Piano Concerto no. 3 in B-flat minor, op. 31

The Third Piano Concerto was written for a specific evening: the opening of the Bulgaria concert complex in Sofia on 9 October 1937, for which Vladigerov produced one of the works that would stay closest to Bulgarian audiences. The Academic Symphony Orchestra played under Tsanko Tsankov, with the composer among the soloists, in a hall built with acoustic advice from Berlin and fitted with the first concert organ in the country. The building was destroyed by bombing in May 1944 and rebuilt from 1949 as the home of the orchestra now known as the Sofia Philharmonic.