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Free Download: Johann Sebastian Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047"

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a German composer and organist.

Bach wrote the Brandenburg Concertos over a period of several years and compiled them for the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1721. The Concertos show Bach veering from the standard concerto grosso and featuring solo instruments instead. The Concerto No. 2 is likely Bach's last orchestral work.
This recording is performed by the Luxembourg Radio Symphony Orchestra, Norbert Matern, oboe, Vassil Ivanov, viola, and Jean de Ridder, trumpet.

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Free Download: "Sao Chegados Os Trez Reis (The Three Kings Have Arrived)" by Various Artists from the album "Christmas Songs of Portugal"

"Sao Chegados Os Trez Reis (The Three Kings Have Arrived)" by Various Artists from the album "Christmas Songs of Portugal"(FW0684)

When this album was recorded in the 1950s, Estrella Church in Lisbon celebrated Christmas with a choir, a bagpiper and an elephant. Hear some of the sacred favorites of the season, generally sung unaccompanied. (On this recording, elephant not included.) 

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Free Download: Claude Debussy's "La Mer, 3 symphonic sketches"

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) is a French composer. His music was greatly influenced by turn of the century French painting and sculpture. In fact, the orchestral triptych "La Mer" was called "Impressionistic" by members of the Institut de France.

This recording is performed by Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de Loire, Marc Soustrot, conductor.

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Free Download: Antonin Dvorak's "Serenade for Strings in E, op. 22"

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) was a Czech composer and is considered one of the greatest Czech composers of the nineteenth-century. The Serenade for Strings displays a different mood in each of the movements: a cantabile style in the first, a melancholy waltz in the second, humorous high spirits in the third, lyrical beauty in the fourth, and exuberance in the fifth.

This recording is performed by the Ensemble Instrumental de Grenoble, Marc Tardue, conducting.

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