Daniil Trifonov - Living the Classical Life: Episode 10

[@raulq.o.4121]

This is a fantastic interview. You let him talk and express himself in a very deep way, something that's unusual in interviews.

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

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

[@denissol1021]

It is like "fingers go directly from your HEART!" I can feel it, and everyone does too, the music expressed through the heart. The mysterious Russian soul! Nobody can teach that,it's just IS! D. Trifonov is the best Piano performer of our time!!!!

[@Oak13766]

😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@joeyblogsy]

Calm down sir

[@andrewei609]

So much to learn when he demonstrates experimenting with emotion! Wow!

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

We agree! Thanks for watching, André Weiß!

[@burstromeric]

I met Daniil and his a great person..

[@richterkleiber]

Agreed!

[@Emma-ob5oj]

@@richterkleiber I think you’re a great interviewer

[@skrutten_]

9:02 - 9:35 - Such a brilliant pianist. Thanks so much for sharing this video. What Daniil did was so free and creatively risky, this is why he is such a great pianist. Your reaction says it all too!

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

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

[@SteveL2012]

Mesmerizing. This guy is a genius.

[@cantante189]

Peter, you have an awesome job - these artists letting you into their homes and playing for you - wow!

[@richterkleiber]

Pete is the best! Thanks for watching!

[@cihant5438]

Not even Schoenberg woke up with Schoenberg in his head!

[@lotusbuds2000]

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

[@richterkleiber]

:-) I love that comment

[@Марина-з4м7д]

😊😊😊​@@lotusbuds2000

[@aliceliu1810]

One of my favourite pianist!!! I really hope I can establish a bond with a piano like that...All the rich emotions inside his playing, so amazing... I like his playing of the Prokofiev sonata. no. 3. It was phenomenal!!!

[@Gump-tion]

The "walking on the knife" section was incredibly profound!

[@EJsacasa]

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

[@jamien.5528]

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

[@Daniel_1223]

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.

[@daniandres3211]

​@@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.

[@jason101other]

This guy is a savant whose whole wiring is made to be the ultimate pianist. A rare, one in millions freak of nature-- but in a wonderful way.

[@MarcAmengual]

Trifonov is not a savant lol

[@pineapple7024]

@@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

[@MarcAmengual]

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

[@pineapple7024]

@@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.

[@MarcAmengual]

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

[@wenmoves]

This opened up so much insight for me as a beginner. When he plays the same phrase over and over in different ways around the 6th minute. Those were some real nuggets !

[@alegriasaramago5429]

Thanks, Daniil, for sharing - generously! - the secrets of piano music performing - all spectrum of emotions, slightest shades of them may be expressed by the same piece of music depending on how a pianist's feeling this very moment when he pays. You showed it perfectly.

[@charlesdavis7087]

I'm so glad the production crew recorded this. It will server many generations to come with wonderful metaphysical insights into playing the piano.

[@gailgottlieb514]

There are many reasons to love this video from start to finish but I thought it interesting that those of us who are Aquatic Instructors and use many rehabilitation skills are madly sending this to all our collogues around the world for his insight into making the body ready for his art. I will be going to his concert schedule after listening to the Schubert.

[@53aleksandra]

Fingers from the heart..

[@rudiechinchilla6746]

A brilliant man with heavenly hands

[@cristinaradu2279]

Thank you!! exceptional!

[@rodmm1235]

“ like if the fingers go directly from your heart 💜 “ awesome!

[@yannis3907]

I love when artists are free to speak as much as they want

[@HALLBARBARA11]

great inteview. marvellous

[@popqueen77]

This is super amazing. I am so very much inspired by Daniil. I learned so much from what he was saying and emitting from what he was showing. If I could have a true artist like him as my piano teacher, I would be a lot better beyond my imagination. I so want this kind of interview to be on public. I wanna know this artist more. I love what he is doing and how he is being.

[@lotusbuds2000]

I HEAR YOU NEWEARTH!

[@johntravena119]

This show is my reality TV.

