Daniil Trifonov - Living the Classical Life: Episode 10 

but i get it!! ha ha..daniil & schoenberg ..long live...

:-) I love that comment

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We appreciate your kind words, Raúl Q. O. Thanks for watching!

Agreed!

@@richterkleiber I think you’re a great interviewer

I'm not sure I understood it; could you do me the favor of explaining it?

EJsacasa He’s saying don’t just practice a piece the one way you think it should sound. Practice it with several different interpretations and experiment. For example, try practicing a passage sad, hopeful, playful, etc

EJsacasa Basically, if you have just one interpretation in mind, there’s no margin for error at all. You play one chord too loud or voice it incorrectly and all of a sudden your interpretation might not make sense and just knowing that could make you very nervous. However if you have a range of interpretations to choose from, then all of a sudden it maybe doesn’t matter so much that you put an accent here or there that you didn’t mean to, it simply means that you ‘transition’ into a different interpretation. That’s what I think he means at least.

​@@jamien.5528 He was actually improvising on the motifs of a piece, changing probably everything except the melody. As I see it, that way he keeps the music alive and fresh in his mind. As if you were taking many different pictures of the same sculpture, from very different distances and positions in space and under many different light conditions and exposition times. The sculpture is always different and it's always the same simultaneously, every time.

We agree! Thanks for watching, André Weiß!

Thanks for watching, Jorge! One of our earliest interviews, and one of our favorites!

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Calm down sir

Pete is the best! Thanks for watching!

Trifonov is not a savant lol

@@MarcAmengual sa·vant /saˈvän(t),säˈvänt/ noun 1. a very learned or talented person, especially one distinguished in a particular field of science or the arts. "he portrayed himself as a savant and a genius" The other definition of savant (not savant syndrome) applies very much so

@@pineapple7024 Yes, he is not a savant lol, if he's a savant thousands of other people are too.

@@MarcAmengual Yeah, that’s how it works. There are thousands of more than competent pianists out of millions, and he’s at the upper levels of those thousands. Don’t forget that this is the guy who won third prize at the Chopin competition and played all of the transcendental etudes in one sitting in his 20’s.

@@pineapple7024 He's not a savant by a million miles a way.

So glad you like it!

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Thanks for watching, EVA MUSIC!

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Thank you so so much for watching!

Thanks for watching, Antônio Montemuro!

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Thanks again for watching and commenting, Oudtshoornify!

Thanks for watching!

I just heard him play Gaspard de la Nuit in Vienna!

@@lameowizard probably a stunning performance

Thanks for watching!

Thanks for watching, AlexanderPiano!

So glad you enjoyed that part!

I hope we can film him again soon--he has a busy schedule!

That is beautiful!

Thanks for watching, Kiara Eijo! We agree, that would be cool!

Come on 😂😂😂

@@LC-bb6kn ignorance

@@LC-bb6kn Read a little bit about it and learn some music and then you can have an opinion

@@lalikarlomusic I'm a pianist and musicologist. 😘

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yes

I will be so curious to see it--I hope I can find it!

***** Oh ok then..That's the reason that you said he didn't reveal all his secrets! Nevermind. Thanks, however!

So glad you enjoyed this! We had quite a bit of material but had to edit and also work with what was approved. I hope one day we can do another with him.

Mason, if you have the time, could you point me in the direction of that quote from Seymour

That is really fascinating feedback--and wow, thank you for watching these in such a dedicated way. Yes, I think Daniil speaks the very language of music in such an inspiring way.

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Some types of fingers have that. i have nearly identical hand shape and my middle fingers Bend out a bit like him. It does not really affect the touch.

