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Claudio
Arrau
Piano 1903 - 1991 www.arrauhouse.org |
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Claudio
Arrau
Piano 1903 - 1991 www.arrauhouse.org |
| 'ArrauHouse'
- A
Chronology |
| Maturity
Period - 1962 to 1991 |
| 1962 | ||
| 1962 | Netherlands | Performance
of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with The Royal Concertgebouw
Orchestra of Amsterdam [Das Koninklijk Concertgebouw Orchester Amsterdam]
conducted by Eugen Jochum. |
| 1962 |
Netherlands |
A
Beethoven complete piano concerto cycle with the Concertgebouw
Orchestra in June. |
| 1962
|
Netherlands
|
Signs
a long-term recording contract with Philips, subsequently renewed for
life, resulting in his well-known, extensive recordings of works by
Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, Schumann, Debussy, Schubert, and Mozart,
as well as a sample of Bach, Grieg, and Tchaikovsky. |
| 1962-1970 |
Netherlands |
Records
his celebrated, complete Beethoven piano sonata and concerto
cycles for Philips. |
| 1962 |
England |
International
Celebrity Recital at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Wednesday
6th June at 8 pm, of a programme consisting of the following
works: |
| 1962 |
England |
Performance
in London of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.3, Weber's Konzerstück
Op.79, and Liszt's Totentanz, under Sir Adrian Boult
conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra
on 21st June. Maestro Arrau played in aid of the humanitarian programmes assisted by The British United Nations Association. |
| 1962 |
Australia |
Eight-week tour of Australia (over July-August-September) for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC). |
| 1962 |
Australia |
Recital
at the Sydney Town Hall on 30th July, with the following programme: > Mozart: Sonata K.576 > Brahms: Variations & Fugue on a Theme by Handel Op.24 > Debussy: Twelve préludes Book I > Debussy: L'isle joyeuse |
| 1962 |
Australia |
Performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.1 Op.15, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under visiting conductor Jascha Horenstein at the Sydney Town Hall on Tuesday 7th August at 8:00 pm, as part of the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Twenty-Seventh Season. The
programme also included Mozart's 'Symphony No.39 K.543, and Petrassi's
Concerto for Orchestra No.1 (first performance in Australia). |
| 1962 |
Australia |
Performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.3, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by visiting conductor Jascha Horenstein at the Sydney Town Hall on Saturday 11th August at 8:00 pm, as part of the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Twenty-Seventh Season. The evening also included Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro' overture, and Bruckner's Symphony No.3 in D minor. M.L.,
from Sydney's Daily Telegraph of 13th August, provides a review on
Horenstein's and Arrau's performances under the title 'Music on a
Heroic Scale'. The printed programme shows a repeat scheduled for Monday 13th August. |
| 1962 |
Australia |
Private recital given by visiting pianist Claudio Arrau on Sunday 12th August for the benefit of the 'Victoria League in New South Wales' (that is, the Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship). The recital was held at the Woollahra home of Lady Lloyd Jones, in Rosemont, hosted by the chair of the league, Mrs. H.B. Farncomb, who welcomed more than 100 guests to the recital. Mr. Arrau was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Ruth Arrau. The General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sir Charles Moses, introduced Mr. Arrau, who performed the following works: >
Beethoven's Rondo Op.51 No.2 [Journalist account of the occasion and photograph of Claudio Arrau and Lady Lloyd Jones found on the Sydney Morning Herald of Monday 13th August] |
| 1962 |
Australia |
Performances in Melbourne in mid August. |
| 1962 |
Australia |
Recitals
at the Sydney Town Hall - 30th August all-Beethoven programme: > Pastorale Sonata Op.28 > Sonata Op.31 No.1 > Hammerklavier Sonata Op.106 7th September all-Beethoven programme: > Sonata Op.2 No. 2 > Sonata Op.101 > Sonata Op. 109 > Waldstein Sonata Op.53 |
| 1962 |
U.S.A. |
The
Philharmonic Hall Program 1962-1963,
published in New York by Saturday
Review Inc, contains 52 pages of musical articles, ads and photographs,
in addition to a 16-page central chapter about Maestro Arrau, including: |
| 1962 |
U.S.A. |
Complete
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle at the Philharmonic Hall,
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, of New York. |
| 1962 |
U.S.A. |
Complete
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle at the Philharmonic Hall,
Lincoln
Center for the Performing Arts,
of New York. |
| 1962 |
U.S.A. |
Complete
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle at the Philharmonic Hall,
Lincoln
Center for the Performing Arts,
of New York. |
| 1963 | ||
| 1963 | U.S.A. | Performance on 2nd February at the Foothill College Gymnasium, Los Altos, California, as part of the Los Altos Concert Series. |
| 1963 | U.S.A. | Performances of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Liszt's Totentanz (Paraphrase on the 'Dies Irae') for Pianoforte and Orchestra, with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra conducted by Milton Katims on 11th and 12th February. |
| 1963 | U.S.A. | Under
the title 'Arrau at 60 ', the
March issue of Musical America publishes on page 27 a tight account
of Claudio Arrau's biography, awards, concert tours and remarkable career,
written by Thomas F. Johnson. |
| 1963 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. |
| 1963 | Netherlands | Performances of Grieg’s Piano Concerto Op 16 and Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam [Das Koninklijk Concertgebouw Orchester Amsterdam] conducted by Christoph von Dohnanyi. |
| 1963 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg [NDR Sinfonieorchester] conducted by Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt. |
| 1963 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Hans Werner Henze. |
| 1963 | Switzerland | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Zurich Townhall Symphony Orchestra [Tonhalle Orchester Zürich] conducted by Erich Schmid. |
| 1963 | Switzerland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Nello Santi conducting the Zurich Townhall Symphony Orchestra [Tonhalle Orchester Zürich]. |
| 1963 | Italy | Recital on 20th May as part of 'I Concerti di Lugano', with a programme including the following works: >
Brahms: Variazioni e fuga su un tema di Händel op.24 |
| 1963 | Scotland | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson. |
| 1963 | England | Performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by George Hurst. |
| 1963 |
England |
Celebrates
his sixtieth birthday with a performance of Beethoven's
complete piano concerto cycle under Otto Klemperer
at the London Festival Hall. |
| 1963 | England | Performances
of Brahms’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 1 at the Royal Festival Hall,
with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
on Wednesday 5th June at 8:00 pm. The programme also included Brahms's Academic Festival Overture. |
| 1963 | England | Performances
of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 at the Royal Festival
Hall, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian
Boult on Wednesday 12th June at 8:00 pm. The programme also included Beethoven's Overtures Leonore No.3 and Egmont. |
| 1963 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 and Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2, at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles Groves, on Saturday 15th June at 7:30 pm, as part of the Summer Series. |
| 1963 |
England |
All-Beethoven
recital at the Royal Festival Hall of London on Thursday 20th June
at 8:00 pm. The programme comprised: |
| 1963 |
England |
All-Chopin
recital at the Royal Festival Hall of London on Thursday 27th June
at 8:00 pm. The programme comprised: |
| 1963 |
Switzerland |
Performance
of Schumann's Piano Concerto Op.54 at the Kunsthaus, as part of the
'Internationale Musik-Festwochen' in Lucerne on Saturday 7th September
at 7:30 pm, with the Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester conducted by
André Cluytens. The programme commenced with Haydn's Symphonie No.96 The Miracle and concluded with Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. |
| 1963 |
Belgium |
Performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 L'Empereur Op.73, as part of the 'Nuits de Septembre' at Liège, on Sunday 15th September, with the Orchestre de Liège conducted by Fernand Quinet. Broadcast by Radio Musiq3, Belgium, on 11th December 2010. |
| 1963
|
Germany
|
Winner
of the 1963 Deutscher Schallplattenpreis
for the recordings in 1960 and 1962 of Brahm's Piano Concertos Nos.
1 and 2, respectively, with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Carlo
Maria Giulini, for the English Columbia label (EMI). |
| 1963 |
England |
As
part of The Beethoven Festival 1963 at the Royal Festival Hall
in London, performances of Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 &
5 with The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer,
on Tuesday
12th, Saturday 16th & Saturday 23rd November. |
| 1963 |
U.S.A. |
Recital
at The Library of Congress, Washington, with The
Juilliard Quartet, on 19th December:
> Schubert's Quintent for Piano and Strings in A, D.667 (The Trout), and > Franck's Quintet for Piano and String in F minor. [DOREMI 2-CD, DHR-5701, 2003] |
| 1964 | ||
| 1964 | Netherlands | Performances of Beethoven’s complete piano concerto cycle with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam [Das Königliche Concertgebouw Orchester Amsterdam] and Bernard Haitink conducting. |
| 1964 |
Germany |
Inauguration
of the Berlin
Philharmonic's New Philharmonic Hall with
a complete Beethoven sonata cycle. |
| 1964 | Germany
|
Beethoven-Arrau
Cycle in three evenings - Performances in Berlin, at the first gala season of the new Philharmonie Hall, of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 5 on the 12th of March, repeated on the 13th; and Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 on the 15th of March, repeated on the 16th, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] and Bernard Haitink conducting. Tickets sold-out in January. [Concerto No.4 and Choral Fantasy in April] Press raves published by Berlin Tagesspiegel and Berlin Kurier of 13th March, Berlin Tagesbericht of 14th March, Berlin Morgenpost of 15th March, Der Abend of Berlin on 16th March. |
| 1964 | Germany | Beethoven-Arrau
Cycle in three evenings (conclusion) - Performances in Berlin at the new Philharmonie Hall of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Choral Fantasy with piano and orchestra Op 80, on the 18th of April, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. |
| 1964 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Rafael Jeroným Kubelík conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra [Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks]. |
| 1964 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra [Hamburger Philharmoniker] conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. |
| 1964 | England | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir John Michael Pritchard. |
| 1964 | Mexico | Concerto
performances with Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sinfónica
Nacional] conducted by Edouard van Remoortel on the 15th
and 17th of May. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1964 | Mexico | Recital
on the 18th of May. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1964 | England | Perforformance
at the Royal Albert Hall of London on Thursday 4th June at 7:30
pm, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian
Boult. The programme consisted of: |
| 1964 | England | All-Beethoven
piano
recital at the Royal Albert Hall of London on Sunday 7th June
at 7:30 pm. The programme included: |
| 1964 | U.S.A. | Performance
of Mozart's Piano Concerto No.15 in B flat major K.450 with the Boston
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf on
Friday 3rd July at 8:00 pm. |
| 1964 | U.S.A. | Performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 16 (K451), with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf on 4th July. |
| 1964 | France | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with L’Orchestre national de France conducted by Jascha Horenstein. |
| 1964 |
Puerto
Rico |
Performances
at the Pablo Casals' Festival. |
| 1964 |
Israel |
Fifth
concert tour. |
| 1964 |
Japan |
First
concert tour of Japan, under the sponsorship of the Osaka Festival.
The most enthusiastic welcome by critics and the public. |
| 1964 |
England |
Performance
of Brahms's Piano
Concerto No.2 in B flat on
Sunday 8th November, with the Hallé
Orchestra of Manchester, conducted by Francesco Mander,
at the Free Trade Hall of Manchester, this being the Hallé Concerts
Society's 107th Season. The programme commenced with Vivaldi's Concerto Grosso in A minor (for 2 violins, strings and organ), and concluded with Moussorgsky/ Ravel's Pictures from an Exhibition. |
| 1964 |
England |
Performance
of Brahms's Piano
Concerto No.1 in D minor Op.15 on
Thursday 10th November at 7:30 pm, with the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Charles Groves. The programme commenced with Haydn's Symphony No.102 in B flat, and Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem Op.20. |
| 1964 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Laszlo Somogyi conducting. |
| 1964 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Josef Krips. |
| 1964
|
U.S.A.
|
Recital
at The Library of Congress, Washington, with The
Juilliard Quartet,
on 12th December:M |
| 1965 | ||
| 1965 |
U.S.A. |
Recital at the Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Centre of New York, on Tuesday 16th February at 8:30 pm, with an all-Beethoven program. |
| 1965
|
U.S.A.
|
Recital
at the Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Centre of New York, on Tuesday 23rd
February at 8:30 pm, with a program consisting of: |
| 1965 |
U.S.A. |
Recital at the Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Centre of New York, on Wednesday 3rd March at 8:30 pm, with a program including works by Brahms, Schumann, and Debussy. |
| 1965
|
Argentina
|
Beethoven's
complete piano concerto cycle at the Teatro Colón
of Buenos Aires, where, for the first time ever in the history of this
theatre,1 1,000 additional spectators in
every concert were allowed to attend standing up. |
| 1965 |
Colombia |
Performances
in September. |
| 1965 |
Poland |
Return
tour, after a 27-year absence. Lavishing praise from Warsaw critics. Maestro Arrau was presented with the Mask of Chopin (a cast of Chopin's hand), and Chopin's facsimile manuscripts. |
| 1965 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor, with the London Symphony Orchestra and Colin Davis conducting. |
| 1965 | France | Cover page photograph of Maestro Arrau on Le Guide du Concert weekly magazine no. 457, of 22nd to 28th May. |
| 1965 | France | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with L’Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg conducted by Alceo Galliera. http://arrausite.free.fr/Index.html |
| 1965 | France | Standing ovation in Paris after Arrau's interpretation of Schubert's great Sonata in B flat. |
| 1965 | France | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with L’Orchestre national de France conducted by Zubin Mehta. |
| 1965 |
France |
Awarded
the Chevalier de l'ordre des arts
et des lettres. |
| 1965 | Japan | Début
at the Osaka Festival Hall on Saturday 24th April, including performances
of Brahms's Piano Concertos 1 and 2 in the same evening, with the Japan
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Takashi Asahina.