[@antoniomontemuro9751]

Thank you!

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

Thanks for watching, Antônio Montemuro!

[@karolinaparmas]

Thank you

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

Thanks for watching!

[@Eva_Piano]

Thank you!Amazing pianist!

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

Thanks for watching, EVA MUSIC!

[@brucekuehn4031]

Fascinating!

[@kanak1904]

I love how he play piano So beautiful and light and feels good

[@essialc9907]

9:32 What a chord sequence ....wonderful, i have really appreciated that final seventh chord

[@grapesandtoast6604]

Incroyable pianiste et fascinant personnage.

[@alexinphx1411]

4:26 talk about phrasing was eye opening!

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

Thanks for watching, AlexanderPiano!

[@richterkleiber]

So glad you enjoyed that part!

[@LaNellaFantasia]

Very inspiring! Thanks so much for posting!

[@richterkleiber]

So glad you like it!

[@53aleksandra]

Fenomenal musician..

[@architectonic99]

Fantastic insightful interview.

[@PeterHobbs]

Thanks for watching, architectonic99!

[@europeanbourgeois8223]

Please, what ever powers that be up in heaven, cloak this man in protection. Guard his talent. The world does deserve him.

[@bolivar1789]

Thank you so much for this wonderful work. I will watch the other episodes too. Just found out about Daniil Trifonov watching the news on the channel ARTE. I wanted to learn more and this video was very helpful. A wonderful musician and a very humble, deep human being. Very inspring! Thanks a lot for sharing! All the best!

[@bolivar1789]

***** I definitely will! As a filmmaker, you must check the youtube channel of The School of Life. They are always looking for filmmakers. They have all sorts of videos: from animations (like "On feeling Melancholy" ) , to lego videos ( the one called Memento Mori is amazing ), to normal short films. Like the one called "Marcel Proust Jihad". The channel and the real school is founded by the wonderfully unique philosopher Alain de Botton. If you look at his facebook or twitter page you can find out more. They work with filmmakers from all around the world. You can check his online book The Book of Life dot org too. They have philsophical articles and short films in there. That philospher's entire work has a life changing quality! Especially the book " The Consolations of Philosophy".

[@dominicliu2231]

Lua Veli a. X

[@sudabanomyong1999]

Lua Veliตตจ

[@richterkleiber]

Thank you so so much for watching!

[@larisasoboleva8899]

My hero!

[@AlcachofaBlog]

Such a cool guy. And a very useful video...

[@quaver1239]

Thank you. Deeply fascinating young artist. Used the auto-generated English captions, but their understanding of his accent was even worse than mine!

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

Thanks again for watching and commenting, Oudtshoornify!

[@richterkleiber]

Thanks for watching!

[@bobchieu2354]

I loved the "walk on the knife" part!

[@789armstrong]

The Ravel sounds great.Hopefully he will play Miroirs and Gaspard de la Nuit that are begging to be played by a great artist like Trifonov.

[@lameowizard]

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

[@789armstrong]

@@lameowizard probably a stunning performance

[@amirmotahari6186]

wow when he experiments with emotions ...!

[@KKIcons]

I wish I had seen this last year, it was incredible. I hope you can expand it to a longer interview someday. I would like to hear more about his beliefs and spiritual background, and where he is coming from as far as his influences.

[@richterkleiber]

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

[@lalikarlomusic]

He is the Liszt of our times. And this is history!

[@LC-bb6kn]

Come on 😂😂😂

[@lalikarlomusic]

@@LC-bb6kn ignorance

[@lalikarlomusic]

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

[@LC-bb6kn]

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

[@lalikarlomusic]

@@LC-bb6kn I’m a soloist since 4 years old, pianist, musicologist and appeared on tv at age 6 playing the piano with orchestra, music historian and actual member of rock band 😘🥰😍🥰😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘

[@KKIcons]

Here are my lines to my recent poem about this that might be of general interest (the rest of it is mystical poetry). I hope to do some illustrations soon for it. leaning into the piano pouring his heart out through his hands he constructs emotions and bends the music to his demands Glenn Gould also did this. He could go into the studio with 16 different interpretations and play each one flawlessly, but to see Trifonov call out each emotion, mirror it on his face and make me feel each one in succession, with the same snippet of music, that until now I never cared for at all? And not only an emotion, but a spiritual connection. He calls this getting himself open.

