Maestro Claudio Arrau's recital at the Main Hall of the Carnegie Hall, New York, on Thursday 16th February at 8:00 pm, with a programme including the following works:

> Beethoven's Sonata No.7 in D major, Op.10 No.3
> Schubert's Klavierstück No.1 in E-flat minor D.946
> Chopin's Ballade No.3 in A-flat major Op.47
> Liszt's Sonnetto del Petrarca No.104
> Debussy's L'isle joyeuse
Intermission
> Brahms's Sonata No.3 in F minor Op.5

Recital recorded for the radio series AT&T Presents Carnegie Hall Tonight.

[Source: Printed recital programme]
[Source: Carnegie Hall Archives]

On Tuesday 22nd May: 

Donation of records and music scores to the Chilean National Library in Santiago.

Master Class for Young Musicians at the Goethe Institute of Santiago.

Maestro Claudio Arrau is awarded the degree of -

Doctor Honoris Causa

by the University of Concepción in Chillán on Thursday 24th May.

[University Resolution 84-261 of 14th May 1984].

Recital by Maestro Claudio Arrau at the Grand Théatre de Genève on Thursday 21st June at 8:00 pm. 

The programme consisted of:
> Beethoven: Piano sonate No.7 en ré majeur op.10 No.3
> Schubert: Klavierstück no.1 in mi bémol mineur op. posth. D 946
> Chopin: Ballade No.3 en la bémol majeur op.47
> Liszt: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
> Debussy: L'isle joyeuse
Entracte
> Brahms: Sonate in fa mineur op.5

[Source: Signed printed recital programme]

Italy

Italy

1984

U.S.A.

Publication by Summit Books of David Dubal's Reflections from the Keyboard: The World of the Concert Pianist, a collection of interviews with a number of outstanding pianists.

The book was published in England in 1985 by Victor Gollancz, where Maestro Arrau's interview is contained on pages 16 through to 33.  

ISBN 0-575-03654-0.  There have been later editions.

Maestro Claudio Arrau's recital at the Boston Symphony Hall on Tuesday 12th March, with a program consisting of:

> Beethoven: Sonata No.26 Op.81a Les adieux
> Beethoven: Sonata No.23 Op.57 Appassionata
Interval
> Liszt: Sonata in B minor

In its 14th March edition, The Boston Herald publishes and article by Josiah Fisk, entitled 'Pianist Claudio Arrau sparkles at Symphony Hall - At 82, his playing is still sublime '.  

The critique calls attention to "his control, as miraculous as ever"; "a timeless and transcendent quality that, in its effect on the spirit, can absolutely not be matched"; "phenomenal colour and luminosity"; and "Arrau's playing is, truly, as invincible as a law of nature, and as perfectly beautiful".

In its 14th March edition, The Boston Globe publishes an article by critic Richard Buell, entitled 'Timeless Claudio Arrau ', who performed as part of the Wang Celebrity Series on Tuesday 12th March at the Boston Symphony Hall.  

The writer highlights Arrau's unique and magical qualities, especially his rich, dark, seigneurial tone, his 'three-dimensional' sound (depth and complexity) beautifully weightily shaded, and his texture and harmonic colour as if reflecting various kinds of light.

Recital by Maestro Claudio Arrau on Monday 27th May at the RAI Auditorium of Turin, organised by L'Unione Musicale di Turino, with a programme including the following works:

> Beethoven:  Sonata No.26 in mi bemolle maggiore Op.81a Les adieux
> Beethoven:  Sonata No.23 in fa minore Op.57 Appassionata
> Liszt:  Sonata in si minore

... If you were to save three solo piano masterpieces from a cataclysm, which ones would you choose?
-   "Beethoven's Sonata 111,  Liszt's Sonata in B minor,  Schumann's Symphonic Studies..."

[Source: La Stampa, Torino, 26, 28, 29 May 1985]
[Source: Centro Studi Piemontesi. Fondo 'Carlo Felice Bona'. Torino. Rosy Moffa & Giorgio Pugliaro. Entry 1377]

Maestro Claudio Arrau's recital performance in the Grand Hall of the Vredenburg Music Centre [Grote Zaal, Muziekcentrum], Utrecht, on Tuesday 17th September at 8:15 pm.

