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GtrsRGr8 · 12-16-2016, 04:39 PM

This classical music freebie sort of sneaked up on me

I think that we get freebies from Classical-music.com once a week. Going back and checking my records, it's been a couple of days over a week since they last posted a freebie.

This free download is The Holly and the Ivy. Here's the blurb about the piece, from Classical-music.com:
This week's free download is The Holly and the Ivy, arranged by Sir Henry Walford Davies and performed by the choir of St John's College, Cambridge.

The recording received a four-star review in the Christmas issue of BBC Music Magazine. 'Excellent engineering captures evocatively the atmosphere of St John's College chapel,' writes Terry Riley.

In case you are like me, and didn't recognize the title of the song, I can assure you that you will recognize the song when you play it--it has a very familiar tune, that I'm sure that all of us have heard many times around Christmastime. This is a choir piece, not normally one of my favorite kinds of music, but this one was very pleasant and probably the prettiest choir piece, IMHO, that we have received as a classical music freebie, from any provider before.

This piece runs 2 minutes and 54 seconds and is formatted MP3.

I didn't find any additional information at Classical-music.com about the album (full disclosure: but I didn't do a search either). However, I found this additional information at iTunes about the album: the album from which our free piece is taken is called Christmas with St John's - The Choir of St. John's College Cambridge, Joseph Wicks & Andrew Nethsingha. The album is published by Signum Records, and was very recently released (just this past October).

The download procedure for the free piece is the same as always. Make sure that you have an account with Classical-music.com first. Log in. Navigate to this webpage. If you are, in fact, logged in, you should see a bright red "Download Now" button superimposed over the thumbnail of the album cover. Click on it. The piece will automatically download itself to wherever your downloaded things go. Listen and enjoy.

BTW--thanks to someone mentioning VisualPing in a post, I requested that VisualPing notify me of changes in the websites of the classical music freebie webpages. Major changes on the webpages would indicate that a new freebie had been posted. Well, that worked for a while. But someone with their free account, like me, has a limited amount of "credits," and I've used them all up! I don't consider this all my fault, because I kept getting messages from VisualPing that there had been "huge" change in this webpage or that webpage, but when I checked I could detect no difference in the webpages (meaning that there was no new freebie; the old one was still up).

12-16-2016, 04:39 PM	#1235
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	This classical music freebie sort of sneaked up on me I think that we get freebies from Classical-music.com once a week. Going back and checking my records, it's been a couple of days over a week since they last posted a freebie. This free download is The Holly and the Ivy. Here's the blurb about the piece, from Classical-music.com: This week's free download is The Holly and the Ivy, arranged by Sir Henry Walford Davies and performed by the choir of St John's College, Cambridge. The recording received a four-star review in the Christmas issue of BBC Music Magazine. 'Excellent engineering captures evocatively the atmosphere of St John's College chapel,' writes Terry Riley. In case you are like me, and didn't recognize the title of the song, I can assure you that you will recognize the song when you play it--it has a very familiar tune, that I'm sure that all of us have heard many times around Christmastime. This is a choir piece, not normally one of my favorite kinds of music, but this one was very pleasant and probably the prettiest choir piece, IMHO, that we have received as a classical music freebie, from any provider before. This piece runs 2 minutes and 54 seconds and is formatted MP3. I didn't find any additional information at Classical-music.com about the album (full disclosure: but I didn't do a search either). However, I found this additional information at iTunes about the album: the album from which our free piece is taken is called Christmas with St John's - The Choir of St. John's College Cambridge, Joseph Wicks & Andrew Nethsingha. The album is published by Signum Records, and was very recently released (just this past October). The download procedure for the free piece is the same as always. Make sure that you have an account with Classical-music.com first. Log in. Navigate to this webpage. If you are, in fact, logged in, you should see a bright red "Download Now" button superimposed over the thumbnail of the album cover. Click on it. The piece will automatically download itself to wherever your downloaded things go. Listen and enjoy. BTW--thanks to someone mentioning VisualPing in a post, I requested that VisualPing notify me of changes in the websites of the classical music freebie webpages. Major changes on the webpages would indicate that a new freebie had been posted. Well, that worked for a while. But someone with their free account, like me, has a limited amount of "credits," and I've used them all up! I don't consider this all my fault, because I kept getting messages from VisualPing that there had been "huge" change in this webpage or that webpage, but when I checked I could detect no difference in the webpages (meaning that there was no new freebie; the old one was still up). Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 12-16-2016 at 07:19 PM.