The Piano Concerto No. 3, also known as Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3, is a piano concerto

Piano concerto

A piano concerto is a concerto written for piano and orchestra.See also harpsichord concerto; some of these works are occasionally played on piano...

 by Catalan

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

 composer Leonardo Balada

Leonardo Balada

Leonardo Balada , is a Catalan American composer, now teaching and composing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Life:...

. It was finished on 1999 and the complete work was premiered on 12 February 2000 by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos is a Spanish conductor and composer.Frühbeck studied violin, piano, and composition at the conservatories of Bilbao and Madrid...

 with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (East Berlin)

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 and Rosa Torres-Pardo as soloist. This concerto is well-known for its wealth in folk elements.

Structure

This concerto is divided in three untitled movements. In the first movement, the composer uses elements from folk music of Spain

Spain

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, recreating a pasodoble

Pasodoble

Pasodoble is a typical dance from Spain march-like musical style as well as the corresponding dance style danced by a couple. It is the type of music typically played in bullfights during the bullfighters' entrance to the ring or during the passes just before the kill...

, with a timbral arrangement that tries to imitate an street organ

Street organ

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. The second movemente evokes melodic textures that are similar to the music of Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus

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. In the third movement, the composer writes a jota aragonesa, a typical music genre

Music genre

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 from Aragon

Aragon

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, in which Balada maintains the melodic structures from the first movement.

The three movements are listed as follows:

• I.
• II.
• III.