Works performed were as follows:
I
> Beethoven: Sonate nr.26 in Es op.81a Das Lebewoh
> Beethoven: Sonate no.23 in f op.57 Appassionata
Pauze
II
> Liszt: Sonate in b (S178). 1852/53

[Source: Electronic copy of autographed, printed recital programme]

All-Beethoven recital performance by Maestro Claudio Arrau on Thursday 12th December in the evening, at the Salle Wilfrid Pelletier (Place des Arts) of Montreal, as part of the Grand Marnier series.

The programme consisted of:
> Sonata No.7 in D Op.10 No.3
> Sonata No.23 in F minor Op.57 Appassionata
> Sonata No.26 in E flat Op.81a Les adieux
> Sonata No.21 in C Op.53 Waldstein

On this occasion, Maestro Arrau substitued for pianist Emil Gillels who passed away this October.

[Source: The Gazette, Montreal, 7 and 14 Dec 1985]

Performance by Maestro Claudio Arrau of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 Emperor at the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz, with the Rheinland-Palatinate State Philarmonic conducted by Oleg Caetani on Thursday 20th March.

The all-Beethoven evening also comprised Overture Leonore 2 Op.72a and Symphony No.4 Op.60.

[Source: Electronic copy of signed printed programme page]

Broadcast performances by Maestro Claudio Arrau of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Philharmonie, under Eugen Jochum, on Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th April at 8:00 pm.

The programme, which also included Beethoven's Symphony No.5, had been originally advertised with conductor Klaus Tennstedt instead, in the Berliner Philharmonisches Orchester Vorschau 1985/86, p.29.

[Source: Guide to the Concert Halls of Berlin (Fürer durch die Konzertsäle Berlins)]

Concerto: CDR: FKM-76, USA, 2000, for the 17 April performance.

Maestro Claudio Arrau's all-Beethoven recital at the 'Teatro di San Carlo' of Naples on Sunday 25th May, as part of the 'Settimane musicali internazionali', with the sponsorship of the Alessandro Scarlatti Association.

The programme comprised:
> Sonata No.7 in D major Op.10 No.3
> Sonata No.23 in F minor Op.57  Appassionata
> Sonata No.26 in E flat major Op.81a  Les adieux
> Sonata No.21 in C major Op.53   Waldstein/Aurora

[Source: La Repubblica, Roma, 18 April & 27 May 1986]

All-Beethoven Sonata Recital by Maestro Claudio Arrau at the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, on Tuesday 3rd June, with a programme including the follwing works:

>  Sonata No.7 in D major, Op.10 No.3
>  Sonata No.23 in F minor, Op.57 Appassionata
Interval
>  Sonata No.26 in E flat major, Op.81a Les Adieux
>  Sonata No.21 in C major Op.53 Waldstein

[Source: Printed recital programme]
[Source: Illustrated London News, 1 June 1986].

Maestro Claudio Arrau's performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 at London's Royal Albert Hall, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos on Saturday 20th September at 7:45 pm.

The programme also included Debussy's Trois Nocturnes & Stravinsky's Firebird Suite (1919 version).

[Source: Illustrated London News, 1 Sept 1986]
This entry needs corroboration.

Maestro Claudio Arrau's performance at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano.

[Source: Symphonia magazine, Ermitage. November 1994]
This entry needs corroboration/completion.

[Source: Guide to the Concert Halls of Berlin (Fürer durch die Konzertsäle Berlins)]

[Source: la Repubblica, Roma, 18 & 19 March 1987]

Recital by Maestro Claudio Arrau at the McCarter Theatre of Princeton, New Jersey, on Monday 20th April at 8:00 pm, with a program consisting of:

> Beethoven:  Sonata No.7 in D major, Op.10 No.3
> Beethoven:  Sonata No.21 in C major, Op.53 Waldstein
Intermission
> Liszt:  Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este
> Liszt:  Sonetto del Petrarca No.104
> Liszt:  Après une lecture du Dante - Fantasia quasi sonata

[Source: Autographed printed recital programme]

Paris's Le Figaro magazine of Sunday 28th June includes an article by Jacques Doucelin, entitled 'Music, Claudio Arrau - Le miracle tranquille', appraising the sculpture and colour qualities of Arrau's renditions of works by Beethoven and Liszt at a Paris recital on 22nd June, consisting of:

> Beethoven:  Sonata No.26 Op.81a Les adieux
> Beethoven:  Sonata No.7 Op.10 No.3
Interval
> Liszt:  Jeux d'eau a la villa d'Este
> Liszt:  Sonnet de Petrarque No.104
> Liszt:  Fantasie apres une lecture de Dante

Rudolf Hermstein's translation into German of Joseph Horowitz's book 'Conversations with Arrau', under the title of 'Claudio Arrau - Leben mit der Musik'. 
Paperback, 320 pages.
Republished by: Piper, München Zürich, Germany. 1987.

