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  • 4:43 AM

    Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise

    Frederic Chopin

    Artur Rubinstein, piano

    14:58
  • 4:30 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
  • 4:07 AM

    Clarinet Concerto

    Franz Krommer

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gunther Herbig, conductor

    Emma Johnson, clarinet

    21:56
  • 4:01 AM

    Ave Maria mater dei

    Robert Hunt

    Blue Heron

    Scott Metcalfe, conductor

    4:34
  • 3:53 AM

    Three Pieces for Cello and Orchestra: Freylach

    Lucas Richman

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

    Lucas Richman, conductor

    Inbal Segev, cello

    5:54
  • 3:14 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    Leon Fleisher, piano

    37:27
  • 3:06 AM

    War and Peace: New Year's Eve Ball Waltz

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    5:38
  • 3:01 AM

    Guitar Sonata No. 2

    Johann Schickhardt

    Johann Christian Schickhardt: 12 Sonata for guitar

    Kristian Buhl-Mortensen, guitar

    4:54
  • 2:37 AM

    The River Suite

    Duke Ellington

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    21:04
  • 2:27 AM

    Keyboard Suite No. 2

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel, Scarlatti

    Murray Perahia, piano

    8:04
  • 2:18 AM

    The Bullfighter's Prayer

    Joaquin Turina

    Chamber Music Palm Beach

    8:00
  • 2:06 AM

    Little Serenade

    Lars-Erik Larsson

    Stockholm Sinfonietta

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    11:09
  • 2:01 AM

    Kasia Kadlubowska, percussion

    Dominik Bukowski, percussion

    4:36
  • 1:38 AM

    Theme and Variations

    Amy Beach

    San Marco Chamber Music Society

    20:27
  • 11:50 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Introduction and March

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    7:53
  • 11:45 PM

    The Maiden's Wish

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Etudes and 6 Polish Songs

    Luiza Borac, piano

    4:11
  • 11:36 PM

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    8:49
  • 11:23 PM

    Arion

    Jean-Louis Blouin, viola

    12:13
  • 11:16 PM

    Like a Singing Bird

    Bob Chilcott

    iSing Silicon Valley

    Jennah Delp Somers/Shane Troll, conductor

    4:36
  • 11:06 PM

    Danish National Chamber Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    9:20
  • 11:01 PM

    La Bergamasca: Sonata No. 21

    Marco Uccellini

    Arcadian Academy

    4:41
  • 10:51 PM

    Tancredi: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Favorite Overtures

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Thomas Schippers, conductor

    7:22
  • 10:44 PM

    Adriano in Siria: Overture

    Johann Christian Bach

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Simon Standage, conductor

    6:50
  • 10:26 PM

    Scenes from Childhood

    Robert Schumann

    Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano

    16:16
  • 10:19 PM

    Octet: 3rd movement

    Franz Schubert

    Gaudier Ensemble

    6:15
  • 10:11 PM

    Symphony No. 7: Scherzo

    Emilie Mayer

    Berlin Chamber Symphony Ensemble

    Jurgen Bruns, conductor

    6:46
  • 10:06 PM

    Canzon No. 7

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    Empire Brass & Friends

    3:55
  • 10:01 PM

    The Tempest: Act IV Overture

    Arthur Sullivan

    Kansas City Symphony

    Michael Stern, conductor

    4:46
  • 9:48 PM

    Benvenuto Cellini: Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Pictures at a Gallery

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    10:12
  • 9:46 PM

    Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    1:54
  • 9:39 PM

    String Quartet No. 3: Andante

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Emerson String Quartet

    5:25
  • 9:26 PM

    Serenade No. 1: Allegro molto

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Serenade No. 1, Variations on a Theme by Haydn

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    12:55
  • 9:12 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 1

    George Frideric Handel

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    11:29
  • 9:07 PM

    Waltz No. 1 "Grand Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Stephen Kovacevich, piano

