Daniil Trifonov Archives - The Spidy Editor

Yearning and longing: Gražinytė-Tyla and Blechacz at the Concertgebouw

28 January 2025Music

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla is having quite a year. Following her departure from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in 2022, she has spent subsequent seasons travelling the world as a guest conductor…

Dutch bells take centre stage at the Concertgebouw

6 January 2025Culture, Music

Rafael Payare and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal travelled to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam with some very special luggage: a pair of orchestral bells made by the Eijsbouts foundry in the…

Trifonov transfixes the audience with nuanced, highly addictive Beethoven

16 January 2023Music

Daniil Trifonov’s opening piano solo crept in before he dazzled us with his customary sparkling scales echoing the same orchestral lightness of touch. Passagework emerged from nowhere and blossomed with…

Daniil Trifonov gives European premiere of Mason Bates’ Piano Concerto

17 October 2022Music

Trifonov played with the greatest of ease while the Wild West of cross rhythms and contrasting textures whirled around him.