Three recitals given by the Chilean pianist in the 70s and 80s are a feast of lucid and emphatic playing that hasn’t dated in the slightest Those of us who were lucky enough to attend piano recitals ...

At eighty, the brilliant pianist Claudio Arrau plays passionately on, but successors in the Romantic tradition are hard to find. Is Claudio Arrau the greatest pianist in the world? He turned eighty ...

With the death of Claudio Arrau yesterday, yet another nail has been driven into the coffin of 19th-century Romantic pianism. Like Rudolf Serkin and Wilhelm Kempff, who recently died, the 88-year-old ...

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Claudio Arrau's recording career spanned more than eight decades, from 1927 right up to a few months before his death in 1991. These three discs focus on the first half of that huge span; it's an ...

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With Mieczyslaw Horszowski playing in public at the age of 95, Magda Tagliaferra at 92 (she was born in 1893), Rubinstein at 88, Serkin at 85 (he celebrates this birthday next month) and Horowitz at ...

This moving documentary chronicles the life and musical career of renowned Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau from his birth in 1903 to his success on the world stage as he stunned audiences with his ...

(26) Preludes, Movements: No. 1 in C Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Claudio Arrau, Piano (26) Preludes, Movements: No. 2 in A minor Claudio Arrau, Piano Fryderyk Chopin, Composer (26) Preludes, Movements: ...

(33) Variations in C on a Waltz by Diabelli, 'Diabelli Variations' Claudio Arrau, Piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Arthur Grumiaux, ...

Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Claudio Arrau. Favourite track: Symphony No 9 in C Major by Franz Schubert ...