Kick off your holiday season with a free download of selections from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, op.71, available courtesy of Alexander Street Press. You can grab the recording at this link: http://alexanderstreet.com/support-center/classical-music-library-free-download-week. Enjoy, and then impress, astound, and mystify your friends by name-dropping the Russian title, “Shchelkunchik”! The performance is by the Orchestre d’Etat du Palatinat Rhénan, […]
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Schumann, Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 22 – Free Download
A free download of Robert Schumann’s Piano Sonata No.2 in G minor, op.22, is available via Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press), at this link. It will be available for download through March 2, 2010, and features a performance by pianist Abdel Rahman El Bacha. Remember that you can listen to thousands of other recordings, […]
Free Download: Scriabin’s 8 Etudes for Piano, Op. 42
A free download of Scriabin’s “8 Etudes for Piano”, op.42, is being offered this week by Alexander Street Press/Classical Music Library. It’s available at http://alexanderstreet.typepad.com/music/, in a recording by pianist Nicole Afriat. And, don’t be alarmed by the different spellings of Scriabin… I’m just using our standard spelling in CLIO here! It will sound just […]