Claudio
Arrau
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Claudio
Arrau
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| 'ArrauHouse' - A Chronology |
| Middle Period - 1941 to 1962 |
| 1941 | ||
| 1941 |
South
America |
Arrau moves family residence from En route concerts/recitals in |
| 1941-47 |
U.S.A. |
Once in |
| 1941 |
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First return recital at the > Bach's Partita No.2 in C minor > Beethoven's Sonata in C major Op 2 No. 3 > Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op.24 > Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition Encores: > Debussy's Danse and > Chopin-Liszt's Chant Polonaise Appreciative review in The New York Times of 26th January. |
| 1941 |
U.S.A. |
Triumphant return engagement at Carnegie Hall on 19 February,
with an extensive program including: > Bach's Italian Concerto > Beethoven's Sonata in E flat Op 31 No. 3 > Schumann's Carnaval Op.9 > Chopin's Scherzo No. 4 in E Op.54 > Liszt's Concert Etude in D flat 'Un sospiro' > Ravel's Jeux d'eau > Debussy's Feux d'artifice Highest praise by Noel Strauss in The New York Times of 20th February, and by Robert Lawrence in The New York Herald Tribune. |
| 1941 |
Colombia |
Concert performances at the Teatro de Colón of Bogotá, with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional conducted by Guillermo Espinosa on 17th, 25th and 29th March, with a programme which consisted of: >
Beetoven: The 5 Piano Concertos |
| 1941 |
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On 14th November, Carnegie Hall recital with a program
comprising: |
| 1941 |
U.S.A. |
Tour of the |
| 1941 |
U.S.A. |
Ms Friede Rothe-Sterling becomes Arrau's personal manager, an
association that was to last for life. |
| 1941 |
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The New York Times of 7th December reviews Arrau's first
recordings for the Victor label: Mozart's Sonata
No. 5 in G KV283 and Sonata
No. 17 in D KV576: "a blend of lightness, clarity and
lyricism". |
| 1941 |
U.S.A. |
Recital
at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, City of Baltimore (Meryland),
on Friday 12th December. The program was titled The
Seventh Peabody Recital. |
| 1941 |
U.S.A. |
Arrau
devotes himself to teaching. |
| 1941/2 |
World |
Recitals/concerts in all major cities of the world (except This endeavour was to become the hallmark of his legendary, unrelenting artistic activity which, throughout the decades, meant marathon schedules exceeding one hundred appearances per year in solo recitals and concerts with all major orchestras of the world, including an annual tour of the |
| 1941/6 |
U.S.A. |
Records for the Victor label works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart,
R. Strauss, and Weber, including his first commercial recording
of an orchestral work in the |
| 1942 | ||
| 1942 |
U.S.A. |
Full
cover
page photograph of Claudio Arrau on 'Musical
America' magazine of 10th January,
published in New York. |
| 1942 |
U.S.A. |
Performance
of Beethoven's
Concerto for Pianoforte No.4 in G major Op.58
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard
Burgin, at the Boston Symphony Hall on Monday
26th and Tuesday 27th January, this being the Fourth
Programme of the Sixty-First
Season 1941-1942. N.B.: Repeat appearance in one season was unprecedented for an artist. |
| 1942 |
U.S.A. |
Concerto performances with the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock, twice early in March [repeat appearance in one season unprecedented for an artist]. |
| 1942 |
U.S.A. |
An
article entitled "Arrau Makes Hay", in TIME Magazine
of 23th March, praises Claudio Arrau for his quick rise to
fame in the USA after his Carnegie Hall recitals in the Autumn of
1941. Arrau is commended for his prodigious technique, thorough
repertoire, sober modesty, and true
greatness. |
| 1942 |
Puerto
Rico |
Peformances
in San Juan in March. |
| 1942 |
Argentina |
Performance
of Cesar Franck's Symphonic Variations and Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto
No.2, at the 'Teatro Colón' of Buenos Aires on Sunday 12th
April, with Alberto Wolff conducting. The programme also included Berlioz's 'Benvenuto Cellini' Overture, and Shostakovitz's Symphomy No.1. |
| 1942 |
Argentina |
Performance
of Beethoven Complete Piano Sonata Cycle
at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires in a series of 6 recitals
over April and May. |
| 1942
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Uruguay
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Performance
of Beethoven Complete Piano Sonata Cycle
at the Teatro Solís of Montevideo, in a series of six subscription
recitals over April and May, as part of the 1942 Concert
Season run by the Organización Musical Daniel: Second
recital: Wednesday 29th April at
5:45 pm Third
recital: Friday 8th May at
5:45 pm |
| 1942 |
Argentina |
Fifth subscription recital, of a cycle of six covering the complete Beethoven sonata cycle, at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires on Sunday 10th May at 6:00 pm, with a program including: >
Sonata No.8 in do menor Op.13 Patética |
| 1942 |
Uruguay |
Fourth recital of the complete Beethoven sonata cycle at the Teatro Solís of Montevideo on Monday 11th May, including Sonatas Nos.16, 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 La aurora. |
| 1942 |
Uruguay |
Farewell
Recital at the Teatro
Solís, Montevideo, as part of the Temporada Oficial de Conciertos
de 1942, on Monday 8th June at 5:45 pm, with a programme
consisting of: |
| 1942 |
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Concerts
with the Chilean Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sinfónica de
Chile] under Erich Kleiber at the 'Teatro Municipal'
of Santiago. First concert on Sunday 26th July at 6:00 pm. |
| 1942 |
U.S.A. |
Claudio
Arrau writes
an article for the August edition of "The Etude"
Music Magazine, published in Philadelphia, entitled Creative
Technic for the Piano, where Arrau discourses about technique
development only as a means of realizing interpretation and expression.
[Pages 511, 512, and 562] |
| 1942 |
U.S.A. |
On 23rd August, The New York Times critic Howard
Taubman reviews Claudio Arrau's recordings of Beethoven's Theme and Variations in F Op 34, and Theme and Variations in E flat (Eroica Variations)
Op 35, for the Victor label [DM-892]. "Brilliant",
"flavoursome", "well recorded" performances
of otherwise not recently recorded works. |
| 1942 |
Peru |
Second
and farewell recital at the Teatro Nacional of Lima on Sunday
30th August, with a programme including the following works:
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| 1942 |
Mexico |
Recitals
on 25th, 28th, and 30th September, and on 2nd October. |
| 1942 |
U.S.A. |
An
article headed 'Almost Unprecedented Number of Recitals
', in 'Variety' (USA) magazine of 21st October,
calls attention to the fact that, in his second year in the USA,
Arrau has now been set for more recitals and concerts than any pianist
since the hey-day of Pederewski in 1922-23, with 70 engagements
so far for the 1942-43 season. |
| 1942 |
Canada |
Sixty presentations, greeted with the highest critical acclaim. |
| 1942 |
U.S.A. |
Carnegie Hall recital on 28th October with a program comprising:
> Mozart's early Sonata in G major > Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel > Schumann's Humoresque > Liszt's Ballade in B minor > Bartók's Allegro barbaro > Debussy's L'isle joyeuse, and > Poulenc's Capriccio Italien with several encores, amongst them > Chopin's Étude in E minor and > Debussy's Golliwog's Cakewalk (From Children's Corner) [Superlative praise, with minor "buts" regarding the Teutonic works, by a reviewer for The New York Times of 29th October] |
| 1942 |
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Records Bach's Goldberg
Variations for the Victor label on 78 rpm masters (recording
first ever released in 1988 as RCA Gold Seal CD 7841-2-RG). |
| 1942/3 |
U.S.A. |
US tour: Played with the With the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, Arrau had the added rare distinction of being invited back to play twice in the same season. > Boston Symphony under Serge Koussevitzky, twice in January 1942. > Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock, twice in March 1942. |
| 1943 | ||
| 1943
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U.S.A.
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First appearance as soloist with The New York Philharmonic-Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos at
the Carnegie Hall on Sunday 2nd January. |
| 1943 | U.S.A. | Recital in Ohio, at the John Simpson Junior High School Auditorium, for members only of the Mansfield Civic Music Association, on Thursday 18th February at 8:15 pm, presenting a program which included: >
Haydn: Andante con Variazioni >
Granados: La maja y el ruiseñor |
| 1943 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Eugene Goosens. |
| 1943 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under Dimitri Mitropoulos. |
| 1943 | U.S.A. | Performance
of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra under Dimitri Mitropoulos. [Music and Arts: CD-1174. 2005] |
| 1943 |
U.S.A. |
Performance of Schumann's Piano Concerto with the Philadelphia
Orchestra conducted by Eugen Ormandy at the Carnegie
Hall on 23rd March. [Appreciative review by critic Olin Downes in The New York Times of 24th March] |
| 1943 |
U.S.A. |
Founds The Claudio
Arrau Academy in |
| 1943 |
Mexico |
Arrau's performances of Carlos Chávez's Piano Concerto
under the composer's baton, with the Mexican National Symphony Orchestra
[Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México] on 1st, 3rd,
7th and 15th August. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1943 |
Mexico |
Recitals
on 21st, 25th, 30th and 31st of August. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1943 |
U.S.A. |
Arrau
writes a short article on the prospects of South American music,
published in The New York Times of 17th October. |
| 1943
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U.S.A.
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Carnegie Hall recital on 27th October, with a program
comprising: > Mozart's Rondo in A minor > Beethoven's Eroica Variations > Chopin's [not stated] in F minor > Liszt's Jeux d'eau ŕ la villa d'Este > Bus0ni's transcription of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz > a Debussy's piece, > Juan Lecuna's Suburbio* > Juan-José Castro's Tocata* > Domingo Santa-Cruz's Vigneta No. 4* (from Op.8), and > Granados's El pelele (from Goyescas). *These three composers are from [Somewhat less than a wholehearted review by critic Olin Downes in The New York Times of 28th October] |
| 1943 |
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Recital
at the Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, N.Y., on 9th November,
interpreting the following program: |
| 1943 |
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Recital
at the Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Friday 3rd
December at 8:30 pm, as part of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Choral
Union Concert Series presented by the University Musical Society.
