pianist from the sea

Chapter 277 Fair?

Fu Diao soon took the ICE from the Ruhr area and returned to Berlin, where he continued to prepare for his next concert.

More than a month later, almost in August, the people from Salzburg have sent an invitation to invite their piano chamber music quartet to perform in a small concert hall. The name of the performance is It is called "Fu Tiao and His Chamber Music Friends".

Although others are still well-known around the world and can be considered relatively powerful artists, and can even bring their names to the table for discussion with top artists when they go out alone, they still have a very serious flaw.

It is that their influence is far less than that of Fu Tiao alone, and many people do not have enough expectations for their performance.

Therefore, after thinking for a long time, the person in charge of the Salzburg Music Festival finally decided that Fu Tiao's performance at the Salzburg Music Festival was opened under the name of Fu Tiao, not under the name of other people. name to proceed.

When this matter was decided, Fu Tiao was still at the Ruhr Piano Festival and had not returned. This matter was completely discussed with his chamber music teammates.

The chamber music teammates finally settled on the name after thinking about it and not feeling particularly disgusted.

And when Fu Tiao returned to Berlin, he found that the matter had been settled.

He couldn't make them think again, so he could only look at them helplessly and continue to practice his chamber music part with them.

As an indispensable content in the history of music, chamber music is not inferior to the solo instrument in terms of difficulty and depth, and it is even the only way for a soloist to gradually enter a symphony orchestra from a solo.

So after Fu Tiao came back, he put all his attention on the music, and didn't have the energy to pay attention to other messy things.

And not long after Fu Tiao came back from the Ruhr area, Zimmerlin also brought his assistant from Berlin to the Ruhr area.

To be honest, if he had more time, he might even have the chance to ride in the same car as Fu Tiao.

Many cars on the German side go back and forth on the same day. This morning, I came to Berlin from the Ruhr area, and then returned directly to the Ruhr area after arriving in Berlin. If I was lucky, the two of them could even meet and have a chat.

However, as an activist, Zimmerlin didn't wait long to meet and chat with Fu Tiao, before leaving Berlin.

On the contrary, after finishing the phone call with Fu Diao, he took his assistant directly to Duisburg next door to Essen.

After he checked in at this place, he put down his carry-on luggage, and began to return to Essen with the materials, starting his lobbying tour.

Except for his assistant, no one knew who he went to and what he talked with those who were in charge of this music festival.

The Ruhr Piano Festival is still going on. After the performances of Fu Tiao, Zhao Chengzhen, and Hamelin are completely over, there are not many noteworthy pianists behind. Perhaps the only one who is more powerful is That Sokolov.

But perhaps because of their age, although these pianists are very famous, they are the white moonlight in many people's hearts. Many people come to the piano festival just to listen to their concerts.

But their level of strength is really not flattering.

It's not because of their poor strength, but because of their age, the degree of completion of their music is not very high, and there are a lot of mistakes and loopholes in it.

You can only say that they completed their concert, but you can't say that they played very well.

This is the sorrow of those old pianists.

They have a reputation for nothing, but they don't have much physical strength to support them to complete a whole concert.

And for these elderly pianists, there are only a few routes they can choose.

Either continue to use your reputation to play. Although your performance is not good, people will never make too many demands on you. After all, at your age, it is very normal for your level and strength to decline. This is what Polini said. The class of people chooses the route.

Or, you can be a teacher and be responsible for teaching. After all, your reputation and strength are here. If you are a teacher, there must be many students who are willing to come and choose you.

But there is a problem. People who are good at piano playing are not necessarily good teachers. Whether they are teaching ordinary students or teaching top students, they may not be able to teach well.

Maybe when you are playing a certain content, you feel that you are playing very well, but those teachers will say that you are not good at this place, that you should not play this way, you should play that way.

You ask him what he looks like, but he can't say anything, he just mutters a few times, saying that's what he looks like!

Then play the piano for you, he played very well, but you just can't understand why you want to play like this.

Playing well doesn’t necessarily mean teaching well, and if you switch from a performance position to a teaching position hastily, your reputation will plummet.

There is another route that is also the destination of this group of pianists, but this method is not perfect and practical.

This method is very simple, just like Barenboim, from the piano to the conductor, if you are lucky, you can start a second spring.

Well, the answer is a pity.

Not everyone can successfully switch from piano to conductor, and it is still from such an old piano to conductor.

Even though everyone knows that if you can't play the piano well, you can try to switch to conducting, but how many people can really succeed?

