26 May 1974 Arnhem, The Netherlands (Festival of Romantic Music) Bach-Busoni: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D-minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004 Cesar Franck: Prélude, Aria & Final Op. 23 Grieg: Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song in G minor, Op. 24 Strauss-Tausig: Man lebt nur einmal Strauss-Tausig: Nachtfalter Strauss-Schulz-Evler: Arabesques on The Beautiful Blue Danube Saint-Saens-Godowsky: The Swan Paul de Schlözer: Concert Etude in A-flat Op. 1, No.

6 October 1961 Musis Sacrum, Arnhem, Holland​ Jorge Bolet gave a recital here for the first time. Willem Boone write: ​ The Musis Sacrum (lit. 'sacred to the Muses'): 'My earliest memories of Nelson Freire [Brazilian pianist, Minas Gerais 1944 -Rio de Janeiro 2021] go back a long way. At 15 (in 1978), my interest in music, and the piano in particular, was just beginning to awaken. Near where I lived (Arnhem), there was a concert hall, Musis Sacrum, which offered a series of p

(Translation from Dutch via internet apps is a bit rough in places!) Five counts from now, and without mercy, the green studio light turns red—the fatal moment, at which a recording that is nerve-wracking for the pianist begins. Everything seems to proceed effortlessly, but "Vision," a melancholic etude building to a climax, turned out less well than Bolet had expected, and he plays it again with even greater concentration. "I hate recording," he says fiercely and grimly. He

12 April 1962 Recital in the hall of the Rijnhotel, Mauritsweg, Rotterdam, incl. Chopin's Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op.58, Beethoven's Appassionata and Liszt's Mephisto Waltz. ​[The recital by American pianist Jorge Bolet for the Rotterdamsche Kunstkring has been moved from April 3 to April 12. Jorge Bolet will then perform in the AMVJ Hall of the Rijnhotel.]​ Pianist with Fabulous Technique, Audience in Utter Ecstasy. See full review It is extremely rare for a recital to be aw

Learn the secrets of pianist Jorge Bolet's use of the pedal when playing the piano.

2 February 1978 "It was in the second half of the seventies that I asked Jorge to give a recital in my home town Bilthoven [a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht], part of the municipality De Bilt (Netherlands). Jorge agreed and the concert was arranged by the cultural department of the Town Hall. "The concert was part of a tour, including Amsterdam, of Jorge playing the new Bechstein EN. So the tour was joined by Ulrich Adam, artist representative for Bechstein. (Later

Bolet Played the Piano—and Not Gently A tongue-in-cheek review from De Volk 9.5.1935. I include the Dutch below: though this ChatGPT translation flows well and idiomatically, it may miss things. Critics are lazy creatures. If you don’t keep them busy, they are quite capable of spending a quiet evening at home. And naturally: that’s not what critics are for. So we can do no less than congratulate Dr. De Koos on his brilliant idea to use the one evening that the Dutch Music Fe

Mattheus Smits recalls: 'After finishing my professional music education in Holland, I decided to continue my piano studies with a private teacher. Thanks to his son Erik Ligtelijn, I came in touch with Johan Ligtelijn who taught privately in Amsterdam in his house next to the Concertgebouw. After finishing his pianos tudies in Amsterdam, Johan Ligtelijn had studied with Walter Gieseking in Hanover and later in Wiesbaden. Johan Ligtelijn also studied privately with the Liszt