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Beethoven’s “Diabelli Variations”, opus 120 was released on CD, with a 24 page booklet in English, on October 27th, as well as re-released and remastered on Apple Music and Apple Classical as a Spatial Audio album. This marks the 200 year anniversary of the original publication of this great late work of Beethoven’s, in 1823 in Vienna. Learn more about this Orchid Classics release and listen here.
the Debussy album
The complete Debussy Preludes album was released on the Orchid Classics label, October 21, 2022 in honor of the 160th anniversary year of Claude Debussy, born in 1862. Available on all platforms digitally and as a physical CD, everywhere music is available.
Learn more about the album and how you can listen to it or get the physical album by clicking on the button below !
La parution de mon dernier album sur le label Orchid Classics, le 21 octobre 2022, de l’intégrale des Préludes de Debussy en l’honneur des 160 ans de la naissance du compositeur en 1862, rend maintenant ce disque disponible physiquement et en version numérique sur toutes les plateformes habituelles et chez tous les disquaires. Cliquez sur le bouton ci-dessous pour en savoir plus !
#listenagain to Bach48
Starting on November 1, 2022, George Lepauw and Orchid Classics are diving back into the wondrous world of J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, in honor of the 300th anniversary of the the first volume revealed by Bach in 1722.
On this occasion, George Lepauw’s 2020 album of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier, a 5-hour epic available on all streaming platforms and as a physical, 5-CD box set, is being presented back to the public in multiple new playlists offering new ways to listen to this epic. Bach’s Preludes and Fugues in all major and minor keys, and traditionally played in rising chromatic order starting from the key of C Major, will be presented in new orders, including in Circle of Fifths, reverse chromatic, major only, minor only, as well as preludes only and fugues only. The point of doing this is to reveal new aspects of this fundamental music and create unexpected neural surprises.
In addition to this, we will be showing the Bach48 Documentary and Performance films, for free, through the end of the year!
Click on the button below to find out where to find these new playlists and films, as well as to purchase one of the remaining limited edition box sets of this essential work.
Recording Beethoven
George Lepauw has been preparing to record Beethoven’s Sonatas and selected Variation sets for the last few years. In 2020, he recorded the Diabelli Variations at the Beethoven Haus in Bonn, Beethoven’s birth place, and he will begin to record the Sonatas in 2023. His recordings will be released progressively through 2027, the 200th anniversary year of Beethoven’s death in 1827. The Diabelli Variations album, while already available on all streaming platforms, will be released physically in September 2023. Learn how to listen to it now, and how you may reserve your limited edition copies below.