The world's number one pianist

He Shen followed Zhou San and others and took a car back to the school.

After returning to school, He Shen did not rush to deal with normal affairs in the school, but followed Zhou San to a personal piano room that belonged to him temporarily.

This piano room is much larger than the previous one in the Conservatory of Music of Jiangzhou Normal University.

At least, this piano room...

is actually a suite structure?

This is a room of about 40 to 50 square meters, with two grand pianos placed in the room.

One is a small grand piano by Steinway, and the other is a small grand piano by Fazioli.

These two grand pianos are placed in the middle of the piano room, occupying a large space.

In the corner of the piano room, there is a long sofa and a coffee table, which can be used for teachers to rest during class.

If you just look at it this way, it’s actually nothing. This room is probably similar to the piano room I saw before at the Haicheng Conservatory of Music.

It’s much better than the top piano room of the Haicheng Conservatory of Music, and there may be one more piano.

But as mentioned before,

This place is not an ordinary piano room, this place is a suite structure!

At the gate, about a few meters away.

There is a small door in that place, and a line of words is written on the door of the small door.

"Practice Preparation Room"

This room is for all students who come to class to practice before class.

After the first student goes in, the second student can practice the piano in this place, exercise his fingers a little, so that his fingers are not too unfamiliar.

After the previous student leaves, this student can go through the door in this room to the main class room, and connect the class process very smoothly.

Then the next student continues to practice in the practice preparation room next to the piano room.

Therefore, the overall design of this piano room is extremely perfect, which can minimize the fatigue of teachers in class.

At least you don't have to be too angry that students don't practice the piano.

And this room is the gift Zhou San gave to He Shen.

Although it is impossible to sell the piano in the piano room, this piano room completely belongs to He Shen during his tenure!

Qu Shi, Ji Mengting and others originally planned to stay in the piano room for a while and talk to He Shen about their previous experiences in Europe.

Unfortunately, they saw Zhou San's eyes and immediately avoided him honestly.

After Zhou San waited for them to leave, he smiled and patted the Fazioli piano in front of him and smiled at He Shen.

"How is it? Do you like this room? This can be regarded as the largest piano room in our school! And this piano room will be used as your practice room and class room in the future."

He Shen looked at all the arrangements in the room and nodded: "Very impressive."

"Of course it's impressive. This place can be regarded as the best piano room here. Even among the teachers here, only a few people have such a configuration, and yours is the former head of the piano department!"

Zhou San handed a document from the document bag behind him to He Shen as he did several years ago.

His originally smiling expression also became extremely serious at this time, and he slowly said: "The teacher in charge of the piano department in the school before was the former head of the piano department of Jiangzhou Art University Conservatory of Music, Zhao Shenggang!"

"The main reason why he served as the head of the department was because I was responsible for all the affairs of the entire school and could not lead the piano department to conduct teaching and research activities normally, and all his people happened to enter Jiangzhou Conservatory of Music."

"Therefore, in the past few years since you left, this piano department has always been under his control."

"But now that you are back, he has no hesitation and directly let go of the position and returned the position of the head of the piano department to you! He returned to his own Jiangzhou Art University Conservatory of Music and continued to serve as the head of the piano department."

"After all, the main opportunity for our school to be established is because you have won the world-class piano competition championship all over the world! His abdication is justified."

"Are you willing to take this position?"

Zhou San stretched out his hand and pushed the document to He Shen. Looking at He Shen's slightly hesitant expression, he did not wait for He Shen's answer and walked directly to the door.

When he reached the door, he turned around, leaned against the door frame, rubbed his hairless head, waved to He Shen, and smiled.

"Okay, you decide what to do. The one in your hand is the appointment letter for the position of associate professor in the school. You just need to sign it when the time comes, and find a chance to give the document to me later."

"As for the director of the piano department, the position has been vacated for you. Zhao Shenggang is still maintaining the normal operation of the school's piano department. If you want to be the director of the piano department, he can go back directly, and you can also take the position directly."

"If you don't want to be, I can also find a suitable person from the current piano department professors to take the position, so don't feel too much pressure."

"Think about it slowly. This piano room belongs to you. You use it slowly. When you are done, remember to go downstairs and throw the key to the aunt in the piano room, just like before."

"After all, this is the property of the school."

"That's it. You practice the piano well, and I'll leave first."

"It's still not too late to tell me what you want to do after the concert."

After saying that, Zhou San waved to He Shen again and left He Shen's piano room without any regrets.

When he left, he did not forget to close the door.

He Shen looked at the closed door, then looked at the piano in front of him, smiled lightly, and said nothing.

He turned and walked to the piano, opened the piano cover, pulled out the piano stool, sat down, and just looked at the piano reflecting the light in front of him and took a deep breath.

He is still completely unfamiliar with the affairs in school.

