Concerto no. 3 in d-minor Op. 30, Sergei Rachmaninow, Piano

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Piano Concerto no. 3 d minor op. 30

Dominik Rahmer (Editor)
Johannes Umbreit (Piano reduction)
Marc-André Hamelin (Fingering)
 
Piano reduction, Urtext Edition, paperbound
Two copies needed for performance
Pages 129 (VI+116+7), Size 23,5 x 31,0 cm
Weight 526 g

HN 1506
ISMN 979-0-2018-1506-0
Level of difficulty: difficult

 Rachmaninoff's last and most important composition for piano and orchestra
 Paganini's Caprice is considered the most worked-on theme in music history, which Rachmaninoff illuminates in a very individual form with humor, passion and virtuoso fireworks.
 Fingering by Marc-André Hamelin
 Orchestra Material at Breitkopf & Härtel
 
 
It is a matter of personal taste as to whether Rachmaninoffs 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 recordings, for this edition we were also able to consult the autograph full score that today is housed at the British Library. As with all of G. Henle Publishers Rachmaninoff editions, the fingering is by virtuoso of the century Marc-André Hamelin.