| Day Shipping at checkout.See all 10 customer reviews...Music (See Bestsellers in Music)Popular in these categories: (What's this?To hear a song sample, click on "Listen" by that sample.Send Van ringtones to your cell phone now!Instant Ringtones in 30 Seconds.Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?It's wonderful to return to these works after an absence of 30 years.If there is anything more beautiful in the piano repertoire, show it to me.Was this review helpful to you?"Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.Your vote will be counted and will appear on the product page within 24 hours."This is a disc you should buy immediately if you don't have Arrau's complete Beethoven sonatas set already.Hear how he assaults the chords of the third movement!You'd best get the whole set but for a good introduction this single disc is indispensable.Claudio Arrau's interpretation is as passionately and true as Beethoven himself would have liked.One of Arrau's greatest recordings.Published 7 months ago by P.Published 18 months ago by H.His playing is sometimes very irritating and at times can seem boring.Published on July 11, 2001 by dark.Would you dare admit it?Strange experiences in listening to Classical Music.Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing Items Like This?Great Value Classical CDs: A list by Bradley S.Pointedly: A list by D.Garmin's new Forerunner 405 packs GPS, wireless connectivity, and training functions into a sleek watch you can wear all day.For more about music, check out our blog, Amazon Earworm, and our monthly newsletters, Amazon Delivers.Using your checking account at Amazon.If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?View or change your orders in Your Account.After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.New Glenn Gould box set features music from Beethoven.Get help on your Beethoven paper.Hours() * 3600 + newCurrentTime.Hours() * 3600 + currentTime.Minutes() * 60 + currentTime.See all 27 customer reviews...Want it delivered Thursday, January 17?Format: Box set
Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage.Please examine and play these discs.If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.See all 27 customer reviews...Music (See Bestsellers in Music)Popular in this category: (What's this?Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?To hear a song sample, click on "Listen" by that sample.Etwas lebhaft und mit der innigsten Empfindung.Piano Variations In C On A Waltz By Anton Diabelli, Op.Variations (6) on an original theme for piano in F major, Op.Variations (15) and fugue on a theme from "Prometheus" for piano in E flat major ("Eroica Variations"), Op.Rondo for piano in G major, Op.Variations (32) on a waltz by Diabelli, for piano in C major ("Diabelli Variations"), Op.Claudio Arrau played with seriousness of purpose that could make other pianists seem like dilettantes and with respect for the composer's score that bordered on veneration.CD collection of his recordings, mostly from the 1960s, of the composer's 32 sonatas, five concertos (with Bernard Haitink conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam), and most important sets of variations.His Beethoven is not always successful.His sometimes ponderous seriousness keeps early works, such as the Sonata No."Diabelli Variations" sound labored.But in the composer's weightiest works, Arrau can produce revelations.Certainly, no one plays Sonata No.The first movement sounds like thunder that comes ever closer and the finale's chains of trills, played with exquisite finish and expressive perfection, transport the listener to a higher realm.Add a iframe that allows us to ping the server when this element becomes visible
a9AdsViewNamespace.Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?See all 371 customer reviews...The easiest way to shoot video reviews.This is not Beethoven for the light hearted.You are ever aware that it is not just Beethoven's thoughts that are being expressed in the playing; Arrau's own feelings are as ever present as the composer's.Arrau a little lacking in the scherzos.But, I can easily dismiss the shortage of "playfulness" in some moments when I get interpretations that fathom some of the great depths this music has to it.No one cycle of the 32, in my opinion, can lay claim to be superior over all others, even in any one of the sonatas.All have equal strong merit.So if you could only choose one, why might you choose this set?Also, consider this set if you want one stop for the sonatas, concertos, and variations.The concertos, another genre of Beethoven's works deserving of the "Great Music!"Arrau performances with Haitink and the Concertgebouw Orchestra.Gilels has, but Arrau plays with more herioc feeling and captures the sense of occasion in the work in a way Gilels seems to miss entirely.Philips has pulled off one of their best remastering jobs with this compliation.One minor quibble is with the box.Was this review helpful to you?"Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided to other Amazon.Claudio Arrau's Sonatas set is one for the ages.It is thoughtful, musically honest and inspired like no one else's.True, it took me some time to realize this.But I've come to like Arrau's interpretations, more than any other pianist's.Beethoven cycle, as there isn't just one perfect way to the top, but so far I consider Arrau's performances deeper and more satisfying than anyone else's.He is unmatched in revealing the essence of the sonatas, and no one can hold a candle to Arrau's injections of drama in fairly every piece.It is indeed as if you're living through the sonatas yourself, as one other reviewer said.Arrau takes a very serious, almost dark and tragic, approach to the sonatas.He may miss some of the music's humor because of that, but on the whole the effect is very rewarding.On paper it may seem that Beethoven's earlier works do not profit from Arrau's approach, but it's not true in reality.He performs these pieces as if they are just as important as the later works, and hearing him I can only prove him right.I've not yet heard anyone who makes these sometimes ignored pieces so interesting and powerful.And even in the normally sunny second sonata, its dark sides are most significant in Arrau's performance.The fifth sonata is played quite slowly but with so much content and attention to every moment that it is just breathtaking.Moonlight, Tempest, Waldstein and Appassionata are in equally superb hands, especially in the Appassionata whose outer movements are greatly intimidating and violent.No one quite captures the torrent towards the end in the Appassionata's final as powerfully as Arrau does here, although Pollini's live recording comes close.But Arrau fills the gap with so much furious power and intensity that I strongly doubt which approach to prefer.Arrau's arresting performance of op.This sonata has of course received many legendary performances (my own favourites are Solomon, Gilels, Pollini, Rosen, Brendel, Serkin, Gould and Kempff) but Arrau does better than any of them.The last three sonatas then, all sound completely different from other recordings.The last variation is one of the greatest moments of all Beethoven, and likewise it is one of the most memorable performances of Arrau.There may be some doubts over the rather slow first movement of op.The Arietta, too, is on the slow side, but it makes full sense, although I'd prefer a more rhytmical 3rd variation.But that's just the surface.Beneath, there is an immense amount of fantastic insights waiting.It's better to say that Furtwangler is the Arrau of the directors.Everything glorious I read about Claudio Arrau in these Amazon.After hearing his Beethoven, I can't wait for my copy of Arrau's Chopin to arrive!I'm wasting my breath but...Beethoven for the Comatose
I just listened to Beethoven's 5 Piano Concertos and 3 Sonatas performed on period instruments by Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music.The one collection I cannot imagine being without
It would be absurd to recommend recommending one Beethoven cycle to the exclusion of all others, yet it is Arrau's cycle to which I repeatedly return, despite some flaws mentioned...No matter how fast Beethoven is charging along.Published 11 months ago by T.I've been listening to Beethoven's sonatas for fifty years and have heard all of them by some, and some of them by all the available recorded performers.If you love Beethoven, Arrau's interpretation will certainly be a joyful addition to your classical music collection.This compilation of Beethoven's music is a treasure to behold.See all 27 customer reviews...Would you dare admit it?Strange experiences in listening to Classical Music.What are you listening to right now?What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing Items Like This?Claudio Arrau: Titan of the keyboard...Find out in Music You Should Hear, where these and other artists tell you about the music they love.If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?Please note that we are unable to respond directly to all feedback submitted via this form, but we'll ask you to sign in so we can contact you if needed.Track your recent orders.View or change your orders in Your Account.Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session.Free, Fast Shipping On First Order.Claudio Arrau CDs at ArkivMusic.He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.His ancestor Lorenzo de Arrau was sent to Chile by King Carlos III of Spain.They both descended from Sir John Campbell of Glenorchy, father of the first Earl of Breadalbane.At the age of 11 he could play Liszt's Transcendental Etudes, considered to be one of the most difficult sets of works ever written for the piano, and also Brahms's Paganini Variations.Art system all of which survive today and can be heard.Pekinel and others also received lessons from Arrau.He is also famous for his recordings of Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, Schubert and Debussy, among others.Many claimed that his rich, weighty tone lent his interpretations a distinctive voice, some saying it sounded thick and muddy and others praising its rounded tone, saying it sounded as though Arrau were almost playing the organ or "plowing" his "paws" into the "flexible" keyboard.According to Joseph Horowitz in his book Conversations With Arrau (1982), many critics feel his overall approach became less spontaneous and more reserved and introspective after the death of his mother, to whom he was extremely close.Austria, Arrau was working on a compact disc recording of the complete works of Bach for keyboard, and had Haydn, Mendelssohn, Reger, Busoni and Boulez's 3rd Sonata in preparation.Awards and Recognitions
Gold Medal, The Royal Philharmonic Society.National Prize of Art of Chile.Medal of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.Bundesverdienstkreuz of the Federal Republic of Germany.Homage from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Chile.Winner of the Grand Prix of the Concours International des Pianistes.Berlin, 1917
Grant of the Stern Conservatory.Berlin, 1916
First Prize in the Rudolph Ibach Competition (he was the only participating boy).Grand Prix du Disque:
Schumann: Piano Concerto, Carnaval; Beethoven: Sonata No.French
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Pianist Claudio.Arrau performs two Beethoven sonatas expressly for this production.BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No.MOZART: Rondo in A Minor, K.SCHUBERT: Allegretto in C Minor, D, 915; LISZT: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S.SCHUMANN: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op.Always Arrau's playing reveals control, passion, intellectual probity, and cosmopolitanism.Few pianists could power their way through Liszt's Transcendental Etudes or Weber's Konzertstueck like Arrau.As played by Arrau, the slow, tragic figures adumbrate much of Chopin; they certainly point the way to Hummel.It was Artur Schnabel who first brought forth the melancholy beauty of Schubert's C Minor Allegretto; Arrau plays it as a somber etude, a study in dynamic touches.His 1970 reading of the Liszt Sonata is little short of Herculean, a stylish ride through Liszt's alternately Stygian and Empyrean ecstasies.Steinway "ping" is evident).Trois Nouvelles Etudes, smoothly serpentine, harmonically audacious.Impromptu, colors and eroticism in abundance.Eusebius proves just as assertive as Florestan, the Steinway sonics much better contained in the higher registers.In the course of Schumann's exalted and amorous figures, Arrau manages to hang some translucent fire.Tape hiss intrudes into the 1952 Eroica Variations, which prove hard and percussive, boxy on the engineering side, but still stylistic Beethoven.Arrau strives for an orchestral resonance, and he gets it.This set, while reviewing much familiar territory for Arrau admirers, must occupy pride of place in any basic consideration of Arrau's legacy.Claudio Arrau, renowned throughout the world as one of the supreme keyboard masters of the century, stands today at the summit of his long and legendary career, for the one artistic goal he has pursued for a lifetime: the total fusion of virtuosity and meaning.Where other famous pianists play the piano for excitement, power or display, Arrau plays to probe, to divine, to interpret.Says Arrau, "An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted."The famed late doyen of London music critics, Sir Neville Cardus of the Guardian, explained Arrau vividly: "Arrau is the complete pianist.He can revel in the keyboard for its own pianistic sake, representing to us the instrument's range and power, but he can also go beyond piano playing as we are led by his art to the secret chambers of the creative imagination."His pianissimo is more eloquent, more mysterious than that of others, and his fortissimo has more depth of dimension and is more limitless."At 86, Arrau today is a legend in his own lifetime, not only for the penetrating profundity of his interpretations, but for a still transcendent virtuosity completely at the service of his art.Dieskau is, is somehow onesided, somehow without spiritual grandeur."Arrau is definitely not onesided or without spiritual grandeur.Having won particular fame as a great Beethoven interpreter, he is no less celebrated