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 ...
(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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mit fünf Jahren debütierte er im Konzertsaal, mit sieben ging er in die Hochschule, mit fünfzehn glaubte er, »alles gelernt zu haben, was zu erlernen ist«. Deshalb nahm der chilenische Wunderknabe ...
Der in Chile geborene Arrau trat schon mit fünf Jahren erstmals öffentlich auf. Mit einem Stipendium der chilenischen Regierung konnte er ab 1913 bei dem Liszt-Schüler Martin Krause in Berlin ...