Daniil Trifonov, the pianist who has the keys to communication

2022-11-23T17:26:01.589Z

PORTRAIT - In ten years, Russian has become a phenomenon that orchestras and institutions are snapping up. He is performing on November 24 with the Orchester National de France, as part of an exceptional residency at Radio France.

She had warned us:

“Her digital technique is incredible!
His touch too.
There is a tenderness and a demonic side to it… I have never heard anything like it.”

It is in these terms that the piano icon Martha Argerich greeted ten years ago, in the press, the talent of a certain Daniil Trifonov.

Since then, the virtuoso from Nijni Novgorod, based in New York, has conquered all the stages of the world... And the hearts of millions of music lovers as well as thousands of musicians, unanimous on his ability to inhabit his playing from the first bars.

All in a repertoire that hardly seems to suffer from limits.

The conductor of the Orchester national de France, Cristian Macelaru, is no exception to the rule.

In 2013, he conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in one of the very first American concerts of the young prodigy, then only 22 years old.

"I will never forget our first rehearsal,

" says Macelaru.

It was Rachmaninoff's

Concerto No. 2

.
The first time he played Rachmaninoff…

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