Lindberg - Piano Concerto No. 3 | Yuja Wang

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The Piano Concerto No. 3 is a composition for solo piano and orchestra by the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. The work was jointly commissioned by China National Centre for The Performing Arts, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonie de Paris - Orchestre de Paris, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, and the New York Philharmonic.

Lindberg wrote the piece for pianist Yuja Wang after hearing her play piano concertos No. 1 and 2 by Dmitri Shostakovich together at a concert with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester conducted by Alan Gilbert in September 2019. Wang was originally scheduled to perform its world premiere in China, but the COVID-19 pandemic postponed the premiere to 13 October 2022 at Davies Symphony Hall, where Wang was the soloist with the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Lindberg's friend, his Finnish compatriot Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Composition of the concerto took 22 months, possibly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Wang helped influence the concerto, collaborating with the composer up through the final week before the premiere: "trimming things" and "cleaning up ... It’s a work in progress”, according to Lindberg in a Q&A after the premiere. Wang added, “The piece will grow with how we play it.”

Lindberg cites the Bartók Piano Concerto No. 3 and the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 as inspirations for this concerto, and many listeners find additional references to Ravel, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Prokofiev, Liszt and Gershwin in the music. Lindberg includes two long cadenzas for the soloist.

The piano concerto has a duration of roughly 32 minutes and is written in three movements in a conventional fast-slow-fast plan, "with two extroverted showpieces flanking a somewhat more reflective center". Lindberg describes the movements as "three concertos in one piece", or "a concerto in three concertos." "Each movement opens with an intense dialogue between piano and strings, which then gives over to further dialogue between piano and winds, followed by a synthesis."

Overall, the concerto is huge; Lindberg says "it’s the biggest piece I’ve written." In terms of the technical skills demanded from the soloist, this is considered the most difficult among Lindberg's three piano concertos, since he wrote it specifically to fit Wang's immense abilities.