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-o… ...

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 Melton… ...

Claudio Arrau 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 so, at the age of 11, Arrau arrived in Germany, where he began studies with Martin Krause at the Stern Conservatoire in Berlin. Krause was a remarkable musician: a fine pianist and teacher, he was ...

The indispensable boxes of the Arrau Edition are the Liszt, the Schubert, and the Brahms, which is full of near-perfect performances. The more I listen, though, to the rest of the edition, the less I ...

An interviewer for the London Sunday Times once praised the acclaimed Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau for breathing some much-needed life into his instrument. The piano, the interviewer said, was ...

Claudio Arrau EMI Icon 9184322 (12 CDs) **** EMI have chosen what many people might regard as a paradoxical title for these recordings made by the great Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau between 1938 ...