"The closest classical pianist to the god of jazz?"

Nick couldn't help but repeat a sentence, without any hesitation, he directly reached out and took the magazine from Bruce's hand, looked at the page he had just turned to, read it seriously, and then frowned tightly.

It's a very simple concert talk about the performance of some recent pianists' concerts, so this article only occupies a very small part of the magazine, but it is kind of interesting to be able to come up with this title, which has not been overruled.

This Gramophone magazine is not an ordinary second- or third-tier magazine, anyone can read it, it is not the kind of small magazine that can write headlines in that particularly eye-catching way, or even Tramp was doggy and something like that, and then has nothing to do with the headline.

The title written in the gramophone must match the article, and it also needs to be reasonable, and the reviewer in charge of this comment needs to have a general memory of the person being commented on, and it must not be too exaggerated, so that it can be published in the magazine.

Therefore, even if it is praised, in fact, the praise will not be particularly arrogant, and it is particularly unpredictable.

Now the content of this magazine is written about the classical pianist who is closest to the god of jazz, which makes Nick, a jazz professor, a little interested.

Although he is only a jazz professor now, you must know that he was born to study classical music before that, and he did not study classical music here in the beautiful country, but classical music at the Vienna Conservatory, and studied until the master's degree, that is, the master's degree.

As a result, he didn't expect that after coming to the beautiful country to continue his studies and start playing, he was actually asked to play jazz all the time, and then he played and played, and he became a professor of jazz, which had little connection with classical music before.

Therefore, he was very interested in this title.

The classical pianist closest to the god of jazz.

This one is very interesting.

As Nick walked forward, he looked at the sheet music in his hand with a calm expression.

He first looked at who the author of this article was, and it was very clear that the German musician André Hadter, this person he knew, was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, and their school had an exchange with the Berlin University of the Arts, and he had a few words with this Andrey.

This person is a very peaceful person, there is no discrimination in it, as far as Nick is concerned, this person adheres to the concept that everyone is a person, a pure person, not LGBT and other labels and skin color, he doesn't care what your sexual orientation is, he doesn't care what your skin color is, he just treats you as a normal person.

It is precisely because of his behavior that Nick has a deep memory of this person, and he also remembers that this person's jazz performance is also very good, and many people in Hollywood and some record companies will ask him to write some new works recently.

Although he is now working at the Berlin University of the Arts in Germany, he is actually running all over the world and is so well-known that it is no wonder that he was invited to write for Gramophone magazine.

After a little bit of this person's message, he began to look at what he had written, and then couldn't help but be stunned.

"Friends, let us welcome the appearance of the strongest classical pianist who is about to enter the field of jazz, Vodio! This is a one-of-a-kind, enough to shock the bone marrow are trembling top pianist, I am glad that I can hear him play, and joy, I deeply love his playing, he is the strongest I have heard this year, the most powerful, for classical music and jazz arrangements are also the most perfect, classical pianist! ”

actually praised people in such a way, even with a particularly open attitude on the Western side, his way of praising people is extremely rare.

No, it's not just rare, it's even rare.

Nick continued to look down.

"Maybe some people don't know who Fu Tune is, so let me introduce you to him, he is the winner of this year's Chopin International Piano Competition, and at the same time won the Best Concerto Award, his interpretation of Chopin retains Chopin's original taste, but also adds a lot of unique, only his own flavor in it, that is to say, this kind of music you can only hear in the performance of Fu Tune, in other people's Chopin, you can't hear his taste at all.

In recent days, Fu Tiao has embarked on his first tour of Europe, starting from Warsaw and heading all the way to the West, first to Berlin, then to Amsterdam and Brussels, but unfortunately because he was not very well prepared, he sold all the tickets around the world very early, and even I wanted to listen to his concert from my students, and the purchase price exceeded the original price, and the highest price even reached ten times that of extreme rarity!

I don't know who will choose to sell their tickets, but now that tickets are sold out, you can't buy them on the official websites of the concert halls or on Deutsche Grammophone's personal page, which is a pity, and if I have the chance, I would really like to hear a little more of the Fu tunes live.

Because of his live, the kind of music he plays...... There's simply no way you can hear any similar sensations anywhere else.