A review by Ernst Gottschalk, for the Asahi Evening News of 26th April, highlights the superior attributes of Mr Arrau's artistry, which showed through its performances despite a low quality piano and an unsure conductor. An all-Beethoven solo recital took place on Monday 26th April. |
| 1965 |
England |
Performance
of Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 in A, and Strauss's Burlesque in D minor,
at the Royal Festival Hall of London, as part of the "LSO International
Series", with the London Symphony Orchestra under Colin
Davis, on Sunday 20th of June at 7:30 pm. The programme commenced with Stravinsky's Symphony in C and concluded with Sibelius's Symphony No.3 in C. |
| 1965 |
England |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat, at the Royal Festival
Hall of London, as part of the "LSO International Series",
with the London Symphony Orchestra under Colin Davis,
on Sunday 27th of June. The programme commenced with Tippett's Symphony No.2 and concluded with Berlioz's Harold in Italy. |
| 1965 | Switzerland | Performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Zurich Townhall Symphony Orchestra [Tonhalle Orchester Zürich] conducted by Zubin Mehta. |
| 1965 | Scotland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 Op.73 The Emperor, at the Usher Hall on Monday 6th September at 8:00 pm, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival. |
| 1965 | Scotland | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at the Usher Hall on Wednesday 8th September at 8:00 pm, with the BBC Scottish Orchestra conducted by Norman Del Mar, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival. |
| 1965 | Germany | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1, with the RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Carlo Zecchi. |
| 1965
|
Germany
|
Winner
of the 1965 Deutscher Schallplattenpreis
for the recordings in 1964 of Beethoven's Five Piano Concertos
with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam under Bernard Haitink
for the Philips label. |
| 1965 | Germany | Article entitled Virtuoser Brahms, by A.S. Mayer, in Bonn's "General Anzeiger" newspaper of 22nd October, with an appraisal of Arrau's performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2 in Duisburg, under Professor Georg Ludwig Jochum conducting the Duisburg Symphonic Orchestra [Duisburger Symphoniker], in a program also including symphonic works by Schubert and Rudi Stephans. |
| 1966 | ||
| 1966 | Scotland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson. |
| 1966 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s complete piano concerto cycle and Fantasia, in a 3-evening all-Beethoven Festival, with The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and The Cincinnati University College-Conservatory Chorus, conducted by Max Rudolf : Tuesday
1st March at 8:30 pm Wednesday
16th March at 8:30 pm |
| 1966 | U.S.A. | Performace of Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 and Totentanz, on Sunday 8th May at 2:30 pm, with the Philadelphia Orchestra under guest conductor Thor Johnson, as part of the University Choral Union's May Festival, presented by the University Musical Society of Michigan. (Where?) The programme commenced with Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, and Delius's Requiem. |
| 1966 | Mexico | Performaces
at the Puebla International Festival on the 10th and 12th of May. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1966 | Mexico | Recital at the 'Festival de Puebla' on Wednesday 11th of May, at the 'Auditorio de la Reforma', Puebla. |
| 1966 | Mexico | Recital
at the 'Festival de Puebla' on Friday 13th of May at 9:00 pm, at
the 'Auditorio de la Reforma', Puebla, with an all-Beethoven programme
consisting of: > Sonata No.30 en mi mayor, Op.109 (1820) > Sonata No.32 en do menor, Op.111 (1821-22) Intermedio > Sonata No.31 en la bemol mayor, Op.110 (1821-22) > Sonata No.23 en fa menor, Op.57 Appassionata (1804-05) |
| 1966 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s complete piano concerto cycle and Fantasia, in a 3-evening program, with The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and The Liverpool Philharmonic Choir conducted by Charles Groves: Sunday
5th June at 7:30 pm Thursday
16th June at 7:30 pm |
| 1966 | England | Piano recital at the Royal Festival Hall of London on 8th June. |
| 1966 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1, with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra [NDR Sinfonieorchester] of Hamburg conducted by Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt. |
| 1966 | Germany | Performance on 24th October of Strauss's Burleske for Piano and Orchestra and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra [Symphonisches Orchester Nürnberg] under Erich Klos. |
| 1966 |
Japan |
Second
concert tour. |
| 1966 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Florida Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Canarina. |
| 1966 |
U.S.A. |
Arrau
celebrates the 25th anniversary of his U.S.A. annual tours, with five
concerts at the New York Philharmonic Hall. |
| 1966-7 |
U.S.A. | Concerto performance in Spartanburg City, with the St Louis Symphony Orchestra, as part of the Concert Series under the auspices of the Spartanburg Civic Music Association, South Carolina. |
| 1967 | ||
| 1967 |
U.S.A. |
Establishes
The Claudio Arrau Foundation
in New York for the encouragement of young musicians. |
| 1967 |
U.S.A. |
Performance
of Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
under visiting conductor Hans Swarowsky on 27th
January. |
| 1967 |
U.S.A. |
Carnegie
Hall's Diamond Jubilee 75th Season |
| 1967 |
U.S.A. |
Carnegie
Hall's Diamond Jubilee 75th Season |
| 1967 | Denmark | Performances of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Militiadis Caridis. |
| 1967 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Antonio Janigro. |
| 1967 | England | Performance
of Schumann’s Piano Concerto, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra
and Sir Adrian Boult conducting, at the Royal Festival
Hall on Thursday 13th April at 8:00 pm. The programme also included Beethoven's Overture Leonore No.3 and Schubert's Symphony No.9 The Great. |
| 1967 | Czechoslovakia | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3, with the Prague Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Zdenek Kosler on the 20th of May
at the Smetana Hall of the Prague Municipal House. [Panton CD 81 1372-2011, Czech Republic, 1994] |
| 1967 | England | Performance on Tuesday 23rd May at the Brent Town Hall, Wembley, Middlesex, as part of the 106th Celebrityy Concert. |
| 1967 | England | Piano
recital on Tuesday 23rd
May at 8:00 pm at the Wembley Town Hall, Middlesex, presented by the
Mill Hill Toc H Music Club, with a programme including: > Beethoven: Sonata in D minor Op.31 No.2 > Schumann: Fantasy in C major Op.17 > Debussy: Estampes > Liszt: Concert Etude No.2 > Liszt: Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este > Liszt: Mephisto Waltz |
| 1967 | England | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the London Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa conducting. |
| 1967 | England | Performance
of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1, with the London Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Seiji Ozawa, at the Royal Festival Hall
of London on Sunday 28th May at 7:30 pm, as part of the LSO 53rd
Annual International Series 1966-67. The programme also included Berlioz's Le Carnaval Romain Op.9, Carrillo's Horizontes (first British performance), and Respighi's The Pines of Rome. |
| 1967 | Chile | After
a euphoric welcome to the country by high Chilean dignataries,
gala
recital at the Teatro Municipal of Santiago on Saturday 22nd July
at 7:00 pm, in aid of the Claudio Arrau Foundation for the Young Musician
(Santiago - New York), with a programme consisting of: > Beethoven: Sonata in C major Op.2 No.3 > Beethoven: Sonata in C minor Op.111 Interval - > Debussy: Images Book I > (Reflets dans l'eau. Homage a Rameau. Mouvement.) > Chopin: Ballade No.3 Op.47 > Chopin: Ballade No.4 Op.52 > Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in B minor Op.20 |
| 1967 |
Chile |
Recital
performance at the Teatro Caupolicán of Santiago on 24th
July. Works performed were drawn from the following repertoire:
|
| 1967 | Germany | German
Fonoforum magazine of August includes
an article by Ingo Harden entitled 'Bekenntnis im Studio, Claudio Arrau
beendete seinen Beethoven-Zyklus' [Studio commitment: Claudio Arrau completed
his Beethoven cycle], containing an interview on, and survey of Arrau's,
32 Bethoven Sonatas on Philips LPs. Pages 452, 453, 454 and 456. Two photographs. |
| 1967 | Scottland | Recital
at the Usher Hall on Friday 25th August at 8:00 pm, as part of
the Edinburgh International Festival, with a programme consisting of:
> Beethoven: Eroica Variations Op.35 > Mozart: Fantasy and Sonata in C minor K 475 and 457 Interval - > Debussy: Estampes (complete) > Chopin: Scherzo in B minor Op.20 > Chopin: Nocturne in C sharp minor Op.27 No.1 > Chopin: Allegro de concert Op.46 |
| 1967 | Switzerland | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2, with the Zurich Townhall Symphony Orchestra [Tonhalle Orchester Zürich] conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. |
| 1967 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5, Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, and Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Max Rudolf. |
| 1967 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Laszlo Somogyi. |
| 1967 | U.S.A. | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1, with Charles Mackerras conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1968 | ||
| 1968 |
World |
World
tour, including Australia, New Zealand, the Soviet Union, Israel, all
Europe, Japan, South America, Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. |
| 1968 |
Mexico |
Recital
at the 'Teatro de Bellas Artes' of Mexico City on Tuesday 27th February,
marking Maestro Arrau's 35th anniversary of his debut in Mexico, and as
part of the 'Festival Internacional de las Artes' attached to the Cultural
Programme of the XIX Olympic Games. The programme comprised the following works: > Beethoven: 15 Variations and Fugue > Schumann: Fantasy in C minor > Debussy: Images Book I > Chopin: Ballade No. 3 Op.47 > Chopin: Ballade No. 4 Op. 52 > Chopin: Scherzo No. 1 Op.20 |
| 1968 |
Mexico |
Recital
at the 'Teatro de Bellas Artes' of Mexico City on Thursday 29th February,
marking Maestro Arrau's 35th anniversary of his debut in Mexico, and as
part of the 'Festival Internacional de las Artes' attached to the Cultural
Programme of the XIX Olympic Games. The programme comprised the following works: > Schubert: Fantasy in C major Op.15 > Mozart: Fantasy K.475 and Sonata in C major K.457 > Debussy: Pour le piano > Chopin: Fantasy in F minor Op.49 > Chopin: Nocturne in B major Op.62 No.2 > Chopin: Scherzo No.4 in E major Op.54 |
| 1968 | Mexico | Peformances
of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.1
with Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional]
under Luis Herrera de la Fuente, at the 'Palacio de Bellas
Artes' of Mexico City on 1st and 3rd of March (Friday and Sunday,
respectively), as part of the 'Festival Internacional de las Artes 1968'. The programme also included: R. Halffter's Don Lindo de Almería, and Stravinsky's Le sacre du printemps. |
| 1968 |
Germany |
An
all-Chopin recital on 27th March, as part of the Kassel Meisterzyklus. |
| 1968 | Germany | Performances
on 18th April, repeated on 19th April, of Chopin’s
Piano Concerto No. 2 and Liszt’s Totentanz for
piano and orchestra, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner
Philharmoniker] conducted by Theodor Bloomfield. Salzburg's Der Tagesspiegel of 20th April includes an enthusiastic appraisal by Walther Kaempfer entitled Dämonische Faszination - Arrau mit den Philhatmonikern [Demonic fascination - Arrau with the Philharmonic]. Berlin's Der Welt of 20th April contains an article by M-R entitled Alle Himmel der Virtuosität [Heavens of virtuosity]. And Berlin's Der Telegraf of 20th April includes an appraisal by KW entitled Triumph Arraus. |
| 1968 | Germany | Performances
on 22nd April, repeated on 23rd April, of Schumann’s
Piano Concerto and Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79 with the Berlin
Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] under Gerd Albrecht.
