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  • 11:32 PM

    The Jitterbug Waltz

    Thomas (Fats) Waller

    Blake: Rhapsody In Ragtime, Etc; Joplin, Gershwin, Etc

    Richard Dowling, piano

    4:21
  • 11:12 PM

    Candide Suite

    Leonard Bernstein

    Bernstein: Candide Suite, etc.

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    18:09
  • 11:01 PM

    Organ Concerto No. 2

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Organ Concertos Op. 4

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Richard Egarr, conductor

    Richard Egarr, organ

    9:41
  • 10:56 PM

    Impromptu No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2, Scherzi

    Seong-Jin Cho, piano

    3:55
  • 10:46 PM

    Symphony No. 32

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart Edition: Symphonies

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    9:15
  • 10:39 PM

    La grotta di Trofonio: Overture

    Antonio Salieri

    Mozart � Salieri

    Armonia Ensemble

    5:13
  • 10:15 PM

    Pulcinella Suite

    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky: Pulcinella; Dumbarton Oaks

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    22:37
  • 10:06 PM

    The Italian Girl in London: Overture

    Domenico Cimarosa

    Cimarosa: Overtures, 2

    Toronto Chamber Orchestra

    Kevin Mallon, conductor

    7:37
  • 10:02 PM

    Starburst

    Jessie Montgomery

    Flight: Migration Music Part 2

    The Knights

    3:12
  • 9:55 PM

    The Rivers Are Our Brothers: I Am a Rock

    Majel Connery

    The Rivers Are Our Brothers

    Chanticleer

    4:04
  • 9:39 PM

    Ma vlast (My Country): Vysehrad

    Bedrich Smetana

    Smetana: Ma Vlast

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    15:52
  • 9:36 PM

    Song without Words No. 42

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Blue Hour

    Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet

    1:50
  • 9:12 PM

    Symphony No. 93

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93 & 101 "The Clock"

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    22:26
  • 9:08 PM

    Evangeline Grand March

    Justin Holland

    Justin Holland Recording Project

    Michael Vascones, guitar

    3:38
  • 9:01 PM

    Donna Diana Overture

    Emil von Reznicek

    Great Comedy Overtures

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Lance Friedel, conductor

    6:01
  • 6:58 PM

    Prelude No. 22

    Frederic Chopin

    The Complete Chopin Preludes

    Yundi Li, piano

    :40
  • 6:44 PM

    Der Rosenkavalier: Waltz Sequence No. 1

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: The Alpine Symphony

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    13:29
  • 6:38 PM

    Prelude

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: 24 Preludes; Sonata No. 2

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

    4:28
  • 6:15 PM

    Oboe Concerto

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Vivaldi/Marcello/Haydn/Mozart: Oboe Concertos

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Elgar Howarth, conductor

    Derek Wickens, oboe

    22:23
  • 6:12 PM

    Sea Suite: Dance of the Walrus

    Bruce Paine

    Waitemata Reverie: Music by Bruce Paine

    Gunter Herbig, guitar

    1:56
  • 6:06 PM

    A Dream at Sea

    Theresa Carreno

    The Future is Female: Vol. 1 In Nature

    Sarah Cahill, piano

    5:50
  • 6:01 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Entry of the Fairies

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    4:49
  • 5:54 PM

    Les Sylvains (The Fauns)

    Cecile Chaminade

    Donna voce

    Anna Shelest, piano

    3:57
  • 5:37 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain"

