Whether Rigel gets to the top or not, he can't change Duan Ran's decision, just like whether Qin Jian likes it or not, it won't change his desire to play B flat minor well.
After several days of practice, Qin Jianbao pondered over Shen Qingci’s words that night while also polishing the piece in detail.
He had to say that Shen Qingci was indeed right. After he lowered the speed and intensity of the second and fourth movements, the musicality of these two movements was indeed much better than his previous recordings.
Especially in the third movement, after Qin Jian threw away all the techniques and designs, he gradually felt the true nature of this movement.
This experience also taught him a lesson. Techniques are just techniques. No matter how luxurious and gorgeous the techniques are, they are all for better expression of music.
Some time ago, I was indeed a little too anxious and wanted to express myself too much. I arranged the whole work to be too busy, but it was counterproductive and put me in some kind of predicament.
However, after a few days, he really raised a question mark in his mind regarding Shen Qingci's criticism of this piece.
In other words, he questioned Shen Qingci's words.
This kind of questioning is not disrespectful. On the contrary, Qin Jian particularly respected Shen Qingci.
It's just that when talking about music, he feels that some worldly things should be put aside temporarily. Only in this way can he truly respect the other person's words and the attitude of respecting the music itself.
The inspiration Qin Jian received came from Shen Qingci's remarks on Chopin's B minor.
If you ask Qin Jian who loves Chopin more, he or Shen Qingci, Qin Jian will never admit that it is him.
If purely from the perspective of music, he might prefer Chopin to Rach. If asked who he likes more, Rach or Mozart, there is no doubt that Qin Jian will decisively choose Mozart.
This is something that is inherent in our bones. No one can add to it, and no one can take it away.
There is no first place in literature, and the same is true in the world of music.
When Qin Jian played any piece of Chopin's music by Shen Qingci or listened to the other person talking about Chopin, Qin Jian could feel the other person's expression and state, just like when he was talking about playing Mozart.
Exactly the same.
So Shen Qingci loves Chopin, so the starting point of his doubts about Chopin should also be from the reality of some kind of true love.
Qin Jian respected Shen Qingci, so after carefully thinking about Shen Qingci's words, he put a question mark?
Maybe one day this question mark will be solved and Qin Jian is wrong, so what does it matter?
This process is sublimation.
Although it is not as good as Shen Qingci's experience and the vastness of his music library, Qin Jian's success today did not rely entirely on piano space.
Similarly, he also has experiences and thoughts that Shen Qingci does not have, so let's put the question mark up for now. Even if the game is right now, the music will not be paused because of a game.
Even though Qin Jian wanted to win, he still wanted to win.
After a short break, Qin Jian took out the score of Chopin's Third Sonata.
There are still three days until the next class.
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However, most people who want to win are troubled by the problem of the repertoire. Nearly half of the 80 people are worried about the song selection.
At such a time, something happened that shocked the entire piano world.
A major event that heralded a new pattern in the global piano manufacturing industry just happened.
At around 5 pm on May 12, Tokyo time, Yamah held a global press conference.
The contemporary head of Yamah announced at the conference that it has completed the acquisition of Bösendorfer Piano Company.
As soon as this news came out, the entire European piano manufacturing industry seemed to have experienced a major earthquake.
Bösendorfer, which once competed with Steinway, Fazioli and Bechstein, was quietly acquired by Yamah.
An insider revealed that this incident actually happened as early as last year.
Bösendorfer has been in financial crisis frequently in recent years. In 2013 alone, it lost about 3 million euros and had debts of 8 million euros, with annual sales of less than 300 units.
At the beginning of last year, the Austrian piano manufacturer Brodmann wanted to acquire Bösendorfer for 21 million euros, but a few days later Yamah Company's bid reached 25 million euros. In order to keep this
An Austrian brand first agreed with Brodmann, but after Yamah made a guarantee not to change Bösendorfer's production base and operation model, Bösendorfer chose the latter.
No matter when this incident happened specifically, it is really intriguing that Yamah chose to announce this information at this time.
Not long ago, New York's Steinway Company just launched an upgraded version of its new product D274 under the guise of a heavyweight competition. Then Yamah Company announced the acquisition of Bösendorfer.
A sense of tense tension suddenly arose between the two piano giants in Europe and Asia.
People who ate the melon along the way also praised the melon for its delicious taste. On the day this news was released, industry insiders analyzed that Yamah’s move was intended to apply Bensendorfer’s traditional craftsmanship to its own Japanese pianos.
Some professionals directly pointed out that Yamah Company wanted to obtain Bösendorfer's patented piano technology - the independent string-bar technology.
This makes everyone look forward to the next good show.
as expected.
Just 24 hours after the press conference, Yamah then announced that it would launch a new CF series piano-yamah-cf7
"The CF7, a state-of-the-art concert grand piano, has excellent and varied sound, and its penetrating power can make the sound resound in every corner of the concert hall."
At the same time, all Yamah stores around the world also hung up new signboards.
‘CF7 is the pinnacle of Yamah piano and the new starting point’
'Standing for perfection and building excellence - yamahcf7.'
At the press conference the next day, Yamah’s international marketing manager made it clear that “CF7 will replace CFX as Yamah’s designated piano for the players in the 17th Chopin Competition.”
At this point, anyone with eyesight or not can see that this series of actions by Yamah is more like a long-premeditated plan.
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If this is a major change that can change the structure of the world's piano manufacturing industry, then the first people to be affected are the 80 contestants who will participate in the Chopin Competition in September.
They will also be the first to eat crabs.
As for whether this crab is delicious or not, everything is still unknown.
Maybe it's just a gorgeous squib, and we'll have to wait until everyone tries it to find out.
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May 15th, today is the day Qin Jian has to go to class again.
But today's class is no longer Shen Qingci's home, nor is it the piano room.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Shen Qingci drove Qin Jian and Xia Shu, and the three of them were on their way to Huaxiang International Building.
An hour later, CF7's first new product launch conference in China will be held there.
Qin Jian was excited, really excited. He was eager to try it as early as when he heard Xia Shu mention the new CFX in Warsaw.
Natsuki was also excited, really excited. Teacher Shijing, whom she had not seen for a long time, finally came to see her.
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No. 23 Yuancheng Road, second floor of Huaxiang International Hotel.
The final arrangements were being made in the noisy scene. On the gorgeous small stage, a solemn black flowing grand piano was raising its piano board high.
On the piano pillar, the golden CF7 looks particularly dazzling.
Nobuyuki Tokai, accompanied by his assistant, sat quietly aside.