Arrau's sixty-five birthday concerts organised by the Berlin Philharmonic, highly acclaimed by the critics on 24th April [Der Abend] and 25th April [Berliner Zeitung, Morgenpost, Die Welt] |
| 1968 | Germany | Performance of Weber's Konzertstück für Klavier und Orchester Op.79 and Schumann’s Konzert für Klavier und Orchester Op 54, with Gerd Albrecht at the Philharmonie conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester] on Tuesday 23rd April, with a program also including Mendelssohn's Symphonie Nr 3 Op.56 and Schumann's Ouverture zu Byrons dramatischen Gedicht 'Manfred" Op.115. |
| 1968 | Germany | Performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with Rafael Jeroným Kubelík conducting the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra [Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks]. |
| 1968 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra [Kölner Radio Symphonieorchester] conducted by Ferdinand Leitner. |
| 1968 |
URSS |
Returns
to the Soviet Union to sold-0ut concerts in May, after a 38-year
absence. Welcomed with the greatest aclaim, this was an event
of major musical significance for Arrau and a revelation for music lovers,
particularly young musicians. Arrau gave two concerts in Leningrad, two in Moscow, and one in Kiev. Leningrad: > Beethoven's Piano Concertos 4 & 5 with the Leningrad Philharmonic. Moscow on 31 May: > Brahm's Piano Concertos 1 & 2 with the URSS Grand Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. Kiev [?]: |
| 1968 |
England |
Performance
of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat, with the London Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Gennadi
Rozhdestvensky,
at the Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday 25th June, as part of the
LSO
54th International Series 1967-68. The programme concluded with Prokofiev's Cantata Alexander Nevsky, with Mezzo-Soprano Jean Allister and the LSO Chorus. |
| 1968 | Asutralia | Article in Melbourne's 'The Age' of 13th August, entitled 'The Modest Master: Claudio Arrau at 65', examining the Maestro's distinguishing musical qualities, conceptions, techniques, and interpretation approaches. Claudio Arrau was appearing in the current Melbourne season. |
| 1968 | Asutralia | Performance
of Beethoven's Pinao Concerto No.1 and Brahms's Piano Concerto No.1,
with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Hopkins,
at a sold-out Sydney Town Hall on Suturday 17th August. |
| 1968 | Asutralia | Performance
at the Sydney Town Hall, as part of the A.B.C.'s Subscription Concerts,
on Thursday 22st August, with a programme which included Brahms's
Piano Concerto No.2. The Sydney Symphony Orchestra was conducted by
Ferdinand Leitner. |
| 1968 | Asutralia | Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5, with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Ferdinand Leitner at the Sydney Town Hall
on Suturday 24th August. |
| 1968 |
Australia |
Recitals
at the Sydney Town Hall in September - |
| 1968 | France | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting L’Orchestre national de France. |
| 1968 | Scotland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3, with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson. |
| 1968 | England | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 and Liszt’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, with Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| 1968 | England | Performances of Brahms’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 in June at the Royal Festival Hall, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gennadi Rozhdestvensky. |
| 1968 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.2, with Josef Krips conducting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1969 | ||
| 1969 | Mexico | Recitals at the 'Teatro de Bellas Artes' of Mexico City on 24th and 27th of February at 9:00 pm, with the following pogrammes: Monday
24th: |
| 1969 | Switzerland | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Zurich Townhall Symphony Orchestra [Tonhalle Orchester Zürich] conducted by Antal Dorati. |
| 1969 | Germany | Performances of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor with the RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester conducted by Karel Ancerl. |
| 1969 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Hiroyuki Iwaki conducting the Frankfort Radio Symphony Orchestra [Rundfunksinfonie Orchester Frankfurt]. |
| 1969 |
Germany |
Recital
on the 14th April, as part of the 1968/69 Kassel Concert Season,
with a program including works by Beethoven, Debussy and Liszt. |
| 1969 |
Germany |
Peters
Verklag Publising House of Frankfurt commissions Professor Claudio Arrau
an edition of Beethoven's Complete Sonatas from the composer's
original manuscripts. |
| 1969 |
Germany |
Winner
of the 1969 Deutscher Schallplattenpreis
for his 1967 & 1968 recordings of Schumann's Sonate Op.11
and Fantasiestücke Op.111, for the Philips label. |
| 1969 |
England |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, at the Royal Festival Hall (as
part of the "Music on the South Bank" series), with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, on Sunday
4th May at 7:30 pm. The programmme also included Schubert's Overture in the Italian Style and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.4 in F minor.. This performances were boradcast live by the BBC. |
| 1969 |
England |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, at the Royal Festival Hall (as
part of the "Music on the South Bank" series), with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, on Thursday
8th May at 8:00 pm. The programmme also included Bruckner's Symphony No.9 in D minor. These performances were boradcast live by the BBC. |
| 1969 |
England |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, at the Royal Festival Hall (as
part of the "Music on the South Bank" series), with the London
Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, on Sunday
11th May at 7:30 pm. The programmme also included Shostakovich's Symphony No.4 in C minor. These performances were boradcast live by the BBC. |
| 1969 | England | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the London Symphony Orchestra
under Antal Dorati at the Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday
17th June at 8:00 pm, as part of the LSO International Series 1968-69. The programme commenced with Brahms's Symphony No.1. |
| 1969 | England | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra
under Daniel Barenboim at the Royal Festival Hall on
Tuesday 1st July at 8:00 pm. The programme also included Beethoven's Symphony No.3 Eroica. |
| 1969 |
Scotland |
Performance
of Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor Op.11 at the Usher Hall,
as part of the 'Edinburgh International Festival' program, with the
Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli,
on
Saturday 6th September at 8:00 pm. The programme also included: Malipiero's Sinfonia delle Campane, and Sibelius's Symphony No.5 in E flat major Op.82. |
| 1969 |
Scotland |
Piano recital at the Usher Hall, on Monday 8th September at 8:00 pm, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival 1969, with a programme consisting of the following works: >
Mozart: Sonata in D major K576 |
| 1969 |
Israel |
Article
by Yehuda Cohen in the Jedioth Hadashoth of 10th September, entitled
Claudio Arrau beschliesst die Festspiele, leitet die Beethovenfeiern
ein [Claudio Arrau defines the festival, leads the Beethoven celebrations],
considers Arrau a Beethoven interpreter par excellence. The
last evening of the 1969 Israeli Festival at Jerusalem is described
as the prelude to the Beethoven centenary celebrations, 16 months prior
to his 200th birth anniversary. Claudio Arrau's recital at
the Roman Theater in Caesaria, Jerusalem, consisted
of four
Beethoven sonatas. |
| 1969 | Netherlands | Performances of Brahms’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam [Das Königliche Concertgebouw Orchester Amsterdam] conducted by Bernard Haitink. |
| 1969 | Austria | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra [Wiener Symphoniker] conducted by Josef Krips. |
| 1969 | Austria | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with Ferdinand Leitner conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra [Wiener Symphoniker]. |
| 1969 | U.S.A. | Performances of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Weber’s Konzertstück op 79, with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Maryland) conducted by Sergiu Commissiona. |
| 1970 | ||
| 1970
|
U.S.A.
|
Recital
at The Philharmonic Hall on 15th February with a program consisting
of: |
| 1970 | England | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bernard Haitink. |
| 1970 | England | Performances of Chopin’s Piano Concertos Nos.1 and 2, as well as Krakowiak Op 14, with Eliahu Inbal conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| 1970 |
Germany |
Pro Musica: All-Beethoven recital at the Philharmonie of Berlin on Friday 10th April at 8 pm, including: >
Sonate Es-dur Op.7 |
| 1970 | Austria | Review
by f.e. in the Die Presse of Vienna (April), entitled
'So spielt man Liszt' [Thus plays
Liszt], of a recital at the Großen Musikvereinssaal [Grand
Music Hall], including works by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy and Liszt. Review of the above recital by F.W. in the Vienna 'AZ ' publication of 16th April, entitled 'Ein unwirscher Beethoven' [A temperamental Beethoven]. |
| 1970 | Germany | The Vienna 'Express' of 16th April includes an article by Franz Tassié, entitled 'Phönix in der Asche - Im Musikverein: Klavierabend Claudio Arrau' [Phoenix in the ashes - Claudio Arrau piano recital at the Music Association], praising Maestro Arrau's rendition of works by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy and Liszt at the Great Music Hall. |
| 1970 | Germany | The Munich 'Kölner Stadt Anzeiger' of 17th April includes an article by Ingeborg Schwenke-Runkel, entitled 'Entrückt-introvertierter Beethoven - Claudio Arrau und die Bayer-Philharmoniker Musizierten im Erholungshaus ', appraising Maestro Arrau's rendition of Beethoven Piano Concerto No.3 with the Bayer Philharmonik Orchestra at the Erholungshause. |
| 1970 | Germany | The Münster 'W. Zeirung' of 18th April includes an article by -t-k, entitled 'Claudio Arrau im Musikverein', appraising Maestro Arrau's recent recital of woks by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, and Liszt at the Große Musikvereinssaal. |
| 1970 | France | Cover page photograph of Maestro Arrau on Le guide du concert, du disque, de la musiqye et du son, no. 567 of 25th April. |
| 1970 |
Germany |
Bonn:
Beethoven's Bicentenary Festival in early May: > Beethoven Master Class at the University of Bonn. > Filmed recital at the Bonn Beethoven Festival. Rave reviews of Arrau's rendition of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 on the Festival's second session, published in the Bonner Rundschau and the Bonn General-Anzieger of 5th May. Overwhelming ovations. Rave reviews of Arrau's two-and-a-half-hour recital of Beethoven's sonatas, on the Festival's fourth session, including sonatas Nos. 23 Op.57 Appassionata, 26 Op.81a Les adieux, and 30 Op.109, published in the Bonn General-Anzieger and Bonn Rundschau of 7th May, and in the Rhein-Zeitung and Bonn Rundschau of 8th May. Overwhelming ovations. |
| 1970 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4, with Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducting the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 17th May at 7:30 pm, as part of the 'Music on the South Bank' program. |
| 1970 |
England |
Performances in celebration of Beethoven Centenary 1970 at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, with The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir conducted by Charles Groves. including the following programmes: Friday
19th June at 7:30 pm - Friaday
3rd July at 7:30 pm - Tuesday
7th July at 7:30 pm |
| 1970 |
England |
Performances
of Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4, at the Royal Festival Hall,
as part of the "Music on the South Bank" program, with the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Lawrence Foster,
on Tuesday 23rd June at 8:00 pm. The programme also included J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F. |
| 1970 | England | All-Beethoven
recital at the Royal Festival Hall, on Friday 26th June at 8:00
pm, as part of the 'Music on the South Bank' program. Works performed
were: |
| 1970 |
England |
Performances
of Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3, at the Royal Festival Hall,
as part of the "Music on the South Bank" program, with the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Lawrence Foster,
on Sunday 28th June at 7:30 pm. |
| 1970 | England | All-Beethoven
recital in aid of the British Red Cross Society (London), on the occasion
of the Red Cross Centenary, at the Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday
1st July. The program comprised: |
| 1970 |
England |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, at the Royal Festival Hall, as
part of the "Music on the South Bank" program, with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra under Lawrence Foster, on Thursday
9th July at 8:00 pm. |
| 1970 |
England |
All-Beethoven
recital at the Cheltenham Town Hall, Gloucestershire, on Saturday
11th July at 11:00 am, as part of the Cheltenham Festival 3-12
July 1970. The programme included the following works: |
| 1970 |
Germany |
Awarded Das Bundesverdienstkreuz (The Federal Cross of Merit), officially known as Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany), one of West Germany's highest decorations. The Medal was awarded to Claudio Arrau in September, for his lifelong dedication to the music of Beethoven, at the conclusion of the Beethoven International Festival in Bonn, which opened the official Beethoven Bicentennial celebrations in 1970 . |
| 1970 |
Germany |
Winner
of the 1970
Deutscher Schallplattenpreis
for the 1969 recordings of Brahms' Two Piano Concertos with
the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam under Bernard Haitink,
for the Philips label. |
| 1970 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the South German Radio Symphony Orchestra [Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) Symphoniker] of Stuttgart conducted by Uri(el) Segal. |
| 1970 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted by Hans-Martin Schneidt. |
| 1970 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted by Václav Neumann. |
| 1970 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Eliahu Inbal. |
| 1970 | U.S.A. | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Louis Lane conducting The Cleveland Orchestra. |
| 1970 | Mexico | All-Beethoven
recital at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México [UNAM]
on the 9th of December. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1971 | ||
| 1971 |
U.S.A. |
Performs
Brahm's Piano Concerto No. 2 at The New York Philharmonic Hall
under Karl Böhm as guest conductor of The New
York Philharmonic Orchestra on 4th March. [Review entitled "Two Vigorous Veterans" by Raymond Ericson in The New York Times of 06 March] |
| 1971 | U.S.A. | Performances of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra under Gerhard Samuel. |
| 1971 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. |
| 1971 | Canada | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Victor Feldbrill. |
| 1971 | Canada | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Toronto National Arts Centre Orchestra conducted by Mario Bernardi. |
| 1971 |
Austria |
Recital
at the Mozarteum on 9th August, interpreting works by Beethoven,
Debussy, and Liszt. |
| 1971 |
Austria |
Fourth
appearance at the Salzburg Festival, Großes Festspielhaus, on
11th August, playing Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
under Alain Lombard conducting the Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra. |
| 1971 |
Netherlands |
Winner
of the 1971 Edison Award
for his 1969 recordings of works by Liszt, including Ballade
No.2, Jeux d'eaux, Petrarch Sonetti 104 & 123, Vallée d'Obermann,
and Valse oubliée No.1, for the Philips label. |
| 1971 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra [Kölner Radio Symphonieorchester] conducted by Zdenek Macal. |
| 1971 | England | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zdenek Macal. |
| 1971 | England | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Adrian Cedric Boult at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday 8th April at 8:00 pm, as part of the 'Music on the South Bank' program. |
| 1971 | England | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Gennadi Rozhdestvensky at the Brighton Festival, in the city of Brighton-and-Hove, on Sunday the 9th of May at 4:00 pm. |
| 1971 | England | Recital
at the Odeon Cinema (Temple Fortune N.W.11) on 11th May at 08
pm, performing the following program - |
| 1971 | Germany | Münster's 'Les Leben-Kulturpolitik' magazine of 25 November 1971 publishes a review by Rudolph Reuter entitled Kongeniales Spiel eines singulären Interpreten [Congenial renditions by a unique interpreter], appraising a recent Arrau recital which included works by Beethoven, Mozart, Debussy and Chopin. |
| 1971 | Israel | Recital
at the Mann Auditorium of Tel-Aviv on Saturday 12th June at 8:30
pm, with a program comprising: > Beethoven’s Sonata in E Flat major Op 7 > Liszt’s Sonata in B minor > Debussy’s Images Book I > Chopin’s Ballade No. 4 in F minor Op 52 > Chopin's Nocturne in B major Op 62 No. 1 > Chopin's Scherzo No. 1 in B minor Op 20 Proceeds to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s Musician Pension Fund. |
| 1971 |
France |
Two
articles in Paris's 'L'Aurore' of Thursday 17th
June, entitled 'Au théâtre
des Champs-Elysées: Claudio Arrau' and 'La
Musique par Clarendon - Claudio Arrau', apprasing the qualities
of a recital given on Tuesday 15th June at the Théâtre
des Champs-Elysées, including - > Liszt's B minor Sonata > Beethoven Sonata No.4 > Debussy's Images Book I > Chopin's Nocturne in B major Op.62 > Chopin's Ballade Op.52, and > Chopin's Scherzo Op.20. |
| 1971 |
Japan |
Interprets
two Beethoven concertos with the Ottawa National Arts Centre Orchestra,
in the northern autumn season, meeting audiences' standing ovations
and highest acclaim. |
| 1971 | Czechoslovakia | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Czechoslovak Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alain Lombard. |
| 1971 |
Switzerland |
Recital
on 17th September at the 'Chiesa del Collegio Papio', Ascona,
with a programme including the following works: > Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.13 in E flat major Op.27 No.1 > Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor > Chopin: Ballade No.4 in F minor Op.52 > Chopin: Nocturne in B major Op.62 No.1 > Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in B minor Op.20 Recorded by 'Radio della Svitzzera Italiana - Rete 2' and first released on CD in 1996 as Ermitage ERM 182-2 ADD. |
| 1971-1973 |
Germany |
Edits
the First Volume of the Complete Beethoven
Piano Sonata Urtext Edition, published by C.F.
