Today's
free classical piece from YourClassical is a Richard Strauss piece,
Schlagobers Suite: Coffee Dance. This rendition is performed by the vaunted Vienna Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Manfred Honeck, conductor.
Strauss is just one of the composers featured on the album,
Fruhling in Wien (Springtime in Vienna), from which our
free piece comes. The album is published by a company apparently called Wiener Symphoniker, but YourClassical provides
a dedicated webpage for the album from our friends at Naxos.
Even being the classical music neophyte that I am, I am familiar with the name Richard Strauss. However, I did not know what kind of style that he had. This piece, at least, sounds like a film score from a modern animated adventure movie of some kind. That is the best way that I know how to describe it. There are high highs and low lows, fast tempo and slow tempo represented in this short piece.
A warning of sorts: the information given on the stream bar, on
the dedicated YourClassical webpage for the free piece, states that the piece is 48 seconds long. It is not 48 seconds long--It is
1 minute, 48 seconds long. The information on
the dedicated Naxos webpage for the album confirms that it is a 1 minute, 48 second piece, too. However, there is another issue, also: the piece ends abruptly--too abruptly, it seems to me. I will check
the dedicated YourClassical webpage for the free piece during the day today and see if they make any changes and/or issue any advisory about that.
If you decide to go ahead and download the
free piece, click on the "Direct MP3 download link" on
this webpage. On
the same webpage, there is a stream bar, which you can use to simply listen to the piece, without actually downloading it.