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  • 4:56 AM

    The Prayer

    Jennifer Higdon

    New York Virtuoso Singers

    Harold Rosenbaum, conductor

    1:50
  • 4:51 AM

    Elegies of Thule: The Night is Darkening

    Tonu Korvits

    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Risto Joost, conductor

    4:49
  • 4:28 AM

    Lonely Voices

    Stanley Grill

    Diderot String Quartet

    23:11
  • 4:22 AM

    One Loss Plus: Femiel

    Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)

    Diana Golden, cello

    Shawn Chang, piano

    5:16
  • 4:10 AM

    American Contemporary Music Ensemble

    10:11
  • 4:06 AM

    Hymn of Remembrance

    Keith Jarrett

    Keith Jarrett, organ

    4:03
  • 4:01 AM

    Final State

    Kaki King

    Kaki King, guitar

    4:32
  • 3:53 AM

    Repose

    Hugi Gudmundsson

    Meditatio

    Schola Cantorum Reykjavik

    Hordur Askelsson, conductor

    3:33
  • 3:23 AM

    Meditations on Ecclesiastes

    Norman Dello Joio

    Oregon Symphony

    James DePreist, conductor

    28:00
  • 3:18 AM

    The Veil of the Temple: Mother of God, Here I Stand

    John Tavener

    White Light: The Space Between

    O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra

    Hugo Ticciati, conductor

    4:38
  • 3:06 AM

    Kanon Pokajanen (Canon of Repentance): Prayer

    Arvo Part

    The Deer's Cry: Music by Arvo Part

    Vox Clamantis

    Jaan-Eik Tulve, conductor

    Jaanika Kuusik, soprano

    10:20
  • 3:01 AM

    Three Pieces after Byzantine Hymns: No. 2

    Vassilis Tsabropoulos

    Anja Lechner, cello

    Vassilis Tsabropoulos, piano

    4:50
  • 2:48 AM

    Rhapsody for Saxophone and Orchestra

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Orchestral Works II

    French National Radio and Television Orchestra

    Jean Martinon, conductor

    Jean-Marie Londeix, saxophone

    10:02
  • 2:46 AM

    Melody for Saxophone No. 10

    Philip Glass

    Glass: Three Pieces in the Shape of a Square

    Craig Morris, trumpet

    2:19
  • 2:20 AM

    Catalyst Quartet

    24:05
  • 2:06 AM

    Ma vlast (My Country): From Bohemia's Woods and Fields

    Bedrich Smetana

    Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

    Zdenek Macal, conductor

    12:13
  • 2:01 AM

    Night Song

    Edward Elgar

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Norman Del Mar, conductor

    4:43
  • 1:53 AM

    Fantasie No. 5

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Fantasy

    Tessa Lark, violin

    5:04
  • 1:21 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 18

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Northern Sinfonia

    Imogen Cooper, conductor

    Imogen Cooper, piano

    30:24
  • 1:17 AM

    To Springtime My Song I'm Singing

    Edvard Grieg

    Edvard Grieg: Songs from the Heart

    Melissa Holm-Johansen, soprano

    1:51
  • 1:06 AM

    Our Town

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Our Town, El Salon Mexico

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Aaron Copland, conductor

    10:58
  • 1:01 AM

    Return from Fingal; Irish Jig

    Traditional Irish

    Scott Tennant, guitar

    4:39
  • 12:47 AM

    Variations on a Swedish Air

    Bernhard Crusell

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    Emma Johnson, clarinet

    11:15
  • 12:17 AM

    Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Romantica"

    Kurt Atterberg

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    28:31
  • 12:12 AM

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    Kathryn Stott, piano

    3:02
  • 12:06 AM

    Thais: Meditation

    Jules Massenet

    Escales: French Orchestral Works

    Sinfonia of London

    John Wilson, conductor

    5:34
  • 12:01 AM

    Six Short Pieces: selections

    Henriette Renie

    La Harpe Consolatrice

    Kyunghee Kim-Sutre, harp

    4:47
  • 11:44 PM

    Tannhauser: Overture

    Richard Wagner

    Klemperer Conducts Wagner: Album I

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Otto Klemperer, conductor

    14:46
  • 11:26 PM

    Indra

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: Symphony, "The Cotswolds" / Walt Whitman, Overture / Indra / Japanese Suite / A Winter Idyll

    Ulster Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    15:44
  • 11:16 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Giuseppe Tartini

    Scottish Ensemble

    Jonathan Morton, conductor

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    9:40
  • 11:08 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Eroica": 3rd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonien 1-9

