Download
free, today,
The Planets: Venus, by composer Gustav Holst.
YourClassical is offering the
free piece, which is taken from a Naxos album entitled
Holst - The Planets (includes Pluto by Colin Matthews), The Mystic Trumpeter. The piece is an 8 minute, 32 second rendition, performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with David Lloyd-Jones directing as conductor. It is formatted as an MP3.
Find out much more about the entire album, if you wish, by navigating to
this dedicated Naxos webpage for the entire album.
The piece is beautiful in my estimation. It is calming. It is generally slow. The highs in volume are not very high, and the lows in volume are not very low.
Should you wish to stream and/or download the
free piece, you can do it from
this YourClassical dedicated webpage for the free piece.
If I might add a personal remark . . . . it is gratifying to see that Naxos recognizes Pluto as a
planet. Not a "dwarf planet," but a
planet. That's what I was taught in school, so that must be right. However, I notice that the physical release of the album was in 2002, which was about the time the brouhaha erupted among the pointey-headed astronomers about the status of Pluto, so I don't know how Naxos would feel today.
