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- Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor. Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 has one of the most sublime melodies of any piano concerto ever written in its first movement.
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor. Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto is widely described as the greatest piano concerto ever written. And listeners of Classic FM tend to agree, voting it right at the top of the Classic FM Hall of Fame every year.
- Vocalise. Even though Rachmaninov’s short piece, Vocalise, was written for solo voice and orchestra originally, it is a song without lyrics. Instead, the singer can opt to perform the sublime melody through any vowel of their choosing.
- Vespers (All-Night Vigil) Rachmaninov’s Vespers, also titled All-Night Vigil, was composed in 1915 and is among the composer’s more introspective works.
Background and premiere. Rachmaninoff composed the concerto in Dresden [5] completing it on September 23, 1909. Contemporary with this work are his First Piano Sonata and his tone poem The Isle of the Dead . Owing to its difficulty, the concerto is respected, even feared, by many pianists.
RACHMANINOV, SERGEI: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Op. 30; Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor Op. 40. Soloists: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano, in No. 3); Philippe Entremont (piano, in No. 4) Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy. Record Label: Sony Classical - 88697712852. Medium: CD.
Today I am going to share with you many performances of Rachmaninoff’s third concerto, but I’d like to discuss three. The first is by Rachmaninoff himself. Note that Rachmaninoff performs it in 30 minutes (everyone else plays it in around 44 minutes or longer).
