Chapter 248 Live version of the god-level scene

Lang Liangyue didn't think much about it, just patted Fu Diao on the shoulder, laughed heartily a few times, and walked out of the house.

Outside the house, Gina and Constant were standing by the car, waiting meticulously for Lang Liangyue's arrival.

Lang Liangyue didn't bring too many people to show off his grandeur this time. He just brought Gina, who was not sure whether he was a secretary or a lover.

Lang Liangyue immediately smiled and waved to Gina, scratched his head with a silly smile, and apologized.

"I'm sorry, I just chatted with Fu Diao for too long, and I accidentally forgot the time. I'm really sorry, Gina."

Gina just shook her head slightly: "It's okay, let's go quickly, you will be too late to make an appointment."

"Okay, let's go now."

After saying that, Lang Liangyue hurriedly got into the car, and Fu Tiao and Constan also got into the car behind him and walked toward the city center.

This time in the car, Lang Liangyue didn't talk much about music and life with Fu Tiao. His main conversation was still with Constan, discussing the possibility of touring in Europe.

Clearly discussing work.

Time flies, or in other words, the airport is too close to the city center.

In just ten minutes, the vehicle was already driving near Postan Square. Fu Tiao directly greeted the driver and got off at a random place near Postan Square.

Before he could speak, Lang Liangyue in the car took the lead in waving his hands and smiling.

"Fu! Come on, remember to come to my show later!"

"OK, all right!"

Fu Diao nodded with a smile, the car door slowly closed, and the vehicle quickly merged into the traffic flow and disappeared from Fu Diao's sight.

The Ruhr Piano Festival...is it really that difficult? And, is it really that powerful?

Fu Diao couldn't help but think of this as he looked at the cars going away.

He could clearly see from Lang Liangyue's state that although Lang Liangyue looked very confident, he was still a little nervous and had not reached the state of being completely indifferent.

Of course, tension is an emotion, an emotion that many people have. Appropriate tension can even improve the performer's control of the music and make their performance smoother.

But Lang Liangyue's nervousness was obviously completely different from this kind of nervousness.

There seems to be tension with a trace of negative emotions in it.

Is Kissin that strong?

And what Lang Liangyue said was that the player who was said to be very strong on the first day of playing was really that strong?

Fu Diao thought for a while, without too much hesitation, picked up his mobile phone and booked accommodation and tickets to the Ruhr area.

The organizing committee of the Ruhr Music Festival is not responsible for accommodation. They organize all the performers, give them an opportunity to perform, and then give them cash rewards. That's it.

It will not be like the Chopin International Piano Competition, where accommodation will be arranged for all the contestants and they will be organized later.

These are small amounts of money, maybe the total of the ticket and accommodation is only a few hundred euros.

But the money given to the performers by the organizing committee is more than a few hundred, at least 5,000 and up, and there are even rewards of tens of thousands of euros.

If you can win this year's Best Newcomer Award, the money you can get may exceed 100,000 euros, or even hundreds of thousands of euros.

People really don’t care too much about things like accommodation tickets.

If you are really poor and have no other choice, you can also apply to the organizing committee and ask if they can provide tickets and accommodation.

As long as you think there is no problem in doing so, you will definitely be able to get the corresponding tickets and accommodation.

only……

Having become such world-class pianists, and able to perform on such a stage, there are basically not many pianists who would go to the organizing committee to ask for money for accommodation and tickets.

Although everyone says that they are not billionaires, they still have no problem if they are worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of euros.

Even for a player like Fu Tiao who has just become a world-class pianist, Fu Tiao has already saved hundreds of thousands of euros in a short period of time.

As for the top bosses, they have more money.

And Lang Liangyue...

It is said that his annual income is already at the level of tens of millions of euros, and he may even have the opportunity to earn over 100 million euros per year.

There are about two hundred concerts every year, and each concert can earn hundreds of thousands of soft girl coins or hundreds of thousands of euros. The pure concert income may reach tens of millions.

And there are even more advertisements and endorsements.

