Claudio Arrau “A life in music” (1977)

[@philippemuller3079]

I had the privilege to attend his playing of Beethoven piano concerto #4 at the BSO in the early 80s. It was one of the two performances I will never ever forget.

[@ubiestinsula]

He’s my idol and my ideal. His artistry transcends technique, the fashion of performance practice, and even the instrument itself. An aristocrat of such rarity I doubt we will ever experience anything like him again. A most highly evolved human.

[@puk4763]

Sad that whatyou are saying is likely true. A real indictment of the industry, society etc. Thanks.

[@GURUGOLDBERG]

I agree. He has been my most respected musician/pianist for many years. It is a matter of trust.

[@mimiball2000]

A Marvel of A Musician Extrordinary

[@mimiball2000]

Always Love To hear him perform

[@vincentshepard9304]

You probably dont care but does anyone know a tool to get back into an instagram account..? I was stupid forgot the login password. I would love any assistance you can offer me.

[@Jesusmlrw]

I have been consuming Arrau interviews for 10 years. This is a new one. New wisdom everytime.

[@thorstentopp3824]

Er war und bleibt der Größte!

[@EttorealbertoGelli-vr6sz]

THE GREATEST... IT DOESN'T EXISTE !!!!!

[@AlejandroRamirez-kf4tj]

The sound of a genius!

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Emil Gilels Artur Rubinstein Wilhelm Kempff Radu Lupu the most colorful beautiful piano sound pianists!

[@BernardoSaez-h5y]

que privilegio poder ver este material cinematográfico del maestro chileno Claudio Arrau

[@peipy44]

Arrau is simply the best. Period.

[@ericsabourin7661]

Playing on these fabulous Baldwin pianos that nobody knows about anymore!

[@davidbruce7244]

Big lesson at 44.00. Don't waste time on finger exercises and scales. He was not the only one to have said this.

[@DearProfessorRF]

I wish I had known this earlier. Much earlier…

[@philosopher0076]

@lourensg Maybe Serkin or Rachmaninoff were wrong. OK? Maybe Arrau was correct.

[@tinkerchel]

Arrau's Beethoven Op.109 remains my absolute favorite of the piece among the 8 different cycles i own.. Before hearing his rendition it was already perhaps my fav Beethoven sonanta, and I thought I knew that piece well. Upon hearing his version I experienced the piece with so much more than ever before..He gave Op.109(espeically the 3rd mvt) a deeply spiritual touch. Arrau's dedication to music is incredibly moving. I have so much respect for him as a musician and an extremely refined human being. 😍😍

[@TwelfthRoot2]

i had the same experience with his debussy recordings. it wasnt until i heard arrau play debussy that i finally understand the music.

[@vicentetrompieri]

Such Dedication to the Art that is what makes him be something else than the others

[@eduardopoblete5674]

Aparte de su inmensa cultura, hombre inquieto, su biblioteca en el museo a su memoria refleja su afán de crecimiento como ser humano en lo espiritual...gran orgullo nuestro, uno de los mejores intérpretes de Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt....

[@strawberry2206]

One of the greatest maestro !

[@meredith218461]

Thank you for this wonderful documentary featuring Maestro Arrau. I have always hugely admired this great pianist, not only for his superb technical mastery but also for his scholarship and selfless devotion to musical truth, great literature and high art. A great musician totally devoid of vanity and false grandeur.

[@claudiacamilo9296]

El mejor de todos. Nadie interpreta mejor a Chopin en mi humilde opinión. Daría cualquier cosa por haberlo conocido.

[@samuelguzmann]

Opino lo mismo

[@AlbertoCobo]

Friedman y otros polacos, por ejemplo. Pero si estuviese de acuerdo con eso, no tocaría el piano. Las casas discográficas manipulan las opiniones de la gente.

[@beatlessteve1010]

Thank you for this wonderful upload..I love Claudio..Arrau Well what a story. A complete and magnificent musical genius...a very sad introduction to New York..shame on the managers at the time ..Claudio was blessed to have such a beautiful women at his side ...the more I watch his interviews...it inspires me to think that every man should be his own artist with the same passion and drive..and the world would be better..I also noticed a similarity to other great pianists..this aura of love of life...very similar to Rubinstein and Horowitz ( those being two pianist that I am most familiar) this all encompassing love and passion for their art!

[@mehmetiksel3081]

A man who brought poetry to music. His astounding technique is a given. But his musicianship is beyond praise.