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| 1943 |
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The New York Times of 12th December reports that pianist
Claudio Arrau has added Nikolai Lopatnikoff's newly composed piano
sonata to his repertoire and is playing it on tour. |
| 1943/4 |
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Recital
as part of the 1943-1944 Aaron Richmond Celebrity Series of Boston.
http://www.celebrityseries.org/CS_aboutus/archives.htm#
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| 1943/4 |
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Performance in New York at the Peoples' Symphony Concerts, as part of the Artists' Series. |
| 1944 | ||
| 1944
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U.S.A.
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Claudio Arrau and Joseph
Szigeti performed at the N.Y. Town Hall on 30th
January the first of a 3-part series, presented by the New Friends
of Music, comprising all 10 Beethoven's sonatas for
violin and piano. Today's program consisted of: > Sonata in C minor Op 30 No. 2, > Sonata in A major Op 12 No. 2, and > Sonata in G major Op 96. [Appreciative review by R.L. for The New York Times of 31st January] |
| 1944 |
U.S.A. |
Wartime, live performance with Joseph Szigeti
of Beethoven's Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano Cycle,
recorded by The Library of Congress, Washington, and
first released by Vanguard on 4 LPs as SRV-300/3 in 1970-71. |
| 1944 |
Chile |
Recital
at the Teatro Municipal of Santiago. |
| 1944 |
Chile |
Second recital at the Teatro Municipal of Santiago, with a programme which included the following works: >
Beethoven: Variations in F major Op.34 |
| 1944 |
Chile |
Concert at the Teatro Caupolicán of |
| 1944 |
Uruguay |
First
Grand Recital of pianist Claudio Arrau at the 'Teatro
18 de Julio' of Montevideo, as part of the 'Temporada de Grandes
Conciertos de 1944', on Friday 26th May at 6:30 pm, with
a programme consisting of: |
| 1944 |
Argentina |
Performance as part of a series of six subscription recitals at the 'Teatro Colón' of Buenos Aires. The program included works by Mozart, Weber, Chopin, Schubert, and Liszt. |
| 1944 |
Argentina |
Fifth in a series of six subscription recitals at the 'Teatro Colón' of Buenos Aires on Saturday 3rd June at 17:45 hrs. The program included: >
Bach: Suite inglesa en la menor |
| 1944 |
Chile |
Concert
performances at the 'Teatro Municipal' of Santiago on Friday 23rd
June at 6:45 pm, as part of the Winter Season sponsored by the
'Instituto de Extensión Musical' of the Chilean National
University,
with Chile's Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile]
conducted by Armando Carvajal. The programme
consisted of: |
| 1944 |
Uruguay |
Second
Grand Recital of pianist Claudio Arrau at the 'Teatro
18 de Julio' of Montevideo, as part of the 'Temporada de Grandes
Conciertos de 1944', on Monday 29th June at 6:30 pm. |
| 1944 |
Mexico |
Recital
on 19th September. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1944 |
Mexico |
Performance
of Fauré's Ballade for Piano and Orchestra Op.19 with Mexico's
National Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México] under
Carlos Chávez on the 1st and 3rd September. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1944 |
Mexico |
Performance
of Carlos Chávez's Piano Concerto with Mexico's National
Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México] under
Carlos Chávez on the 8th and 10th September. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1944 |
Mexico |
Complete Cycle of 21 Mozart Concertos in September. [This announced cycle is unlikely and needs corroboration] |
| 1944
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U.S.A.
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On 14th November, Arrau's first Carnegie Hall Recital of the season, presenting
the following program: > Beethoven's Variations in F minor Op 34, > Beethoven's Sonata in E flat Op 81a Les adieux, > Schumann's Carnaval, > Albéniz's Almería (from Iberia), > Ravel's Alborada del gracioso, and > Debussy's preludes Voiles and Les collines d'Anacapri. [Critic M.A.S. from The New York Times writes a mixed review on 15th November, favouring Arrau's interpretations of Latin works as against those of German works]. |
| 1944 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, with Eugene Goosens conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1944 | U.S.A. | Performance
of Schumann’s Piano Concerto with Karl Krueger
conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. [Artone, MCPS. 24 Bits 96 Khz. 222367-354/3. 2005] |
| 1944
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U.S.A.
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Carnegie Hall Concert on 12th December with The Philadelphia
Orchestra conducted by Eugen Ormandy and a performance
of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor. [Enthusiastically reviewed by critic Olin Downes in The New York Times of 13th December] |
| 1944/5 | U.S.A. | Performance at the Omaha Performing Arts Society Centre, Nebraska, as part of the Tuesday Musical Concert Series. |
| 1945 | ||
| 1945 |
World |
After World War II, Arrau pursues an eminent international career
which establishes him as one of the premier masters of the piano. |
| 1945
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U.S.A.
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The
New Friends of Music presented distinguished musicians Josef Szigeti
and Claudio Arrau in four of Mozart's
18 sonatas for violin and piano at The New York Town Hall on 11
February. The program consisted of: > the Great Sonata in B flat KV 454, > early Sonata in G, > early Sonata in B flat, and > late Sonata in A major KV 586. Superlative review by critic E.L. in The New York Times of 12 February. |
| 1945 |
U.S.A. |
Carnegie
Hall performance of Igor Stravinsky's Serenade
in A for Piano (1925 First Edition). |
| 1945
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U.S.A.
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A typical recital program at this stage in Arrau's career was
the following one, performed at the Newark Mosque Theatre in New
Jersey on Sunday 18th February at 04:00 pm: > Mozart's Rondo in D minor KV485 > Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel Op.24 > Chopin's Ballade in A flat major > Chopin's Scherzo in E major > Liszt's Au bord d'une source > Liszt's Mephisto Waltz Intermission > Ravel's Jeux d'eau > Debussy's Feux d'artifice > Albéniz's El puerto (from Iberia) > Granados's El pelele (from Goyescas). |
| 1945 | U.S.A. | As
part of the 103rd Carnegie Hall Season 1944/45, performances of Fauré’s
Ballade for Piano and Orchestra, and Strauss's Burleske
for Piano and Orchestra, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
and George Szell conducting, on the 8th and 9th
of March. http://www.sickinger.com/nypoconcerts.html |
| 1945 | U.S.A. | As
part of the 103rd Carnegie Hall Season 1944/45, performance of
Strauss's Burleske for Piano and Orchestra in D minor, and
Weber’s Konzertstück for Piano and Orchestra
Op.79, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and George
Szell conducting, on the 11th of March at 3:00 pm. http://www.sickinger.com/nypoconcerts.html 11.03.1945 - CD WHRA 6037, released in January 2011. |
| 1945 |
Chile |
Two sold-out recitals at the 'Teatro Municipal' of Santiago, on 10th and 12th July. |
| 1945
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Mexico
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Performances
presented by the ‘Asociación Musical Daniel’ of
the complete Beethoven’s piano concerto cycle,
at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, with Jascha
Horenstein conducting the Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra [Orquesta
Filarmónica de México] and Choir: > Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4, on Friday 21st September > Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3, on Tuesday 25th September > Piano Concerto No. 5, on Friday 28th September > Choral Fantasy with piano and orchestra Op. 80, on Friday 5th October. |
| 1945 |
Mexico |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 5 at the 'Teatro Metropólitan',
Mexico DF, presented by the ‘Asociación Musical Daniel’,
with Jascha Horenstein conducting the Mexico Philharmonic
Orchestra [Orquesta Filarmónica de México] on Sunday
30th September at 11:15 am (low-fee admission matinée)
. The all-Beethoven programme comprised: > Piano Concerto No.3 > Symphony No. 7 > Piano Concerto No.5 The Emperor |
| 1945 |
Mexico |
Members of the 'Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa' formed the 'Claudio Arrau Friendly Society' in Xalapa, Veracruz. |
| 1945
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Mexico
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Performance presented by the ‘Asociación Daniel A.C.’ of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1 and Liszt's Totentanz, at the 'Teatro Lerdo' of Xalapa, with José Yves Limantour conducting the 'Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa', on Monday 1st October. |
| 1945 | U.S.A. | As
part of the 104th Carnegie Hall Season 1945/46, performances of
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1, with the
New York Philharmonic Orchestra and George Szell
conducting, on 8th, 9th and 11th of November. |
| 1945/6 |
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Recital
with violinist Joseph Szigeti, as part of the 1945-1946 Aaron Richmond
Celebrity Series of Boston. http://www.celebrityseries.org/CS_aboutus/archives.htm# |
| 1945/6 |
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Performance in New York at the Peoples' Symphony Concerts, as part of the Artists' Series. |
| 1946 | ||
| 1946 | U.S.A. | Concerto performances at the Kansas Music Hall with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra on 1st and 2nd January. |
| 1946 | U.S.A. | Recital
at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium on 29th January,
with a program comprising the following works: > Bach: Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue > Beethoven: Sonata Op.57 Appassionata > Schumann: Carnaval > Ravel: Ondine > Debussy: Feux d'artifice > Granados: The Maiden and the Nightingale (from Goyescas) > Poulenc: Caprice Italien (from 'Suite Napoli') |
| 1946 | U.S.A. | Performances of Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79 and R.Strauss’s Burleske, with Désiré Defauw conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1946 | U.S.A. | Performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Milton Forstat conducting the Utah Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1946 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra under Dimitri Mitropoulos. |
| 1946 | U.S.A. | Performance
at the Kleinhans Music Hall of Buffalo, New York, on 12th March,
of a program including: |
| 1946 | U.S.A. | Performance at the Philadelphia Academy of Music on 15th March. |
| 1946 |
Argentina |
Recital at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires with a program including works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Debussy, Granados, and Albéniz. |
| 1946 |
Argentina |
Recital at the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires with a program including works by Mozart, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, Satie, and Ravel. |
| 1946 |
Argentina |
Performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 and Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2, at the 'Teatro El Círculo' of Rosario on Thursday 27th June, with the Rosario Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro José Francisco Berrini, as part of the 15th Cycle presented by the Rosario Symphony Association. |
| 1946 |
Argentina |
Performance
of Beethoven's complete piano concerto cycle,
as
part of the Beethoven Festival held
at the 'Teatro Gran Rex' of Buenos Aires on Sundays 16th, 23rd
and 30th of June at 10:30 am, with the Buenos Aires Symphony
Association Orchestra [Orquesta de la Asociación Sinfónica
de Buenos Aires] conducted by Joscha Horenstein. Sunday
23rd June - Sunday
30th June - |
| 1946
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Argentina
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Outdoor concert in benefit of the European Relief, at the Buenos
Aires' Estadio Luna Park on Sunday 30th June, before a 25,000-strong
audience (hitherto the largest in the history of the City), with
the Teatro Colón Orchestra under Jascha Horenstein
interpreting Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. [ News report in The New York Times of 3rd July] |
| 1946 |
Argentina |
Extraordinary
recital at the 'Teatro Gran Rex' of Buenos Aires on Tuesday 2nd
July at 10:00 pm. |
| 1946 |
Argentina |
Performance
of Grieg's Piano Concerto at the 'Teatro Gran Rex' of Buenos Aires
on Sunday 7th July at 10:30 am, with the Buenos Aires Symphony
Association Orchestra [Orquesta de la Asociación Sinfónica
de Buenos Aires] conducted by Jascha Horenstein,
as part of an extraordinary concert which also included Tschaikowsky's
Symphonie Patétique and Wagner's Prélude to The
Master Singers. |
| 1946 |
Argentina |
Performance
of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2 at the 'Teatro Gran Rex' of Buenos
Aires on Tuesday 9th July at 10:30 am, with the Buenos
Aires Symphony Association Orchestra [Orquesta de la Asociación
Sinfónica de Buenos Aires] conducted by Jascha
Horenstein, as part of an extraordinary concert which
also included Strauss's Don Juan Symphonic Poem and Schubert's
Unfinished Symphony. |
| 1946 | Chile | Recitals
at the Teatro Municipal of Santiago on the following dates: [This entry needs corroboration and completion] |
| 1946 |
U.S.A. |
Unprecedented
performances of both Brahms’s Piano Concertos in the one
program, with the Philadelphia Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, at the
Philadelphia Fairmount Park, on or around 9th August. [Time magazine archives, 12 August issue] |
| 1946 | Chile | The Revista Musical Chilena of September 1946 criticises the insufficient 20th century compositions included in the programmes recently performed by Arrau in Chile. One of the programmes included Stravinsky's Serenata. |
| 1946 |
Mexico |
Recitals
on the 19th, 20th, 24th and 30th of September. [This entry needs corroboration and completion] |
| 1946
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U.S.A.
