, to get a rough idea of what the instrument is like.

But they're definitely not going to just get started.

The first note that falls must be perfect.

Falling sound, no regrets.

Wait for the first note to fall, and then prepare to adjust your music, at that time...... It's completely late.

Therefore, after confirming that there was nothing wrong with this feeling, Fu Tiao nodded slightly at Sir Simon.

"That's it."

"Okay, friends, our champion Dio Fu is ready to finish his music, what about you? Are you ready? ”

"Ready!"

The crowd immediately responded to Sir Simon, who was already seated in their seats, and the score was already in front of them.

This score does not mean that they have not been in touch, and they need to use sight-reading to confirm the direction of their playing, this is just an insurance against their problems.

When it was time to make sure that everyone was ready, Sir Simon did not hesitate, stood directly on the podium, picked up the baton on the music stand, lifted it vigorously, and then dropped it with a slight hint of softness.

Buzz, buzz......

The sound of the violin part immediately sounded, and a completely different sound from the previous feeling of the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra flowed from Sir Simon's baton.

He controlled his fingers to wave easily in the air, and his mental state was completely different from when he was chatting with Fu Tuo backstage before.

When he entered the music, his nerves tensed instantly, and his whole attention was completely focused on the music, and his eyes were extremely serious.

When he used to talk to Sir Simon, he often had a little bit of forgetting things, and he was a little confused and vague in everything.

But now, the cloudiness dissipates in an instant.

As if he had rehearsed the work countless times, he held his hand up, and each time he landed exactly where he should be.

"Violin voice, up, get up a little, hold up the sound! Chris, I hear your voice falling, pull it up! ”

"Perfect! flute, clarinet...... Come...... Come, come! Good! Pretty! It's so beautiful! I love this! ”

"Damn Schneider, you're fishing again, I hear your voice a little weak, if this happens next time, you fuck me off!"

"Good, good Schneider, this tone, perfect! That's how you have to play! Hear no, Schneider! ”

"Hold, hold, send the tone up, push it up, okay! Perfect! ”

“……”

Unlike formal performances, during rehearsals, Sir Simon often speaks, and this voice is just enough to be heard by Fu Tuo here, but not by sitting in the back.

As far as the feeling of Fu Tune is concerned, Sir Simon and the Berliner Philharmoniker's Chopin sense of music may not be as accurate as the Warsaw Philharmonic's performance, but in terms of musical expression and musical logic, the Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra has achieved the ultimate that the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra cannot do.

Even though it was just a simple rehearsal, and even though it seemed like they hadn't touched this piece for a long time, they still showed their professionalism as top classical music performers.

It's that they're able to put themselves in the music at all times.

Case......

Fu Tiao will not disappoint everyone too much, they have shown their professionalism, so Fu Tiao should also show Fu Tiao's professionalism.

Somehow...... He is also the winner of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

"Fu ......"

Sir Simon felt that the time was almost up, and looked at Fu Tune behind him, and was about to say something, but found that Fu Tune was ready, and the whole person's attention was on the piano, so he couldn't help but smile easily, turned his head to look at the orchestra, spread his hands flat, and slowly pressed down.

The sound of the band is controlled by the control buttons, and under the precise control of Sir Simon, the sound slowly drifts away.

At the moment when the timbre was about to completely drift away, Fu Diao's hand suddenly raised, and then slammed down.

Collapse!

An extremely precise and unparalleled emotional impact carried the remaining emotions of the previous members of the orchestra and instantly rushed towards them, and everyone looked at each other with shock and disbelief in their eyes.

As they had thought, they had met many winners of the Chopin International Piano Competition, collaborated with countless winners of the Chopin International Piano Competition, and knew each other well and knew many of the champions' personal styles.

But......

Hardly anyone can give them such an incomparable shock as Fu Tune today, and the perfection of the timbre in the moment it falls is as if it has been played countless times on this piano, a level that many pianists who have worked with before have not achieved dozens of times.

In terms of the strength shown by Fu Tune at present, among the pianists of the Chopin International Piano Competition they have worked with, they can definitely rank among the top few.

As for why not the first......

That's because those who are higher than Fu are all the top pianists in the world, and even the top 10 pianists of the year.

If the conditions are more strict, just discuss what they have seen, the champions of the Chopin International Piano Competition and their cooperation when they are young.

Then Fu Diao can definitely rank in the top two, or even the first.

The only one that could surpass Fu Tune was the top pianist who suppressed almost an entire era.

Argerich.

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