With Mieczyslaw Horszowski playing in public at the age of 95, Magda Tagliaferra at 92 (she was born in 1893), Rubinstein at 88, Serkin at 85 (he celebrates this birthday next month) and Horowitz at ...

At eighty, the brilliant pianist Claudio Arrau plays passionately on, but successors in the Romantic tradition are hard to find. Is Claudio Arrau the greatest pianist in the world? He turned eighty ...

When Pianist Claudio Arrau wound up his third U.S. tour and boarded a Pan American Clipper for Puerto Rico last week, he had made plenty of hay in a shining sun. For a long time the weather had been ...

With the death of Claudio Arrau yesterday, yet another nail has been driven into the coffin of 19th-century Romantic pianism. Like Rudolf Serkin and Wilhelm Kempff, who recently died, the 88-year-old ...