Daniil Trifonov: Silver Age 4LP

Daniil Trifonov's latest album, recorded with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, recalls a time when Russian musicians, poets, visual artists, dramatists and performers were among the most original in the world. Silver Age, which will be released on November 6, 2020 as a double CD and e-album by Deutsche Grammophon, illustrates the artistic boldness and brilliance of a turbulent era in the country with works by its most avant-garde composers. Trifonov plays Scriabin's Piano Concerto in F sharp minor op.20, Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor op.16 and Stravinsky's Trois Mouvements de Pétrouchka. There are also Stravinsky's Sérénade and excerpts from L'Oiseau de feu (arranged for piano by Guido Agosti) as well as Prokofiev's Sarcasmes op. 17, the piano sonata No. 8 in B flat major op. 84 and the »Gavotte« from Three Pieces from »Cinderella «Op. 95 No. 2. It was the impresario Sergei Diaghilew, the founder of the Ballets Russes and an important art advocate in his countr