From the Classical-music.com website today:
This week's free download is Alberto Da Ripa's Fantasie No. 13 for lute, played by Jakob Lindberg. The track is from Lindberg's latest album, Italian Lute Virtuosi of the Renaissance
, which received a five-star review in the February issue of BBC Music Magazine
.
'Lindberg's own 'suavity of sound' creates its very own soul music,' writes Paul Riley, 'there's a sense of eavesdropping on a spontaneous yet eloquently-argued soliloquy.'
You have to have an acccount with Classical-music.com, and be logged on to that account, in order to get the
free download. If you've taken care of both of those, navigate to
this Classical-music.com webpage. Click on the red "Download Now" button which should appear on the thumbnail of the album cover on
that webpage.
The piece runs about 4 minutes, and 54 seconds. Alas, almost all of the classical music freebies that I hear about are formatted in MP3, and that's true with this one.
I was looking forward to listening to this
free piece. For one reason, when I saw the thumbnail of the album cover, there was this stringed instrument that I didn't recognize, and I was sure that I had not heard it played before. Too, I didn't remember ever hearing the name of the composer, Alberto Da Ripa. I knew that the piece was going to be out of the ordinary from what we usually hear. I must say that I was very pleased with the performance.