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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
and this also remains one of my favorites if not my favorite from Rachmaninoff.
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Rachmaninoff is one of my favourite composers as well. My return to your Rachmaninoff offer is his 3rd piano concerto played by Martha Argarich and the RSO (today DSO) Berlin. My father played in the orchestra and I was sitting in the audience during this performance. I know no more energetic performance of this, including Rachmaninoff and Horowitz - both were also fast, but both made more mistakes in their playing of this piece, the pros say (most people porbbaly cannot hear it). Argerich had a fire that consumed the air in the philharmonic already in the first minutes. She really blew the roof up.
I posted this some years ago already, I know I know. But who cares.