pianist from the sea

Chapter 114
The staff stood in front of Fu Tiao and Zhao Chengzhen, unfolded the documents in their hands, and said slowly.

"According to regulations, I have to remind all of you that the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition includes:

A Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 35 or Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 58 or Prelude, Op. 28, a complete set of mazurkas from Opus: 17, 24, 30, 33, 41, 50, 56, 59 , optional Chopin repertoire, only if there is not enough time left in the competition to play the above repertoire!
I have to remind you both that the third round of performance is 50-60 minutes long. Whether it is too short or too long, it will affect your performance, and you may even be stopped by the judges directly to prevent you from continuing to play!Please control the time of your performance to ensure that there will be no major problems in your performance! "

After finishing speaking, he looked at the two of them, handed out the document in his hand, and placed it in front of them.

"Zhao Chengzhen, Mazurka Selection, Op33, No1-4 all, Chopin Piano Preludes all!"

"Fu tune, Chopin's Mazurka, Op33, No1-4 all, Chopin Sonata in B-flat minor op35, God bless Poland op.posth;, Polonaise op53 in A-flat major "Hero"."

"The work should be confirmed by both parties."

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

This time, the conflict between the two was more intense than in the second round.

Not only the Mazurka in the third round, but both of them chose the exact same Chopin Mazurka Op33, among which Fu Tiao chose Chopin's Heroic Polonaise more prominently.

This work was Zhao Chengzhen's work that shocked the audience in the second round and scored the highest score in the audience. Now Fu Diao actually wants to choose such a work in the third round?
And the sonata selected by Fu Diao is also the work selected by Zhao Chengzhen in the second round.

Zhao Chengzhen obviously didn't expect Fu Tiao's choice of works. When he heard the hero Polonaise, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and turned to look at Fu Tiao, slightly puzzled.

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

In this way, except for the Chopin piano prelude he played, the works of the two almost completely collide.

The only difference is that Fu Tiaoduo played a work of Lord Bless Poland, a work without any number.

This is the biggest difference between the two.

In fact, not only Zhao Chengzhen did not understand, Fu Tiao was also a little bit at a loss during practice, because he only paid attention to his second round of works before, and did not care about his third round of works at all.

When the second round was over and he was practicing the third round, he didn't think too much when he was looking for the feeling, he just played the work seriously, who doesn't practice well when he has nothing to do, thinking about who has played this work before?
As a result, you are now in the third round, and Fu Tiao didn't react until the work was officially confirmed.

I actually had a collision with all Zhao Chengzhen's works.

Although Zhao Chengzhen's second piano sonata is not as good as his, but his heroic polonaise is known as the most powerful polonaise in the audience, even better than the one he played in the second round, calm andante and The gorgeous polonaise should be slightly stronger.

Fu Tiao never thought that He Shen would choose such a work when he was choosing a work for him.

But having said that, He Shen himself may not have thought that the works he chose would completely collide, right?After all, these works are selected according to Fu Tiao's personal style and competition policy.

This can all be bumped... It's still a tandem bump, it can only be said that Fu Diao is unlucky.

"Fu, Zhao, let me confirm with you one last time, is your choice of work really unchanged?"

Zhao Chengzhen was expressionless: "No change."

Fu Tiao shook his head slightly: "No change."

"Okay, now that the two parties have confirmed it, please sign the document in hand, and I will pass your document to the organizing committee."

"it is good!"

Both parties signed at the same time. After confirming the content of Fu Tiao, the staff walked over to Han who had just entered, and also announced the details of the third round to him. Han was similar to Zhao, and the work he chose was Mazurka's Op59, and all of Chopin's preludes.

Before and after Fu Tiao are Chopin’s preludes. The performance that was originally incomparably conflicted was just answered under Fu Tiao’s Polonaise, and the two would not be so conflicting.

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

Zhao Chengzhen's expression didn't change at all. He picked up his music score and walked in front of Fu Tiao. After staring into Fu Tiao's eyes for a few seconds, he looked away and walked outside the concert hall.

Even if there is no enmity, there is almost no possibility of resolution between the two.

Originally, it was still 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 works of the two are almost identical, except for their personal style, it is very obvious that the level of the performers is high or low.

