Very Interesting 2021

With this demanding program, Daniil Trifonov invites you to an exciting foray through concerts and solo works for piano.

The world premiere recording of Opus IV for two cellos by Venceslaus Joseph Spourni (c.1700 1754) as performed by Claudio Ronco and Emanuela Vozza on period instruments.

“Chopin is a composer who has been with me since I started playing the piano as a child. In Japan, where I grew up, it is impossible to avoid Chopin’s music! He is one of the most popular composers for everybody, and all pianists start playing and getting to know his music from a very young age.

“Chopin is a composer who has been with me since I started playing the piano as a child. In Japan, where I grew up, it is impossible to avoid Chopin’s music! He is one of the most popular composers for everybody, and all pianists start playing and getting to know his music from a very young age. Therefore, he becomes an essential part of your life very naturally. I have wanted to record the complete Preludes for a long time. It is always very interesting to approach works like this that are conceived as a whole – like the 24 Bach Preludes and Fugues or the Debussy Preludes. Each prelude is individual, and each is in a different tonality so the colour and characters are completely different, and as the structure of each individual prelude is relatively open there is a lot of freedom for interpretation.” – Aimi Kobayashi

With "Røta", her debut Album on Berlin Classics, presented Ragnhild Hemsing on the violin and Hardanger fiddle their Norwegian roots, explores identity and the connection to your musical education.

Salon music has a reputation for being rather shallow than particularly substantial. It should be entertaining, not disturbing, and inconspicuous. Classic muzak, background music with a certain claim, but easy to digest and pleasantly pleasing. This CD with works by Walter Wachsmuth, recorded by the violinist Julia Parusch and her companion, the pianist Cornelia Weiss, shows that this does not have to exclude a certain claim.

After more than 20 years of career, 2 million albums sold and 200 million streams on platforms, the Swedish singer with the unique vocal signature releases an album with English covers of great songs pop of yesterday and today: Grand Songs.

At the head of his very interesting young trio we Kids, drummer Stefano Bagnoli dedicates an album to Salvator Dalì, staging a music that alludes to some traits of the pictorial surrealism of the Spanish master.