Every weekday is like Christmas morning for me--I can't wait to open up the YourClassical website and see what new freebie that I've received.
Almost as enjoyable for me is then turning around and letting you guys know about it!
Today, the present is a 6 minute, 30 second piece by Enrique Granados--
Maria Del Carmen: Preludio: Opening Chorus. It comes from a 2-CD set of albums produced by Naxos. It is performed by both the Wexford Festival Opera Chorus and Belarussian National Philharmonic Orchestra. For you classical music virtuosos out there, you may like to know who the conductors are of all of the classical music freebies--for this piece on the album set, at least, it is Max Bragado-Darman.
It occurs to me that this piece is about as international as one can get. I'm assuming a thing or two here, but the singer and song title is Spanish; both an English group and a Belarus group are the orchestras. The conductor may be Italian, and there may be, at least, some Italian in the last part of the name of the song. Oh, and an American (I think) company produces it (Naxos). YourClassical probably is an American company, too. I may be overlooking one or more nationalities. The One World government conspiracy theorists would have a field day!
As usual, here are the links that you need to know. First,
the link to complete information about the 2-CD album set. Second,
the link to the webpage where you will see a link that says "Direct MP3 download link," and which you need to click if you want the
free piece.