[@noshirm6285]

A treasure of an upload - a profound artist 💐

[@samuelguzmann]

Wonderful one of the best pianist of the century along with horowitz

[@starsandnightvision]

And Richter.

[@josswindsor8288]

Para muchos sino quizá la mayoría el más grande extraordinario y genial pianista del siglo XX con permiso de muchos claro está

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Not True! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Arrau=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Arrau=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg! More powerful louder than Arrau=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique attack better than Arrau's technique!!

[@josswindsor8288]

Perhaps the greatest pianist century XX was Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

[@josswindsor8288]

The greatest pianist in history was without doubt Franz Liszt(1811-1886)

[@therightmusic7639]

Excellent documentary of this adorable old man, no doubt one of the greatest. Thanks for sharing! Bravo Maestro Arrau!!!

[@ericsabourin7661]

Fascinating...He really explains what it meant then, to be a child prodigy...also what Berlin was, where music was really made and names consecrated, he walks through East Berlin and the places where Teresa Careno, BUSONI, Nikish, Eugène d'Albert, in short the idols of his youth played along with Furtwangler...Arrau is here a fabulous guide for anyone who has not had the chance to know Berlin before its destruction, the wall, and now these modern buildings destroying the sites of the BeethovenSaal etc...Fabuleux document de témoignage musical rarissime, ce n'est pas la tête souffrante et dépourvue de perspectives historiques des virtuoses d'aujourd'hui obnubilés par le tyrannique commerce, les publics hurlant leur lamentable ignorance des répertoires, une jeune génération sans connaissance musicale et abrutie de vacarmes vendus à 20 millions d'exemplaires. Témoignage de sa femme, sa famille, sensationnelle plongée autour de ce grand Arrau.

[@PreciousMemories7426]

Maravilloso documental sobre la vida musical y personal de Claudio Arrau! Un verdadero legado!

[@andresburce4762]

I always listen to his nocturnes before sleeping, great pianist, I wish I could have seen him playing live. I hope someone put subtitles to this video so people in Chile can see this and get to know him better.

[@berangle]

I am fairly certain I attended a performance by Claudio Arrau in Melbourne in the 1950's.

[@LeonardoBolgeri]

Thank you for this beautiful document!

[@JuanPerez-xd5nh]

Thanks for always

[@alessandro6024]

Grandissimo pianista 😎

[@pianist8963]

You reminded us of the greatest pianist born on this earth! He knew very well what he was playing!

[@gerardbedecarter]

Fascinating.

[@cristobal6229]

2:09 What a genius. Wonderful solo

[@davideberetta3049]

Actually it's the Rondo from Beethoven's Concerto in c minor

[@martinadler73]

Wow! Wonderful! Thanks a lot.

[@crewelocoman5b161]

Arrau is the great pianist because he is the perfect musician.

[@themoroccanpianist8953]

He had powerful and big hands !

[@alfilazul5696]

Explendido registro !

[@YoshiyukiMukudai_NBC-ABC-CBS]

Thank you for uploading this gem. With that we learn how sublime pianist Arrau was. And this is taken when Arrau was at his prime.

[@goodmanmusica]

Prime? He was 74 years old in 1977

[@YoshiyukiMukudai_NBC-ABC-CBS]

@@goodmanmusica Then let me know a better recording by Arrau before 1977. Then, I will judge.

[@goodmanmusica]

@@YoshiyukiMukudai_NBC-ABC-CBS from the 1930s onwards there are hundreds of superb recordings of Arrau…and also later until 1991

[@YoshiyukiMukudai_NBC-ABC-CBS]

@@goodmanmusica I just don't agree. I have all Arrau's 5 last recordings (limited edition) and Chopin-Liszt Chants CD (my favourite). But, I have regarded his best achievement was 1983 Avery FIscher recital (DVD).

[@goodmanmusica]

@@YoshiyukiMukudai_NBC-ABC-CBS certainly in a long artistic career not everything is at the same level and at 80 you will play differently (good or bad it depends) since you were young.

[@JuFeCeBapiano]

Thank you very much for this great document.

[@marcovillarroel225]

Maravilloso

[@garthok6224]

Que hombre más fantástico

[@riccardopini9340]

Magnifico artista !

[@relax2234]

He made his big career with the so called German reportoire, but I found his Chopin (Nocturnes, Scherzis, ..) and Debussy, Ravel although very convincing and on the same level. A great pianist.

