[The first-ever Tchaikovsky Competition] 60 years ago (April 1958), American pianist Van Cliburn won the First prize of the inaugural Tchaikovsky Piano Competition with Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 3 and Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No. 1! In this excerpt, Van Cliburn goes back to Moscow at the beginning of the 60s with a series of concerts featuring Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto: http://bit.ly/Cliburn_Moscow | medici.tv

🎹💐Today we pay tribute to the legendary American pianist Van Cliburn on the 10th anniversary of his passing. Did you know that Van's mother, his first music teacher, studied with Franz Liszt? That lineage shows in Cliburn's intense and virtuosic performance of Liszt's formidable Sonata in B Minor. 🎹💐 https://cutt.ly/d8tCswV | medici.tv

Today marks 10 years since Van Cliburn passed away. Though we all still mourn the loss of his inspired, supportive, and magnanimous spirit among us, we are constantly thankful to have such a powerful vision to solidly steer the Cliburn, even as it grows and evolves to serve artists and reach large audiences in today’s world. On this day, we pay tribute to his extraordinary legacy as a musician with this 1958 video of his performance of the Schumann-Liszt Widmung. | The Cliburn

Van Cliburn performs the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3 live in Moscow in 1958 with the Moscow Philharmonic under Kirill Kondrashin. #vancliburn #rachmaninoff #rachmaninov | Legendary Musicians