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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Here's a very pleasant free piece of organ and strings music, from baroquemusic.org.
The composer's name is a new one to me--John Stanley.
Let me just quote the information from baroquemusic.org about this piece. In addition to being informational, I find it very interesting:
Concerto No. 3 in G Major for Organ & Strings, Op. 2 - 1: Adagio-Allegro. The blind English organist-composer John Stanley, a contemporary of Handel, specified these Six Opus 2 Concertos "for string orchestra, with solo organ, or harpsichord, or strings". Our recording (BMC 1) explores every combination. Here is an excerpt from Concerto 3 in G, with organ solo played by Conductor Leslie Jones, and The Little Orchestra of London . The organ is a Byfield of 1764, in the church of St Mary, Rotherhithe, historic port on London's Thames River from which the Mayflower set sail.
I am not a fan of the harpsichord, the melodion (the 18th/19th century variety, not the modern one per se), and similar musical instruments. But, the harpsichord music in this piece is so subdued that it is not bothersome at all, and actually adds to the piece, in my opinion.
This free piece runs about 3 minutes and 45 seconds, and is formatted MP3. Like the free piece offered by Domo Music Group, that I posted early yesterday (Saturday), the giveaways from baroquemusic.org are not made on a regular basis. And, they don't have a stated expiration date.
Here's the webpage to go to in order to download the free piece. When you get there, the audio will start streaming (or you might have to click on the play button to start it, I've forgotten now). I think that everyone reading this probably knows this, but in case someone doesn't, what you need to do then is to right click somewhere on the progress bar, then save the MP3 link to the drive on your computer where you'd like to send it. Then open the file in your MP3 player of choice in order to listen to it.
Easy peasy. And no account is required! Why can't we get the freebies from everyone this way?  |
FYI
This
page contains links to download all the tracks....I believe the one GR posted is track #6, but when I compare it to the one on the above page there is a 5m12s second time difference
ETA: I think this
page has even more links if you like the music