His program, part of the La Jolla Music Society’s impressive Piano Series, was massive, featuring more than two hours of some of the most difficult music in the literature, virtually all of it performed with deep artistry
When Daniil Trifonov walked onto the Baker-Baum Concert Hall stage Thursday night, it wasn’t easy. He had to weave through a fair number of concert attendees — lucky folks put there to accommodate the size and appetite of an audience almost literally bursting with excited anticipation.
The demands of Tchaikovsky’s “Children’s Album” are expressive as much as technical. Tchaikovsky is at all times a storyteller, and each of these little vignettes — all 24 of them — narrates a different moment of childhood experience. Trifonov imbued them with finely wrought affective identity.
The only piece in which Trifonov’s approach — resonance-rich, pedal-heavy and atmospheric — felt out of place was Mozart’s C-minor “Fantasia,” KV 475. This music was written literally before the piano Trifonov played and the manner in which he played it were invented. Sadly, important lines slipped beneath the surface, and the syntax of phrases was often steamrolled beneath the otherwise impressive bravura technique.
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