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GtrsRGr8 · 10-17-2016, 02:00 PM

I don't remember an Antonin Dvorak-composed classical music giveaway in the 4 or 5 months that I've been posting giveaways from several companies. That seems a little odd, because I consider Dvorak to be in the pantheon of the great composers. But today, YourClassical is offering a Dvorak piece, free.

It's from an album of Naxos' entitled Symphony No. 9 - 'From the New World' - Symphonic Variations. The particular piece that you can get free off of that album is a nice 11 minute, 57 second piece called Symphony No. 9: II. Largo.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs the piece, with Marin Alsop as the conductor. Find out much more about the entire album, including the piece being offered for free today, here. Ready to download the free piece? Then navigate to this webpage, and click on the "Direct MP3 download link" link.

May I offer a piece of criticism of this piece, at least, from Dvorak? I know that that's not my job, and I'm hardly qualified to be a music critic. But please indulge me for just a second. The piece is beautiful. But it is one of those in which the volume goes up and down numerous times. In fact, when you get your sound adjusted to where it's about like you like it, then the music gets soft. So soft that sometimes you think that it has ended because you can't hear it. Ideally, you'll have a remote control while listening to the piece so that you can manually adjust the volume control up and down while the piece is playing. Or, use a third party app, that I think exists, that a piece like this can be run through, and it will automatically level out the sound throughout the piece to one acceptable to you. It may not be worth it for this one piece, but Dvorak is not the only composer, by any means, who does this. You might find it useful for listening to the works of other composers.

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	I don't remember an Antonin Dvorak-composed classical music giveaway in the 4 or 5 months that I've been posting giveaways from several companies. That seems a little odd, because I consider Dvorak to be in the pantheon of the great composers. But today, YourClassical is offering a Dvorak piece, free. It's from an album of Naxos' entitled Symphony No. 9 - 'From the New World' - Symphonic Variations. The particular piece that you can get free off of that album is a nice 11 minute, 57 second piece called Symphony No. 9: II. Largo. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs the piece, with Marin Alsop as the conductor. Find out much more about the entire album, including the piece being offered for free today, here. Ready to download the free piece? Then navigate to this webpage, and click on the "Direct MP3 download link" link. May I offer a piece of criticism of this piece, at least, from Dvorak? I know that that's not my job, and I'm hardly qualified to be a music critic. But please indulge me for just a second. The piece is beautiful. But it is one of those in which the volume goes up and down numerous times. In fact, when you get your sound adjusted to where it's about like you like it, then the music gets soft. So soft that sometimes you think that it has ended because you can't hear it. Ideally, you'll have a remote control while listening to the piece so that you can manually adjust the volume control up and down while the piece is playing. Or, use a third party app, that I think exists, that a piece like this can be run through, and it will automatically level out the sound throughout the piece to one acceptable to you. It may not be worth it for this one piece, but Dvorak is not the only composer, by any means, who does this. You might find it useful for listening to the works of other composers. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 10-17-2016 at 02:03 PM.