To call him a breath of fresh air would be putting it mildly. Competing across the world in the ‘00s and signing with Deutsche Grammophon in 2013, Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov has been a force of revitalization in the world of concert piano. Already considered an expert in the Romantics, Trifonov plays Chopin (Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major) with a tender touch that communicates both fragility and sheer rhapsodic splendor, and his Liszt (Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141: No. 3) channels a lost temporality, emphasizing ornamental flourishes and surprising turns of harmony.