Daniil Trifonov plays Rachmaninoff • Piano Concerto No. 3 Op. 30

Piano Concerto No. 3 Op. 30, in D minor 1. Allegro ma non troppo - 00:55 2. Intermezzo: Adagio - 19:35 3. Finale : Alla breve - 31:07 Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30, was composed in the summer of 1909. The piece was premiered on November 28 of that year in New York City with the composer as soloist, accompanied by the New York Symphony Society under Walter Damrosch. The work often has the reputation of being one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical piano repertoire. Rachmaninoff composed the concerto in Dresden, completing it on September 23, 1909. Owing to its difficulty, the concerto is respected, even feared, by many pianists. Josef Hofmann, the pianist to whom the work is dedicated, never publicly performed it, saying that it “wasn’t for“ him. Gary Graffman lamented he had not learned this concerto as a student, when he was “still too young to know fear“. This Concerto is one of the most