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

Zhao Chengzhen and Fu Tiao were second and third, and the selected works still collided. If the judges couldn't tell the difference between Fu Tiao 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 simplest music distinction.

Fu Tiao looked at Zhao Chengzhen's leaving back, pursed his lips, didn't say anything more, and didn't explain that he didn't choose this work specifically for Zhao Chengzhen on purpose, but it was decided a long time ago.

After all, both of them knew that no one could temporarily change works before the competition, just to target them.

It took about two years for everyone to prepare for this competition. In two years, they prepared works for four large-scale concerts. What a great thing, it takes only a few days to practice better than others.

They crashed for only one reason.

Just luck.

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

Since Fu Tiao has chosen all of Zhao Chengzhen's previous works, unless Fu Tiao can directly suppress Zhao Chengzhen, leaving him no room to breathe at all, or...his championship road will end in this place, there will be no There is a fourth round chance.

But, can he really beat Zhao Chengzhen to the ground in the third round?
After Fu Tiao took a deep breath, he let it out slowly, without any change in expression.

He doesn't know, he's not sure, but he will definitely give it a try.

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

This is the last time he can play on his own.

Not only is there a direct confrontation with Zhao Chengzhen, but also because the fourth round will be a symphony session with the band.

Relying on others is worse than relying on oneself, so...

Fu Shi squeezed his fist vigorously, feeling the stimulation of the blood vessels relaxing, then picked up the music score in his hand, and walked out of the concert hall.

There is still an hour before the game, and he made sure of his status in the last little time.

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

……

The judges are not all in place yet, and they haven't received any news from the staff, so they haven't seen the confrontation between the two this morning. Everyone is still eating breakfast in the hotel, chatting casually about the first round of the competition this morning. His expression was relaxed, even with a hint of anticipation.

But people in many other places have learned about the works of Fu Tiao and Zhao Chengzhen in the second round of competition through their own means.

At this moment, the Polish TV station had started live broadcasting. Pavel and Olga were talking to the TV screen, casually discussing their favorite candidates for the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

"According to the news we have seen so far, we can see that the Chopin International Piano Competition is divided into three echelons. If the players in the first echelon are counted strictly, they are the three people we are all familiar with. Zhao, Dior Fu, and Hamelin are the three of them. The three of them represent the acme of the three directions. Personally, I prefer Fu's performance, because I really hope to hear something of myself in the music of the contestants. I also recruit students with this goal in mind, and I give them more advice rather than directly telling them how to play.”

Pavel sat in front of the table, waved his hand behind him, and the list of 20 players for the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition appeared behind him.

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

When Pavel mentioned Fu Tiao, the screen immediately displayed Fu Tiao's content.

Fu Tiao's personal data and six-dimensional map are even attached to Fu Tiao's side, just like a game.

After all, this program is aimed at many viewers who don't understand 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 the shots of the players on and off the court, and gave them a sign of confrontation.

Of course, these are all in the middle of the music. After the music starts, the whole shot will be relatively clean, and there will not be many messy shots to distract the audience.

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

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

Compared with Fu Tiao, she likes Hamelin a little more, because Hamelin is a Westerner, and the values ​​​​of the two parties are relatively close. In addition, her playing style is actually very similar to Hamelin, so she fell in love with Jiaai.

The two of them did not choose Zhao Chengzhen, not because they didn't like Zhao Chengzhen, but because they really didn't know what to say to Zhao Chengzhen.

On their side, Zhao actually feels a little like a perfect fighter. He is perfect in many things, except for his music, which is very little about himself.

He puts more attention on the music, on the details of the music, thinking, understanding, and delving into the details of the music bit by bit.

It's played perfectly, it sounds perfect, people can't find mistakes, but there's just no way to like it.

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

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

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

"Wow……"

Olga gave a slightly exaggerated "Wow", handed the document in her hand to Pavel, raised her eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Teacher Pavel, look at this document, you must see this document It will be interesting."

"Oh?"

Pavel didn't expect Olga to say that. The file that came over now must be the repertoire of the contestants in the first half of today's Chopin International Piano Competition. Since Pavel said so, the contestants in the first half of today must be very interesting.

