Episode 703: Shock! Popular Players' Rollover Scene
With the arrival of An Jieyi, all members of the judging panel were present.
Branjano announced the start of this round of judging and signaled the notary to hand out pens and papers to the judges.
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Different from the previous two rounds of review process, the first step of this round is to determine the winner of the best individual award in the previous three rounds.
In a total of 4 rounds of open competition, the contestants were required to play 'Etude', 'Nocturne', 'Fantasia', 'Prelude', 'Scherzo', 'Ballade', 'Polonaise', 'Sonata', 'Mazurka' and 'Concerto'
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Among the above music categories, ‘Sonata, Polonaise’, ‘Mazurka’ and ‘Concerto’ are the largest music categories. Each competition will set up individual awards for the best players in these four categories.
Among them, the 'Concerto' Grand Prize is basically tied to the final gold medal winner. Whoever wins the championship will basically be the winner of the Concerto Grand Prize, but there are exceptions.
There have been several "naked" champions in history. The so-called naked champion is the final winner who only has a dry gold medal title and no single award.
There is always a saying outside the Chopin competition that individual awards carry more weight than silver medals.
Comparing the future development of the silver medal winners and individual award winners in previous Xiaoxing competitions, this statement is indeed reliable.
There have even been a few contestants who were unable to reach the finals and soared into the sky with the help of a best individual award, opening up the skylight of their careers.
Of course, there are also rumors that individual awards are specially awarded to certain popular players who did not reach the finals to appease the players and the media.
In short, there are various folk sayings, and few people know how this individual award is judged.
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Branjano announced the first selection of the best winner of the 'Sonata'.
Then all the judges started writing on the forms in front of them.
quiet for a while
Each judge needs to write down 5 player numbers, and these 5 numbers must be the sonata players they think are the most outstanding.
Principle: Do not write too many, but at least two are required.
Soon, all the judges had finished writing.
The old notary put away the 17 pages of paper and then counted them.
He needs to count the five player numbers that appear most often.
While waiting, everyone will talk about tonight's lunch box or tomorrow night's concert.
No one mentioned which numbers they had just written down, because it wasn't time to argue yet.
Soon, the old notary announced the statistical results.
"No. 1, No. 15, No. 57, No. 66, No. 70."
As soon as the announcement was announced, the formal discussion began.
The discussion will leave only two numbers as the final voting alternative numbers.
The first person to comment on the result was a Polish judge: "I can no longer remember the sonata played by Contestant No. 1. Sorry, I only remember that Contestant No. 15 and Contestant No. 66 chose Sonata No. 3, Contestant No. 57 and Contestant No. 70
I chose Sonata No. 2.
"I voted for No. 15 and No. 70. In terms of the completeness of the composition and on-site performance, their works impressed me more."
Opposition immediately appeared, and the bearded Russian judge said to Contestant No. 70: "Forgive me that I cannot accept Bach-style performance to play Chopin. I think Contestant No. 66's sonata is more in line with the theme of our competition."
The two people's conversation quickly turned the conference room into a vegetable market, and a heated argument began.
The focus of the debate soon centered on two players from the German and Austrian piano schools, No. 66 Adams and No. 70 Fred.
Occasionally, some judges mentioned two Asian contestants, No. 1 Natsuki Aso and No. 57 Qin Jian, but their voices were too quiet and they were soon drowned out by the names of No. 66 and No. 70.
However, the focus of debate basically bypasses the 15th.
After 10 minutes, everyone agreed.
The best candidates for the final sonata were chosen in ‘No. 15’ and ‘No. 66’.
Branjano then presided over the voting, which was a one-round voting system with no hand-holding.
"Shua"
The result is born in an instant.
No. 66 Adams received the support of seven judges, while No. 15 Edmonds received the support of nine judges.
Because Branjano is Edmonds' teacher, he cannot vote.
Although all the remaining Polish judges voted for Edmonds, it makes sense.
Edmundo's sonata in the third round was witnessed by everyone.
This result is not surprising.
The old notary recorded the voting results and sealed the results in the box.
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Next came the individual voting for Polonaise.
Following the same process, the five contestants with the highest nominations this time are -
"No. 9, No. 10? No. 12? No. 42? No. 57."
The individual award for Polonaise is more valuable than the individual award for sonata, because Polonaise has a special emotion in the Polish nation.
Faced with this nomination, no one said anything for a while. Some judges found it a bit incredible that No. 10 Duccio was ranked among the top five.
This time Branjano was the first to speak: "I think Contestant No. 57's Polonaise is better among the five? His performance has a tenacious Polish spirit? And Contestant No. 12? Her performance is refreshing to me."
Branjano proposed the two candidates in his mind, but he was actually a little sad that there was no Polish player among the five players with the most nominations.
Talibek smiled like a gentleman and accepted Branhanu's words: "I agree with what the chairman said, but I want to add a special player here."
The word "special" came out of his mouth as soon as he said it? Everyone present knew who he was referring to.
"Isn't the performance of player No. 42 moving enough, dear friends? How long has it been since we heard such a beautiful No. 22 on the field?"
Deng Taishan also said: "I also recommend contestant No. 42. There is an inspiring power in his polonaise."
Perhaps it was also from a small country on the fringe of music? Deng Taishan was indeed moved by Ido's polonaise that day.
As the two spoke, the scene gradually became heated again.
But the strange thing is that the Polish judges and the Russian judges don't seem to want to mention too many issues about Ido. Their focus is on contestants No. 9, 12 and 57.
One Polish judge even suggested playing the duo's performance again.
This scene finally made Argerich, who had been quiet in the corner, move.
"Snapped!"
Just hearing a snap, the scene became quiet, and everyone looked at Sister.
The old notary sitting in the corner suddenly opened his drooped eyelids.
Argerich's palm hit the conference table. This was not the first time this elder sister had performed this scene on this conference table.
An even more exaggerated scene happened twenty years ago, but no one had a clear opinion about it. Everyone present knew that her status in the jury was more than just a judge.
But this time, no one saw Argerich's face full of anger.
She smiled and said: "Gentlemen, we can play the videos of all five players."