King of Classical Music

The air after the spring rain is fresh and pleasant, and the astringent smell from the soil is full of vitality.Walking in such a college, you can see students talking with each other everywhere, of course, most of them are those who close their eyes and concentrate on playing musical instruments.

The Paris National Supérieure de Conservatoire is an ancient college with a history of more than 200 years. After several renovations, all the music equipment here is world-class. In the piano room with the best sound insulation, you can’t even hear a little noise from the outside world. , only the beautiful sound of the piano echoed in the room.

To be honest, Paganini's "Caprice 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 perform such difficult pieces amazingly, and even unforgettable for a lifetime.

For example, Master Akkad.

Therefore, Paganini's 24 caprices test not only the audience's aesthetic level, but more importantly, the performer's skills.Only excellent musicians can perfectly perform such difficult pieces, and only strong enough musicians can control the momentum of Paganini's pieces.

Min Chen heard Qi Mu perform Paganini's piece a long time ago. It was "The Bell" that rang at midnight on Christmas Eve. It has been three or four months since today.

At that time, even apart from the almost identical sound of Lu Ziwen's violin, Min Chen felt a little amazed 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 enlist Qi Mu in Bai Ai, then Min Chen would probably only hesitate for a while before finally deciding: "Not for the time being, it's still a little bit close."

He could tell that Qi Mu had extraordinary talents, among which Qi Mu's absolute control over the sense of pitch even made Min Chen think of "taking Qi Mu as a student and teaching him to become a top conductor in the world".

However, if he wants to become Bo Ai's principal violinist, compared with Kedori...Qi Mu is still a little bit behind.

Min Chen's talent on the violin can only be regarded as above-average. Let him evaluate it, it is "unbearable", and I am afraid that he can only be the chief or even the deputy chief of the world's second-rate orchestra.But if he is asked to evaluate other people's violin level, he can evaluate it well.

And the gap between Qi Mu's violin and Kedori's violin, to Min Chen, is really small, too small to describe.

However, with such an indescribably weak distance, Min Chen couldn't tell exactly where the difference was——

After all, this man is really not very good at the violin.

So Min Chen moved his mind at that time, hoping that Akade could accept Qi Mu as a student.Akad might be able to hear things that he couldn't hear, and maybe... he could correct them.

Although he had already prepared for this in his heart, when Min Chen really heard Qi Mu's violin sound again, the pure, clean and decisive sound of the violin made him startled suddenly, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

...really, changed.

This song "No. 24" has a lot of beautiful and gorgeous skills. Needless to say, the fretting of the strings with the left hand spanning several octaves, all kinds of bow jumping and string picking can make ordinary violinists have a headache .

Under the bright and bright sunlight, the handsome young man tilted his head slightly, and his left hand was dancing quickly on the strings.The speed of his finger sliding has surpassed the limit that human dynamic vision can capture, forming a series of phantoms.

And his right hand is holding the bow, which is beating gently on the strings at this moment.

In this section of the movement, the player needs to use bow jumping skills to express the short and aggressive music, and at the same time, the left hand needs to span three octaves to press the strings.This is a relatively difficult technical point in the whole song, but for Qi Mu, it seems that there is no difficulty at all.

But for Min Chen, what surprised him the most was not the display of these difficult skills, but... the qualitative change that came from the music itself.

It seems that the veil covering the music is gently lifted, no, maybe it should be a layer of water mist that is about to melt away, although it has not melted to the end to reveal the truth, but it is not far from it.

I can only hear the sound of the violin resounding excitedly and cheerfully in the piano room. Every friction between the strings and the bow is the loud singing of the violin, as if to sing all the beating and clanging of the notes.

From the first few quick notes to the joyful ending, Qi Mu took a little breath, and then looked at Min Chen who was sitting beside him.

A good-looking smile appeared on the handsome young man's face, and Qi Mu asked, "I finally heard it with my own ears, so...Mr. Min, can you give me any advice? I have been at a loss these days."

