Featured Album: Alain Lefèvre's Chopin Preludes

By Daniel Gilliam

Published November 17, 2014 at 6:39 PM EST

Frédéric Chopin, tired of the Parisian winter, grabbed a copy of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, and took his lover George Sand and her family to Majorca for a long vacation. There he wrote some of his Preludes, inspired by Bach. Alain Lefèvre's new recording of all 24 preludes is our Featured Album this week. (Above: the only known photograph of Chopin, dated around 1849)

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Daniel Gilliam

Daniel Gilliam is Program Director for LPM Classical. Email Daniel at dgilliam@lpm.org.

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