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Chilean pianist (1903-1991)
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2023-08-05 06:44:58
The pianist in the 1935 film “Dreams of... The post When Claudio Arrau played Liszt’s double on film appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-07-23 00:24:04
The French-born, Italian-based pianist Muriel Chemin follows up her 2017 Beethoven Diabelli Variations release with nothing less than a complete cycle of the composer’s 32 piano sonatas. Chemin’s serious-minded interpretations fall somewhere between Wilhelm Kempff’s intimately scaled conceptions and the rhetorical style of Claudio Arrau. Tempos tend toward moderation (which partially explains the cycle’s 10-disc […]
2022-02-07 00:47:55
Claudio Arrau, born February 6 1903, in Chillán, Chile, was one of the most-renowned pianists of the
2022-01-31 16:17:59
Schubert 2022
[…] written during a period of five years, not in a feverish six months, as Schubert’s. Schubert’s last sonatas, although profound, are somewhat loosely structured. That was one of the reasons they were considered somewhat inferior after they were published in1838, ten years after Schubert’s death. This lack of internal structure (and, in some cases, excessive length) make these sonatas difficult to play. There are some pianists who excel in them, Alfred Brendel, Sviatoslav Richter, Claudio Arrau, Maurizio Pollini being one of the best (of course there were many more who’ve played them wonderfully). This is also the reason why some famous pianists don’t do as well: we remember Lang Lang’s performance in Chicago in 2008, which we thought was quite disastrous: our impression was that Lang Lang doesn’t quite understand what he was playing. Of course back then Lang Lang was a media darling and many classical music critics went […]
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