Pavel took a look at the document handed over by Olga, and couldn't help but also laughed.

"Indeed, this file is really, really interesting."

After finishing speaking, he handed the file to the host, gestured to the staff, then twisted his body and looked at the TV screen behind him, and said.

"We have just received a document about the list of works of the first half of today's Chopin International Piano Competition! First of all, the first contestant in today's competition is Galina from Russia. Her work is Mazurka No. 59, Ballade No. 23, Ballade No. 47, No. 35, and Sonata No. [-]."

"Well, these works are relatively common works, and the choices are relatively popular. The only thing that surprised me is that she actually chose to play Chopin's Ballade at this time, especially in front of so many top players. In the case of playing an extremely perfect ballad, he will choose to continue playing the ballad and put the ballad in the third round. I don’t know if the ballad is his strongest point, or...she just arranged it like this? So Personally, I think we can pay attention to her ballad."

"Let's talk about Zhao Fu and Zhao Fu who are the second and third. Let's talk about the fourth contestant first. The fourth contestant is Han from South Korea. The works he chose are the same as Galina, Chopin and Mazu. Card No. 59, but he chose the complete works of preludes, which is relatively rare among all contestants. If I pay attention to him, I would like to hear the special features of his preludes. "

"Of course, if there is no Zhao in front of him, now there is Zhao in front of him. According to the news we have seen here, Zhao's works are Mazurka No. 33 and the complete works of preludes. You must know that the contestants who usually choose all the preludes There may not be one player in a day, but now in half a day, we have directly got two players, all of whom need to play Chopin's prelude! Even if I have high expectations for Han, I don't think Han can be in the competition. In the prelude, I will wrestle with Zhao, who is currently ranked number one, especially after I have heard Zhao's performance, and I will listen to Han's performance."

"Of course, everything is possible. The music on the piano keyboard is infinite, so we can still guess that when Zhao played the prelude, there was a little problem, while Han didn't have any problems. If so, I think Han can outperform Zhao on the contrary!"

"However... the battle between players from the same country is not the focus of this game. The most interesting point of this game is what we will see later. Fu Tiao was in the third round of the game , the work to be played."

After that, he waved the document in his hand and said to the staff in front.

"Director, can you put this file on the big screen for me, I'm afraid I'm holding it in my hand, as long as I have Parkinson's, they can only see the shaking of the paper, oh yes, don't forget to put Zhao's The content of the game is also taken out.”

Everyone laughed, the director did not hesitate, and changed the big screen behind, leaving only Fu Tiao and Zhao Chengzhen on the screen.

"Okay, now we only see Fu and Zhao. Now we will announce the work that Fu will perform in the third round, Chopin Mazurka 59. There are not many accidents, even if he and Zhao collide. What a surprise, after all, there are only so many works that can be selected, and it is normal to choose to repeatedly collide with each other, no matter the focus is... the works after Fu!"

"Chopin Piano Sonata No. 35, Op[-], Chopin's Untitled Pieces, God Bless Poland, Chopin's Polonaise, Heroes! Do you see it? If you don't see it, let's pull out Zhao's second round of works..."

"Chopin Ballad No. [-], Chopin Piano Sonata No. [-], Chopin Fantasia, Chopin Polonaise Hero, wow, why are they so similar?"

"What if the Fantasia and Ballade No. 53 are replaced by Mazurka Op[-], God Bless Poland? Does it feel...very similar?"

"And this mazurka op53 is the same piece that Zhao will play today! This is very interesting."

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

"Well, I know!" Olga also smiled very happily, with an expression that she didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement: "This also means that all the content of Fu will be reviewed by all the judges with microscopes and by Zhao. At this time, it is no longer an ordinary two styles that can be skipped directly, but a real comparison to see who plays better!"

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

Olga's expression was very certain, and Pavel nodded with a smile, while the host watched the two discuss with a blank face, not knowing what the two were talking about.

The two of them discussed for a long time about the works played by Fu Tiao, especially the piece God Bless Poland, until the time came to ten o'clock.

The signal came from the Chopin International Piano Competition.

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

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

In the voice of Pavel, the game screen began to change, and the profile of the first contestant, Galina, appeared in front of everyone.

(End of this chapter)