Jorge Bolet: The RIAS Recordings, Vol. I

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Label: Audite Musikproduktion
Release Date: January 5, 2018

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

BACH, J.S.
PERFORMER

Jorge Bolet

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

January 05, 2018
UPC

4022143214386
CATALOG NUMBER

AUD21438
LABEL

Audite Musikproduktion
NUMBER OF DISCS

3
GENRE

Classical

Works ⌄

No. 1. La chapelle de Guillaume Tell (The Chapel of William Tell)

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 2. Au lac de Wallenstadt (At the Lake of Wallenstadt)

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 3. Pastorale (Pastoral)

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 4. Au bord d'une source (Beside a Spring)

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 5. Orage (Storm)

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 6. Vallee d'Obermann (Valley of Obermann)

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 1 in C Major, "Preludio"

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 2 in A Minor, "Fusées"

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 11 in D-Flat Major, "Harmonies du soir"

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 12 in B Minor, "Chasse-neige"

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 9 in A-Flat Major, "Ricordanza"

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 8 in C Minor, "Wilde Jagd"

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 1. Nocturne in A-Flat Major

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 2. Nocturne in E-Flat Major

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 3. Nocturne in A-Flat Major

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
Rhapsodie espagnole, S254/R90, "Folies d'Espagne et jota aragonesa"

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
8 Morceaux caractéristiques, Op. 36: No. 4. En Automne

Composer: Moritz Moszkowski

Performer: Jorge Bolet
Carnival of the Animals: XIII. Le Cygne (The Swan) (arr. L. Godowsky for piano)

Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns

Performer: Jorge Bolet
Triakontameron, 30 Moods and Scenes in Triple Measure: No. 21. The Salon

Composer: Leopold Godowsky

Performer: Jorge Bolet
Schumann - Liebeslied, S566/R253, "Widmung"

Composer: Franz Liszt

Performer: Jorge Bolet
3 Symphonische Metamorphosen Johann Strauss'scher Themen: No. 2. Die Fledermaus

Composer: Leopold Godowsky

Performer: Jorge Bolet
Fantasy in F Minor, Op. 49

Composer: Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Jorge Bolet
Impromptu No. 1 in A-Flat Major, Op. 29

Composer: Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Jorge Bolet
Impromptu No. 2 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 36

Composer: Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Jorge Bolet
Impromptu No. 3 in G-Flat Major, Op. 51

Composer: Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Jorge Bolet
Fantasy-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66

Composer: Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Jorge Bolet
Waltz No. 6 in D-Flat Major, Op. 64, No. 1, "Minute"

Composer: Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Jorge Bolet
12 Etudes, Op. 10: No. 5 in G-Flat Major, "Black Keys"

Composer: Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 1. Danseuses de Delphes

Composer: Claude Debussy

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 9. La sérénade interrompue

Composer: Claude Debussy

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 10. La cathédrale engloutie

Composer: Claude Debussy

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 12. Minstrels

Composer: Claude Debussy

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 6. Général Lavine - eccentric

Composer: Claude Debussy

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 7. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune

Composer: Claude Debussy

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 8. Ondine

Composer: Claude Debussy

Performer: Jorge Bolet
No. 12. Feux d'artifice

Composer: Claude Debussy

Performer: Jorge Bolet

Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet (1914-1990), misleadingly labeled the "last Romantic" among 20th century pianists and marketed under this title when he achieved world fame at the end of his career, was first and foremost a gentleman of the piano. Few pianists interpreted the great piano music of the 19th and early 20th centuries with such unerring stylistic assurance and technical mastery that was at the same time completely free of vanity and striving for effect. Rather than vague sentimentality, Bolet - who studied at the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia with David Saperton, son-in-law of the legendary pianist Leopold Godowsky, and later succeeded Rudolf Serkin as director of ist piano department - sought a balance between musical and pianistic intelligence. Thanks to these qualities, his recordings, which include not-uncontroversial transcriptions from the golden age of piano playing before 1914, are considered benchmarks.

These recordings for the RIAS Berlin from 1962-73, featuring works by Chopin, Liszt, and Debussy along with highly virtuosic encores and arrangements by Moritz Moszkowski and Godowsky (among others), are no exception: here we experience a pianist and musician who rightly occupies a place among the pantheon of great pianists.

All the recordings in this three-CD box set are first releases from the master tapes.

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REVIEW:

Almost everything by Bolet is worth acquiring, but this collection is particularly valuable. Few pianophiles will be aware of the existence of these radio broadcasts from the early 1960s.

Disc 1 opens up with Bolet on top form, including an intense account of Vallee d'Obermnann that ends more in despairing torment than than rapturous ecstasy.

Disc 2 includes a number of superb accounts of Bolet favorites. The third disc contains a muscular, magisterial rendition of Chopin's F minor Fantasy, most characteristic of this great artist yet by no means devoid of introspection and sensitivity. All four of Chopin's Impromptus are a real joy. The Debussy Preludes selections form a beautifully played sequence of individually defined tone-poems.

– Gramophone