Peters Verlag in Frankfurt. |
| 1972 | ||
| 1972 | Mexico | Recital at the 'Palacio de Bellas Artes' of Mexico City, on Monday 28th February at 8:30 pm, presenting the following programme: >
Bethoven: Sonata Op.27 No.1 |
| 1972 | Mexico | Recital
at the 'Palacio de Bellas Artes' of Mexico City, on Monday 6th March
at 8:30 pm, including the following works: |
| 1972 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra [NDR Sinfonieorchester] of Hamburg conducted by Václav Neumann. |
| 1972 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. |
| 1972 | England | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Jascha Horenstein
conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, at London's Royal Festival Hall
on Sunday 16th April at 7:30 pm, as part of the LSO 58th Annual
International Series 1971-72. The programme also comprised Beethoven's Leonore Overture No.2 and Schoenberg's Verklaerte Nacht. |
| 1972 | England | Performances of Chopin’s Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante Op 22, Fantasy on Polish Airs Op 13, and Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” Op 2, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eliahu Inbal. |
| 1972 | England | An all-Chopin programme at the Royal Festival Hall of London, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult on Monday 12th June at 8:00 pm. The programme included: >
Fantasy in F minor Op.49 |
| 1972 | Argentina | Buenos Aires 'La Prensa' newspaper of Wednesday 16th August includes a review by L.M.H. , entitled Una Ovación recibió en el Colón Claudio Arrau [Ovation for Claudio Arrau at the Colón], of a recital given at the Teatro Colón, with a program including Beethoven's Sonata No.13, Liszt's Sonata in B minor, and Schumann's Carnaval Op.9. The writer highlights Arrau's consistently serious technical and interpretative approach and professionalism. |
| 1972 | Argentina | Buenos Aires 'La Nación' newspaper of Wednesday 16th August includes a review entitled Magnífica expresión de arte pianístico of a recital including Beethoven's Sonata No.13, Liszt's Sonata in B minor, and Schumann's Carnaval Op.9. The writer calls attention to Arrau's highest interpretative qualities as a mature artist and pianist. |
| 1972 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with The Cleveland Orchestra and Aldo Ceccato conducting. |
| 1972
|
U.S.A.
|
New
York's LIFE magazine of 25th August publishes
an interview entitled The Fragile Genius of
a Virtuoso, conducted by Roger Kahn at Arrau's Vermont estate
whereby,
at age 69, Arrau speaks of an artist's need to
become a vehicle for the composer's spirit, the value of psychoanalysis
to combat "fatigue of the spirit", his childhood and youth
years marked by Maestro Martin Krause and Dr Hubert Abrahamson, and
various other topics of interest. [Pages 49 to 52 and 54 to 56. Six
photographs] |
| 1972 |
England |
Cover page photograph of Maestro Arrau on the October issue of Records and Recording magazine, including an article entitled 'Claudio Arrau talks to Richard Osborne '. |
| 1972 | England | Recital
at the Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, on Friday 6th October at
7:30 pm, with a program comprising: > Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in D Op.10 No.3 > Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F minor Op.57 > Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B minor |
| 1972 | Japan | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo conducted by Bernhard Klee. |
| 1972 |
Japan |
Cover page photograph of Maestro Arrau on the November issue of The Ongaku No Tomo magazine. |
| 1972
|
U.S.A.
|
Clavier magazine of November (VOL.XI No.8), published in Illinois, contains an extensive interview of Maestro Arrau conducted by musicologist and teacher Dean Elder, under the title 'At ease with Claudio Arrau'. The interview includes memories from childhood; opinions on interpretation and the new generation; piano techniques and approaches; contemporary composers; approaches to some works of Beethoven (Appassionata), Liszt, Schubert, Chopin; concepts of tempo and mood, beat and rhythm, crescendo, accelerando, diminuendo, ritardando, and ritenuto; approaches to live and recorded performances; recommended books on several composers, and other educational topics. [Pages 10 through to 19. Seven photographs] |
| 1973 | ||
| 1973 |
U.S.A. |
Recital
on Sunday 14th January at 3:00 pm at the Symphony Hall, as
part of the 1972-1973 Boston University Celebrity Series. |
| 1973 |
U.S.A. |
Performance at the Hunter College Assembly Hall of New York City on Saturday 27th January at 8:00 pm, presented by Columbia Artists Management Inc. |
| 1973 | U.S.A. | Recital
at the Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Friday 23rd February
at 8:30 pm, as part of the Ninety-Fourth Annual Choral Union Series presented
by the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan. The programme included the following works: > Beethoven, Sonata quasi una fantasia Op.27 No.1 > Liszt, Sonata in B minor Intermission > Schumann, Carnaval Op.9 |
| 1973 | U.S.A. | Performance on 27th February of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Milton Katims conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| 1973 | Switzerland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Zurich Townhall Symphony Orchestra [Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich] conducted by Gerd Albrecht. |
| 1973 | Germany | Recital at Wiesbaden reviewed by Karl Wilhelm Brühl in the Wiesbd Kurier of Monday 26th March under the title 'Meisterschaft der Form order: ein ganzer Abend als Gedicht - Claudio Arrau mit Werken von Beethoven, Schuman und Liszt' [In the league of champions: An entire evening as a poem - Claudio Arrau interprets works by Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt] |
| 1973 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] and Gary Bertini conducting. |
| 1973 | Germany | Performances
of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Eliahu Inbal
conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchester (RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester
Berlin - RSO) at the Grosser Sendesaal der Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
in Masurenallee, Berlin, as follows: - > Sunday 1st of April at 11:00 am - > Monday 2nd of April at 8:00 pm - > Tuesday 3rd of April at 8:00 pm The programme also included: Mozart's Symphonie g-Moll K.V. 183, and Albert Roussel's Bacchus et Ariane, 1 und 2, Suite für Orchester, opus 43. |
| 1973 | France | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with L’Orchestre de Paris conducted by Josef Krips. |
| 1973 | Finland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra [YLE Radion sinfoniaorkesteri] conducted by Okko Kamu. |
| 1973 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall with David Atherton conducting. |
| 1973 | England | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra of London, conducted by Sir Charles Groves at the Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday 2nd May at 8:00 pm, as part of the 'Music on the South Bank' program. |
| 1973 | England | Recital
at the Royal Festival Hall, on Monday 7th May at 8:00 pm, as part
of the 'Music on the South Bank' program. Works performed were: > Beethoven: Sonata in D Op.10 No.3 > Beethoven: Sonata in C minor Op.111 > Liszt: Sonata in B minor |
| 1973 | Argentina | Recital at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires with a program consisting of works by Beethoven and Liszt. |
| 1973 | England | On 11th November music critic Mr Jenkins, from The Sunday Times of London, publishes an appreciative article, entitled 'Prince of Players ', including material from his recent interview of Claudio Arrau at the Savoy. |
| 1973 | England | Performance of Grieg’s Piano Concerto, with Edo de Waart conducting the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday 15th November at 8:00 pm, as part of the 'Music on the South Bank' program. |
| 1973 |
Lebanon |
Recital
at the Baalbeck International Festival on Sunday 22nd of July,
with a program comprising Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata, Liszt's
B minor Sonata, and Schumann's Carnaval. |
| 1973 | U.S.A. | Performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by Aldo Ceccato. |
| 1973 | Canada | Performances of R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor and Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra [L’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal] conducted by Franz Paul Decker. |
| 1974 | ||
| 1974 | Denmark | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Danish Radio Orchestra conducted by J. Franson. http://arrausite.free.fr/Index.html |
| 1974 | Finland | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Helsinki) and Ulf Soderblom conducting. |
| 1974 | Austria | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra [Wiener Symphoniker] conducted by Eliahu Inbal. |
| 1974 | U.S.A. | Recital at the Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, on Sunday 17th February at 3:00 pm, this being the 'Third Concert Series B' of 'Great Performers at Avery Fisher Hall'. The programme included the following works: >
Beethoven: Sonata for Piano No.7 in D major Op.10 No.3 |
| 1974 | U.S.A. | Recital at The Met of New York, as part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Concerts 1973-74, on Saturday 9th March. The programme included the following works: >
Beethoven: Sonata in E flat Major Op.81a Les adieux |
| 1974 | Germany | Article by Friedrich Roemer in Berlin's "Die Welt" of 1st April, entitled "Ein Grandseigneur des Klavierspiels" [A Master of the Piano], appraising a Beethoven's [Les adieux, Waldstein] and Brahms's [f-moll] sonata recital given at Berlin's Philharmonic Hall on Friday 29th March. |
| 1974 | England | Performance on 15th May at the Brighton Festival (7-19 May 1974). |
| 1974 | France | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with L’Orchestre de Paris conducted by Alain Lombard. |
| 1974 | France | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with L'Orchestre de Paris and Georg Solti conducting. |
| 1974 | U.S.A. | Performance
of R.Strauss’s Burleske for Piano and orchestra in D minor,
and Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra of
Massachusetts conducted by Kurt Masur, at the Royal Festival
Hall of London on Wednesday 19th June at 8:00 pm. The programme also included Strauss's Don Juan Overture and Prokofiev's Scynthian Suite. |
| 1974 | Australia | Performance
with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Patrick Thomas,
at the Brisbane City Hall on Saturday 24th August at 8:00 pm. Concert program kept at the State Library of Queensland, Local id: QSL772417 Shelf: G 780.78 1974. |
| 1974 | U.S.A. | Performance on 13th October of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the touring Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Daniel Baremboim in New York. |
| 1974 | Sweden | Performance
of Schumann’s Piano Concerto [Pianokonsert a-moll op.54],
with the Gothenburg
Symphony Orchestra [Göteborgs Symfoniker] conducted by Dean
Dixon at the Great Concert Hall [Stora salen] on Thursday 24th
October at 8:00 pm. |
| 1974 | Wales | Recital
sponsored by the Merlin Music Society, as part of its 1974/75 Season,
at the Monmouth School Hall on Thursday 7th November at 7:30
pm, with a programme comprising the following works: |
| 1974 | England | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, with Arvid
Yansons conducting the Hallé Orchestra at Manchester's
Free Trade Hall on Sunday 10th November at 7:30 pm, as part of
the Hallé Concerts Society's 117th Season 1974-75. The programme also included the National Anthem and Shostakovich's Symphony No.15 in A. |
| 1974 | England | Steinway Inaugural Recital at the Lancaster University of Lancashire, as part of the Lancaster University Concerts season, on Tuesday 12th November at 7:30 pm, with a programme consisting of: >
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E flat major Op.81a Les adieux |
| 1974 | England | Performances of Brahms’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, with Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday 14th November at 8:00 pm and Sunday 17th November at 7:30 pm, respectively, as part of the 'Music on the South Bank' program. |
| 1974 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor, with the Musica Aeterna Orchestra of New York conducted by Frederic Waldman. |
| 1974 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Pennsylvania) conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. |
| 1974 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the Utah Symphony Orchestra and Joseph Rosenstock conducting. |
| 1974 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. |
| 1974 | U.S.A. | Performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with Emerson Buckley conducting the Miami Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| 1974 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Utah Symphony Orchestra under Maurice Abravanel. |
| 1974/5 |
U.S.A. |
Recital
as part of the 1974-1975 Boston University Celebrity Series. |
| 1974/5 |
World |
World
tour |
| 1974-1978 |
Germany |
Edits
the Second Volume of
the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonata
Urtext Edition, with his former pupil Philip Lorenz's
collaboration and L. Hoffmann-Erbrecht's musical revision, published
by C.F. Peters Verklag in Frankfurt on the Main. |
| 1975 | ||
| 1975 | U.S.A. | Performances
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with The Musica Aeterna Orchestra
conducted by Frederic Waldman, on Saturday 18th January
and Sunday 19th January, in th evenings. The programme started with Teleman's Overture in C major and continued with: > Weber: Konzertstück for piano and orchestra Op.79 > Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major Op.73 |
| 1975 | U.S.A. | Performance
at Brooklyn College's Walt Whitman Hall, New York, as part of the Guest
Artist Series with The Musica Aeterna Orchestra conducted by Frederic
Waldman, on Saturday 25th January at 8:00 pm. The programme included: > Teleman: Overture in C major > Weber: Konzertstück for piano and orchestra > Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major |
| 1975 | Netherlands | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam [Das Königliche Concertgebouw Orchester Amsterdam] and Colin Davis conducting. |
| 1975 | Netherlands | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jean Fournet. |
| 1975 | U.S.A. | Piano
recital at the Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Centre, New York, on Sunday
9th March, as part of Series A of Hurok International Series
1974-75. The programme included: |
| 1975 | Switzerland | Piano recital at the Grosser Tonhallesaal, as part of the Master Cycle of the Zurich Concert Society [Konzertgesellschaft Zürich], on Wednesday 2nd April at 8:15 pm, with a programme including: >
Beethoven:
Sonata in A flat Op.81a Les adieux |
| 1975 | Germany | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 on Friday 4th and Saturday
5th April, at 8:00 pm, at the Philharmonie, with the Berlin Philharmonic
Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted by Uri(el) Segal
- Abonnementskonzert der Serie B. The programme also included Blacher's Pentagramm für 16 Streichinstrumente, and Brahms's Serenade Nr 2 in A-dur für kleines Orchester op.16. |
| 1975 | Austria | Extraordinary
piano
recital for the Friends of the Vienna Music Society [Gesellschaft der
Musikfreunde in Wien] on Monday 14th April, with a programme consisting
of: > Beethoven: Klaviersonate Es-Dur Opus 81a Les adieux > Brahms: Klaviersonate f-Moll Opus 5 > Schumann: 12 Symphonische Etüden für Klavier Opus 13 und 5 > Variationen Opus posth. |
| 1975 | Germany | Piano
recital at the City of Erlangen's Grand Hall on Wednesday 16th April
at 8:oo pm, as part of the GVE Charitable Society of Erlangen's 8th subscription
concert, with a programme consisting of: > Beethoven: Klaviersonate Es-Dur op.81a > Brahms: Klaviersonate f-Moll op.5 > Schumann: 12 symphonische Etüden für Klavier op.13 und > Variationen op.posth |
| 1975 | Sweden | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra [Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester] and Gary Bertini conducting. |
| 1975 | Sweden | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Swedish Radio
Symphony Orchestra [Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester] and Gary
Bertini conducting, at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Sunday
27th April at 8:00 pm . |
| 1975 | France | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 at the Ville de Strasbourg on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th April, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg conducted by Alceo Galliera. |
| 1975 | Italy | Performances
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 at the Auditorio
di Via della Conciliazione in Rome, on Sunday 4th and Monday
5th May, with the Orchestra Stabile dell' Accademia Nazionale
di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Gary Bertini, as part
of the 1974-75 Symphonic Season. |
| 1975 | England | Recital
at the Royal Festival Hall, on Wednesday 4th June at 8:00 pm, as
part of the 'Music on the South Bank' program. Works performed were: > Beethoven: Sonata in A flat Op.81a Les adieux > Beethoven: Sonata in F minor Op.57 Appassionata Interval > Brahms: Sonata No.3 in F minor Op.5 |
| 1975 | England | Recital
at The Congress Theatre of Eastbourne, East Sussex, on Tuesday 10th
June, as part of the Eastbourne Festival '75, with a programme comprising
the following works: |
| 1975 | England | Recital
at the Free Trade Hall of Manchester, Lancashire, on Thursday 12th
June at 7:30 pm, as part of the '1975 Hallé Proms Programme'.
