{"id":8897,"date":"2013-01-13T07:42:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T12:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=8897"},"modified":"2013-01-13T07:42:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T12:42:35","slug":"must-watch-pianist-daniil-trifonov-at-the-auditorium-du-louvre-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/01\/13\/must-watch-pianist-daniil-trifonov-at-the-auditorium-du-louvre-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Must watch: Pianist Daniil Trifonov at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniil Trifonov at the Verbier Festival last summer (Verbier Festival photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If there’s one bit of listening you do today, make it young Russian Daniil Trifonov<\/a>, the current It Boy of the piano world. He gave a spectacularly fine solo recital at the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris on Thursday afternoon, which is available for free high-definition streaming.<\/p>\n

Think of this as a prelude to the recital he will give at Koerner Hall on April 14 — a month or so after his 22nd birthday. The two programmes share Franz Liszt’s fierce B minor Piano Sonata<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s fascinating to watch and listen as Trifonov shapes the music so elegantly, yet also makes the music sound dramatically spontaneous.<\/p>\n

I preferred listening rather than watching. Especially with the frequent camera close-ups, the pianist frequently looks like he’s on the verge of orgasm, but what his lithe fingers are doing is actually far more subtle than that.<\/p>\n

Two personal favourites on the Paris programme were Trifonov’s own medley he calls Rachmaniana<\/em>, and the first encore, the Russian composer’s transcription of the Gavotte from J.S. Bach third Partita for Solo Violin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The free medici.tv stream is available here<\/a>. Signing up is easy, in case you need to register first.<\/p>\n

I checked out the ticketing situation for the Koerner Hall concert and, as of Sunday morning, the majority of seats with a view of the keyboard had already been sold. There are a few left on the second balcony.<\/p>\n

You’ll find the Toronto details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is Trifonov last year in Moscow at the Arthur Rubinstein Competition with the Bach-Rachmaninov encore, followed by more of the Partita<\/em> (Prelude, Gavotte, Rondo & Gigue) at the hands of Rachmaninov himself:<\/p>\n