And at present, the affairs in school are not his most important thing.

The most important thing for him now is to play the piano and play in a very good state in the concert a few days later.

Therefore, He Shen sat up straight, looked at the piano in front of him, and closed his eyes.

The fingers slowly lifted up to the air, and without any guidance, they were placed on the g of the small letter group very skillfully.

As the strength of the arm was unloaded, the fingers fell downwards under the gravity.

In a very short time, the fingers fell on the piano keyboard at a moderate speed.

The sound was squeezed out of the piano very gently.

This time, He Shen did not choose the Fazioli piano that he had chosen in the previous Chopin International Piano Competition.

He chose Steinway this time.

The sound of Fazioli was too bright, and it would be too harsh for this kind of hypnotic music.

Therefore, Steinway, which scored above the excellent line in every item, was the best choice for He Shen.

He Shen couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly when he heard the sound coming out of this Steinway.

He completely immersed everything he had in the music, feeling the music flowing in his hands.

Clear and beautiful.

This is a work he has been practicing, and this work is also the highest level work among his Baroque works.

Master level, Lv9 work!

A work that was not based on a system at all, but on He Shen's own deep cultivation of music, as well as constant analysis, under the guidance of those top professors.

The music, under the control of He Shen's fingers, became extremely smooth, which made the listener's mood relaxed.

The door of the piano room was not particularly soundproof after all, and the music flowed out through the gap between the door cracks.

The students who were sneaking over to question He Shen's performance could not help but be stunned, their brains were completely empty, and they didn't know how to think at all.

Beautiful...

So beautiful!

This piece of Johann Sebastian Bach's work, the Goldberg Variations, is almost beautiful to the extreme!

The group of people who were hiding quietly at the door had nothing to say.

The news of He Shen's return to China was not treated as a special secret in the school, and it was done very openly.

It was because of this that many people who studied Ali knew about it.

After all, a piano teacher is suddenly coming back, and this piano teacher may become the dean of their piano department.

This matter made everyone unable to accept it for a while.

After all, Zhao Shenggang did not do a bad job. He has been laying the foundation of the piano department, trying to make everyone in the piano department have a foundation that is not too weak.

In addition, his serious expression makes him very popular among the students.

However, such a person would be replaced by a piano competition champion who has been silent for four years?

Although the champion of this piano competition is the champion of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

It belongs to the world's top piano competition champion.

But...

You have to know that this person has been silent for four years!

There are no works or sounds in four years. Who knows how well he plays?

And even if he plays the piano well, can he really teach the piano well and bring order to the school?

Therefore, everyone waited for the day when He Shen came back with a suspicious attitude towards He Shen.

After He Shen came back, the news spread throughout the school immediately.

Almost everyone walked towards He Shen's piano room, intentionally or unintentionally.

This room was Zhao Shenggang's piano room before.

Then, they were shocked.

All of them had heard the Goldberg Variations.

This piece is known as Bach's touchstone.

If you can play this piece well, then you can almost rely on this piece to run through everything Bach.

You can even be called Bach's spokesperson through this piece!

Just like Gould decades ago.

That top Bach master who is very good at Bach and left behind the perfect Goldberg Variations.

Glenn Gould!

One of the 100 greatest pianists of the 20th century, Bach is the best.

It can even be said that he is the best at Bach's works!

Unfortunately, although it is nominally the 100 greatest pianists, there are only 73 in reality.

The reason why it is called 100 is that there are a total of 100 records and 200 CDs in this set of recordings.

Every piece of music recorded on a CD becomes the most perfect piano recording.

Perfect level!

Many top pianists, although they have a lot of works that have reached the peak of the master level, because they do not have perfect works.

Therefore, there is absolutely no chance to ascend to the throne of the top 100 piano masters.

Among the 200 works, only Bach by Gudel left all other pianists speechless.

And his famous work is this Goldberg Variations!

Everyone stood outside the door, listening to the Goldberg Variations in the room, and they were all stunned.

"What is this? Is this really the same piece I played?"

"Is this the strength of a world champion?"

"It's terrifying, I can't imagine that He Shen's strength is so strong."

"Be quiet, listen to the music well, don't talk nonsense."

"Don't make noise, the sound insulation is good, why are you still making noise? Do you want to let people hear it? If you want to make noise, get out of the way!"

After a few exclamations and scoldings from others, the crowd quickly returned to silence.

All of them were listening to He Shen's interpretation seriously, not daring to make any interruptions.

This music is so beautiful, so beautiful that it's breathtaking.

As time went on, more and more people who were curious about He Shen began to gather outside He Shen's door.

Originally, they wanted to come and see, what is the strength of this so-called world champion?

What strength can replace their piano department director.

Then, they heard it.

It was precisely because they heard it that they were completely stunned, staying there stupidly, unable to move.