[@barrygordon5323]

Great documentary,,,by the greatest all around classical pianist of the 20 th century....I heard and met master arrau in Los Angeles,the concert for me was the most spiritual piano concert I've ever heard...the lizst b minor sonata was epic..... and meet him and shake his hand ,was incredible.....as was his prodigious piano technique..... genius.......

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Come on! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Arrau=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Arrau=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg! More powerful louder than Arrau=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique attack better than Arrau's technique!!

[@infantesergio]

@@RaineriHakkarainen Hey man, get over it.

[@mimiball2000]

Magnificent &wonderful Pianit

[@kleinbogen]

His thumbs look unusually long. Born to be a pianist.

[@RockandPoetry]

Ojalá le pusieran subtitulos en Español, gracias, desde Stgo de Chile!!

[@nicolasvanpoucke.pianist]

Wonderful document of a wonderful artist. Thank you.

[@dasglasperlenspiel10]

Thank you!

[@josswindsor8288]

Alabado como el "pianista perfecto" aquel que cuando toca hace desaparecer el piano,D.Claudio con su inigualable maestría recorrió los 5 continentes con su vastísimo repertorio que muy pocos pianistas han tenido tan complejo y variado dejando la misma impresión calidad de interpretación como perfección consumada absoluta a donde quiera que iba y actuaba La revista alemana Forum calificó la interpretación de las 32 sonatas para piano del genio de Bonn como la más excelente interpretación jamás hecha

[@samuelguzmann]

Sencillamente uno de los mejores una pena que en chile no reconozcan mucho su gran obra y legado

[@madiazv]

@@samuelguzmann Tuvimos al mejor y muchos aun no se han dado cuenta.

[@fabercarboni6305]

Grazie mille per questo documento

[@andream.464]

Very precious document about one of the most complete pianists in history! And his impression about how Teresa Carreño played is priceless. Apparently, among other more important peculiarities, she had the strongest and fastest octaves ever. Liszt offered her lessons and she declined! She later did take lessons from Anton Rubinstein.

[@andreariccio9855]

Grazie Keith

[@michelangelomulieri5134]

Come al solito, il Maestro Goodman è uomo avvertito del sapere!

[@hugonavakopp]

44:44 you only grow by overcoming difficulties, not by avoiding them

[@Barbapippo]

Grande upload, grazie.

[@PianistsAndMore]

Wonderful, thank you for this!

[@emilgilels]

Fantastic upload. Thank you for sharing!

[@carlkulzer5982]

I heard him play at Orchestra Hall in Chicago in the 60,s.At that time I thought he played the standard repertory too slowly. Now I am 83 and relealize he was one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. I especially love him in Chopin. Thank you for posting this wonderful video.

[@alegal752]

❤❤

[@lucarossi7424]

Yesterday Arrau...today Lang Lang...sadly

[@Jesusmlrw]

I agree my friend but better to say. Today Barenboim.

[@MLCflash]

Today Argerich, Hewitt, Pires, Sokolov, Ashkenazy, etc.

[@LuluBodhi]

49:00 Everything he says here. Yes.

[@andygato2452]

❤

[@wolfgangwagner4484]

heard him around 1973 in Frankfurt Jahrhundert Halle playing a Brahms recital.

[@DrahomiraBiligova]

Grazie !

[@joe_fizz]

Thank you for sharing : )

[@music-poetry]

Величайший!

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

More colorful beautiful piano sound than Arrau=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Arrau=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg! More powerful louder than Arrau=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique attack better than Arrau's technique!!

[@marcosviniciosribeirocompo1137]

The Master of the masters !!!

[@matinlachinian7978]

💐👌🌹

[@ernestocun7212]

Velvety sound

[@andrea_zumelzu]

Por favor, traduzcanlo al castellano por favor, por favor!!!!!

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

9:12 - I am also in the grand tradition of Beethoven - but via Leshchetitzky, rather than Liszt.

[@markgreen2146]

ショパンを聴くならアラウ。ベートーヴェンのピアノコンチェルト4番もアラウがいい。20世紀最高の巨匠の1人だと思う。

[@rodrigocespedes6243]

Who was the conductor of the Berlin Phil? Karajan?

