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  • 5:52 AM

    Nocturne/Doubles

    Benjamin Broening

    Trembling Air

    eighth blackbird

    Benjamin Broening, electronics

    6:08
  • 5:45 AM

    Memories

    Djivan Gasparian

    Provenance

    Maya Beiser, cello

    7:01
  • 5:34 AM

    Don't Bother They're Here

    Adam Wiltzie/Brian McBride

    And Their Refinement of the Decline

    Stars of the Lid

    10:10
  • 5:30 AM

    Chorale (Five)

    Peter Gregson

    Remixes

    Iskra String Quartet

    3:02
  • 5:23 AM

    Conduit: Pulse

    Robert Honstein

    Hand Eye

    eighth blackbird

    5:02
  • 5:14 AM

    Lavinia Meijer, harp

    8:50
  • 5:07 AM

    Ghosts

    Valgeir Sigurdsson

    Ghosts

    Crash Ensemble

    6:04
  • 4:50 AM

    Holographic

    Daniel Wohl

    Bang on a Can All-Stars

    Daniel Wohl, electronics

    8:06
  • 4:26 AM

    Liquid Interface

    Mason Bates

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    Mason Bates, electronica

    23:31
  • 4:25 AM

    Liquid Interface

    Mason Bates

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    Mason Bates, electronica

    23:31
  • 4:17 AM

    Eyes Shut

    Olafur Arnalds

    The Chopin Project

    Alice Sara Ott, piano

    6:41
  • 4:07 AM

    Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto

    8:51
  • 4:02 AM

    Scale of Volatility

    Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch

    Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch

    3:50
  • 3:46 AM

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Richard Studt, conductor

    12:18
  • 3:23 AM

    String Quartet No. 2

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann: String Quartets, Op. 41

    Doric String Quartet

    20:45
  • 3:14 AM

    Dances

    Gaspar Sanz

    Guitare Festival

    Turibio Santos, guitar

    7:09
  • 3:06 AM

    Concerto No. 2

    John Hebden

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    7:33
  • 3:01 AM

    Four Sketches: Legend

    Eugene Goossens

    Goossens: Chamber Works

    London Chamber Music Group

    Susan Milan, flute

    4:48
  • 2:39 AM

    Variations on "La ci darem la mano"

    Frederic Chopin

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

    Warsaw Philharmonic

    Kazimierz Kord, conductor

    Garrick Ohlsson, piano

    18:49
  • 2:14 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 3

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

    Vladimir Spivakov, violin

    23:24
  • 2:06 AM

    Scottish March (Marche ecossaise)

    Claude Debussy

    National Opera of Paris Orchestra

    Manuel Rosenthal, conductor

    6:33
  • 2:01 AM

    String Quartet No. 1: Minuet

    Wilhelm Kienzl

    Thomas Christian Ensemble

    4:28
  • 1:45 AM

    Trio Sonata

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Trio Sonatas, Op. 2

    Academy Chamber Ensemble

    13:03
  • 1:21 AM

    Symphonic Variations

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, Symphonic Variations

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    22:30
  • 1:11 AM

    8 Variations on a Theme by Count Waldstein

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Amy Hamann, piano

    Sara Hamann, piano

    8:23
  • 1:06 AM

    Concerto alla rustica (Rustic Concerto)

    Antonio Vivaldi

    The Italian Job

    La Serenissima

    Adrian Chandler, conductor

    4:10
  • 1:01 AM

    Jousting Dance

    Lucas de Ribayaz

    Harp Consort

    Andrew Lawrence-King, conductor

    4:33
  • 12:28 AM

    Symphony No. 6

    Franz Schubert

    Menuhin Festival Orchestra

    Yehudi Menuhin, conductor

    29:42
  • 12:23 AM

    Faith's Call

    Paul Mealor

    Bryn Terfel: Homeward Bound

    Mormon Tabernacle Choir

    Mack Wilberg, conductor

    Bryn Terfel, baritone

    3:26
  • 12:08 AM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 4

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Concertos for Keyboard & Suites

    Columbia Symphony Orchestra

    Vladimir Golschmann, conductor

    Glenn Gould, piano

    13:59
  • 12:01 AM

    Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria (Cantilena)

