The air after the spring rain is fresh and pleasant, and the astringent smell from the soil is full of vitality. Walking in such an academy, you can see students talking to each other everywhere. Of course, there are more people who close their eyes and concentrate on playing musical instruments.
The Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paris is an ancient academy with a history of more than 200 years. After many renovations, all the music equipment here is world-class. In the piano room with the best sound insulation, you can't even hear the outside world. The murmur, only the beautiful and beautiful sound of the piano echoed in the room.
To be honest, Paganini's "Capriccio No. 24" is not so beautiful and elegant, and sometimes it can even be regarded as an etude. Of course, this is also for ordinary violinists, but for truly excellent and skilled musicians, they can play such difficult pieces so amazingly, and even unforgettable in a lifetime.
For example, Master Akkad.
Therefore, Paganini's 24 Capriccios test not only the audience's aesthetic level, but also the player's skill. Only excellent musicians can interpret such difficult tunes perfectly, and only powerful enough musicians can control the momentum of Paganini's tunes.
Min Chen heard Qi Mu perform Paganini's tune a long time ago. It was "The Bell" that sounded at zero o'clock on Christmas Eve. It has been three or four months since today.
At that time, even aside from the almost identical violin sound to Lu Ziwen's, Min Chen was a little surprised by Qi Mu's violin. Such performance skills can be regarded as first-class even in the whole world.
But, it's just amazing.
If Daniel asked Min Chen if he wanted to include Qi Mu in Bo Ai, then Min Chen's answer would probably only hesitate for a while, and finally decided: "I don't need it for the time being, it's still a little bit worse."
He could hear that Qi Mu had extraordinary talents. Among them, Qi Mu's absolute control over the sense of sound even made Min Chen think of "taking Qi Mu as a student and teaching him to become the world's top conductor".
However, if you want to be the principal violinist of Bai Ai, compared to Kedori... Qi Mu is still a little worse.
Min Chen's talent on the violin can only be regarded as middle-class. Let him evaluate it by himself, it is "unspeakable", I am afraid that he can only be a principal or even a deputy principal in a second-rate orchestra in the world. But if he were asked to evaluate other people's violin level, he could evaluate it just as well.
For Min Chen, the gap between Qi Mu and Kedoli's violins is really small, too small to describe.
However, at such an indescribably weak distance, Min Chen couldn't tell exactly what the difference was—
After all, this man is really not very good at the violin.
So Min Chen was moved at that time, hoping that Akade could accept Qi Mu as a student. What he couldn't hear, Akkad might be able to hear, and maybe… he could correct.
Although this preparation had already been made in his heart, when Min Chen really heard Qi Mu's violin sound again, the pure, clean and decisive violin sound made him stunned, and a surprised expression appeared on his face.
… Really, changed.
There are many beautiful and gorgeous techniques in this "No. 24". Needless to say, the left hand spanning several octaves of string pressing, even all kinds of bow jumping and plucking, can give ordinary violinists a headache. .
I saw that under the bright and bright sunlight, the handsome young man turned his head slightly, and his left hand quickly danced on the strings of the piano. The speed of his fingers sliding has exceeded the limit that human dynamic vision can capture, forming phantoms.
And his right hand is holding the bow, and at this moment is gently beating on the strings.
In this section of the movement, the performer needs to use the technique of jumping the bow to express the short and aggressiveness of the music, and at the same time, the left hand also needs to press the strings across three octaves. This is a more difficult skill point in the whole song, but for Qi Mu, it seems that there is no difficulty set.
But for Min Chen, what surprised him the most was not the display of these difficult skills, but the kind of qualitative change that came from the music itself.
It was as if the veil covering the music was gently lifted, no, perhaps it should be a layer of water mist that was about to dissolve. Although it had not melted to the end and revealed the truth, it was not far from it.
Just listening to the sound of the violin resounding excitedly and cheerfully in the piano room, every friction between the strings and the bow is the loud chant of the violin, as if to sing out all the beating and clanging between the notes.
From the first few quick sounds to the fun at the end, Qi Mu gasped for a while, then looked at Min Chen who was sitting beside him.
A good-looking smile appeared on the young Junxiu's face, and Qi Mu asked, "I finally heard it with my own ears, so... Mr. Min, can you give me any advice? I can't do anything these days."