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Recital
at the Carnegie Hall, New York, on 20th October, with an
extensive program comprising works by: |
| 1946 | U.S.A. | Performed one of Brahms’s piano concertos with the New York City Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein at the City Center. |
| 1946 | U.S.A. | Performance
with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner
on 27th October. [Carnegie Library of Pitssburgh] |
| 1946 | U.S.A. | Performances
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (on 12th
and 13th December) and Liszt’s Piano Concerto
No. 2 (on 15th December), with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
and George Szell conducting, as part of the 105th
Carnegie Hall Season 1946/47. http://www.sickinger.com/nypoconcerts.html 15.12.1946 - CD WHRA 6037, released in January 2011. |
| 1946/7 |
Scotland |
First performance at the Edinburgh Festival, during its inaugural
season. |
| 1946/7 |
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Performance in New York at the Peoples' Symphony Concerts, as part of the Artists' Series. |
| 1946/51 |
U.S.A. |
Recordings of works by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Chopin, Ravel,
and Schumann for U.S. Columbia Masterworks (1946-51), as well as
Books I and II of Albéniz' |
| 1947 | ||
| 1947 |
England |
Layout
of Claudio Arrau's International Subscription Celebrity Concerts
UK tour in January: 5th January, 3:00 pm, Royal Albert Hall, London 7th January, 7:00 pm, Sheffield City Hall 8th January, 6:45 pm, Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool 11th January, 3:00 pm, Usher Hall, Edinburgh 13th January, 7:30 pm, St Andrew's Hall, Glasgow 14th January, 7:00 pm, Newcastle City Hall 17th January, 8:00 pm, Belfast Assembly Hall 19th January, 3:00 pm, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 20th January, 7:00 pm, Birmingham Town Hall |
| 1947 |
England |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 at
The Royal Albert Hall of London, on
Sunday 5th January at 3:00 pm, as
part of the 1946-47 Sunday Orchestral Concerts series, under the
batton of Malcolm Sargent. The programme also included Smetana's Overture 'The Bartered Bride', Borodin-Sargent's Nocturne, and Dvorak's Symphony No.4. |
| 1947 |
England |
Recital
at the Sheffield City Hall, on Tuesday 7th January at 7:00
pm, as part of the International Subscription Celebrity Concerts,
with a programme consisting of the following works: |
| 1947 |
England |
Recital
at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, on Sunday 19th
January at 3:00 pm, forming part of the International Subscription
Celebrity Concerts, with a programme including the following works: |
| 1947 |
England |
Performance
in London of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 on 22nd January,
as part of the BBC Concert Series, under the batton of Sir
Adrian Cedric Boult. |
| 1947
|
England
|
The March issue of the English magazine The
Gramophone shows Claudio Arrau on the cover page. COn
page 149, critic Alec Robertson appraises Arrau's HMV recording of Schumann's Piano Concerto with the Detroit S.O.
conducted by Karl Krueger.HRobertson finds Arrau
"a rich artist", able to produce the frequently missing
feeling of chivalric impulse needed for this often feminized work. |
| 1947 |
|
Records his first Brahm's Piano Concerto No.1, with the Philharmonia
Orchestra conducted by Basil Cameron for HMV. |
| 1947 |
U.S.A. |
Moves family from Forest Hill (Queens, NY) and settles in Douglaston
( |
| 1947 |
Australia |
Second tour of |
| 1947 | Argentina | Recitals in Buenos Aires. |
| 1947 |
Chile |
Recitals in |
| 1947 | U.S.A. | Piano recital at the Symphony Hall of Boston on Sunday 2nd
November, as part of the Celebrity Series presented
by Aaron Richmond. The programme consisted of the following
works: I Mozart: Rondo in A minor K.511 Beethoven: Sonata in E flat Op. 81a Les adieux Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Paganini, Book II II Mendelssohn: Rondo capriccioso Schumann: Faschingschwank aus Wien Op.26 Intermission III Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte Albéniz: Navarra (original version) Robert Palmer: Toccata ostinato Debussy: Two études Debussy: L' isle joyeuse |
| 1947 | U.S.A. | Performance of Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79 with Erich Kleiber conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1947 | U.S.A. | Performances of Chopin’s Andante spianato & Grande polonaise brillante Op 22 and Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with Thomas Scherman conducting The Little Orchestra Society of New York (established by Scherman in 1947). |
| 1947 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1947 | U.S.A. | Performance with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner on 27 December. [Carnegie Library of Pitssburgh] |
| 1947/8 | U.S.A. | Concerto performance in Spartanburg City, with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, as part of the 1947-48 Concert Series under the auspices of the Spartanburg Civic Music Association, South Carolina. |
| 1947/8 |
|
Recital
as part of the 1947-1948 Aaron Richmond Celebrity Series of Boston.
http://www.celebrityseries.org/CS_aboutus/archives.htm#
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| 1948 | ||
| 1948
|
U.S.A.
|
Carnegie
Hall Cycle: Two centuries of piano literature, from J. S. Bach to A. Schönberg First recital on ... Second recital on 6th February with a program consisting of: > Bach's Prelude and Fugue in A minor (independent) > Mozart's Sonata in D major KV 576 > Beethoven's Sonata in E flat major Op 27 No. 1 > Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit > Bartók's Allegro barbaro > Albéniz's Fęte-dieu ŕ Seville > Debussy's L'isle joyeuse and Masques, and > Poulenc's Caprice Italien. News report on The New York Times of 7th February. |
| 1948 | Netherlands | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Concertgebouw Orchestra
of Amsterdam under Edward van Beinum. Audience and musicians alike stood up to applaud and cheer Arrau for a 12-minute ovation. |
| 1948 | Scotland | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Alexander Gibson. |
| 1948 | England | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra and Artur Rodzinski conducting. |
| 1948 | Chile | Recitals on the 16th, 17th, 20th, 23rd, 24th, 26th, and 27th June. 17th
June: |
| 1948 | Chile | Performances
in Santiago of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 Op 73 and Brahms’s
Piano Concerto No. 2 Op.83, with Chile's Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta
Sinfónica de Chile] conducted by Víctor Tevah
Tellias on the 18th of June. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1948 | Chile | Performances
in Santiago of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54 and Brahms’s
Piano Concerto No. 2 Op.83, with Chile's Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta
Sinfónica de Chile] conducted by Víctor Tevah
Tellias on the 27th of June. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1948 | Chile/Mexico | Appointed Honorary Cultural Attaché of Chile in Mexico [with the Chilean Embassy in Mexico]. |
| 1948 | Mexico | Recitals
on the 17th, 19th, 23rd, and 31st August. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1948 | Mexico | Concert
performance with Mexico's Philharmonic Orchestra [Orquesta Filarmónica
de México] conducted by José Ives Limantour
on the 17th, 19th, 23rd, and 31st August. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1948 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Thor Johnson. |
| 1948 | Scotland | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with The Scotish Symphony Orchestra under Walter Susskind at the Saint Andrews Hall of Glasgow on Saturday 9th October. [The program also included Elgar's Symphony No.2] |
| 1948 | England | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with The BBC Symphony Orchestra
under Sir Adrian Boult at the Royal Albert Hall on
Wednesday 13th October at 8 pm. The program also included three symphonic works: Beethoven's Symphony No.8, Debussy's La Mer, and Ravel's Alborada del gracioso. |
| 1948 | England | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra
under Josef Krips at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday
5th December at 3 pm. The programme also included Beethoven's Overture Leonora No.3 and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.5. |
| 1948 | England | Only recital this season at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on Sunday 12th December. The program comprised the following works: >
Mozart, Sonata in D major K.376 |
| 1948 | Italy | Eight recitals in eight days. |
| 1948/9 | U.S.A. | Recital
as part of the 1948-1949 Aaron Richmond Celebrity Series Boston. http://www.celebrityseries.org/CS_aboutus/archives.htm# |
| 1949 | ||
| 1949 |
U.S.A. |
Piano
recital at Carnegie Hall, New York, on Sunday 27th March with a program consisting
of works by Mozart, Liszt, Chopin, Fauré, Debussy and Ravel,
plus three encores. [Highly appreciative review in The New York Times of Monday 28th March] |
| 1949 | U.S.A. | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. |
| 1949 | U.S.A. | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the San Francisco Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Pierre Monteux. Tuesday 12th April and Monday 18th April, both at 8:30 pm. |
