Naxos music group has a compilation album of
21st Century Cinema Classics, which is a collection of "classical music featured in 66 movies." If you navigate to
this Naxos webpage, you can find out much more about the entire album.
Today's
free MP3 from YourClassical comes from that album. It is a 30 second (no, I didn't forget to put the number of minutes--that's all that there is of it, 30 seconds!) piece of the great composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Don Giovanni: Champagne Aria.
The YourClassical dedicated webpage for the free piece credits Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia, Bo Skovhus for the baritone part, and Michael Halasz as the conductor. On
that same webpage, you can stream and/or download the piece. The stream bar is obvious; the link to directly download the piece is the one labeled, appropriately enough, "Direct MP3 download link."
Aside from being disappointed in the very short length of the piece (unavoidable, however, because that's apparently the way that Mozart wrote it), I actually liked the piece. I imply surprise, because I generally don't care for singing in classical pieces, perhaps especially operatic singing like I suppose baritone parts would be considered. However, the baritone singer (Bo Skovhus) sings it
very fast (I'm sure that that's the way that Mozart wrote it--
everything that he wrote is fast), and something about that makes it engaging, where the slow baritone pieces somehow end up being grating to listen to. Just my idiosyncrasy. YMMV.
As I mentioned yesterday, this is the last
free piece from YourClassical for the week and for 2016. (I feel like breaking out into singing
Aude Lang Syne, but I will spare you. ha). I'll plan to be back Monday with a new freebie from YourClassical!