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  • 4:45 AM

    Three Idylls

    Frank Bridge

    Moscow Chamber Orchestra

    Constantine Orbelian, conductor

    13:04
  • 4:21 AM

    Concerto for Double String Orchestra

    Michael Tippett

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    22:10
  • 4:12 AM

    Ambarvalia

    Ruth Gipps

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Peebles, conductor

    7:48
  • 4:06 AM

    leaves and trees

    Rachel Portman

    Caroline Dale, cello

    Rachel Portman, piano

    5:57
  • 4:01 AM

    Sleeping Beauty: Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty

    Kirov Orchestra

    Valery Gergiev, conductor

    4:44
  • 3:46 AM

    Scherzo No. 4

    Frederic Chopin

    Lang Lang, piano

    12:20
  • 3:36 AM

    Big Sky, Low Horizon

    Michael Ippolito

    Michael Ippolito: Songlines

    Attacca Quartet

    7:54
  • 3:13 AM

    La Mer (The Sea)

    Claude Debussy

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    23:02
  • 3:06 AM

    On the Road: Nothing Behind Me

    Clint Needham

    Francesca Anderegg, violin

    Brent Funderburk, piano

    4:46
  • 3:01 AM

    A Scotts Tune; A Scots Tune; Swit Sant Nickola

    Anonymous Scottish

    softLOUD

    Sean Shibe, guitar

    4:49
  • 2:52 AM

    Songs of the Auvergne: Bailero

    Joseph Canteloube

    Dawn Upshaw sings Canteloube

    Lyon Opera Orchestra

    Kent Nagano, conductor

    Dawn Upshaw, soprano

    5:37
  • 2:24 AM

    Songbook

    Daron Hagen

    Built For Buffalo

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Michael Ludwig, violin

    27:49
  • 2:13 AM

    The Messenger

    Valentin Silvestrov

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    9:36
  • 2:06 AM

    Sure on this Shining Night

    Morten Lauridsen

    Lauridsen: Nocturnes

    Polyphony

    Stephen Layton, conductor

    Morten Lauridsen, piano

    5:06
  • 2:01 AM

    The Moon

    William S Lloyd Webber

    And the Bridge is Love: English Music for Strings

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Julian Lloyd Webber, conductor

    4:26
  • 1:49 AM

    Dumka-Shumka

    Mykola Lysenko

    Natalya Pasichnyk, piano

    8:50
  • 1:13 AM

    Symphony No. 3

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies / Jarvi, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    34:41
  • 1:06 AM

    The Nightingale

    Alexander Alabiev

    From Russia with Harp

    Sasha Boldachev, harp

    4:54
  • 1:01 AM

    Cantata No. 156: Arioso

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Favorites

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    4:29
  • 12:52 AM

    Carol Rosenberger, piano

    6:32
  • 12:22 AM

    String Quartet No. 16

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartetto Italiano

    28:30
  • 12:14 AM

    Rondo alla Mambo

    Joshua Davis/Yuniet Lombida Prieto

    Mozart y Mambo

    Havana Lyceum Orchestra

    Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor

    Sarah Willis, horn

    6:01
  • 12:06 AM

    From Foreign Lands: Spain

    Moritz Moszkowski

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    7:03
  • 12:01 AM

    Suite Piedra libre: La Mancha

    Denis Plante

    Pentaedre

    4:51
  • 11:56 PM

    Blackbird

    John Lennon/Paul McCartney

    Blackbird: The Beatles Album

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    2:31
  • 11:42 PM

    St. Paul's Suite

    Gustav Holst

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    12:45
  • 11:19 PM

    Symphony No. 53 "Imperial"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    21:30
  • 11:11 PM

