July 12, 1937 saw the official première of Aram Khachaturian’s hugely powerful Piano Concerto. The concert took place under the open sky in Sokolniki Park in central Moscow, featuring as soloist 29-year-old Lev Oborin, Soviet master-pianist and winner of the First Chopin Competition in 1927. However, a hastily assembled orchestra clumsily stormed its way through the extremely difficult score (written in D flat major); and the force of the wind blew conductor Lev Steinberg’s glasses right off his nose. After the concert, the 34-year-old composer was seen leaning against a birch tree in a
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Khachaturian Piano Concerto in D flat - I Allegro maestoso
15:34
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Khachaturian Piano Concerto in D flat - II Andante con anima
11:20
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Khachaturian Piano Concerto in D flat - III Allegro brilliante
09:53
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Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op. 26 - II Tema - Andante-Allegro
10:13
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Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op. 26 - II Tema - Andantino
09:48
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Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major Op. 26 - III Allegro ma non troppo
10:27
Total time: 01:07:15
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