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 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 ...

Those who only heard Claudio Arrau (b1903) live or on disc in old age, when he was very much a pianistic grand seigneur with rich, plummy tones and very deliberate phrasing, might find it hard to ...

I received several robust responses to my recent CD review of Liszt performances by Jorge Bolet, in which I asserted that in several respects he could not be rivalled. “Oh yeah,” was the tenor of the ...

HERE is an absolute blinder from ICA Classics, featuring the great pianist Claudio Arrau playing Chopin's First Piano Concerto and Beethoven's Fourth with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, now ...

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 ...

EMI have chosen what many people might regard as a paradoxical title for these recordings made by the great Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau between 1938 and 1962. Virtuoso and philosopher? The 1930s ...

(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, ...

Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Mstislav Rostropovich, Cello Sviatoslav Richter, Piano Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer Mstislav ...

En el marco del desarrollo del XXVI Certamen del Concurso Internacional de piano Claudio Arrau 2012, el que se realizará del 18 al 23 de Noviembre del presente año, el Centro de Extensión de la Cámara ...