Naxos has an album called
The Best of Handel. Capella Istropolitana performs the songs, with Richard Edlinger conducting.
Evidently Naxos considers
Xerxes: Largo to be one of "the best" of George Frideric Handel, because it is one of the songs found on the album. And the 3 minute, 43 second rendition of that song on the album is also YourClassical's
freebie of the day.
In case you'd like to know more about the entire album, the dedicated Naxos webpage for the album is located
here. Unless I missed something, information about this particular song and some other things that I would have liked to have learned about the album weren't to be found, however.
But listening to the song yourself is the best way to learn the most meaningful things to oneself about the song, anyway. Wanna stream it, and give it a listen that way? Then head to
this webpage; the stream bar is located under an image of the album cover and is obvious. Wanna download the MP3? By navigating to
the same webpage, and clicking on "Direct MP3 download link," you can do that.
Xerxes: Largo sounds somewhat familiar to me. It is a pleasant, becalming piece that, frankly, I wish would go on for much longer than its 3 minutes and 43 seconds. Maybe more pieces of the album are like that; I think that I'll head over to my Spotify account and see what else on the album that I enjoy listening to . . . .
With today being Friday, it'll be a couple of days (Monday, to be exact) until we get another freebie from YourClassical. Breathe deeply, I know that you can make it.