Big Tunes

A bit of a heavyweight blockbuster of a cd this one. Martha Argerich playing Rachmaninoff Piano Concert No 3 and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1. Both live recordings, the Rach with RSO Berlin and Riccardo Chailly and the Tchaik with Kirill Kondrashin and the Symphonie Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.These are the big two romantic piano concertos and are ideally suited for Argerich's tempestuous style. The pieces are perenially popular, not much to be said about them in the context of a blog like this really. Except that even after listening so many times to so many performances, I still keep expecting the glorious opening theme from the Tchaikovsky to make a comeback in the first movement which it never does. Rachmaninoff isn't so profligate with his opening movement "big tune".