Works performed included: |
| 1975 | Wales | Recital
at the Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday 14th June at 7:30 pm, as
part of the 'Llandaff Festival June' 75'. Works performed included: |
| 1975 |
England |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5, at the Royal Festival Hall,
as part of the "Music on the South Bank" program, with the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under David Atherton,
on Monday 16th of June at 8:00 pm. The programme commenced with Beethoven's Symphony No.2. |
| 1975 | Scotland | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Alexander Gibson conducting The Royal Scottish National Orchestra. |
| 1975 | Austria | Recital in Vienna on Monday 14th July. |
| 1975 |
Austria |
Fifth
participation at the Salzburg Festival, Großes Festspielhaus,
on 3rd August: Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.3 under André Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1975 | Scotland | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with The Royal Scottish
National Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson, at
the Usher Hall on Sunday 24th August at 7:30 pm, as part of the
Edinburgh International Festival. The programme also included Robin Orr's Symphony No.2 and Prokofiev's Suite from Romeo and Juliet. |
| 1975 | Scotland | Usher
Hall recital on Monday 25th August at 8:00 pm, as part of the Edinburgh
International Festival, with a programme including: > Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E flat Op.81a > Liszt: Sonata in B minor > Schumann: Etudes symphoniques Op.13 |
| 1975 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the London Symphony Orchestra under André Previn. |
| 1975 | England | Celebrity
Recital
at the Theatre Royal, in Newcastle upon Tyne, on Sunday 12th October
at 19:30, with a program including the following works: > Beethoven: Sonata No.3 in C, Op.2 No.3 > Beethoven: Sonata No.32 in C minor, Op.111 > Liszt: Sonata in B minor (dedicated to Schumann) |
| 1975 | England | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.1, with Kurt Sanderling conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday 15th October at 8:00 pm, as part of The Royal Philharmonic Society's 164th Season and the 'Music on the South Bank' program. |
| 1975 | England | Performance
of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2, with the Hallé
Orchestra conducted by James Loughran at the Free Trade
Hall of Manchester on Thursday 23rd October at 7:30 pm, as part
of the Hallé Concerts Society's 118th Season 1975-76. The programme also included Mahler's Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor. |
| 1975 | England | Performance at the Friends of Alyn's Fourth Gala Recital in benefit of the Kiryat Hayovel Hospital for Disabled Children, Jerusalem, at The Great Hall, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, on Sunday 26th October, with a programme including: >
Beethoven: Piano sonata No.3 in C major Op.2
No.3 |
| 1975 | England | Recital at the Bedford Corn Exchange on Thursday 30th October, sponsored by the Bedford Music Club, with a programme comprising the following works: Beethoven:
Sonata in C major Op.2 No.3 |
| 1975 | England | Performance
of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2, with the Hallé
Orchestra conducted by James Loughran at the Royal Festival
Hall on Friday 31st October at 8:00 pm, as part of the 'Music on
the South Bank' program and the Hallé Concerts Society's 118th
Season 1975-76. The programme also included Mahler's Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor. |
| 1975 |
Hungary |
Winner
of the 1975 Liszt Record Grand Prix
for his 1971 recordings of Liszt's Complete concert paraphrases
on operas by Verdi, for the Philips label. |
| 1975
|
U.S.A.
|
Recital
at the Middletown High School of New York on Saturday 15th November
as part of the Greater Middletown Arts Council's 15th Great Performance
Series. The program comprised: > Beethoven's Sonata in C major Op 2 No. 3 > Beethoven's Sonata in A flat major Op 110 > Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit > Liszt's Gnomenreigen (Dance of the Gnomes) > Liszt's Mephisto Waltz (Dance in the Village Inn - After Lanau's 'Faust') |
| 1975
|
U.S.A.
|
Recital
at the Avery Fisher Hall of New York on 23rd November. The program
comprised: > Beethoven's early Sonata in C Op 2 No. 3 > Beethoven's late Sonata in A flat Op 110 > Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit > Liszt's Gnomenreigen > Liszt's Mephisto Waltz Critic John Rockwell found Arrau's "technique at 72 as exciting and impeccable as ever before". [The New York Times of 24th November] |
| 1975 | Mexico | Concerto
performance with the Mexican State Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sonfónica
del Estado de México] under Anshel Brusilow on
the 29th of November. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1975 | Mexico | Recital at the 'Palacio de Bellas Artes' of Mexico City on Monday 1st December at 8:30 pm, presenting the following works: >
Beethoven: Sonata No.3 en la mayor Op.2 No.3 |
| 1975 | Mexico | Recital
at the 'Auditorio de la Reforma' of Puebla, as part of the September-December
'VII Festival de Puebla' International Music Festival, on Wednesday
3rd December at 9:15 pm. |
| 1975 | Mexico | Recital at the Tepotzotlán Festival, State of México, sponsored by the 'Museo Nacional del Virreinato', on the 6th of December at 6:30 pm, with a programme including the following works: >
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.3 in C major Op.2 No.3 |
| 1975 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with The Queens Symphony Orchestra of New York and Dr Ernst Katz conducting. |
| 1975 | Canada | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. |
| 1975 | Canada | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Toronto National Arts Centre Orchestra under Raffi Armenian. |
| 1976 | ||
| 1976 |
U.S.A. |
Recital
at the C.W. Post Center Auditorium, Brookville, Long Island, New York,
on Saturday 3rd January at 8:40 pm. The
Programme included the following works: |
| 1976 |
U.S.A. |
Performances
of Brahms’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, with Guy
Tailor conducting the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra in California
on 16th January. The programme also included Brahms's Academic Festival Overture. |
| 1976
|
U.S.A.
|
Publication
of "Memories of Berlin
- Twilight of the Weimar Culture ", a documentary
film produced, directed, photographed, and edited by Gary
Conklin (Pasadena, California) in association with the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation. |
| 1976 | Germany | Performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with the Sudwestfunk Symphony Orchestra [Südwestfunk-Sinfonieorchester] conducted by Ernest Bour. |
| 1976 | Germany | Performances
of R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor and Weber’s Konzertstück
Op 79, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker]
conducted by Aldo Ceccato at the Philharmonie on Wednesday
28th and Thursday 29th April at 8:00 pm. The programme also included Schwarz-Schilling's Introduktion und Fuge für Streichorchester and Tschaikowsky's Symphonie Nr.II Op.17. |
| 1976 | Germany | Performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra [Kölner Radio Symphonie Orchester] conducted by Rafael Jeroným Kubelík. |
| 1976 |
Czechoslovakia |
Recital
at the Prague Spring Festival with a program including Schumann's Symphonic
Etudes. M [Appian Publications and Recordings: CD APR 5631, 2000] |
| 1976 | Israel | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Tel Aviv. |
| 1976 | Austria | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra [Wiener Symphoniker] conducted by Ferdinand Leitner. |
| 1976 | France | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with L’Orchestre national de France conducted by Gabriel Chmura. |
| 1976 | France | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Igor Markevitch
conducting L'Orchestre national de France. [INA, mémoire vive: IMV 022. 2001] |
| 1976 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with Klaus Tennstedt conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1976 | England | Piano
recital at the Corn Exchange Entertainment and Arts Centre, Ipswich,
Suffolk, on Saturday 22nd May at 7:30 pm, with a programme including: |
| 1976 | England | Recital
at the Royal Festival Hall, on Monday 24th May at 8:00 pm, as part
of the 'Music on the South Bank' program. Works performed were (two
different prints made): Prospectus with all programs for May > Beethoven: Sonata in E Op.109 > Beethoven: Sonata in A flat Op.110 > Beethoven: Sonata in C minor Op.111 Recital programme > Beethoven: Sonata in E major, Op.109 > Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op.111 > Schumann: Études symphoniques, Op.13 |
| 1976 | England | Recital
for the Abbotsholme Arts Society at the Sudbury Hall in Staffordshire,
on Wednesday 26th May at 8:00 pm. Works performed were: > Beethoven: Sonata in C major Op.2 No.3 > Beethoven: Sonata in C minor Op.111 Interval > Liszt: Sonata in B minor (dedicated to Schumann) |
| 1976 | England | All-Brahms
performances as part of the International Celebrity Concerts at the
Royal Albert Hall of London, with the New Philharmonia Orchestra under
Neville Marriner, on Sunday 6th June, with a
programme consisting of: |
| 1976 | England | Piano
recital on Tuesday 29th June at 8:00 pm, at
the University of York Central Hall, Heslington, as
part of the
'York Festival & Mystery Plays 11 June - 4 July', with
a performance comprising the following works: > Beethoven: Sonata in C major Op.2 No.3 > Liszt: Sonata in B minor Interval > Schumann: > Études symphoniques Op.13 (including five posthumous variations) |
| 1976 | Mexico | Performances
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 at the 'Palacio de Bellas Artes',
the 'Catedral Metropolitana', and the 'Auditorio Nacional' of
Mexico City,
with The Americas' Philharmonic Orchestra [Orquesta Filarmónica
de las Americas] conducted by Sixten Ehrling, on Thursday
19th, Saturday 21st, and Sunday 22nd of August,
respectively. |
| 1976 | Mexico | Recital
on the 24th of August. |
| 1976 | U.S.A. | Performance
of Brahms's Concerto No.1 for Piano and Orchestra in D minor Op.15,
with The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta
at the Carnegie Hall of New York on Thursday 9th of September,
as part of the 1976-77 Season. |
| 1976 | England | Performance
of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat Op.83 at the Birmingham Town
Hall, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Meredith
Davies, on Thursday 7th October at 7:30 pm. |
| 1976 | Scotland | Recital
at the Candleriggs City Hall, Glasgow, on Sunday 10th October at
3:15 pm, with the financial support of the Scottish Arts Council, as part
of the Masterconcert Series. Works performed were: > Beethoven: Sonata in E major, Op.109 > Beethoven: Sonata in C minor, Op.111 > Schumann: Études symphoniques, Op.13 |
| 1976 | England | Performance
of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.1 at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on
Tuesday 12th October at 7:30 pm, as part of the Tuesday Subscription
Series, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Franz-Paul
Decker. Other works performed were Gunther Schuller's Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.4. |
| 1976 | England | Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 at the Royal Festival Hall on Thursday
14th October at 8:00 pm, as part of the Concert Season 1976/77,
with The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Klaus Tennstedt.
