[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 celebrate what would have been Van Cliburn's 89th Birthday! Van's lifelong commitment to spreading classical music around the world inspires everything that we do. Join us in celebrating Van's incredible life with this famous clip of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 from 1958. | 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