Rachmaninoff

The legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz won his first praise on his interpretation of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto from the composer himself. When 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 his audience once again with this monumental work.