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Born on 5 March 1991 at Nizhny Novgorod, Daniil Olegovich Trifonov began studying piano at the age of five and performed in his first solo recital at the age of seven. In 2000, he began studying with Tatiana Zelikman at the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow. From 2009 to 2015, Trifonov studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 2011, he won the First Prize and Grand Prix at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in addition to the First Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, and in 2010 was a prizewinner at the International Chopin Piano Competition. In 2013, Trifonov signed a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon; his first album for the label, a live recording of his debut solo recital at Carnegie Hall, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. He later won a Grammy in 2018 for an album of the complete études for piano by Franz Liszt.

Chopin – Prelude No. 8 – Trifonov, Piano

Chopin Prelude No 8, in F sharp minor, counters the calm simplicity of the seventh with a broad stream of sonority of peculiar beauty, diffused in rising and falling waves of airy figuration. Among its admirers was Witold Lutosławski, who called it a ‘wonder’.

Liszt - Transcendental Étude No 5, Feux Follets - Trifonov, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Liszt – Feux Follets (No. 5) – Trifonov, Piano

Feux Follets (Wills o’ the Wisp) is the fifth étude of the set of twelve Transcendental Études by Franz Liszt. As with the other works in the Études but one, Feux Follets went through three versions.

Daniil Trifonov performs Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu for piano in C-sharp minor

Impromptu / Piano / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu – Daniil Trifonov, Piano

Chopin’s Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. posth. 66, is a solo piano composition. It was composed in 1834 and dedicated to Julian Fontana, who published the piece despite Frédéric Chopin’s request not to do so.

Chopin - Prelude No 4 in E Minor - Trifonov, Piano

Piano / Prelude / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Chopin – Prelude No. 4 – Trifonov, Piano

Chopin Prelude No 4 in E minor is one of the 24 preludes opus 28 for piano. By Chopin request, this piece was played at his own funeral, along with Mozart’s Requiem.

Liszt - Mazeppa, Transcendantal Étude No 5 - Trifonov, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Etude / Piano

Liszt – Mazeppa, Transcendental Etude No. 4 – Trifonov, Piano

Franz Liszt‘s Transcendental Etude No. 4 in D minor, Mazeppa, is the fourth Transcendental Étude, published in 1852. This complex and virtuosic staple of the Romantic Era repertoire was inspired by Victor Hugo‘s …

Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor – Trifonov, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Impromptu / Piano

Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu – Trifonov, Piano

Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. posth. 66 was composed in 1834 and dedicated to Julian Fontana, who published the piece after Frédéric Chopin’s death, despite the composer request not to do so.

The pianist Daniil Trifonov is performing Chopin's prelude No 3 in G major

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Prelude

Chopin – Prelude No. 9 – Daniil Trifonov, Piano

In the Prelude No 9 in E major we hear the gravity of loftiness and depth. It is often called a march-hymn prelude, and it does indeed display hymn-like elements and a gravity and sublimity of character.

Chopin - Scherzo No 3 in C-Sharp Minor - Trifonov, Piano

ROMANTIC MUSIC / Piano / Scherzo

Chopin – Scherzo No. 3 – Trifonov, Piano

The Scherzo No. 3 Op. 39 in C-Sharp Minor by Frédéric Chopin, completed in 1839, was written in the abandoned monastery of Valldemossa on the Balearic island of Majorca, Spain.

The Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov is playing Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini for piano solo and orchestra

Orchestra / Piano / Rhapsody / ROMANTIC MUSIC

Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – Trifonov, Piano

The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, is a concertante work for solo piano and symphony orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff. It closely resembling a piano concerto, albeit …

20th-CENTURY MUSIC / Piano / Transcription

Stravinsky – Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka – Trifonov, Piano

Trois mouvements de Petrouchka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet Petrushka by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Stravinsky is very explicit in stating that …