Daniil Trifonov – Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Children’s Album, Piano Sonata op.80, Theme and Variations – LP

Description

Highly Anticipated Tchaikovsky Album on Double LP!

Star pianist Daniil Trifonov burst on to the international scene winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011. With this album, Trifonov returns to the music of Tchaikovsky in a beautiful selection of solo works evoking youth and family.

“We think of him”, says the celebrated pianist, “as an archetypical Romantic” and a “troubled soul. But particularly in his younger years, Tchaikovsky found joy in his close relationships and emotional comfort in his family.”

The selected pieces include the rarely-performed Sonata Op.80, the Children’s Album, the Variations Op.19/6 and Pletnev’s Concert Suite fromThe Sleeping Beauty. They reflect Tchaikovsky at his most effervescent and intimate and contain some of Trifonov’s most electrifying playing to date.

Musicians:

– Daniil Trifonov (piano)

Selections:

LP 1:

– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

– Theme and Variations in F major, Op. 19/6

– Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 80

– Childrens Album, Op. 39 (beginning)

LP 2:

– Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

– Childrens Album, Op. 39 (continuation)

– Mikhail Pletnev (born 1957)

– Concert Suite from the Ballet The Sleeping Beauty