Chopin in Majorca: Sinclair's beautiful failure (sold out but not forgotten)

Chopin in Majorca was recorded at The Velvet Tongue Studios in Johannesburg 1989. In those studios Sinclair Beiles is heard reading his play, a poetic counterpart of George Sand’s ‘Un hiver à Majorque’, in which the author (whose real name was Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin) relates the disastrous winter that she and her lover Frédéric Chopin spent on the island in 1838-1839. In an effort to counterbalance George Sand’s self-centred account, Beiles’ tries to picture in his one-man play what the winter on Majorca must have looked like from Chopin’s point of view. More here.