Trifonov Piano Sensation

Portrait of pianist and composer Daniil Trifonov, who is generating the most extravagant praise from several of the world's top musicians, including Martha Argerich, Valery Gergiev and Christian Thielemann.

Transcendental is the new solo release by Piano Sensation Daniil Trifonov. His press reviews are consistently out of this world and The Times quote says it all: He is the finest young pianist of our age. After his successful Rachmaninov Variations last year, he has now created another statement to define his extraordinary and growing legacy. It is dedicated to the greatest pianist of his own century: Franz Liszt. The repertoire is Liszts Complete Concert Etudes. These Etudes remain among the most challenging piano pieces ever composed and are rarely recorded or performed.

Transcendental is the new solo release by Piano Sensation Daniil Trifonov. His press reviews are consistently out of this world and The Times quote says it all: He is the finest young pianist of our age. After his successful "Rachmaninov Variations" last year, he has now created another statement to define his extraordinary and growing legacy. It is dedicated to the greatest pianist of his own century: Franz Liszt.

Liszt was the only contemporary whose music Richard Wagner gratefully acknowledged as an influence upon his own. His lasting fame was an alchemy of extraordinary digital ability – the greatest in the history of keyboard playing – an unmatched instinct for showmanship, and one of the most progressive musical imaginations of his time. Hailed by some as a visionary, reviled by others as a symbol of empty Romantic excess, Franz Liszt wrote his name across music history in a truly inimitable manner. From his youth, Liszt demonstrated a natural facility at the keyboard that placed him among the top performing prodigies of his day. Though contemporary accounts describe his improvisational skill as dazzling, his talent as a composer emerged only in his adulthood.