How about that!

First Hand Records, which is issuing a 3 CD set of Jorge Bolet's Ambassador Auditorium Recitals (Pasadena) 1981 and 1986 in autumn 2026, is using for the cover a photograph spotted on this website. Wilhelm Fröling's photo of JB in Paris (1988), kindly provided by Mathias Donderer, is now the new cover.

In the Los Angeles Times (13 November 1981), Daniel Cariaga reviewed the first recital.

Jorge Bolet reminded us once again that old-fashioned, many-faceted pianistic virtuosity is a life's work as well as an apparently vanishing art. Also, that he is one of the handful of elder keyboard statesmen still practising that art.

The programme offered all the authority one has come to expect from a Bolet performance, the total integrated with impeccable taste, sovereign technique and poetic insight. Here were massive sonorities, flying fingers, purling trills, velvet tone and, rarest of all, genuine, bona-fide, honest-to-God legato octaves - all in the service of musical communication.

The Mendelssohn sonata had lucidity as well as the deepest kind of suavity; Schumann's Fantasy accumulated power and intensity with no loss of tone-quality, intimacy or tension. The five Liszt transcriptions found Bolet unraveling abundant intricacies while spinning long-breathed songs; his way with the "Mephisto" Waltz seemed bigger than life because he commands a dynamic palette wider and more faceted than other pianists; part of this is resource, but imagination and intellect are involved, too.