Chapter 213: Jazz and Classical

The applause under the stage was enthusiastic, and the shouts of the crowd came and went.

Whether it was applause, or shouting "bravo", it didn't mean anything, just the screams of great excitement gathered into a sea under the stage and roared in Fu Tune's ears.

One by one, they got up, and the applause became harder and harder.

First the group in the front row, then in the middle, and finally in the back.

The originally extremely neat theater became a little chaotic when everyone stood up and applauded, but I saw that there was a crowd of people, and countless palms touched below, making a roaring applause.

The applause was even more enthusiastic than during the previous intermission.

You can clearly see some old and young people clapping vigorously under the stage, their faces red and their necks thick, as if their whole body is exerting force.

It even gave Fu Tiao the illusion that some of these people might be excited to faint in the past.

These people are not one or two, but groups of people, working out there.

Fu Diao's gaze swept over the people under the stage, and he seemed to see that He Shen, who was sitting on the side, was the same.

Compared to the others around him, he seemed to be more excited, more excited.

Under the applause of this group of people, Fu Tiao couldn't help but smile, held the edge of the piano, bowed lightly to everyone, and then turned around and walked off the stage.

The applause was enthusiastic, there was no stagnation, and everyone was still applauding.

And when Fu Tiao walked to the backstage, the backstage staff were also applauding vigorously.

“Bravo! Tutor! ”

"Fu! spectacle Formidable! ”

“Génial!”

“Super!”

“……”

The backstage staff were almost entirely French, and as in Brussels, their backstage congratulations to Fu were often used in French to indicate good, with the exception of Bravo, which is the most common word in all concerts.

For example, Génial, genius playing, spectacle Formidable! Super wonderful show!

Although Fu Tiao couldn't understand what these people were saying at all, from the expressions of their group, Fu Tiao could also hear that these people were congratulating themselves on their performance, praising and blessing themselves.

Fu Tiao thought for a moment, smiled at them and nodded, and also bowed slightly.

The applause in the backstage was also even more enthusiastic.

After Fu Tiao sat backstage and rested for a while, he appeared again for a curtain call, and after three consecutive curtain calls, he stayed in the background to rest.

The person in charge before quickly handed over a glass of water and a bottle of champagne, and said to Fu Tiao with a smile.

"Fu, drink some water first, and when your performance is over, let's open a glass of champagne together, this champagne is a bottle that I have treasured for a long time."

"Forehead ......"

Fu Tiao took a sip of water, moistened his mouth, looked at the extremely excited person in charge, couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and whispered.

"Sorry, I don't drink......"

"Ah, that's a pity, my bottle of wine is a bottle I've been hiding for a long time......"

The person in charge sighed, his expression helpless: "I didn't expect you to like wine, I don't know when this bottle of wine will be used next." ”

With that, he glanced at the people around him, and the people around him immediately understood and brought over a few champagne glasses.

He twisted the button on the champagne, and instead of shaking violently like in the movie and TV series, and then Peng exploded, he carefully opened the cork, poured two-thirds of the wine into all the champagne glasses in front of him, and distributed it to everyone.

"But forget it, since I'm happy today, let's drink it together! santé! ”

“santé!”

Everyone raised their champagne glasses at the same time and toasted together.

Fu Tiao raised his glass with everyone else, took a sip of the sparkling water in the cup, and looked at the concert hall behind him.

The crowd was still applauding, and the applause had continued for two or three minutes and still did not stop.

Listening to all this, Fu Diao also understood that he should now appear and prepare for the return track.

He nodded slightly to the group of staff members around him, and then said with a smile.

"Okay, let's drink slowly, I'll go on stage first and prepare for the encore."

"Fu, can I ask in advance what your encore is repertoire? Because we need to wait until the concert is over, we send an introduction to the encore repertoire to everyone who has ordered the concert by email. ”

"Hmm...... My encore tracks. ”

Fu Tiao raised his head and thought about it, but he didn't know what he thought, and smiled at the people behind him.

"Actually, it's nothing, I'm going to play Kapustin's concert etudes."

"Kapustin ???"

The person in charge looked at Fu Diao, his eyes were stunned and he was at a loss.

……

The crowd under the stage was still applauding and whispering from time to time.

"Fu's performance this time is really amazing, I really like his Chopin etudes, especially the last winter wind and the sea."

"I don't feel like etudes, I still prefer Fu's ballades, and I feel that his ballades can even be compared to Zimmerman's!"

"Zimmerman can't compare, right? Zimmerman's ballades can be regarded as the top in the world, and his four ballades are simply divine! ”

"So I like his interpretation."

"Fu's etudes are really good, his etudes are very flavorful, and I like his feeling of the sea very much."

