I've taken advantage over the weekend of 15/16 March when The Times removed its paywall for its archive. Here are a few choice reviews...

What about the notes the composer wrote on the page? "I have been criticised for saying something like this; butI still. believe it:...

I had occasion to look again at some reviews of one of my favourite Bolet discs. Volume 6 of the Decca Liszt series came out in August...

Unraveling the Misconceptions: 5 Things They Get Wrong About Jorge Bolet

Very interesting section added, after I found an article by JB in Etude, November 1951. Once you are on your way, artistic abstractions...

Finally! After hearing about Jorge's home in Spain during 1960s-1980s, I get an address. I've been looking for this since 1983 when JB...

An interview with the Leidsch Dagblad  (5 December, 1983) became quite animated. There was a big feature, with Charles van der Leeuw...

Well this is a find indeed - how have I missed this! I heard this on the radio in March 1984 (I'd only discovered Jorge Bolet the year...

A gem of a review, but from Bern not Lucerne (as advertised)

Monday 11 April, 1988, Bern Casino Hall, Bern, Switzerland.  'When you heard him play, this guest from overseas, you got the impression...

Early in the new year, Bolet had been on tour in Central America/Caribbean.  A passenger manifest shows that he arrived in San Juan,...

Mattheus Smits recalls: 'After finishing my professional music education in Holland, I decided to continue my piano studies with a...

After leaving music conservatory [in Utrecht], I continued my piano studies in 1972 with the Dutch pianist Mr. Johan Ligtelijn, who had...

I'm not just a fan of Jorge Bolet. Another great interest is Alfred Brendel, who today on 5 January 2025 is celebrating his 94th...

A name you don't hear in Jorge's usual biography! Jorge had begun piano lessons with sister Maria.   (He said in an interview in 1943...

What better way to end 2024 - at least in the musical world of Jorge Bolet - than by being reminded (via the words of Donald Manildi in...

A.I. technology is moving on at a rapid pace - I'm amazed at what I'm seeing - and I've produced a series of three new videos with what I...

All Jorge Bolet's recordings for the company from 1977-1990, including Chopin Nocturnes and Berceuse, never before issued, have appeared...

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...

On 19 October 1984, in the Filharmonia Narodowa, Warsaw, Jorge Bolet played Liszt. That very evening, Catholic priest and chaplain of...