    Three Carpathian Dances

    Mykola Kolessa

    Natalya Pasichnyk, piano

    5:53
  • 11:06 PM

    Canon and Gigue

    Johann Pachelbel

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    5:09
  • 11:01 PM

    The Rain

    Joe Hisaishi

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:47
  • 10:42 PM

    Cello Concerto

    Luigi Boccherini

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    Anner Bylsma, cello

    15:41
  • 10:28 PM

    Petite Suite

    Claude Debussy

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    12:57
  • 10:17 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 12

    Arcangelo Corelli

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    10:12
  • 10:13 PM

    Scenes from Childhood: Dreaming

    Robert Schumann

    Gregory Brown, piano

    2:42
  • 10:06 PM

    Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra

    Allen Tinkham, conductor

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    Demarre McGill, flute

    6:08
  • 10:01 PM

    Christian Lindberg, trombone

    Roland Pontinen, piano

    4:30
  • 9:49 PM

    Variations on "I Got Rhythm"

    George Gershwin

    Gershwin: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra

    Eos Orchestra

    Jonathan Sheffer, conductor

    Michael Boriskin, piano

    8:55
  • 9:46 PM

    Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal

    Spiritual

    Chanticleer

    2:09
  • 9:39 PM

    Spanish Waltz

    Emil Waldteufel

    Music of Waldteufel

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    5:26
  • 9:20 PM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 2

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Kati Debretzeni, violin

    18:35
  • 9:16 PM

    Szatmar Dances

    Sandor Veress

    Hungarian Serenade

    Offenburg String Trio

    2:31
  • 9:06 PM

    Dances in the Canebrakes

    Florence Price

    Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    9:29
  • 9:03 PM

    Moment Musical

    Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson

    SVEINBJORNSSON: Piano Trios / Violin Sonata

    Audur Hafsteinsdottir, violin

    2:36
  • 8:50 PM

    Concerto Symphonique No. 4: Scherzo

    Henry Litolff

    Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue; Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Misha Dichter, piano

    7:03
  • 8:49 PM

    The Bee

    Frank Bridge

    My Spirit Sang All Day

    King's Singers

    1:17
  • 8:14 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 22

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 22

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    John O'Conor, piano

    33:24
  • 8:06 PM

    Overture No. 1

    Louise Farrenc

    European Soloists, Luxembourg

    Christoph Konig, conductor

    6:59
  • 8:01 PM

    Violin Sonata: 3rd movement

    Frantisek Jiranek

    Il Violino Boemo

    Lenka Torgersen, violin

    4:40
  • 7:45 PM

    Four Characteristic Waltzes

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    13:42
  • 5:54 PM

    The Bohemian Girl: I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls

    Michael Balfe

    Elina Garanca: Habanera

    Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra of Milan

    Karel Mark Chichon, conductor

    Elina Garanca, mezzo-soprano

    4:55
  • 5:14 PM

    Symphony No. 7

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: 9 Symphonien

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Rafael Kubelik, conductor

    37:59
  • 5:06 PM

    Allegro for String Quartet

    Niels Gade

    Kontra Quartet

    6:14
  • 5:01 PM

    4 Pieces: No. 2. Autumn Night

    Wanda Landowska

    The Salon of Polish Women Composers

    Magdalena Lisak, piano

    4:34
  • 4:50 PM

    J.S. Dances

    Donald Grantham

    North Texas Wind Symphony

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    Anastasia Markina, piano

    8:07
  • 4:27 PM

    Violin Concerto

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Kati Debretzeni, violin

    21:29
  • 4:16 PM

    CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra

    Hartmut Haenchen, conductor

    9:24
  • 4:06 PM

    Suite on Galician Songs: Morning Song

    Enrique Granados

    Granados: Orchestral Works Vol. 1

    Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

    Pablo Gonzalez, conductor

    9:21
  • 4:01 PM

    Theater Set: Overture

    Ulysses Kay

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    4:29
  • 3:57 PM

    Etude No. 9 "Butterfly"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Etudes Opus 10, Op. 25

    Murray Perahia, piano

    1:00
  • 3:43 PM

    Flute Quartet No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Emerson String Quartet

