Claudio Arrau Discography

Claudio Arrau León 's interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined. Therefore any musician, no matter how great an instrumentalist, who is not also an interpreter of a divinatory order, the way Furtwängler was, or Fischer-Dieskau is, is somehow one-sided, somehow without spiritual grandeur. — Claudio Arrau