Chapter 281 Dio Fu!

"Congratulations, Fu!" Arkadi raised the wine glass in his hand to Fu Diao, his eyes calm, without any trace of anger or resentment because Fu Diao won his Rookie of the Year award this year, "You

Great performance.”

Fu Diao looked at him, a little surprised for a moment, then he also raised the wine glass in his hand, raised it slightly towards him, and smiled in return.

"Thank you, Mr. Vallodos!"

Arkadi Vallodos, this is Arkadi’s full name.

Although Arkady told him that he liked Fu Diao's performance very much and congratulated him on successfully winning the best award at this year's Ruhr Piano Festival, this was not the reason for Fu Diao to disrespect the person in front of him.

Even though it has been almost three months since Arkadi's performance, his interpretation of the music still left a very deep impression on him.

It is even said that without Arkadi's performance and the god-level performance that Arkadi showed him, it would be impossible for Fu Tiao to perform the so-called god-level performance.

Fu Diao looked at Arkadi's face, couldn't help but smile, and said to Arkadi.

"Mr. Valodos, thank you for your divine performance that night. You opened up my thoughts and ideas about music. For the first time, I felt that music can be played in this way. It is not just about individuals showing their own musical ideas.

The idea of ​​music is to be perfect from the audience, venue, and other directions, turning music into a live interactive experience, not just a simple performance like a music player."

"Wow, Fu, music player? If you say that about yourself, how many other people do you think will be ashamed to death? The music player successfully won the best newcomer at this year's Ruhr Piano Festival and played god-level live music.

Player, the music player of the winner of the Chopin International Piano Competition? Haha, if possible, I would also like to be such a music player."

After hearing this, Arkady couldn't help but grinned, reached out and patted Fu Diao on the shoulder, then gestured towards the distance with the hand holding the wine glass, and joked to Fu Diao.

"So, Mr. Great Music Player, can you accompany me over there?"

"Of course, no problem, Mr. Vallodos!"

Fu Diao nodded and said with the same smile.

After getting rid of the complicated negotiations at the backstage of the concert hall, the two wandered around to the music backstage.

Here, although there are still some staff setting up the stage, it is quiet enough compared to the previous place. Everyone is making the final arrangements for the stage. No one cares about Fu Diao and Ah who are standing backstage.

Cady Vallodos.

Arkady took a look at the surrounding area and calmed down. He let out a long sigh, casually put the wine glass aside, then loosened the tie around his neck and smiled teasingly at Fu.

"Fu, don't be so nervous, just find a quiet place to chat. I won't be jealous of you for winning this year's Rookie of the Year, and I won't eat you up because of this. Don't be nervous.

"

"I know. After all, I'm not light. You shouldn't be able to eat me in one meal."

Fu Tiao responded with the same smile, and then put the wine glass in his hand aside, but he did not loosen the tie at the collar like Arkadi did.

After all, Arkadi was just sitting off the stage doing nothing, and if he remembered correctly, he was going to go on stage to receive the award later. He had to sort out this tie with great difficulty.

However, after getting the tie, he felt a little regretful. If he had known better, he would not have to wear a tie, but would have used a bow tie. He felt that a bow tie was more convenient, but the tie made him look too mature and did not particularly match his face.

"Every time I see your face and think of your achievements at the Classical Music Festival, I always feel an indescribable sense of dissonance. No matter how much I think about it, I can't imagine that such a performance would appear to such a young man.

On the body."

Arkadi felt the same way. He looked at Fu Diao with an emotional expression and sighed.

"Looking at you, I really feel that I am old, and those people of the same generation as me are also old. Although I have only been in my twenties since I became famous, I still remember the time when I was ninety years old.

At that time, after the release of my first album, it became the new favorite of students at conservatories in New York and even throughout the United States. All of them are proud to own a copy of my album."

"Ninety years ago... I seem to have just been born?" Fu Diao joked, stroking his chin.

"Yes, maybe it was when you were just born. As a result, I have been making progress in the past few years, but I didn't expect that my efforts in these years could not match your efforts in the past few years. Sometimes I really doubt that you

Is this the rebirth of a certain big-shot pianist?"

"For example, Lang Liangyue? He always said that he was the reincarnation of the pianist Horowitz."

"Yes! It's like Lang Liangyue! No, there seems to be another person, who is also a person from your country..."

"Li Diyun?"

"Yes, yes, Li Diyun, yes, that's him, your memory is so good, hahahaha!"

Arkady immediately laughed after hearing this, and praised Fu Diao: "Yes, just like them, I feel that compared to Horowitz reincarnating into them, I feel that Horowitz is reincarnating."