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Trio Concertante

    5:35
  • 11:51 PM

    Divertimento No. 17: 6th movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Divertimento, K. 344

    Trio Pasquier

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    8:37
  • 11:34 PM

    Peer Gynt Suite No. 2

    Edvard Grieg

    Minnesota Orchestra At One Hundred

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    15:26
  • 11:28 PM

    String Quintet No. 1: 3rd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Concert Recording

    Accordo

    5:19
  • 11:24 PM

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

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    4:16
  • 11:19 PM

    Ochi chernye (Dark Eyes)

    Florian Hermann

    Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Rolando Villazon, tenor

    Ildar Abdrazakov, bass

    3:23
  • 11:04 PM

    Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Strings by Starlight

    Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

    Felix Slatkin, conductor

    Michael Rabin, violin

    9:37
  • 10:59 PM

    Sextet for Winds: Rondo

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Sextet and Septet

    Consortium Classicum

    3:24
  • 10:55 PM

    Mischief

    Stephanie Curcio

    Genetic Harps

    Gretchen Van Hoesen, harp

    2:42
  • 10:49 PM

    The Merry Wives of Windsor: O susser Mond (Moon chorus)

    Otto Nicolai

    Otto Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor

    Staatskapelle Berlin

    Bernhard Klee, conductor

    4:42
  • 10:24 PM

    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Van Kliburn in Moscow: Rachmaninoff, Brahms

    Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

    Kirill Kondrashin, conductor

    Van Cliburn, piano

    24:36
  • 10:16 PM

    Elizabethan Dance Suite

    Anthony Holborne

    Empire Brass

    6:02
  • 10:05 PM

    Oboe Concerto No. 1

    George Frideric Handel

    City of London Sinfonia

    John Rutter, conductor

    Nicholas Daniel, oboe

    8:13
  • 9:59 PM

    Gotterdammerung: Closing Scene

    Richard Wagner

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Georg Solti, conductor

    4:33
  • 9:50 PM

    Giselle: Pas de deux of the young peasants

    Adolphe Adam

    Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    6:50
  • 9:38 PM

    Carmen Fantasy

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    11:34
  • 9:32 PM

    Minneapolis Guitar Quartet

    5:01
  • 9:28 PM

    Perpetual Motion (Perpetuum mobile)

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    Concert A La Carte

    Vienna-Berlin Ensemble

    2:54
  • 9:05 PM

    Symphony No. 34

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies No. 28, 29 & 34

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    21:24
  • 8:59 PM

    Impromptu No. 3

    Frederic Chopin

    Artur Rubinstein, piano

    4:50
  • 6:52 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Giuseppe Torelli

    Trumpet Concertos

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jahja Ling, conductor

    Rolf Smedvig, trumpet

    6:30
  • 6:43 PM

    A Colour Symphony: Blue

    Arthur Bliss

    Bliss: A Colour Symphony; Adam Zero

    English Northern Philharmonia

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    10:07
  • 6:35 PM

    Thais: Meditation

    Jules Massenet

    Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

    Lambert Orkis, piano

    6:24
  • 6:11 PM

    Symphony No. 96 "Miracle"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Musicians of the Louvre

    Marc Minkowski, conductor

    22:36
  • 6:02 PM

    String Quintet: 2nd movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Concert Recording

    Accordo

    7:37
  • 5:46 PM

    Capriccio Italien

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Daniele Gatti, conductor

    14:10
  • 5:34 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1: 2nd movement

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Fantaisie op. 49 etc.

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Emmanuel Krivine, conductor

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    10:15
  • 5:23 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 4

    Arcangelo Corelli

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    9:49
  • 5:07 PM

    Masques and Bergamasques

    Gabriel Faure

    Faure: Orchestral Works

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    14:16
  • 5:01 PM

    Quintetto: Finale

    Jens Emborg

    Carion: Nielsen's Footsteps

    Carion Wind Quintet

    4:54
  • 4:46 PM

    String Symphony No. 4

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    CPE Bach: Hamburg Symphonies

    Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

    Thomas Hengelbrock, conductor

    12:45
  • 4:42 PM

    Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Overtures to Bach

    Matt Haimovitz, cello

    2:13
  • 4:22 PM

    Burleske

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Don Juan; Burleske

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    Emanuel Ax, piano

    19:13
  • 4:08 PM

    Octet: 2nd movement

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert Octet

    Boston Symphony Chamber Players

    12:06
  • 4:01 PM

    Tancredi: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    6:02
  • 3:48 PM

    Fair Maid of Perth: Suite

    Georges Bizet

    Paris Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    11:59
  • 3:43 PM

    Pilgrims' Hymn

    Stephen Paulus

    Concert Recording

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    3:24
  • 3:33 PM

    Bright Blue Music

    Michael Torke

    Michael Torke's Color Music

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    9:07
  • 3:08 PM

    Oboe Concerto

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Concertos for Flute and Oboe

    Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

    Janos Rolla, conductor

    Pierre Pierlot, oboe

    22:57
  • 3:00 PM

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    5:42
  • 2:50 PM

    Sigurd Jorsalfar: Homage March

    Edvard Grieg

    Sibelius: Finlandia, Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    8:46
  • 2:46 PM

    Fiddler's Jig

    Henry Cowell

    Manhattan Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Auldon Clark, conductor

    2:16
  • 2:38 PM

    Quintet for Piano and Winds: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart & Beethoven: Piano and Wind Quintets

    Vienna Wind Soloists

    Andre Previn, piano

    6:18
  • 2:31 PM

    Girl Crazy: Overture

    George Gershwin

    Gershwin: An American in Paris, etc.

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    5:46
  • 2:21 PM

    English Folk Song Suite

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: A Serenade to Music, etc.

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Adrian Boult, conductor

    8:51
  • 2:18 PM

    Swedish Polka

    Hugo Alfven

    Swedish Orchestral Favourites

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Okko Kamu, conductor

    2:09
  • 2:10 PM

    Rusalka: Polonaise

    Antonin Dvorak

    Exotic Dances from the Opera

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    4:30
  • 2:04 PM

    Chen Yi, violin

    Lars Hannibal, guitar

    5:30
  • 1:54 PM

    The Valkyrie: Magic Fire Music

    Richard Wagner

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    4:44
  • 1:45 PM

    Sinfonia for 3 Trumpets No. 3

    Johann Christian Hertel

    Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra

    Wolfgang Bauer, conductor

    Wolfgang Bauer, trumpet

    7:23
  • 1:38 PM

    Symphony No. 8: 3rd movement

    Kurt Atterberg

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    5:31
  • 1:33 PM

    Blue Moon

    Richard Rodgers

    What if Mozart Wrote "Roll Over Beethoven"

    Hampton String Quartet

    4:17
  • 1:24 PM

    Symphony No. 48 "Maria Theresia": 1st movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies No 48 & 49

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    7:43
  • 1:21 PM

    Don Pasquale: La vostra ostinazione...Prender moglie?

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Rolando Villazon, tenor

    Ildar Abdrazakov, bass

    1:44
  • 1:10 PM

    Symphony No. 1: 3rd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Beethoven: Egmont Overture

    Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

    Christian Thielemann, conductor

    5:15
  • 1:04 PM

    Anna Magdalena Notebook: selections

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    BACH, J.S.: Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772-801 / Anna Magdalena's Notebook (fragments)

    Janos Sebestyen, piano

    4:56
  • 12:55 PM

    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    Otto Nicolai

    Albert Schweitzer Octet

    3:33
  • 12:46 PM

    Concerto No. 3

    Lorenzo Zavateri

    Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

    Gottfried von der Goltz, conductor

    6:36
  • 12:40 PM

    Swan Lake: Russian Dance

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto, Etc

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    Joshua Bell, violin

    4:27
  • 12:34 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight": 1st movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Richard Goode, piano

    5:37
  • 12:26 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1: Finale

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Saint-Saens: The 5 Piano Concertos

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Michel Plasson, conductor

    Philippe Entremont, piano

    6:35
  • 12:19 PM

    String Quartet No. 17 "Hunt": 4th movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Emerson String Quartet: Complete Recordings

