Chapter 93 Heading towards the first place

When the last note fell, the concert hall was filled with incomparable silence, and no one was willing to break this silence.

At this point, for Fu Tiao, the first round of the Chopin International Piano Competition has come to an end here.

If he can pass the first round, he can continue to prepare for the second round, third round, and even the finals.

if not……

He slowly picked up his hand from the piano and turned to look at the people off the stage.

The lights were dim and shrouded around him, and he still couldn't see everything around him clearly.

I could only roughly see the black shadow at the judges' seat, which seemed to be completely motionless.

As for the audience under the stage, everyone was a little bit excited.

There is no if, his performance is perfect enough, at least for himself. If such a performance cannot impress all the judges, then for Fu Tiao, the Chopin International Piano Competition is nothing more than that.

After all, he and this game are not compatible.

Fu Tiao stood up, walked to the side of the piano, stretched out his hand to hold the edge of the piano, and bowed slightly to everyone.

Wow!

The silent air was broken instantly, countless warm applauses sounded, and almost everyone was applauding Fu Tiao.

This was not a habitual, ceremonial applause, but they really applauded Fu Tiao from the bottom of their hearts, releasing the excitement they had just heard from Fu Tiao playing.

Not only that, some of them shouted "Bravo!" loudly, shocking Fu Tiao's performance.

It's obviously only the first round and we haven't reached the finals yet, but people have already started shouting Bravo, which has already proved one point.

Fu Tiao already has the ability to compete with other top players on the same stage.

This is the true sense of being on the same starting line.

After Fu Diao bowed to everyone again, he turned around and walked towards the bottom of the stage.

The next player is already standing over there. He is an Italian, Saskia Giorigini.

Sasikia looked at Fu Diao helplessly, spread her hands and sighed.

"Thank you for giving me such a good stage, thank you very much..."

"Come on!" Fu Tiao patted the man on the shoulder and walked past him with a smile.

The man felt the warmth coming from Fu Diao's palm and could only sigh.

"Then I'd like to thank you."

Having said that, the host's voice has already sounded. No matter how much the contestant refuses, he can only walk on the stage and take over what Fu will do next.

No one is willing to play in this position. At this time, unless your strength is comparable to the previous player, only then can you judge the standard.

But when your level and strength are very obviously different from that of the previous player, you will feel very clearly... what is despair.

A very simple example, when the college entrance examination results come out, you scored more than 300 points in Jiangzhou and got admitted to the first class. If you are an ordinary person, you should be very excited and happy. After all, the admission rate of the first class is not high.

But the question is... your twin brother, who is in the same examination room as you, got first place in the province. At this time, do you still think that your examination results are very good?

I'm afraid it won't be directly regarded as a failure.

This is how the player behind Fu Tiao feels at this moment.

Compared with his peers, his level of strength is actually very good. After all, if his level of strength is not good enough, he will not even make it to the first round.

But the problem is... the player in front of him is Fu Diao, especially after Fu Diao played such a terrifying scene, he had to go up and take over Fu Diao's performance.

Now as long as his level is not up to Fu Tiao's level, or even just a little bit worse, the judges will feel that he is a little bit worse than usual, and will give him a lower score.

It may only be about one point less, but you have to know that there are only twenty-five points in the Chopin International Piano Competition, and every point is crucial. If you lose one point, you may even fall directly to the bottom position.

This is very scary.

The contestant behind Fu Tiao stood at the back of the stage with a little resistance. He really didn't want to appear, but unfortunately he had no choice but to follow the instructions of the staff and walk onto the stage.

But when he saw the audience under the stage, he felt a little relieved.

Just being behind Fu Diao is like being between Fu Diao and Zhao Chengzhen, right?

After being in Fu Diao, it can still be regarded as a difficult start. If you turn around and find yourself between Fu Diao and Zhao Chengzhen, I'm afraid it will be a direct devil's start.

Well... you are a demon, and standing next to you is a demon hunter with bare muscular arms, Doom, and at that time... he happened to be short of bullets.

Fu Tiao watched the next contestant walk towards the stage, especially when he saw that person's somewhat desperate expression. He didn't know what to say for a moment.

He is not good at comforting, but the Chopin International Piano Competition is so cruel. If you don't have the ability to win first place, you can only count on your luck if you want to advance, and see if you can get into a drug-running safe zone without following anyone else.

Meet a top boss.

But... there is a problem.

That's different from chicken games. If you hold on to the chicken game the whole time, you might be able to watch the boss beat you to death, and then you can steal a piece of shit.

