I'm listening, at this moment, to the most recent MP3 classical music
giveaway from Classical-music.com. I got word late this afternoon that it had been posted on their website.
It is a vocal piece. I am going to go out on a limb and say that it is four-part harmony. It is 3 minutes and 8 seconds in length.
It is performed by the vocal group Concert Clemens. Carsten Seyer-Hansen is also credited, on the album, with performance of some kind, but I do not know if she actually performs at any place on the particular piece that we can get
free.
The
free piece is
'Es ist ein Ros' entsprugen, and is taken from an album called
There Is No Rose: Christmas in the 21st Century. It apparently is published by a company called Orchid Classics; alternatively, Orchid Classics may be the name of a series of albums published by a music-publishing company with a different name. I just don't know.
The piece was created in the 16th century. It has been arranged (in the modern day, however, I assume) by one Paul Hillier.
"The recording [I assume that this means the piece, not the entire album, but I'm not sure, G] received a five-star review in the Christmas [edition?] of
BBC Music Magazine," it is stated in the short description of the piece provided on Classical-music.com's dedicated webpage for the piece/download. Probably not coincidentally to us receiving an offer for this particular piece, "the official website of BBC Music Magazine" is Classical-music.com.
Classical-music.com
does require you to have an account in order to download their freebies. If you navigate to
this webpage and do
not see a bright red button, saying "download now," partially covering the thumbnail of the album cover, that means that you need to log in if you already have an account established. If you don't have an account yet, but want to download the
free piece, no worries. You can set up an account and then come back to
this webpage to download the piece, after you've logged in for the first time.