| 1949 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1949 |
U.S.A. |
Performance of Beethoven's Concerto No. 4 under Serge
Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at
the Berkshire Fete, [Review by Ross Parmenter in The New York Times of 1st August] |
| 1949 |
South Africa |
For
the first time in South Africa, series of concerts in August and September. The tour consisted of seven sold out concerts in Johannesburg
and three sold out concerts in Cape Town. |
| 1949 |
Mexico |
Named Hijo Predilecto
de México, the highest Mexican arts award. |
| 1949 |
Venezuela |
Performance/s
in Caracas [This entry needs corroboration/completion] |
| 1949 |
Chile |
Awarded the degree of Doctor
Honoris Causa by the |
| 1949 | Netherlands | Performances of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor, and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam [Das Königliche Concertgebouw Orchester Amsterdam] under Edward van Beinum. |
| 1949 | France | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with L'Orchester de la société des concerts du conservatoire and André Cluytens conducting. http://arrausite.free.fr/Index.html |
| 1949 | England | Recital on Sunday 9th October at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. |
| 1949 | England | Performances of Schumann’s Piano Concerto, with The Halle Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli, at the Sheffield City Hall on Saturday 3rd December at 7:00 pm. |
| 1949 | England | Performances
of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Chopin’s Piano Concerto
No. 1, with the London Symphony Orchestra under Gaston Poulet,
at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 11th December at 3:00 pm,
as part of the 'Sunday Afternoon Orchestral Concerts', Season 1949-50. The programme also included: Berlioz's Overture 'Carnaval Romain', C.Franck's morceau symphonique 'Redemption', and Wagner's prelude 'Lohengrin' and overture 'Tannhauser'. |
| 1949 | England | Performance
of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2 at the Royal Albert Hall, with the
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult,
on Wednesday 14th December at 8:00 pm, as part of the Royal
Philharmonic Society's 138th Season 1949-50. The programme also included Schumann's Overture Genoveva Op.81 and Vaughan Williams's Symphony No.6. |
| 1949 | Scotland | Performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2 Op.83, with The Scottish Orchestra conducted by Walter Susskind at Glasgow's St Andrew's Hall on Saturday 17th December at 7:30 pm, as part of The Choral and Orchestral Union of Glasgow's 1949-1950 Season. |
| 1949 | Scotland | Performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor, with The Scottish Orchestra conducted by Walter Susskind at the Green's Playhouse of Glasgow on Sunday 18th December at 3:00 pm, this being the Season's 'Eleventh Sunday Concert'. |
| 1950 | ||
| 1950 | U.S.A. | Recital
in New York on 10th January at 8:30 pm, as part of the Carnegie
Hall 1949-1950 season, with a program comprising the following works
- |
| 1950 | Mexico | Performance
of Weber's Konzertschtücke for Piano and Orchestra with the National
Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional] conducted
by José Ives Limantour on the 20th of February. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1950 | Mexico | Recital
on the 22nd of February, including Satie's Sports and divertissements. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1950 | Mexico | Music
critic Federico de Lachica highly praises the musical talents of ‘Maestro’
Claudio Arrau when reviewing his recital of 23rd February at
the 'Gran Teatro Rex' of the Technological Artistic Society (SAT)
in Mexico City. The program consisted of:
> Mozart: Rondo in A minor
K.511 Review on page 4 of fortnightly ‘El Borrego’ No. 59, published at Colonia Alta Vista on 24th March by the Students Association of the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiors de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico City. |
| 1950 | U.S.A. | Cover page photograph of Claudio Arrau on the March edition of Musical America, New York, and brief biographical note on page 17. |
| 1950 | Chile | Recitals in Santiago as part of the Winter Season. |
| 1950 | U.S.A. | Shared
recitals with soprano Lotte Lehmann and the Paganini Quartet at the
Ravinia Festival, Chicago, on 8th, 10th, 12th and 13th August. On 10th August, there were additional performances by Claudio Arrau and the Paganini Quartet of chamber works by Mozart and Schubert. |
| 1950 |
Scotland |
Second appearance at the Edinburgh Festival, with a recital at
the Usher Hall on Sunday 27th August comprising: > Mozart: Rondo in a minor K.511 > Beethoven: Sonata in E flat Op.81a Das Lebewohl/Les adieux > Schumann: Phantasie Op.17 Interval > Ravel: Miroirs - Noctuelles, Oiseaux tristes, Une barque sur l'océan, > Alborada del gracioso & La vallée des cloches. > Debussy: Préludes from Book 2 - La puerta del vino & Feux d'artifice |
| 1950 |
Scotland |
As
part of the Edinburgh Festival,
performance at the Usher Hall of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.3
with the Statsradiofonien Orchestra conducted by Erik Tuxen
on Tuesday 29th August at 7:30 pm. |
| 1950 |
England |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 in G major with the Yorkshire
Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Maurice Miles at the Leeds Town
Hall in West Yorkshire, on Friday 6th October at 11:00
am, as part of the Leeds Triennial Musical Festival. |
| 1950 |
England |
Performance
of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat Op.83 with the Liverpool
Philharmonic
Orchestra
conducted by Hugo Rignold at the Liverpool Philharmonic
Hall on Friday 10th October at 7:00 pm, as part of the
112th Season of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society's Second Tuesday
Subscription Concert. |
| 1950 |
England |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat with the BBC
Symphony
Orchestra
conducted by Issay Dobrowen at the Royal Albert
Hall on Wednesday 11th October at 8:00 pm, as part of the
BBC Symphony Concerts Season 1950-51. |
| 1950 | England | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Josef Krips at the Royal Albert Hall on 15th October. |
| 1950 |
England |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 in G major with the Philharmonia
Orchestra
conducted by Alceo Galliera at the Royal Albert
Hall on Monday 16th October at 7:30 pm, as part of the
'Mysore Concerts' Subscription Series 1950-51. |
| 1950 | U.S.A. | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Fritz Busch. |
| 1950 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and Antal Dorati conducting. |
| 1950 | U.S.A. | Performances of Chopin’s Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante Op 22, Krakowiak concert rondo Op 14, and Variations on Là ci darem la mano Op 2, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Thor Johnson. |
| 1951 | ||
| 1951 |
U.S.A. |
Appearing
in Aaron Richmond's Celebrity Series, at the Jordan Hall, New England
Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts, in the afternoon of Sunday
11th March. http://www.celebrityseries.org/CS_aboutus/archives.htm# |
| 1951 | U.S.A. | Live p erformance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at the Carnegie Hall on 18th March under Victor de Sabata. |
| 1951 |
Mexico |
Arrau's performance of Carlos Chávez's Piano Concerto
under the composer's baton, with the Mexican National Symphony Orchestra
[Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México] on 1st
April at the Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes. Account by reporter William P. Varney in The New York Times of 2nd April. |
| 1951 | Italy | Performance at Teatro Lirico di Milano on 5th April, organised by the Società del Quartetto. The programme comprised: >
Schubert: Allegretto in do minore >
Chopin: Balata op.52 |
| 1951 |
England |
Special recital, as part of the Festival of Britain organised by the Orchestral Concerts Society Ltd in conjunction with The London Season of The Arts, at 8:00 pm on Friday 11th May at The Royal Festival Hall, with a programme consisting of: From
recital programme: From recital flyer: Part
II dedicated to Chopin works is shown as - |
| 1951 |
England |
Plays
the complete Beethoven's sonata
cycle plus the Diabelli
Variations on BBC Radio to great acclaim. |
| 1951 |
England |
The
Columbia Record Guide of May includes on page 12 an appraisal
of Claudio Arrau's masterly command of the keyboard, and advertises
the release of his recordings of Chopin's Scherzo No.4 Op.54 and
My Joys on Columbia LX8792-3. [Photograph] |
| 1951 | England | Solo recital at the Royal Festival Hall of London on Friday 11th May at 8:00 pm, as part of the Festival of Britain Concert Series. |
| 1951
|
Israel
|
First tour of The tour is said to have created "some of the wildest scenes of audience enthusiasm ever seen in this country". [News report in The New York Times of 15 June] |
| 1951 | England | Performances of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 and Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Sir Adrian Boult at the Royal Festival Hall of London on Wednesday 27th June at 7:30 pm, as part of the Festival of Britain Concert Series. |
| 1951
|
U.S.A.