    5:05
  • 9:03 PM

    Legend No. 7

    Antonin Dvorak

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    2:43
  • 8:50 PM

    Egmont Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 Pastoral

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    8:40
  • 8:45 PM

    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Eternal Vow

    Tan Dun

    Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

    Tan Dun & Chen Xie Yang, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    2:57
  • 8:33 PM

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

    Bedrich Smetana

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Libor Pesek, conductor

    12:30
  • 8:22 PM

    Bassoon Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia

    Bela Drahos, conductor

    Tamas Benkocs, bassoon

    8:59
  • 8:06 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 3

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Alfred Brendel, piano

    14:44
  • 8:01 PM

    The Birds of Aristophanes: Bridal March of the Birds

    Hubert Parry

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:44
  • 7:46 PM

    Cello Sonata

    Luigi Boccherini

    Anner Bylsma, cello

    Hopkinson Smith, guitar

    Wieland Kuijken, cello

    12:52
  • 5:47 PM

    Oboe Concerto

    Domenico Cimarosa

    Stuttgart Arcata Chamber Orchestra

    Patrick Strub, conductor

    Lajos Lencses, oboe

    10:22
  • 5:21 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
  • 5:15 PM

    Waltz No. 4

    Agustin Barrios

    Berta Rojas, guitar

    4:21
  • 5:06 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 2

    Arcangelo Corelli

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    8:43
  • 5:00 PM

    The Merrymakers

    Eric Coates

    Boult conducts Coates

    New Philharmonia Orchestra

    Adrian Boult, conductor

    4:34
  • 4:51 PM

    Das Rheingold: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Orchestral Music from The Ring

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    7:33
  • 4:40 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 4 "Vida breve"

    Stephen Hough

    Stephen Hough, piano

    9:26
  • 4:27 PM

    Symphony No. 9 "Choral": 2nd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Mad About Beethoven

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    10:17
  • 4:25 PM

    Ay, triste que vengo

    Juan del Encina

    Baltimore Consort

    1:42
  • 4:06 PM

    Divertimento No. 7

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Camerata Academica Salzburg

    Sandor Vegh, conductor

    19:04
  • 4:00 PM

    Symphony: 4th movement

    Johan Zander

    Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra

    Philip Brunelle, conductor

    4:44
  • 3:41 PM

    Concerto for Oboe and Violin

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    Isaac Stern, violin

    Harold Gomberg, oboe

    17:00
  • 3:30 PM

    Gymnopedies

    Erik Satie

    Miki Aoki, piano

    9:44
  • 3:16 PM

    Symphony No. 5: 4th movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    12:03
  • 3:06 PM

    Concerto for Three Trumpets

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Trumpet Concertos

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Simon Preston, conductor

    Hannes Laubin, trumpet

    9:28
  • 3:00 PM

    Loch Lomond

    Traditional

    Chanticleer

    4:39
  • 2:49 PM

    North Country Sketches: The March of Spring

    Frederick Delius

    Delius: A Walk in a Paradise Garden

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    9:03
  • 2:49 PM

    North Country Sketches: The March of Spring

    Frederick Delius

    Delius: A Walk in a Paradise Garden

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    9:03
  • 2:42 PM

    Asturias (Leyenda)

    Isaac Albeniz

    Albeniz, Turina: Works for the Guitar

    Manuel Barrueco, guitar

    6:42
  • 2:34 PM

    Portraits of Josephine: Paris 1925

    Valerie Coleman

    Imani Winds

    6:39
  • 2:17 PM

    Rhapsody in Blue

    George Gershwin

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Wayne Marshall, conductor

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    16:08
  • 2:12 PM

    Passamezzo Galliard

    William Byrd

    Gathering/Hui

    Belladonna

    3:44
  • 2:00 PM

    First Suite

    Gustav Holst

    Composer's Collection: Gustav Holst

    North Texas Wind Symphony

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    10:35
  • 1:49 PM

    Clarinet Quintet: 1st movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Tesla Quartet

    Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet

    9:29
  • 1:45 PM

    Humoresque No. 2

    Antonin Dvorak

    42: Orion Weiss Performs Dvorak, Bartok, Prokofiev

    Orion Weiss, piano

    2:37
  • 1:37 PM

    Overture "In the Italian Style"

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 2

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Edward Gardner, conductor

    6:49
  • 1:32 PM

    Molly on the Shore

    Percy Grainger

    Music of Percy Grainger

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

    3:54
  • 1:27 PM

    Caprice viennois (Viennese Caprice)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    Robert McDuffie, violin

    3:59
  • 1:19 PM

    Flute Concerto No. 1 "La Tempesta di Mare" ("Storm at Sea")

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: 6 Flute Concertos Op 10

    I Musici

    Aurele Nicolet, flute

    6:47
  • 1:16 PM

    Rondeau

    Jean-Joseph Mouret

    Wynton Marsalis: In Gabriel's Garden

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Anthony Newman, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

    2:02
  • 1:07 PM

    Fast Blue Village 2

    Elena Kats-Chernin

    Habemus Quartet

    5:56
  • 1:04 PM

    Peer Gynt: In The Hall Of The Mountain King

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 And 2

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    2:08
  • 12:51 PM

    Overture No. 2

    Louise Farrenc

    European Soloists, Luxembourg

    Christoph Konig, conductor

    7:07
  • 12:47 PM

    Hungarian Dance No. 5

    Johannes Brahms

    Joseph Alessi: Trombonastics

    Juilliard Alumni Trombone Choir

    Virginia Allen, conductor

    2:52
  • 12:43 PM

    La Vida Breve: Spanish Dance

    Manuel de Falla

    Carmen Fantasy

    Sergei Nakariakov, trumpet

    3:22
  • 12:34 PM

    The Italian Girl in London: Overture

    Domenico Cimarosa

    Toronto Chamber Orchestra

    Kevin Mallon, conductor

    7:37
  • 12:30 PM

    Pastorale

    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky, Bach, Stokowski

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    3:10
  • 12:21 PM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 2: 1st movement

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Kati Debretzeni, violin

    7:43
  • 12:16 PM

    Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Salut d'Amour

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    3:51
  • 12:11 PM

    Snowfall

    Claude Thornhill

    Swing, Swing, Swing

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    3:13
  • 12:04 PM

    Bourree Fantasque

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Chabrier: Orchestral Works

    Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    6:43
  • 11:51 AM

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

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven Piano Sonatas: Pathetique; Moonlight; Waldstein

    Garrick Ohlsson, piano

    6:53
  • 11:47 AM

    Latin American Dances: Dusk in Guadalajara

    Jose Elizondo

    Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vit Micka, conductor

    2:16
  • 11:40 AM

    Concertante for Flute and Clarinet: 3rd movement

    Franz Danzi

    Winged Creatures

    Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra

    Allen Tinkham, conductor

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    5:36
  • 11:35 AM

    Algerian Suite: French Military March

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Orchestra de Liege

    Paul Strauss, conductor

    4:04
  • 11:30 AM

    Concerto Grosso: March

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    4:30
  • 11:20 AM

    Capriol Suite

    Peter Warlock

    Moeran: Serenade; Warlock: Capriol Suite

    Ulster Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    9:12
  • 11:16 AM

    Slavonic Dance No. 13

    Antonin Dvorak

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    2:42
  • 11:10 AM

    Serenade No. 9 "Posthorn": 6th movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    More Mozart's Greatest Hits

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    5:08
  • 11:04 AM

    Anderson & Roe Piano Duo

    4:49
  • 10:42 AM

    Fort Smith Symphony

    John Jeter, conductor

    16:26
  • 10:34 AM

    Music for the Royal Fireworks: Overture

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Music For The Royal Fireworks