Other works performed were Beethoven's Overture Coriolan and Bruckner's Symphony No.4 Romantic. |
| 1976
|
Germany
|
Live
performance and recording in München of Beethoven's Piano Concerto
No.4 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra [Symphonie-Orchester
des Bayerischen Rundfunks] under Leonard Bernstein,
in benefit of Amnesty International, on 17th October.m [Released on LP and reel-to-reel tape by Deutsche Grammophon in 1977, on CDR by En Larmes in 2002, and on CD by Deutsche Grammophon in 2007] |
| 1976 | Canada | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with The Montreal Symphony Orchestra [L’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal] conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. |
| 1976 |
U.S.A. |
Performances
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Rafael
Jeroným Kubelík conducting the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra at the Avery Fisher Hall of the Lincoln Center in N.Y. on Thursday
18th, Friday 19th, Saturday 20th, and Tuesday 23rd
November. The programme also included Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Dvorak's Symphony No.9 From the New World. "Live from Lincoln Centre" Telecast Series, hosted by Dick Cavett, aired on Saturday 20th November. |
| 1976 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra conducted by Henry Lewis. |
| 1976 | U.S.A. | Excerpts from Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eliahu Inbal, used in the film The little girl who lives down the lane, directed by Nic(h)olas Gessner. |
| 1976/7 |
U.S.A. |
Recital
as part of the 1976-1977 Boston University Celebrity Series. |
| 1977 | ||
| 1977
|
U.S.A. |
Release
in Berkerley, California, of "Claudio
Arrau: a Life in Music", an essential documentary
film by Robert Snyder showing the Maestro at home and on stage, expressing
his views on art, culture, music and interpretation, and performing
excerpts from works by Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, Weber, and Schumann.M |
| 1977 | U.S.A. | Recital at the 92nd Street Y on Monday 7th March at 8:00 pm. presenting a programme with the following works: >
Beethoven: Sonata in E major Op.109 |
| 1977 |
Germany |
Hamburg
recital in March at age 74, with a program including Beethoven's
Piano Sonata Op.109, Liszt's Sonata in B minor, and Brahms's Sonata
Op.5. |
| 1977 |
Germany |
Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Uri Segal
conducting the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Beethoven Hall
on 23rd March. [CDR: Vibrato VLL 380, 2009, USA-Japan] |
| 1977 | Switzerland | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Zurich Townhall Symphony Orchestra [Tonhalle Orchester Zürich] conducted by Lorin Maazel. |
| 1977 |
Poland |
Performances of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 on Thursday 24th, Friday 25th and Saturday 26th March, with the National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of Warsaw conducted by Witold Rowicki, to inaugurate a Concert Cycle in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of Beethoven's Death. The programme also included Beethoven's Overture Leonore III and Symphony No.3 Op.55 Eroica. |
| 1977 |
Germany |
Recital in late March at the Nuremberg Private Music Club, with a program including: >
Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op.109 Most appreciative review by Willi Wörthmüller in the Nadvidten of 31st March under the title "Gratwanderung über drei Gipfel: Claudio Arrau spielte in Nürnberg Beethove, Liszt, Brahms - Der 73 Jährige Klangmagier vollendeter Tastenkunst" [A walk over three summits: Claudio Arrau played Beethoven, Liszt and Brahms in Nuremberg - The perfect keyboard art of a 73 year old magician]. |
| 1977 | Netherlands | Broadcast performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam [Das Königliche Concertgebouw Orchester Amsterdam] conducted by Eugen Jochum on 21st April. |
| 1977 |
Germany |
Performance
on Friday 29th April of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2,
at the City of Essen's Municipal Grand Hall, with the City of Essen's
Philharmonic Orchestra [Philharmonisches Orchester der Stadt Essen] conducted
by Heinz Wallberg, as part of the 'Philharmonische Konzerte
der Stadt Essen 1976/77'. The programme commenced with Beethoven's Egmond Overture and Schostakovitsch's Symphony No.1 Op.10. |
| 1977 |
Germany |
Performances
on Sunday 8th and Monday 9th May of Liszt’s Piano
Concerto No. 2 and R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor,
at the Hamburger Musikhalle, with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra
[NDR Sinfonieorchester] of Hamburg conducted by Klaus Tennstedt. The programme also included Haydn's Symphony No.103 and Stravinsky's The Firebird (1919). |
| 1977 | England | Recital
at the Royal Festival Hall, on Monday 20th June at 8:00 pm, as
part of the 'Music on the South Bank' program. Works performed were: > Beethoven: Variations on a Theme of Prometheus Op.35 Eroica > Liszt: Sonata in B minor* > Brahms: Sonata No.3 in F minor Op.5 * Replacing the previously announced Trascendental Studies Nos. 12, 11 and 10. |
| 1977 | Italy | Performance as part of the 'Serate Musicali', Comune di Milano. |
| 1977 | Mexico | Performance at the 'Festival Internacional Cervantino' in Ciudad de Guanajuato. |
| 1977 |
Germany |
Article in the Bonner Rundschau of 22nd September entitled Der Abend wurde zum Ereignis - Ovationen für den Pianisten Claudio Arrau im Beethovenfest [The evening was the event - Ovations for pianist Claudio Arrau at the Beethoven Festival], appraising Maestro Arrau's recent all-Beethoven recital of variations and sonatas at the Beethovenhalle in Bonn. |
| 1977 | Canada | Toronto recital in November with a programme which included Liszt's Sonata in B minor. |
| 1977 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with Harold Farberman conducting the Oakland Symphony Orchestra (California). |
| 1977 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. |
| 1977 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1977 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gerhardt Zimmerman. |
| 1977 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra and Carlo Maria Giulini conducting. |
| 1977 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Palmer. |
| 1977 | U.S.A. | Performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with the Houston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Samuel Jones. |
| 1978 | ||
| 1978 |
Netherlands |
Philips
releases Arrau's 1974-76 recordings of Liszt's 12 Études
d'exécution transcendante, to coincide with the Maestro's
75th birthday. |
| 1978 | England | Critic
Richard Osborne writes a riveting appraisal of Claudio Arrau’s art,
entitled 'Claudio Arrau at 75 - A birthday tribute',
encompassing the most essential aspects of the Maestro's musical career
and personal development, as well as the artist’s views and opinions
on music making, piano sound making, piano techniques, music idols, essential
composers, and recordings. The article also includes relevant biographical
highlights. Gramophone magazine, February 1978, pp.1385 and 1386. Claudio Arrau’s caricature on cover page. The publication also contains two recording ads and several appreciative recording reviews. |
| 1978 | France | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with L’Orchestre de Paris under Daniel Baremboim. |
| 1978 |
U.S.A. |
Critic
Joseph Horowitz writes a formidable appraisal of Arrau's achievements,
entitled "The Strength of a Maestro",
in The New York Times of 5th February. |
| 1978 |
U.S.A. |
75th birthday piano recital at the Avery Fisher Hall of the Lincoln Center in New York on Sunday 5th February at 3:00 pm, this being the 'Third Concert Series B' of 'Great Performers at Lincoln Center'. The programme included: >
Beethoven: Sonata No. 26 in E flat major Op.81a Les adieux |
| 1978 |
U.S.A. |
Performances of Brahms's Variations on a Theme By Haydn Op.56a, Liszt's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in a major, and R.Strauss's Burleske for Piano and Orchestra in D minor, with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra conducted by Oleg Kovalenko, as follows: 8th
February at 8:30 pm: Metuchen High School, Metuchen, N.J. The programme also included Prokofiev's Symphony No.3 in C minor Op.44 (1928). |
| 1978 |
U.S.A. |
Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. Live recording released on CDR by FKM: 263/4, Japan, 2008. |
| 1978 | Germany | R. Piper & Co Verlag publishes and expanded edition of its 1972 'Große Pianisten in unserer Zeit' [Great pianists of our time], a collection of interviews by Joachim Kaiser (260 pages, 27 pianists). The interview with Maestro Arrau appears on pages 110 through to 121, including a photograph. |
| 1978 | Germany | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 on Saturday 22nd, Sunday
23rd and Monday 24th April, at 8:00 pm, at the Philharmonie,
with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] and Gabriel
Chmura conducting. The programme also included Mendelssohn's Overture Die Hebriden and Bartók's Konzert für Orchester. |
| 1978 | Germany | Article on the Wiesbadener Kurier of 8th April, under the title 'Weder Altersmystik, noch Distanz treiben in einen Unnahbarkeitskult ' Claudio Arrau's recital in Wiesbaden included works by Beethoven (Sonata Op.109), Liszt (Sonata in B minor), und Brahms (Sonata Op.5). |
| 1978 |
Germany |
Heilbronn
recital in April at age 75, with an all-Beethoven program including
Piano Sonatas Op.81a, Op.53, Op.109, and Op.111. |
| 1978 | Switzerland | Performances of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor, with the Zurich Townhall Symphony Orchestra [Tonhalle Orchester Zürich] conducted by Witold Rowicki. |
| 1978 | Scotland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Lawrence Foster. |
| 1978 | Wales | Recital
at Cardiff's New Theatre on Sunday 30th April at 8:00 pm, as
part of the Cardiff International Concerts Series Two, with a programme
consisting of: |
| 1978 | England | Recital
at the Royal Festival Hall, on Wednesday 3rd May at 8:00 pm,
as part of the 'Music on the South Bank' program. Works performed
were: [An alternative, imcomplete program for this event was also printed] |
| 1978 | England | Recital
at The Dome, on Friday 5th May at 7:30 pm, as part of the '12th
Brighton Festival' programme (28th April-7th May). Works performed
were: [This is a modified programme, the originally advertised having included Brahms's Handel Variations Op.24, Schumann's Fantasie Op.17, and Beethoven's Sonata Op.111] |
| 1978
|
England
|
An
all-Beethoven program, including Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5,
at the Royal Festival Hall on 14th June at 8:00 pm, in aid of
the Musicians Benevolent Fund, with the London Symphony Orchestra led
by Richard Studt and conducted by Walter Susskind,
as part of the Musik on the South Bank programme. |
| 1978 | England | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra under Walter Weller on Saturday
17th June at 7:30 pm. The programme, also including Brahms's Symphony No.2, was relayed by the BBC on Radio 3. |
| 1978 | Scotland | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 at the Kelvin
Hall of Glasgow, with the Scottish National Orchestra under Lawrence
Foster on Monday 19th June at 7:30 pm. The programme also included Mendelssohn's Overture Ruy Blas and Brahms's Symphony No.4. |
| 1978
|
U.S.A.
|
Critic
Paul Hertelendy writes an informative article entitled Claudio
Arrau – Veteran Virtuoso & Scholar, about the
Maestro’s musical urtext research into Beethoven’s, Liszt’s
and Schumann’s piano works, as well as Arrau’s thoughts
regarding modern piano literature, including modern music he plays and
would like to record. [Contemporary KEYBOARD magazine, July 1978, Saratoga, California] |
| 1978 | France | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with L’Orchestre national de France and Witold Rowicki conducting. |
| 1978 | France | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Alain Lombard conducting L’Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. |
| 1978 | England | Performances
of Beethoven’s Piano Concero No.3 Op.37, with the Hallé
Orchestra conducted by James Loughran at the Royal Festival
Hall of London on Friday 29th September at 8:00 pm. The programme also included Schubert's Symphony No.9 in C The Great. |
| 1978 | England | Performances
of Beethoven’s Piano Concero No.3 Op.37, with the Hallé
Orchestra conducted by James Loughran at the Free Trade
Hall of Manchester on Sunday 1st October at 7:30 pm. The programme also included Beethoven's Grosse Fuge in B flat Op.133 and Symphony No.5 in C minor Op.67. |
| 1978 | Ireland | Recital
at the R.D.S. Concert Hall, Dublin, on Tuesday 3rd October at
8:00 pm, as part of the 'John Player Concerts'. Works performed
were: |
| 1978 | Scotland | Performances
of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on 13th October
at the Edinburgh Usher Hall and on 14th October at the Glasgow
City Hall, with Alexander Gibson conducting The Royal Scottish National
Orchestra, were suspended due to severe influenza preventing Maestro Arrau
from leaving Germany. Pianist Shura Cherkassky kindly agreed at short notice to perform Liszt's Piano Concerto No.1 instead. |
| 1978 | Italy | Performance as part of the 'Serate Musicali', Comune di Milano. |
| 1978 | Canada | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra [Orchestre symphonique de Québec] and James DePriest conducting. |
| 1978 | U.S.A. | Performances of R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor and Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Zinman. |
| 1978/9 |
U.S.A. |
Recital
as part of the 1978-1979 Boston University Celebrity Series. |
| 1979 | ||
| 1979 |
U.S.A. |
Performance
of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor Op.15 at the Carnegie Hall
of N.Y. on
Tuesday 16th January at 8:00 pm, with The
Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy . The programme also included Brahm's Tragic Overture Op.81 and Symphony No.3 Op.90. |
| 1979 |
U.S.A. |
Maestro
Arrau becomes a U.S. citizen in February,
after travelling difficulties stemming from his using a life-long, Chilean
diplomatic passport at a time when there was an internationally-questioned,
de facto regime in his homeland. |
| 1979 | Canada | Recital
at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier de la Place des Arts of Montreal on Wednesday
21st February, with a program including: > Beethoven: Sonata No.7 and Sonata No.23 Appassionata > Debussy: Images > Liszt: Ballade No.2 and Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este > Chopin: Ballade No.3 and Scherzo No.1 Appraisal on 22nd February in 'La Presse' of Montreal, with an article by Claude Gingras entitled 'Musique/Critique: Il n'ya qu'un Arrau, un grand' [Music critic: There is but one Arrau - a grand one]. |
| 1979 | U.S.A. | Performances of Weber’s Konzertstück for piano and orchestra Op.79 and R.Strauss's Burleske in D minor for piano and orchestra, with The Y Chamber Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz at The Y's Theresa Kaufmann Concert Hall on Saturday 3rd March at 8:00 pm and Sunday 4th March at 2:00 pm. |
| 1979 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra [Münchner Philharmoniker] and Gary Bertini conducting. |
| 1979 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with Gary Bertini conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker]. |
| 1979 | Germany | In the Der Bund of 30th April, published in Bern under the title Weiser Beherrscher der Töne - Klavierabend Claudio Arrau im Berner Meisterzyklus, there is an appraisal of a recital given at the Grossen Casinosaal on Friday 27th April, consisting of works by Beethoven (Sonatas Nos. 7 and 23 Appassionata), Liszt (Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este, Ballade No.2), Debussy (two Images), and Chopin (Ballade No.3). An essential experience, a wealth of tones, a mature rendition. M.F. |
| 1979 | Switzerland | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5, with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra [Chamberorchester Zürich] and Edmond de Stoutz conducting. |
| 1979 |
Hungary |
Winner
of the 1979 Liszt Record Grand Prix
for the 1974-76 recordings of Liszt's 12
Études d'exécution transcendante, for the Philips
label. |
| 1979 |
Belgium |
Winner
of the 1979 Caecilia Award
from the 'Union de la Presse Musicale Belge', for his comprehensive
Schumann recording project, spanning from 1966 through to 1976,
on the Philips label. |
| 1979 |
France |
Winner
of the 1979 Diapason d'or de l'année
for his 1977-78 Philips recordings of Chopin's Complete
Nocturnes on the Philips label. On 6th of June, Award Director Mr George Cherière handed over the Diapason d’or to Maestro Claudio Arrau at a lunch hosted by the General Manager and President of Phonogram, Mr Jacques Caillart. Maestro Arrau was reported to have been highly appreciative of the fact that this distinction came not from a jury of specialists but from music lovers themselves. |
| 1979 | England | Publication
of 'Facing the Music - An Autobiography', by part-time pianist
and organist, and BBC broadcaster, Joseph Cooper. In a rather superficial account of his life, Cooper shows that not every pianist has what it takes to cope with the demands and discipline necessary to become a great concert pianist. A photograph with Claudio Arrau is found following page 118, and references to Arrau's late 1940s-early 1950s playing, sound, technical dexterity, and members of immediate family, are found on pages 119, 120, 121, 129, 130, 131, 135, 141, 149, and 150. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1979. ISBN 0 297 77718 1. |
| 1979 | England | Performance of Liszt’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis. |
| 1979 | England | Performance
of Liszt’s Piano Concertos No.2 on Sunday 16th December at 7:30
pm at the Royal Festival Hall, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted
by Colin Davis as part of the LSO 's 75th Anniversary
Concert Season 1979/80. The programme also included Berlioz's Overture King Lear and Shostakovitch's Symphony No.5. |
| 1979 | Canada | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos 4 and 5 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama. |
| 1979 | U.S.A. | Performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Colin Davis conducting. |
| 1979 | U.S.A. | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with the Los Angeles
Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini on
Friday 2nd November at the Los Angeles Music Center. The programme also included Mozart's Divertimento No.11 in D major K.251, and Mahler's Adagio-Andange from his Tenth Symphony. |
| 1979 | U.S.A. | Performances of R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor and Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with the 92nd Street YMHA [Young Men’s Hebrew Association] Chamber Orchestra of New York conducted by Gerard Schwartz. |
| 1979 | U.S.A. | Performances of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor, with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and John Nelson conducting. |
| 1979 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy. |
| 1980 | ||
| 1980 | U.S.A. | Piano
recital at the McCarter Theatre Company of New Jersey on Monday 11th
February at 8:00 pm, as the Fourth Event of the 'Music-at-McCarter'
Series. |
| 1980 | Germany | The Gevelsberg Ennepetaler newspaper of 21st April contanins an article by G.v.H. entiled 'Hochachtung, Bewunderung - Der 77 Jährige Claudio Arrau Erneut Als Gefeiertter Künstler in Gevelsberg' [Respect, Admiration - The 77-year-old Claudio Arrau is once again a celebrated artist in Gevelsberg], reviewing Maestro Arrau's recital at the Großen Saal of the CVJM-Saales on 19th April, which included works by Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin and Liszt. |
| 1980 | Germany | The
Gevelsberg's Westfälische Rundschau
of 21st April includes an article by Dagmar Zschliesche, entitled
'Claudio Arrau: Keine Wiederholung, sondern neues Erleben - Ovation
Biem Sonderkonzert im Vollbesetzten CVJM-Saal für den Großen
Künstler am Klavier' [Ovation for the
greatest artist of the piano at a special full-house concert in the
CVJM Hall - Claudio Arrau, an entirely new experience].
