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Debussy: Images, Books I & II (Claudio Arrau, pianist; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Debussy's subtle sonorities and shimmering colors are a challenge to any pianist. Arrau meets the challenge brilliantly and with apparent ease. Recording: excellent...
Schumann: Carnaval (Claudio Arrau, piano; Decca-Parlaphone, 2 sides LP). Chilean-born Pianist Arrau won his first U.S. fame with this romantic piece. Playing cleanly, deeply and without schmalz, he shows the reason why. Recording: good...
This week Hexameron had one of its few hearings since Liszt's death in 1886. In London's His Majesty's Theater, brilliant Pianist Claudio Arrau (a onetime pupil of Liszt's pupil, Martin Krause) marched alone to the single piano in center stage. Then, playing with mixed high purpose and good humor, heaving and hammering, sighing and scintillating, he re-created for a moment some of the atmosphere of the Princess Belgiojoso's 1837 soiree...
...players were only part of his cast. Last week thousands of Ravinia fans, sitting on blankets on the dimly floodlit grass, listened to Soprano Lotte Lehmann, whose lieder voice, beamed Knight, "is as near to chamber music as you can get-intimate, romantic." And they heard Chilean Pianist Claudio Arrau playing Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, as a soloist and in ensemble with the Paganini...
Stadium Concerts (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC-TV). Guest pianist: Claudio Arrau...