This is the main reason why Lang Liangyue is called the top pianist with the highest commercial value, a top pianist with even higher commercial value than Argerich, Barenboim and others.

Without discussing professional level, he may really be the most profitable pianist.

Without thinking, Fu Tiao booked a first-class DB (Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Bahn) seat from Berlin to Essen and back, booked a hotel for a few days, and went straight back home to pack his luggage and prepare.

On the journey to Essen.

A few days later...

Due to the usual DB delays and the high-speed train stopping most of the way, Fu Diao finally arrived in Essen after nearly five hours of driving.

Essen, the German name is Essen, the direct translation is to eat, or food, food.

This is a very old industrial city.

Before we arrived at the main fire in Essen, we could see the very conspicuous word Folkwangen on the top of a building about ten stories high next to the main fire.

When Fu Tiao came out of the main fire, he saw a string of German words on the high-speed rail price.

Although it's called German, you can roughly understand what he means even in English.

"Heart of Europe"

You can't say the surrounding environment is good or bad, it just feels extremely crowded, with a bit of traditional heavy industry in it.

It's obvious that he has worked very hard to build facilities such as greening and fountains, but he just doesn't look particularly beautiful.

It always feels foggy, and it’s hard to like it at first glance.

I feel like it might be because of the wall?

Or is it because of crowding?

The smell of heavy industry is very strong in the bones.

Looking at everything here, Fu Diao found it hard to believe that this place was going to host the Ruhr Music Festival.

However, Fu Diao just glanced at the surrounding scenery and followed the navigation on his mobile phone towards the hotel not far away.

After packing my luggage and finding some places to eat, it was around six o'clock in the evening.

Fu Tiao came here this time to listen to what Lang Liangyue said about this year's very interesting opening concert.

It is said that the contestant who will hold the opening concert this year has been preparing for a long time. His name is Arkady Volodos and he is a frequent guest at the Ruhr Piano Festival.

According to his resume, he began to participate in the Ruhr Piano Festival in 1998, the year when Fu Tiao was born, and continued to participate in the Ruhr Piano Festival until 2016 this year, which happened to be his fifteenth time participating in the Ruhr Piano Festival.

According to the guidance of the map, Fu Diao took the subway for two stops, then came to Mülheim, the city next to Essen, and walked to the Mülheim City Hall.

At this moment, everything in front of the town hall in Mülheim has been decorated for the Ruhr Piano Festival.

A pure white truck towed a fiery red piano.

This is the mascot and logo of the Ruhr Piano Festival, and it is also the representative of the Ruhr Piano Festival.

On the wall of the city hall, there is a very large poster with Arkadi's name, avatar, and performance location on it.

Even though it's just past six o'clock and it's not yet seven o'clock for the performance, there are already a lot of people gathering at the door and chatting inside the room.

Simple drinks and food are provided in the house for visitors.

Although the prices are a little more expensive than those in the city center, they are still within an acceptable range.

The group of people were excitedly discussing tonight's performance, and no one noticed Fu Tiao standing at the door.

"Hello, would you like the program for tonight?"

While Fu Diao was observing the room, a staff member wearing a red dress walked up to Fu Diao, took out a large stack of tonight's performance catalogs with a smile on his face, and said to Fu Diao.

"Here are the repertoire and introduction of Acadi tonight. You can take it as you like. In addition, if you need it, there are free mints for you to use."

"Thank you."

Fu Tiao smiled at him, took the list in his hand, read it, and then thought thoughtfully.

Arkady Volodos is not young.

Born in St. Petersburg in 1972, he first studied singing and conducting at the local music conservatory, and continued his piano training at the Moscow Conservatory with Galina Egiazarova and in Madrid and Paris.

Since her debut in New York in 1996, Arkadi has collaborated with the world's leading orchestras.

Including Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Staatskapelle Dresden, Orchester de Paris, and Gewandhaus Orchestra

, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, etc.

At the same time, he has worked with Myung-Hun Chung, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, Yuka-Pekka Salas

He performed under the guidance of conductors such as Special, Paavo Järvi, Christoph Eschenbach, Semyon Bychkov and Riccardo Chailly.
To be continued...