Word: arrau
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...semiquaver.) Yes, some of the runs in the ''Emperor'' are a bit mussy, but the pianist's earnest approach is informed by a proprietary affection for music. Schnabel's Beethoven doesn't smile very much, but then icons never do. + Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 (''Emperor''). Claudio Arrau, piano, with Sir Colin Davis conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden (Philips). The pedagogical grandson of Liszt (through his teacher in Berlin, Martin Krause), Arrau, 83, is equally at home in the Transcendental Etudes, the Brahms sonatas and the Beethoven concertos, lavishing on each his pellucid tone and his hardy technique. The Beethoven concertos...
...famed competition win in Moscow in 1958, which is tender, lyrical and full of the charm that captivated the Russians. Similarly, Great Pianists traces the varying interpretations of Chopin through the century--from Ignaz Friedman (tempestuous, uncontrolled) to Artur Rubinstein (cool, modern and free of excess) to Claudio Arrau (full, rich, warm). Given enough time, this collection proves, styles have a way of coming full circle...
...well as offering majestic and emotional interpretations of the great Russian and German concerti--Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Brahms--Cliburn has always had a special affinity for solo piano works. His recording of Chopin have matched those of the late Artur Rubinstein and Claudio Arrau in popularity. Sunday's concert will feature Chopin's C-Sharp Minor Scherzo as well as pieces by Debussy and Szymanowski...
...Musawi welcome the Lebanese government's plans to resume Baalbek's summer festival. From 1955 until the outbreak of war 20 years later, some of the world's leading talents performed under the stars on the steps of the temple of Bacchus. Ella Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, Ginger Rogers, Claudio Arrau and Mstislav Rostropovich are but a few of the celebrities who have signed the guest book now locked in the safe of the Palmyra Hotel, across the street from the ruins. Says Musawi: "The people of this region no longer want this loose living...
...ultimately Horowitz, who wrote a critically-acclaimed book recording his conversations with Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau, focuses not so much on Toscanini as a man or musician as on the millions of Americans who canonized him, taking it as an article of faith that Toscanini was the "greatest conductor of all time...