Sergei Rachmaninov - Symphony No. 3

- Composer: Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1 April 1873 -- 28 March 1943) - Orchestra: USSR Ministry Of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Conductor: Gennady Rozhdestvensky - Year of recording: 1991(Live) Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44, written in 1935-1936. 00:00 - I. Lento - Allegro moderato - Allegro 12:26 - II. Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro vivace 24:00 - III. Allegro - Allegro vivace - Allegro (Tempo primo) - Allegretto - Allegro vivace Rachmaninov composed his Third Symphony at his summer house on Lake Lucerne during the summers of 1935 and 1936, after the triumph of his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini had restored him to favor as a composer. After the symphony’s 1937 premiere at the hands of Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra (which Rachmaninov himself would conduct in the work’s first recording two years later), the composer wrote, “It was played wonderfully. Both audience and critics responded sourly. Personally, I’m firmly convi