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Daniil Trifonov Solo Recital at Carnegie Hall (Site)
Thursday October 17, 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Performer
Daniil Trifonov, Piano
Daniil Trifonov performs a thoughtfully curated recital of Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and Barber. Though posthumously published as Op. 80, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Sonata in C-sharp Minor is a youthful work that predates all of his published music, and it includes material later found in his First Symphony. Among the recital’s generous array of Chopin waltzes are works that the composer distributed as private gifts, requesting that they be burnt upon his death. Published posthumously, they remain extremely popular today. Barber’s Piano Sonata is a stylistically diverse work rife with interpretive possibility. Originally commissioned by Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers, and premiered by Vladimir Horowitz in 1949, it has been held in the highest regard by leading musicians since its inception. The concert concludes with a solo-piano arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s emotionally stirring The Sleeping Beauty ballet.
Program
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Sonata in C-sharp Minor, Op. 80
CHOPIN Selected Waltzes
BARBER Piano Sonata, Op. 26
TCHAIKOVSKY Suite from The Sleeping Beauty (arr. Mikhail Pletnev)
Performer
Daniil Trifonov, Piano
In the hands of a thoughtful interpreter like Daniil Trifonov, timeless works can be heard and felt anew. Rameau was one of the keyboard’s first great composers, and his works for harpsichord reveal powerful new possibilities when played on a modern piano. Mozart’s Piano Sonata in F Major follows, with an especially affecting slow movement that leads to a galloping, fleet-fingered finale. Felix Mendelssohn’s Variations sérieuses is a virtuosic masterpiece with a theme that is dazzlingly explored across 17 variations—usually in little more than 10 minutes combined. The concert concludes with Beethoven’s monumental “Hammerklavier” sonata, a true feat to perform and one of the piano’s greatest works.
Program
RAMEAU Suite in A Minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
MOZART Piano Sonata in F Major, K. 332
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Variations sérieuses
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, “Hammerklavier”