Chopin: Ein Winter auf Mallorca

Pairing a selection of Chopin’s works with George Sand’s accounts of the nightmarish winter she and the composer spent together in Majorca, this performance is beautifully played and read. Only recommended for those fluent in German, though. Jessica Duchen


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3

Jessica Duchen

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:35 pm

COMPOSERS: Chopin
LABELS: Berlin
WORKS: Ein Winter auf Mallorca: Polonaise in C minor; Ballade No. 2 etc
PERFORMER: Hannelore Elsner (reader), Sebastian Knauer (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: 0300014BC

Pairing a selection of Chopin’s works with George Sand’s accounts of the nightmarish winter she and the composer spent together in Majorca, this performance is beautifully played and read. Only recommended for those fluent in German, though. Jessica Duchen

Jessica Duchen

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Jessica Duchen studied music at Cambridge University and was the classical music correspondent for The Independent from 2004 to 2016. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, BBC Music Magazine and the JC, among others. Jessica Duchen has written librettos include numerous choral works and operas for the composer Roxanna Panufnik, including Silver Birch, commissioned by Garsington Opera and shortlisted for an International Opera Award in 2018. Two more works based on stories by Oscar Wilde were commissioned for Garsington’s Youth Company, The Happy Princess with composer Paul Fincham (2019) and The Selfish Giant with John Barber, which fell victim to lockdown, this has been postponed to 2021.
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