Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30

Composer: Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Editor: Dominik Rahmer Fingering: Marc-André Hamelin (1961-) Format: Solo Part with Piano Reduction Instrumentation (this edition): Piano, Piano Reduction Originally for: Piano, Orchestra Work: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 Binding: ISMN: 9790201814520 Size: 9.3 x 12.2 inches Pages: 132 Urtext / Critical Edition Description 2 copies needed to perform. It is a matter of personal taste as to whether Rachmaninoff's second or third piano concerto is his best. But there is no doubt that "Rach 3", with its abundance of melodic ideas, today numbers among the best loved, and at the same time most technically challenging, in the concert literature. Polish pianist Josef Hofmann, to whom the concerto, written in 1909, was dedicated, did not want to perform it in public during his lifetime, and it was Vladimir Horowitz who eventually facilitated its breakthrough on the concert stage. As aside from the first edition and r