Star pianist Daniil Trifonov burst on to the international scene winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011. With this album, Trifonov returns to the music of Tchaikovsky in a beautiful selection of solo works evoking youth and family.

“We think of him”, says the celebrated pianist, “as an archetypical Romantic” and a “troubled soul. But particularly in his younger years, Tchaikovsky found joy in his close relationships and emotional comfort in his family.”

The selected pieces include the rarely-performed Sonata Op.80, the Children’s Album, the Variations Op.19/6 and Pletnev’s Concert Suite from The Sleeping Beauty. They reflect Tchaikovsky at his most effervescent and intimate and contain some of Trifonov’s most electrifying playing to date.

Format / LP
Released / 11/14/2025
Catalogue / DGLP-4867474
Barcode / 028948674749
Artist / Trifonov
Label / Deutsche Grammophon
Genre / Classical