JORGE BOLET – The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals, Pasadena

JORGE BOLET – The Ambassador Auditorium Recitals, Pasadena, California, USA, 1981 and 1986 (3CD)

This is the first release of Bolet’s two recitals recorded at the Ambassador Auditorium, California. Transferred and remastered in high resolution.

Due out in autumn 2026

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1 NOVEMBER 1981

Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847)

1–3. Fantasia in F sharp minor, Op. 28, ‘Sonate éccossaise’ (1833)

Robert SCHUMANN (1810–1856)

4–6. Fantasy in C major, Op. 17 (1838)

interval

Franz LISZT (1811–1886)

Schubert Song Transcriptions

7. 12 Lieder, S558: No. 2. Auf dem Wasser zu singen (1838)

8. 6 Müllerlieder, S565: No. 2. Der Müller und der Bach (1846)

9. Winterreise, S561: No. 7. Der Lindenbaum (1839)

10. Schwanengesang, S560: No. 3. Aufenthalt (1839)

11. 12 Lieder, S558: No. 4: Erlkönig (1838)

CD2

LISZT

1. Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke, S514, ‘Mephisto Waltz No. 1’ (1861)

Encores:

Frédéric CHOPIN (1810–1849)

2. Nocturne No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 15, No. 2 (1832)

Abram CHASINS (1903–1987)

Preludes, Book 3, Op. 12 (1928)

3. No. 2 in E flat Minor

4. No. 3 in B flat Minor

Moritz MOSZKOWSKI (1854–1925)

5. La Jongleuse, Op. 52, No. 4 (pub. 1894)

CHOPIN

6. Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 (1832)

3 DECEMBER 1986

Edvard GRIEG (1843–1907)

7. Ballade in G minor, Op. 24 (1876)

Johannes BRAHMS (1833–1897)

8–11. 4 Ballades, Op. 10 (1854)

CD3

LISZT

1. Ballade No. 2 in B minor, S171 (1853)

Interval

CHOPIN

4 Ballades

2. Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (1835)

3. Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Op. 38 (1839)

4. Ballade No. 3 in A flat Major, Op. 47 (1841)

5. Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52 (1843)

Encores:

Georges BIZET (1838–1875)

L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1 (1872)

6. III. Adagietto (arr. 1927, Leopold GODOWSKY, 1870–1938)

CHOPIN

Etudes, Op. 25 (1837)

7. No. 1 in A flat major, ‘Harp Study’

8. No. 2 in F minor

24 bit, 96kHz high resolution transfers by

Kabir Hermon from open reel tapes

24 bit, 96kHz high resolution remastering by

John Croft (Chiaro Audio)

Booklet notes by Jonathan Summers

Recordings released with approval from the estate of Jorge Bolet