The most successful one is probably the god of command Karajan, right?

Even if other people try to transfer command, it is basically difficult to succeed.

The situation Sokolov faced was the same. His level and strength declined. No matter how hard he played, he kept playing those contents. Even in the encore after the concert, he did not play like Fu I don’t play anything like the tune, nor does I play a single work like Lang Liangyue.

He played the encore directly for more than half an hour, with an extremely excited and hard-working expression, as if he could continue playing as long as the audience continued to applaud him.

only……

The audience also seemed to be a little tired. By the time Sokolov finished playing, it was almost 11:30 in the evening, and no one was walking on the road in Germany.

Although it has been said that Germany is very similar to the Northeast, whether it is food culture or living habits, in fact, the night on their side is actually more like that of Jiangzhou.

At night, there is no one on the road, and there are no vendors. Everyone is anxious to go back to their homes and spend time with their relatives.

Either watch TV together, or play games together, or just sleep together.

The main thing is to leave no one on the road.

Those restaurants were about to close at [-]:[-] or [-]:[-] in the evening, which also made Sokolov feel a bit like a ghost town when the audience left the concert after the concert.

Sokolov's performance is like this, and there are not many other top pianists who can perform it.

Although many people can be called top-level pianists, but still the same sentence, top-level pianists just prove that they can play a god-level live, or come up with a god-level album, it does not mean With their strength firmly occupying the top of the world.

Therefore, the answer is obvious. It is actually very common for those top pianists to play the strength of first-rate pianists or even second-rate pianists, especially for the elderly.

Faced with such a situation, in July when the concerts were almost over and only some second-tier pianists played, everyone at the Ruhr Piano Festival had already arrived in a meeting room near the concert hall and sat down according to their respective positions. .

The leader was Miller, the one who had invited Fu Tiao to the Ruhr Piano Festival.

He took his assistant and a large pile of documents and sat in the first position on the left side of the table, and the head position was occupied by the host of the Ruhr Piano Festival.

That person is not just an ordinary host, he is actually the chief director of the Ruhr Piano Festival, responsible for all matters, and by the way, he will host this year's Piano Festival for everyone.

After everyone sat down, the chief director of the Ruhr Piano Festival raised his eyebrows and said to everyone.

"Okay, everyone, let's talk about it, who should be the best rookie this year?"

The scene was extremely silent, and no one wanted to be the first to speak at this moment.

However, the silence didn't last very long. Miller, sitting first on the left, cleared his throat first, and spoke to everyone.

"Actually, there are not many differences among us this year, right? Ladies and gentlemen? Because there are only two roads before us. The first road is for our old friend, Arkady, for him. This year's best newcomer award, followed by a new friend of ours, Dior Fu, this year's best newcomer award to him, there are only two ways, choose any one of these two people, I miss you There should be no doubts, right?"

Everyone glanced at each other, everyone's eyes were full of temptation, but in the end, they found that everyone's eyes were unified, and they breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the sitting room. Miller, who was at the front, nodded slightly.

"I have no problem."

"Yeah, I don't have any problems either."

"This year is a choice between Akadi and Dior, there is no third option."

"It's difficult, it's really difficult. Choosing one of the two makes people hesitate and hesitate."

"As you said, this year is an alternative."

"..."

The dense echoes proved this point. Everyone was preparing to choose one of these two people, but everyone's tendencies were obviously different, and everyone's eyes were full of thinking and temptation.

After the leader Miller saw that everyone recognized his speech, he cleared his throat and continued to talk to everyone.

"It's still up to me to introduce you to this year's concert performances, in case someone hasn't heard all the concerts, and they are not familiar with these two people, so there is a slight misjudgment.

The first is the performance level of these two people this year. Obviously, the performance level of these two people is very similar this year. , to be honest, I haven’t heard Arkadi’s Brahms for a long time, I really feel that Arkadi’s god-level scene gave me a feeling of time travel, I feel like I’m back Many years ago, going back to about 2000 years ago, it really makes people feel emotional..."

When he said this, everyone couldn't help laughing. It was obvious that his speech was approved by everyone.

Seeing everyone like this, Miller also smiled and continued.

"As for the other Diorfu, this pianist is not particularly familiar to everyone. How should this pianist express himself in words? Simply speaking, it is difficult to understand. He was invited by me. He Behind him is the Deutsche Grammophon Company, you should be very familiar with it. At the same time, there is another person who exerts power on him, that is Professor Klaus, who is also our old friend. With the two people working together to fuel the flames, let me invite Dior came to this year's concert.

