Claudio Arrau - Arrau plays Brahms & Liszt (2024)

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Artist: Claudio Arrau
Title: Arrau plays Brahms & Liszt
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: UMG Recordings, Inc.
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 4:37:06
Total Size: 1.03 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. 6 Chants polonais de Frédéric Chopin, S.480: 1. The Maiden's Wish (04:22)
2. 6 Chants polonais de Frédéric Chopin, S.480: 2. Spring (02:55)
3. 6 Chants polonais de Frédéric Chopin, S.480: 3. The Ring (03:24)
4. 6 Chants polonais de Frédéric Chopin, S.480: 4. Drinking Song (01:56)
5. 6 Chants polonais de Frédéric Chopin, S.480: 5. My Darling (04:06)
6. 6 Chants polonais de Frédéric Chopin, S.480: 6. Return Home (01:46)
7. Valse oubliée No. 1 in F sharp, S.215 (03:56)
8. 2 Etudes de Concert, S.145: No. 1 Waldesrauschen (04:43)
9. 2 Etudes de Concert, S.145: No. 2 Gnomenreigen (03:13)
10. 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 1 in D minor (03:53)
11. 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 2 in D (07:33)
12. 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 3 in B minor (03:19)
13. 4 Ballades, Op. 10: No. 4 in B (09:17)
14. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 1 Prélude (Presto) (01:04)
15. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 2 Molto vivace (02:13)
16. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 3 Paysage (Poco adagio) (04:16)
17. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 4 Mazeppa (Presto) (07:35)
18. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 5 Feux follets (Allegretto) (04:22)
19. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 6 Vision (Lento) (06:01)
20. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 7 Eroica (Allegro) (04:50)
21. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 8 Wilde Jagd (Presto furioso) (05:04)
22. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 9 Ricordanza (Andantino) (10:58)
23. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 10 Allegro agitato molto (04:44)
24. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 11 Harmonies du soir (Andantino) (08:50)
25. 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S.139: No. 12 Chasse neige (Andante con moto) (06:04)
26. London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis – Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, S.124: 1. Allegro maestoso (06:13)
27. London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis – Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, S.124: 2a. Quasi adagio - Allegretto vivace (05:39)
28. London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis – Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, S.124: 2b. Allegro animato (04:35)
29. London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis – Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat, S.124: 3. Allegro marziale animato (04:41)
30. Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 2: 1. Allegro non troppo, ma energico (06:26)
31. Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 2: 2. Andante con espressione (05:22)
32. Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 2: 3. Scherzo. Allegro (03:52)
33. Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 2: 4. Finale (Introduzione. Sostenuto - Allegro non troppo e rubato) (12:16)
34. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5: 1. Allegro maestoso (10:41)
35. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5: 2. Andante espressivo (13:48)
36. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5: 3. Scherzo (Allegro energico) (04:58)
37. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5: 4. Intermezzo (Andante molto) (04:16)
38. Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5: 5. Finale (Allegro moderato ma rubato) (07:47)
39. Danza sacra e duetto finale d'Aida, S. 436 (11:34)
40. London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis – Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S.125: 1. Adagio sostenuto assai - Allegro agitato assai (07:52)
41. London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis – Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S.125: 2. Allegro moderato (05:32)
42. London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis – Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S.125: 3. Allegro deciso - Marziale un poco meno allegro (07:08)
43. London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis – Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, S.125: 4. Allegro animato (01:58)
44. Scherzo in E Flat Minor, Op. 4 (09:22)
45. 3 Etudes de Concert, S.144: No. 1 in A Flat "Il lamento" (A capriccio - Allegro cantabile) (10:49)
46. 3 Etudes de Concert, S.144: No. 2 in F Minor "La leggierezza" (A capriccio - Quasi allegretto) (05:34)
47. 3 Etudes de Concert, S.144: No. 3 in D Flat "Un sospiro" (Allegro affettuoso) (06:06)

A patrician artist whose matinee-idol appearance was as elegant as his playing, Claudio Arrau achieved a major reputation for his performances of Brahms and Liszt. Indeed, few Romantic-period composers, from Beethoven onward, were beyond his grasp. In addition to that repertory, his Debussy was regarded by many connoisseurs as exemplary. Arrau believed that his abiding interest in psychoanalysis aided him in probing the intent of those whose works he performed. Certainly, Arrau's performances were marked by a balance between heart and intellect.

Arrau was born in Chillán, Chile, on February 6, 1903. He received piano instruction from his mother at an early age, making his debut performance in Santiago at the age of five playing Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin. At the age of 10 the Chilean government sent him to Berlin, where he enrolled in Stern's Conservatory of Music. His teacher there was Martin Krause. While studying he entered competitions, and won the Ibach Prize and the Gustav Holländer Medal. He also began giving recitals in Germany and Scandinavia, earning excited comment over the excellence of his technique, and the maturity of his interpretations. In 1918 he made a major European tour, giving concertos accompanied by illustrious conductors such as Nikisch, Furtwängler, and Mengelberg. He returned to South America in 1921, and made a triumphal tour beginning in Santiago de Chile. He made his first North American tour in 1924, appearing with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He joined the faculty of the Stern Conservatory in 1924. He won the Grand Prix Internationale des Pianistes in Geneva in 1927, and toured in the Soviet Union in 1929, and again in 1930.

He continued a notable concertizing career throughout the 1930s, including a famous series in 1935 and 1936 in Berlin, in which he played the complete keyboard works of J.S. Bach followed by the complete keyboard works of Mozart. He then announced that he would no longer play Bach, asserting that his music was not conceived for the modern grand piano. In 1938 he played all of the Beethoven piano sonatas and five piano concertos in a series of recitals in Mexico City, and repeated the feat during the next two years in Buenos Aires and Santiago. When World War II broke out he ended his association with the Stern Conservatory and returned to Chile, founding a piano school there. But the next year, after a tour of the United States where he received the highest critical acclaim, he and his family moved permanently to New York. He devoted himself to concertizing, teaching, and recording. His complete Beethoven cycles became legendary; in 1952 he performed such a series, in which each recital was broadcast live by the BBC.

After World War II his concert tours included Australia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, India, South Africa, Israel, and Japan. In the 1960s he made definitive recordings of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas; he also supervised the editing and publication of an Urtext edition of the same sonatas. In the 1970s, Chile, which had enjoyed a record as one of South America's most democratic nations, fell to the military government of Pinochet. In protest, Arrau gave up his Chilean citizenship in 1978, and became a naturalized citizen of the U.S. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, he continued to be a revered figure in Chile; in 1983 he was awarded the Chilean National Arts Prize. He returned at the age of 81 to tour Chile in 1984, his first performances there in 17 years. He died in Mürzzuschlag, Austria, on June 9, 1991. © Rovi Staff

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