A new group of
free classical music downloads from Alexander Street is now available.
Do you know what this means? It's already been two weeks (nearly--I was a day or two late posting last time) since I posted their last giveaways. When I was growing up, the older people kept telling me that time seems to pass by more quickly the older that you get, and in the last few years I've really begun to feel it!
But, back to the business at hand . . . . the downloads this time are selections from
Le Carnaval des Animaux (Carnvival of the Animals), by composer Camille Saint-Saens. If "we" have gotten freebies of his work before, I don't remember it, so I am looking forward to listening to all of the
free pieces (I've started listening to them already) of his works that Alexander Street is providing now.
For the benefit of those who are true students of classical music (that leaves me out) and might be familiar with some or all of his compositions. I'm going to give, here, the five pieces that we can get
free now:
- IV. Tortues (Tortoise)
- V. Élephant (Elephant)
- VI. Kangourous (Kangaroos)
- X. Volière (Aviary)
- XIII. Cygne (Swan)
Even if you don't recognize the name of the composer, or even the name of the song, when you listen to the last piece, you'll immediately recognize it--it is a very popular classical work.
A couple of advisories . . . . two or three of the pieces are very short. All of the pieces have a few seconds of narration added at the end. I would tell you what they're about, but alas, they are in
French (I had three years of it, but it has been so long ago, and I didn't ever review it or use it that about all that I can do now is to pronounce the names of the items on a menu in a French restaurant).
Here, again, is the process in order to download one or more of the
free pieces. Log in to AlexanderStreet, if you're not already. Once you're logged in, you should see a blue button on
this webpage, that says "Download," at the bottom righthand corner of Camille Sain-Saens' photo. Click on it. The webpage that comes up will have a list of all of the available
free pieces. Download the ones that you want!
I was very familiar with
XIII. Cygne (Swan), but not the other pieces. I enjoyed all of them very much. I just wish that some of them hadn't been so short!