Claudio Arrau

Pianist Claudio Arrau, patrician and charismatic, had a top-notch reputation for his performances of core Romantic-era piano music and is generally regarded as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Beyond music, he had an interest in psychoanalysis and believed that the science aided his musical interpretations, which one might say balanced feeling and intellect. Arrau's recording catalog was vast, stretching back to the 78 rpm era, and his death in 1991 only stimulated the frequency with which his recordings appeared, with 25 Arrau albums issued in the year 2014 a...