ashkenazy rachmaninov piano concerto no.3 op.30

This recording brings back memories......decades ago, when I was in high school I used to listen to this very recording everyday and fell in teen love with a girl named Judy Ertel.

ashkenazy is one of the most underrated pianist.
hes so great, but its sad tat ppl have so much prejudice.

@AllegroDemolish If people underate Ashkenazy they are stupid ignorant fools. He is one of the geatest pianists ever. He actually recorded and performed practically the whole piano repertoire.His Rachmaninov is absolutely outstanding. I heard him play incredibly brilliantly live a number of times.

I like Ashkenazy, too - despite the music snobs' prejudices

I know everyone has their favourite Rach 3 rendition, but this one (Haitink/Ashkenazy?) is my favourite. For me this is like a reference performance of this great concerto. Ashkenazy is nothing short of incredible - effortless playing and good sense of line and proportion, and the closing 2-3 minutes of the work take my breath away each time I listen to it. The development in the 1st movement is for me also really exciting to listen to.

I agree with you.
I have this CD. I bought it at 1993. Because the shops hadn't it I order it. 417239 was its code, I remember the code after all these years.

The reference performance on RACH 3 !

This is very nice, but you should also watch Bronfman play it with the Viennese.

No, he just borrowed it from Horowitz. ....
And Horowitz is pretty mad about it and wants it back!

Because they felt they couldn´t do justice to all of them. Incidentally, that´s what Hoffman and Rachmaninoff also said. And they believed that nobody else could play them all equally well either.

Horowitz empty playing?