for his Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Brahms and Debussy.Among the famed peers of his generation, it is a range without equal.He has played cycles of the complete 32 piano sonatas in New York, London, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Mexico City and most of the sonatas in Zurich, Paris and Hamburg.Philips Records and released throughout the world.He has also recorded a great many of the solo works of Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, Schubert and Liszt, including the awesome 12 Transcendental Etudes, a feat which he pulled off in time for his 75th birthday celebrations.CD set consisting of Bach's "Goldberg" Variations and the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, recorded in 1941.By the time Arrau was 32, he had not only played the 32 Beethoven Sonatas and all the Schubert and Mozart Sonatas as well as Weber in cycles of concerts, but also, all of the keyboard works of Bach in a series of 12 recitals which made him a legend in Berlin.Arrau is the only pianist alive who, at any rate while he is playing, can convince people that he is the outstanding interpreter of all these composers and a good many others too."The New York Times, along with every other paper including Time Magazine, gave him rave reviews.The following season he played over 100 concerts across the United States and Canada and had the additional distinction of being invited back to play twice in that same season with both the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras.In fact, with the exception of Peking, there is probably not an important city, large or small, anywhere in the world where Arrau has not been heard.There were also TV documentaries both in London and Germany.As part of the continuing 80th birthday celebrations, Arrau returned to his native Chile in May 1984 as a symbol of peace after an absence of 17 years, to play as he said, "For a whole new generation which has never heard me," and was given a reception probably without equal since the time of Paderewski's return to Poland after World War I and Liszt's return to Hungary under the Austrians in 1839.His fervent wish: "Another hundred years just to read."Since 1941, Arrau and his late wife Ruth, made Douglaston, New York, their home base and also a summer home in Vermont, where he loves to retreat for rest and quiet, sometimes with his children and grandchildren and always with his beloved cats and dogs.Arrau became an American citizen in February 1979, but retains dual passports.Claudio Arrau was born in Chillan Chile, on February 6, 1903 and like most of history's great pianists, was a child prodigy.He was Martin Krause, a pupil of Liszt's, a famous music critic and the friend of all the great musicians of his time.Between the young boy and the grand pedagogue, it was love at first sight.In Berlin, the young boy heard all the great pianists of the day; Terese Carreno, d'Albert and later, Busoni, and they all became his idols, especially Carreno and Busoni.At 15, when Krause died from the great flu epidemic of1918, Arrau was 1eft without a teacher.But so much had been imparted to him that he preferred to go on by himself, winning the famed Liszt Prize twice in a row at ages 16 and 17.Thus, when Arrau, at 20, arrived for his Carnegie Hall debut on October 20, 1923, he was already a seasoned artist who had played throughout Europe since the age of 11, had appeared with Nikisch in Leipzig at 12, and at 17, had made smash debuts both in London (at the Royal Albert Hall) and in Berlin with the Berlin Philharmonic under Karl Muck.Arrau had come to the United States for a promised tour of 30 dates and found himself with only five (in those days things like that happened even to veterans like Carreno and Busoni): three concerts in New York and appearances with the Boston and Chicago Symphonies.Boston under Monteux and Chicago under Stock were splendid.Carnegie Hall, with the house mostly empty, was far less so.Berlin, after World War I, was boiling over with new ideas.The spirit of Busoni, d'Albert and Ansorge were still everywhere, Schnabel and Edwin Fischer were on the rise, and both freedom of expression and fidelity to the text were the order of the day.Died: 1991 AD, at 88 years of age.Toured in the Soviet Union.He played the complete keyboard works of J.Bach followed by the complete keyboard works of Mozart.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.He performed such a series, in which each recital was broadcast live by the BBC.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, and became a naturalized citizen of the U.He returned at the age of 81 to tour Chile, his first performances there in 17 years.Beethoven Sonata No 32 (DVD)VAI 4388 Mozart: Sonata No.Telecast of March 5, 1964, 60 min. |
