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Jorge Bolet Liszt Totentanz & Rachmaninoff Paganini Rhapsody Atlanta Symphony September 19 1985
Jorge Bolet (1914-1990) - piano
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra cond. William Fred Scott
Symphony Hall Atlanta September 19 1985
FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
Totentanz (Paraphrase über Dies irae) S.126 ii
[0:04] Introduction: Andante - Presto - Allegro - Allegro moderato
[2:15] Variation 1: Allegro moderato
[3:13] Variation 2: [L'istesso tempo] - Un poco animato
[4:11] Variation 3: Molto vivace
[4:46] Variation 4: 'Canonique': Lento - Presto
[7:47] Variation 5: Vivace. Fugato - Cadenza
[12:17] Variation 6: Sempre allegro, ma non troppo - Un poco meno allegro - Cadenza - Presto - Allegro animato
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943)
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in A minor Op. 43
[16:45] Introduction: Allegro vivace
[16:54] Var. 1: (Précédente)
[17:16] Tema: L'istesso tempo
[17:38] Var. 2: L'istesso tempo
[17:58] Var. 3: L'istesso tempo
[18:26] Var. 4: Più vivo
[19:01] Var. 5: Tempo precedente
[19:34] Var. 6: L'istesso tempo
[20:42] Var. 7: Meno mosso, a tempo moderato (entrance of Dies irae)
[21:54] Var. 8: Tempo I
[22:34] Var. 9: L'istesso tempo
[23:11] Var. 10: Poco marcato
[24:12] Var. 11: Moderato
[25:46] Var. 12: Tempo di minuetto
[27:14] Var. 13: Allegro
[27:47] Var. 14: L'istesso tempo
[28:37] Var. 15: Più vivo scherzando
[29:54] Var. 16: Allegretto
[31:36] Var. 17: (Allegretto)
[33:55] Var. 18: Andante cantabile
[36:57] Tempo vivace
[37:03] Var. 19: L'istesso tempo
[37:34] Var. 20: Un poco più vivo
[38:14] Var. 21: Un poco più vivo
[38:44] Var. 22: Un poco più vivo (Alla breve)
[40:42] Var. 23: L'istesso tempo
[41:37] Var. 24: A tempo un poco meno mosso
A review appeared in the next day's edition of "The Atlanta Constitution':
The Atlanta Constitution Friday Sept. 20, 1985
Bolet demonstrates greatness with ASO
By Derrick Henry (Staff Writer)
Jorge Bolet made a triumphant debut with the Atlanta Symphony in Symphony Hall Thursday night, playing what many connoisseurs consider the finest works for piano and orchestra by two of the greatest virtuoso pianists of all time, Liszt and Rachmaninoff.
Bolet, who last appeared with the ASO in 1958, before Symphony Hall was built, is an amazing pianist. There are no gratuitous gestures. Bent over the keyboard in a posture of reverence, he is one of very few pianists who can rival an orchestra in color and excitement.
He can whisper, and he can thunder. Yet, at any dynamic level, the sound is rich and penetrating. And his articulation is always clean, whatever the technical obstacles. Comparisons with others are unnecessary, for the 70-year-old Bolet belongs in the pantheon of great virtuoso pianists. There just aren’t too many people around today who can bring the excesses of Liszt to thrilling light. Bolet is one of them.
The works in question - Liszt’s “Totentanz” (Dance of Death) and Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” - are both sets of variations. And both share a pervasive use of the “Dies Irae,” a medieval chant from that part of the Requiem Mass concerning the Day of Judgement. In the Romantic era its melody came to be associated with Death itself.
The “Dies Irae” forms the principal theme for Liszt’s variations, inspired by a 14th-century Italian fresco created in the wake of the Black Death titled “The Triumph of Death.” Liszt concocted an appropriately diabolic work, downright devilish in its pianistic demands.
While Liszt’s variations are quixotic in nature, Rachmaninoff’s are more classically structured, falling into three large sections of similar character, predominantly fast-slow-fast in tempo. Rachmaninoff bases his final work for piano on the last of Paganini’s 24 caprices for solo violin, a piece that has inspired a host of composers before and since.
