Chapter 197: Being a man is afraid of comparison
Listening to Fu Tune's performance, Zhao Chengzhen no longer had any intention of confronting Fu Tune.
At first, he wanted to fight with Fu Diao, but in fact, he lost to Fu Diao at the Chopin International Piano Competition before, and he was still a little unwilling in his heart, feeling that he still had a chance to win against Fu Diao, and the gap between himself and Fu Diao was not much of a reality.
After all, according to the results at that time, the gap between him and Fu Diao was only 0.01 points, that is, Fu Diao just surpassed him a little bit and won the championship.
And this score is only a reference, not an absolute scoring criterion, but this also says a lot of things.
That is to say, at that time, the gap between him and Fu Diao may not be so big, the most important thing is that Fu Diao is playing better and better, his level and strength are getting higher and higher, and his interpretation of Chopin is getting more and more in place.
If you compare again, you and Fu Diao really don't necessarily have to be who loses and who wins.
This was what he thought before he met Fu Tuo, especially after he and his teacher reviewed all the videos of Fu Tune's performances at the Chopin International Piano Competition.
But he didn't expect that Fu Diao's progress would be so great.
After removing Chopin's shell, Fu Tuo seemed to be a different person, not only the level of skill in his hands was beyond everyone's expectations, but even the improvisation of music was terrifying.
This is not something that an ordinary young pianist can do, just the technical work shown in the hands of Fu Tune, if Fu Tune is a first-line pianist in the world, he believes it.
Even the top pianists, he kind of believes it.
After all, the second-tier, first-tier, and top-notch pianists, simply discussing the technical gap is probably the difference between 100 points and 110 points more than 10 additional points.
As far as Fu Tune shows the relaxed and comfortable posture of a first-line pianist's technical level, some people believe that he has won all the extra points.
What is the level of technical level and strength of the specific Fu tune......
Zhao Chengzhen is really hard to say.
After all, Fu Tune's technical level is really much better than him, and he can't see through the depth of Fu Tune, and can only hear the simple information that Fu Tune's performance level is very good.
As for Fu Tune's melodic improvisational ability......
He couldn't even understand it.
Although learning classical requires improvisation, and the ability to play more classical improvisation, those improvisations are very simple improvisations based on a theme, such as a small section in the middle, where you pull a scale with a lot of thirds and seconds and add a little fingering.
But I've never asked you to improvise a tune directly.
When he wrote the current piece, all he had in mind was a very simple idea: to expand on some of the previous improvisations and play a decent variation.
But what did Fu Tune do?
Not only did it expand the whole thing, but it was even segmented to make it smoother and make the music more like music.
As long as you have a little ear, you can hear the difference between him and Fu Tuo.
Listening to Fu's performance, Zhao Chengzhen even felt a little embarrassed and wanted to slip away with the crowd.
What kind of confusion did he make at that time, and he actually thought of competing with Fu Diao?
His goddamn competitiveness.
But unfortunately, the people around him were already crowded, and he had no place to move at all, and even a little wanted to cover his face, hoping that others would not recognize him.
But no matter what, if you lose, you lose, there is nothing to justify, Fu Tuo is better than him.
It has only been less than two months since the end of the Chopin International Piano Competition, but Fu Tune seems to have completed another upgrade, which is much stronger than when the Chopin International Piano Competition was held.
What else can be said about this?
Zhao Chengzhen took the lead and took two steps forward, no longer had any hesitation, clapped vigorously and shouted loudly.
“Bravo!”
The rest of the people who were watching suddenly woke up from a dream, and they couldn't help but get excited when they looked at Fu Diao, and they also began to shout loudly.
"Wow, Bravo!"
"Oo!!!!oo
"Perfect!"
"Awesome!"
“Bon! très bon! Chouette! (French, good!) That's great! )”
“Formidable! Extraordinaire! (French, wonderful!) Exceptional! )”
“Fantastique! (French, shocking!) )”
“……”
English, French, and Italian are mixed here, and those who know a little bit are shouting Bravo and praising Fu in Italian.
I didn't understand it at all, so I joined in the fun in that place in French, and praised the performance of Fu Tune loudly.
As for the rest of the people, they saw that Fu Tiao was a foreigner, who might not understand French, so they praised it in English.
There are even some sounds in Turkish, Spanish and the like, but those sounds are so small that you can't hear them in the French-English Chinese.
The girl from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, who had been standing next to Zhao Chengzhen, was even more excited.
She shouted as her eyes lit up and she said in French, "Did you hear that? Did you hear that? This is Fu Dior! He is the best pianist in the world! He's played a concert with me before! He was just perfect! He is God! ”
And the senior of Zhao Chengzhen, who had been sitting on the edge and ready to replace Fu Tune, shook his head slowly in shock, clapped his hands gently, and applauded Fu Tune.
