Daniil Trifonov made his Carnegie Hall debut in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra. He reunites with them for another composer’s first concerto—his own. Trifonov’s Piano Concerto has pianistic flash, but also introspection and great tenderness. Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 6 looks inward too—especially in the anguished central Largo—but also excites with powerful outer movements. Strauss’s Don Juan is pure excitement: Sumptuously scored, brilliantly melodic, it’s the tone poem that propelled him to the front rank of composers.

Performers
Mariinsky Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor
Daniil Trifonov, Piano

Program
R. STRAUSS Don Juan
DANIIL TRIFONOV Piano Concerto (NY Premiere)
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 6