Classical.com free albums
This week's free albums on Classical.com are Bizet's Carmen and l'Arlesienne suites and Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible, both originally on the Forlane label.
The Prokofiev is an oratorio arrangement (by Abram Stasevich) of his music for the Eisenstein film. The orchestra, by the way, is the Russian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra - classical.com has translated badly from French, by the looks of it. It was recorded at the Sofia International Festival in 1984, according to this.
Edit: I'm getting an error message when I try to download the Prokofiev.
The Prokofiev is an oratorio arrangement (by Abram Stasevich) of his music for the Eisenstein film. The orchestra, by the way, is the Russian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra - classical.com has translated badly from French, by the looks of it. It was recorded at the Sofia International Festival in 1984, according to this.
Edit: I'm getting an error message when I try to download the Prokofiev.
Comments
Craig
I downloaded the WMA files for Bizet's Carmen Suite and found they were lacking ID3 tags. I then downloaded the MP3 files for the same album and found they were also missing the ID3 tags. Do their free albums typically lack the ID3 tags, or is this a fluke?
Since I downloaded both WMA and MP3 files at the same bitrate, I also noticed that the MP3s were uniformly smaller than the WMA files. So I will stick with MP3s from them.
Craig