Fu Tune soon took the ICE from the Ruhr area back to Berlin and began to prepare for his upcoming concerts.

A little more than a month later, almost in August, the Salzburg people sent in an invitation to their piano chamber music quartet to play in a small concert hall under the name "Fu Tune and His Chamber Music Friends."

While others still have some global visibility and are considered to be some of the best artists, and even go out alone to put their names on the table and discuss them with the top artists, they still have a very serious flaw.

is that their influence is far less strong than that of Fu Tuo alone, and many people do not have enough expectations for their performances.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a long time, the person in charge of the Salzburg Music Festival finally decided that Fu Tune's performance at the Salzburg Music Festival should be performed under Fu Tune's name, not in other people's names.

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

After thinking about it and not having a lot of disgust in it, the chamber music teammates finally settled on the name.

And when Fu was transferred back to Berlin, he found that the matter had been settled.

He wanted to make them rethink but there was no way to do it, so he could only watch them helplessly and continue to practice his chamber music part with them.

As an indispensable part of music history, chamber music is not inferior in difficulty and depth to the solo of an instrument, and even a necessary path for soloists to gradually enter the symphony orchestra from 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.

Not long after Fu Tiao's return from the Ruhr area, Zimmerlin also brought his assistant from Berlin to the Ruhr area.

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

Many cars on the German side are going back and forth on the same day, and this morning they came to Berlin from the Ruhr area, and after arriving in Berlin, they went straight back to the Ruhr area, so that the two were lucky to even be able to meet and chat.

However, Zimmerlin, as a man of action, did not wait long to meet and chat with Fu Tiao, and met before leaving Berlin.

Instead, after a phone call with Fu Tiao, he took his assistant directly to Duisburg, next door to Essen.

After checking in at this place, he put down his belongings and began to return to Essen with his documents and began his lobbying journey.

No one except his assistant knew who he went to or what he talked to to the people in charge of the festival.

The Ruhr Piano Festival is still going on, and after the performances of Fu Tune, Zhao Chengzhen, and Hamelin are completely over, there are not many noteworthy pianists behind them, and perhaps the only one who is more powerful is that Sokolov.

However, perhaps because of their age, although this kind of pianist is very famous, they are the white moonlight in the hearts of many people, and many people come to listen to the piano festival just to listen to their concerts.

But their level of strength really doesn't dare to compliment.

It's not because of their poor strength, but because of their age, their music is not very complete, and there are a lot of mistakes and loopholes on it.

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

This is the sorrow of those old pianists.

They have a lot of fame, but they don't have a lot of physical strength to support them through a whole concert.

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

Or continue to use your reputation to play, although the performance is not good, but everyone will never ask too much of you, after all, your age is here, and it is actually very normal for your level of strength to decline, this is also the route chosen by people like Pollini.

Or, you will be a teacher and be responsible for teaching, after all, your reputation and strength are here, if you become a teacher, there must be many students willing to come and choose you.

However, there is a problem with this, a person who plays the piano well is not necessarily a good teacher, whether it is teaching ordinary students or teaching those top students, they may not be able to teach well.

Maybe when you play something, you feel that you are playing very well, but those teachers will say that you can't play well in this place, and say that you shouldn't play like this, you should play like that.

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

Then he shows you how to play the piano, and he plays it very well, but you just can't understand why you play it the way you do.

If you rush to transfer from a performance position to a teaching position, it will make your reputation plummet.

There is also a route where this group of pianists ends, but this method is not perfect and practical.

The method is simple, like Barenboim, to move from piano to conductor, and if you are lucky, you can start a second spring.

Well, the answer is a pity.

Not everyone can successfully move from piano to conductor, or from piano to conductor at that age.

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

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

Even if the others tried to change the command, it was basically difficult to succeed.

Sokolov was in the same situation, his level of strength was declining, no matter how hard he played, he kept playing those contents, and even after the concert, he didn't play anything like Fu Tune, nor did he play a single piece like Lang Liangyue.

He played the encore directly for more than half an hour, his expression was extremely excited and hardworking, and he could continue to play as long as the audience continued to applaud.

It's just that......

The audience also seemed a little tired, and by the time Sokolov had finished all his performances, it was almost half past eleven in the evening, and there was no one walking on the roads of Germany.

Although it has always 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 Jiangzhou.

At night, there was no one on the road, and there were no vendors, and everyone was in a hurry to return to their homes and spend time with their loved ones.

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

The main thing is that there are no people left on the road.

At eight or nine o'clock in the evening, the restaurants were ready to close, which made Sokolov leave the concert after the concert and look at everything around him like a ghost town.

Sokolov played like this, and there weren't many other top pianists who could play it.

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

Therefore, the answer is obvious, it is very common for those top pianists to play first-class pianists or even second-rate pianists, especially those who are elderly.

In the face of this situation, in July, when the concerts were almost all over and only a few second-tier pianists were playing, all the people of the Ruhr Piano Festival had already come to a meeting room near the concert hall and sat down in their respective positions.

The first person is Miller, who invited Fu to the Ruhr Piano Festival before.

He sat first on the left side of the table with his assistant and a large pile of papers, and the head of the table 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, who is responsible for everything, and by the way, he will host this year's Piano Festival.

After everyone was seated, the general director of the Ruhr Piano Festival raised his eyebrows and spoke to the crowd.

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

There was silence in the air, and no one wanted to be the first to speak at this time.

However, this silence did not last long, and Miller, who was sitting first on the left, was the first to clear his throat and speak to the crowd.

