Alexander Street is a company that offers a subscription music (I think that it may all be classical music) service to libraries and, perhaps, to other institutions. I suppose that libaries and maybe other institutions get special discounts and such things, that individual consumers do not, but I don't know exactly how that arrangement works.
Graciously, every two weeks they offer to
individuals two or more free music downloads (all from a single album), however, from their popular online music collection, regardless of whether or not the libraries of the individuals subscribe to the collection.
The most recent
freebies were announced just a few minutes ago. They are from
Lakme, by composer Leo Delibes. It is described as an opera, but I heard no singing (a good thing, in my opinion) in either movement that they're giving away (being unsophisticated as I am, I thought that "opera" implied that there was singing in it).
There are two movements from this opera which are
free. One is
Act II Entracte and the other is
Act II- Ballet des Bayaderes. Should you wish to know more about these two movements, there is a substantial amount of information about the entire opera, on
this openmusiclibrary.org webpage, which should be helpful.
Downloading Alexander Street's freebies is easy peasy. Simply navigate to
this webpage, click on the blue "download" button and that will take you to
a page with links to the two free movements. The files are MP3's.
Oh, I suppose that I should give credit to the performers and conductor of these movements . . . . the Orchestre Symphonique de Radio-Tele-Luxembourg plays the movements under the direction of Jean-Claude Casadesus.