Today, we have the opportunity to grab Franz Gruber's
Silent Night,
free. This is courtesy of YourClassical.
This piece, as performed, runs 3 minutes and 6 seconds long. It comes from the Naxos album
Christmas with Septura: J.S. Bach - Handel - Rachmaninov - Warlock.
From
the dedicated Naxos webpage for the album:
Brass Septet Music - BACH, J.S. / HANDEL, G.F. / RACHMANINOV, S. / WARLOCK, P. (Christmas with Septura)
Brass instruments are almost a Christmas cliché: synonymous with the celebration, but perhaps not with the wealth of great music that it has inspired. Septura sets out to rectify this, re-imagining for brass septet the Christmas offerings of the greatest composers of the past 450 years. Pushing the combinations and colours of the septet to the limits, the result is a virtuosic and varied selection of festive favourites.
In case you didn't "pick up" on implications in the blurb above, the album seems to be exclusively instrumental--there are no vocals. I can say for sure that the
free piece is that way, at least.
Credits: Septura is the brass ensemble; Matthew Knight is one of two arrangers.
Just one quick comment from me about the piece. This all-horns rendition of
Silent Night is a little different from other renditions that we have heard of that song , but it sounds really nice. However, I am who loves the horns (as well as woodwinds and cellos).
YourClassical's dedicated webpage for the free piece, as always, provides on it a way for you to stream the piece and/or download it. To download it, follow the "Direct MP3 download link" on
that webpage.