Blasted insomnia. Arrghhh!
Well, I decided that I might as well get up out of bed and go ahead and post today's YourClassical
free piece, since I can't get to sleep anyway.
When I saw the title of today's
freebie, my eye was immediately caught by one word--"clarinet." I don't remember seeing, therefore posting, a free clarinet piece at all over the time that I've been making these posts of free classical music. And, I happen to like the woodwind instruments, especially the clarinet, and have since my brief foray into playing music (flute--5th grade band under Mr. Stonecipher), when I becameacquainted with some of the traditional musical instruments out there.
The title of the
free piece is, in fact called
Clarinet Quartet No. 1, composed by yet another new composerto me--Ernesto Cavallini. The Stark Quartet plays this rendition, and it is part of a Tactus Publishing album called something like
Il Clarinetto tra Ottocento e Novecento dal solo al quartetto. Even though it is published by Tactus Publishing, it seems like Naxos Publishing almost has a monopoly on information webpages for all of the classical albums out there. You can, in fact, access the dedicated Naxos webpage for this album at
this URL.
The
free piece is an MP3, running 3 minutes, 49 seconds in length. Download and/or stream it from
this dedicated webpage for the free piece from YourClassical.
The piece is very nice, IMHO. It is a nice break from the typical classical music that we get free. My wish now is for a freebie of another woodwind--the saxophone--but something makes me think that they are even rarer than clarinet classical pieces. Being now a powerful, influential member of the music promotion industry
, however, perhaps I can pull a few strings (no pun intended) and get one of those one of these days soon.