At first, I didn't know why tickets were so expensive, but I was fortunate enough to get tickets from my students for Fu tunes in Brussels, and I was able to get to the front of the concert hall to listen to Fu tunes, and after I actually heard Fu tunes play, I understood why Fu tunes were so popular with so many people.

As I said earlier, there is a unique feeling in Fu's music.

This time in Brussels, Fu played a total of two sets of works, one is Chopin's prelude, the other is Chopin's etude Op10, both of which are not extremely rare works, the rarer of which is Chopin's prelude, but even if it is rare, you must have heard these two sets of works.

Under the interpretation of Fu tune, these two sets of works, especially Chopin's set of preludes, are enough to enter the first three positions of the most interesting and best preludes I have ever heard, Fu Tune's personal style has a very strong general feeling, and the prelude he plays is just like his sea style, which is endlessly varied, just as you can never know what the next piece of chocolate in the chocolate blind box will be, and you have no way to guess what kind of surprise Fu tune will give you in the interpretation of the prelude.

As for the Chopin etudes played by Fu Tune, I am not particularly easy to say, because all I have left in my heart is shock.

Fu Tune brings order and clarity to the heart of Chopin's most daring firestorms, for example, in Etudes Nos. 4 and 10 of Op 1, you will realize an unparalleled combination of poetry and precision, and while the sound of Fu Tune may be a completely modern one, you can feel that he is speaking to the spirits of the revered masters of the past, especially the spirits of Corto and Fischer! It's a flawless interpretation!

The combination of infinite polishing and shading piano skills gives his performance the rarest distinction and quality.

His skill and determination in OP10-1 are so strong and unwavering that with a spectacular curtain call that you can't imagine how amazing his improvisation on the last page is.

The texture of his music is translucent and has its own breath, like his Rubato in 10-3, like Rubinstein, who is a great and natural keyboard singer.

I swear that if Chopin had heard this performance, he would have cried out again: 'Ah, Daddy! If he had heard the show......

The performance of Fu tune is what magic.

I've been saying to my students lately, if you want to learn Chopin, you have to listen to the Chopin because his Chopin represents one of the greatest and most powerful Chopins I can imagine, but you can't listen to the Chopin until you've finished practicing, because it's the music of the Fu, not your ......."

Nick couldn't help but be a little stunned when he looked at this content, although he was a jazz player, he could tell from the words of this critic how much he praised Fu's classical music.

Words of praise even have to overflow from the sheet music in your hand.

It's even a bit fleshy to watch.

But now there is a question, that is, isn't this Andre said to be a jazz person? Nick's only impression of André is that he used to teach jazz at the Berlin University of the Arts, so why did he suddenly switch to classical criticism?

But one thing to say, this Andre is still quite interesting to speak, and Nicol really wants to listen to Fu Tune's concert now to see what kind of personal style Andre is talking about.

If Fu Tiao has a concert here in North America......

Whether it is a beautiful country or a large number of horses, as long as Fu Diao can come over for a concert, there is no problem for him to take a plane to listen to a special one, provided that Fu Tiao will come.

However, looking at the current situation, the possibility of Fu being transferred does not seem to be high.

Nick looked at Bruce, who was leaning against him and also looking at the content above, and couldn't help but ask, "Bruce, you know Fu Dao, Fu Dao, Fu ...... Eh, the name of the Chinese is really hard to pronounce, Fu, yes, do you know if the blessing has decided to hold a concert here? ”

"Dior? Dior: Do I remember? ”

Bruce looked at Nick and couldn't help but take out his phone and start searching, looking at the content on it and slowly shaking his head: "No, he didn't come." ”

"Dior, does he read Dior, is it still a good ......" Nick recited it a few times, and then said to Bruce, "So where will the next concert of Fodeo be held now?" Where are the tickets? Do you know? ”

"At present, the four games that are open for sale below have been completely sold out, and now there are only four games left for next year, so ......"

Bruce shrugged his shoulders and said casually: "The next few shows have not yet been opened for pre-sale, but I see what Andre said, these tickets should sell out quickly, you may be able to ask your agent at Universal, maybe he can get some tickets, if I have to choose, I think you can ask if you can get tickets for Fu Diao in the Golden Hall, he should have no problem going to the Golden Hall later." ”

"Okay, I'll ask."

Nick nodded, put aside Fu Tune's concert for the time being, and continued to look down.

