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  • 4:50 AM

    The Cobblers on the Heath

    Uuno Klami

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Sakari Oramo, conductor

    8:11
  • 4:17 AM

    Piano Sonata

    Franz Liszt

    Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

    31:49
  • 4:06 AM

    Poem for Flute and Orchestra

    Charles Tomlinson Griffes

    New Zealand Chamber Orchestra

    Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor

    Alexa Still, flute

    10:00
  • 4:01 AM

    O'Carolan's Draft

    Turlough O'Carolan

    Tina Chancey: The Versatile Viol: Scottish & Irish Music

    Tina Chancey, viola da gamba

    4:48
  • 3:56 AM

    Idylle arabe

    Cecile Chaminade

    Bengt Forsberg, piano

    David Huang, piano

    2:18
  • 3:48 AM

    Larghetto

    Neil McKay

    Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra

    Howard Hanson, conductor

    6:30
  • 3:41 AM

    The Last Ship

    Tonu Korvits

    Mirror

    Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

    Tonu Kaljuste, conductor

    6:23
  • 3:06 AM

    Symphony No. 5 "Sinfonia brevis"

    Erkki Melartin

    Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leonid Grin, conductor

    32:46
  • 3:01 AM

    Hungarian Dances: Selected

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Hungarian Dances

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    Andras Keller, violin

    4:35
  • 2:34 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 6

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

    24:24
  • 2:12 AM

    Water Music Suite No. 2

    George Frideric Handel

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    19:26
  • 2:08 AM

    Twelve Studies: Light staccato chords

    York Bowen

    Nicolas Namoradze, piano

    2:30
  • 2:06 AM

    Hora staccato

    Grigoras Dinicu

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    2:02
  • 2:01 AM

    The Dance of the Goblins (La ronde des Lutins)

    Antonio Bazzini

    Stokowski Stereo Collection: Shostakovich - Symphony No. 6, Khachaturian - Symphony No. 3

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    4:38
  • 1:46 AM

    Serenade No. 2

    Robert Volkmann

    German Chamber Academy

    Johannes Goritzki, conductor

    12:25
  • 1:41 AM

    Ricardo Cobo, guitar

    3:20
  • 1:37 AM

    Partita No. 1: Allemande

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    3:15
  • 1:06 AM

    Symphony No. 3

    Florence Price

    Women's Philharmonic

    Apo Hsu, conductor

    29:20
  • 1:01 AM

    Vento Chiaro

    4:33
  • 12:48 AM

    Prelude, Fugue, and Variation

    Cesar Franck

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    10:20
  • 12:23 AM

    Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky | Sleeping Beauty & Swan Lake

    Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra

    Aleksander Lazarev, conductor

    23:18
  • 12:21 AM

    Orlando Sleeps

    John Dowland

    Lute Music of Dowland

    Ronn McFarlane, lute

    :57
  • 12:09 AM

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    10:42
  • 12:06 AM

    Flowers from Froso: Lawn Tennis

    Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

    Arcata String Quartet

    Don Bailey, flute

    Grace Paradise, harp

    3:00
  • 12:01 AM

    I Musici Montreal

    Yuli Turovsky, conductor

    Yuli Turovsky, cello

    4:35
  • 11:52 PM

    An 18th Century Scherzo

    Haydn Wood

    Royal Ballet Sinfonia

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    6:36
  • 11:44 PM

    Andante and Allegro molto

    Niels Gade

    Kontra Quartet

    Hans Nygaard, cello

    13:53
  • 11:22 PM

    Angels Sang to Me

    AJ Isaacson-Zwidzdwa

    member of the Minnesota Orchestra and soprano Maria Jette

    31:00
  • 11:01 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    14:10
  • 10:47 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 2nd movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Destination Rachmaninoff: Departure

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Daniil Trifonov, piano

    11:48
  • 10:38 PM

    Miserere

    Gregorio Allegri

    Lux

    Voces8

    7:03
  • 10:24 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Eroica": 1st movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven 3/Strauss

