Daniil Trifonov - Destination Rachmaninov - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Daniil Trifonov - InchTchaikovskyInch. 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. 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 Sleeping Beauty. They reflect Tchaikovsky at his most effervescent and intimate and contain some of Trifonov's most electrifying playing to date. 2 CD Digipak. Album Tracks 1. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Theme 2. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 1 3. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 2 4. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 3 5. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 4 6. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 5 7. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 6 8. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 7 9. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 8 10. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 9 11. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 10 12. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 11 13. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Var. 12 14. No. 6, Thème Original Et Variations. Coda 15. I. Allegro Con Fuoco 16. II. Andante 17. III. Scherzo. Allegro Vivo 18. IV. Allegro Vivo 1. No. 1, Morning Prayer 2. No. 2, Winter Morning 3. No. 3, Playing Hobby-Horses 4. No. 4, Mama 5. No. 5, March of the Wooden Soldiers 6. No. 6, the Sick Doll 7. No. 7, the Doll's Funeral 8. No. 8, Waltz 9. No. 9, the New Doll 10. No. 10, Mazurka 11. No. 11, Russian Song 12. No. 12, the Harmonica Player 13. No. 13, Kamarinskaya 14. No. 14, Polka 15. No. 15, Italian Song 16. No. 16, Old French Song 17. No. 17, German Song 18. No. 18, Neapolitan Song 19. No. 1

The finest pianist of his day and the last truly great late Romantic composer! His bold piano concertos may be his best known works; they join his sumptuous symphonies and symphonic dances; the sparkling Paganini Variations; searching solo piano works; his choral masterpiece Russian Orthodox Vespers; Cello Sonata in G Minor, and much more. Album Tracks 1. Allegro Mon Tanto 2. Bless the Lord, O My Soul 3. Allegro 4. Vocalise 5. Elege 6. Variation 18 7. Variation 19 8. Variation 20 9. Variation 21 10. Variation 22 11. Variation 23 12. Variation 24 13. Non Allegro 14. Allegro Moderato 15. Andante 1. Adagio Sostenuto 2. Humoresque in G Major 3. Maestoso 4. Francesca's Aria 5. Andante Cantabile 6. Prelude in C Sharp minor 7. Troparion for the Virgin Mary 8. Alla Marcia 9. Daisies 10. The Young Gypsy's Romance 11. Piano Sonata No.2 in B Flat minor, Op.36 12. Moderato 13. Adagio

One of the most popular symphonic poems by Richard Strauss -actually one of the most famous tone poems ever -is his InchThus Spoke ZarathustraInch op. 30, from 1896. The distinctive theme, followed by timpani blows and powerful, surging chords in the brass, was well-known long before it was used for a film score (Stanley Kubrick's Inch2001 A Space OdysseyInch). Fifty years ago, this work went far beyond the limits of classical music -and is now familiar to all. The cumbersome title, along with the fact that the composition tackles Friedrich Nietzsche's eponymous poetic and philosophical work may even have initially hampered it's overwhelming popularity. Nietzsche himself fittingly commented InchTo which genre does this 'Zarathustra' belong, I wonder? I am rather inclined to think it is 'symphonies'. InchStrauss's InchBurleskeInch for Piano and Orchestra sounds completely different. It was composed a decade earlier in 1885/86, when the 21-year-old composer had just begun his first job as Capellmeister of the Meiningen Court Orchestra and as the assistant of Hans von Bülow. Originally referred to as InchScherzoInch (Strauss also called it a Inchpiano concertoInch ina letter to his mother), the work was dedicated to Strauss's mentor, Bülow. It was first performed in Eisenach in 1890 by the piano soloist Eugen d'Albert. The themes are cheerful and InchburlesqueInch, and the solo instrument and the orchestra perform together in the best sense. The music shows us Strauss in an early phase -he had not yet linked his compositional technique to that of Liszt and Wagner. In the year the work was premiered, Strauss himself referred to the InchBurleskeInch as a work that Inchhe had left far behind himInch. Only rarely performed for many years, the work regained popularity over the past two decades, thanks not least to Glenn Gould. Album Tracks 1. Also Sprach Zarathustra,