He knew that Fu Diao was awesome, and he knew that Fu Diao could win against Zhao Chengzhen, and his strength was stronger than Zhao Chengzhen.
But he didn't expect Fu Diao to be so much stronger than Zhao Chengzhen in terms of hard power.
Perhaps the reason why Zhao Chengzhen was able to compete with Fu Tune at that time was that Chopin played by Zhao Chengzhen was more like Chopin, and the style in the music was more pure and pure, which was more in line with the audience's and judges' thoughts on Chopin.
Otherwise, no matter what he thought, he didn't think that what Zhao Chengzhen showed in school could touch Fu Diao's wrist.
It's too strong, too outrageous, so powerful that he can't find the words to describe Fu's performance.
He looked at Fu Diao's expression with a slightly complicated expression, and after a long sigh, he stepped back.
He originally wanted to wait for a little bit to disperse and then play a few pieces of pretending to be forced or something, but now he has no such thoughts at all.
Just kidding, whoever is behind Fu Diao now will wait for death.
In the current situation, who can play?
Not only will it not attract the audience, but it will not be able to pretend to be forced, but it will even be compared with Fu Tuo, resulting in the idea that this person is very weak.
Please, is it a shame to be weaker than Fu Tune? How many can be stronger than Fu Tune? It's too much to exalt him with him and Fu Tiao.
Now the people who can go on stage are probably those grandmothers and grandfathers who can't play, everyone doesn't care what they play, as long as they come to the stage, they will give encouragement.
Thinking of this place, his heart was even more depressed, and he turned away without any hesitation.
Fu Tiao looked at the dense crowd around him, couldn't help but smile, got up and bowed lightly to them, extremely elegant.
And this elegance made everyone's applause much stronger, and even some old people applauded too hard, and you can clearly see that their hands are red.
Looking at all this, although Fu Tiao was still saluting and thanking everyone, he was also a little embarrassed.
There are too many people, and I always feel that something bad may happen if I continue to squeeze like this.
In particular, there are a lot of elderly people here in Paris.
But fortunately, at this moment, the radio on the side seemed to have discussed and began to announce the latest train delay information.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the departure time of the train from Paris to Berlin has been transferred from platform 7 to platform 2 due to special reasons, and the departure time has been delayed by an hour."
"The train to Mons is about to depart, so please get on the train as soon as possible for all passengers who have not yet boarded the train."
“……”
Three or four announcements in a row dispersed a lot of the people who were still applauding Fu Diao over there, and Fu Tiao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, walked over to Zhao Chengzhen, who was still applauding lightly, and the girl from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, smiled at them, and asked.
"How? What am I playing this time around? I feel a little bit of a pity, this time the preparation was hasty, there are some musical details that have not been done well, a lot of things are purely for the service of showing off skills and not for the service of music, it would be nice if I could prepare in advance and come again. ”
"I don't have to prepare anymore, it's already very good."
Zhao Chengzhen didn't know what to say when he heard Fu Tuo's words, so he could only smile bitterly and raise his hand to forgive: "Fu, please don't say it, if you keep talking, I feel that I am not worthy of playing the piano, I really didn't expect you to improve so fast, what did you do during this time?" Why is strength progressing so fast? ”
"Strength progress?"
Fu Tiao was stunned and puzzled: "My strength has not improved much recently, my Chopin seems to be still like that, and the level of strength is not much room for improvement compared to the previous Chopin International Piano Competition, but it is more skilled." ”
"And the one you just played?"
"The ones I just played?"
Fu Tiao listened to what Zhao Chengzhen was referring to, suddenly realized, and explained: "I understand what you mean, but the ones I just played...... Actually, it's not progress, is it? These are some very basic skills, which I was very familiar with before the competition, and the content that I just played was some relatively basic variations, which were not particularly difficult. ”
"Huh? Then you were ...... Chopin International Piano Competition before"
"Chopin International Piano Competition is not allowed to play like this, Chopin International Piano Competition belongs to that kind of proposition composition, to play the feeling of Chopin, not to play casually, the Chopin International Piano Competition is much more difficult than normal performance......"
Speaking of this place, Fu Tune even has some sighs.
He thought of his previous performance at the Chopin International Piano Competition, and thought of the experience of thinking hard to achieve the feeling of Chopin at that time, and constantly working hard to find the idea that best suited him and Chopin, and he felt tired.
The Chopin International Piano Competition is too difficult, if you let Fu Diao participate in such a competition again, he will definitely give you the competition directly.
This kind of competition feels like those pianists say, it is difficult and stressful, and those who can come out of it are gods, but this does not mean that all pianists have to step out of this competition to go on the road of classical music.
You can learn from people like Lang Liangyue and see if you can try your luck or something, and maybe you can stand out at a music festival or other event, and be favored by those classical music companies.