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

    Manfred Honeck, conductor

    16:06
  • 10:02 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 15 "Pastoral"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Wilhelm Kempff, piano

    20:50
  • 9:33 PM

    Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto

    He Zhanhao/Chen Gang

    China Girl

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Viktor Fedotov, conductor

    Vanessa-Mae, violin

    26:37
  • 9:29 PM

    Cello Suite No. 1: Gigue

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Cello Suites

    Zuill Bailey, cello

    1:40
  • 9:27 PM

    Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Zuill Bailey

    Zuill Bailey, cello

    2:23
  • 9:21 PM

    Mariage of Figaro (finale)

    Mozart

    5:30
  • 9:12 PM

    Goin' Home

    Antonin Dvorak

    Sing Me Home

    Silk Road Ensemble

    Abigail Washburn, cello banjo and vocals

    5:34
  • 9:06 PM

    All Along the Watchtower

    Bob Dylan

    Turtle Island String Quartet

    5:01
  • 8:55 PM

    Oboe Concerto: Chant

    Peter Schickele

    Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    Pamela Pecha, oboe

    5:56
  • 8:46 PM

    Symphony No. 7: 2nd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonien 1-9

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    8:42
  • 8:41 PM

    Requiem: Pie Jesu

    Gabriel Faure

    In Paradisum

    Saint Cecilia Orchestra

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano

    3:44
  • 8:31 PM

    Four Scottish Dances

    Malcolm Arnold

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    Keith Lockhart, conductor

    8:40
  • 8:18 PM

    Ivan Konev, piano

    10:46
  • 8:13 PM

    Urlicht from Symphony no. 2

    Gustav Mahler

    6:00
  • 8:11 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection": Urlicht

    Gustav Mahler

    Mahler: Symphony No. 2

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, mezzo-soprano

    5:45
  • 5:44 PM

    Concerto for Three Keyboards

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    David Fray, conductor

    David Fray, piano

    Jacques Rouvier, piano

    Emmanuel Christien, piano

    14:04
  • 5:17 PM

    The Fairy's Kiss: Divertimento

    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky: L'Ouiseau de Feu, Pulcinella, Le Baser de la Fee

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yuri Temirkanov, conductor

    25:55
  • 5:14 PM

    Pickles and Peppers

    Adaline Shepherd

    Virginia Eskin, piano

    2:38
  • 5:06 PM

    The Kiss Overture

    Bedrich Smetana

    Slovak State Phiharmonic, Kosice

    Robert Stankovsky, conductor

    6:22
  • 5:01 PM

    Anthony Glise, guitar

    4:33
  • 4:46 PM

    Poema concertante

    Xavier Montsalvatge

    North German Radio Philharmonic

    Celso Antunes, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    12:29
  • 4:22 PM

    Cello Sonata No. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    David Finckel, cello

    Wu Han, piano

    22:37
  • 4:16 PM

    Synnove Solbakken Suite: Yearning

    Hugo Alfven

    ALFVEN: Synnove Solbakken / En Bygdesaga / Elegie

    Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

    Niklas Willen, conductor

    3:38
  • 4:06 PM

    Concerto for Two Flutes

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Rebel

    Jorg-Michael Schwarz, conductor

    Matthias Maute, recorder

    Sophie Lariviere, recorder

    9:44
  • 4:01 PM

    Nobody Knows the Trouble I See

    J. Rosamond Johnson

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    Matthew Hagle, piano

    4:46
  • 3:48 PM

    Africa Fantasie

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    Jean-Philippe Collard, piano

    10:47
  • 3:18 PM

    Symphony No. 4

    Robert Schumann

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    28:23
  • 3:14 PM

    Three Romances: No. 1

    Clara Schumann

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    3:01
  • 3:06 PM

    Nabucco: Overture

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Italian Masterworks

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    6:56
  • 3:01 PM

    Suite No. 1

    Francois Chauvon

    Washington McClain, oboe

    Alison Melville, recorder

    Julia Wedman, violin

    Michael McCraw, bassoon

    Charlotte Nediger, harpsichord

    4:40
  • 2:55 PM

    Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two)