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    5:51
  • 11:06 PM

    Abduction from the Seraglio: Ha! Wie will ich triumphieren

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Netherlands Wind Ensemble

    1:44
  • 11:01 PM

    Partita No. 6: Courante

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Six Partitas

    Andras Schiff, piano

    4:47
  • 10:41 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 4

    Chevalier de Meude-Monpas

    Encore Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Hege, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    16:59
  • 10:26 PM

    Marosszek Dances

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Philharmonia Hungarica

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    13:43
  • 10:15 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 8: 3rd movement

    Sergei Prokofiev

    The Silver Age

    Daniil Trifonov, piano

    9:41
  • 10:06 PM

    Le Roi malgre lui (The King in Spite of Himself): Fete polonaise

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Vienna Philharmonic

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    7:23
  • 9:46 PM

    Canto di Virginia

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Milan Symphony Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    Alessandro Potenza, oboe

    11:37
  • 9:42 PM

    Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Virtuoso Violin

    Lorin Maazel, violin

    3:27
  • 9:21 PM

    Music for the Royal Fireworks

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, Concerti a due cori

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    19:01
  • 9:08 PM

    Quintettino "La musica notturna di Madrid"

    Luigi Boccherini

    United Strings of Europe

    Julian Azkoul, conductor

    11:03
  • 9:06 PM

    Carmen: Aragonaise

    Georges Bizet

    LAGQ Latin

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    2:19
  • 9:03 PM

    The Seasons: November (Troika)

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Moscow Chamber Orchestra

    Constantine Orbelian, conductor

    2:40
  • 8:42 PM

    The Comedians

    Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Kabalevsky, Prokofiev, Glinka, Tchaikovsky

    San Diego Chamber Orchestra

    Donald Barra, conductor

    15:29
  • 8:16 PM

    Violin Concerto

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto

    Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

    Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor

    Isabelle Faust, violin

    25:00
  • 8:10 PM

    Ave Generosa

    Ola Gjeilo

    Here I Stand

    iSing Silicon Valley

    Jennah Delp Somers/Shane Troll, conductor

    Hannah Kloninger-Stever, soprano

    4:17
  • 8:06 PM

    Preludes, Book 1: La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)

    Claude Debussy

    Brodsky Unlimited

    Brodsky Quartet

    3:00
  • 8:01 PM

    Flowers from Froso: Entry to the Summer Meadow

    Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Okko Kamu, conductor

    4:43
  • 7:50 PM

    Magnolia Suite: Part 2

    Nathaniel Dett

    Clipper Erickson, piano

    8:50
  • 5:47 PM

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Ben Palmer, conductor

    Peter Cigleris, clarinet

    11:26
  • 5:26 PM

    The Royal Children

    Engelbert Humperdinck

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor

    20:06
  • 5:19 PM

    Le roi s'amuse (The King Has Fun): Galliarde and Lesquercarde

    Leo Delibes

    French Music for the Stage

    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:28
  • 5:06 PM

    William Tell: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    12:20
  • 5:01 PM

    Oboe Quintet No. 1: Minuet

    Josef Myslivecek

    Dolezal Quartet

    Michaela Hrabankova, oboe

    4:46
  • 4:50 PM

    Piano Trio: Finale

    Louise Farrenc

    Neave Trio

    8:01
  • 4:48 PM

    Two-Part Invention No. 8

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Inventions and Sinfonias

    Simone Dinnerstein, piano

    :44
  • 4:30 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 4

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Boston Baroque

    Martin Pearlman, conductor

    17:32
  • 4:27 PM

    An English Suite: In Minuet Style

    Hubert Parry

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    2:57
  • 4:13 PM

    Celtic Concerto

    Catrin Finch

    Blessing

    Sinfonia Cymru

    John Rutter, conductor

    Catrin Finch, harp

    12:40
  • 4:06 PM

    Andante and Rondo Capriccioso

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Lydia Artymiw, piano

    6:19
  • 4:01 PM

    Village Dance

    Claude Champagne

    Quebec Symphony Orchestra

    Yoav Talmi, conductor

    4:47
  • 3:42 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 5

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    16:31
  • 3:23 PM

    Violin Concerto

    Jean-Marie Leclair

    Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Concertos

    La Cetra

    Leila Schayegh, conductor

    Leila Schayegh, violin

    16:54
  • 3:19 PM

    Five Impressions of a Holiday: The Water Wheel

    Eugene Goossens

    Goossens: Chamber Works

    London Chamber Music Group

    Susan Milan, flute

    2:11
  • 3:06 PM

    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
  • 3:01 PM

    Concierto en Flamenco: Alegrias de Cadiz

    Federico Torroba

    Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra

    Manuel Coves, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    4:42
  • 2:53 PM

