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The recording career of Russian pianist and composer Daniil Trifonov initially focused on the music of Frédéric Chopin. Trifonov's first three albums, recorded in 2010 and released in 2011, exclusively consisted of works of Chopin. His next album, Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, released in 2012, included a performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev. In February 2013, Trifonov signed an exclusive recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon (DG). His first album for DG, The Carnegie Recital, is a live recording of a recital he had given in Carnegie Hall that month. Trifonov's 2016 album for DG, Transcendental, consisting of the complete piano études of Franz Liszt, reached the number one position in the Specialist Classical Albums Chart in the United Kingdom in October 2016. It was designated one of "The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016" by The New York Times, and won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. (Full list...)