"Indeed, but do you know what Fu's Encore will play?"

"I don't know, if it's a classical musician, they're most likely to play a nocturne? Or other etudes, I don't know......"

"I heard that Fu has played jazz before, will he play jazz arrangements this time? What kind of work is it adapted...... Or is it an adaptation of Chopin's previous works? ”

"Looking forward to it, waiting for the return track of Fu Tune."

"Sir Fu is said to have a lot of praise, and the more I think about it, the more I look forward to it."

“……”

Everyone applauded under the stage and discussed Fu Tune's next work, their eyes looking forward to it.

Even though they have been applauding for two or three minutes now, Fu has not come out, but it still hasn't dampened their expectations.

For a pianist of Fu Tune's level, it is very normal to applaud for two or three minutes in a row to ask for an encore.

Like before, there were people who applauded for 10 minutes in a row, and then the human performer was pulled out of the encore song, what is this two or three minutes?

Kapustin in the distance was similarly expectant.

He was curious to see what kind of work Fu Tiao would show in such a formal setting.

The student on the side looked at Kapustin beside him and couldn't help but speak.

"Teacher, what do you think of Fu's performance this time?"

"Classical Chopin has a lot of flavor while maintaining his own characteristics, his Chopin should be the group of first-class pianists, as for when he can reach the top of Chopin, it depends on when he can be lucky to find a god-level live or album."

Kapustin repeated what he had said to Hiromi Ishihara again, looking at the empty stage with joy and smiling.

"But I'm looking forward to his jazz now, especially after talking to me before, and he said he's going to show some fusion of classical and jazz, and I'm curious to see how he interprets it."

"Teacher, do you know what his encore can play?"

"I don't know, but he's Dio Fu Zhen, I heard his jazz last time, it's very good, isn't it natural for me to expect from him?"

Kapustin's expression did not change in the slightest, saying that he himself expected Fu to play as a matter of course.

The student next to him was a little surprised, in his eyes, his teacher was one of the best classical jazz composers in the world today, and he didn't expect his teacher to expect a classical musician to perform jazz.

Maybe when I was in the jazz club before, what did Fu Tune play that impressed his teacher?

The student thought for a moment, but didn't say much, just silently stepped aside.

Under the gaze of everyone, Fu Tiao walked out of the backstage of the concert hall and reappeared on the stage.

After the applause, which had been slightly weakened, suddenly ushered in a climax again, everyone immediately stopped applauding, packed up their chairs, sat down again, and looked at Fu Diao expectantly, waiting for his performance.

Under the eyes of everyone, Fu Tiao did not have any timidity or uneasiness, smiled and gestured at everyone's mobile phone, and spoke.

"It's encore time, you can take photos and videos casually, and you don't have to worry about leaking anything."

After hearing Fu Tuo's words, everyone immediately burst into laughter of understanding, and some people who had planned to take pictures took out their mobile phones openly.

Seeing that everyone under the stage took out their mobile phones, Fu Tiao thought about it and added.

"But be careful, don't shake your hands when shooting, it's best to keep the picture and sound quality stable, otherwise...... Thank you very much for not posting the video and audio on the Internet. ”

After that, Fu Tiao didn't wait for everyone to speak, so he raised his fingers very calmly, put them on the piano keyboard, and then ......

Press directly without any hesitation.

Collapse Collapse ......

An incomparably light voice sounded.

The disintegration of the chords was distributed between the two hands, and Fu Tiao's hands were staggered on the keyboard with a smile on his face, running hard.

The color of the chords becomes particularly interesting under the influence of jazz.

Listening to all this, some people who don't know the works played by Fu Tune at this moment can't help but be stunned, but they just feel that the works played by Fu Tune now are very interesting, and the others can't hear anything.

You have to know that reality is not television, and no one has pulled out a colorful banner out of thin air to tell you what kind of work this person is playing.

Either it is written in the venue catalogue like the program list, or as the person in charge just said, after the Fu tune is played, the audience will be notified by email.

It is precisely because of this that some people who know what works Fu Tune plays have become extremely excited.

This is......

No. 3 of Kapustine's 8 Concert Etudes, Toccata the Smaller, Op. 40-3.

Some people may think that the name is like a classical work. This is not the case.

This is what Kapustin said when he created his work.

He borrowed the method of jazz composition.

This is a fusion of jazz and classical, and it is also the favorite set of countless top pianists to use in playing encore passages.

His fingers flutter over the piano keyboard, the music flows through his fingertips, and every note is charming.

Hearing all this, the student from Kapustin suddenly became extremely excited, and gently poked his teacher's arm and whispered.

"Teacher, teacher, Fu is playing your work."

"Well, I'll listen to ......"

Kapustin didn't speak, he just listened carefully to Fu's performance and interpretation.