    Marching Song

    Gustav Holst

    Composer's Collection: Gustav Holst

    North Texas Wind Symphony

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    4:13
  • 2:52 PM

    Polonaise No. 6 "Heroic"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: 26 Preludes, Scherzo No. 2

    Martha Argerich, piano

    6:16
  • 2:46 PM

    Polonaise No. 6 "Heroic"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: 26 Preludes, Scherzo No. 2

    Martha Argerich, piano

    6:16
  • 2:20 PM

    Cello Concerto No. 2

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    CPE Bach: Cello Concertos

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Gustav Leonhardt, conductor

    Anner Bylsma, cello

    24:47
  • 2:15 PM

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1: Carillon

    Georges Bizet

    Orchestra of the Bastille

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    4:23
  • 2:06 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Winter Dreams": 3rd movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky Symphonies

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    8:27
  • 1:59 PM

    Staatskapelle Weimar

    Peter Gulke, conductor

    4:38
  • 1:50 PM

    Symphony No. 5 "Western Hemisphere": 4th movement

    William Grant Still

    Fort Smith Symphony

    John Jeter, conductor

    6:47
  • 1:41 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 1: 3rd movement

    Max Bruch

    Mendelssohn, Bruch: Violin Concertos

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    Midori, violin

    7:32
  • 1:35 PM

    Impromptu-Caprice

    Gabriel Pierne

    Caprice: French Music For Harp

    Susann McDonald, harp

    4:51
  • 1:30 PM

    Creole Sketches on themes collected by L.M. Gottschalk

    Lucien-Leon Lambert

    Sakiko Ohashi, piano

    Mary Scott Spry, pianoforte

    4:22
  • 1:22 PM

    Concerto for Two Oboes

    Tomaso Albinoni

    London Virtuosi

    John Georgiadis, conductor

    Anthony Camden, oboe

    Alison Alty, oboe

    6:53
  • 1:18 PM

    Time For Three

    Rob Moose, violin

    3:30
  • 1:08 PM

    String Quartet No. 3: 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Dover Quartet

    6:16
  • 1:04 PM

    Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder; Preludes And Overtures

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Franz Welser-Most, conductor

    3:20
  • 12:58 PM

    Back to the Future: Main Theme

    Alan Silvestri

    Vienna Horns

    3:00
  • 12:50 PM

    Concert Piece for Four Horns

    Robert Schumann

    The Chicago Principal

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Dale Clevenger, horn

    18:48
  • 12:43 PM

    Symphony No. 100 "Military": Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Seven London Symphonies

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    5:07
  • 12:35 PM

    Three Preludes

    George Gershwin

    Helen Chang Haertzen, violin

    Denis Evstuhin, piano

    6:59
  • 12:30 PM

    Joyous March

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Tortelier's French Bonbons

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    3:38
  • 12:24 PM

    Chaconne

    Johannes Kapsberger

    Kapsberger: Libro Quarto D'intavolatura di Chitarone

    Rolf Lislevand & Ensemble

    5:15
  • 12:20 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 2nd movement

    Sergei Prokofiev

    The Silver Age

    Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre

    Valery Gergiev, conductor

    Daniil Trifonov, piano

    2:33
  • 12:09 PM

    Spring Soiree No. 2

    Felicien David

    Limoges Baroque Ensemble

    5:16
  • 12:04 PM

    Serenade No. 1: Menuetto 1 and 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Serenade Nr. 1; Tragische Ouverture; Akademische Festouverture

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    3:55
  • 11:54 AM

    Little Concert Suite: Nanette's Caprice

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha OVerture / Petite Suite

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    3:49
  • 11:49 AM

    Coffee and Cakes

    Charlie Chaplin

    Thomas Beckmann, cello

    Johannes Cernota, piano

    4:20
  • 11:37 AM

    Serenade No. 7 "Haffner": 8th movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Capella Savaria

    Nicholas McGegan, conductor

    Zsolt Kallo, violin

    10:31
  • 11:33 AM

    Beloved (Wa Habibi)

    Traditional

    Floodplain

    Kronos Quartet

    3:11
  • 11:24 AM

    Airs ecossais (Scottish Airs)

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Alexander Platt, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    7:30
  • 11:17 AM