The young man's sweet and gentle voice pulled Min Chen out of his brief stun. He raised his head and glanced at Qi Mu. After a long time, he said in a low voice, "Qi Mu, I don't know if you have noticed, but in fact... your music There have been some fundamental changes. I don't know how Reed did it, but .
Min Chen's tone was solemn and serious, which made Qi Mu involuntarily straighten his face. He asked, "You actually... Really heard it?"
Min Chen nodded lightly: "Only a few notes and rhythms have been changed, it's almost the same "No. 24", but your music is very different from before. You have changed, I can understand What went wrong, I can't explain it, but..."
After a pause, Min Chen raised his eyes to look at Qi Mu, and said, "Is there a piano?"
Within ten minutes, a very excited Swiss handsome boy blushed, and excitedly gave up his piano room.
This tall brown-haired man is Derain, whom Qi Mu mentioned to Min Chen before. He has studied the piano for more than ten years, so there is also a Fasirio grand piano in the piano room, which can be practiced at any time. .
"Xiao Qi, I didn't expect you to know Mr. Bertram! This is so exciting! Oh my God, are you going to play in my piano room with my piano? God, I will never again I don't want to play this facilio again, I'm going to save it!"
Derain, who saw her idol, was naturally excited. For this, Qi Mu could only thank you again and again: "I really want to thank you this time, Derain, I don't have a piano in my piano room, so I can only borrow yours. If you need to practice, you can go to my piano room, there The lighting is great.”
Unexpectedly, Derain, who has not yet completed the task of mentoring, shook his head without hesitation and said decisively: "No, seven! I want to listen to Mr. Bertram playing the piano here, and I want to remember this scene and let it be engraved. in my heart!"
Qi Mu: "..."
Before making Qi Mu wait long, Min Chen had already tried to play a few scales and became familiar with the piano. He raised his head to look at Qi Mu, who immediately came over and put the violin on his shoulder.
Min Chen's thin lips curled slightly and said, "You play directly like just now, and I will keep up with your speed."
Qi Mu nodded, and in the next second, he drew the bow without hesitation.
He did not doubt that Min Chen would not be able to keep up with his own music, nor did he doubt that the other party would suddenly not know how to play with him without realizing the rehearsal. If even Min Chen can't play in an ensemble with him, then presumably... there are not many people in the world who can do this.
Of course, when the soft and elegant piano sounded, Qi Mu was still stunned for a moment, and his eyes widened slightly.
Turns out... not an ensemble!
But the accompaniment!
The brisk piano sound like a stream slowly flowed in the piano room. Although Qi Mu felt a little stunned, the strings and bows on his fingers did not fall at all. He suddenly remembered what Min Chen had said to him before - "Don't worry about me then, you can play by yourself", so Qi Mu immediately stopped thinking about it and started playing with all his heart.
In the quiet piano room, only the sound of the violin and the piano were playing.
The Swiss guy Derain who was standing at the door of the piano room was completely stunned. He never thought that Mr. Bertram would accompany Xiao Qi? ! This is simply amazing!
And this music, Derain has naturally heard it long ago, it is Paganini's "Capriccio No. 24" that Xiao Qi has been practicing recently. Derain's current course has not yet reached this piece, so every time he listens to Qi Mu's performance, he feels that it is very difficult and Qi Mu's performance is very good, but he doesn't have much evaluation.
But today, he suddenly felt that it turned out that this song can be performed so well
In fact, what Derain didn't know was that Qi Mu, who was plucking the strings with his right hand, was also surprised at this moment.
It was obvious that Min Chen was only playing the accompaniment for him, but he vaguely felt that he was being led away by the other party. Although the sense of traction is very low, he can detect a little bit.
Qi Mu didn't mean to ask the other party to let him go, but when he played the second stanza, he suddenly found out—
He seems to have grasped that feeling a little bit!
The sense of freedom that completely releases the music makes the sound of the violin dance freely in the air.
These days, every time Qi Mu practices, he is looking for the inspiration that Teacher Akkad once described. Although he has occasionally noticed this wonderful feeling before, but today... He can really be sure that he really sees it. to it.
However, the six or seven-minute piece ended quickly, but the reverberation of the piano and violin still reverberated in the piano room.
After a long time, the only audience present applauded as if waking up from a dream. Qi Mu put it on his violin in a daze, turned his head to look at the man sitting behind the piano, and saw that Min Chen also happened to look up at him.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and Min Chen showed a rare smile and asked in a low voice, "Now... have you felt it?"