If you are a music lover, then you likely said: Oh yes! I know the music and I know the performer. I listened to them yesterday, and I was thrilled. Here is the music with …
The first performance of this concerto was given in the year 1901. The first movement (Moderato – Allegro) opens with dark, paired chords for the soloist, building into stormy runs. Only later does the orchestra …
Sergei Rachmaninov composed the concerto in 1909 – a full nine years after the premiere of his Piano Concerto No.2. The third is grander, fuller, and more expansive in tone and style – with the …
Premiered by the composer with the New York Symphony under Walter Damrosch on November 28, 1909, the piano concerto #3 was recognized as characteristic Rachmaninoff: excruciatingly difficult piano writing with sprawling chords and magnificent lines, …
Rachmaninov composed the Sonata for Cello and Piano, op. 19, in the fall and early winter of 1901 for the cellist Anatoly Brandukov. Towards the end of the last movement, Rachmaninov wrote the date “November …