…fans of variations - and of phenomenal pianism - should not miss this program. It repeats tonight and tomorrow at 8.30 p.m.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra cond. William Fred Scott
Symphony Hall Atlanta September 19 1985
FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
Totentanz (Paraphrase über Dies irae) S.126 ii
[0:04] Introduction: Andante - Presto - Allegro - Allegro moderato
[2:15] Variation 1: Allegro moderato
[3:13] Variation 2: [L'istesso tempo] - Un poco animato
[4:11] Variation 3: Molto vivace
[4:46] Variation 4: 'Canonique': Lento - Presto
[7:47] Variation 5: Vivace. Fugato - Cadenza
[12:17] Variation 6: Sempre allegro, ma non troppo - Un poco meno allegro - Cadenza - Presto - Allegro animato
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943)
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in A minor Op. 43
[16:45] Introduction: Allegro vivace
[16:54] Var. 1: (Précédente)
[17:16] Tema: L'istesso tempo
[17:38] Var. 2: L'istesso tempo
[17:58] Var. 3: L'istesso tempo
[18:26] Var. 4: Più vivo
[19:01] Var. 5: Tempo precedente
[19:34] Var. 6: L'istesso tempo
[20:42] Var. 7: Meno mosso, a tempo moderato (entrance of Dies irae)
[21:54] Var. 8: Tempo I
[22:34] Var. 9: L'istesso tempo
[23:11] Var. 10: Poco marcato
[24:12] Var. 11: Moderato
[25:46] Var. 12: Tempo di minuetto
[27:14] Var. 13: Allegro
[27:47] Var. 14: L'istesso tempo
[28:37] Var. 15: Più vivo scherzando
[29:54] Var. 16: Allegretto
[31:36] Var. 17: (Allegretto)
[33:55] Var. 18: Andante cantabile
[36:57] Tempo vivace
[37:03] Var. 19: L'istesso tempo
[37:34] Var. 20: Un poco più vivo
[38:14] Var. 21: Un poco più vivo
[38:44] Var. 22: Un poco più vivo (Alla breve)
[40:42] Var. 23: L'istesso tempo
[41:37] Var. 24: A tempo un poco meno mosso
A review appeared in the next day's edition of "The Atlanta Constitution':
The Atlanta Constitution Friday Sept. 20, 1985
Bolet demonstrates greatness with ASO
By Derrick Henry (Staff Writer)
Jorge Bolet made a triumphant debut with the Atlanta Symphony in Symphony Hall Thursday night, playing what many connoisseurs consider the finest works for piano and orchestra by two of the greatest virtuoso pianists of all time, Liszt and Rachmaninoff.
Bolet, who last appeared with the ASO in 1958, before Symphony Hall was built, is an amazing pianist. There are no gratuitous gestures. Bent over the keyboard in a posture of reverence, he is one of very few pianists who can rival an orchestra in color and excitement.
He can whisper, and he can thunder. Yet, at any dynamic level, the sound is rich and penetrating. And his articulation is always clean, whatever the technical obstacles. Comparisons with others are unnecessary, for the 70-year-old Bolet belongs in the pantheon of great virtuoso pianists. There just aren’t too many people around today who can bring the excesses of Liszt to thrilling light. Bolet is one of them.
The works in question - Liszt’s “Totentanz” (Dance of Death) and Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” - are both sets of variations. And both share a pervasive use of the “Dies Irae,” a medieval chant from that part of the Requiem Mass concerning the Day of Judgement. In the Romantic era its melody came to be associated with Death itself.
The “Dies Irae” forms the principal theme for Liszt’s variations, inspired by a 14th-century Italian fresco created in the wake of the Black Death titled “The Triumph of Death.” Liszt concocted an appropriately diabolic work, downright devilish in its pianistic demands.
While Liszt’s variations are quixotic in nature, Rachmaninoff’s are more classically structured, falling into three large sections of similar character, predominantly fast-slow-fast in tempo. Rachmaninoff bases his final work for piano on the last of Paganini’s 24 caprices for solo violin, a piece that has inspired a host of composers before and since.
…fans of variations - and of phenomenal pianism - should not miss this program. It repeats tonight and tomorrow at 8.30 p.m.
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I attended this concert with my Mother while visiting New York from Utah. She met Bolet at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia during an audition to attend school there when she was 15 and was smitten by this handsome Cuban. Bolet of course became her lifelong favorite pianist. Mom secured tickets for this Friday night concert, and midway through the first movement, I was certain there had to be a God in Heaven. My dear mother shed tears for an hour.
