Daniil Trifonov-– Tchaikovsky: Piano Sonata no. 2 op. 80, Chopin: Waltz (selection), Barber Sonata for piano op. 26, Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty: selection (arr. Mikhail Pletnev)

The world-famous Russian musician Daniil Trifonov, defined by the international press as one of the rising stars of international pianism, is at the Auditorium Parco della Musica to perform a multifaceted program that combines unusual and undiscovered musical pages; like the virtuosic Sonata op. 26 by Samuel Barber, Mikhail Pletnev's virtuosic piano transcription of the famous ballet The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, alongside a selection of Waltzes by Fryderyk Chopin.

 The Sonata op. 26 by Barber, written in 1949 with his friend Vladimir Horowitz as a technical and expressive model, is characterized by four movements that are different from each other, but united by an identical stylistic line and reflects a pleasantly brilliant taste typical of Barber's creative sensitivity. The piece is constructed with thematic variety, according to a writing with harmonic and timbral solutions typical of modern pianism.

 The ballet The Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky, performed for the first time in 1890 at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, after a long period of production, whose libretto takes the subject from the homonymous fairy tale by Charles Perrault La belle au bois dormant published in 1697 is divided into a prologue and three acts. of the three The story tells of Princess Aurora, who fell asleep due to a terrible spell cast on her by the evil Carabosse and attenuated by the intervention of the Lilac Fairy, which allows her to awaken a hundred years later to the kiss of Prince Désiré. The choreography was created by Marius Petipa and marked the beginning of an important artistic partnership between the choreographer and the composer, which gave life to three great Russian ballets of the late nineteenth century: Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker (1892) and the second version of Swan Lake, which, composed in 1877, was revived by Petipa in 1895, after the composer's death.

Finally, Chopin's Waltzes, here in a large selection, were written for the sophisticated audience of the Parisian salons and bear the imprint of the unmistakable style of the brilliant composer: they are refined, brilliant and melancholic.

Photo credits: the Auditorium Parco della Musica official site