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I wanted to come face to face with a master: I recognised him as such.
(Hélène Grimaud)
A biographical website about Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet
A little bit like Doctor Who (that's for any British readers), this site is now undergoing regeneration to its fourth form.
An ambassador from the age of nocturnes and nightingales.
(Burt A. Folkart, Los Angeles Times, October 1990)
Jorge may not have been the greatest pianist, but he was always my favourite pianist. (William Livingstone)
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His Rudolph Valentino physique heralded an intensely seductive relationship with the world, with a touch of chic like the fruit atop the frosty triangles of glasses holding exotic cocktails: blue lagoons and green ti' punches...
I wanted to come face to face with a master: I recognised him as such.
(Hélène Grimaud, pianist)
An enigma shrouded in a mystery and wrapped in velvet is Jorge Bolet.
(Tom Deacon)
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Apart from your today unrivalled virtuosity, there is the rarest of poetic elegance in the true Romantic style... It lives again in your unique combination of demonic daring, elfin delicacy and soaring lyricism. (Abram Chasins, 1971)
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Jorge Bolet used an English pronunciation of his name: George Bo-LETTE (with stress falling on the final syllable & with the T pronounced).