    Alan Hovhaness

    Into the Light: Symphonic Expressions of the Spirit

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    16:04
  • 5:06 PM

    Concert Piece for Cello and Orchestra

    Ernst von Dohnanyi

    DOHNANYI, E.: Cello Works, Opp. 8, 12 and 32d

    Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    Maria Kliegel, cello

    28:46
  • 5:01 PM

    Viennese Ladies Landler

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Landler

    Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

    4:38
  • 4:42 PM

    The Leopard (Il Gattopardo): Dances

    Nino Rota

    Rota: La Strada Ballet Suite

    Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    16:12
  • 4:22 PM

    Symphony No. 28

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 26, 27, 28, 30 & 32

    London Mozart Players

    Jane Glover, conductor

    18:43
  • 4:16 PM

    Water Dance: Very Lightly, Like a Harp

    Karen Tanaka

    Kaleidoscope: Contemporary Piano Music by Female Composers From Around the World

    Isabel Dobarro, piano

    3:56
  • 4:06 PM

    Water Music Suite No. 2

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Fireworks, Watermusic

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    9:34
  • 4:00 PM

    Scotch Strathspey and Reel

    Percy Grainger

    Grainger: Piano Music

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    4:40
  • 3:49 PM

    Concerto for Two Cellos

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi's Cello

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    8:56
  • 3:48 PM

    Snowflake Ballet

    Jacques Offenbach

    Offenbach: Orchestral Works

    Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    10:23
  • 3:37 PM

    Snowflake Ballet

    Jacques Offenbach

    Offenbach: Orchestral Works

    Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    10:23
  • 3:12 PM

    Variations on a Theme by Haydn "St. Antoni Chorale"

    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Kurt Sanderling, conductor

    18:38
  • 3:05 PM

    Troubled Water

    Margaret Bonds

    Ashley Jackson

    Ashley Jackson, harp

    6:37
  • 2:59 PM

    Spanish Dance No. 5 "Andaluza"

    Enrique Granados

    Tangos and Dances

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Fionnuala Hunt, conductor

    Fionnuala Hunt, violin

    4:28
  • 2:48 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 4: Rondo

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor

    Haochen Zhang, piano

    9:55
  • 2:43 PM

    Il mondo della luna (Life on the Moon): Overture

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Opera Overtures

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    3:46
  • 2:35 PM

    Espana

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne; Gounod, Thomas, Chabrier

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    6:07
  • 2:31 PM

    Sevillanas

    Traditional

    LAGQ Latin

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    3:08
  • 2:22 PM

    L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    7:59
  • 2:18 PM

    God Bless the Child

    Billie Holiday/Arthur HerzogJr.

    A Billie Holiday Songbook

    Lara Downes, piano

    3:26
  • 2:10 PM

    The Bumblebee

    Paule Maurice

    Milhaud, Morice, Forsyth, Sowande

    National Arts Centre Orchestra

    Mario Bernardi, conductor

    Julia Nolan, saxophone

    4:02
  • 2:04 PM

    A Country Woman

    Bedrich Smetana

    Smetana: Short Orchestral Pieces

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Stankovsky, conductor

    4:34
  • 1:50 PM

    English Folk Song Suite

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: A Serenade to Music, etc.

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Adrian Boult, conductor

    8:51
  • 1:45 PM

    Violin Sonata: 3rd movement

    Christoph Graupner

    Into the Light: Rediscovered chamber music by Christoph Graupner and others

    Musicians of the Old Post Road

    Benjamin Katz, harpsichord

    3:35
  • 1:35 PM

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

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: String Quartets Opp. 96 & 105

    Chilingirian Quartet

    9:19
  • 1:30 PM

    Symphony No. 1: 3rd movement

    Florence Price

    Chineke! Orchestra: Florence B. Price

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Roderick Cox, conductor

    3:40
  • 1:19 PM

    Trumpet Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Overtures

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    9:02
  • 1:16 PM

    Divertimento: Waltz

    Leonard Bernstein

    Bernstein: Candide Suite, etc.

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    2:14
  • 1:10 PM

    Perpetual Motion

    Niccolo Paganini

    Carnaval

    Eastman Wind Ensemble

    Donald Hunsberger, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, cornet

    4:33
  • 1:04 PM

    Erwin and Elmire: Entre acte

    Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel

    Masters of the Goethe Era

    Staatskapelle Weimar

    Peter Gulke, conductor

    4:38
  • 12:54 PM

    Balm in Gilead

    Spiritual

    VocalEssence Ensemble Singers

    Melanie DeMore, vocals

    3:52
  • 12:46 PM

    Cantata No. 42: Sinfonia

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Sinfonia

    Accademia Bizantina

    Ottavio Dantone, conductor

    6:22
  • 12:39 PM

    Serenade No. 2: 4th movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Symphonies

