Jorge Bolet "Claire de Lune"

Jorge Bolet "Claire de Lune"

I recently came upon this gem from Larry Yungk's YouTube Channel (he has been an occasional but very fine source of JB information over the many years of this website). It's been online for 12 years but I knew nothing about it. I'm now ashamed to say -also - that I never spotted it on the Marston 6 CD set, or if I did, I don't recall.

Christian Johansson's website on pianists has given some background. He suggests. a date of 1980: University of Miami (Gusman Concert Hall), Miami, Florida [?]

Debussy: Clair de lune (from Suite Bergamasque)

– Baldwin BDW 701 [LP] -> Marston 56003-2

 "During 1980-1981 Baldwin recorded LPs with six of their associated pianists (David Bar-Illan, Jorge Bolet, Gilbert Kalish, Ruth Laredo, Santiago Rodriguez & Earl Wild) intended to be given away by their dealers to buyers of Baldwin pianos. These recordings hence weren’t commercially available in the traditional sense, unless you didn’t mind getting a piano along with the discs (a box with all six LPs entitled “The Essential Piano Library” was given away to libraries, which also included a double disc called “The Student’s Essential Classics” which might also have drawn from these sessions). Earl Wild’s session was recorded in Miami – the hometown of the producer – so I’m guessing Bolet’s was as well."