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James Gaffigan & Seong-Jin Cho

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Thu, Nov 3, 2022, 20:00
“Rach 3”: thus the name often lovingly bestowed on Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. Composed in 1909 for his first American tour, it has always languished somewhat in the shadow of his popular Second Piano Concerto. Yet this very fact reflects its special charisma: it is the longest of Rachmaninoff’s four concertos, is said to contain the greatest number of piano notes per second, and poses the greatest challenges to the soloist’s technique. But its virtuosity is not superficial and bombastic;... Read full text

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James GaffiganConductor
Seong-Jin ChoPiano
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Program

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, op. 30Sergei Rachmaninoff
“Also sprach Zarathustra”, Op. 30, TrV 176Richard Strauss
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