Chopin 'Raindrop' Prelude - Kostelanetz conducts

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From a 1950s Andre Kostelanetz LP devoted to his own orchestrations of Chopin's piano music, we hear the 'Raindrop' Prelude, Opus 28 No. 15. The sleeve-note tells the story that the composer, ill and feverish while on holiday in Majorca, listened to the rain falling outside, imagining that one day it would be beating on his coffin. It is this image, according to his girlfriend George Sand, that he sought to express in this music.

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