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    3:31
  • 2:54 PM

    Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two)

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    3:31
  • 2:48 PM

    Lakme: Flower Duet

    Leo Delibes

    The Opera Album

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Michel Plasson, conductor

    Natalie Dessay, soprano

    4:49
  • 2:25 PM

    Symphony No. 93

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    22:19
  • 2:04 PM

    King Arthur: Suite

    Henry Purcell

    Sound The Trumpet: Royal Music of Purcell and Handel

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    14:13
  • 2:01 PM

    Camelot: Overture

    Frederick Loewe

    The Lerner and Loewe Songbook

    London Promenade Orchestra

    Eric Hammerstein, conductor

    2:29
  • 1:52 PM

    Il barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville): Una voce poco fa

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Diana Damrau: COLORaruraS

    Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Dan Ettinger, conductor

    Diana Damrau, soprano

    6:37
  • 1:47 PM

    Fritiof Suite: Fritiof's infatuation

    Elfrida Andree

    Stockholm Symphony Orchestra

    Gustaf Sjokvist, conductor

    3:43
  • 1:41 PM

    Columbia (Caprice Americain)

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Philip Martin, piano

    5:51
  • 1:33 PM

    Symphony No. 4: 3rd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Four Symphonies

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    6:09
  • 1:23 PM

    Four Seasons: Winter

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: The 4 Seasons

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    Jeanne Lamon, violin

    8:50
  • 1:19 PM

    The Red Poppy: Russian Sailor's Dance

    Reinhold Gliere

    Greatest Hits: The Ballet, Vol. II

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    3:24
  • 1:10 PM

    Corbeille de fleurs (Basket of Flowers)

    Theresa Carreno

    The American Virtuoso

    Alan Feinberg, piano

    5:10
  • 1:04 PM

    The Barber of Seville: Sinfonia

    Giovanni Paisiello

    Paisiello: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia / Carella, Siragusa, Etc

    Trieste Teatro Verdi Orchestra

    Giuliano Carella, conductor

    4:56
  • 12:52 PM

    Espana

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Portraits in Sound

    Concert Arts Orchestra

    Erich Leinsdorf, conductor

    6:07
  • 12:46 PM

    Time Lapse

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Ludovico Einaudi: Portrait

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:56
  • 12:36 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 4

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel Concerti Grossi, Op.3

    Linde-Consort

    Hans-Martin Linde, conductor

    8:27
  • 12:30 PM

    The Harmonious Blacksmith

    George Frideric Handel

    London Brass

    4:30
  • 12:27 PM

    Gayane: Sabre Dance

    Aram Khachaturian

    Symphonic Spectacular

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    2:24
  • 12:21 PM

    Sword Dance

    Xu Changjun

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    5:36
  • 12:16 PM

    The Merrymakers

    Eric Coates

    Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    John Wilson, conductor

    4:29
  • 12:07 PM

    Oboe Concertino

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Stuttgart Arcata Chamber Orchestra

    Patrick Strub, conductor

    Lajos Lencses, oboe

    7:25
  • 12:04 PM

    Acis and Galatea: Happy We!

    George Frideric Handel

    Grand & Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses / Robert Shaw

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    1:56
  • 11:46 AM

    Petite Suite

    Claude Debussy

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    12:57
  • 11:37 AM

    Introduction and Rondo

    Charles-Marie Widor

    Lille National Orchestra

    Alexandre Bloch, conductor

    Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet

    7:32
  • 11:33 AM

    By and By Thou Wilt Return (By and By, Ho'i Mai Oe)

    Queen Liliuokalani

    Songs Of Liliuokalani ?

