Lugansky - Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Concerto No. 3 for Piano and Orchestra in D minor, Op. 30 (1909) Nikolai Lugansky, soloist Alexander Vedernikov conducting Russian National Orchestra, 2014 Moscow Philharmonic Society [0:00] I. Allegro ma non tanto - Tempo I 6:55 - Più vivo 8:04 - Cadenza 10:37 - Tempo I 15:04 [16:59] II. Intermezzo. Adagio - Più vivo 21:40 - a tempo, più mosso 22:42 - fast waltz 25:04 [28:04] III. Finale. Alla breve - Scherzando 31:30 - Lento 34:48 - a tempo come prima 35:51 - Tempo I 36:59 - Coda 39:45 “[…] Chronologically the Third Piano Concerto belongs to the period described in Russia as the Silver Age. However, as a counterbalance to the centrifugal tendencies of this artistic period, the main creative thrust in Rachmaninov’s work is centripetal and the centre is in fact the Russian person, with all the spiritual and emotional attributes and intrinsic elements of that symbolic person. In the Third Piano Concerto, national traits