with Serkin his Beethoven. With the Chilean-born Arrau that kind of pigeon-holing is harder to do: He was the pianist who specialized in everything. Claudio Arrau was a memory machine, a floppy ...

but Arrau's greatness stems from the unbroken line that he, through Krause, and Liszt, can trace back by only three "generations" directly to Beethoven himself. No other South American pianist of this ...

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 "Moonlight": I. Adagio sostenuto Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No. 2 ...

To hear Claudio Arrau play a Beethoven Concerto in Kleinhans with the Buffalo Philharmonic (Krips was the conductor back then) was to hear a Beethoven performance of near-astonishing sonic ...

Claudio Arrau, the Chilean-born pianist whose eloquent ... Chopin and particularly Beethoven, whose works held a position in his repertoire comparable to that of his great colleague, pianist ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have adored the playing of Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau since I was a lad. Something in the consistent strength, weight and clarity of his playing, especially in Beethoven's music ...