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...Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell last week, Chilean-born Pianist Claudio Arrau set some kind of record: he played both of Johannes Brahms's monumental piano concertos, Nos. 1 & 2, the longest two in the standard piano repertoire, all on one program. The audience liked it fine, and so did the critics...
...Claudio Arrau (rhymes with allow), who does such things with authoritative aplomb, is a trim, dapper 43-year-old who looks like a fugitive from a Man of Distinction ad. He likes to wear maroon ties with matching handkerchief jutting out of his coat pocket. Along with Bohemian-born Rudolf Serkin, he is in the middle generation of top pianists, a step below such artistic and box office champions as Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and Artur Rubinstein, and a step above such youngsters as Eugene List, William Kapell and Eugene Istomin. He is one of the most tireless of them...
...June, on his 14th tour of South America, he drew 25,000 persons in an open-air sports arena, the largest crowd ever to assemble for a concert in Buenos Aires. South American women fill his dressing room with flowers, but North American women are not so demonstrative, Said Arrau: "They are very far away. It is very difficult to make them become earthly...
...Wonder. Arrau had taught himself to read music at four, played his first recital at five without even taking a lesson. At seven, the Chilean Government paid his way to Europe for ten years' study. He was no sensation on his first U.S. visit in 1923. He stayed away until 1941, when a brilliant Carnegie Hall recital turned the trick. Since then he has been so busy that his wife and two young children rarely...
Equally characteristic is Arrau's thoroughness. He probably holds a world's record for cycle performances; once he performed all Bach's clavier works in twelve recitals; he has also given complete Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert cycles. To preserve his vitality, he keeps to the Hay diet (separating starches and proteins), eats fruit like a jungle dweller, does Yoga exercises, sleeps ten hours a night. Says he: "A musician owes it to his audiences not to have off days...