Jorge Bolet: RIAS Recordings Vol.3 (1961-1974) | Audite AUDITE21459

Jorge Bolet: RIAS Recordings Vol.3 (1961-1974)

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Label: Audite

Cat No: AUDITE21459

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Release Date: 11th January 2019

Contents

About

This third and final volume of Jorge Bolet’s Berlin radio recordings (1961-1974)  presents previously unreleased repertoire novelties. Once again, the Cuban-born artist sets standards with his interpretations of great romantic and modern piano music.

With the exception of the Fledermaus paraphrase, all recordings are released for the first time. Once again, Bolet’s performances document his universality and unceasing inquisitiveness, as well as his phenomenal musicianship and ability to adapt his virtuosity to diverse works. These recordings are therefore invaluable documents of a musician who today is justly considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century.

This selection comprises works of Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Dello Joio, Franck, Godowsky, Grieg, Liszt and Schumann. Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto did not form part of Bolet’s regular repertoire: it is the only live recording on this edition. Further highlights include Schumann’s Third Piano Sonata as well as major works by Chopin, such as the complete Op.25 Études, in Bolet’s masterful, lyrical interpretations. As an “encore”, Bolet plays Godowsky’s Concert Paraphrase of Strauss’s Die Fledermaus.

Reviews

Bolet’s legions of fans will need no words of encouragement from me to invest, for there are several valuable additions to this great pianist’s discography. Not least among them is a superb live performance of the Emperor Concerto, boasting an especially exuberant and forthright finale, captured (uniquely in this set) in 1974 by ORTF in Paris. ... All in all, a pianophile delight.  Jeremy Nicholas
Gramophone March 2019
Gramophone Editor's Choice

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