With it being Tuesday, that means that we can have another
free Classical-music.com download to enjoy! Today, it is Rachmaninov's
Six moments musicaux.
This week's free download is the Presto from Rachmaninov's Six moments musicaux
, performed by pianist Boris Giltburg. It comes from a recent recording on Naxos that includes Rachmaninov's Études-tableaux
, on which Giltburg has written an exclusive guest blog for BBC Music Magazine.
The Six moments musicaux
is a set of movements inspired by previous musical eras - the Presto was largely inspired by the music of Chopin.
Sounds like a good one, doesn't it? And I can vouch for that, as I'm listening to it now. I would call it a very lively piano piece; that may be a characteristic of Rachmaninov's compositions, I simply don't know enough about classical music, yet, to say.
Should you wish to purchase the Naxos album from which the
free piece is taken, the name of the album is
Rachmaninov - Etudes-tableaux, Op. 39 - Moments musiceaux.
The procedure to download the
free piece is the same as always. Click on the bright red "download now" button that partially covers the thumbnail of the album cover of
this week's free download webpage at Classical-music.com. If you do not see the button, but you do have an account with them, that means that you need to log in. The button should appear then.