The young man's low and gentle voice woke Min Chen from his brief stupor. He raised his head and glanced at Qi Mu, and after a long time, he whispered, "Qi Mu, I don't know if you have noticed, but actually... your The music has changed in some fundamental way. I don't know how Reid did it, but... Maybe now, I know exactly where you're going to change."

Min Chen's tone was solemn and serious, which made Qi Mu straighten his face involuntarily, and he asked, "You actually... really heard it?"

Min Chen nodded lightly: "Only a few notes and beats have been changed, and it is almost the same "No. 24", but your music is very different from before. I can understand if you have changed. Where is the problem, although I can't explain it, but..."

After a pause, Min Chen looked up at Qi Mu, pursed his lips and said, "Is there a piano?"

But within 10 minutes, a very excited Swiss handsome boy blushed and gave up his piano room excitedly.

This tall brown-haired guy is the De Lan that Qi Mu mentioned to Min Chen before. He has studied piano for more than ten years, so there is also a Facilio grand piano in the piano room, which can be practiced at any time .

"Xiaoqi, I didn't expect you to know Mr. Bertram! This is so exciting! God, are you going to play in my piano room with my piano? God, I will never I don't want to play this Facilio again, I want to keep it!"

De Lan, who saw his idol, was naturally very excited.For this, Qi Mu could only thank you again and again: "I really want to thank you this time, Delan, 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, De Lan, who has not yet completed the mentoring task, shook his head without hesitation, and said decisively: "No, Seven! I want to listen to Mr. Bertram playing the piano here. I want to remember this scene well and let it engrave in my heart!"

Qi Mu: "..."

Before making Qi Mu wait for long, Min Chen had already tried to play a few scales and became familiar with the piano.He looked up at Qi Mu, who immediately walked over knowingly, and put the violin on his shoulder.

Min Chen's thin lips curled slightly, and he said, "You play directly as before, and I will keep up with your speed."

Qi Mu nodded, and the next second, he drew the bow without hesitation.

He didn't doubt at all whether Min Chen would not be able to keep up with his music, nor did he doubt whether the other party would suddenly not know how to play with him on the basis of not realizing the rehearsal.If even Min Chen couldn't play duet with him, then... there must be few people in the world who can do this.

Of course, when the soft and elegant piano sound sounded, Qi Mu was still taken aback for a moment, and his eyes widened slightly.

It's... not an ensemble!

But the accompaniment!

The brisk piano sound like a stream of water slowly flowed in the piano room. Although Qi Mu felt stunned for a moment, he didn't stop pressing the strings and jumping the bow with his fingers.He suddenly remembered what Min Chen had said to him earlier - "Leave me alone, you can play by yourself", so Qi Mu stopped thinking about it and started playing with all his heart.

In the quiet piano room, only the violin and piano were playing.

The Swiss boy Delan standing at the door of the piano room was completely stunned. He never thought that Mr. Bertrand would accompany Xiaoqi? !This is simply amazing!

As for this music, De Lan naturally recognized it a long time ago. It is Paganini's "Capriccio No. 24" that Xiaoqi has been practicing recently.De Lan'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. Qi Mu's performance is very good, but he doesn't have much comment.

But today, he suddenly felt that... so this song can be performed so well?

In fact, what De Lan didn't know was that Qi Mu, who was plucking the strings with his right hand, was also surprised at this moment.

Obviously Min Chen was just accompanying him, but he vaguely felt that he was being led away by the other party.Although the sense of traction was very low, he could feel a little bit of it.

Qi Mu didn't mean to beg the other party, but when he played the second verse, he suddenly realized——

He seems to have grasped that feeling a little bit!

The sense of freedom that completely releases the music, the feeling that the sound of the violin dances freely in the air.

These days, every time Qi Mu practiced, he was looking for the inspiration that Mr. Akad had described. Although he had occasionally noticed this wonderful feeling before, but until today... he was really sure that he was really saw it.

However, the 7-minute piece ended quickly, but the lingering sounds of the piano and violin were still echoing in the piano room.

After a long time, the only audience present applauded vigorously as if waking up from a dream.Qi Mu put his violin on in a daze, turned to look at the man sitting behind the piano, and saw 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...do you feel it?"