Piano
A spectacular concert at the site of Beijing’s Forbidden City. The concert features the renowned Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Long Yu, who perform Orff’s Carmina Burana with Aida Garifullina, Toby Spence and Ludovic Tézier, before being joined by Daniil Trifonov for Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.2 and Mari Samuelsen for Max Richter’s Violin piece "November". Length 114′ (complete repertoire) / 71′ (Carmina Burana & Jasmine Flower Song) / 43′ (Piano Concert & November)
Piano
The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve, the Berliner Philharmoniker invite an exceptional soloist for a festive gala. Together, the musicians bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new. The 2016 concert was conducted by Simon Rattle and featured Daniil Trifonov on piano. On the programme: Dimitri Kabalewsky: Overture Colas Breugnon, Op.90, Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, Nikolai Medtner: Fairy Tale F minor, Op. 26/3, William Walton: Orchestral Pieces from Façade arranged in form of a suite by Sir Simon Rattle, Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Dimitri Kabalewsky: The Comedians, Op. 26: Galop, Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. in 1 G-Minor.
In Moscow, Valery Gergiev conducts a concert dedicated to the works of Prokofiev: the composer's First and Fifth symphonies, and the First Piano Concerto, performed here by the young rising star of the piano, Daniil Trifonov. After his successes at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011, HE once again astonished the audience with his musical charisma during the Moscow Easter Festival in 2012.
