Daniil Trifonov - The Magics of Music

Trifonov, Daniil

Television Director: Hanulik, Christopher

Composer: Chopin, Fryderyk

24 Preludes, Op. 28

Composer: Ravel, Maurice

Miroirs

Piano: Trifonov, Daniil

Year of Production: 2015

Playing Time: 00:59:25

Catalogue Number: EuroArts3697

A Christopher Nupen film with Daniil Trifonov - pianist, composer, Russian and a magician at the keyboard. The astonishing musical gifts of Daniil Trifonov have to be seen and heard to be believed. How many have won both the Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky competitions in the same year - at the age of 20 - and then played a hundred and ten concerts in the following 12 months? Knowledgeable critics and leading musicians are saying that the world has not seen his like in more than fifty years.

Trifonov is immensely appealing. In addition to his astonishing musical gifts - as both pianist and composer - he is modest and unassuming, highly intelligent, generously co-operative and a pleasure to work with. An ideal subject for an intimate portrait film at the start of his career - a genre which employed with such happy results several times in the past with artists who were soon to become world famous. The films contributed a great deal to that.

The cameras are all close to Trifonov on the stage - even in the live concert performances - which involves the viewer and adds a dramatic quality that is seldom achieved in television relays. The films include five minutes shot at the Cleveland Institute in Ohio, during the first performance of Trifonov's recently composed first piano concerto - a work of considerable charm, which enjoyed a touching success with both the public and the critics at the premiere. There is something heartening about seeing super talented youth finding its audience.