Following Recent Release of All-Chopin Album on DG, Pianist Daniil Trifonov Launches Carnegie Hall “Perspectives” (Oct 28) and Releases Schubert “Trout” Quintet (Nov 3)
This Saturday (Oct 28), Daniil Trifonov, “without question the most astounding young pianist of our age” (The Times of London) and winner of the 2016 Gramophone Artist of the Year Award, launches a seven-concert Perspectives series in Carnegie Hall, which he curates and headlines throughout the 2017-18 season. After the recent release of Chopin: Evocations on Deutsche Grammophon, the pianist joins violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and members of her Mutter Virtuosi for a recording of Schubert’s incomparable “Trout” Quintet on the same label, to be released on November 3. Trifonov also tours the U.S. with the Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev this fall, playing his own Piano Concerto with a culminating performance in Carnegie Hall, as well as giving three additional performances of the concerto with the Detroit Symphony. Other highlights of the pianist’s packed season include a U.S. recital tour with his teacher and mentor Sergei Babayan; European tours with Kremerata Baltica, the London Philharmonic, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; and performances with the Berlin Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Seattle Symphony.
Chopin: Evocations, which was released on DG on October 6, marks Trifonov’s fourth album as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist. In addition to featuring works by Chopin himself, like the Fantaisie-impromptu, Op. 66 (posth.), the album also represents Trifonov’s first foray into a new branch of the repertoire: works by 20th-century composers like Samuel Barber and Federico Mompou, who were heavily influenced by the Polish master. Chopin provides a long-term focus for much of Trifonov’s season, which includes more than 20 recitals on the same theme across the U.S., Europe and Asia, including the October 28 recital with which he inaugurates his Carnegie Hall Perspectives series. At the end of the month he takes the same program to San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall (Oct 30), where he curates a similar series this season to the one at Carnegie Hall. Trifonov’s second DG release in as many months is scheduled for November 3: his recording of Schubert’s magnificent “Trout” Quintet with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, violist Hwayoon Lee, cellist Maximilian Hornung, and double bassist Roman Patkoló.
A music video for Chopin’s Fantaisie-impromptu from Chopin: Evocations is available here, and a trailer and interview about the upcoming “Trout” Quintet album is available here.
Trifonov made his Carnegie Hall debut in the company of Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra in 2011, playing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto. The following year he recorded the work with them on the Mariinsky label, a rendition The Observer UK found “scorching and heart-rending, but never bombastic.” He opened the 2017-18 season playing Prokofiev with these long-standing collaborators at the Lucerne Festival, and in November he joins them again for a U.S. tour of his own Piano Concerto. At its 2015 debut, with Manfred Honeck leading the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, observing that the piece’s mood “shifted often between ghostly and lullaby-like, folkloric and cinematic, jazzy and witty, a la Shostakovich,” called Trifonov’s performance of it “spellbinding.” Before they play the piece at Carnegie Hall, Trifonov, Gergiev and the orchestra take it to the Mondavi Center at the University of California, Davis and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. In the midst of those performances, Trifonov also performs the piece three times with the Detroit Symphony under the baton of Giancarlo Guerrero. The pianist turns to another of his compositions in the spring, when he tours Europe with Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica playing his Double Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra.
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Daniil Trifonov: upcoming U.S. engagements
Oct 28
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall
MOMPOU: Variations on a theme of Chopin
SCHUMANN: “Chopin” from Carnaval, Op. 9
GRIEG: Study, Op. 73, No. 5, “Hommage à Chopin”
BARBER: Nocturne, Op. 33
TCHAIKOVSKY: Un poco di Chopin, Op. 72, No. 15
RACHMANINOFF: Variations on a theme of Chopin, Op. 22
CHOPIN: Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. 66
CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
Oct 30
San Francisco, CA
Davies Symphony Hall
MOMPOU: Variations on a theme of Chopin
TCHAIKOVSKY: Un poco di Chopin, Op. 72, No. 15
RACHMANINOFF: Variations on a theme of Chopin, Op. 22
CHOPIN: Selected Mazurkas
CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
Nov 2
Davis, CA
Mariinsky Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
DANIIL TRIFONOV: Piano Concerto
Nov 9, 10 & 11
Detroit, MI
Orchestra Hall
Detroit Symphony / Giancarlo Guerrero
DANIIL TRIFONOV: Piano Concerto
Nov 12
Washington, D.C.
