{"id":3643,"date":"2011-08-31T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T09:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2011-08-31T12:59:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T12:59:02","slug":"master-pianist-jorge-bolet-rehearsing-and-teaching-rachmaninov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/video-picks\/master-pianist-jorge-bolet-rehearsing-and-teaching-rachmaninov-3643\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Pianist Jorge Bolet Rehearsing and Teaching Rachmaninov"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jorge Bolet was born in Havana, and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he himself taught from 1939 to 1942. His teachers included Leopold Godowsky, Josef Hofmann, David Saperton, Moriz Rosenthal and Fritz Reiner. Bolet is particularly well remembered for his performances and recordings of large-scale Romantic music, particularly works by Franz Liszt, C\u00e9sar Franck and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin. He also specialised in piano transcriptions and unusual repertoire, including the fiendishly difficult works of Godowsky, many of which Bolet had studied with the composer himself. In an interview given to Elyse Mach (Great Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves, Dover), Bolet extensively mentioned an obscure piece by Joseph Marx which was, according to Bolet’s own words, his favorite among virtuoso concertos because of the enormous show of strength required from the soloist.<\/p>\n

See and hear Jorge Bolet and Conductor Paavo Berglund in a preliminary rehearsal prior to a full rehearsal with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto.<\/p>\n