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 ...

Conductor Nikolai Malko leads the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and pianist Claudio Arrau in a performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto for this historic first ABC TV live classical broadcast. The ...

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 been ...

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 ...

Learn more about the full cast of Claudio Arrau: The 80th Birthday Recital with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roy Plomley's castaway is pianist Claudio Arrau. Favourite track: Symphony No 9 in C Major by Franz Schubert ...