Today's YourClassical
free download is a story of unknowns, at least to me.
I don't remember hearing the name, before, of the company that publishes the album from which today's piece is taken--Tactus. The name of the composer of the album, Francois Couperin, too, is an unknown to me.
The thought just occurred to me that the two above "unknowns" may be connected. Perhaps Tactus is a publisher which specializes in the more obscure composers, like Couperin. I'll have to put this on my bucket list to research one of these days . . . .
Anyway, the album is called
Francois Couperin - Concerts Royaux. The
free piece that we can get from the album? It is
Nouveaux concerts: Concerto No. 9: VIII. L'et caetera ou menuets.
Credited with performances on the
free piece, at least, are Claudio Rufa, flute; Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba; Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord.
Very frequently the music publisher Naxos has a dedicated webpage for an album, whether or not it is one that they publish themselves. That is true today. If you will point your web browser to
this webpage, you can view it.
The
free piece runs 3 minutes, 4 seconds long. It is formatted in MP3, as all of the freebies that we've gotten from YourClassical have been (I think that I detect a trend here. ha). You can stream and/or download the
free piece from
this webpage.
I found today's YourClassical
free piece to be very pleasant. It is becalming. I was a little concerned when I saw that the harpsichord was one of the instruments used, but it is very subtle and does a great job of what I would call accenting the rest of the instruments. I was glad to see the flute as one of the instruments--it is the instrument that I chose to play during my short-lived musical career (5th-grade band, under the direction of Mr. Stonecipher).
Sorry for the late post today, but it basically couldn't be helped. Remember: there is at least one archive of past YourClassical posts; the one that I'm familiar with goes back about 7 days' of posts.