- Written in 1943 at age 14 while Mathieu and his family were staying in NYC.
- Mathieu had initially planned to return to Paris (where he had been studying and building a career) after a holiday back home in Canada in 1939. However, due to the outbreak of WWII, Mathieu could no longer travel to Paris and instead chose New York as a prospective building block for his already burgeoning career.
- Mathieu wrote Piano Concerto No. 3 as a piece to open the door to career success; however, the initial response to the work wasn’t as enthusiastic as the composer would have hoped.
- In 1946, the producer of Quebec Productions asked to use Mathieu’s third piano concerto in their inaugural film, La Forteresse. During production, the music arranger altered Mathieu’s original score to create Concerto de Québec. This version of the score became the more popular of the two and was recorded by the composer himself.
- *ENCO 21781 is the first complete recording of the original version of Mathieu’s third piano concerto.
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21781