Info:
Duration: 43’ 09”
Narrated by Christopher Nupen
Year of production: 2015
In collaboration with:
BBC London
RSI Switzerland
ERR Estonia
YLE Finland
RTE Slovenia
“Trifonov has everything and more. What he does with his hands is both technically and musically unbelievable. And then there is his touch — so gifted with tenderness and at the same time he has the demonic element. I have never heard anything like this before”.
Those are the words of Martha Argerich, one of the world’s most respected pianists and one of the most difficult to please. Her words are echoed by Anne Midgette - one of the most demanding critics in the United States - who likens Trifonov to a modern day Liszt.
When making this film, Daniil Trifonov was 23 years old. Among the prizes he has won, both the Tchaikovsky and Rubinstein competitions, but is respected by many leading musicians for something much more than the prizes. His is not just another remarkable piano talent, Trifonov is a super-gifted musician for whom composing, improvising and performing flow seamlessly into each other in a way that is very, very rare. He has recently taken his own 17-minute piano sonata on tour and gave the first performance of his first piano Concerto in Cleveland, Ohio, in April of 2014. We were there to film it and it contributes a touching sequence to our film.
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It is a worthy successor to our films with Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman, Evgeny Kissin and Gidon Kremer. We have also made films with the not so young Nathan Milstein and Andrés Segovia — more than 90 productions to date.
As we have done with such happy results in the past, we are also making a performance film as an adjunct to the portrait film, in which Trifonov plays, in the Teatro Vecchio in Castelfranco Veneto:
Chopin: Etude in F major Opus 10 No. 8
Scriabin: Etude No.9 in C sharp minor Opus 22
Rachmaninov: Variations on a theme of Chopin Opus 22
Johann Strauss/Daniil Trifonov: Overture to Die Fledermaus
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