|
Performs Brahms's Piano
Concerto No. 1 on 23rd July at the Lewisohn
Stadium under Pierre Monteux conducting the Stadium
Concerts Symphony. The audience demanded encores: > Mendelssohn's Rondo capriccioso, > Chopin's Etude in C sharp minor from Op 10, > Bartók's Allegro barbaro, and > Chopin-Liszt's My Joys. Review by R.P. in The New York Times of 24th July. |
| 1951 | U.S.A. | Performance of Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Ivan Butekoff. |
| 1951 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Thor Johnson conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1951/2 |
U.S.A. | Performance at the Milton Academy of Boston, as part of the Gratwick Concert Series. |
| 1951/2 |
U.S.A. |
Celebrated monaural recordings of five Hungarian Rhapsodies by Liszt for Desmar, not released
until 1978. |
| 1951/60 |
England |
Records works by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Granados, Grieg,
Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky for English
Columbia (EMI). |
| 1952 | ||
| 1952 | U.S.A. | Performance of Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and Antal Dorati conducting. |
1952 |
U.S.A. |
Performances
of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Fantasy in E minor on
Hungarian Folk Tunes, with Eugene Ormandy conducting
the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. |
1952 |
U.S.A. |
Piano
Recital on Friday 18th January at the Iowa Memorial Union,
State University of Iowa, as part of the University Concert Course,
with a program consisting of: |
| 1952 | USA | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Alexander Hilsberg
conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Carnegie Hall, New York,
on 19th February at 8:30 o'clock, as part of the 1951-52 Season. The Concerto was the last item in a program of orchestral works also including Wagner's Lohengrin Prelude to Act III, Schubert's Symphony No.5, and Bartok's Dance Suite for Orchestra. |
| 1952 | Italy | Recital at Teatro Nuovo di Milano, organised by the Società del Quartetto. The programme included, amongst other works: >
Beethoven: Sonata No. 32 op.111 |
| 1952 | England | Performance
in London of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.1 and Tchaikovsky's Piano
Concerto No.1, at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday 15th May
at 7:30 pm, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Walter
Susskind, as part of the International Celebrity Music
Festival. |
| 1952 | England | Recital
at the Royal Festival Hall on Tuesday 27th May at 8:00 pm,
with a programme consisting of: |
| 1952 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with Josef Krips conducting The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam [Das Königliche Concertgebouw Orchester Amsterdam]. |
| 1952 |
Austria |
Second appearance at the Salzburg Festival on 27 August:
Beethoven's Piano concerto No. 4 under Igor
Markevitch conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[Weimer Philharmoniker]. |
| 1952 |
U.S.A. |
The
September issue of Américas
magazine [published in Washington by The Pan-American Union, General
Secretariat of the Organization of American States, in Spanish,
English and Portuguese] contains an article by Cecil M. Smith, entitled
'Claudio Arrau, musical ambassador', surveying
Arrau's extraordinary international career so far, basic biographical
aspects, influence of Professor Martin Krause, deep interpretative
approach to music, ample repertoire, exclusion of light music, and
close links with native Chile and his mother. [Spanish version: Volume 4, No.9, pages 9 to 11 and 28, eight photographs] |
| 1952 |
South
Africa |
Tour
of South Africa, with nine sold-out concerts in Johannesburg alone,
generously treated to the highest critical acclaim. The Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail of 13 September contains a most appreciative assessment of Arrau's artistry in an article by P.B. entitled "Claudio Arrau, Aristocrat Among Pianists". |
| 1952 |
|
Recital
at the Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, onTuesday 25th
November at 8:30 pm, as part of the Seventh Annual Extra Concert
Series presented by the University Musical Society. The
programme included the following works: |
| 1952/3 |
|
Recital
as part of the 1952-1953 Aaron Richmond Celebrity Series of Boston.
http://www.celebrityseries.org/CS_aboutus/archives.htm# |
| 1952/3 |
U.S.A. |
Records
solo piano works by Beethoven and Chopin for the American Decca
label. |
| 1953 | ||
| 1953 | U.S.A. | On the occasion of the artists visit to Boston, The Boston Herald of 10th January publishes an article by Rudolph Elie appraising the extraordinarily unique qualities of Arrau's interpretation. |
| 1953 | U.S.A. | 50th
birthday subscription performance of Tchaikovsky's
Piano Concerto No.1, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at the
Music Hall on Friday 6th February. Article by Henry S. Humphreys on The Cincinnati Times-Star of 7th February, entitled 'Claudio Arrau gives audience birthday party', refers to a "rich and delicious" rendition with " sparkling cadenzas" "from the gods". |
| 1953 | U.S.A. | Recital at the Page Auditorium of Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) on 26th February, kindly appearing for pianist Rudolph Serkin who reported ill, with an extensive program consisting of works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Debussy, and Granados. |
| 1953 | Netherlands | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam under Edward van Beinum. |
| 1953 | England | Piano recital as part of the Thirty-third Season 1952-53 Oxford
Subscription Concerts at the New Thetre on Thursday 21st May.
The programme consisted of the following works: Mozart: Rondo in D major, K.485 Beethoven: Sonata in E flat major Op.81a Les adieux Schumann: Fantasia in C major Op.17 Interval Debussy: Pour le piano [Prélude. Sarabande. Toccata] Granados: The Maiden and the Nightingale & El pelele [from Goyescas] Liszt: Mephisto Waltz |
| 1953 | England | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the London Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Dr Karl Rankl (replacing an
indisposed Josef Krips), as part of an all-Beethoven
'Grand Coronation Concert' held at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday
31st May at 3:00 pm. The programme commenced with Beethoven's Symphony No.8 and concluded with Beethoven's Symphony No.5. |
| 1953 |
U.S.A. |
Mother moves from |
| 1953 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Guido Cantelli. |
| 1953 | U.S.A. | Performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thor Johnson. |
| 1953 | U.S.A. | Performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 (K 595), with the National Symphony Orchestra [of Washington] conducted by H. Mitchell. http://arrausite.free.fr/Index.html |
| 1953 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Charles Munch conducting. |
| 1953 | Israel | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Rafael Kubelik conducting at the Ohel Shem Hall of Tel Aviv, on Monday 8th June, as part of the 1952/03 Season (subscription concert No.10). The
programme also included Martinu's Concerto for Two String Orchesters,
Piano, and Timpani; and Dvorak's Symphony No.2. |
| 1953 | England | Recital in London on Tuesday 30th June at 8:00 pm, at the Royal Festival Hall, with a programme including the following works: >
Mozart: Sonata in D major K.576 |
| 1953
|
U.S.A.
|
Performance
of Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2 Op.83 at the Lewisohn Stadium (College
of the City of New York), with the Stadium Concerts Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Alexander Smallens, on Thursday 23rd
July at 8:30 pm. The all-Brahms programme also included Academic Festival Overture Op.80 and Symphony No.2 Op.73. |
| 1953
|
U.S.A.
|
Performance on 9th August in the final concert of the [News report in The New York Times of 10th August] |
| 1953 | Mexico | Concerto
performance with Mexico's Philharmonic Orchestra [Orquesta Filarmónica
de México] conducted by J.F. Vázquez
on the 20th and 27th of September. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1953 | Mexico | Recital
on the 29th of September. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1953 |
U.S.A. |
Writes an article in The New York Times of 11th October,
entitled Beethoven Sonatas,
whereby Arrau explains his views as to why a pianist should play
all 32. |
| 1953 |
U.S.A. |
Recital
at the St. Paul Auditorium Theatre of Minnesota on Tuesday 27th
October, as part of The Schubert Club's 71st Season.
The program comprised the following works: |
| 1953 |
India |
First concert tour of |
| 1953-1954 |
U.S.A. |
Performs the complete Beethoven sonata cycle
at the Recitals on 17, 24, 31 October, 7 and 28 November, 5 December, and 13 February. Rave reviews by Noel Strauss of The New York Times (18 October 1953), Francis Perkins of New York Herald Tribune (18 October 1953), Winthrop Sargeant of The New Yorker (24 October 1953), and others. News item on The New York Times of 14 February. |
| 1953-1954 |
U.S.A. |
Records the sound track piano parts for the 1954 MGM film Rhapsody, directed by Charles Vidor, including,
amongst other composers', the only recordings ever made by Arrau
of excerpts from Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.2 and Scriabin's
Etude No.12 Op.8. (1993 MGM/UA Home Video M201131). |
| 1954 | ||
| 1954 |
U.S.A. |
Interprets Franz Liszt’s Totentanz for piano and orchestra (Danse Macabre), with
the Little Orchestra Society and Thomas Scherman
conducting at a Miles Kastendieck appraises a brilliant performance in the New York Journal-American of 6th January. [Unique live recording held by the New York Public Library, Catalog No. LT-10 4205, duration: 16’15”] |
| 1954 | U.S.A. | Performance of Chopin’s Variations on “Là ci darem la mano” Op 2, with Thomas Scherman conducting The Little Orchestra Society of New York. |
| 1954 |
Germany |
First
post-war, triumphant return public concerts in |
| 1954 | Germany | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 0n 14th and 15th March,
with the Berlin Philharmonic [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted
by Milan Horvat (from Dublin). A 12-curtain-call
ovation. |
| 1954 | Germany | Sold-out
recital in Berlin on 24th March, with a program consisting
of: |
| 1954 | Switzerland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 with L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ataúlfo Argenta. |
| 1954 | Switzerland | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 and Liszt’s Totentanz for piano and orchestra, with the Zurich Townhall Orchestra [Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich] conducted by Hans Rosbaud. |
| 1954 | England | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hugo Rignold on 20th April, this being the Sixteenth Tuesday Subscription Concert of the Liverpool Philharmonic's 115th Season. |
| 1954 | England | Performance
of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the Philharmonia Orchestra
conducted by Rafael Kubelik, an International Celebrity
Concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 2nd May at 7:30
pm. The programme also included Brahms's Academic Festival Overture and Symphony No.1. |
| 1954 | England | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 with the London Symphony
Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall under Josef Krips
on 28th May at 8:00 pm. |
| 1954 |
U.S.A. |
Performance at the Berkshire Festival in [Most positive review of Monteux and Arrau by Olin Downes for The New York Times of 12th July] |
| 1954 | Scotland | Performance
of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2 with the Hamburg
Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh Festival, on Tuesday 31st August
at 8:00 pm. The programme also included Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements and Brahms's Symphony No.2 Op.73. |
| 1954 | England | Recital
at the Usher Hall on Saturday 4th September, as part of the
Edinburgh International Festival of Music & Drama, with a program
comprising > Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor > Chopin's Ballade No.4 in F minor Op.52 > Chopin's Nocturne in B major Op.61 No.1 > Chopin's Scherzo No.4 in E major Op.54 Intermission > Liszt's Deux légends: >. St François d' Assise - La prédication aux oiseaux > St François de Paule - Marchant sur les flots > Chopin's Sonata in B minor Op.58 |
| 1954 | Scotland |
Performance
of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op.54 with the Philharmonia Orchestra
conducted by Herbert von Karajan at the Usher Hall,
Edinburgh, on Monday 6th September, as part of the 1954 Edinburgh
International Festival. |
| 1954 | England |
Piano recital in London on 29th September, as part of the celebrity concerts broadcast on television. |
| 1954 | England |
Performance
of Beethoven's
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
under guest conductor Alfred Wallenstein, on Tuesday
5th October at 7:30 pm, this being the Liverpool Philharmonic
Society's Second Tuesday Subscription Concert of its 116th season. The programme also included Bruckner's Symphony No.4 in E flat Romantic. |
| 1954 | England |
The Autumn issue of The Listener magazine published by the British Broadcasting Corporation in London on 7th October (Vol. LII No.1336), publishes a photpgraph with the caption "Claudio Arrau at the piano on September 29" and a brief note by critic Philip Hope-Wallace to record his ecstatic admiration for the pianist [page 589]. |
| 1954 | Wales | Swansea
Festival of Music and the Arts, October 11th to 16th: Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3, with The Hallé Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, on 11th October at 7:30 pm, in a programme also including Brahms's Academic Festival Overture and Symphony No.2. |
| 1954 |
Germany |
Broadcast performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the 'Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester' (now renamed WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln) under Otto Klemperer, recorded at Saal 1, Funkhaus, Cologne, on 25th October. |
| 1954 |
Germany |
Broadcast
performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with
the 'RIAS Symphonie-Orchester' of Berlin under Georg
Ludwig Jochum
(rather than Eugen Jochum)
on 31st
October or 1st November (rather
than 1st
January). [RIAS: Radio In The American Sector/Radio im Amerikanischem Sektor] |
| 1954 | England | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 and Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult. |
| 1954 | Scotland | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Alexander Gibson conducting The Royal Scottish National Orchestra. |
| 1954 | Italy | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.2, with Nino Sanzogno conducting the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano. |
| 1954 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Thor Johnson. |
| 1954 |
Chile |
Recitals
on 28th July and 1st August. [This entry needs corroboration and completion] |
| 1954 |
Chile |
Performances
of Mozart's Piano Concerto K.595 and Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2
Op.83 on the 30th and 31st of July. [This entry needs corroboration and completion] |
| 1954 |
Chile |
Made
an Honorary Member of the Chilean National University's
Faculty of Musical Science and Art, on 24th August.