With the performance of Fu tune, his eyes became brighter and brighter.

Fu tune's fingers turn quickly on the piano keyboard like a windmill, and the wheel fingers of this section are played very clearly as a main theme, but at the same time, the surrounding part as an accompaniment cannot be ignored.

How to balance the wheel fingers and chord parts is a very difficult task.

But this difficult point is under the hands of Fu Tune, you can't see any difficult part at all, you can only feel why Fu Tune is so simple.

Fu Tune's fingers easily grasp all the chords and drop them on the main melody, making the melody even more gorgeous.

It's not just a classical performance, Fu tune is on the jazz swing, and he does a particularly jazzy job.

As he himself said, the combination of jazz and classical, since someone else has written a work for him, then he interprets it according to that person's interpretation method and sees how it feels.

Obviously, Fu Tune has done a particularly good job of blending classical and jazz.

You can't even tell if it's jazz or classical.

And Fu Tune seems to have played the nature of this work.

The incomparably distinct sense of rhythm, fast and precise expression, all of which made the corners of Fu Tuo's mouth can't help but rise.

This music ......

It's a lot of fun!

He stared at the keyboard in front of him, his body even swaying slightly to the rhythm of the music, playing with the notes in his hand.

It's really fun!

He found many, many improvisational parts in it, and Kapustin, through his own non-stop thinking, gave an extremely beautiful standard improvisation.

If you play the way Kapustin plays, you don't have to think about the improvisation, because he has already written everything for you.

But he also gives you a little bit of space.

As long as you feel that your improvisation can be better than what he has been thinking about for so long, then you can make your own adaptation.

It sounds simple, but in fact, over the years, not many people have been able to adapt this piece with their own ideas about improvisation.

They just played what Kapustin was giving step by step.

It's not that they don't know how to improvise, it's that after they improvise on their own, they find that what they improvise is really too different from what Kapustin wrote after careful consideration.

It's like an athlete and a child who has just learned to walk.

And what about Fu Tune?

Kapustin smiled at Fu Tune, waiting for him to play.

It's a small toccata that lasts about two minutes or so, and it's not long.

He was curious to see what Fu Tune could play.

Under his gaze, Fu Tuo gradually became excited.

He himself had practiced this piece before the performance began, and at that time he just felt that Kapustin's work was well written, and he didn't have any other ideas.

But now under this scene, he inexplicably feels the true charm of this work.

"Really...... It's so much fun! ”

Fu Diao's fingers flew on the keyboard, and everyone under the stage was even a little dazzled.

He was listening to his own performance, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

He thought of what was improvised.

The music that lasted less than two minutes was about to end, but before it ended, Fu Tune's fingers changed slightly, and he did not go directly to the end according to the original content of the work, but took on a new key.

From the first level that is about to end, to the fifth level, that is, the middle of the genus key.

He did it all over again.

Kapustin, who was sitting there, was the first to notice this, after all, he wrote the song himself, and he was naturally very familiar with this fusion of classical jazz.

His body couldn't help but straighten up, staring at Fu Tune in front of him, smiling and waiting for him to play.

It's just that he didn't expect that Fu Diao completely let go of himself.

Rumble!

Fu Tune's hand flicked violently, smashing a huge bass into the bass area of the piano.

It didn't end there, his feet sank slightly, and he stepped on the sustain pedal through a small gap.

Compared to pressing it all directly, this sustain pedal does not give much extension, just a floor noise.

And what Fu Tune wants is precisely this background noise.

He was like crazy, his hands almost intertwined, and he played the jazz chords with all his might.

At the same time, the wheel fingers that Kapustin had written about in his music did not leave anything out of the way, but used them even more insanely.

Both hands are on the wheel fingers at the same time!

The monophonic fingers are arranged smoothly like a train track, carrying the melody and chords in the middle.

This doesn't end there.

From time to time, Fu Tune also scratches out a more brilliant octave scratch, as the existence of some small easter eggs, mounted on the music.

Show off.

Brilliant skills!

Compared with Kapustin's perfect improvisation, Fu ton's improvisation adds more virtuosity to it.

The main theme is constantly off-key, transposed, and transposed.

You can even hear the illusion of atonal music in the Fu tunes.

"This music?"

The student sitting next to Kapustin was completely stupid, and he didn't know if it was a Kapustin work now, or if it was a Fu tune's work.

And Hiromi Ishihara, who was sitting on another occasion, was completely excited.

She stared at Fu Tiao, swallowing her saliva and twisting her legs.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's it! That's how it should be! ”

"That's handsome! This is the uninhibited and free that jazz works should have! ”

"This is the jazz and classicism of Fu Tune!"

Let's see if we can put the video......

(End of chapter)