[@samuelguzmann]

Fürtwangler

[@fizzyMay-r4b]

1:00:15

[@wolfgangwagner4484]

can't remember if he played his Baldwin

[@feloregtessad759]

Ads? really?! 😑

[@goodmanmusica]

if there are, it is not up to me, but to whoever has established who owns the copyright to the video

[@giulianopiras5127]

..il più grande...dopo ABM..

[@anthonyciacciopianist]

Che paragone inutile! A me personalmente Michelangeli non piace, ma non scrivo un commento così pessimo.

[@giulianopiras5127]

@@anthonyciacciopianist ..complimenti...👏👏👏...sei riuscito a scrivere di peggio...

[@paulourbina5259]

Yo no e visto ningun anuncio

[@ddgyt50]

Kinda hard to watch with ads every 3-1/2 to 4 minutes. Google is increasingly ruining the enjoyment of content placed here.

[@goodmanmusica]

I can not do anything about it. but there are some apps that block ads

[@carlosurbanejasilva1881]

The amount of publicity constantly interrupting this video is absolutely obscene.

[@goodmanmusica]

I'm sorry it's not up to me

[@carlosurbanejasilva1881]

@@goodmanmusicaNo need to apoligize, I'm not blaming you.

[@herbmuell]

You need an adblocker. I use firefox as a browser, and it has its own adblocker, so it's safe. Google firefox adblocker, then download. It works perfectly.

[@jefolson6989]

Ive never responded to his playing, and I don't know why. Maybe TOO searching? There is a heaviness.... But I find him fascinating to listen to.

[@herbmuell]

"Maybe TOO searching?" -> Yes, I feel that sometimes too.

[@fonorecord]

At minute 20.15, what is the keyboard? What is its name? Thanks in advance

[@Trey_Johnson11]

They are rare. It’s called a Virgil Practice Clavier. They were made in the late 1800s. They don’t make any sound so i wouldn’t call it a keyboard. It’s strictly made for keeping your fingers in shape for playing the real thing. The key weight/action can be increased or decreased for training purposes.

[@fonorecord]

@@Trey_Johnson11 Fantastic, thank you very very much!

[@Trey_Johnson11]

@@fonorecord you are very welcome

[@gjeacocke]

Claudio Arrau longed to see a person like me - not my skills but what I do for the neglected piano repertoire.

[@marinakontorovich2705]

П

[@Johannes_Brahms65]

I know this is a nasty thought but I can't help wondering how a meeting between Richter, Michelangeli, Glenn Gould, Pogorelich, Brendel, Sokolov, Argerich and Horowitz would have turned out. Arrau wouldn't have come, by the way. Glenn Gould could have fantasized the outcome beforehand, and wouldn't have come either. Maybe this díd happen and nobody came, exept for Horowitz (just for the fun of it, or because they're all guys).

[@EwicoCylinder]

Arrau is just speeding through pieces, they call that talented and a musician. I prefer more Gould and Michelangeli.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

Come on!, More colorful beautiful piano sound than Arrau or ABM or Gould=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Arrau or ABM or Gould=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg! More powerful louder than Arrau or Gould or ABM=Mikhail Pletnev! The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! ABM played the second-rated piano concertos like Mozart 13 Haydn G Major Liszt no 1! ABM never played the Best piano concertos like Mozart 24 Brahms 1-2 Chopin 1-2 Prokofiev 1-3 Rachmaninov 1-3 Saint-Saens no 2 Tchaikovsky no 1 JS Bach 1052 Beethoven no 4 Scriabin and so on!!

[@EwicoCylinder]

@@RaineriHakkarainen And still i prefer more Arthuro Benedetti Micheangeli and Gould. Not because of loudnes NO. Because of their Understudment of tempi and natural rythm. I don't care if some one knows how to play really loud or really soft, NO not at all.

[@md88kg]

Not a life in music, a life in sheep music. There's the sheep music virtuosos vs the real musicians eg the ear players, the CREATORS. Unbelievable, the entire life the same sheep music up and down, no jazz, no ad-lib, never one note beside the script...although I for one owe this maestro the greatest loveliest interpretations of Liszt and Beethoven, just for kicks, ask any turbo sheet music virtuoso to play a blues, a boogie woogie or a pop song such as "Yesterday" by ear and improvise on it too ... you'll be surprised to see their embarrassment.

[@pianofan1000]

desparately in need of a good edit. Far too many 5 second waits while he thinks of the (mundane) english word

[@emmerentiagroenewald3694]

Is English your 4th or 5th language!!!