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Daniil Trifonov received the OPUS Klassik Award for ’Instrumentalist of the Year’. In the ceremony of OPUS Klassik, Daniil Trifonov played the Bach’s famous ’Jesus bleibet meine Freude’ (Arr. Hess). “Bach is of course a legend, an icon, a musical brand,” says Trifonov. “History sets him, like many geniuses, on a pedestal – untouchable and unmoving, like a sculpture.” He continues: “We know Bach was a pious man, and that he worked very hard. Yet we also know that Bach was a family man, and that he fell in love (more than once); his music tells us he had a sense of humour, a sense of melancholy, and a sense of pride. He knew how to have fun. There are many indications of a real, personal biography to a composer whose creativity was fired by a passionate soul.”