[Revista Musical Chilena, October
1954] |
| 1954? |
Chile |
The Santiago City Council bestows its Illustrious Son Decoration upon Claudio
Arrau. [1959?] |
| 1954 |
Colombia |
Concert with the Colombian Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sinfónica
de Colombia] on the re-inauguration of the Cali Municipal Theatre,
originally opened in 1929. |
| 1954-5 | U.S.A. | Performance at the Omaha Performing Arts Society Centre, Nebraska, as part of the Tuesday Musical Concert Series. |
| 1955 | ||
| 1955 | U.S.A. | As
part of the 113th Carnegie Hall Season 1954/55, performances of Chopin’s
Piano Concerto No.1, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and
George Szell conducting, on January 6th and 7th. http://www.sickinger.com/nypoconcerts.html |
| 1955 | U.S.A. | As
part of the 113th Carnegie Hall Season 1954/55, performance of Chopin’s
Piano Concerto No.2 Op.21, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
under guest conductor George Szell, on January
9th at 2:30 pm. The programme also included Brahms's Symphony No.4 Op.98, and constituted the 759th broadcast over the CBS Radio Network, from 2:30 to 4:00 pm (E.S.T.). Concert programme at http://www.sickinger.com/nypoconcerts.html 09.01.1955 CD WHRA 6037, released in January 2011. |
| 1955 | U.S.A. | Front cover photograph on the 15th February Special Edition, 298-page issue of Musical America magazine (published in Pennsylvania from New York). |
| 1955 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5 with Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra of New York on 27th February. |
| 1955 | U.S.A. | Records two Mozart's and two Beethoven's sonatas for the U.N. Audio Library in New York, never released. [KV 310/KV311 and Op.21/Op.23, respectively] |
| 1955/6 |
|
Recital
as part of the 1955-1956 Aaron Richmond Celebrity Series of Boston.
http://www.celebrityseries.org/CS_aboutus/archives2.htm
|
| 1956 | ||
| 1956 | Canada | Recital
at the Eaton Auditorium of Toronto, Ontario, on 1st March
at 8:45 pm, with a programme including: |
| 1956 | Germany | Recital
in Hanover, superlatively appraised by publications such as Presse,
Norddeutsche Zeitung, and Allgemeine Zeitung of
16th March. |
| 1956 | Germany | Fourth
post-war tour of Germany in March. Performance in Berlin of
Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester
conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. Rave acclaim by the critics in the following Berlin publications of 21st March: Morgenpost, Tagesspiegel, Kurier, Abend, Der Tag, Telegraf, Spondauer Volksbaltt, Mongs-Echo. |
| 1956 | Germany | Performance
in Munich of Brahms's Piano Concerto in B flat.
|
| 1956 | Germany | Performance at the Schumannsaal of Dusseldorf met with the most appreciative critiques published in the Nachrichten and the Rheinische Post on 28th March. |
| 1956 | Germany | Performance in Hamburg of Brahms's Piano Concerto in D minor. Superlative reviews in Abendblatt, Echo, Norddeutsche Nachrichten, and Die Welt of 10th April. |
| 1956 | England | Highly acclaimed performances of Beethoven’s complete piano concerto cycle with Josef Krips conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, at the Royal Festival Hall in May-June. Monday
28th May: Piano Concerto No.4 Rave
reviews in: |
| 1956 |
India |
Concert
tour. |
| 1956 |
Ceylon |
Concert
tour. |
| 1956 |
Singapore |
Concert
tour. |
| 1956 |
Malaya |
Concert
tour. |
| 1956 |
England |
Concert
tour. |
| 1956 |
Ethiopia
Abyssinia |
Concert
tour. |
| 1956 |
South Africa |
Performances at the Johannesburg Festival (which ran from 16th September-27th October). [The Rand Daily Mail 0f 13th September reported Arrau to have arrived in Johannesburg on Monday 10th September] |
| 1956 |
U.R.S.S. |
Concert
tour. |
| 1956 |
Canada |
Several
performances at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and a masterclass
on piano interpretation. |
| 1956 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rudolf Schwarz. |
| 1956 | England | Recitals in London, Leeds and Birmingham. |
| 1956 | England | Performances of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1956 |
England |
Cover page photograph of Claudio Arrau on the June issue of Music and Musicians monthly magazine of London. |
| 1956 |
Austria |
Third participation in the Salzburg Festival at the Großes Festspielhaus
on 22nd August: B Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 under Fritz Reiner conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. |
| 1956
|
Austria
|
At the Mozarteum on 23rd August,
an all-Mozart recital including: > Fantasy in C minor K475 > Sonatas in C minor K457 > Sonata in A minor K310 > Sonata in D major K576 > Sonata in F major K332 [CD Orfeo d'or - C 459 971 B, |
| 1956 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1, with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati. |
| 1956 | U.S.A. | Four recitals in New York, which comprised the entire solo piano literature by Mozart. |
| 1956 | Malaya | Recital
in Kuala Lumpur on 11th November, hosted by the Malayan Arts
Council, with a programme consisting of: > Mozart, Sonata in D major > Beethoven, Les adieux Sonata and > Schumann, Fantasy in C major Op.17 > Liszt, Three pieces from Années de pèlerinage > Poulenc, Suite Napoli Proceeds towards the Poppy Day Fund. |
| 1956 | Germany | Pro
Musica evening recital at the Concert Hall of the Berlin College
of Music [Konzertsaal, Hochschule für Musik, Berlin] on Wednesday
5th December at 20 hrs. |
| 1957 | ||
| 1957 | Mexico | Concerto
performance with the National Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sinfónica
Nacional] under José Ives Limantour on the
3rd of February. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1957 | Mexico | Recital
on the 6th of February. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1957
|
U.S.A.
|
Recital on 23rd February, as part of the Hunter College
of the City University of New York's 1956-57 subscription series,
with a program comprising: > Beethoven's Bagatelle in G minor Op 119 No. 1 > Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata > Schumann's Carnaval > Mozart's A minor Sonata KV 310 > Schönberg's Three Pieces Op 11, and > Poulenc's Napoli Suite. [Highly appreciative account by The New York Times' critic J.B. on 25 February] |
| 1957 | U.S.A. | Performance on the 10th of March at the West Shore Concert Series, Cleveland. |
| 1957 | Spain | Concert in Madrid. |
| 1957 |
Spain |
Concert
in Barcelona. |
| 1957 | Switzerland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest Ansermet. |
| 1957 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.2 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch. |
| 1957 | France | Le guide du concert et du disque weekly magazine of 24th May shows a cover page photograph of Claudio Arrau. |
| 1957 |
France |
Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 with L'Orchestre de la Société des concerts du conservatoire conducted by Pierre Dervaux. http://arrausite.free.fr/Index.html |
| 1957 | Australia | F
our acclaimed recitals: |
| 1957 |
Australia |
Article
by L.B. in The Sydney Morning Herald of Monday 1st July,
entitled "All-Beethoven Arrau Recital", apprasing
Arrau's renditions on
Saturday 29 June as
the most revealing and engaging of performances. |
| 1957 |
Australia |
Article
in The Sydney Morning Herald of Wednesday 21st August,
entitled "Arrau in Brahms Concerto", apprasing
Arrau's rendition of Brahms's Concerto No.2 on Tuesday 20 August
as a performance of overwhelming power, vision and magnitude - "a
major musical event of our generation". Nicolai
Malko conducted the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1957 |
Australia |
On
26th August, William
James, from the then Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), cabled
Columbia Artists Management in New York as follows:
"Claudio Arrau tour unsurpassed by any artist visiting Australia.