    Cantata No. 49: Sinfonia

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Berlin Baroque Soloists

    Rainer Kussmaul, conductor

    Raphael Alpermann, organ

    6:00
  • 11:11 AM

    Legend No. 5

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Legends, Symphony No. 8

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    4:13
  • 11:04 AM

    Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

    Aram Khachaturian

    Serenade

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    6:27
  • 10:45 AM

    Andante with Variations

    Louis Ferdinand

    Trio Parnassus

    Thomas Selditz, viola

    13:35
  • 10:41 AM

    Tales of Hoffmann: Barcarolle

    Jacques Offenbach

    Romantic Adagio

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    3:37
  • 10:38 AM

    Ricercar

    Diego Ortiz

    Tenet

    1:37
  • 10:22 AM

    Serenade for Strings

    Hans Gal

    Symphony Nova Scotia

    Georg Tintner, conductor

    15:11
  • 10:14 AM

    Three Short Pieces

    Jacques Ibert

    French Wind Music

    Reykjavik Wind Quintet

    6:53
  • 10:08 AM

    Perpetuum mobile

    Simon Jeffes

    BBC Concert Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    4:29
  • 10:06 AM

    Waltz No. 4 "Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    2:02
  • 10:01 AM

    String Quartet No. 50: Minuet

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: String Quartets Vol. 5

    Leipzig String Quartet

    4:53
  • 9:45 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 9

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    12:59
  • 9:37 AM

    Deep Summer Music

    Libby Larsen

    Libby Larsen

    Colorado Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    7:16
  • 9:34 AM

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone

    2:51
  • 9:14 AM

    Fantasy Variations

    Ulysses Kay

    Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony - U. Kay: Fantasy Variations - Umbrian Scene

    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Arthur Fagen, conductor

    17:55
  • 9:06 AM

    Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums)

    Giacomo Puccini

    Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll/Sibelius: Valse Triste/etc.

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    6:41
  • 9:01 AM

    Sonata No. 12

    Johann Schmelzer

    English Concert

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    4:37
  • 8:50 AM

    Under the Eye of Heaven: The Enigma

    Nick Bicat

    London Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Warren-Green, conductor

    7:28
  • 8:41 AM

    Serenade to Music

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    10:38
  • 8:22 AM

    Violin Sonata

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin

    Alina Ibragimova, violin

    16:49
  • 8:06 AM

    Little Suite

    Carl Nielsen

    Orchestra of the Mill

    Andrew Penny, conductor

    15:12
  • 8:01 AM

    Siciliano

    Harry Dexter

    RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin

    Ernest Tomlinson, conductor

    4:47
  • 7:39 AM

    Uirapuru (The Magic Bird)

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    Isaac Karabtchevsky, conductor

    19:12
  • 7:36 AM

    Popular Brazilian Songs: Piazza Vittorio

    Celso Machado

    Charke-Cormier Duo

    3:13
  • 7:32 AM

    Popular Brazilian Songs: Pacoca

    Celso Machado

    Charke-Cormier Duo

    3:10
  • 7:12 AM

    Concerto indio

    Theodoro Valcarcel Caballero

    Fiesta Criolla: Latin-American Orchestral Works

    Wurttemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen

    Gabriel Castagna, conductor

    Nora Chastain, violin

    18:46
  • 7:06 AM

    Corbeille de fleurs (Basket of Flowers)

    Theresa Carreno

    The American Virtuoso

    Alan Feinberg, piano

    5:10
  • 7:01 AM

    Conspirare

    Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

    4:36
  • 6:20 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    38:18
  • 6:06 AM

    Musica Celestis

    Aaron Jay Kernis

    Kernis: Colored Field, Musica Celestis, Air

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    12:22
  • 6:01 AM

    Cello Suite No. 5: Gavottes

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christopher Parkening, guitar

    4:46
  • 5:43 AM

    Serenade No. 6 "Serenata Notturna"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    After Mozart

    Kremerata Baltica

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    14:56
  • 5:29 AM

    Symphony No. 7 "Song of the Night": 4th movement (Nachtmusik II)

    Gustav Mahler

    Mahler: Symphony No 7

    Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    12:55
  • 5:22 AM

    Summer Shimmers

    Jennifer Higdon

    Jennifer Higdon: Summer Shimmers

    Susan Glaser, flute

    6:22
  • 5:06 AM

    Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra

    Samuel Friedman, conductor

    15:07
  • 5:01 AM

    Cradle Song

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Vocalise: Russian Romances

    Mischa Maisky, cello

    4:43