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  • 4:48 AM

    Water

    Olivier Messiaen

    delugEON

    Maya Beiser, cello

    9:49
  • 4:39 AM

    L'Estro Armonico: Concerto No. 8 for Two Violins

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Brecon Baroque

    Rachel Podger, violin

    Johannes Pramsohler, violin

    8:49
  • 4:06 AM

    Angels' Songs

    William Alwyn

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    William Alwyn, conductor

    Osian Ellis, harp

    31:14
  • 4:01 AM

    2 Pieces for piano 6 hands: Romance

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Tharaud Plays Rachmaninoff

    Alexandre Tharaud, piano

    4:33
  • 3:48 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 7

    Charles Avison

    Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Avison: Salve Regina, Stabat Mater

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    10:26
  • 3:33 AM

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Kristjan Jarvi, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    13:34
  • 3:07 AM

    Flute Sonata

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Flute Sonatas & Solo Works

    Brandon Patrick George, flute

    24:43
  • 3:01 AM

    Ave Maria

    Tomas Luis de Victoria

    The Best of The Tallis Scholars

    Tallis Scholars

    Peter Philips, conductor

    4:43
  • 2:52 AM

    On the Drawing of Constellations

    Ben Hjertmann

    American Vernacular

    Nicholas Phillips, piano

    6:46
  • 2:34 AM

    L'Horloge de Flore (The Flower Clock)

    Jean Francaix

    Strauss: Oboe Concerto, Francaix, Ibert, Satie, De Lancie

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    John de Lancie, oboe

    16:02
  • 2:22 AM

    Five Flower Songs

    Benjamin Britten

    Britten: Spring Symphony; Hymn to St Cecilia etc.

    Monteverdi Choir

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    10:30
  • 2:18 AM

    Flower Catalogue: Lilac

    Stephanie Ann Boyd

    Jenny Lin, piano

    3:21
  • 2:06 AM

    Symphony No. 2 "Awakening of Spring": 2nd movement

    Rued Langgaard

    Langgaard, R.: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3

    Danish National Symphony Orchestra

    Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

    11:10
  • 2:01 AM

    French Suite No. 6: Allemande; Courante

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Short Stories - Music For Harp Duo By Carlos Salzedo

    Salzedo Harp Duo

    4:37
  • 1:50 AM

    Three Essays: Nimrod

    Caroline Shaw

    Calidore String Quartet

    8:34
  • 1:45 AM

    Fandango

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Eduardo Fernandez Spanish Guitar Music

    Eduardo Fernandez, guitar

    3:44
  • 1:24 AM

    Guitar Quintet No. 4 "Fandango"

    Luigi Boccherini

    Boccherini, Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Quintets

    Tokyo String Quartet

    Kazuhito Yamashita, guitar

    20:15
  • 1:06 AM

    Divertimento for Strings

    Gareth Walters

    Manitoba Chamber Orchestra

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    15:53
  • 1:01 AM

    Love's Labours Lost: 3 Soliloquies

    Gerald Finzi

    Northern Sinfonia

    Howard Griffiths, conductor

    4:48
  • 12:32 AM

    Symphony No. 63 "Loon Lake"

    Alan Hovhaness

    Hovhaness: Guitar Concerto No. 2

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Stewart Robertson, conductor

    26:15
  • 12:23 AM

    The Enchanted Lake

    Anatol Liadov

    Impressions Of The Sea

    Long Beach Symphony Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    7:37
  • 12:07 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 3

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Alfred Brendel, piano

    14:44
  • 12:01 AM

    Song without Words

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Marcy Rosen, cello

    Lydia Artymiw, piano

    4:41
  • 11:48 PM

    L'Apotheose de Moliere

    Darius Milhaud

    Milhaud: Carnaval d'Aix; Carnaval de Londres, etc.

