New bio video of Jorge Bolet's career
A.I. technology is moving on at a rapid pace - I'm amazed at what I'm seeing - and this is the first in a series of new videos (some...
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Blue Pumpkin
Nov 271 min read
Decca issues 26 CD set
All Jorge Bolet's recordings for the company from 1977-1990, including Chopin Nocturnes and Berceuse, never before issued, have appeared...
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Blue Pumpkin
Nov 21 min read
Jorge Bolet in Latin America
This is very much work-in-progress, but I thought I'd try to gather together all that I know so far about Jorge's performances in South...
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Blue Pumpkin
Oct 312 min read
Solidarity/Solidarność
On 19 October 1984, in the Filharmonia Narodowa, Warsaw, Jorge Bolet played Liszt. That very evening, Catholic priest and chaplain of...
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Blue Pumpkin
Oct 301 min read
"If it's Tuesday, it must be Szczecin..."
Online Polish newspapers have revealed a few more of their secrets about Bolet's tour in May/June 1961. New cities and dates have been...
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Blue Pumpkin
Oct 292 min read
A rainy-season in Namibia: 1976
Jorge Bolet's recital in Windhoek, South West Africa was actually on 2 February, not 6th, so there is some mixup in his datebook. The ...
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Blue Pumpkin
Oct 192 min read
Jorge Bolet: Buenos Aires review 1979
In Clarín , 25 July, 1979, Jorge D'Urbano - who had reviewed Jorge's first appearance in Argentina in June 1955 - wrote: 'Jorge Bolet is...
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Blue Pumpkin
Oct 171 min read
Teatro Colón
Jorge Bolet's only appearance in the fabled opera house in Buenos Aires was on Saturday, 21 July 1979. The programme consisted of...
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Blue Pumpkin
Oct 111 min read
"Musical Pumpkin Spiced Lattes"
The Piano Files on Patreon has posted a little challenge. Jorge Bolet plays 'In Autumn' in recordings from 1952 and 1987. "To celebrate...
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Blue Pumpkin
Sep 201 min read
Jorge Bolet recalled in 1981
Jorge Bolet recalled by a Spanish friend from a meeting in 1981; I believe the friend to be Ramón Rodamiláns Vellido (Spanish, with...
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Blue Pumpkin
Sep 202 min read
Jorge Bolet in Rhodesia, February 1976
I've been looking at The Rhodesia Herald in the British Library. Quite a hard-hitting, critical review. Having now to get used to...
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Blue Pumpkin
Sep 201 min read
Stokowski
12 & 17 October 1971 Philharmonic Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City. Jorge mentions a brief lapse of memory on the conductor's part,...
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Blue Pumpkin
Sep 201 min read
Newspaper reports from South Africa
Various reports of JB’s South African tours on 1973, 1976 and 1980 from the Afrikaner newspaper Die Transvaler have been added.
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Blue Pumpkin
Sep 201 min read
JB in Chile
Delighted confirm Jorge Bolet DID play in Chile (I had thought he hadn’t) June, 1983 in Chile, with Juan Pablo Izquierdo (born Santiago...
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