Bach's music is music - but to me, when I listen to Bach's music, I feel that Bach's music is not music. Sometimes, I feel that Bach's music is like an ink painting of a lone boat listening to the rain; sometimes, I feel that Bach's music is like the silence of a thinker; sometimes, I feel that Bach's music has the beauty of the rhythm of Tang poetry and Song lyrics. (I have read very few Tang poems and Song lyrics, and I can count the exact number with ten fingers - I'm sorry to disappoint Beinan).

But more often, I feel that Bach’s music brings me an irreplaceable understanding of all the suffering and happiness in the world. In Bach's music, I am his good boy (this is not a pretentious statement to please Bach).

Bach's Nothing - Stark, Fournier and Yo-Yo Ma's versions once deeply moved me. I listen to their music with my ears, and I am attached to their piano postures with my heart (eyes) - how handsome and charming they are on the CD cover.

Last week, I listened to the former Soviet cello poet Shafran's performance of "The Great Nothing", and I was fascinated by his music. I heard the flavor of Russia in his music, so desolate, so transparent, so melancholy, so passionate... How could his piano sound have such huge magic power?

For a whole week, Shafran’s performance of “The Big Nothing” became my 24/7 background music. It makes me want to know him involuntarily. Unfortunately, very little information about him can be found on the Internet.

Will I feel lost about this? NO, his music allows me to understand him more directly and intuitively, right?

Bach's "Nothing" is often used as the theme music of movies, such as the movie "Sophie and the Morning Sun". If Zhaimei and Yang Feng are willing to listen, they will not disappoint my Bach father, and of course, as his daughter, I will not be disappointed either.

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