Although the two have the same ending, it is obvious that the difficulty of either one is very high, and it depends on luck while fighting strength and strength.
Zhao Chengzhen can feel Fu Tuo's feelings very clearly, but whether he can accept it or not is another matter.
Who would have thought that when he fought to the death against him, when he actually fought him, he was not using his best ability, but fighting him in a field that he didn't seem to have experienced at all.
Are you kidding?
His strongest point can't compare to Fu Diao's weak point?
The thought crossed his mind, and his mood couldn't help but get worse.
Inexplicably, there is a very aggrieved feeling.
Obviously, he is also the pride of the sky, from childhood to adulthood, he has basically stepped on the heads of his peers all the way, and even obtained the qualification of the inheritor of the French music school, becoming a student of the current leader of the French music school, and it is possible to lead the French music school to fight around the world in the future.
As a result, one person beats you, and then tells you that this is one of his points that he is not good at, and he has been practicing hard for months to reach this level.
Who can stand this?
The girl from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels next to her looked at Fu Tune with reverence.
Zhao Chengzhen looked away, let out a long breath, shook his head, and pointed to the road in the distance and said helplessly.
"Forget it, let's not talk about it, let's go outside first, the people here are too crowded, and I can't breathe...... By the way, you're here to have a concert in Paris, right? How's the preparation? ”
"Okay."
Fu Diao and the girl followed Zhao Chengzhen and walked outside, saying as they walked: "Actually, there is not much preparation, I am basically very familiar with Chopin's content, even if the concert program is constantly changing, I can basically adapt to it, so there is no problem with the main part." ”
"And what about the encore in the back?"
"Encore just improvises, I think the jazz adaptation of Chopin's work I played before seems to be liked by many people, so depending on the situation, I will pick a few songs and change them."
This time, Fu Tiao is not going to let students go on stage.
In the past, the students were asked to help because the venue was in the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, but this time the performance was in the concert hall in Paris, and there were not many students in it, so if you wanted someone to help, you had to arrange it in advance.
And Fu tune is obvious, there is no time and connections to arrange someone to help play in advance, so this time he still plans to play some jazz arrangements of encore to fool around.
After all, if he really wants to prepare a pure work to come out of Encore, he must prepare in advance, and it must not be as easy as Jazz.
At the very least, you need to think about the work itself and study what is most compatible with the work, just like the work you did when you prepared for the Chopin International Piano Competition.
While many other works don't need to have the same special feeling as Chopin's, they are not something that can be played casually.
"It's a pity, the preparation was too hasty, and a lot of encore went directly to the stage without being ready......
Fu Tiao thought of this place and sighed like Zhao Chengzhen: "It would be nice if I could prepare a little more well, the next European or global concert tour may have to think more about it, and I can't be in such a hurry." ”
“……”
Zhao Chengzhen didn't want to speak, so he didn't bother to take care of Fu Tune, took out his mobile phone from his pocket and silently looked through Fu Tune's concert tickets.
It turned out that Fu Tune's concert tickets were completely sold out.
Not only ordinary websites, but also those scalping websites have no tickets over there.
And one more ......
According to the website, the last ticket was sold two or three weeks ago.
In other words, Fu Tiao's tickets may have just finished his performance in Berlin, and his tickets have been almost sold.
Zhao Chengzhen's heart was poked again.
His previous concerts couldn't sell out so well even at the main box office in South Korea, and basically they had to sell out two or three days before the performance started at the earliest.
And Fu Diao can sell so quickly in Europe, a place that is not the main ticket office.
The gap between humans is really bigger than that of dogs......
Zhao Chengzhen's expression gradually became bitter.
When everyone walked outside the station, Zhao Chengzhen took the address given by Fu Diao, and took everyone to the hotel with a familiar car to help Fu Diao settle everything.
This is a business-oriented hotel, the overall service is not bad, and this is obviously a hotel that Deutsche Grammophone helped to book.
Looking at the hotel where Fu was staying, Zhao Chengzhen inexplicably recalled that he went to Dongying to play before, and the accommodation given by Dongying Sony Music Company, that is, his brokerage company, was a small and large room, and it might only be ten steps from the door to the end of the room.
Even if the place in Dongying is small, it is very good to be able to live in such a hotel, even if the price of the two may be similar.
But when he unconsciously compared the hotel on Dongying's side to the hotel where Fu was staying, his heart hurt again.
Obviously, it may have been at the same level before, but when they met again, the distance between the two seemed to be thousands of rivers and mountains.
Zhao Chengzhen, who originally planned to invite Fu Diao to a traditional French dinner, couldn't help gritting his teeth, and looked at Fu Diao, who had already cleaned up the house, and suddenly spoke.
"Fu! Invite me to dinner! ”
“……”
Fu Tune: "Huh? ”
(End of chapter)