Thursday's classical
freebie from YourClassical is Frederic Chopin's
Etude No. 3, Op.10.
It comes from a Naxos album entitled,
The Romantic Chopin - A Celebration of Chopin's Most Romantic Music.
The Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice performs the works on the album, along with Idil Biret on the piano on at least some of the pieces. Robert Stankovsky is the conductor. There is
lots more information about the entire album on
Naxos' dedicated webpage for the album. I encourage you to do some exploring and reading of
that webpage and its links.
On this
dedicated YourClassical webpage for the free piece, you can stream the 4 minute, 34 second piece and/or download it. Downloading this MP3 piece is simply a matter of clicking on the "Direct MP3 download link" on
that webpage.
Of course, all of you are waiting anxiously to learn my expert opinion of the piece, right? (ha) In all honesty, it doesn't sound much like romantic music to me, especially because of the piano part. If this is part of Chopin's "Most Romantic Music," then I would have to say that he didn't write much of it.