which way Daniil Trifonov? No concert of this still very young pianist, the frenetic cheers, not a recording that did not receive the stamp of the Spectacular, the Outrageous. Also in the Philharmonie, where the “Artist in residence” is the culmination of a number of concerts with a large piano in the evening, want a Standing ovation. And already, the entry in the most challenging of the term “Sonata” circle at the end of the program proves that this man can really play enviable the piano well. Suppleness, elegance of diction, accuracy in breakneck most Chord combinations, he has no equal. A super-virtuoso – the Beethoven’s “easy” in e-flat major-Sonata op. 31 no. 3 grandiose misses. Since the question come harmonic staircases hard, verhuscht in extreme contrast to this is the drive. The “wild hunt” lacks Hyper dexterity of melodic line and real vitality.
Attached is such a rush of speed in the case of Robert Schumann. Piece for piece Trifonov plays the “Colorful leaves” op. 99, from something betulich “a little Piece” no 1 on the how decorative mponiert decay at the end of album-leaf in f sharp minor, in the flying heat of the romanticist. According to the twisted gods of the Novellette, the gloomy Pathos of the March, the manic increased Scherzo, the Pianist crashes consistently in the Obsession of Clara Schumann as a “too hard” and incomprehensible rejected Presto passionato. But here, too, of the duration of flicker going from the Bass up pressing structures of the lyrical retreat in the almost impressionist – lost produced by although differentiated, but generous use of the Pedal–.
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Daniil Trifonov in Berlin, the devil dancing in the hall
Udo Badelt
In the technical challenges and seemingly simpler dimensions of Prokofiev’s 8. Sonata finds Trifonov is more likely to. Also his body language, not be a creep in the wings, or Stand up to powerful climaxes, appear here as a mere attitude. More clarity and transparency to govern the anflutenden runs of the first movement, between which a nightmarish bells motif. Threat the song in prison – innocent theme of the “Andante sognando moves” closer and closer to the motor function of the final discharge in the shadowy sharpness.
