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  • 1:00 PM

    Beatrice and Benedict: Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: Overtures

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    8:03

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  • 12:57 PM

    Morning Song

    Edward Elgar

    Breakfast in Bed

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    3:01

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  • 12:48 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 3: 1st movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Violin Concertos

    Camerata Salzburg

    Leonidas Kavakos, conductor

    Leonidas Kavakos, violin

    9:09

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  • 12:37 PM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 5

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Keyboard Concertos BWV 1052-1058

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Andras Schiff, conductor

    Andras Schiff, piano

    10:03

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  • 12:30 PM

    Nameday (Namensfeier) Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Stanislaw Skrowaczewski - The Minnesota Orchestra: The Vox Recordings

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, conductor

    6:49

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  • 12:23 PM

    String Quartet No. 62 "Emperor": Adagio

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Mozart: Hunt & Dissonance Quartets; Haydn

    Emerson String Quartet

    6:38

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  • 12:20 PM

    Rodeo: Hoe-Down

    Aaron Copland

    Sabre Dance

    Houston Symphony Orchestra

    Sergiu Comissiona, conductor

    3:31

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  • 12:08 PM

    Symphony No. 5: 4th movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    The Tchaikovsky Project

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    12:06

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  • 11:59 AM

    The Planets: Jupiter

    Gustav Holst

    Dallas Space Spectacular

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    7:50

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  • 11:48 AM

    Four Seasons: Spring

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Four Seasons

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Pinchas Zukerman, violin

    10:58

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  • 11:37 AM

    String Quartet No. 12 "American": 1st movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Schubert & Dvorak Quartets

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Rosekrans, conductor

    10:37

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  • 11:33 AM

    Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Orchestral Works

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Klaus Tennstedt, conductor

    4:42

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  • 11:26 AM

    Symphony No. 100 "Military": 2nd movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: The London Symphonies, Vol. II

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    6:10

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  • 11:22 AM

    Turkish Rondo

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Sonatas KV 331 & 457

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    3:40

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  • 11:17 AM

    Fantasy for a Gentleman: Canario

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Milos: Aranjuez

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    4:49

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  • 11:07 AM

    Water Music Suite No. 2

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Water Music, Rodrigo

    Musicians of the Louvre

    Marc Minkowski, conductor

    10:56

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  • 10:57 AM

    Symphony No. 7: 3rd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    9:42

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  • 10:52 AM

    Holberg Suite: Rigaudon

    Edvard Grieg

    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg: Holberg Suite

    Mito Chamber Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    4:28

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  • 10:41 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 1: 2nd movement

    Frederic Chopin

    The Complete Piano Works of Chopin, Vol 9: The Orchestral Works

    Warsaw Philharmonic

    Kazimierz Kord, conductor

    Garrick Ohlsson, piano

    10:29

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  • 10:30 AM

    Symphony No. 4 "Italian": 1st movement

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica", - Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4, "Italian"

    Tafelmusik

    Bruno Weil, conductor

    11:04

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  • 10:28 AM

    Radetzky March

    Johann StraussSr.

    Grand March

    Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

    Elgar Howarth, conductor

    2:09

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  • 10:17 AM

    Scheherazade: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Tsar Saltan Suite etc.

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    10:39

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  • 10:10 AM

    Symphony No. 5: Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Romeo and Juliet

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    6:20

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  • 9:55 AM

    Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, Ein Heldenleben / Barenboim

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    15:22

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  • 9:52 AM

    Fur Elise

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    For Children

    Livia Rev, piano

    3:10

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  • 9:45 AM

    Il barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    7:09

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  • 9:33 AM

    Four Seasons: Summer

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Sarah Chang: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Sarah Chang, violin

    10:42

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  • 9:25 AM

    Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter": Finale

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart Symphonies 39 & 41

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    8:37

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  • 9:17 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 20

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

    Mari Kodama, piano

    7:39

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  • 9:02 AM

    Symphony No. 1 "Classical"

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Menuhin Conducts Prokofiev

    English String Orchestra

    Yehudi Menuhin, conductor

    14:09

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  • 8:51 AM

    Rienzi: Overture

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder; Preludes And Overtures

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Franz Welser-Most, conductor

