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Old 12-21-2016, 02:52 AM   #1244
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Today's free classical piece from YourClassical is a repeat for us--of sorts.

This past week's Classical-music.com's free album was The Holly and the Ivy. See post #1235 of this thread. I posted it on 12/16, but I think that it had been up for a day or so before I remembered to check for it. Each freebie from them is supposed to last one week, I think. However, it was still up when I checked just a few minutes ago, although a new one is up now, too.

Well, YourClassical's free piece today is from an album of The Holly And The Ivy, also. The piece is I Saw Three Ships. However, this piece is from a completely different album than the Classical-music.com album. The most noticeable difference (and it's a big one) in the music is that the Classical-music.com album is a choral piece and this free piece sounds like it is entirely of the violin.

Gaeylnn Lea is credited as the violinist. However, I hear at least two violin parts in the song, which I suppose would be considered to make a two-part harmony. I don't know if this was created from overdubbing (I think that it is called), in which Ms. Lea could have performed the entire piece, or that there were actually two or more violinists used in the recording session, with Ms. Lea being one of them. This rendition of the song is 3 minutes, 38 seconds long. Like the Classical-music.com album, this free piece is formatted in MP3.

The name of the album that the piece comes from is Deepest Darkness, Brightest Dawn. Unlike with most YourClassical freebies, no separate, dedicated webpage is provided by them for the album. According to information at Amazon, the label is CD Baby (no, I'm not kidding, that's really the name).

To stream or download the piece, you must navigate to this webpage--http://www.yourclassical.org/story/2...aw-three-ships. The stream bar is obvious. To download the item, click (or tap for you fellow laptop users) the "Direct MP3 download link."

I usually make some kind of comment about how I well that I liked a particular piece or album, but I will pass on that this time. I do not care for dominant violin in a song, and this one is entirely of violin(s). I probably wouldn't have much good to say about it. YMMV, certainly.

Oh, and the correct name for the instrument is not violin. It is fiddle. Fiddle. ha

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