Record full houses, both in Sydney and Melbourne". |
| 1957 | France | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 under André Cluytens, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées on 20th October. |
| 1957 | England | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 and 5 with Josef Krips conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1957
|
England
|
Performances
of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5 and 5
on Tuesday 15th, Thursday 17th, Thursday 24th,
Saturday 26th October and Sunday 3rd, Monday 4th, and Friday
8th November, respectively, as part of the Beethoven Festival,
staged at the Royal Festival Hall, London, with the Philharmonia
Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer - a highly
celebrated event. Superlative reviews of the series and 'The Emperor' concerto in particular, published in, amongst others, The London Times of 5 November, and the Daily Telegraph, Morning Post, and London Daily Mail of 9 November. [Live recordings of concertos Nos. 3, 4 and 5 released on CD by Testament SBT2 1351, in 2004] |
| 1957 | England | Recital at the City of Leeds Town Hall, West Yorkshire, on Sunday 27th October at 7:30 pm, with a programme consisting of: >
Mozart: Sonata in B flat K.570 |
| 1957 | England | Performances of Grieg’s and Schumann’s Piano Concertos, with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Alceo Galliera. |
| 1957 | England | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2 with Andrzej Panufnik conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1957 | England | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 under Sir John Barbirolli
conducting the Hallé Orchestra at the Free Trade Hall of Manchester
on Sunday 10th November at 7:00 pm, as part of the Hallé
Centenary Year Festival 1957-8. The programme also included Mendelssohn's Overture 'The Hebrides', Robert Hughes's Sinfonieta (world premiere), and Stravinsky's Ballet Suite 'The Fire Bird'. |
| 1957 | U.S.A. | Performances of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.2 and R.Strauss’s Burleske in D minor, with Thor Johnson conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1957 | U.S.A. | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 with the Boston Symphony
Orchestra under Charles Munch at the Symphony Hall,
Boston, on 30th November. The program
also included Beethoven's Symphony No.3, "Eroica", Op.55. [West Hill Radio Archives, WHRA-6014, 5CDs, EU, 2008] |
| 1957/8 |
World |
Performances in Czechoslovakia (Prague), Romania (Bucharest),
the Soviet Union, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Israel
[see below], the U.S.A., Canada, Mexico, and South America (including
his homeland in 1958). |
| 1958 | ||
| 1958 | Germany | Pro
Musica evening recital at the Concert Hall of the Berlin College
of Music [Konzertsaal, Hochschule für Musik, Berlin] on Monday
17th March at 20 hrs. |
| 1958 |
Czechoslovakia |
Since his previous artistic visit to Prague in 1929, Arrau particpates
for the first time in the Prague Spring Festival in May,
with several performances of concertos and solo piano music by
Beethoven. |
| 1958 |
|
Fourteen
concertos and recitals at the recently inaugurated Frederick R.
Mann Auditorium of Tel Aviv. |
| 1958 |
|
An all-Beethoven recital in Tel Aviv on 7th June, interpreting
sonatas opus 31 No.3, opus 110, opus 111, and opus 57. |
| 1958 |
England |
Bestowed The Royal
London Philharmonic Society's Medal after recipient
pianists Hans von Bülow, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Artur Schnabel,
and Artur Rubinstein. |
| 1958 | England | Performance of Grieg’s Piano Concerto on 3rd April at the Royal Festival Hall of London, with Thomas Schippers conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. |
| 1958 | England | Performances of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op.54 and Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2, on Sunday 6th April at 7:30 pm, at the Royal Festival Hall of London, with Lásló Somogyi conducting The London Symphony Orchestra, in a program which commenced with Schubert's Symphony No.8 "Unfinished". |
| 1958 | England | International
Celebrity Music Festival, 6 May-8 June: |
| 1958 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s complete piano concerto cycle, with Alceo Galliera conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. |
| 1958 | England | Performance of Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Gibson. |
| 1958 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with Andrzej Panufnik conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. |
| 1958 | England | Record Times magazine of August reports on page 4 about Claudio Arrau's participation in this years Edinburgh Festival and his recent, highly successful performances in Prague and Tel Aviv. |
| 1958 | Scotland | An
all-Beethoven recital at the Usher Hall on Tuesday
2nd September, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival,
with the following program: > Sonata in D major Op.10 No.3 > Sonata in C major Op.53 Waldstein Interval > Sonata in C minor Op.111 > Sonata in F minor Op.57 Appassionata |
| 1958 | Scotland | An
all-Chopin recital at the Usher Hall on Sunday 7th September,
as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, interpreting the
following works: |
| 1958 | Romania | Performance
at the International Bucharest Festival. [Musical America, 1st January 1960, page 4] |
| 1958 | Italy | Performance
at La Scala in Milan. [Musical America, 1st January 1960, page 4] |
| 1958 | Scotland | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Alexander Gibson. |
| 1958 | Scotland | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.4 and Grieg’s Piano Concerto Op 16, with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Colin Davis conducting. |
| 1958 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Fritz Rieger conducting the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra [Münchner Philharmoniker]. |
| 1958 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra [NDR Sinfonieorchester] of Hamburg conducted by Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt. |
| 1958 |
Chile |
Recitals
in Santiago. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1958 |
Mexico |
Performances
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1 and Brahms's Piano Concerto No.2,
with Mexico's National Symphony Orchestra [Orquesta Sinfónica
Nacional de México] conducted by José Ives
Limantour at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. [Claudio Arrau, último gran pianista de la tradición germana, S. Dorantes G,' Cronos', Jalapa, Veracruz, 1980] |
| 1958 | England | Performances
of Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor and Brahms's Piano Concerto
No.1 Op.15, at the Royal Albert Hall of London, with the London Symphony
Orchestra and Alexander Gibson conducting, on Sunday
2nd November at 7:30 pm. The programme also included Wagner's Overture Die Meistersinger, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnole. Appraisals in The Times, Daily Telegrah, and Morning Post of 4th November. |
| 1958 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.3 Op.37 at Carnegie Hall, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Leonard Bernstein conducting on 4th, 5th and 6th December. The
6th December programme also included: |
| 1959 | ||
| 1959 | Mexico | Recitals
on the 3rd, 12th and 14th of February. [This entry needs corroboration] |
| 1959 |
Switzerland |
Début at the International Music Festival of |
| 1959 | Switzerland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Zurich Townhall Symphony Orchestra [Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich] conducted by Hans Rosbaud. |
| 1959 | Netherlands | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam conducted by Paul Kletzki. |
| 1959 | Germany | Performances in March-June of Beethoven’s complete piano sonata cycle three consecutive times in Berlin, Hamburg and Zürich [Musical America, 1st January 1960]. |
| 1959 | England | Performance
of Beethoven’s complete
piano sonata cycle at the Royal Festival Hall
in London, started in March-June with full houses, crowded
to the stage [Musical America, 1st January 1960, page 4].
The London Times of 23rd June appraised the
cycle with an article whose inspired titled was "Music
at one with eternity". |
| 1959 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Rafael Jeroným Kubelík. |
| 1959 | France | Performance on 24th March of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Carl Schuricht conducting L' Orchestre national de France at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris. |
| 1959 | Germany | Performance of Brahms' Piano Concerto No.1 with the Essen Municipal Orchestra [Städtisches Orchester Essen] conducted by Gustav König at the Municipal Music Club [Städtisches Musikvertein] on 10th April at 8:oo pm. |
| 1959 | Germany | Broadcast
performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, with
the 'Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester' (now renamed WDR Sinfonieorchester
Köln) under Christoph
von Dohnányi, recorded
at Saal 1, Funkhaus, Cologne,
on 6th
April. [ICA Classics: ICAC 5045 CD, issued in 2011, Austria] |
| 1959 | U.S.A. | Performances of Brahms’s Piano Concertos 1 and 2 with the Utah Symphony Orchestra under Maurice Abravanel. |
| 1959 | U.S.A. | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Max Rudolf conducting. |
| 1959 | England | London's 'Music and Musicians' magazine of June highlights Claudio Arrau as This Month's Personality, with a quarter page photograph and a quarter page biographical précis on the editorial page. |
| 1959 | England | An article by William Mann, occupying page 3 of 'Record Times' monthly magazine of June, refers to a series of recitals by Arrau at the Royal Festival Hall of London devoted to the Beethoven piano sonatas. He highlights Arrau's great musicianship, scrupulous technical care and power, and ability to relate detail to the whole work performed and to the whole of life. [Two photographs]. |
| 1959 |
Chile |
A 10-day professional visit to Chile from the 4th July,
with five recitals in Santiago at the Teatro Astor (2), Teatro Alameda
(2), and Teatro Caupolicán (1) [Revista Musical Chilena, July-August 1959] The repertoire played in these recitals drew from the following
works: |
| 1959
|
Chile
|
Third return to Chillán, Arrau's birthplace, on 15th August: On 16th August at On 16th August at |
| 1959 |
Chile |
The Concepción City Council awarded Claudio Arrau the Honorary Citizen's Decoration
and The City's Gold Medal. |
| 1959 |
Chile |
The University of Concepción named
Arrau an Honorary
Member. |
| 1959 |
Chile |
The Santiago City Council awarded Claudio Arrau the Honorary Citizen's Decoration. |
| 1959 | England | A cover page article on the 'Record Times' monthly magazine of August, entitled Arrau's 'Emperor', announces the release on Columbia of Arrau's recording of Beethoven's piano concerto No. 5 with Alceo Galliera. The article calls attention to the fact that just as Klemperer is normally associated with Beethoven's symphonies, Arrau is associated with Beethoven's piano music. It goes on to emphasize Arrau's masterly artistry and technique, and the sheer joy of his sound. [Cover page photograph]. |
| 1959 | Switzerland | Recital on 9th September as part of the 'Settimane Musical di Ascona', with a programme including the following works: >
Beethoven: Sonata per pianoforte n.23 op.57 Appassionata |
| 1959 |
England |
Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with the Hallé
Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli at the
Free Trade Hall of Manchester on the 7th and 8th of October,
as part of the 1959-60 Mid-Week Series organised by the Hallé
Concerts Society. |
| 1959 |
England |
Performance
of Liszt’s Totentanz Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra and Strauss's
Burlesque in D minor for Piano and Orchestra, with The Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent at the
Royal Festival Hall of London on Wednesday 14th October,
this being the First Concert of The Royal Philharmonic Society's
148th Season. The programme also included Berlioz's Overture Benvenuto Cellini and Elgar's Symphony No.1 in A flat. |