Cover page photograph of Maestro Claudio Arrau on Fanfare, The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors, of January/February, published in New Jersey.

Music critic John D. Wiser writes an appreciation of Maestro Arrau's recordings of Liszt, Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven made in the first half of the 1980s [pages 51 to 54].

Recording advertisements on pages 18 and 23.

Appearance scheduled for 18th May at the 92d Street Y, as part of the 'Distinguished Artists Series at the Y', was  cancelled  by Maestro Arrau due to ill health.

[Source: Guide to the Concert Halls of Berlin (Fürer durch die Konzertsäle Berlins)]

Note: Announcement of a forthcoming event whose actual performance needs corroboration.

Editions Van de Velde, Paris, published this year a book in French entitled 'Conversations', containing thirteen interviews of distinguished pianists, in German, carried out by journalist Juergen Meyer-Josten for Bavarian Radio in the early 1970s.

Claudio Arrau's interview is contained on pages 21 through to 35, where the Maestro discusses the benefits of learning the complete works of a composer, acquiring a wide reading habit, nurturing a taste for the arts, and developing one's personality.

Mestro Arrau also speaks of pianists he admires (both past and contemporary), the difference between recorded and live performances, new musical trends and modern composers he appreciates, the commercial exploitation of competing young musicians, the need for deepening cultural development to inform interpretation, the inappropriateness of arranging originally deliberately difficult passages to make them easier, approach to studying new works (including intense practicing, brief deep sleeping before performances, relaxation techniques), and other such topics.

Paperback, 192 pages.  ISBN 2.85868-143-0.

On Sunday 21st January at 4.00 pm, TV Network 2 broadcast a 2-hour programme entitled 'Claudio Arrau... A Pianistic Tour de Force', the first in a a four-part series demonstrating the poetic power of the master musician, who talks about and plays some of his choice musical preferences.

[Source: Evening Herald (Dublin), 20 Jan 1990]
[Source: Sunday Independent (Dublin), 21 Jan 1990]
[Source: Sunday World (Dublin), 21 Jan 1990]
[Source: Sunday Life, Norther Ireland, 21 Jan 1990]

On Sunday 28th January at 4.30 pm, TV Network 2 broadcast a one-and-a-half-hour programme entitled 'Claudio Arrau... The Emperor', the second programme in a four-part series.  Returning to his native Chile in 1984 after seventeen years, the 81 year old Arrau captivates an audience of 6,000 in Santiago's Metropolitan Cathedral, with Beethoven's Concerto No.5 in E flat major for Piano and Orchestra Op.73 Emperor, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Chilean National University conducted by Víctor Tevah.

[Source: Sligo Champion (Ireland), 26 Jan 1990]

On Sunday 4th February at 4.05 pm, TV Network 2 broadcast a 2-hour programme entitled 'Arrau and Brahms: The Two Romantics', the third in a a four-part series which features some of Arrau's finest performances.  The 81 year old Arrau enthrolls his audience in Santiago's Teatro Municipal with a performance of Brahms's Piano Sonata No.3 in F minor, and Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, with the Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Juan Pablo Izquierdo.

[Source: Sunday Tribune, Dublin, 4 Feb 1990]

On Sunday 11th February at 4.05 pm, TV Network 2 broadcast a 2-hour programme entitled 'Claudio Arrau... The Maestro and the Masters', the final programme in a four-part series.  The 81 year old Arrau enthrolls his audience in Santiago's Teatro Municipal by rendering unforgettable interpretations of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.4 in G major Op.58, with the Santiago Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Juan Pablo Izquierdo, as well as Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.7 in D major, plus solo works by Debussy, Chopin, Liszt and Schubert.

[Source: Sunday Tribune, Dublin, 11 Feb 1990]