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    5:25
  • 12:31 PM

    Wind Quintet No. 1: 1st movement

    Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini

    CAMBINI: Wind Quintets Nos. 1-3 / BRICCIALDI: Wind Quintet in D Major

    Avalon Wind Quintet

    7:45
  • 12:24 PM

    Two Aquarelles

    Frederick Delius

    Vaughan Williams, Delius, Walton

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    4:56
  • 12:20 PM

    Mary Poppins: Feed the Birds

    Richard Sherman/Robert Sherman

    Lang Lang: The Disney Book

    Lang Lang, piano

    4:22
  • 12:16 PM

    Flute Quartet: 3rd movement

    Franz Schubert

    New Schubert Works for Flute and Strings

    Martinu Quartet

    Robert Stallman, flute

    3:00
  • 12:08 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 10: 1st movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Sonatas

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    6:32
  • 12:04 PM

    Dance Intermezzo

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Tone Poems

    Lahti Symphony Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    2:44
  • 11:28 AM

    Symphony No. 85 "The Queen"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies, Vol. 5 (Nos. 85, 92, 103)

    Capella Istropolitana

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    20:52
  • 11:23 AM

    Love's Labours Lost: 3 Soliloquies

    Gerald Finzi

    FINZI: Clarinet Concerto / Five Bagatelles / Three Soliloquies / Romance

    Northern Sinfonia

    Howard Griffiths, conductor

    4:48
  • 11:15 AM

    Welcome the Queen

    Arthur Bliss

    Bliss: Film Music

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    6:47
  • 11:06 AM

    Ballade No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Ballade No.1 / Liszt: Après Une Lecture De Dante / Schumann: Sonata No.1

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    8:21
  • 11:01 AM

    Billy the Kid: Prairie Night

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Old American Songs, Eight Poems Of Emily Dickinson Etc.

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    4:43
  • 10:38 AM

    Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3

    Ottorino Respighi

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    20:10
  • 10:22 AM

    Il Cimento: Violin Concerto No. 11

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: 6 Concertos, Op. 8, Nos. 7-12

    I Musici

    Federico Agostini, violin

    13:59
  • 10:18 AM

    Espana: Tango

    Isaac Albeniz

    Tango to the Cor

    Cally Banham, English horn

    2:47
  • 10:06 AM

    Quintettino "La musica notturna di Madrid"

    Luigi Boccherini

    In Motion

    United Strings of Europe

    Julian Azkoul, conductor

    11:03
  • 10:01 AM

    Nocturne

    Louise Farrenc

    Piano Works

    Konstanze Eickhorst, piano

    4:51
  • 9:42 AM

    Harp Concertino

    Germaine Tailleferre

    Boulanger, Tailleferre, Mendelssohn, Schumann

    Women's Philharmonic

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Gillian Benet, harp

    16:01
  • 9:37 AM

    Humoresque

    Agathe Grondahl

    Pioneers: Piano Works by Female Composers

    Hiroko Ishimoto, piano

    4:15
  • 9:25 AM

    Symphony

    Claude Debussy

    Bach: Organ Music (Complete), Vol. 7

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    11:10
  • 9:01 AM

    Spring Music

    Joseph Marx

    Marx: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

    Bochum Symphony Orchestra

    Steven Sloane, conductor

    23:05
  • 8:26 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius Khachaturian

    Sinfonia Varsovia

    Emmanuel Krivine, conductor

    Sergey Khachatryan, violin

    32:20
  • 8:19 AM

    Notturno

    Clara Schumann

    The Young Clara: Early Piano Works

    Angela Tirino, piano

    5:10
  • 8:01 AM

    Concert Piece for Four Horns

    Robert Schumann

    Martin Owen plays Strauss, Schumann, and Weber

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    John Wilson, conductor

    Martin Owen, horn

    17:23
  • 7:42 AM

    Daphnis and Chloe: Part 3

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe

    Les Siecles

    Francois-Xavier Roth, conductor

    15:51
  • 7:22 AM

    Serenade

    Endre Szervanszky

    1948

    Erdody Chamber Orchestra

    Zsolt Szefcsik, conductor

    20:20
  • 7:01 AM

    Duet-Concertino

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    Nicole Kern, clarinet

    18:20
  • 6:49 AM

    Aria in the Italian Manner

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Glenn Gould Edition: Bach, Scarlatti, CPE Bach

    Glenn Gould, piano

    9:40
  • 6:44 AM

    Out of the Night

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Ludovico Einaudi: Portrait

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:34
  • 6:01 AM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Concert Recording

    Danish National Symphony Orchestra

    Tugan Sokhiev, conductor

    40:08
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