YourClassical is offering, today, a
free MP3 of Cesar Franck's
Symphony in D Minor: III. Finale.
The Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra performs, and Roberto Benzi is the conductor of this rendition. The piece is lengthy, being 10 minutes, 41 seconds long.
The Naxos album
Franck - Orchestral Music Vol. 1 is the source of this
free piece. If you would like to know more about the album itself, there is some more information about it at
this dedicated Naxos webpage for the album.
I don't remember hearing a Cesar Franck piece until just now--he's just not as popular as the other masters. But I couldn't tell that his composition is the least bit inferior to those of Mozart, Shostakovich, Beethoven, Haydn,
et al. The song itself is not likely to cause you to fall asleep--there are very high highs and low lows, plus the tempo varies considerably throughout the piece. If the volume of your MP3 player is low enough, it will have a movie-soundtrack "feel" to it; at least it did for me.
Stream and/or download the piece from
the dedicated YourClassical webpage for the free piece. The streaming bar is obvious; download the piece by clicking on "Direct MP3 download link."