Jorge Bolet, Bilthoven 1978

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 Mr Adam moved to Steinway where he did a great job for the cooperation between Steinway and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.)

"The recital was great and all of us, including Tex, had great fun. Later I was told that the local record shop Radio Sound sold hundreds of copies of Jorge's Ensayo recording of Liszt's transcriptions, even years after the recital. (The RCA Carnegie Hall recital of 1974 was not available in Holland).

"If I am not mistaken some encores of this recital can be found on Marston CDs."

Mattheus Smits

[The recital took place in the hall of the R.I.V., Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Avenue. This was the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (Dutch: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu). Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (Delft, 1632 – 1723) was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch art, science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology".]

Marston CDs Vol. 1:

Waltz No. 6 in D-flat, op. 64, no. 1, “Minute”

Waltz No. 14 in E minor, op. posth

De Bilt, The Netherlands; 1978