Alexander Street has announced/released their new classical music
free download of the week.
IMPORTANT: Before you do anything, let me give you a heads up. In addition to the 3 movements by Strauss that I'm going to mention in a moment, there is an opportunity to grab Tchaikovsky's
Symphony No. 5, Mvt.4: Finale: Andante maestoso - Allegro vivace free, also. If you are interested in this piece, I encourage you to download it
first. Why? Well, you may remember that last week there was a Tchaikovsky movement offered (I am almost certain that it was a different one than the one offered this time), but it disappeared if you navigated away from the download page and came back. I couldn't find any way for peeps to get it back if that happened. That might be the case with this week's Tchaikovsky offering.
The primary
free offering this week features
Duet-Concertino, "a work for clarinet and bassoon with string orchestra and harp, by Richard Strauss (1864–1949). This recording features the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana with Fabio di Casola (clarinet) and Daniele Galaverna (bassoon)." It consists of 3 movements:
Allegro moderato,
Andante, and
Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo.
Interestingly, the blurbs for this week's downloads never mention the Tchaikovsky piece, which leads me to believe that it, like last week's, is some kind of fluke, quirk, mistake, or such like.
Here is
the webpage to go to to download the movements. Remember: if you want the Tchaikovsky movement, you might want to download it first, because if you navigate from
the download webpage and come back, it will almost certainly be gone for good. As usual the movements are available in either or both the MP3 and WM4 formats.
Happy listening.