    Carol Wincenc, flute

    14:00
  • 3:19 PM

    Pibroch Suite

    Alexander Mackenzie

    Scottish Fantasies for Violin & Orchestra

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Alexander Platt, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    23:37
  • 3:10 PM

    Ground Floor

    Alice Julien-Laferriere, violin

    6:42
  • 3:06 PM

    The Red Poppy: Russian Sailor's Dance

    Reinhold Gliere

    Pops a la Russe

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    3:38
  • 3:01 PM

    Maskarade: Overture

    Carl Nielsen

    Nielsen: Symphonies No 4 & 5

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    4:37
  • 2:52 PM

    Michael Linville, piano

    6:18
  • 2:49 PM

    Scenes from Goethes Faust: Overture

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann, R.: Overtures

    Polish National Radio Orchestra

    Johannes Wildner, conductor

    8:53
  • 2:42 PM

    Michael Linville, piano

    6:18
  • 2:19 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 2

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    22:02
  • 2:11 PM

    Acis and Galatea: Sinfonia

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    6:33
  • 2:07 PM

    Tropic Winter: Pompons and Fans

    Nathaniel Dett

    My Cup Runneth Over: The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett

    Clipper Erickson, piano

    3:57
  • 2:01 PM

    Xavier de Maistre, harp

    4:46
  • 1:58 PM

    Turandot: Nessun dorma

    Giacomo Puccini

    Franco Corelli, tenor

    3:00
  • 1:54 PM

    I Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba

    Ruggero Leoncavallo

    Franco Corelli, tenor

    3:00
  • 1:37 PM

    Capriccio Espagnol

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade, Capriccio espagnol - Sir Charles Mackerras London Symphony Orchestra

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    14:44
  • 1:21 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 11 after Scarlatti

    Charles Avison

    Avison, Scarlatti: 12 Concerti Grossi

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    13:55
  • 1:17 PM

    Polska after Olof Norblad

    Anonymous

    Lynx Ensemble

    3:31
  • 1:09 PM

    Creatures of Prometheus: Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    5:09
  • 1:04 PM

    Concerto Grosso: March

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    James Judd, conductor

    3:30
  • 12:50 PM

    Tancredi: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jaime Laredo, conductor

    5:46
  • 12:46 PM

    I Will Lift Mine Eyes

    Jake Runestad

    ACDA Conference Recording

    Choral Arts Northwest

    Robert Bode, conductor

    3:18
  • 12:35 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 27: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Karl Bohm, conductor

    Emil Gilels, piano

    9:24
  • 12:31 PM

    Cello Suite No. 3: Courante

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    3:00
  • 12:22 PM

    Pest Waltzes

    Joseph Lanner

    The Waltz - Ecstasy and Mysticism

    Concerto Koln

    7:38
  • 12:18 PM

    Pulcinella Suite: Gavotte

    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Pulcinella Suite

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    3:27
  • 12:12 PM

    Scherzo No. 2

    Clara Schumann

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    4:47
  • 12:04 PM

    The Planets: Jupiter

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: The Planets

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    7:32
  • 11:50 AM

    Symphony No. 2: 2nd movement

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 2

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Edward Gardner, conductor

    7:44
  • 11:44 AM

    Peer Gynt: Arabian Dance

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2, etc.

    San Francisco Symphony

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    4:45
  • 11:35 AM

    Images for Orchestra: Gigues

    Claude Debussy

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    7:22
  • 11:30 AM

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    3:33
  • 11:23 AM

    Symphony No. 104 "London": Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 99 & 104 'London'

    Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    6:38
  • 11:15 AM

    To Become (Divenire)

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Ludovico Einaudi: Portrait

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    7:02
  • 11:15 AM

    Symphony No. 104 "London": Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 99 & 104 'London'

    Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    6:38
  • 11:08 AM

    Symphony No. 2 "Ocean": 4th movement

    Anton Rubinstein

    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Stephen Gunzenhauser, conductor