|
| 1980 |
Germany |
Cover page photograph of Maestro Arrau on the 4th April issue of Fono Forum, Magazin für gute Musik und HiFi, containing an article entitled 'Claudio Arrau - Ein Grandseigneur des Klaviers '. |
| 1980 |
Chile |
Journalist
Eugenio Gutiérrez interviews Maestro Claudio Arrau in Washington
for Cosas magazine of Santiago. Arrau
speaks briefly of childhood memories in Chillán, interpretation
of Beethoven and Schubert, preferred conductors, writers and philosophers,
good film directors, his fondness for The Beatles, and other such topics.
[Cosas, No. 94 of 8th May, Santiago, pages 48 and 49. In Spanish] |
| 1980 | Mexico | Recital on Sunday 11th May at the 'Festival Cervantino' of Guanajuato. |
| 1980 | Canada | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Toronto National Arts Centre Orchestra conducted by Mario Bernardi. |
| 1980 | England | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 on Friday 23th May at
8:00 pm at the Royal Festival Hall, with the London Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Riccardo Chailly as part of the LSO 's
75th Anniversary Concert Season 1979/80. |
| 1980 | England | Piano recital at the Plymouth Guildhall, Devon, as part of the 9th International Piano Series (Plymouth) and The Drake 400 Commemorative Festival 10th May-28th September 1980, on Wednesday 18th June at 7:30 pm. The programme included: >
Beethoven: Piano sonata in D major Op.10 No.3 |
| 1980 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted by Hubert Soudant. |
| 1980 | Germany | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4, with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra [Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart] and Gary Bertini conducting. |
| 1980 |
Germany |
Bestowed
Die Hans
von Bülow Medaille
by the Berlin Philharmonic on the occasion of Maestro Arrau's
60th anniversary of his début with the Orchestra. |
| 1980 | France | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with L’Orchestre de Paris under Daniel Baremboim. |
| 1980 | Austria | Performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra [Wiener Philharmoniker] conducted by Lawrence Foster. |
| 1980 | Switzerland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with Stanislaw Skrowaczewski conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. |
| 1980 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly. |
| 1980 | U.S.A. | Performances of Grieg’s Piano Concerto Op 16 and Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis. |
| 1980 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Kurt Masur conducting. |
| 1980 | Scotland | Recital at the Usher Hall on Thursday 28th August, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival 1980, presenting the following programme: >
Beethoven: Piano sonata No.7 in D major, Op.10 No.3 |
| 1980 | Mexico | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4, with the Mexico City Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sinfónica de la Ciudad de México], conducted by Fernando Lozano, at the Sala Ollin Yoliztli of Mexico City on 11th November. |
| 1980/1 |
U.S.A. |
Recital
as part of the 1980-1981 Boston University Celebrity Series. |
| 1981 | ||
| 1981 | Germany | Performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] and Gary Bertini conducting. |
| 1981
|
Germany
|
Maestro
Arrau writes a Foreword for a 24-page booklet in German entitled "Svjatoslav
Richter", by Jürgen Meyer-Jostenrgen, of the Musiker
im Gespräch series, published this year by Henry Litolff's Verlag/C.F.
Peters, Frankfurt and New York. [N.B.: The booklet was later translated into English by John Nowell and published in Recorded Sound number 84 of July 1983. A slightly different version of the same translation appeared in the Autumn 1997 edition of International Piano Quarterly] |
| 1981 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5, with The Y Chamber Orchestra of New York conducted by Gerard Schwartz, at the Avery Fisher Hall on Friday 16th January at 8:00 pm, as part of the Great Performances at the Lincoln Centre series. [Y: Youth] |
| 1981 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5, with The Y Chamber Orchestra of New York conducted by Gerard Schwartz, on Saturday 17th January at 8:00 pm and Sunday 18th January at 3:00 pm, as part of the 1980-81 Season of The 92nd Street YM/YWHA. |
| 1981 | U.S.A. | Recital on Tuesday 24th February at 8:oo pm, as part of the 1980-81 Season of The 92nd Street YM/YWHA. |
| 1981 | U.S.A. | Boston's
The Globe of 4th March includes a critic
of Claudio Arrau's solo recital at the Symphony Hall on Sunday 1st
March, whereby the performance is characterized as 'superbly finished
instrumental mastery' and the artist as a 'sovereign pianist at his very
best', 'marvelously intact at the age of 78', 'one of the very last of
the titans'. The program comprised the following works: > Beethoven: Sonata Op.27 No.1 > Schumann: Etudes symphoniques > Chopin: Fantasia in F minor > Debussy: Jardins sous la pluie (from Estampes) > Liszt: Dante Sonata |
| 1981 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and David Zinman conducting. |
| 1981 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Oakland Symphony Orchestra of California conducted by Calvin Simmons. |
| 1981 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Eduardo Mata conducting. |
| 1981 | Spain | Performances in Madrid. |
| 1981 | Italy | Performance as part of the 'Serate Musicali', Comune di Milano. |
| 1981 | Italy | Recital
at the 'Teatro La Fenice' of Venice on 7th November, with a programme
including the following works: Video
of the recital procuded and directed by John Lollos, co-produced and
edited by Ken Currier, advised by Robert Snyder, written by Frieda Roth,
and narrated by Lloyd Moss. |
| 1981 | England | Solo piano recital at the Royal Festival Hall in London, on Monday 9th November, rendering the following works: >
Beethoven: Sonata in E flat Op.27 No.1 |
| 1981 | England | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London conducted by Sir Charles Groves, on Wednesday 11th November, at the Royal Festival Hall. The programme also includedTchaikowsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture and Harris's Symphony No.3. |
| 1981-1982 |
World |
World
tour including the U.S., Canada, Europe, Brazil, and Japan. |
| 1981 | Canada | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Orchestre symphonique
de Montréal [Montreal Symphony Orchestra] and guest conductor David
Atherton, on
Tuesday 15th December, at the Sale Wilfrid-Pelletier de la Place
des Arts. The programme also included Brahms's Symphony No.4. Montreal's La Presse of 17th December publishes a Claude Gingras's appraisal of the above Gala Concert entitled Un Brahms qui confirme la suprématie d' Arrau [A Brahms that confirms Arrau's supremacie]. |
| 1982 | ||
| 1982 | U.S.A. | Piano
recital at the Carnegie Hall of New York on Saturday 16th January
at 8:00 pm, rendering the following programme: > Beethoven: Sonata No.26 in E flat major Op.81a Les adieux > Liszt: Sonata in B minor Intermission > Beethoven: Sonata No.23 in F minor Op.57 Appassionata > Liszt: Après une lecture de Dante - Fantasia quasi sonata |
| 1982 | U.S.A. | Performances
of Weber's Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra Opus 79
and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 on Thursday 11th February
at 8:00 pm, Friday 12th February at 2:00 pm, Saturday 13th February at
8:00 pm, and Tuesday 16th February at 7:30 pm, with the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by Klaus Tennstedt at the Avery Fisher
Hall. The programme also included Schubert's Symphony No.9 in C major. |
| 1982 |
Germany |
Maestro Arrau writes a Foreword for a 24-page booklet in German entitled "Alfred Brendel ", by Jürgen Meyer-Jostenrgen, of the Musiker im Gespräch series, published in 1982 by Henry Litolff's Verlag/C.F. Peters, Frankfurt, New York, London. |
| 1982 |
Italy |
Cover
photograph on the March issue of the quarterly magazine Musica
published in Milan (Trimestrale di informazione musicale e discografica,
numero 24, anno 6). Three articles in Italian: 'Il pianista Claudio Arrau ' by Marvin Allen Wolfthal, 'Claudio Arrau ricorda i grandi pianisti ' by Peter Warwick, and 'Claudio Arrau e il disco ' by Riccardo Risaliti. Pages 32 through to 42. Six photographs. |
| 1982 |
Europe |
Performances
at festivals in Strasbourg, Lausanne, Zurich, Lucerne, Montreaux, and
Stresa. |
| 1982 | Mexico | Recital on Monday 10th May at the 'Festival Cervantino' of Guanajuato. |
| 1982 | France | Piano recital at the Salle Pleyel of Paris on Wednesday 2nd June at 8:30 pm, as part of the 1981-82 Season, with a Liszt and Beethoven programme. |
| 1982 | England | Solo piano recital at the Royal Festival Hall in London, on Tuesday 8th June at 8:00 pm, rendering the following works: >
Beethoven: Sonata No.26 in E-flat major Op.81a Les adieux |
| 1982 | England | A
House du Maurier concert: a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto
No.4 at the Royal Festival Hall of London with the Philharmonia Orchestra
conducted by Riccardo Muti on Tuesday 6th July
at 8:00 pm. The programme also included Music of Gaity from Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, and Beethoven's Symphony No.2. |
| 1982
|
Austria |
Sixth
(and last) appearance at the Salzburg Festival, with a program at
the Großes Festspielhaus on 15 August, including: |
| 1982 |
Germany |
Recordings
of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 20 (K466) and 24 (K491), with the
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra [Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen
Rundfunks] conducted by Sir Colin Davis. [Recordings reportedly not released by Philips due to sound engineering problems] |
| 1982 | Germany | Performances of R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor and Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted by Horst Stein. |
| 1982 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra [Münchner Philharmoniker] conducted by Lawrence Foster. |
| 1982
|
Germany |
The
world's first ever commercial classical music compact disc, produced
on 17th August, contained the standard selection of 14 Waltzes
by Chopin (Philips 400 025-2) as interpreted and recorded by Claudio
Arrau in 1979. |
| 1982
|
Chile
|
A
letter to the editor, published by El Mercurio newspaper of
Santiago, raises controversy surrounding Arrau's acquisition of U.S.
citizenship in 1979 and alleged abandonment of his Chilean citizenship.
