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When Daniil Trifonov appeared on the music scene in 2011, it was like a blast. “He has everything and more. What he does with his hands is technically incredible. There is a tenderness there and a demonic side … I have never heard anything like it. ” These phrases from Martha Argerich-herself with a phenomenal technique-adorned to the English press have lost none of their acuity.
Trifonov is the light and the shadows, an Apollinian balance and a Dionysian enthusiasm, a mixture of fragility (with the famous pianissimi trifonov) and of inner strength – a kind of obstinacy too. Hearing him playing certain passages from 2nd concert prokofiev or Transcendent execution studies From Franz Liszt, it looks like a demon took the hand. If he was grayed out by success in his first years after having won awards in prestigious competitions (3rd prize in the Chopin competition in Warsaw in 2010, first prizes in the Arthur Rubinstein competition in Tel Aviv and the Tchaikovski competition in Moscow in 2011), he keeps his head cold.