Album

Reflections Op. 28: Mallorca Preludes is the debut album of pianist Eglė Andrejevaitė, inspired by the story of Frédéric Chopin’s Preludes Op. 28 and their reflections in contemporary music. The album features all 24 of Chopin’s preludes alongside 12 contemporary works by Spanish composers from the project 24 Preludis per a Frédéric Chopin, commissioned by the prestigious Valldemossa Chopin Festival. The album was released by Challenge Records International.
This musical story began in 1838–1839 on the island of Mallorca, where Frédéric Chopin stayed with writer George Sand and her children at the Valldemossa Charterhouse monastery. It was there that most of the legendary Preludes Op. 28 — one of the most important cycles in piano literature — were composed.
Almost two centuries later, in 2016, a new musical dialogue emerged beneath the same monastery vaults: the Valldemossa Chopin Festival invited 24 contemporary Spanish composers to create musical reflections on each of Chopin’s preludes. The result was the cycle 24 Preludis per a Frédéric Chopin, which became both the inspiration and conceptual axis of this album.
Each pair of works presented in the album — Chopin’s original and its contemporary “response” — invites the listener to hear the echo of the Romantic era within today’s musical landscape. For Eglė Andrejevaitė, this album became a conversation between different epochs: a tribute to the past, an inspiration for the present, and an attempt to reveal the shared musical spirit connecting different times and artistic languages.
The idea for the album belongs to Professor Mūza Rubackytė, through whom the pianist discovered the musical heritage of Valldemossa and met Rosa Capllonch Ferrà, who opened the doors to the historical and cultural treasures of the monastery. The album was recorded by GRAMMY-nominated sound engineers Aleksandra and Vilius Kerai.