1:05 yeah. yeah, yeah, the second. When it depends, also, what is in the ears, for example, if I wake up and I have Schoenberg Opus 11 in my head -does that ever happen?- during last week it was every day I woke up with Schoenberg in my head. So I started the day with practising Schoenberg as a result. 1:45 yeah, because I hear ... 1:56 Isolation in the music can only deepen the understanding of music. But, of course, I always enjoy coming back to Cleveland or to Moscow where I have great friends, and sometimes I travel with my girlfriend. Sometimes my managers they sometimes go to my concerts I always enjoy their company as well but, at the same time, during the performance, it's very important to be not distracted, during the concert. I remember when I was going, for example, in the Carnegie Hall last February -your solo recital?- yeah, solo recital; and I said, for two days, please, no[t] any contact. -no contact?- yeah. -with anyone? with any of the outside world- yeah, basically. 3:08 of course, it's also a very important process. In this way, yeah, basically, you also have to exaggerate but in the way of sweetness and tenderness, of a phrase if the phrase is, for example, from Tchaikovsky concerto, again, the second time tune. 4:08 Basically establishing a closer connection to the music. When you feel that there is no physical distance between fingers and ... if fingers go directly from your heart... 4:35 Also experiment with emotion, it can be very sort of... 4:55 or it can be hopeful... 5:02 or it can be very meditative and just dreaming... 5:20 or it can be very, like, blossoming, when it's... 5:30 or it can be shy... 5:41 or it can be... well! many other ways. 5:58 any kind of activity from literature to any sport activity, or yoga. There is not much time for any other activity, of course, there are plenty of great movies and great literature; at the same time -- and plenty of fun ways to spend the day -- but, at the same time when you have new pieces by Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Ravel and Symphonic Etudes of Schumman there is not much opportunity to find ... -those other things-. 7:02 that, I just recently discovered 7:09 well, like if you, many pianists, when we warm up before a concert we just do it in the air. The same, the same as we warm up in the air it's also in the water but in the water, you have to have much more strength, obviously, because you cannot just play from fingers. Because in the air, yes it's - but it doesn't have any resistance. But in the water, in order just to play a simple chord, you need to work through the whole of your upper body, and it really opens up. 7:45 as well as another way, physical way of, just to stretch your arms, is to put the chair in this position and just lay, basically, in this way. So you have this kind of stretch is in the whole arm from shoulder, also you, mainly, you're stretching shoulder because you cannot play -was that something you devised yourself?- yeah, uh what is ... 8:25 as you're, basically, you're unable to bend anything here, also your finger. So, you're basically stretching - oh, is it okay with microphone? 8:41 also, you have to think of differences which is possible to find. Of course, 99 percent of them you will not use on your performance but just to get your imagination expanded and emotions rolling, it's really helpful, I believe. It's when you go and you just start... 9:34 so, all kinds of, what comes first to the mind. 9:48 well, maybe not in exactly the same way, it's just, well, what comes, some motif played in some different ways. it's just something to, of course, finally you will, in the concert, you will play it as it should be but the problem is that you've, you will roll, several times, the same modal of playing as you think you should play on the concert, then you will put your self a little bit in the cage of only one way and it actually will make you feel nervous and uncomfortable -if you're trying to stick to a routine? that you're doing exactly how you planned it?- that if you are, for example, in this way, or you're kind of trying to find the ideal way of, like in this moment, like how you feel it should sound, then it usually doesn't work, because, this way you are sticking yourself on only one path and you are narrowing the ways of playing so, so, you know, it's like you are narrowing it to such a way that it becomes like you're walking on a knife.

PieInTheSky : There are auto-generated subtitles if you turn them on - but they’re hilariously inaccurate. Ah, I see that Thousand Forest has given us all the words! Thank you, Thousand Forest!

@@thousandforest5820 You are the best of the best man thank you so much!!!!!!!!

Subtitles if generated automatically don't work for nonstandard English. The results are wildly funny for Scottish Russian and Indian accents especially

That's very interesting! Thanks for sharing, Brian Williams!

Same teacher

Isolation in the Music Can only deepen the understanding of the music - daniil

Great movies and great literature but there is so much music to study that there really isn’t that much time

Beethoven Concerto 1, Second Movement. Thank you for watching!

Its “Ravel Miroirs Alborada del gracioso”

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 Mov. 2

Beethoven first concerto no?? 2nd mvt

Ravel - Alborada del gracioso

Inês MEMETEAU Chopin prelude in e minor

Andrés Henríquez improv on alborada del gracioso

***** thanks for the fast answer. how did you got in contact with him ? he seems isolated

Nevskixx,it's Trifonov!

+bob chieu yes I know. And I have been to his concerts as well. Doesn't make him any better. Maybe others are hearing something I don't. I don't wish to upset people. If they like his playing, good for them. At least I have tried to like his playing.I have nothing against him personally.

+Peter Hobbs What is the concerto he starts improvising on at about 9 minutes in?

Tchaikovsky nº1.

Ravel Alborada del gracioso

The motif from the first movement - second theme of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1