Claudio Arrau
Piano
1903 - 1991

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 Unavailable/Unreleased Audiovisual Items

This is a chronological list of audiovisual items featuring Claudio Arrau
which are known to exist but are unavailable in commercial format.

[01]   
1935 Sueño de Amor
  

A Mexican film directed by José Bohr.
Claudio Arrau features as Franz Liszt in a film about the composers´life, positively reviewed, whilst showing at the Teatro Campoamor of New York, as being highly entertaining, well acted and supported, with excellent musical performances, and a realistic atmosphere, by critic Harry T. Smith of the New York Times on 11 January 1936.
Arrau interprets Liszt´s Liebesträum, and La chasse.
This film was also known as Liebesträume, Thy Son, Tu hijo, and Amor de madre
.
http://cinemexicano.mty.itesm.mx/directores/jose_bohr.html

[02]   
1954 Carnegie Hall Recital
   Acclaimed, historial recital: filmed.
[03]   
1970 Bonn Beethoven Festival
  Recital in Bonn to commemorate Beethoven's bicentenary: filmed.
[04]  
1976 Beetohen's Piano Concerto No. 3 - Telecast
 

Performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Rafael Jeroným Kubelík conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
"Live from Lincoln Centre" Telecast Series, hosted by Dick Cavett, aired on 20 November.

[05]   
1977 Bonn Beethoven Recital
 

Recital of 10 September, 1977:
Piano Sonata No. 3,
Piano Sonata No. 32.
Eroica Variations
UNITEL Video

[06]  
1984 Concerto Straordinario di Claudio Arrau - Telecast
 

Extraordinary concert/recital of Claudio Arrau at La Scala di Milano on 15 October, as part of the Community of Milan's Musical Evening Series, recorded and broadcast by the RAI - Italian National Television.

[07]  
1984 Portrait of Claudio Arrau
 

A 55-minute British film portrait, directed by Alan Benson, where Maestro Arrau speaks about his long, event-filled life and performs the following works -
> Beethoven's F minor sonata Appassionata,
> Chopin's Ballade in A flat major Op 47,
> Debussy's L'isle joyeuse,
> Liszt's Petrarch Sonett 104 from Années de Pélerinage, and
> Schubert's Klavierstück in E flat minor D946.


This film was telecast -
> in New York in 1984
http://arrausite.free.fr/Index.html
> through Classica TV Channel (for Germany and Austria, with access from Italy, France and Japan) on 04 December 1997,
> in France, with the title ‘Le dernier des géants’, by Arte et France in 1999, and
> in Germany, with the title 'Claudio Arrau - Ein Grandseigneur", by Fernsehen TV Channel on Sunday 16 January 2005 at 12:00 noon.

[08]  
1995 50 Years of the Spring Festival in Prague
  

A Bohemia Art Video production entilted '50 Years of the Spring Festival in Prague' was broadcast on 01 July by Channel 11 of the NHK BSTV (Japan Broadcasting Corporation's [Nippon Hõsõ Kyõkai's] Satelite Transmission Television) from 01:30 pm to 02:30 pm.

This 60-minute, colour, private video recording shows segments from the 1946 First Spring Festival in Prague, as well as of musicians who participated in the Festival over the past 50 years.

Soloists include Claudio Arrau, Pierre Fournier, Lev Oborin, David Oistrakh, Svyatoslav Richter, Artur Rubinstein, and Daniil Shafran.

Conductors with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra include Vaclav Talich, Rafael Kubelik, Karel Ancerl, Ernest Ansermet, Leonard Bernstein, Adrian Boult, Herbert von Karajan, Yevgeni Mravinsky, Charles Munch, Hermann Scherchen, and Leopold Stokowski.


End of 'Unavailable/Unreleased Audiovisial Items' section


Last updated in April 2006