[@richterkleiber]

That is beautiful!

[@monealiza7553]

Great!

[@kiaraeijo]

This is a great episode!!! It would be so cool to see an episode with a flutist like William Bennett or Lorna McGhee or Jasmine Choi or Emmanuel Pahud!🥰❤️

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

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

[@mateusmenezes9925]

MARVELOUS!!! 😎👽☠️🌴❤

[@RaptorT1V]

8:04 TOP moment

[@kanak1904]

Wow such a good video thank u

[@maxdell8497]

Если Россия не дорожит своими гениями....... Это её большая трагедия. Даниил, но есть и те, кто вас здесь любит и ценит. Все равно - вы часть НАШЕЙ музыкальной культуры

[@hithere4289]

yes

[@bobchieu2354]

My daughter also plays the piano.This video would really help her!

[@SantiagoSoulat]

I guess you got to be crazy to be this good

[@adamcolbertmusic]

8:18 this is what I came here for 😂

[@KKIcons]

Ooh I have someone I really want to see for your series, Emil Naumov, who studied with Nadia Boulanger as a young boy. (same teacher as Dinu Lipatti.) Have you seen Bruno Monsaingeon's documentary, "Mademoiselle"? That intriguing, intelligent boy holding his own with the adults is the one.

[@richterkleiber]

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

[@norarossetti2087]

Grande Danil sei molto simpatico ! Bravo. ..

[@deadboy276]

I don't know if you guys still check comments, but I've watched all your videos in reverse order and find that this man absolutely fits the character Seymour Bernstein described as a 'composer that will never be'. He clearly has the acuity and a weirdly innate understanding of music that you'd expect to see in a Beethoven or a Schumann. Do you see this as well?

[@normangrubb2210]

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

[@richterkleiber]

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.

[@joefalchetto94]

Is there an integral version of this video with no cuts? it's so interesting!

[@joefalchetto94]

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

[@richterkleiber]

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.

[@alistaircrane6917]

What's the intro piece it's obviously Ab major but not sure about the title?

[@richterkleiber]

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

[@mlsocodex3586]

Mr. Genius

[@CarborundumKid]

In this video Trif explains rather nicely why he is such a strange sounding pianist sometimes, with him what we Trifians call being "triffed out". He uses a kind of pianistic Stanislawsky method to psych himself in. What I would like to see next is what Yuja's Stanislawsky is like.

[@omergottesfeld6376]

CarborundumKid

[@mkeysou812]

Clearly this guy is not cut from the normal cloth, but what a fascinating individual he is. I worry, though, his body will become a physical wreck due to his eccentric playing styles

[@KKIcons]

What is the first sentence he says after the title, Isolation?

[@linuseike6041]

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

[@bobbaxter952]

When he was asked what his pastimes were away from music he kind of struggled,to be honest,i'd be the same if i played like him,i would honestly do nothing else all day!!

[@adamcolbertmusic]

10:51 I can't help but notice how crooked his middle finger is 😯

[@linuseike6041]

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.

[@rousygetmey5617]

Передача об уникальном мире каждого музыканта.

[@DerekLowePianist]

What are the excerpts of pieces he played in this video?

[@PieInTheSky9]

Subtitles would be incredibly helpful, his accent is a bit difficult for me. Thanks for the video, this is a great series!

[@thousandforest5820]

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.

[@quaver1239]

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!

[@orangeswalnuts7861]

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

[@frogmouth]

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

[@alexandrugarlea1128]

at 9:04 he starts to improvise right?

[@alexandrugarlea1128]

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

[@bayreuth79]

Is that a photo of Tolstoy in the background?