The fact was eventually established that, in acquiring the U.S.
citizenship, Arrau had never renounced his original citizenship. |
| 1982 | Scotland | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with The Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson. |
| 1982 |
Hungary |
Winner
of the 1982 Liszt Record Grand Prix
for the 1979 recordings of Liszt's Two Piano Concertos
with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis for the Philips
label. |
| 1982 |
England |
Publication
of the biographical book Conversations
with Arrau by Joseph Horowitz, Collins, St James's
Place, London, widely held as essential reading. 1983 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music. |
| 1982 |
Brazil |
Series
of four concerts at the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, during the
'Arrau Festival' held in the Maestro's honour. |
| 1982 | U.S.A. | Performance of Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79 on 2nd November, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Klaus Tennstedt. |
| 1982 | U.S.A. | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concertos No. 1 Op.15, with Sir Alexander
Gibson conducting The Scottish National Orchestra at the Carnegie
Hall of New York, on Sunday 7th November at 8:00 pm, as part of
the Carnegie Hall 1982-1983 Season. The programme also included Sibelius's Symphony No.2 Op.43. |
| 1982 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 5, with Gerard Schwartz conducting The Y Chamber Orchestra of New York. [Y: Youth] |
| 1982 | U.S.A. | Performances of R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor and Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwartz. |
| 1982 |
Mexico |
Bestowed,
along with Karajan and Bernstein,
La Orden del Águila Azteca
by the Mexican Government at
the Cervantes Festival in Mexico City. The Order of the Aztec
Eagle is the highest Mexican distinction awarded to foreigners for services
to Mexico or humankind. |
| 1982 |
U.S.A. |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3, with Gerard
Schwarz conducting The Y Chamber Symphony at the Avery Fisher
Hall, Lincoln Centre, New York, on Friday 17th December. [Y:
Youth] |
| 1982 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 5, with Gerard Schwartz conducting The Y Chamber Orchestra of New York. |
| 1982/3 |
U.S.A. |
Recital
as part of the 1982-1983 Boston University Celebrity Series. |
| 1982/3 |
World |
Main
musical circles around the world declared the 1982-83 season The
Arrau Year in honour of the Maestro. |
| 1983 | ||
| 1983 |
Netherlands |
Philips
issues a 59-LP Arrau Edition to
mark the Maestro's 8Oth birthday. |
| 1983 |
U.S.A. |
Next to the title Claudio Arrau: The "Maestro" turns 80, cover page photograph of Arrau on the January issue of Ovation, The Magazine for Classical Music Listeners, published in New York. |
| 1983 |
U.S.A. |
The
January issue of Ovation, a Boston classical music listeners'
magazine, includes a
Herbert Kupferberg's article entitled Claudio
Arrau - Gearing up for a busy 80th birthday year, with a
comprehensive account of Maestro Claudio Arrau's personal bearing, musical
styles, repertory, concertising, recordings, opinions, plans, and biographic
notes, in the lead up to a very active 8oth birthday. [Pages 12
through to 15. Cover page photograph, full page inner photograph, and
two smaller photographs] |
| 1983 | Canada | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with Kazuyoshi Akiyama conducting the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, in the Musically Speaking Series at the Orpheum on Sunday 9th January (repeated on Monday 10th Januaray). Rivetting review by Lloyd Dykk in The Vancouver Sun of 10th January: an heroic, commanding and visionary rendition of the concerto. |
| 1983 |
U.S.A. |
Cover page photograph of Maestro Arrau on Fanfare, The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors , of January/February, published in New Jersey. |
| 1983 |
U.S.A. |
Homage
and congratulations on Arrau's 8Oth birthday on 6th February
are reported as received from leaders, dignitaries and authorities all
over the world. |
| 1983 | U.S.A. | Cover page photograph of Maestro Arrau on February's Schwann-1 Record & Tape Guide, published in Boston. |
| 1983 |
England |
Critic
Richard Osborne writes a rave appraisal of the artist, entitled "Claudio
Arrau at 8O ", in the Gramophone magazine edition of
February 1983, pages 911 and 912. |
| 1983 | ? | Cover page photograph of Maestro Arrau on an issue of the Music & Musicians, incorporating Records & Recording magazine, with the heading "Arrau at 80 ". |
| 1983 |
U.S.A. |
Critic
Bernard Holland writes a comprehensive appraisal of the artist, entitled
"Claudio Arrau at 8O ",
in The New York Times of 20th February. |
| 1983 |
U.S.A. |
Televised
Gala Recital given by Maestro Arrau at the Avery Fisher Hall of the
Lincoln Center in New York on 20th February. The programme
consisted of the following works: I > Beethoven's Sonata No.21 in C major Op.53 Waldstein II > Beethoven's Sonata No.23 in F minor Op.57 Appassionata Intermission III > Debussy's Reflets dans l'eau (from Images Book I) > Liszt's Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este > Liszt's Ballade No.2 in B minor (Hero and Leander) > Chopin-Liszt's Meine Freuden (from Six Polish Songs): Not played. > Chopin's Scherzo No.1 in B minor Op.20 At the end of the programme, world renowned tenor Plácido Domingo surprisingly appeared on stage pushing a piano-shaped, large birthday cake, and sang the Happy Birthday to the Maestro. |
| 1983 |
U.S.A. |
The
City of Philadelphia presented the Maestro with The
Philadelphia Bowl, the highest city decoration,
after a celebrated concert performance of Beethoven Piano Concerto
No. 4, with Riccardo
Muti conducting The
Philadelphia Orchestra on 17thFebruary. |
| 1983 | U.S.A. | The March issue of Clavier, The Magazine for Pianists and Organists, Volume 22, No. 3, published in Evanston, Illinois, shows a full cover page photograph of Maestro Arrau and includes an article by Carol Montparker, senior editor of Clavier, entitled 'Portrait of an artist at eighty', which combines interview material with informative commentaries and a description of the atmosphere and precious objects in Arrau's home studio. Arrau recollects Brahms being disliked in the early 20th century, and remembers Berlin during the Weimar Republic and his subsequent departure from Germany. Various matters of interpretation and search for meaning, vanity and ego, and the misplacement of competitiveness in the arts are discussed. [Pages from 18 through to 21. Three photographs] |
| 1983 |
Germany |
Maestro
Arrau is made
The First Honorary Member
of the Robert Schumann-Gesellschaft in Düsseldorf. |
| 1983 |
France  |
Maestro
Claudio Arrau was awarded in March the Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur, France's highest decoration in the arts. |
| 1983
|
U.S.A.
|
Opera
journalist Robert Baxter reproduces a conversation he held with Arrau,
entitled Of Songs and Singers, where
Arrau speaks about similarities between voice and instrumental interpretations,
and speaks about opera singers, conductors and interpretations that
inspired him and influenced his playing.M [Opera News magazine, New York, 9th April 1983, pages 14, 15, 61, and 62] |
| 1983 | France |
Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with L’Orchestre de Paris under Daniel Baremboim. |
| 1983 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Edo de Waart conducting. |
| 1983 | Switzerland | Recital
at the Geneve Grand Théâtre on 12th June, which
inspired an appreciative review by critic Sylvie Bonier in Spectacles
of 13th June. The programme incldued: |
| 1983
|
U.S.A.
|
On
the occasion of the Maestro's 8Oth birthday, music critic Allan Kozinn
publishes a précis of the artist's career and an interview with
him, under the title "Claudio Arrau -
75 years on the concert circuit ". Arrau speaks of his approach to music, his musical and artistic tastes, and his expected recording plans which at the time included works by Debussy, Ravel and Schönberg.M [KEYBOARD magazine, July 1983, California, pages 27 through to 31] |
| 1983 | Monaco | Recital. |
| 1983 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted by Sir Colin Davis. |
| 1983 | Germany | Performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Sarrebruck Radio Symphony Orchestra [Radio-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken] conducted by Jacques Mercier. http://arrausite.free.fr/Index.html |
| 1983 | Poland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra and Kazimierz Kord conducting. |
| 1983 |
World |
Bestowed
The International UNESCO Music Prize,
in New York on 21 July. The Prize was also awarded to Herbert
von Karajan this year. |
| 1983 |
Italy |
Made
a Commandatore
by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. |
| 1983 |
U.S.A. |
Awarded
The Beethoven Medal
in New York. |
| 1983 |
England |
Awarded
the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa
by Oxford University. |
| 1983 |
Malta |
Bestowed
a Knighthood from the Order of Malta. |
| 1983 |
Chile |
Cover page photograph of Maestro Arrau on the September issue of Pluma y Pincel magazine, published in Valparaíso, containing an article entitled 'Claudio Arrau '. |
| 1983 |
Chile |
Awarded
the Premio Nacional de Arte: Mención
en Música, by the Ministry of Education
on 21st December. |
| 1983 | Canada | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the National Arts
Center Orchestra [NACO] conducted by Franco Mannino. Ottawa's The Citizen of Thursday 24th November publishes a critique by Jacob Siskind, entitled 'Arrau, NACO inspired each other ', describing the concerto performance of Wednesday 23rd November in superlative terms for both Maestro Arrau and the Orchestra, in what was considered a rare overwhelming occasion where everything fell into place to perfection. The performance is repeated today. |
| 1984 | ||
| 1984 |
U.S.A. |
Concert
tour |
| 1984 |
U.S.A. |
Maestro
Arrau marks his 81th birthday with a recital in Seattle, Washington,
on 6th February. |
| 1984 |
U.S.A. |
Recital at the Carnegie Hall of New York on Thursday 16th February at 8:00 pm, with a programme including the following works: >
Beethoven's
Sonata No.7 in D major, Op.10 No.3 |
| 1984 |
Canada |
Concert
tour |
| 1984 |
U.S.A. |
Publication
of an interview of Maestro Arrau in the book 'Reflections
from the Keyboard - The world of the concert pianist'
by
David Dubal, a compilation of interviews with 35
leading pianists. Arrau's interview includes a variety of interesting
topics, from remembrances to interpretation approaches to actual performances,
and runs from page 16 through to page 33. ISBN: 0-671-49240-3, Summit Books, New York. Hardcover, 400 pages. Also published in London by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1985 as 'The World of the Concert Pianist', ISBN 0-575-03654-0. |
| 1984 |
U.S.A. |
An
article entitled 'Birthday Bash Greetings'
in the New York Magazine of 14th March,
by music critic Peter G. Davis, highlights essential features of Maestro
Arrau's music-making, his vision of Liszt and Schubert, his complete
edition of Philips recordings, his biography by Joseph Horowitz, and
other important topics. "The real musical excitement comes from the sense of a continuing adventure, the discoveries of an inquiring musical intelligence that has peered deeply, uncovered many secrets, and is still looking for more. Only the greatest misucians are blessed with this capacity for constant self-renewal". |
| 1984 |
England |
London
Weekend Television presented on Channel 5 a 1-hour long,
thorough documentary on
Sunday 18th March, entitled 'Claudio
Arrau', filmed by Melvin Bragg, which highlights essential features
of Maestro Arrau's life experience from a young age, as well as his
music-making and musical opinions. [London Weekend Television, Season 7, Episode 12] |
| 1984 |
Chile |
Journalist
Inés María Cardone reports on 'Buen Domingo' of Sunday
15th April about the Melvin Bragg documentary entitled 'Tributo
a Arrau', broadcast by London Weekend Television in March. The
report includes anecdotes on the filming of the documentary at Arrau's
Long Island home in January, a translation of the commentaries and
interview script into Spanish, and seven fotographs. |
| 1984 |
Chile |
A
15-day tour of his homeland, arriving on Thursday 10th May,
after a 17-year absence.
|
| Chile | Official presentation in Santiago of the 'Premio Nacional de Arte, Mención Música' (Chile's maximum arts distinction), awarded by the Chilean Ministry of Education in 1983. | |
| . |
Friday 11th May |
Rehearsals
at the Teatro Municipal whilst anti-government street protesters clashed
with police forces resulting in one 18-year-old dead and 170 arrests. |
| . |
Saturday 12th May |
Teatro
Municipal of Santiago -M |
| . |
Wednesday 16th May |
Teatro
Municipal of Santiago - Recital: |
| . |
Friday 18th May |
Santiago
Metropolitan Cathedral - |
| . | Saturday 19th May |
TV Channel 7 's national broadcast of the concertos and events at the Santiago Cathedral on 18th May. |
| . | Tuesday 22nd May |
Donation
of records and music scores to the Chilean National Library. |
| . | Wednesday 23rd May |
Teatro
Municipal of Santiago - Recital:
|
| 1984 | Chile  |
Maestro
Claudio Arrau is awarded
the degree of |
| 1984 |
Chile |
Fourth
and last return visit to Chillán, on 24th and 25th May,
to attend civic functions in his honour [no recitals]. |
| 1984 |
Chile |
Appointed
Permanent Professor Honoris Causa
by the University of Bío-Bío. |
| 1984 |
U.S.A. |
On
Monday 14th May, The New York Times publishes an account so far
of Maestro Arrau's visit to Chile, highlighting the overwhelming reception,
the prevailing political sensitivities, and the protracted ovations
prompted by the revered pianist's concerts and recitals. |
| 1984 |
Chile |
VEA
women’s weekly issue of 17th May, published in Santiago,
includes articles on Maestro Arrau’s intense hours in Chile. Articles
are entitled: 'Emperor of the Piano’ [artistic achievements],
and ‘Step by Step’ [the visit], both written by VEA’s
journalist team, as well as ‘In Private’, by the Maestro’s
press associate Arturo Carvallo. There is also an anonymous interview
of Lucrecia Arrau, entitled ‘Claudio is extraordinary as a musician,
a man and a brother’. Pages 4 through to 9. Front cover photograph plus four internal photographs. |
| 1984 |
Chile |
Establishes
in Santiago the "Lucrecia León
de Arrau" Arts Corporation. |
| 1984 |
Chile |
Cover page photograph of Maestro Arrau on the May issue of VEA magazine published in Santiago, containing an article entitled 'Las emociones de Claudio Arrau '. |
| 1984 |
Chile |
Publication
in Santiago of the book Claudio Arrau:
Lo que nunca se dijo de su viaje a Chile, by journalist
Inés María Cardone, an anecdotal
account of preparations for Arrau's last visit
to Chile in 1984. |
| 1984
|
England
|
A
55-minute film entitled 'Portrait of Claudio Arrau',
directed by Alan Benson, where Maestro Arrau speaks about his long,
event-filled life and performs Beethoven's F minor sonata
Appassionata, Chopin's Ballade in A flat major Op 47,
Debussy's L'isle joyeuse, Liszt's Petrarch Sonett 104
from Années de Pélerinage, and Schubert's Klavierstück
in E flat minor D946. |
