Such "marathon" appearances were by no means uncommon in the 1930s, whether in popular or classical music, and in 1938 Arrau undertook an even larger repertoire: all 32 piano sonatas and all five ...

The Arrau Edition (6768 350 through 357) is eight boxed sets devoted to individual composers, remastered and offered at bargain prices. The 58 records comprise works by Beethoven (concertos on 6 discs ...

The sonatas make up a wonderfully diverse yet utterly ... a specialists' choice, however phenomenal. Arrau, mirabile dictu, is still recording Beethoven in his late eighties but his 1960s Philips ...

While a number of Beethoven's piano sonatas have titles (authentic or otherwise), Op. 81a is the only one to have a concrete extra-musical inspiration: the flight from Vienna of his patron the ...

Pick any sonata and hear it in isolation and it is hard ... but one that misses the heights scaled by Beethoven’s greatest interpreters. Schnabel, Kempff, Arrau, Brendel and, perhaps most of all, ...