Rachmaninoff : Piano Concerto No. 3

Daniil Trifonov performs Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor opus 30
with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.
Live recording on June 19, 2015 at the Philharmonie de Paris.
01:20 1st movement : Allegro ma non troppo
20:02 2nd movement : Intermezzo Adagio
31:09 3rd movement : Finale Alla breve Rachmaninoff’s

Third Piano Concerto is one of the most challenging works of the piano repertoire. Despite the seeming simplicity of the first theme, it requires a great virtuosity from the performers, especially for the cadenza in the first movement. After playing it for the first time in a concert on 1909, Rachmaninov himself couldn’t play any other piece, because his fingers were suffering.

Horowwitz plays the Rachmaninov 3rd Piano Concerto in Avery Fisher Hall, New York, 1978 with Zubin Mehta (His last recording ever of this concerto and maybe the last time he played it. Horowitz was 75 years old in this recording!!!)