Kennedy Center Concert Hall
Mariinsky Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
DANIIL TRIFONOV: Piano Concerto
Nov 15
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall
Mariinsky Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
DANIIL TRIFONOV: Piano Concerto (NY premiere)
Feb 4
Princeton, NJ
McCarter Theatre Center
Works by SCHUMANN, BERG, and WOLF
With Matthias Goerne, baritone
Feb 6
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall
BERG: Four Songs, Op. 2
SCHUMANN: Dichterliebe
WOLF: Three Poems of Michelangelo
SHOSTAKOVICH: Selections from Suite, Op. 145: “Dante,” “Death,” “Night”
BRAHMS: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121
With Matthias Goerne, baritone
Feb 25
Los Angeles, CA
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Recital with Sergei Babayan
RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 1 (“Fantaisie-Tableaux”) for Two Pianos, Op. 5
RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17
MAURO LANZA: New Work for Two Pianos
RAVEL: Rapsodie espagnole
Feb 27
San Francisco, CA
Davies Symphony Hall
Recital with Sergei Babayan
SCHUMANN: Andante and Variations in B-flat, Op. 46
MAURO LANZA: New Work for Two Pianos
SCHUBERT: Fantasie in F Minor for Piano Four Hands, D. 940
RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 1 (“Fantaisie-Tableaux”) for Two Pianos, Op. 5
RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17
March 1
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall
Recital with Sergei Babayan
SCHUMANN: Andante and Variations in B-flat, Op. 46
MAURO LANZA: New Work for Two Pianos (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
SCHUBERT: Fantasie in F Minor for Piano Four Hands, D. 940
RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 1 (“Fantaisie-Tableaux”) for Two Pianos, Op. 5
RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17
March 3
Boston, MA
NEC’s Jordan Hall
Recital with Sergei Babayan
SCHUMANN: Andante and Variations in B-flat, Op. 46
MAURO LANZA: New Work for Two Pianos
SCHUBERT: Fantasie in F minor for Piano Four Hands, D. 940
RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 1 (“Fantaisie-Tableaux”) for Two Pianos, Op. 5
RACHMANINOFF: Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17
March 8-10
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 2
April 12-15
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3
April 19 & 21
Seattle, WA
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
SCRIABIN: Piano Concerto
April 25
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall
All-CHOPIN program
Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” from Mozart’s Don Giovanni (arr. Andrei Pushkarev)
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 8
Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4 (arr. Victor Kissine)
Piano Concerto No. 1 (arr. Yevgeniy Sharlat)
With Kremerata Baltica; Gidon Kremer, violin; Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, cello
April 26
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall
All-CHOPIN program
Introduction and Polonaise brillante, Op. 3
Cello Sonata in G minor
Nocturne in E, Op. 62, No. 2 (arr. Victor Kissine)
Piano Concerto No. 2 (arr. Yevgeniy Sharlat)
With Kremerata Baltica; Gautier Capuçon, cello
April 29
Kalamazoo, MI
Chenery Auditorium
The Gilmore Keyboard Festival
May 1
Santa Fe, NM
Lensic Performing Arts Center
May 4
New York, NY
Zankel Hall
Decades Recital
BERG: Piano Sonata, Op. 1
PROKOFIEV: Sarcasms, Op. 17
BARTÓK: Out of Doors
COPLAND: Piano Variations (1930)
MESSIAEN: Selections from Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus
LIGETI: Selections from Musica ricercata
STOCKHAUSEN: Klavierstück I
JOHN ADAMS: China Gates
JOHN CORIGLIANO: Fantasia on an Ostinato
THOMAS ADÈS: Traced Overhead
June 21-24
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas
RACHMANINOFF: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
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