YourClassical must be offering their free daily songs this week along the theme of "spring." Yesterday's was about spring, and today's is
On Hearing the First Cuckoo In Spring.
The piece was created by a composer whose name that I don't think that I had heard heretofore--Frederick Delius. We don't have cuckoos here in the U.S. that I know of (well, not the bird kind, anyway. ha!), so I suppose that Delius is a European.
This particular rendition of his work is performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (I've heard of them before! ha), with David Lloyd-Jones conducting.
This
free piece has been excerpted from a Naxos album entitled
Delius - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring. Would you like to know more about the entire album? Well, YourClassical has kindly provided a dedicated webpage from Naxos for the album, containing gobs of information, and placed it at
this URL.
YourClassical has provided a dedicated webpage for the
free piece, also,
here. Among other things, you can stream the song, or download it (as an MP3) from
that webpage. Download it by clicking on "Direct MP3 download link."
While writing up this post, I got to listen to the entirety of this 5 minute, 53 second Delius piece. I like his composition. It is not flashy in the least (I like that), and was, as I like to say of songs like this one, "is becalming."