Arrau was 66 when he made this recording of Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major. After a powerful and incisive opening, Arrau builds up the tension with iron determination and ends the opening movement with triumphant trills. In the wild scherzo he lights demonic fire; in the dreamy adage feeds sweet and magical sounds for your dream. The gigantic and demonic opening of Brahms’ first piano concerto is performed by Arrau with impressive grandeur and precise phrasing, epically matched by SWR’s Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra under Eliahu Inbal. At the age of 77, Claudio Arrau performed the Piano Concertos No. Beethoven’s 3 and 4 in a concert with the SWR Orchestra with Gary Bertini.
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