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For CBS, perhaps the most remarkable album was a 5-disc 78rpm set of the complete "lberia ... No other South American pianist of this century has achieved so much as Claudio Arrau, and it is fitting ...
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 ...
Claudio Arrau, the Chilean-born pianist whose eloquent and deeply felt performances made him one of the century`s true aristocrats of the keyboard, died in Austria Sunday. He was 88. William ...
When Pianist Claudio Arrau wound up his third U.S. tour and boarded a Pan American Clipper for Puerto Rico last week, he had made plenty of hay in a shining sun. For a long time the weather had ...
Born in Chile, Arrau studied in Berlin with the Liszt pupil, Martin Krause. This German training made him a great interpreter of the core Romantic repertoire. During the 1950s he played and recorded a ...