    5:00
  • 11:04 AM

    Song of the Seashore (Hamabe No Uta)

    Tamezo Narita

    Japanese Folk Melodies

    Ensemble Lunaire

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    3:33
  • 10:44 AM

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    14:12
  • 10:33 AM

    Trumpet Concerto

    George Frideric Handel

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Maurice Andre, trumpet

    9:28
  • 10:25 AM

    Concert Piece for Clarinet and Basset Horn

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra

    Jorg Faerber, conductor

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    Wolfgang Meyer, basset horn

    7:38
  • 10:20 AM

    Tessa Lark, violin

    Michael Thurber, double bass

    3:37
  • 10:08 AM

    Moseltraume

    Lou Koster

    Koster: Orchestral Music

    Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra

    Jonathan Kaell, conductor

    10:42
  • 10:06 AM

    Waltz No. 6 "Minute"

    Frederic Chopin

    Ingrid Fliter, piano

    1:51
  • 10:01 AM

    L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra

    Michi Gaigg, conductor

    4:31
  • 9:36 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra

    Dennis Burkh, conductor

    Elizabeth Rich, piano

    22:31
  • 9:26 AM

    Nocturne

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphony No. 8, Scherzo Capriccioso, Notturno

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    8:04
  • 9:12 AM

    Serenade No. 6 "Serenata Notturna"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Capella Savaria

    Nicholas McGegan, conductor

    Zsolt Kallo, violin

    11:51
  • 9:06 AM

    Minuet Antique

    Maurice Ravel

    Haydn, Ravel, Stravinsky

    Tesla Quartet

    5:44
  • 9:01 AM

    Lux Aeterna

    Ivo Antognini

    Mid-Winter Songs/Un Soir De Neige

    Phoenix Chamber Choir

    4:41
  • 8:40 AM

    Piano Sonata

    Elfrida Andree

    Oskar Ekberg, piano

    18:37
  • 8:36 AM

    Canon

    Alexander Scriabin

    Donald Fraser: Songs for Strings

    English Symphony Orchetra

    Donald Fraser, conductor

    2:54
  • 8:06 AM

    Violin Sonata

    Cesar Franck

    Franck, Grieg, Dvorak

    Renaud Capucon, violin

    28:17
  • 8:01 AM

    Wallom Green/Curtain Tune

    John Playford/Henry Purcell

    Barokksolistene

    Bjarte Eike, violin

    4:40
  • 7:26 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    John Field

    Field: Piano Concertos No. 2 & No. 3

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    John O'Conor, piano

    32:04
  • 7:09 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas - Complete

    Paul Galbraith, guitar

    15:30
  • 7:06 AM

    L'Odyssee d'Alice Tremblay: A Fairy Tale

    Francois Dompierre

    Angele Dubeau & La Pieta: Silence, on joue! A Time for Us

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    2:08
  • 7:01 AM

    Songs of Farewell: There is an old belief

    Hubert Parry

    Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 6

    Septura

    4:41
  • 6:48 AM

    Sacred and Profane Dances

    Claude Debussy

    Oberlin 21

    Bridget-Michaele Reischl, conductor

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    10:20
  • 6:34 AM

    Japanese Folk Song Suite No. 2

    Hajime Komatsu

    Kontras Quartet

    13:01
  • 6:06 AM

    Idyll for String Orchestra

    Leos Janacek

    Janacek: Idyll; Mladi

    Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    26:28
  • 6:01 AM

    Forest Clearing

    Sigurd Islandsmoen

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Bjarte Engeset, conductor

    4:26
  • 5:29 AM

    Waltz Suite

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    29:07
  • 5:23 AM

    Elisenda's Garden

    Enrique Granados

    Douglas Riva, piano

    5:28
  • 5:01 AM

    Flute Concerto No. 6: Sicilienne

    Saverio Mercadante

    Mercadante: Flute Concertos

    I Solisti Veneti

    Claudio Scimone, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    4:49