Even if there was a wall, a wall that was treated with soundproofing, the sound had a little distortion.

They could hear it.

How strong is He Shen's piano playing ability!

They can even imagine how shocking it would be to listen to He Shen's performance in the room!

Therefore, they couldn't help but remain silent.

No one had any doubts about He Shen's ability anymore.

There was no news about others for four years after they won the championship. Maybe they went out to play, gave up practicing the piano, or prepared to join other industries.

He may even hit a bottleneck or something.

But He Shen, just by listening, can clearly hear it.

The four years when He Shen didn't make any sound were definitely a period of accumulation.

All of them have heard He Shen's Chopin.

In the school's digital library, most of the Chopin recordings are not those of the top masters.

For example, the recordings of Argerich and Zimmermann.

But He Shen's recordings!

They have listened to He Shen's Chopin recordings countless times, and even many times, the Chopin works they imitated were all from He Shen.

Therefore, they know that He Shen plays Chopin well.

According to common sense, people who play Chopin well should have richer emotions.

He should be very good at playing works from the late classical music, the romantic period, and the modernist works.

Although he can play the works of the Baroque period, the taste of his playing is definitely not as strong as those of the top pianists who mainly play the Baroque period.

Unfortunately, common sense has no effect on He Shen at all.

He Shen is not only good at Chopin, but also at Bach's Goldberg Variations.

Not only that...

When everyone stood at the door and listened to the Goldberg Variations for more than an hour, and were about to rub their knees to rest, He Shen's hand fell again.

Beethoven, Appassionata Sonata.

Opus 57, Piano Sonata No. 23!

This is a very common and popular work.

Many students present played the Appassionata Sonata when they entered the school through the art examination.

Therefore, when they heard the first note of the Appassionata Sonata, the corners of many people's mouths began to rise involuntarily, and their bodies began to relax.

After all, everyone is familiar with this thing.

Just when they were about to seriously criticize He Shen's Appassionata Sonata.

Unfortunately...

The music sounded, and the extremely strong emotions came over them. The bodies of the people who were just about to relax suddenly froze.

They suddenly found that they couldn't understand it.

He Shen's treatment of the music in this Passion Sonata is very detailed.

So detailed that every moment they listened, they could feel He Shen's treatment of the details.

This strength...

Everyone looked at each other and dared not speak, fearing to disturb the music.

Heaven and hell, light and darkness, all kinds of strong contrasts appeared in the music, leaving everyone speechless.

The music is still beautiful, beautiful to the extreme.

They don't even know how He Shen played to play such a beautiful piece.

Everyone has two hands, and everyone plays the same piece.

Why is this so?

Everyone is silent.

Chopin and Rachmaninoff later are even more so.

Until the end of the music, when He Shen began to re-touch the details, everyone did not disperse.

They looked at each other, their eyes flickered.

They originally wanted to find out what the strength of He Shen, the teacher who is about to become the new head of their piano department, is.

Want to see if they can find a little loophole.

For example, Zhao Shenggang, he is not particularly good at playing modern works.

Therefore, everyone here also intends to find some loopholes in He Shen.

Unfortunately...

Everyone looked at the door in front of them unwillingly, but there was nothing they could do. They could only sigh slowly and turn away.

As for Zhao Shenggang, who everyone originally wanted to save?

Let him be.

After all, when they gathered together to face He Shen, they couldn't help but feel powerless.

Zhao Shenggang stood in the distance, looking at He Shen's piano room, without saying a word.

Zhou San rubbed his head, without looking at Zhao Shenggang, just standing there happily, also looking at the direction of He Shen's piano room, and asked casually.

"How is it? Are you satisfied? The person I chose will not bring any bad influence to Jiangzhou Conservatory of Music!"

"..."

Zhao Shenggang did not speak, but turned and walked downstairs directly.

He now knew that He Shen's strength had reached a very terrifying level.

In China, there are very few people who have a deeper understanding of music than He Shen!

Except for Lang Liangyue who is still struggling outside, almost all of them are old monsters in their eighties and nineties.

And those people, whether they can play normally is still a question.

Not to mention appearing to confront He Shen.

Even if He Shen is sitting there now and not teaching, he is already a threat to other schools.

Therefore, Zhao Shenggang can safely hand over the piano department to He Shen.

When he was about to disappear on the stairs, he turned his head and slowly spoke to Zhou San.

"Wait until the concert is over, then talk."

"I will act according to your ideas."

After that, he disappeared from Zhou San's sight.

Zhou San touched his head happily, without saying anything, but raised the corner of his mouth.

Zhao Zitong hid in a corner far away, watching Zhao Shenggang leave, and pursed his lips.

He Shen was still playing in the piano room, preparing for the concert a few days later.

Waiting for the final test.