But would Rachmaninoff have liked it?

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

Rachmaninoff had large hands and enormous fingers. He wrote concertos for himself to play. The third, in D minor, had its US premieres in Carnegie Hall with Walter Damrosch conducting the first run, Gustav Mahler the next. The concerto proved conspicuously more difficult than its predecessors to achieve with precision. A fear factor set in among lesser pianists.

Rachmaninoff, though, was a generous man, quick to acknowledge when others played better than he did….

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