| 1959 |
Germany |
Performance
of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 Op.58, with the Gewandhausorchester
Leipzig conducted by Franz Konwitschny at the
Kongressaal, Deutsches Museum, Munich, in October. |
| 1959 |
U.S.A. |
Beloved mother dies and is buried on
29th October in grave No.68 at Mapledwood Gardens 4, Ferncliff Cemetery, Westchester
County, New York. |
| 1959 | U.S.A. | Performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Arturo Basile on 18th November. http://www.camasb.org/archives/1950-60.shtml |
| 1960 | ||
| 1960 | U.S.A. | Musical America magazine of 1st January shows a cover page photograph of Claudio Arrau and inludes on its page 4 a brief account of the artist's busy schedule around the world. |
| 1960 | U.S.A. | Recital at the Carnegie Hall of New York on Saturday 27th February at 2:40 pm, as part of the 1959-1960 Season. |
| 1960 |
U.S.A. |
Twentieth annual tour of the |
| 1960 |
Argentina |
Highly
acclaimed recitals in |
| 1960 | France | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 5 with L’Orchestre de la Société Philharmonique de Paris conducted by Léon Barzin. http://arrausite.free.fr/Index.html |
| 1960 | Germany | Recital
at the Konzertsaal, Hochschule für Musik [College of Music's
Concert Hall] of Berlin on Friday 25th March at 8:00 pm, with
the follwing programme: > Mozart: Rondo a-moll KV 511 > Schumann: Fantasie C-dur Op.17 > Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstücke Op.11 > Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit > Liszt: Etudes d'exécution transcendante Nr.11 und Nr.10 Critic's reves under titles such as "Ovations for Arrau", "Subliminal Virtuisity" [Vergeistigte Virtuosität], "Festive Hours", in reviews which appeared in Spandamer Volksblatt, Der Tag, Der Tagesspiegel, Berliner Morgenpost, and Telegraf late in March. |
| 1960 | U.S.A. | In
a performance review by Herbert Garon, entitled 'Virtuoso's Holiday
Spent With Pianist Arrau', included in the Rice Thresher
issue of 9th December 1960, Rice University, Houston, Texas, the assertion
is made that Claudio Arrau might have had a mild heart attack early
in June. However, asked in March 2011, writer Ruth Jody, a close friend of the Arrau family at that time, could not recall such an incident and rather recalled Arrau's "excellent health at all times". The issue may need further corroboration. |
| 1960 | England | Perfomance
of Beethoven's
Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat Op.73 Emperor
and
Liszt's
Piano Concerto No.1 in E flat on Saturday
25th June at 7:30 pm, at the Philharmonic
Hall of London, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under
guest conductor Hugo Rignold. The programme also included Mendelssohn's Overture 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', and Dvorak's Symphonic Variations on an Original Theme Op.78 |
| 1960 | U.S.A. | All-Chopin
recital, as one of The Berkshire Festival's Six Concerts of Chamber
Music, performed at the Theatre-Concert Hall, Tanglewood, Massachusetts,
on Wednesday 20th July at 8:30 pm, with a programme consisting
of the following works: [Note that Chopin's Fantasy in F minor Op.49 also was in the originally advertised programme, but deleted from the actual performance] |
| 1960 | U.S.A. | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5 Op.73 The Emperor
at Tanglewood, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre
Monteux on 23rd July at 8:30 pm, as part of the Berkshire
Festival. The programme also included - Cherubini's Overture to 'Anacréon', Respighi's Fountains of Rome Symphonic Poem, and Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks Op.28. |
| 1960 | Greece | Performance/s at the Odeon of the Herodes Atticus, as part of the Festival of Athens, under Ernest Ansermet. |
| 1960 | England | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Hugo Rignold. |
| 1960 | England | Performances of Grieg’s and Schumann’s Piano Concertos, with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Alceo Galliera. |
| 1960 | England | Performances of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Alceo Galliera. |
| 1960 | England | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Carlo Maria Giulini conducting The Philharmonia Orchestra. |
| 1960 | England | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir John Michael Pritchard. |
| 1960 | Scotland | Appearance
at the Usher Hall on Friday 16th
August, as part of the 1960 Edinburgh International
Festival, with a programme consisting of: > Beethoven's Sonata quasi una fantasia in E flat major Op.27 No.1 > Schumann's Kreisleriana Op.16 > Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit > Smetana's Sketch to a scene from Shakespeare > Liszt's Concert Study No.2, Gnomenreigen > Liszt's Étude d' exécution transcendante in F minor No.2 |
| 1960 | Scotland | Performance at the Edinburgh International Festival, Usher Hall, on 27th August at 8 pm. |
| 1960 | Switzerland | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with the Zurich TownHall Symphony Orchestra [Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich] conducted by Georg Solti. |
| 1960 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with the RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester conducted by Bernard Haitink. |
| 1960 | Germany | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ferdinand Leitner. |
| 1960 | Germany | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchester and Massimo Pradella conducting. |
| 1960 | Germany | Article in Berlin's 'Kurier' of 6th October, entitled "On Gieseking's Throne: Claudio Arrau", with a rave appraisal of a recital at the Hochschulsaal, comprising Chopin's 28 Préludes and B minor Sonata, and Schumann's Carnival. A suggestion and request: An all-Liszt programme. |
| 1960 | Germany | Article in Berlin's 'Der Tag' of 7th October, entitled "All the Marvels of the Romantic Style", with a whole-hearted appraisal of a recent recital comprising Chopin's 28 Préludes and B minor Sonata, and Schumann's Carnival. The pianist received a stormy ovation. |
| 1960 | Germany | Article in Berlin's 'Telegraf of 9th October, entitled "Piano Playing of Highest Rank", with an appreciative appraisal of a recent recital comprising Chopin's 28 Préludes and B minor Sonata, and Schumann's Carnival. |
| 1960 | England | Performance
of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 , with John Pritchard
conducting The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, as part of
the Third Subscription Series of The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Society, on Tuesday 18th October at 7:30 pm. The programme also included: Hindemith's Symphony 'Mathis der Maler' Mozart's Symphony No.38 in D Prague K.504 Enesco's Roumanian Rhapsody No.1 in A Op.11 |
| 1960 |
Czechoslovakia |
Recital at the Prague Spring Festival with a program including
Chopin's 24 Preludes Op.28.A [Appian Publications and Recordings: CD APR 5631, 2000] |
| 1960 | Greece |
Performances in Athens. |
| 1960
|
U.S.A.
|
Chopin-Schumann
recital on 11th November, at the Grace Rainey Auditorium
of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, to pay homage to both
composers born 150 years earlier. The recital, held as magnificent throughout, consisted of the following masterpieces: > Chopin's Nocturne in B Op 62 No. 1 > Chopin's Fantasy in F minor > Chopin's Ballade in F minor > Chopin's Twenty-four Preludes > Schumann Fantasy in C. [Rave critique of performance by Raymond Ericson for The New York Times of |
| 1960 |
Puerto
Rico |
Performances at the Casals Festival in San Juan. |
| 1960 | U.S.A. | Performance
of Liszt's Totentanz and R.Strauss's Burleske, with
the Houston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
in Houston on 8th December. Review of 'piano diablerie' performance by Herbert Garon, entitled 'Virtuoso's Holiday Spent With Piansit Arrau', included in the Rice Thresher issue of 9th December 1960, Houston, Texas (Rice University) |
| 1960/1 |
|
Recital
as part of the 1960-1961 Boston University Celebrity Series. http://www.celebrityseries.org/CS_aboutus/archives3.htm |
| 1961 | ||
| 1961 |
Finland |
Performances at the Sibelius Festival in Helsinki. |
| 1961 |
Israel |
Recital
at the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium of Tel Aviv on Saturday 8th
April at 8:30 pm, with a program including works by Beethoven,
Schumann and Liszt. |
| 1961 |
Israel |
Farwell
appearance at
the Fredric R. Mann Auditorium of Tel Aviv with
special performances of Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1, Chopin Piano
Concerto No.1, and Liszt Piano Concerto No.2, on Saturday 15th
April at 8:30 pm, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted
by Irwin Hoffman. Proceeds for the Musicians
Pension Fund. |
| 1961 |
Puerto
Rico |
Arrau
p erforms Brahm's Trio No.2 for piano, violin and cello Op. 87, with
Isaac Stern and Pablo Cassals
on 27th June in San Juan, as part of the 'Pablo Casals Festival'. Unique recording held by: > the Library of Congress in Washington, Catalog No. 91480576, > and the New York Public Library, VHS black and white 1/2 inch > videocassette, remastered in 1990. |
| 1961 | Germany | Performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted by Istvan Kertesz. |
| 1961 | Germany | Performance of Liszt’s Totentanz for piano and orchestra, with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra [Münchner Philharmoniker] and Fritz Rieger conducting. |
| 1961 | England | Triumphal
concerto festival with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal
Festival Hall, under Sir Adrian Boult, on 7th,
16th and 20th of June, playing nine of the great concerti in three
sold-out sessions to the highest acclaim from critics and audiences
alike. Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, and London Times of 8th June. Manchester Guardian of 21st June. |
| 1961 | France | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Igor Markevitch conducting L' Orchestre national de France. |
| 1961 | U.S.A. | Performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Utah Symphony Orchestra under Maurice Abravanel. |
| 1961 | U.S.A. | Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood on 18th August. |
| 1962 | ||
| 1962 |
Israel |
Twelve concerts in 15 days. |
| 1962 |
U.S.A. |
Records Schumann’s Fantasiestücke
Nos. 2 & 5 for Everest Records, in benefit of the
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (LP - UN M/S 2). |
| 1962 |
U.S.A. |
Four sold-out concerts at the newly inaugurated New York Philharmonic
Hall. |
| 1962 | U.S.A. | Broadcast performance of the third movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, with The Bell Telephone Orchestra conducted by Donald Voorhees. [The Bell Telephone Hour used to broadcast only one movement from concertos] |
| 1962 | U.S.A. | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos No. 1 and 5 with Theodore Bloomfield conducting the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, New York. |
| 1962 | U.S.A. | Performance at TV show No. 2 of The Bell Telephone Hour on 22nd October, hosted by Robert Goulet. |
| 1962 | Venezuela | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Caracas and R. Rujne conducting. http://arrausite.free.fr/Index.html |
| 1962 | Netherlands | Performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto Op 54, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam conducted by Eugen Jochum. |
| 1962 | Germany | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra [Berliner Philharmoniker] conducted by Sir Colin Davis. http://arrausite.free.fr/Index.html |
| 1962 | England | Performances of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Liszt’s Totentanz for piano and orchestra, and Weber’s Konzertstück Op 79, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Sir Adrian Cedric Boult conducting. |
| 1962 |
England |
Nine concertos in 3 concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. |
| 1962 | England | Performance of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. |
| 1962 |
England |
International Celebrity Recital at the Royal Festival hall of London on Wednesday 6th June at 8:00 pm, performing the following works: >
Mozart: Sonata in D K.576 |
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