Jorge Bolet - Piano Encores

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Richard Strauss, Moritz Moszkowski, Georges Bizet, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Leopold Godowsky, Claude Debussy, Isaac Albéniz, Fryderyk Chopin

Label: Decca

Magazine Review Date: 7/1987

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: 417 361-2DH

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Rondo capriccioso	Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 3, Molto allegro in A, 'Jägerlied'	Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9/2	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 5 in F sharp, Op. 15/2	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Waltzes, Movement: No. 6 in D flat, Op. 64/1 (Minute)	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Waltzes, Movement: No. 15 in E, Op. posth.	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: C, Op. 10/1	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: A minor, Op. 10/2	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: E flat, Op. 10/11	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(24) Préludes, Movement: La fille aux cheveux de lin	Claude Debussy, Composer Claude Debussy, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, Movement: No. 9, Ballet No. 2 in G	Franz Schubert, Composer Franz Schubert, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
España, Movement: No. 2, Tango	Isaac Albéniz, Composer Isaac Albéniz, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Elégie for left hand	Leopold Godowsky, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Leopold Godowsky, Composer
(6) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Ständchen	Richard Strauss, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Richard Strauss, Composer
(L')Arlésienne - Suites, Movement: Adagietto	Georges Bizet, Composer Georges Bizet, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(8) Characteristic Pieces, Movement: No. 6, Etincelles	Moritz Moszkowski, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Moritz Moszkowski, Composer
(La) Jongleuse	Moritz Moszkowski, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Moritz Moszkowski, Composer

Composer or Director: Richard Strauss, Moritz Moszkowski, Georges Bizet, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Leopold Godowsky, Claude Debussy, Isaac Albéniz, Fryderyk Chopin

Label: Decca

Magazine Review Date: 7/1987

Media Format: Vinyl

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: 417 361-1DH

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Rondo capriccioso	Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 3, Molto allegro in A, 'Jägerlied'	Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9/2	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 5 in F sharp, Op. 15/2	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Waltzes, Movement: No. 6 in D flat, Op. 64/1 (Minute)	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Waltzes, Movement: No. 15 in E, Op. posth.	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: C, Op. 10/1	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: A minor, Op. 10/2	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: E flat, Op. 10/11	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(24) Préludes, Movement: La fille aux cheveux de lin	Claude Debussy, Composer Claude Debussy, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, Movement: No. 9, Ballet No. 2 in G	Franz Schubert, Composer Franz Schubert, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
España, Movement: No. 2, Tango	Isaac Albéniz, Composer Isaac Albéniz, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Elégie for left hand	Leopold Godowsky, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Leopold Godowsky, Composer
(6) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Ständchen	Richard Strauss, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Richard Strauss, Composer
(L')Arlésienne - Suites, Movement: Adagietto	Georges Bizet, Composer Georges Bizet, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(8) Characteristic Pieces, Movement: No. 6, Etincelles	Moritz Moszkowski, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Moritz Moszkowski, Composer
(La) Jongleuse	Moritz Moszkowski, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Moritz Moszkowski, Composer

Composer or Director: Richard Strauss, Moritz Moszkowski, Georges Bizet, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Leopold Godowsky, Claude Debussy, Isaac Albéniz, Fryderyk Chopin

Label: Decca

Magazine Review Date: 7/1987

Media Format: Cassette

Media Runtime: 0

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: 417 361-4DH

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Rondo capriccioso	Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 3, Molto allegro in A, 'Jägerlied'	Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9/2	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Nocturnes, Movement: No. 5 in F sharp, Op. 15/2	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Waltzes, Movement: No. 6 in D flat, Op. 64/1 (Minute)	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Waltzes, Movement: No. 15 in E, Op. posth.	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: C, Op. 10/1	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: A minor, Op. 10/2	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(27) Etudes, Movement: E flat, Op. 10/11	Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Fryderyk Chopin, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(24) Préludes, Movement: La fille aux cheveux de lin	Claude Debussy, Composer Claude Debussy, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, Movement: No. 9, Ballet No. 2 in G	Franz Schubert, Composer Franz Schubert, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
España, Movement: No. 2, Tango	Isaac Albéniz, Composer Isaac Albéniz, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
Elégie for left hand	Leopold Godowsky, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Leopold Godowsky, Composer
(6) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Ständchen	Richard Strauss, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Richard Strauss, Composer
(L')Arlésienne - Suites, Movement: Adagietto	Georges Bizet, Composer Georges Bizet, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano
(8) Characteristic Pieces, Movement: No. 6, Etincelles	Moritz Moszkowski, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Moritz Moszkowski, Composer
(La) Jongleuse	Moritz Moszkowski, Composer Jorge Bolet, Piano Moritz Moszkowski, Composer

