Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3, Op 30

The legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989) won his first glowing comment on his interpretation of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto from the composer himself.

Rachmaninoff heard the young Kiev-born pianist play his work shortly after Horowitz's arrival in New York in 1928, he exclaimed: 'He swallowed it whole.' Fifty years later, on 24 September 1978, Horowitz electrified...