I gotta another great classical music freebie for you. It's the weekly Classical-music.com selection.
This week's free download is the Allegro from Sibelius's String Quartet in D minor, 'Intimate Voices'. Performed by the Ehnes Quartet, the recording received a four star review in the February issue of BBC Music Magazine.
'Sibelius's fast movements are viscerally exciting from the Ehnes Quartet,' writes Helen Wallace,' their sound frost-dry, especially in the fast passagework of the Allegro finale.'
To summarize: Ehnes Quartet play Sibelius
'Intimate Voices'--Allegro. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to learn from Classical-music.com the name of the albums from which the free pieces come so, sorry, but I can't furnish that information for you. I don't even know the name of the publisher.
The piece is 5 minutes, 26 seconds, or thereabouts, long. You can get it in any format that you want, as long as the format that you want is MP3. ha
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this webpage to download it. If you don't see a bright red "Download Now" button superimposed over the thumbnail of the album cover, something went wrong. If you do see it, click on it and the download will begin immediately.
I love the piece. It's lively. Amazingly, I liked the violin part most of all. I didn't know someone could play a violin as fast as these gentlemen/ladies do in this quartet.