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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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: ...

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 ...

The legendary Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau toured Australia in 1957. In its very first year of operation, ABC Television broadcast Arrau's performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto with the ...

(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 ...