To be honest, I didn't have any idea about Dior at first, after all, he is a very young pianist, I have listened to countless pianists' performances, and I know when every pianist should be a Faced with Dior, who is less than 20 years old, I have no way to believe that he can play the works that everyone expects.

But... With the help of those people, and our core point of view of guiding and helping young pianists at the Ruhr Piano Festival, I finally decided to let him enter the Ruhr Piano Festival, which was the same as his then Friends, Hamelin from the University of California, and Cho Sung-jin from South Korea performed their works together, and did not put them in the confrontation of those top pianists.

But everyone must know the final result. Dior's god-level scene directly broke our consensus. Originally, this discussion was a very simple one. Everyone voted for Akadi and gave him this year's best The good newcomer is over. Who would have thought that Dior would directly break all this and make the current scene a choice between two.

His level of strength is also very good, or in other words, the live performance of the god level is not particularly bad. Dior's performance broke my imagination for certain works, even though he did not play a lot of Brahms works, I also think he deserves this year's best newcomer award.

The above are my comments on the two, and it is your turn next. "

After all, Miller shrugged his shoulders to everyone, sat down, and said nothing more.

Everyone knows Arkady, so he talks a lot.

As the opening of this year's Ruhr Piano Festival, Arkadi's performance was obviously heard by everyone present. Everyone knew how good Arkadi's performance was, so he didn't say much.

And Fu Diao is really unfamiliar to many people.

First of all, the timing of Fu Tiao is not good, he is already close to the end of the music festival, so many people have left the Ruhr area ahead of time, went to other music festivals to see the concert, among the people present At least [-]% of the people are not in the Ruhr area.

Secondly, there are still [-]-[-]% of the people. Although they are in the Ruhr area, they all have their own affairs and did not go to Fu Tiao's concert.

This also means that less than half of the people present have attended Fu Tiao's concert.

Faced with such a situation, Fu Diao was obviously in a disadvantaged position. As the person in charge of the German region, Miller naturally couldn't take sides and let Fu Diao face an acquaintance whom everyone had never heard of.

So without any hesitation, he gave Fu Tiao a little more space, telling everyone that Fu Tiao is not an unknown person, he has played very strong works, and everyone should not be too ugly when voting.

At the same time, he didn't say enough to make everyone vote for Fu Diao. He just talked more about Fu Diao.

Because there are many reformers among the people present, even if they have not heard Fu Tiao's performance, they would prefer to give the award to a newcomer rather than an old man.

And those who have heard Fu Tiao play, most of them also like the feeling of Fu Tiao, and will vote for Fu Tiao.

This also means that under Miller's bias, Fu Tiao barely got the same status as Arkadi.

Who is Arkady?
A frequent guest of the Ruhr Music Festival, he was well known to everyone in 98. A record has shocked the world. His piano level is strong. He can play superb live performances at an older age. layered pianist.

But Fu Tiao is a newcomer, everyone is not familiar with him, and he is placed on the current stage just because of his strong level.

This also made everyone extremely entangled, not knowing which one to choose.

The one opposite Miller, Pinchois, is French.

Seeing everyone's hesitant expressions, he couldn't help frowning, stood up, looked at the person in charge sitting on the top, and spoke to him.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman, and Mr. Miller. I don't think there is any doubt about the best rookie candidate this year. He must belong to Akadi. The reason is very simple, because he is someone we know and he is an old man. , He has participated in the concert for so long, I don’t know how many times he can continue to participate, I think everyone should have heard Sokolov’s performance this year, right? His state level this year is a bit worse, Akadi will also do the same. If he can't get the best performance in the god-level scene he played this time, I really don't know...how many more years he can fight, and whether he will get the best performance next time. The chances of an award, it's not fair for an old man."

As soon as this sentence came out, the scene suddenly changed from a swinging state between Fu Tiao and Arkadi to a wind direction in favor of Arkadi.

Everyone is not young, everyone has their own preferences and hobbies.

Compared with Fu Tiao, they can sympathize with Arkady more.

Although most of the time, it is said that foreign favors are useless, everyone will try to be as fair and just as possible.

But people's hearts are not iron, everyone is fleshy, and no one can be truly ruthless.

Especially when facing an old man exuding all his radiance and showing his perfect state.

Miller's expression changed slightly. He frowned, and was about to say something when he heard someone from the other side speak.

(End of this chapter)