    Galliard String Quartet

    2:25
  • 11:20 AM

    Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

    James DePreist, conductor

    11:57
  • 11:16 AM

    Sonata for Piano 4-Hands: Rondo

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Complete Piano Duets

    Amy Hamann, fortepiano

    3:21
  • 11:08 AM

    Paulus (St. Paul): Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Edward Gardner, conductor

    6:29
  • 11:04 AM

    Lauda Jerusalem

    Gabriel Diaz

    Empire Brass

    2:55
  • 10:40 AM

    Concerto for Two Violins

    Bohuslav Martinu

    Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    Deborah Nemtanu, violin

    Sarah Nemtanu, violin

    18:06
  • 10:35 AM

    Le Carnaval de Londres: Little March; The Tower of London; Finale

    Darius Milhaud

    New London Orchestra

    Ronald Corp, conductor

    3:50
  • 10:30 AM

    Il Signor Bruschino: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    4:46
  • 10:27 AM

    Korobeiniki (Song of the Peddler)

    Traditional Russian

    European Folkscapes

    Apollo Chamber Players

    2:18
  • 10:12 AM

    String Quartet No. 34

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn String Quartets - Live at the Wigmore Hall, Vol. 2

    Lindsay String Quartet

    14:16
  • 10:06 AM

    Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz

    Aaron Copland

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    4:21
  • 10:01 AM

    Sextet: Rondo

    Luigi Gatti

    Calamus Ensemble

    4:44
  • 9:55 AM

    A Morning

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Emotions

    Gautier Capucon, cello

    3:10
  • 9:50 AM

    D'un matin de printemps (Of a Spring Morning)

    Lili Boulanger

    Women's Philharmonic

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    4:57
  • 9:25 AM

    Guitar Quintet No. 3

    Luigi Boccherini

    Boccherini: The Guitar Quintets

    Academy Chamber Ensemble

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    23:41
  • 9:06 AM

    Overture, Scherzo and Finale

    Robert Schumann

    Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    16:48
  • 9:01 AM

    Six Short Pieces: selections

    Henriette Renie

    La Harpe Consolatrice

    Kyunghee Kim-Sutre, harp

    4:47
  • 8:35 AM

    Symphony No. 18

    Julius Rontgen

    North German Radio Philharmonic

    David Porcelijn, conductor

    23:00
  • 8:22 AM

    Viola da gamba Sonata No. 3

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Hariolf Schlichtig, viola

    Yumi Sekiya, piano

    13:25
  • 8:06 AM

    Ocean's Kingdom: Ocean's Kingdom

    Paul McCartney

    Paul McCartney: Ocean's Kingdom

    London Classical Orchestra

    John Wilson, conductor

    13:57
  • 8:01 AM

    In the Mists: No. 1

    Leos Janacek

    Water

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    4:35
  • 7:30 AM

    Variations on a Hungarian Folksong

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    28:25
  • 7:24 AM

    Rusalka: Song to the Moon

    Antonin Dvorak

    The Knights

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    5:23
  • 7:11 AM

    Symphony No. 3

    Thomas Arne

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    11:16
  • 7:06 AM

    All Through the Night

    Traditional Welsh

    London Mozart Players

    Stuart Morley, conductor

    Claire Jones, harp

    4:21
  • 7:01 AM

    Piano Sonata: Scherzo

    Franz Schubert

    Simone Dinnerstein, piano

    4:45
  • 6:24 AM

    Piano Trio

    Tomas Breton

    Breton: Four Spanish Pieces, Piano Trio

    LOM Piano Trio

    34:42
  • 6:20 AM

    Venezuelan Dance (Seis por derecho)

    Antonio Lauro

    David Russell, guitar

    3:04
  • 6:06 AM

    Esther: Overture

    Eugene d'Albert

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Martyn Brabbins, conductor

    12:28
  • 6:01 AM

    English Air

    Peter Lamb

    Kenneth Smith, flute

    Paul Rhodes, piano

    4:31
  • 5:26 AM

    Symphony No. 2 "Antar"

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Bergen Symphony Orchestra

    Dmitri Kitayenko, conductor

    32:30
  • 5:21 AM

    Magdalena Lisak, piano

    4:03
  • 5:06 AM

    Everything Lasts Forever

    Michael Kurth

    Michael Kurth: Everything Lasts Forever

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Spano, conductor

    13:23
  • 5:01 AM

    Aleko: Women's Dance

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    4:36