Concerto No. 3: The Hard Part

This is considered to be one of the most, if not the most, technical and musically demanding concertos for any player to play. Along with the taxing technicality the concerto also last around 40 minutes if the player does not use the cuts that Rachmaninoff authorized, thought these cuts are generally not made anymore they were mostly during the first recordings of the piece.

In the Rachmaninoff piano Concerto No. 3 the large major chords make it's cadenza very hard to play because of the fact that the player has to jump back and forth between the chords. It also adds more technicality thus needing even more dedication and concentration from the player.