He was considered a classical music concert pianist, but just a contemporary artist to me. His live art would fundamentally change New York's commercial art scene, but it was taken place at Carnegie Hall on 12.12.2023.
Hammerklavier sounded like paint being thrown onto a huge canvas.
It was a sound installation that blew away my knowledge and experience.
"Finger is heart", he said in this interview. What I saw was like his spirit through Steinway.
Program and Program note
RAMEAU Suite in A Minor from Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin
MOZART Piano Sonata in F Major, K. 332
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Variations sérieuses
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier"
Encores:
GREEN "I Cover the Waterfront" (after Tatum)
SCRIABIN Andante from Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 23
MOMPOU Excerpts from Variations on a Theme of Chopin
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"His greatest strengths lie in how he revels in the soft and pristine. His slow movements routinely resonate with an uncannily haunting distance. What’s more, he lingers tastefully in all the right places; this is virtuosity that emanates as much inward solace as outward extravagance." -Aaron Keebaugh
“Trifonov’s risk-taking: “You feel like you’re almost going off the rails, but he knows what he’s doing.” -Gilbert
“He has tenderness and also the demonic element.” -Argerich