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A few Times reviews from London
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...
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Mar 1610 min read
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Liszt Volume 6 (August 1985)
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...
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Mar 142 min read
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Bern, Switzerland 1988
A gem of a review, but from Bern not Lucerne (as advertised)
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Jan 111 min read
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Alejo Carpentier reviews Bolet 1953
Early in the new year, Bolet had been on tour in Central America/Caribbean. A passenger manifest shows that he arrived in San Juan,...
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Jan 104 min read
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"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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Oct 30, 20241 min read
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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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Oct 29, 20242 min read
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Jorge Bolet: Buenos Aires review 1979
In ClarÃn , 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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Oct 19, 20242 min read
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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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Oct 17, 20241 min read
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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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Sep 20, 20242 min read
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