    11:34

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  • 8:47 AM

    Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo

    Pietro Mascagni

    Romantic Adagio

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    3:28

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  • 8:36 AM

    Harp Concerto

    George Frideric Handel

    Harp Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Marisa Robles, harp

    10:57

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  • 8:34 AM

    Beautiful Rosemary (Schon Rosmarin)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Music of Fritz Kreisler

    James Ehnes, violin

    1:52

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  • 8:28 AM

    Symphony No. 82 "The Bear": Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn Symphonies: No. 82 in C Major "The Bear"; No. 38 in C Major; No. 104 in D Major "London"

    Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

    Christof Perick, conductor

    5:50

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  • 8:24 AM

    Molly on the Shore

    Percy Grainger

    Pops Britannia

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    4:22

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  • 8:02 AM

    Concerto for Two Violins

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Air: The Bach Album

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Steven Mercurio, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    14:21

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  • 7:50 AM

    "Twinkle, Twinkle" Variations (Ah, vous dirai-je, maman)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 11 And 14; Fantasia In C Minor

    Jeno Jando, piano

    11:57

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  • 7:45 AM

    Candide: Overture

    Leonard Bernstein

    "Somewhere" - The Leonard Bernstein Album

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    4:29

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  • 7:42 AM

    Holberg Suite: Prelude

    Edvard Grieg

    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg: Holberg Suite

    Mito Chamber Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    2:59

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  • 7:39 AM

    Fanfare for the Common Man

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Appalachian Spring/Rodeo/Fanfare

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Louis Lane, conductor

    3:16

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  • 7:34 AM

    Star Wars: Princess Leia

    John Williams

    John Williams' Classic Film Scores Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    5:06

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  • 7:21 AM

    Four Seasons: Autumn

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Four Seasons

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Pinchas Zukerman, violin

    12:13

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  • 7:18 AM

    Trumpet Concerto: 3rd movement

    Johann Hummel

    Classic Trumpet Concerti

    New York Chamber Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    Gerard Schwarz, trumpet

    3:33

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  • 7:15 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight": 2nd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The Piano Sonatas, Vol. IV

    Andras Schiff, piano

    2:25

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  • 7:10 AM

    Aranjuez Concerto: 3rd movement

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, etc.

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    Christopher Parkening, guitar

    4:50

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  • 7:00 AM

    By the Beautiful Blue Danube (An der schonen, blauen Donau)

    Johann StraussJr.

    Strauss: Waltzes And Overtures

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Franz Welser-Most, conductor

    9:39

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  • 6:58 AM

    Carmina Burana: O Fortuna

    Carl Orff

    The Greatest Classical Show On Earth

    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    2:36

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  • 6:50 AM

    The Skaters Waltz

    Emil Waldteufel

    Karajan Conducts Orchestral Favorites I

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    7:29

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  • 6:47 AM

    Horn Concerto No. 4: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Horn Concertos and Concert Rondo

    London Sinfonietta

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    Richard Watkins, horn

    3:26

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  • 6:33 AM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 4

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    JS Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Murray Perahia, conductor

    Murray Perahia, piano

    13:14

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  • 6:24 AM

    Marche Slave

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Marche Slav; Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    9:20

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  • 6:12 AM

    Scheherazade: The Young Prince and the Young Princess

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    Maria Larionoff, violin

    10:40

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  • 6:04 AM

    Symphony No. 2: 2nd movement

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphonien Nos. 1 & 2

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    8:35

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  • 5:56 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 18: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos 18, K456 & 19, K459

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Mitsuko Uchida, conductor

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    7:53

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  • 5:43 AM

    Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 "Midsummer Vigil"

    Hugo Alfven

    The Four Seasons: A Musical Calendar Of Favorite Classics

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    12:44

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  • 5:26 AM

    Symphony No. 5: 3rd and 4th movements

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Carlos Kleiber, conductor

    16:08

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  • 5:17 AM

    An Outdoor Overture

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite

    Pacific Symphony Orchestra

    Keith Clark, conductor

    8:57

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  • 5:10 AM

    Sinfonia Concertante: 3rd movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Mariss Jansons

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    Stefan Schilli, oboe

    6:52

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  • 5:05 AM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 4: 3rd movement

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Brandenburg Concertos

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    4:40

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  • 5:00 AM

    Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture

    Mikhail Glinka

    The London Horn Sound

    London Horns

    Geoffrey Simon, conductor

    5:31

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