Alicia de Larrocha plays Rachmaninoff - Concerto No.3 [live,1966]

RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943)
Piano Concerto No. 3 in d minor, Op. 30
I. Allegro ma non tanto 00:00
II. Intermezzo: Adagio 16:30
III. Finale: Alla breve 26:08

ALICIA DE LARROCHA, piano
BEROMÜNSTER RADIO ORCHESTRA
CHARLES DUTOIT, conductor

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Recorded live from Beromünster Radio Orchestra Studio,
Zürich, Switzerland
1966-January-30
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The word “Rach 3” are enough to strike fear into the heart of any piano virtuoso. The third concerto is a summit of piano music, requiring steely nerves, poetic gentleness, and sheer stamina to make it through, and the work not always associated with female pianists.

In the 1950s, only a few women pianists in the world who able to tackle this concerto, there were Gina Bachauer, Moura Lympany and the rather unknown Monique de la Bruchollerie.

1954, when Alicia de Larrocha was 31 years old, she played "Rach 3" at the first time, in her native Barcelona, with Maestro Alberto Bolet and Barcelona Philharmonic Orchestra, at the same concert, she also played the Mozart Concerto No. 23 (K.488).

Since then, she played "Rach 3" extensively in Switzerland (this recording), Dublin, Germany, South Africa and the United states.

Rachmaninoff himself, hoping to make his work more popular, authorized several cuts in the score, to be made at the performer's discretion. These cuts, particularly in the 2th and 3rd movements, were commonly taken in performance and recordings during the initial decades following the Concerto's publication.

In this recording, Alicia de Larrocha played with cuts (2th and 3rd movements), but in her offical recording in Decca (1974), she played the whole concerto without cuts.

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