    New London Orchestra

    Ronald Corp, conductor

    9:53
  • 11:46 PM

    French Suite No. 3: Gigue

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Murray Perahia, piano

    2:07
  • 11:20 PM

    Church Windows

    Ottorino Respighi

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    24:59
  • 11:12 PM

    Rondo alla Mambo

    Joshua Davis/Yuniet Lombida Prieto

    Mozart y Mambo

    Havana Lyceum Orchestra

    Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor

    Sarah Willis, horn

    6:01
  • 11:07 PM

    Kentucky Rondo

    Otto Luening

    The Louisville Orchstra

    Louisville Orchestra

    Lawrence Leighton Smith, conductor

    4:56
  • 11:01 PM

    Hopkinson Smith, lute

    4:30
  • 10:48 PM

    Navarra Symphony Orchestra

    Ernest Martinez Izquierdo, conductor

    Tianwa Yang, violin

    9:51
  • 10:40 PM

    Overture to a Comedy No. 1

    Svend Erik Tarp

    Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

    Tobias Ringborg, conductor

    6:47
  • 10:07 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 18

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos 18, K456 & 19, K459

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Mitsuko Uchida, conductor

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    32:04
  • 10:01 PM

    Nepomuk's Dances: Arrival

    Marcelo Zarvos

    Ethel

    4:51
  • 9:40 PM

    Prelude, Chorale and Fugue

    Cesar Franck

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    18:42
  • 9:20 PM

    Duet Concertino

    Richard Strauss

    Debussy/Strauss/Francaix - Sinfonia Iuventus

    Sinfonia Iuventas

    Gabriel Chmura, conductor

    Waldemar Zarow, clarinet

    18:13
  • 9:17 PM

    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
  • 9:07 PM

    Carnival Overture

    Antonin Dvorak

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    9:07
  • 9:01 PM

    Four Pieces: Dudelsack and Waltz

    Alfred Uhl

    Into The Blue

    Cumberland Quintet

    4:43
  • 8:49 PM

    Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Janine Jansen

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    Janine Jansen, violin

    8:58
  • 8:18 PM

    Piano Quintet

    Robert Schumann

    Ballads & Quintets

    casalQuartett

    Fazil Say, piano

    29:11
  • 8:10 PM

    The Ballerina in Love: Overture

    Domenico Cimarosa

    Cimarosa: Overtures, Vol. 5

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

    Patrick Gallois, conductor

    6:37
  • 8:06 PM

    Bartered Bride: Dance of the Comedians

    Bedrich Smetana

    Leonard Bernstein: The Encore Collection Vol. 1

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    3:39
  • 8:01 PM

    Symphonie Fantastique: March to the Scaffold

    Hector Berlioz

    Heavy Classix

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    4:46
  • 7:46 PM

    Rose Without a Thorn Suite

    Henry VIII

    Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

    12:24
  • 4:44 PM

    Quintet

    Johann Christian Bach

    J. C. Bach: 3 Quintets, Sextet

    English Concert

    13:54
  • 4:28 PM

    Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel, Ein Heldenleben / Barenboim

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    15:22
  • 4:19 PM

    Polacca

    Carl Czerny

    Works For Horn And Piano / Baumann, Hokanson

    Hermann Baumann, horn

    8:11
  • 4:08 PM

    String Quartet No. 3: 3rd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 - Piano Quintet in F Minor

    Hagen Quartet

    8:37
  • 4:06 PM

    When Almonds Blossomed

    Giya Kancheli

    Motherland

    Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

    2:08
  • 4:01 PM

    Symphony No. 1: 3rd movement

    Johan Svendsen

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    4:45
  • 3:42 PM

    Motet: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Monteverdi Choir

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    16:33
  • 3:23 PM

    Symphony No. 65

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Tafelmusik

    Bruno Weil, conductor

    17:05
  • 3:18 PM

    Liu Yang River

    Bi-Guang Tang

    The Red Piano

    Yundi Li, piano

    3:25
  • 3:15 PM

    Flower Drum

    Qu Wei

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    3:01
  • 3:06 PM

    Romance for Viola and Orchestra

    Max Bruch

    Mendelssohn, Bruch: Concerto & Romance

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    Janine Jansen, viola

    8:23
  • 3:01 PM

    Andromaque: Prelude to Act IV

    Camille Saint-Saens

    SAINT-SAËNS, C.: Ascanio: Ballet / Overtures to Stage Works (Malmö Symphony, Märkl)

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    4:52
  • 2:44 PM

    Matinees Musicales

    Benjamin Britten

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Okko Kamu, conductor

    14:27
  • 2:18 PM

    String Quartet No. 3

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven Complete String Quartets, Volume 1

    Dover Quartet

    24:52
  • 2:06 PM

    Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)

    Felix Mendelssohn

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Edward Gardner, conductor

    9:50
  • 2:01 PM

    Battle Suite

    Samuel Scheidt

    American Brass Quintet

    4:49
  • 1:41 PM

    Rhapsody in Blue

    George Gershwin

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    Andrew Litton, piano

    17:02
  • 1:39 PM

    Where The Thrush Toils

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Complete Works For Mixed Choir

    Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

    Heikki Seppanen, conductor

    1:12
  • 1:22 PM

    Equinox: Morning

    Henning Kraggerud

    Equinox

    Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra

    Henning Kraggerud, conductor

    Henning Kraggerud, violin

    15:56
  • 1:06 PM

    Four Characteristic Waltzes

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    13:42
  • 1:01 PM

    Songs of a Wayfarer: Ging heut Morgen ubers Feld (Morning Walk)