Author:

Encores in the concert hall were of two types: stunning, to have the natives gasping; relaxing, after a tornado of a concerto. Both worked, in the right hands; but somehow the same situation does not apply on disc today. Thus, the apparent contradiction of a whole record of encores, one after the other. An unreal situation (in all normal concert conditions, two were about the limit); yet one that seems to work: obviously the records sell, and I cannot be the only listener who thinks 18 encores in succession to be distinctly more relaxing than eight symphonic movements.
Especially when played as enchantingly as they are here. Most of those chosen by Bolet (presumably) are of the stunning type, in one way or another. Not quite all the Chopin are, and of course the Debussy is not. But, the others, even if their titles sound innocent enough (Rosamunde, Tango, Elegie), have been elaborated; many of them, I am happy to report, by the totally irreverent and totally captivating Leopold Godowsky, best in my view of all the Germanic arrangers:
Tausig
was lausig;
harder to resist,
the charms of Liszt.
But who could turn offski,
the ravishing Godowski?
The quality of the verse is doubtful, the quality of the arranging is not: it is marvellous, shot through with shafts of sunlight which the original music sometimes suggests only with difficulty. Godowski offers one original, the Elegie for left hand only: this should be in the repertoire of all pianists restricted by that particular limitation. Among the other virtuoso-type originals Moszkowski comes up well; and so does Paul de Schlozer. ''Paul de who?'', you have just said, just as I did. It turns out that he was a Russian pianist, teacher and composer living from 1841 to 1898, and that Rachmaninov regularly used this study for practice purposes, information gleaned from an accompanying booklet which actually manages to get the encores in very nearly the right order.
None of these encores would be worth two pins, of course, without the unfailing wizardry of Bolet. He is also splendidly recorded. It is difficult to see how an encore-fancier could greet this record with anything but the most delighted of, well encores.'

Jorge Bolet - Piano Encores

Rondo capriccioso

(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 3, Molto allegro in A, 'Jägerlied'

Nocturnes, Movement: No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9/2

Nocturnes, Movement: No. 5 in F sharp, Op. 15/2

Waltzes, Movement: No. 6 in D flat, Op. 64/1 (Minute)

Waltzes, Movement: No. 15 in E, Op. posth.

(27) Etudes, Movement: C, Op. 10/1

(27) Etudes, Movement: A minor, Op. 10/2

(27) Etudes, Movement: E flat, Op. 10/11

(24) Préludes, Movement: La fille aux cheveux de lin

Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, Movement: No. 9, Ballet No. 2 in G

España, Movement: No. 2, Tango

Elégie for left hand

(6) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Ständchen

(L')Arlésienne - Suites, Movement: Adagietto

(8) Characteristic Pieces, Movement: No. 6, Etincelles

(La) Jongleuse

Jorge Bolet - Piano Encores

Rondo capriccioso

(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 3, Molto allegro in A, 'Jägerlied'

Nocturnes, Movement: No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9/2

Nocturnes, Movement: No. 5 in F sharp, Op. 15/2

Waltzes, Movement: No. 6 in D flat, Op. 64/1 (Minute)

Waltzes, Movement: No. 15 in E, Op. posth.

(27) Etudes, Movement: C, Op. 10/1

(27) Etudes, Movement: A minor, Op. 10/2

(27) Etudes, Movement: E flat, Op. 10/11

(24) Préludes, Movement: La fille aux cheveux de lin

Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, Movement: No. 9, Ballet No. 2 in G

España, Movement: No. 2, Tango

Elégie for left hand

(6) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Ständchen

(L')Arlésienne - Suites, Movement: Adagietto

(8) Characteristic Pieces, Movement: No. 6, Etincelles

(La) Jongleuse

Jorge Bolet - Piano Encores

Rondo capriccioso

(48) Songs without Words, Movement: No. 3, Molto allegro in A, 'Jägerlied'

Nocturnes, Movement: No. 2 in E flat, Op. 9/2

Nocturnes, Movement: No. 5 in F sharp, Op. 15/2

Waltzes, Movement: No. 6 in D flat, Op. 64/1 (Minute)

Waltzes, Movement: No. 15 in E, Op. posth.

(27) Etudes, Movement: C, Op. 10/1

(27) Etudes, Movement: A minor, Op. 10/2

(27) Etudes, Movement: E flat, Op. 10/11

(24) Préludes, Movement: La fille aux cheveux de lin

Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, Movement: No. 9, Ballet No. 2 in G

España, Movement: No. 2, Tango

Elégie for left hand

(6) Lieder, Movement: No. 2, Ständchen

(L')Arlésienne - Suites, Movement: Adagietto

(8) Characteristic Pieces, Movement: No. 6, Etincelles

(La) Jongleuse

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