I chatted with God for a while on the way, and after delaying for a while, it is more reasonable for me to be reincarnated into you."

"It's like a Chinese legend. While drinking Po Meng's soup on Huangquan Road, I met Po Meng's eyes and chatted for a while?"

"Well, although I don't know much about the legend of death in your country, I feel that there is no difference between what you said and what I said."

Arkadi smiled, looked at the workers around him who were working hard to move bricks, shook his head, took a deep breath, and sighed.

"But looking at all this, I am really emotional. I have worked hard for so long, but in the end I didn't get anything. But all this fell on you, the best of the year at the Ruhr Piano Festival, this position

It's not as simple as ordinary people think, you have to be careful in the future."

"Be careful? Why?"

"It's nothing, it's just that this honor brings not only an honor, but also a requirement. You are not an old person like me, you are a young person, Fu, think back to the fact that you also won the best award at the Ruhr Piano Festival.

People, who are they?”

"them……"

Fu Diao thought for a while, suddenly became a little silent, and slowly said:

"Christian Zimmermann, Marta Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini, Sir Andras Schiff

, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Helena Grimaud, Pierre Boulez, Bela Davidovich, Elisabeth Leonskaya..."

From 1998 to 2015, there have been 17 winners and 17 top piano masters in the world.

Although it is called the Best Newcomer of the Year, in fact, no one can be called a newcomer when the award is given. Everyone is a master.

Therefore, although it is called Best Newcomer, this award actually becomes Best Performer.

This can definitely be regarded as an award that is not worthy of its name.

However, winning this award is enough to become the most glorious moment in the lives of many pianists.

No, to be precise, it is not about winning this award, but... participating in the Ruhr Piano Festival.

Being invited to the Ruhr Piano Festival and successfully participating in it is enough to become an honor that cannot be concealed on many people's resumes.

This is the status of the Ruhr Piano Festival in the world, and this is also the status of the best newcomer of the year at the Ruhr Piano Festival in the world.

Although the description may not be particularly accurate, you can definitely think of this as the Spring Festival Gala in the piano industry, or a certain award.

This award is not widely publicized in China. Probably the main reason is that there are relatively few Chinese pianists participating in this music festival, or... almost none at all.

That is, people like Lang Liangyue can be invited to the Ruhr Piano Festival.

But why doesn’t his resume include the Ruhr Piano Festival?

The reason is that he has participated in too many other music festivals and won too many awards. His resume is more about the awards he won, rather than the music festivals he was invited to participate in. In addition, he did not win the Best Newcomer of the Year this year.

, so we don’t do any publicity.

This award is not a cheap award that is given away for free as long as the top pianists participate.

There are a lot of music awards that deliberately try to flatter themselves by saying that their awards have been given to so-and-so.

This award is one that even if you are the most awesome and famous pianist in the world, it may not be given to you, it still depends on your live performance.

Lang Liangyue is famous, right? He is almost the strongest pianist of the younger generation.

Kissing is famous, right? He was hailed as a piano genius by the God of Conductors.

Not to mention other pianists, such as those old Japanese pianists, such as Mitsuko Uchida and others, although they were also invited to participate in the Ruhr Piano Festival, they still were not able to win awards.

Now Fu Tiao has won the title of Best Newcomer of the Year, becoming the first Asian pianist in history.

This can be regarded as a cross-generational achievement.

It is not only the glory of China, but also the glory of East Asia and even Asia as a whole.

With such honor and such a young state, Arkadi felt a slight discomfort in his throat when he looked at him.

He pursed his lips and said hoarsely with emotion.

"Yeah, those top pianists, you don't want to compete with us, and you shouldn't compete with us. Your next goal is to compare with those top pianists. After all, you are the Ruhr Piano Festival

The youngest among them, the ones everyone compares will no longer be those of your age, such as Zhao Chengzhen, whom I was very optimistic about before, and Hamelin, but Zimmerman, Schiff, and Ah.

Gritsch, it's Sokolov, it's them...

Dior, can I call you that? You must know one thing, what you need to compare next is not their current state, what you need to compare is their strongest state, their history, and you must

You need to be clearer..."

Arkady turned to look at Fu Diao, and said with an extremely serious expression: "Some people, after they stop playing the piano, they will be completely sent to the altar, even if their current playing condition is ridiculously bad, such as Sokolov

, such as Pollini, but their status is still much higher than yours. This is the golden body cast for them by their historical achievements. Can you... understand?"

Fu Diao looked at Arkadi's expression. After being silent for a long time, he nodded slightly.

"I see."
To be continued...