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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emmanuel Despax shares his unique perspective on Liszt's work, shaped by his personal connection to the composer My mentor, Ruth Nye, was one of Claudio Arrau's finest students and maintained a ...

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In Philadelphia’s Robin Hood Dell last week, Chilean-born Pianist Claudio Arrau set some kind of record: he played both of Johannes Brahms’s monumental piano concertos, Nos. 1 & 2, the longest two in ...