Piano Concerto No. 3

Album by Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff & Vladimir Ashkenazy & Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest & Bernard Haitink

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 is a piano concerto by Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, composed and premiered in 1909. The three-movement work exemplifies late-Romantic virtuosic concertante writing through technically demanding solo passages, expansive melodies, rich chromatic harmonies and dense piano-orchestra textures, and represents a mature stage in Rachmaninoff's concerto output and early 20th-century Romantic repertoire.