Claudio Rosssi

The tango is known to have originated in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, a casserole of local and foreign influences, full of brothels, knives, scoundrels and a few broken hearted heroes.

Claudio Cruz is music director of the Ribeirão Preto Symphony Orchestra (São Paulo). He studied violin with his father, the luthier João Cruz, and later with Erich Lehninger. As the first violin and founder of the Amazonia String Quartet, he received a Grammy Award in 2002 for an album of Astor Piazzolla music. He has been concertmaster of the Symphony Orchestra of the State of São Paulo for the past 22 years. He has played chamber music with artists including Shlomo Mintz, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Nelson Freire, Antonio Meneses, Michel Dalberto and Ingrid Haebler.In his career as a conductor, he has been music director of the Villa-Lobos Chamber Orchestra and of the Campinas Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted the principal symphony orchestras of São Paulo, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba. He made a successful US debut as conductor of the Orchestra of the Americas in Florida. His discography includes Violin Music in Brazil (Dynamic) and three recordings with the Villa-Lobos Chamber Orchestra (Warner Classics). He began serving as artistic director of the Curitiba Classical Music Workshop in 2015.

The complete Warner recordings by Claudio Arrau, newly remastered in high resolution and including various premieres, have been released both in physical and digital formats!

The complete Warner recordings by Claudio Arrau, newly remastered in high resolution and including various premieres, have been released both in physical and digital formats! One of the greatest figures of the 20th-century, Arrau excelled particularly in the great romantic repertoire, and notably Beethoven whom he performed intensely on record, but also on stage (sometimes playing the complete sonatas in a row during legendary concert series).

Though he didn’t record Chopin intensely throughout his Warner career, Claudio Arrau had close affinities with the Polish composer.

he began his musical career studying with his parents, luthier João Cruz and Janette Sanchez Cruz at the age of 8, having as his first instrument of study: the piano.

Claudio Arrau León (Spanish: [ˈklawðjo aˈraw]; February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.

Claudio Arrau León (Spanish: [ˈklawðjo aˈraw]; February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.