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    7:42
  • 10:25 AM

    Waltz-Scherzo

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto

    Russian National Orchestra

    Yakov Kreizberg, conductor

    Julia Fischer, violin

    7:44
  • 10:20 AM

    Carmen: Entrance of the Toreadors

    Georges Bizet

    Dies Irae: The Essential Choral Collection

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    3:52
  • 10:16 AM

    Japanese Folk Song Suite No. 2: Yagibushi

    Hajime Komatsu

    Apollo Chamber Players

    3:11
  • 10:09 AM

    Scherzando No. 1

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    FJ and JM Haydn: Flute Concertos

    Haydn Ensemble Berlin

    Emmanuel Pahud, flute

    6:13
  • 10:06 AM

    Etude No. 10

    Frederic Chopin

    Sviatoslav Richter, piano

    2:13
  • 10:01 AM

    New Zealand Suite: Milford Sound

    Ron Goodwin

    GOODWIN: Drake 400 Suite / New Zealand Suite

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    Ron Goodwin, conductor

    4:50
  • 9:46 AM

    Serenade for Strings

    Edward Elgar

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    11:47
  • 9:32 AM

    Indian Queen: selections

    Henry Purcell

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    12:40
  • 9:17 AM

    Andean Folk Dances

    Celso Garrido-Lecca

    Garrido-Lecca: Peruvian Suite; Symphonic Tableaux; Andean Folk Dances; Laudes II

    Norwegian Radio Orchestra

    Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

    12:59
  • 9:06 AM

    Scheherazade: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Tsar Saltan Suite etc.

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    10:39
  • 9:01 AM

    Rumba Machine

    Martin Butler

    Martin Butler: Dirty Beasts & Other Chamber Works

    Martin Butler, piano

    4:40
  • 8:42 AM

    Blackberry Winter

    Conni Ellisor

    Conversations in Silence

    Nashville Chamber Orchestra

    Paul Gambill, conductor

    Stephen Seifert, mountain dulcimer and Tennessee music box

    16:46
  • 8:34 AM

    Intermezzo: Dreaming by the Fireside

    Richard Strauss

    Richard Strauss: Tone Poems

    Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra

    Marc Albrecht, conductor

    7:21
  • 8:13 AM

    Sextet for Winds

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leipzig Radio Orchestra Winds

    19:25
  • 8:06 AM

    Suite Colombiana No. 2: Guabina Viajera

    Gentil Montana

    Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar

    5:55
  • 8:01 AM

    Old and Lost Rivers

    Tobias Picker

    London Symphony Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    4:34
  • 7:27 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 17

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concerto KV 453, Piano Quintet KV 452

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    31:02
  • 7:23 AM

    Louise Dubin, cello

    Julia Bruskin, cello

    3:53
  • 7:06 AM

    Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra

    Samuel Friedman, conductor

    15:07
  • 7:01 AM

    L'incoronazione di Poppea: Pur ti miro

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Axiom Quartet

    4:35
  • 6:29 AM

    Symphony No. 2 "Romantic"

    Howard Hanson

    RCA Symphony Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    28:47
  • 6:23 AM

    La Muzette

    Robert de Visee

    La Mascarade

    Rolf Lislevand, Baroque guitar

    4:07
  • 6:06 AM

    French Suite No. 5

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    The French Suites

    Murray Perahia, piano

    16:52
  • 6:01 AM

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    4:47
  • 5:43 AM

    Flute Serenade

    Max Reger

    Reger: Serenades Nos, 1 & 2

    Andras Adorjan, flute

    15:31
  • 5:21 AM

    Symphony No. 3

    Arvo Part

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Franz Welser-Most, conductor

    21:06
  • 5:16 AM

    Paduana and Galliard

    Johann Schein

    Royal Brass: Music from the Renaissance & Baroque

    Empire Brass

    3:43
  • 5:01 AM

    Mosaics: Scenes from Summer

    Aminollah Hossein

    East Of Melancholy

    Tara Kamangar, piano

    4:40