这次题为“水月镜花”的Ciné-Concert是法国钢琴家Thierry Maillard现场一人一琴，加上影像共同呈现《Tears of Rain》专辑当中的诗艺表达。

蒂埃里·梅拉德（Thierry Maillard）发行的首张个人独奏专辑是他亲自操刀创作演绎。这位难以被轻易归类的钢琴家——一个比尔·埃文斯（Bill Evans）的永恒追随者，巴赫、莫扎特与巴托克的忠实粉丝——希望利用这次创作的机会反思自己作为爵士音乐家的身份。他既不抛弃传统，也不拒绝当下，以及风格交融的更多可能。在这张专辑中，他触达了极深的维度、开辟了全新的视野。在旋律的牵引之下，他的音乐带领听众来到一个纯粹的感性空间。简洁，纯粹，直达本质。

首先，想象这样一幅画面：一位音乐家的绘画作品摆放在他的钢琴、乐谱的对面，如同面对着他自己的内心。这一切就好像一个人在两列火车或两份爱情之间迷茫于如何选择时，往往会去向大海寻求解答。在那幅光影鲜明的肖像画中，一个人孤独地伫立着，向沉默提问，而给予回答他的是广阔的孤独——那些问题，也是属于我们的问题。

这部新专辑是他的第18部作品，也是其中相当富有转折与变化的一部。通过呈现12支完全没有歌词的曲目，蒂埃里·梅拉德会给所有曾以为了解他的人一份惊喜。由钢琴家本人独立创作的《Tears of Rain》会将听众带入另一个世界——那里充满了幻梦、呓语、闪光的回忆、面孔、香气，还有永远沉睡的忧郁。

在感性的绵延中，钢琴的“歌声”引领着这场音乐的游戏，依次展开微妙的华尔兹节奏、怀旧的音型，抑或纠缠的回忆。他的音乐坦率而直白，不单调，也不做作，懂得如何做到简单而温柔，却又丝毫不随意，不陈腐。

他敢于展示自己的灵魂，但又不否认自己的谦逊……在这一危险的游戏中，蒂埃里·梅拉德乐于在感性的绵延中寻找某种平衡，在精心雕琢、充满旋律性的作品中，钢琴技巧的展演和即兴演奏的风采似乎已不再是重点。

……而他的音乐，就这样在其中流淌。

蒂埃里·梅拉德的音乐，在他的钢琴和他作品之前展开，循着他音乐历程的两岸流淌。

两种风景，两种救赎。

一边是旋律的世界，它主导着这一岸的世界，诉说着爱，鼓弄着心与灵魂。

而在更陡峭的另一边，是蒂埃里·梅拉德推崇的古典作曲家的世界，从巴赫到巴托克，从莫扎特到肖邦。

音乐知道如何以完美的形式直达万物的本质，丝毫不用犹豫。爵士乐的光芒也随之慢慢走远。

长夜的深蓝渐渐变成夏夜的柔和白色云彩……在蒂埃里·梅拉德在我们眼前创造的这个崭新的音乐世界里，“我”似乎从未如此真实、清晰而深刻地被言说。当他想要言说我们，“我”总是比“你”更妥帖的呼唤……而那种呼唤，仿佛一曲华丽而感伤的华尔兹。

Thierry Maillard signs his first solo album in his own compositions. This pianist more than ever unclassifiable, eternal mad in love with Bill Evans but not less Bach, Mozart or Bartok, takes the opportunity to question his identity as a jazz musician. Without forgetting anything about the past or not forbidding himself for the here and mixing, Thierry Maillard opens in this album of rare depth new horizons where melody is queen, where his compositions take us to the field of pure emotion. Simply and skinning, to get better to the essentials.

First, an image: a musician’s painting facing his piano and his scores, as facing himself. As a man can be a little lost between two trains or two loves would land facing the sea. The light-dark portrait of a single man standing there to seek in silence and the great spaces of solitude answers to his questions, which would also be ours.

In this new opus - the eighteenth of a discography, yet a little avaricious in twists - Thierry Maillard will surprise those who thought they knew him by drawing a series of twelve tracks in the form of songs without words. “Tears of rain” entirely from the pianist’s pen plunges the listener into a world of dreameries and sound confidences, shimmering memories, faces, perfumes and buried melancholy.

Always on the thread of emotion where the “singing” of the piano leads the musical game, appearing in turn the clothes of a pudic waltz rhythm, a nostalgic ostinato or miniatures in raveline reminiscences.

The music then risks candour, but without mannerism or mannerism, knowing how to be simple and tender, but without ease or platitude.

Dare to bare without denying anything of his modesty: a dangerous game in which Thierry Maillard takes pleasure in playing the balanciers on the thread of emotion, in chiseled compositions, highly melodic, where pianistic exhibition and the brilliance of improvisation no longer seem to be the subjects at all.

And in the middle his music flows

Thierry Maillard’s music doubles alone in front of his piano and in front of his compositions unfolds in streams between the two sides of his musical history.

Between two landscapes, two reliefs.

On the one hand, the world of melody, the world that leads the world and knows how to talk to us about love, the one that makes hearts and souls capsized.

And on another steeper side, the world of classical composers Thierry Maillard reveres, from Bach to Bartok, from Mozart to Chopin.

Where music knows how to go to the essentials, without artifice, set in a perfect form. The glows of jazz are moving away.

The blue of tormented nights gives to the white of the soft clouds of a summer evening... In this new musical world that Thierry Maillard invents before our eyes, never seems to have said “I” with so much truth, clarity and depth. But if he says “I” it is to better address us by choosing the “You”... As in a noble and sentimental waltz.

中文翻译、文字整理：王舒可