After all, judging from Bruce's words just now, Fu Tune's concert tickets should be relatively difficult to buy, and it is more likely that they can't be bought.

As for whether to go later, let's talk about it, anyway, it is not expensive for him to go to Vienna here, only a few hundred or nearly a thousand dollars.

If you can get a ticket for Fu Tune, go and listen to it, if you can't get it...... Then wait for Fu to be transferred to North America.

North America is a very large box office of classical music, and as a classical music player, Fu Diao can't only mix in Europe and not come to North America at all, right?

If it really doesn't work, I'll go to Huaguo to have a look, and it's impossible for Fu Diao not to go to Huaguo.

As a former classical music player, he was so intrigued by André's words that he couldn't help but want to listen to Fu's music.

However, as a current jazz player, his main idea now is to continue to read and see why Fu Tune can be called a jazz pianist by Andre.

He continued to scroll a little further, and there was a long section praising the perfection of the classical music in Fu Tune, until it was in the middle of the middle that the jazz content appeared.

"I know a lot of people came in because of this title, and you might wonder why I've been talking about classical music and not jazz, but the main reason is because I want to tell you that Fu is a classical pianist first and a jazz player second, and as for why I say that, you may understand if you keep reading.

Perhaps because Fu Tuo's personal style is heavier, Fu Tuo's adaptations of Chopin often have many of his own styles, especially his jazz.

From the end of the first performance in Berlin, Fu will play some encore repertoire, all of which are Chopin's works, but Fu will adapt them, and the reason why I will go to Fu Tune's concert is because Fu Tune's return to Encore is popular in the jazz circle.

And at the beginning of this fire, it was actually not good, because all this originated from Fu Tune's Encore was stolen and uploaded to the website, and then misunderstood the performance error, so that Fu Tune had to re-record it, which alleviated everyone's doubts, but it is precisely because of this re-recording that Fu Tune's jazz performance strength is really displayed in front of everyone.

At first, I listened to Fu Tune's Jazz Encore I just thought it was very good, a little interesting, these chords were arranged with ingenuity, and the level of strength was not ordinarily strong, but when I actually went to listen to Fu Tune's live, I found that I was wrong, very wrong, completely different from what I felt before, Fu Tune's jazz return not only did not have any advance preparation, on the contrary, everything he did was improvised.

You can't believe it's an unbelievable miracle that a perfectly tuned chord arrangement that feels like a Kapustin jazz piece came from a single person's live creation!

This is only a small highlight of Fu Tune, if you continue to listen hard, you will find a very peculiar place, that is......

The harmonic progressions and chord choices used in all the music of Fu Tune, without any exceptions, all come from the classical chords of classical music!

What is this concept?

As we all know, jazz is really changing in the sense of infinite change, in fact, from 1890 to 1900 in New Orleans, their adaptation of ragtime made it eventually evolve into jazz, and with the development of time, Chicago jazz and swing music gradually became popular, and Bibop, which represents the dividing line between modern jazz and classical jazz, only began to prevail around 1950.

As a person in 1800, Chopin's piano harmony is very bold, even if the texture structure is slightly thin, but there is still no way to hide its overall beauty, Fu Tune in order to show Chopin's characteristics as a cutting-edge figure in the music of the Romantic period, he restrained himself from using classical jazz harmonic characteristics, so that his music is restrained in the classical.

And this restraint, so that the classical beauty in the music is completely sublimated, classical and jazz almost perfect combination, forming a kind of Fu tune jazz music unique to him, when he is creating his own jazz music, you can feel a jazz god temperament shrouded in his body, you can even feel the jazz god behind him directing his hands, with him to change jazz.

Some people may think that only using classical jazz harmony may seem a bit old, old-fashioned, and without new ideas, but when you really listen to Fu Tune's scene, you will completely understand what is called classical and what is old-fashioned, Fu Tune is the kind of person who can play this set of classical jazz things in the real sense, and his control of music makes people unable to imagine his limits.

However, all of this, judging from Fu Tune's performance in Brussels, was all created by himself, impromptu performances, without any advance preparation.

The jazz adaptation and creation that is very much in line with the original song itself, coupled with his super on-site adaptability, together create the one I have seen, the closest to the god of jazz, the classical pianist! ”

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