    Emerson String Quartet

    6:08
  • 12:16 PM

    Lieutenant Kije: Troika

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite, Symphony No. 5

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    2:43
  • 12:10 PM

    Symphony No. 2: 4th movement

    Francois-Joseph Gossec

    Gossec: Symphonies

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    4:19
  • 12:04 PM

    Fantasy for a Gentleman: Canario

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    RODRIGO: Concierto Pastorale / Fantasia para un Gentilhombre (Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 8)

    Asturias Symphony Orchestra

    Maximiano Valdez, conductor

    Joanna G'froerer, flute

    4:52
  • 11:48 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 3: Rondo

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    Rudolf Serkin, piano

    10:17
  • 11:44 AM

    Attila: Overture

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Verdi: Overtures and Preludes

    Philharmonic of La Scala

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    3:27
  • 11:34 AM

    Frontiers

    Oliver Davis

    Oliver Davis: Dance

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Bateman, conductor

    Kerenza Peacock, violin

    8:52
  • 11:21 AM

    Concerto Grosso "Alexander's Feast"

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6

    Collegium Musicum 90

    Simon Standage, conductor

    12:35
  • 11:12 AM

    Overture "In the Italian Style"

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphonies No. 3 in D & No. 5 in B Flat

    Hanover Band

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    7:14
  • 11:06 AM

    Symphony No. 98: 3rd movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies 93, 96, & 98

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    5:11
  • 11:01 AM

    Noble and Sentimental Waltzes: No. 8

    Maurice Ravel

    Stephen Kovacevich, piano

    4:40
  • 10:51 AM

    Appalachian Spring: Variations on a Shaker Melody

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Billy The Kid, Fanfare For The Common Man

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    6:47
  • 10:39 AM

    Abdelazar: Suite

    Henry Purcell

    Purcell: Miscellany

    Purcell Quartet

    12:23
  • 10:24 AM

    Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1

    Georges Enescu

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    13:09
  • 10:15 AM

    Dirait-on (So They Say)

    Morten Lauridsen

    Turtle Creek Chorale

    Timothy Seelig, conductor

    6:13
  • 10:06 AM

    Cello Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    9:19
  • 10:01 AM

    Suite from Esclarmonde: Hymenee

    Jules Massenet

    Massenet: Orchestral Suites

    Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

    Kenneth Jean, conductor

    4:34
  • 9:33 AM

    Serenade No. 4

    Robert Fuchs

    Fuchs: Serenades Nos. 3, 4 and 5

    Cologne Chamber Orchestra

    Christian Ludwig, conductor

    25:19
  • 9:29 AM

    The Lake at Evening

    Charles Tomlinson Griffes

    Griffes: Orchestral Music

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    3:33
  • 9:07 AM

    Double Quartet No. 1

    Louis Spohr

    Spohr: The Four Double Quartets

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

    21:01
  • 9:01 AM

    Old and Lost Rivers

    Tobias Picker

    London Symphony Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    4:34
  • 8:15 AM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique"

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Rostropovich: Return to Russia

    National Symphony Orchestra, Washington, D.C.

    Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor

    43:15
  • 8:06 AM

    Musical Moment No. 1

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Moments Musicaux; Impromptus

    David Fray, piano

    6:46
  • 8:01 AM

    Ballade No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms on Brass

    Canadian Brass

    4:43
  • 7:46 AM

    Transylvanian Symphony for Strings

    Kurt Schwertsik

    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

    HK Gruber, conductor

    11:55
  • 7:26 AM

    Duet-Concertino

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Violin Concerto, Oboe Concerto

    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    Dimitri Ashkenazy, clarinet

    19:41
  • 7:06 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 3

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    Martha Argerich, piano

    17:49
  • 7:01 AM

    Rosary Sonata No. 8: The Crowning with Thorns

    Heinrich Biber

    Biber: The Mystery Sonatas (Die Rosenkranz Sonaten)

    Tragicomedia

    John Holloway, violin

    4:40
  • 6:22 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Charles Ives

    Ives: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    35:37
  • 6:06 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 4

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Sonatas K. 281, 282, 284, 545

    Alicia de Larrocha, piano

    14:24
  • 6:01 AM

    Novelette (Interlude in Olden Style)

    Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov: String Quartets Vol. 4

    Utrecht String Quartet

    4:45
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