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Kirill Gerstein on playing Rachmaninov

Gramophone Classical Music Podcast

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The Pit Pitfalls of Piano Writing

The second concerto is more prone to interpretation you could say because I feel with the third concerto if the pianist and that's not a given. If the pianist can do the piano part demands in the or in the orchestra puts in their part and in the conductor then the third concerta sort of comes out some better some worse but more or less the second concerti is almost Schumannesque Chikovsky like comparing now the say the Schumann piano concerto and Chikovsky first where so much depends on a conductor and soloist and orchestra finding the same wavelength.

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