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Title: Cliburn / Arrau: Klavierwerke
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Actors: Van Cliburn, Claudio Arrau
Director: Van Cliburn, Claudio Arrau
Runtime: 1 Stunde und 23 Minuten
Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
Studio: ica Classics (Naxos Deutschland GmbH)
Description: PRODUKTBESCHREIBUNGEN
KURZBESCHREIBUNG
As winner of the inaugural Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, Van Cliburn was lauded by the greats, including Shostakovich, Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter, who is said to have proclaimed he is a pianist, the others are not .

The three Chopin performances on this DVD were filmed by the BBC just one year later, when Cliburn was still very much in his prime. His performances of these three popular Chopin works exude controlled brilliance grandeur and virtuosity without ostentation.

Cliburn s album entitled My Favourite Chopin topped the Billboard charts for 37 weeks it was the first classical LP in history to sell more than one million copies. The album eventually exceeded triple platinum.

Cliburn received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.

Claudio Arrau, recognisable for his rich, sonorous tone and often described as Prince , Emperor , and King of the keyboard, is an excellent companion to Cliburn on this DVD. Widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, he was renowned for his definitive interpretations of almost every composer he engaged with, although he remains most celebrated for his Beethoven.

A recording of Arrau s Appassionata , released in 1961 on Columbia, was reviewed in Gramophone at the time as cogent, powerful and dramatic, and sure both in its grasp of the music and in the technical execution of it .

The recording of Beethoven s Piano Concerto No.4, released on ICA Classics in November 2011, was made just six months before this studio performance. Reviewing this disc on www.classicalsource.com, Colin Anderson praises Arrau s generous, thoughtful and poetic style and purest pianism .

SYNOPSIS
"Aufnahme"
BBC Televisions Studios, 1959-1960

"Musik"
Frederic Chopin
Ludwig van Beethoven





REZENSION
Effortless Chopin from Cliburn(1959) forming a dramtic contrast with the concentrated intensity of Arrau in Beethoven's Sonatas Nos 23 and 32 (1959/60) Performance **** Picture & Sound *** --BBC Music Magazine, Sept'12

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