"Actually, there aren't a lot of differences between us this year, right? Everybody? Because there are only two ways in front of us now, the first way is to give our old friend, Arcade, to give him this year's best newcomer award, and the second is to give him this year's best newcomer award to one of our new friends, Diorfu, there are only two ways, choose any one of these two people, I think you should have no doubts, right? ”

Everyone glanced at each other, each with a hint of temptation in their eyes, but at last, when they found that everyone's eyes were uniform, they breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Miller, who was sitting at the front, and nodded slightly.

"I don't have a problem."

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

"This year, it's Arcade and Dior, and there's 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 one or the other."

“……”

The dense echoes proved this, and everyone was prepared to choose one of the two, but each of them had a different inclination, and each had a thoughtful and tentative look in their eyes.

When Miller saw that everyone recognized his speech, he cleared his throat and continued to the crowd.

"It's still up to me to give you an introduction to this year's concert, in case someone didn't go to the whole concert, and they were not familiar with the two of them and had a slight misjudgment.

First of all, the performance level of these two people this year, obviously, this year, the performance level of these two people is very similar, both of them played the god-level scene, Arcade's god-level scene is his Brahms, to be honest, I haven't heard Arcadian Brahms for a long, long time, I really feel that Arcadi's god-level live gives me a feeling of traveling through the past, I feel as if I have returned to many years ago, back to about 2000 years ago, it is really emotional......"

When he said this, everyone couldn't help but laugh, and it was obvious that his speech was recognized by everyone.

Seeing everyone like this, Miller smiled similarly and continued.

"And another Dior Fu, this pianist should not be particularly familiar to everyone, how should this pianist express it in words, in short, it is difficult to understand, he was invited by me, behind him is Deutsche Grammophone, you should be very familiar, and at the same time exert his strength, there is another person, that is Professor Klaus, and also our old friend, the two of them worked together to make me invite Dior to this year's concert.

To be honest, I didn't have any idea about Dior, after all, he is a very young pianist, I don't know how many pianists have listened to him, I know what every pianist should be like when and when he is not yet 20 years old, I can't believe that he can play a piece that everyone expects.

But well...... With the help of those people, and the core idea of our Ruhr Piano Festival's guidance and help for young pianists, I finally decided to let him enter the Ruhr Piano Festival and perform their works with his friends at the time, Hamelin from the University of Gama and Cho Sung-jin from South Korea, without putting them in the confrontation of the top pianists.

But everyone must know the final result, Dior He showed a god-level scene that directly broke our consensus, originally this discussion was a very simple content, everyone voted for Arcade together, and it ended for him as the best newcomer of the year, who would have thought that Dior He directly broke all this, so that the current scene became one of the two.

His level of strength is also very good, or in other words, the god-level live performance is not particularly bad, Dior's performance broke my imagination of some works, even if he didn't play a lot of Brahms, I also think he deserves this year's Best Newcomer Award.

That's all I have to say about the two of you, and it's your turn next. ”

With that, Miller shrugged his shoulders at the crowd and sat down, saying no more.

Arcades is known to everyone, so he talks a lot.

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

And Fu Tune is really unfamiliar to many people.

First of all, Fu Tiao's time was not good, he was already approaching the end of the festival, so many people had already left the Ruhr area in advance to go to other music festivals to see and listen to concerts, and at least 30% of the people present were not in the Ruhr area.

Secondly, there are two or three percent of people, although they are in the Ruhr area, but they all have their own things and do not go to Fu tune's concerts.

This also means that less than half of the people present have listened to Fu Tune's concert.

In the face of such a scene, Fu Diao is obviously in a disadvantageous position, and Miller, as the head of the German region, naturally can't pull the bias and let Fu Tiao, a person that no one has ever heard of, face an acquaintance that everyone has heard of.

So he didn't hesitate, and gave Fu Tune a little more space, telling everyone that Fu Tune is not an unknown figure, he played a very strong work, and you should not be too ugly when you vote.

At the same time, his words were not particularly full, so that everyone voted for Fu Tune, and he just said a few more Fu Tunes.

Because there were many reformers among the people present, even if they had not heard Fu tune played, they would prefer to give the award to a newcomer rather than an old man.

And those who have listened to Fu tunes play, there are also the vast majority of people who like Fu tunes and will vote for Fu tunes.

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

Who is Arcades?

A frequent visitor to the Ruhr Festival, he was well known to everyone in 98, a record shocked the world, the piano level is strong, and he can play a god-level live at an old age, and even belongs to the kind of pianist who listens to one less level.

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

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

One man opposite Miller, Binchois, a Frenchman.

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

"I'm sorry Mr. President, and Mr. Miller, I don't think there should be any doubt about the best newcomer this year, he has to belong to Arkady, for the simple reason that he is someone we know, he is an old man, he has been in the concert for so long, I don't know how many times he will continue to participate, I think you should have heard Sokolov play this year, right? He's a little worse this year, and so will Arcade, and I really don't know if he can't get the best in the god-level scene he played this time...... How many more years he can fight, and whether he has the next chance to win an award, is not fair to an old man. ”

As soon as this sentence came out, the scene suddenly changed from the state of swaying between Fu Diao and Arcade to the direction of the wind that favored Arcade.

None of us are young people, we all have our own preferences and preferences.

Compared with Fu Tuo, they can empathize with Arcade more.

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

But the human heart is not iron, everyone is flesh and blood, and no one can be truly ruthless.

Especially when facing an old man who radiates all his light and comes out in his most perfect state.

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

(End of chapter)