EMENDATION: I don't know how many people would care one way or the other about this . . . early this morning, when I was doing the post below, I noticed on
Naxos' dedicated webpage for the album that the length for
Hungarian Dance No. 3 is not 52 minutes long. In fact, none of the pieces is 52 minutes long. Dance No. 10 is
1:52, however. I thought that if I had some time later in the day, I would look at it, again, then, and try to figure out the incongruity.
When I re-listened to the free piece again just now, I noticed that it runs 1:52 (I didn't notice, then, that it played 1 minute longer than it was supposed to be). That corresponds with Dance No. 10, but does not, of course, match with Dance No. 3, which runs 2:46.
This is, in fact,
Dance No. 10, not Dance No. 3. My handy dandy Spotify account happened to have what appears to be the same recording of Dance No. 10 (from London Philharmonic, key of F, and all that). It runs 1:52, and after playing the two and comparing them, it is obvious that the songs are the same.
Today's YourClassical
freebie once again comes from a Naxos album, this album being entitled
Brahms - Symphony No. 2 - Hungarian Dances. Credits shown on the album cover are 1) London Philharmonic Orchestra, and 2) Marin Alsop as conductor. You might be interested in learning more about the entire album. If so, you can navigate to
the dedicated Naxos webpage for the album to do that.
The particular piece from the album that we can get
free is Brahms'
Hungarian Dance No. 3. It is extremely short--only 52 seconds long. There is a stream feature, and also a way to download the
free piece (click on the "Direct MP3 download link") located on
this webpage.
I would describe this
free piece as being lively and stirring. I don't know if this is a characteristic of Brahms' compositions or not, as I'm still learning the characteristics and styles of the various classical composers.