But here, no matter how stubborn you are, it is difficult for the big guys to be eliminated due to collisions with each other. Only those who happen to play near the big guys will be affected, causing others to not be satisfied with their performance.

Extremely satisfied and thus eliminated.

Now that it has been eliminated, maybe it will be better.

Fu Tiao looked at the camera and the host in front of him and nodded slightly.

"Hello."

"Fu Tiao, we meet again!" This time, it was still Wang Kai who was responsible for interviewing Fu Tiao.

All players from China, and even some European and American players with Asian faces, were interviewed by Wang Kai.

It is said that this can make the players more relaxed and calm, after all, we are all fellow villagers.

Wang Kai took a look at his surroundings, pointed to the wall next to him and said to Fu Diao.

"Contestant Fu Tiao, let's shoot here on this wall. If we finish the shooting early, you can rest early. Maybe a reporter from HNK will come to you later to ask you some questions for filming."

Speaking of NHK, Wang Kai suddenly became a little happy and immediately added: "Oh, by the way, NHK and I are not the same group of reporters. Our work here is more about storage and live broadcast. For outsiders

In fact, the influence is not great, but NHK is different. The documentary about the Chopin International Piano Competition they made is more popular with others than us. If you want to develop your reputation in classical music later,

, the interview with NHK was actually very good.”

"Okay, I understand, thank you."

Fu Diao smiled and nodded, then followed Wang Kai to the background wall near the backstage.

Although it is said to be a background wall, it is actually in the style of a traditional European palace concert hall, with red velvet walls filled with goose feathers, giving it a bit of an old-fashioned feel.

After all, the Chopin Concert Hall in Warsaw has been open for who knows how long. Although there are some minor decoration improvements, such as a lot of surveillance cameras in the backstage, you can see the performance of the last player on stage from multiple angles.

But many basic things have not changed, such as the background wall where Fu Diao is standing now.

Wang Kai picked up the microphone in his hand, looked at the information in his hand, and nodded slightly to Fu Diao.

"Okay, this is a very simple question after the game. I want to ask you, how do you feel about the first round of the game? In other words, what is the deepest impression on you personally?

, or how you think you performed in this game, you can just pick a topic to talk about, just focus on this game, it is best to talk a little more."

"First round?"

Fu Tiao thought for a moment and spoke slowly.

"Actually, it's nothing. For me personally, the one who impressed me the most in the first round of the Chopin International Piano Competition was Zhao Chengzhen. As far as Zhao Chengzhen's performance I have seen so far, his music left a very deep impression on me, even a deep one.

Before the competition, I was always thinking about Zhao Chengzhen’s performance.”

Fu Tiao looked at Wang Kai and couldn't help but ask: "Do you know that Zhao Chengzhen is sick?"

"Well, our interview team also learned about this after the game."

"So..." Fu Diao sighed, looked at Wang Kai and said helplessly: "Even if Zhao Chengzhen is sick, his performance level is so strong. If he is not sick, then what kind of performance can he perform?"

What kind of work will come out? It's hard for me to imagine a Zhao Chengzhen who is not sick at all. The Chopin part of his music is really terrifying, making people feel like he is just like Chopin."

Wang Kai also said the same thing: "Indeed, if we are just talking about the contestants, our judging panel will probably only have this opinion about this competition. Zhao Chengzhen's performance amazed countless people, including many judges, we are in the competition

During the break, we interviewed some judges, and many of them told us that Zhao Chengzhen's performance also left a very deep impression on them. They even thought that Zhao should be able to win something that no one could have imagined in this year's competition.

results, even first place!”

After saying that, Wang Kai immediately added: "This is not an official decision, this is the judges' personal guess. After all, the Chopin International Piano Competition has just started not long ago, and Europe likes such bold guesses, so it is unreasonable to directly say that Zhao Chengzhen is the champion."

A relatively normal thing.”

"Oh." Fu Diao nodded without thinking much.

When Wang Kai saw that Fu Diao didn't say much, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked Fu Diao again.

"Okay, then player Fu Tiao, could you please make an evaluation of your own first round and guess what kind of ranking you should be able to achieve?"

"My first round?" Fu Diao thought for a while, and after being entangled for a long time, he smiled with relief, without any evasion or humility, and said directly: "There is actually nothing to say about my first round. I think I played well."

Very good and met my expectations.”

"If you play well, you are good. If you play poorly, you are not good. There is nothing to say. As for what kind of ranking I can achieve... I think I can strive for the first place?"
To be continued...