[@bluuum]

wunderbarer Ausdruck durch das Spiel seiner Finger, total gehemmt im Ausdruck durch die Lippen die Stimme und den Mund, seltsam... Aber große Sensibilität bedeutet eben auch Verletzlichkeit Sensitivity means vulnerability,,,,,the young man seems to be inhibited in his verbal expression

[@micoveliki8729]

Whats the first piece he plays just at the begining of the interview?

[@ИринаБелова-я2ъ]

одержимый музыкой! Музыкант расправляет крылья

[@abtsit7127]

What is the of the Schoenberg’s he plays ?

[@inesmemeteau8827]

Please someone tell me waht piece he starts plying at 8:18

[@leungyatchun9552]

Inês MEMETEAU Chopin prelude in e minor

[@fryderyckchopin484]

+ What do you do to forget about the music? - There are great movies and lists of Chopin

[@brucekuehn4031]

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

[@m.a.3322]

What were all the pieces he played in this video?

[@richterkleiber]

@maestoso-allegro Thanks for this wonderful breakdown of the pieces! Actually I think the Tchaikovsky is the First Concerto, second subject?

[@franciscocosmejr5522]

0:40 what is the name of the piece ?

[@angelogiovannitti5478]

Ravel Alborada del gracioso

[@davisatdavis1]

I tried that underwater practicing and my back couldn't make it. Would recommend some yoga right before if you don't have a fine back.

[@andrewmasden6352]

What is he playing at 4:35?

[@benjaminrippy9067]

Tchaikovsky piano concerto no 1

[@MegaPianogenius]

his hands look like mine but that's where the similarity ends, my hands are useless along with my brain when it comes to piano, so frustrating

[@winxkorean]

Can someone please tell me what he's playing at 0:39 ?

[@darkygaming5241]

Ravel - Alborada del gracioso

[@avisilas]

what piano manufactures he has there?

[@lizbrown9553]

What is the opening song?

[@desperatedcorpse3272]

I just saw him enchanting my soul and imagination the night of December 13 in Dominican Republic... An unique experience!!! I accept even to be send to a Stalin concentration camp in Siberia, if I got the promise to see him again.

[@rongyilin6374]

What's the piece at 3:26?!!????!

[@tedpiano]

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

[@BlueGrovyle]

His body movement while he plays is remarkably similar to Josh Wright's. I can't un-see the influence he had on Josh now.

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

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

[@manuel-et4he]

Same teacher

[@andreshenriquez4083]

Can someone tell me what he’s playing at 3.31 please

[@linuseike6041]

Andrés Henríquez improv on alborada del gracioso

[@АртёмТиунов-ц2ж]

Круто

[@m.a.3322]

2:24, 3:03, 3:27, 4:40, 5:46, 7:00, 7:45, 8:40

[@chad4149]

just uploaded some of his playin.chad414

[@DanielMartinez-nw1pn]

8:02 that's his motivation do to crunches 😂

[@timothy1777]

해석해죠😢😢😢😢

[@LivingtheClassicalLife]

We wish we could afford to do subtitles. The KZbin closed captions aren't good?

[@wendynb100]

Now I know what my problem is. I’m always ‘walking on a knife’!

[@edmoore]

"Was that something you... devised yourself?" - verging on Louis Theroux

[@DanielMartinez-nw1pn]

It doesn't sound like he has much fun 🥺

[@nevskixx]

I don't know what others find Trifanov''s sound production so attractive, but I find it quite anaemic.It works in some moments when other worldliness may be being expressed, but with him it's most of the time and it tires me out.

[@bobchieu2354]

Nevskixx,it's Trifonov!

[@nevskixx]

+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.

[@brandonteh9403]

can anyone tell me the intro pieces?

[@tedpiano]

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 Mov. 2

[@teewowa]

0:39

[@junenovae]

he was my age at that time, I'm kind of envious of his abilities and talent... Although I speak a better english, so we could exchange skills, he teaches me the piano and I teach him english.. Deal?