This week's
free download from the OML (Open Music Library (which seems to be now the name under which Alexander Street gives away their free music)), is C.P.E. Bach - Sinfonia Wq. 182/6.
If you are as ignorant as I am about classical music (which probably isn't possible
), you probably wondered if C.P.E. Bach was somehow kith and kin to the better-known Bach. Well, the answer is "yes;" Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, in fact, was son of his much more famous old man, Johann Sebastian Bach.
I gave a listen to some of this
free music by C.P.E. To my ears, it sounds wonderful; he was a very talented composer in his own right. But, it must have been tough living in the shadow of his father.
The description provided by OML:
This week's free download features the last of a collection of six symphonies written by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714–1788). C.P.E. Bach, son of Johann Sebastian Bach, wrote these symphonies for Gottfried van Swieten while living in Hamburg.This week's free download features the last of a collection of six symphonies written by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (1714-1788) . . . . [He] wrote these symphonies for Gottfried van Swieten while living in Hamburg.
This recording is performed by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Wolfram Christ.
To get the
freebie, you have to be a subscriber." After you become one, OML sends you notifications, by email, of when new
freebies are available. The fly in the ointment is that it's a little tricky to sign up.
Here is a webpage where you can sign up. The freebies seem to be directed toward institutions (like, I suppose, libraries). So, you've got to be a little creative answering some of their (few) questions.
If you are a subscriber, just follow the (very obvious) links provided in the email message that you get. Right-click, on the three items in blue letters, and right-click on "save link as" (these directions are specific to Google Chrome, but the procedure of other browsers is very similar; on smartphones, some at least, pressing on a spot for a couple of seconds or so takes the place of the right-click of its bigger cousins). Save the songs to your drive of choice; open and listen to the pieces at your convenience.
