Daniil Trifonov - Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Children's Album, Piano Sonata op.80, Theme and Variations - LP

Star pianist Daniil Trifonov burst on to the international scene winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011. With this album, Trifonov returns to the music of Tchaikovsky in a beautiful selection of solo works evoking youth and family.

"We think of him", says the celebrated pianist, "as an archetypical Romantic" and a "troubled soul. But particularly in his younger years, Tchaikovsky found joy in his close relationships and emotional comfort in his family."

The selected pieces include the rarely-performed Sonata Op.80, the Children's Album, the Variations Op.19/6 and Pletnev's Concert Suite from The Sleeping Beauty. They reflect Tchaikovsky at his most effervescent and intimate and contain some of Trifonov's most electrifying playing to date.

Musicians:

- Daniil Trifonov (piano)

Selections:

LP 1:

- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

    - Theme and Variations in F major, Op. 19/6

    - Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 80

    - Children’s Album, Op. 39 (beginning)

LP 2:

- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

    - Children’s Album, Op. 39 (continuation)

- Mikhail Pletnev (born 1957)

    - Concert Suite from the Ballet The Sleeping Beauty