Masters of the Romantic: Trifonov Plays Chopin

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Chopin from Carnaval

Robert Schumann

Hommage à Chopin from Moods

Edvard Grieg

Nocturne (Hommage to John Field)

Samuel Barber

Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" from Mozart's Don Giovanni

Frédéric Chopin

Variations on a Theme of Chopin

Mompou

Un poco di Chopin, Opus 72, no.15

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Opus 22

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Piano Sonata No. 2 

Frédéric Chopin

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Davies Symphony Hall

Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:00PM

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Event Description

THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY PRESENTS GREAT PERFORMERS

Experience the astounding virtuosity of Chopin in a performance by young Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov. A two-time Grammy nominee for his album Rachmaninoff Variations, and winner of the Rubinstein and Tchaikovsky Piano Competitions, this concert showcases Trifonov’s prodigious talent with music written and inspired by the master of the Romantic era, and offers a timely sampling of his brand new album release, Chopin Evocations.

At a Glance


Chopin and His Admirers

No composer is more tightly bound to the piano than Frédéric Chopin (1810–49), and no composer more transformed the instrument. It is not a stretch to claim that without Chopin the entire history of the instrument’s repertory and players would be altogether different. He rethought the very essence of piano writing and playing, recognizing that in its evolution from a “harpsichord that plays loud and soft,” to its iron-framed and steel-stringed incarnation of the mid-Romantic, the piano had become an entirely different instrument that required an entirely different approach.

Composers since Chopin’s day have regularly written homages to this nerve-wracked, frail little man and his paradigm-busting pianism. Figures as lofty as Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff have joined hands with lesser (yet warm) lights such as Federico Mompou in writing works that either take a Chopin melody as their starting point, or else incorporate some element of Chopin’s inimitable style. That’s the impetus behind Daniil Trifonov’s program: the first half consists of homages and the second features one of Chopin’s loftiest creations the Second Piano Sonata.

 

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