Wow!! What a performance!!
What a spectacular and thrilling recital! I think the Il Lamento etude is really special. He got everything right about the piece - phrasing, timing, architecture, and an infinite number of gradations of tone and touch...a real masterclass in how to get a good sound out of the piano. I could listen to that forever and never get tired of it. The Baldwin SD-10 is magnificent!
My son was the little boy who shouted out "Daddy" from the balcony. I had a similar build to Bolet at the time, was working on the concerto and was not in the balcony seats with them. I was downstairs being mortified! (I had free ticket from MSM concert office).
most of his recordings were made after his best years were behind him which is a tragedy this recording reveals what the man could really do that few seem to know about my favorite pianists are argerich, weissenberg, pletnev, sokolov, and bolet
Beyond praise---organic fulfillment of this iconic piece.
8枚の全集持っていて聴いていますが この方 見た目は政治家ぽくて とてもリスト弾きに見えません。 素敵なリストを聞かせてくれるのに不思議な人です。
Amazing to hear Jorge Bolet at such a young age - nearly 90 years ago! The talent was always with him.
A huge thank you for posting this
He used to play on Bechstein pianos...
He owned 2 Baldwins and used them mainly I believe. All his live US concerts that I've heard are Baldwin.
Se puede poner en español.
Para que en otro idioma?
No hay cruzadas. 🎉
Que bien seria. 😅
Exelente. Mexico Yucatan ❤
Escuche. los conciertos. 😅
No fallo 😅
Soneto 104 petrarca. 🎹👏👏👏🥇🥇🇲🇽Mexico. 🥰😍❤️🖐️
@carme reyes ponce. Mexico yucatan. 😂
Fantastic - so terribly underrated - I think he had a memory lapse in Sonetto 47 but doesn’t matter at all. A very big thank you for posting
Esto es un pianista!
44:22 Cello Stephen Geber
Mi favorito❤ desde siempre.
If only a studio would remaster this recital and others, I know they would have at least 1 paying customer 😊
Quite amazing.
Beautiful!
If nobody will comment about the guy loudly snoring at 09:55, I’ll do it my self!😂
Wow!
Great performance
❤
Fantastisch
Great Artistry
Difficult to listen to this concert with other pianists after having listened to it with Jorge Bolet. What a performance!
I wish i could see this performance. Does anybody know if Mr. Bolet ever played the Brahms #1 concerto? Would love to hear that too
Absolutely magnificent performance of Evocaçion. Slow but beautifully balanced phrasing.
Y es que posee la musicalidad innegable del cubano...
Se les habran perdido sus obras ?
Un gran pianista. Peninsula de Yucata 🇮🇷
2 notes failed in the golondoliera. BUT who can forgive he shall be rewarded by the poetical grace of this entire piece mr bolet is in heaven the system remains the sweeeeetes sounds i ever heard the bechstein trembles and distorts beautifully god bless bolet yarrriva...
Superb performance!
genius from heaven !! Nobody can play Liszt as my uncle Jorge.
True story Armando!!
ボレとバーンスタインの組合せと聞いて、ちょっと？となりました。芸風があまりに異質だからですが、ただこのリストのコンチェルトだけはほどほど収まっているかもしれません。
This is Jorge at his best. Sublime playing communicating the beauty of the music just the way I want to hear it. Really good quality recording. Thanks.
Mr Rachmaninov is watching and hearing. This is a way how it should sound.
Marvellous. Nancy Malitz in The Cincinnati Enquirer 22.3.80 amusingly - but with considerable justice - says of this performance that Bolet 'can play Chopin so soft and sweet you would swear he was stroking a baby's skin.'
Jorge at his best. Amazing playing! Such clean phrasing and pedaling.
His Liszt interpretations are imbued with unparalleled emotional power.
This is such a beautiful piece. Bolet is so masterful here. Such grand romantic playing and I love the tempo chosen. You can hear every note. Bolet and Leinsdorf are perfect together. I love this recording! Could easily be my go-to recording from now on.
Bolet had the most beautiful tone of any pianist.
Superb....Breathtaking.....BRAVI ad ENTAMBI from Acapulco!