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The May Music Festival charity performance entered the Yizhuang Campus of Tongren Hospital in Beijing. Photo by Niu Xiaobei

　　In the past week, the French National Symphony Orchestra and the "Xiaosai" champion Liu Xiaoyu, the violin master Ning Feng, and many friends and Kings Singer Choir have successively appeared on stage, leaving behind four performances with their own characteristics; next, classical guitar star Miloch, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Association, ancient music "textbook" ancient music band of Byzantine Academy, Italy and other musicians will continue to appear at the May Music Festival. This year, around the theme of "Fantasy Music", the May Music Festival planned 27 performances to strengthen the "gene" of chamber music, and at the same time, it did not stop at chamber music, and made breakthroughs in multiple levels such as expression form and work mining.

　　Grammy Award-winning conductor Christian Mathella and the French National Symphony Orchestra played the "Olympic Anthem" at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. This group has great experience in interpreting French music. For two consecutive days, they joined hands with young pianist Liu Xiaoyu to present the works of French composers Bicai, Ravel and Saint-San in two concerts, expressing the unique exquisiteness of French music in a suitable manner.

　　Ning Feng and cellist Jan Vogler, violaist Su Zhen and many other friends chose Shostakovic's chamber music works. "Many composers have dedicated their most beautiful works to exquisite chamber music, Shostakovic is one of them. If you listen to his chamber music, you will definitely feel unprecedented energy." Jan Vogler interpreted. Shostakovic's overall musical language tends to be cold and humorous, but chamber music records his different aspects. Taking his five works for the double violin and piano as an example, the two Paganini gold medal winners, Ning Feng and Zhu Ximeng, talked with the piano between the violin and Zhang Weicong, leaving an extra warm and beautiful charm in the streamlined space.

　　On the evening of May 11, the King's Singer Choir "Ceil" took the National Grand Theater for the sixth time, showing its comprehensive creative performance with lively performances and distinct and harmonious singing. This time, the King's Singer Choir also prepared two Chinese songs "She Comes to Listen to My Concert" and "The Moon Represents My Heart" as Easter Eggs dedicated to Chinese audiences.

　　While the theater performance was held, 11 public welfare performances of the May Music Festival were officially launched. Since its launch in 2012, the May Music Festival public welfare performance has helped high-quality cultural resources to reach the grassroots level and promoted social forces to participate in public cultural services. A total of 196 people-friendly activities have been held, covering nearly 35,000 audiences. (Beijing Daily reporter Gao Qian)

[Editor in charge: Tang Wei]