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...pants not to follow his father Harry into the book business (Book-of-the-Month Club). Instead, he went to Columbia and Juilliard School of Music. He foots the whole bill for his Little Orchestra Society. At first, partly because he hired high-rate soloists such as Isaac Stern, Claudio Arrau, Joseph Szigeti, and gave them a chance to play music "they can't play in Oshkosh," he found his society a little expensive. Now, Scherman reports, "it's coming closer and closer to breaking even...
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...
...Paganini 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...