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Nocturnes; Barcarolle; Fantaisie.
Chopin: Nocturnes; Barcarolle; Fantaisie. Claudio Arrau, piano. Philips 289 464 694-2 (2-disc set).
Chopin didn't invent the Nocturne, that's credited to Irishman John Field, but Chopin did quite a lot to perfect and popularize the genre in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Nocturnes today are thought of as romantic mood pieces, expressive melodies with a broad, buoyant, sustained accompaniment, and no one before or since has done them as eloquently as Chopin.
The composer must have loved the form because he continued writing Nocturnes all his short life, the first ones penned in his teens and early twenties, the final ones written just a couple of years before his death. They're all here, exquisitely beautiful, done up in rapt concentration and deeply committed poetry by pianist Claudio Arrau. In addition to the Nocturnes, including the posthumous C sharp minor, Arrau adds the Barcarolle in F sharp and the popular Fantaisie in F minor. Along with Rubinstein's equally commendable set for RCA, ...
- AT 85, CLAUDIO ARRAU STILL HAS 'EM STANDING
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff January 16, 1989 700+ words
CLAUDIO ARRAU, pianist, in a concert...their career. It was Claudio Arrau's unusual destiny to...and playing a group of Chopin mazurkas, for example...ARRAU Caption: PHOTO Claudio Arrau performed at Symphony...
- Beethoven: Piano Sonatas No. 31 and No. 17. (Claudio Arrau) (sound recording...
- Magazine article from: Consumers' Research Magazine Grueninger, Walter F. March 1, 1992 700+ words
...31 (Op. 110) and No. 17 (Op. 31, No. 2. Tempest). Claudio Arrau (piano), Philips CD 422 067 2. In Sonata No. 31 Beethoven wages new battles, states Claudio Arrau in the booklet. Heavy drama. Eloquence. In the more popular...
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- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff January 12, 1989 700+ words
Claudio Arrau's status as a great figure of piano playing and of musical performance has been recognized for more than half a century; at...
- Revelan secretos de Claudio Arrau.(Cultura)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) July 16, 2002 700+ words
...obra crtica en la que comparte los consejos de quien fue su maestro en el piano Para lograr una buena ejecucin de piano, Claudio Arrau, heredero directo de las enseanzas de Ludwig van Beethoven, recomendaba evitar el uso del dedo anular en los pasajes de...
- Beethoven: Diabelli variations. (Claudio Arrau)
- Magazine article from: National Review de Toledano, Ralph December 31, 1987 700+ words
Beethoven's Diabelli Variations When I put needle to Claudio Arrau's recording of Beethoven's Diabelli Variations (Philips 416 295-1) I could not help recalling that as a young music critic...
- Where is Orpheus now? (Claudio Arrau may have been the last true piano virtuoso)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 15, 1991 700+ words
WHEN three great piano virtuosi, Wilhelm Kempff, Rudolf Serkin and Claudio Arrau, die within a month of each other, perhaps the time has come to turn sadly to the thoughts of Vladimir Jankelevitch, a philosopher...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 14, 2009 700+ words
Penelope Cruz will Receive Chopin Outstanding Performer of the Year Award on January...winners in town during this month's film extravaganza! Chopin Vodka, scheduled to present the Chopin Outstanding Performer of the Year Award to Penelope...
- Frederic Chopin: Eine Lebenschronik in Bildern und Dokumenten.
- Magazine article from: Notes Kallberg, Jeffrey March 1, 1994 700+ words
Students of Frederic Chopin have not exactly been champing at the bit for another...century with the superb documentary examination of Chopin's years in Poland by Krystyna Kobylanska (Chopin w kraju [Cracow: Polkie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne...
