Jorge Bolet plays Liszt Benediction finale

I urged Jorge to learn this piece. Then he played it to the end of his life. He and Rian de Waal are the masters of this work.

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• Bolet
• Liszt
• Benediction
• Piano
• Classical

[Spiritakis]

One of the most beautiful piano pieces ever composed and certainly the most beautiful performance of it I've ever heard! Jorge Bolet's touch is incomparable, especially in Liszt. Ciccolini is interesting, Arrau is moving but both cannot hold a candle to Jorge Bolet, even in his late years when, as far as I know, he was very ill.

Thank you very much for sharing this treasure!

[virtuoso691]

I really appreciate your kind words. Of course, I agree with you about Jorge's artistry. This one of my absolute favorite works both to play and to hear. I am sure that you would like the DVD. I also suggest that you find Rian de Waal's live performance of the Benediction on the Vanguard label. It is wonderful.

[mishima1974]

Liste to Ernst Levy.

[virtuoso691]

I have heard the Levy recording many times. He is not among my favorite pianists, and his banging in Liszt's Benediction shows that he has no idea about the work's meaning.

[mariofbag]

Bolet is the master interpreter of Liszt, everything he played was magic, it shows, when he play Liszt he was at home.

[Grigor99]

This is an incredilbly difficult work to pull off in performance. The technique is so embedded in the musical content, but cannot be overtly demonstrated. Bolet does it beautifully.

[Will84ABA]

Jorge Bolet always my favourite! What a Expression of Liszt works....no technical difficulties for Bolet....unbelievable! RIp maestro!

[dorsy2]

I have the vinyl record of "Song Without End," and it's a treasure. Now I have the tape of the movie and it's another treasure. The "La Campanella" alone is worth the price.

[etap1]

This is so beautifully intimate and emotionally expressive.............Bolet and Earl Wild are truly the examples of the finest in romantic playing with subtle shadings and great sensitivity. Both were giants!

[paolohudson]

The music is inherently beautiful, it was a very well composed piece yet, as can be seen by many recordings, it can still be ruined with the wrong style. I like Bolet's style and tone, but I find he lacks movement. The phrases are a little stagnant and had he just played a little faster I feel the sense of the phrases would have been clearer. Nevertheless beautiful playing and his touch is amazing.

[felipilloo1984]

Jorge Bolet. Pure heart - and also hands, for sure.

[princenosiatajansen]

why is the sound so amzing? his piano?!

I can never be as good as he plays here.

[FFChopin1810]

I have been lucky to have attended one of Bolet's concerts in The Netherlands. This great master will never be forgotten. Watch and listen to find out why!

[zamyrabyrd]

Bolet's playing reminds me of the singer Maria Callas. Despite plenty of virtuosity to spare, what grabs one immediately is the depth of feeling and uncanny phrasing that brings it out. Proportion and tempo achieve the golden mean, no detail is unaccounted for in his meticulously constructed musical edifices.

[daniel15671]

The last two minutes of this work are among the loveliest things ever written for piano. It ranks with the slow movement to the Schubert B flat major piano sonata, and the end of Beethoven;s opus 109.

Liszt had the secret of sublime simplicity.

[beena001]

Muchas gracias para esta video..... It is just like receiving love from High Above....

La Amor de Dios es la Amor tan grande en todo la monde..............