    Gustav Mahler

    "Auf Flugeln des Gesangs" Piano Music

    Claudius Tanski, piano

    4:40
  • 10:49 AM

    Serenade No. 2: 1st movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

    8:38
  • 10:42 AM

    A Barque Upon the Ocean (Une Barque sur l'ocean)

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Ma Mere L'Oye, Pavane

    French National Orchestra

    Eliahu Inbal, conductor

    7:33
  • 10:38 AM

    In Evening Air

    Aaron Copland

    Lang Lang, piano

    3:03
  • 10:33 AM

    Across the Vast, Eternal Sky

    Ola Gjeilo

    Ola Gjeilo: Winter Songs

    Choir of Royal Holloway

    Rupert Gough, conductor

    Ola Gjeilo, piano

    4:35
  • 10:21 AM

    Fall of the Leaf (Elegy for Orchestra)

    Gerald Finzi

    Northern Sinfonia of England

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    10:57
  • 10:15 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 15 "Pastoral": 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Jonathan Biss, piano

    5:00
  • 10:06 AM

    Atlas: Earth Seen from Above

    Meredith Monk

    San Francisco Symphony Chorus

    Vance George, conductor

    7:12
  • 10:01 AM

    Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": Largo

    Antonin Dvorak

    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Nikoloz Rachveli, conductor

    Lisa Batiashvili, violin

    4:50
  • 9:44 AM

    Concerto for Three Keyboards

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Piano Concertos

    Hamburg Philharmonic

    Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

    Christoph Eschenbach, piano

    14:06
  • 9:40 AM

    Time For Three

    3:13
  • 9:17 AM

    Harp Concerto

    Francois Boieldieu

    Handel, Boieldieu, Mozart: Concertos for Harp

    The King's Violins

    Bernard Labadie, conductor

    Valerie Milot, harp

    22:03
  • 9:06 AM

    Flute Concerto No. 5

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Flute Concertos

    Australian Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Tognetti, conductor

    Emmanuel Pahud, flute

    8:40
  • 9:01 AM

    The Jester at the Wedding: Caprice

    Eric Coates

    Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    John Wilson, conductor

    4:41
  • 8:45 AM

    String Quartet No. 6

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartetto Italiano

    13:17
  • 8:38 AM

    Fantasia on Themes from Verdi's La Traviata

    Julian Arcas

    David Russell: Art Of The Guitar

    David Russell, guitar

    6:26
  • 8:11 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 4

    Ferdinand Ries

    RIES, F.: Piano Concertos, Vol. 4 (Hinterhuber, Grodd) - Nos. 4 and 5, "Pastoral" / Introduction and Rondeau Brilliant

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Uwe Grodd, conductor

    Christopher Hinterhuber, piano

    25:27
  • 8:06 AM

    Molly on the Shore

    Percy Grainger

    Lincolnshire Posy

    Dallas Wind Symphony

    Jerry Junkin, conductor

    4:08
  • 8:01 AM

    Edgar: Act I Prelude

    Giacomo Puccini

    Puccini

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor

    4:37
  • 7:14 AM

    Symphony No. 4

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Dvorak: Symphony No. 4, Serenade for Strings

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    43:38
  • 7:09 AM

    Nice Work If You Can Get It

    George Gershwin

    London Symphony Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    Joshua Bell, violin

    3:41
  • 7:06 AM

    Toothache Fughetta

    Elfrida Andree

    Elfrida Andree: Complete Piano Works

    Oskar Ekberg, piano

    2:36
  • 7:01 AM

    Torre Bermeja (Vermillion Tower)

    Isaac Albeniz

    Stephen Marchionda, guitar

    4:40
  • 6:34 AM

    La Mer (The Sea)

    Claude Debussy

    New Philharmonia Orchestra

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    23:50
  • 6:25 AM

    Rosamunde: Entr'acte No. 3

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Early Symphonies and Stage Music

    Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    7:35
  • 6:06 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 1

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Champs-Elysees Orchestra

    Alessandro Moccia, conductor

    Giuliano Carmignola, violin

    18:23
  • 6:01 AM

    Siggi String Quartet

    4:37
  • 5:24 AM

    Symphony No. 1 "Slavyanskaya"

    Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, & 9

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    34:07
  • 5:20 AM

    Primavera (Spring)

    Cecile Chaminade

    Bengt Forsberg, piano

    David Huang, piano

    2:33
  • 5:07 AM

    Negro Folk Symphony: Hope in the Night

    William Dawson

    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Arthur Fagen, conductor

    12:39
  • 5:01 AM

    Detmold Horn Quartet

    4:45