Destination Rachmaninov - Departure
Daniil Trifonov (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Building a Library, December 2018, Also Recommended
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Concerto
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2019, Winner - Piano
Trifonov is wonderfully alive to [the Fourth’s] mercurial piano writing, achieving astonishing crystalline delicacy in the elaborate filigree passage work and negotiating unexpected juxtapositions...
Destination Rachmaninov - Departure
Daniil Trifonov (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Building a Library, December 2018, Also Recommended
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Concerto
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2019, Winner - Piano
Trifonov is wonderfully alive to [the Fourth’s] mercurial piano writing, achieving astonishing crystalline delicacy in the elaborate filigree passage work and negotiating unexpected juxtapositions...
About
Grammy winner Daniil Trifonov presents a cycle of Sergei Rachmaninov’s highly virtuosic Piano Concertos.
Recorded with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the orchestra most closely associated with the composer with which Rachmaninov himself famously recorded the set of concerti over 80 years ago.
The two-part “Journey with Rachmaninov” begins with DESTINATION RACHMANINOV - DEPARTURE, including the great Piano Concerto No. 2, probably Rachmaninov’s best-loved work, paired with the equally beautiful and rarely performed 4th Concerto. These voluminous works are contrasted with a taste of Rachmaninov the master miniaturist, with solo piano transcriptions of Bach's Partita in E Major.
Contents and tracklist
- Daniil Trifonov (piano)
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- Recorded: 2018-04-12
- Recording Venue: Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia
- Daniil Trifonov (piano)
- Recorded: 2018-04-12
- Recording Venue: Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia
- Daniil Trifonov (piano)
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin
- Recorded: 2015-10-01
- Recording Venue: Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia
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Daniil Trifonov brings freshness and clarity to Rachmaninov's Piano Concertos
12th Oct 2018
Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov brings his customary thoughtfulness and virtuosity to an impressive new account of one of the most familiar of all piano concertos.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week12th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year2018
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year2018
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année2019Winner - Piano
Christmas Issue 2018
Trifonov is wonderfully alive to [the Fourth’s] mercurial piano writing, achieving astonishing crystalline delicacy in the elaborate filigree passage work and negotiating unexpected juxtapositions of mood…Nézet-Séguin and the superbly responsive Philadelphia Orchestra follow the soloist’s every interpretative nuance.
November 2018
Trifonov is a gifted pianist, the Philadelphians have the music in their blood and Nézet-Séguin has an eye for detail and careful phrasing…Overall, this is another fine, well-recorded addition to the lengthy discography but one which neither astonished nor moved me.
12th October 2018
What can one say about what must be one of the more frequently performed works in the concerto repertoire? Well, if you’re Daniil Trifonov then the answer is “quite a lot”...both Trifonov and Nézet-Séguin seem pleasingly keen to avoid any hint of wallowing self-indulgence, and what comes across is the amount of detail there is, not just in the piano part but also in the orchestral writing.
21st October 2018
From the huge sonority of the C minor concerto’s opening chords, the pianist shows that he means business, but it is the astounding delicacy of his virtuosity in the piu vivo section — recalling Horowitz — that marks him out as a soloist of the first rank in this work. He is no less commanding in the more “jazzy, mechanical” (Trifonov’s words) G minor concerto.
25th October 2018
These are performances of such musical awareness, tonal variety and dazzling virtuosity that even the Second, one of the most popular of all piano concertos, has every trace of routine and over-familiarity stripped away. Trifonov has the gift of making something compelling out of the least attention-seeking piano lines...the woodwind playing is superb, but it’s the simple eloquence of Trifonov’s playing that constantly draws the ear.
