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  • 4:31 AM

    Tristan and Isolde: Love Scene and Transfiguration

    Richard Wagner

    Songs of the Earth

    Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

    John Mauceri, conductor

    27:09
  • 4:28 AM

    Magic Hour

    Kenji Bunch

    Ahn Trio: Lullaby For My Favorite Insomniac

    Ahn Trio

    2:26
  • 4:06 AM

    Nocturnal Dances of Don Juanquixote (Chamber Music III)

    Aulis Sallinen

    Sallinen: Violin Concerto; Don Juanquixote, etc.

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    Torleif Thedeen, cello

    20:34
  • 4:01 AM

    Prelude No. 1

    Ketil Bjornstad

    Ketil Bjornstad, piano

    4:37
  • 3:48 AM

    Violin Concerto: Ballad

    Aaron Jay Kernis

    Seattle Symphony

    Ludovic Morlot, conductor

    James Ehnes, violin

    10:25
  • 3:22 AM

    Piano Quintet No. 2

    Ernst von Dohnanyi

    Dohnányi: Piano Quintets Nos.1 & 2, String Quartet No.2

    Takacs Quartet

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    25:38
  • 3:07 AM

    Parley of Instruments

    12:51
  • 3:01 AM

    The Seasons: June (Barcarolle)

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    100 Best Classics

    Mikhail Pletnev, piano

    4:35
  • 2:33 AM

    Fantasie for Violin and Piano

    Franz Schubert

    Tessa Lark, violin

    Amy Yang, piano

    25:22
  • 2:27 AM

    Games (Sonatine for Flute and Piano)

    Jacques Ibert

    "Paris"

    Emmanuel Pahud, flute

    5:09
  • 2:24 AM

    The Circus Bee

    Henry Fillmore

    Eastman Wind Ensemble

    Frederick Fennell, conductor

    2:27
  • 2:22 AM

    La Jongleuse (The Juggler)

    Moritz Moszkowski

    Jorge Bolet: Encores

    Jorge Bolet, piano

    2:01
  • 2:06 AM

    Sin Fronteras

    Clarice Assad

    Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    13:29
  • 2:01 AM

    String Poetic: Nocturne

    Jennifer Higdon

    String Poetic

    Jennifer Koh, violin

    4:46
  • 1:52 AM

    Alleluia

    Valentin Silvestrov

    Valentin Silvestrov: Sacred Works

    Kiev Chamber Choir

    Mykola Hobdych, conductor

    5:59
  • 1:48 AM

    Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (I Call to Thee, Lord Jesus Christ)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    City Lights

    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Strings

    Lisa Batiashvili, violin

    3:29
  • 1:42 AM

    Jeffrey Biegel, piano

    5:21
  • 1:07 AM

    Symphony No. 2

    Adolf Lindblad

    Uppsala Chamber Orchestra

    Gerard Korsten, conductor

    33:48
  • 1:01 AM

    Basse Danse

    Thoinot Arbeau

    Broadside Band

    4:33
  • 12:48 AM

    Fantasy on a Hymn by Justin Morgan

    Thomas Canning

    Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    10:14
  • 12:26 AM

    Terzetto

    Niccolo Paganini

    Paganini: Quartets & Terzetto for Strings and Guitar

    Mozart String Trio

    Anthea Gifford, guitar

    21:05
  • 12:20 AM

    Poem

    Zdenek Fibich

    Claire Jones: Royal Harp Strings

    London Mozart Players

    Stuart Morley, conductor

    Claire Jones, harp

    4:21
  • 12:07 AM

    Gulbenkian Orchestra

    Pedro Neves, conductor

    Bruno Borralhinho, cello

    12:44
  • 12:01 AM

    Ballade No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Handel Variations/Ballades

    Pascal Roge, piano

    4:38
  • 11:28 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 17

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos nos 17 & 23

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Goode, piano

    30:35
  • 11:16 PM

    Scheherazade: The Young Prince and the Young Princess

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, Russian Easter Overture

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Spano, conductor

    Cecylia Arzewski, violin

    10:17
  • 11:10 PM

    Musical Moment No. 6

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: Etudes-tableaux, op. 39; Moments musicaux, op. 16

    Boris Giltburg, piano

    5:02
  • 11:07 PM

    Moment Musical

    Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson

    SVEINBJORNSSON: Piano Trios / Violin Sonata

    Audur Hafsteinsdottir, violin

    2:36
  • 11:01 PM

    The Woods so Wild

    William Byrd

    Ayreheart

    4:32
  • 10:52 PM

    Scottish March (Marche ecossaise)

    Claude Debussy

    French National Radio and Television Orchestra

    Jean Martinon, conductor

    6:27
  • 10:20 PM

    Violin Sonata

    Helena Munktell

    Tobias Ringborg, violin

    Peter Friis Johansson, piano

    29:57
  • 10:12 PM

    A Moonlit Night on the Spring River

    Traditional Chinese

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    7:17
  • 10:07 PM

    The rising of the moon

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Bart Schneemann, oboe

    Paolo Giacometti, piano

    4:34
  • 10:01 PM

    Wiegenlied (Lullaby)

    Richard Strauss

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Eivind Aadland, conductor

    Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet

    4:26
  • 9:34 PM

    Variations on a Nursery Song

    Ernst von Dohnanyi

    Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Song

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Eldar Nebolsin, piano

    24:12
  • 9:26 PM

    Fantasia on a Scots Air (Introduction and Variations on "Ye Banks and Ye Braes")

    Fernando Sor

    David Russell, guitar

    6:52
  • 9:22 PM

    Four Scottish Dances: Allegretto

    Malcolm Arnold

    Arnold for Band

    Dallas Wind Symphony

    Jerry Junkin, conductor

    4:15
  • 9:13 PM

    Oboe Concerto No. 9

    Tomaso Albinoni

    ALBINONI: Oboe Concertos, Vol. 2

    London Virtuosi

    John Georgiadis, conductor

    Anthony Camden, oboe

    7:35
  • 9:07 PM

    Romance for Violin and Piano

    Gabriel Faure

    Isabelle Faust, violin

    Florent Boffard, piano

    5:20
  • 9:01 PM

    Scotch Strathspey and Reel

    Percy Grainger

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    4:39
  • 8:43 PM

    Divertissement

    Jacques Ibert

    Ulster Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    15:26
  • 8:26 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Yundi Li, piano

    15:44
  • 8:22 PM

    36 Greek Dances: Kleftikos

    Nikos Skalkottas

    A Sicilian Traveller

    Avos Chamber Orchestra

    Alessio Pianelli, cello

    2:01
  • 8:20 PM

    36 Greek Dances: Ipirotikos

    Nikos Skalkottas

    Avos Chamber Orchestra

    Alessio Pianelli, cello

    1:41
  • 8:06 PM

    Rebel

    Jorg-Michael Schwarz, conductor

    Matthias Maute, flute

    12:45
  • 8:01 PM

    Academy Chamber Ensemble

    4:44
  • 7:46 PM

    Italian Concerto

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Italian Concerto; French Overture; Aria Variata

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

    12:01
  • 4:42 PM

    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony, etc.

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Adrian Boult, conductor

    16:33
  • 4:33 PM

    Sonata for Trumpet and Strings

    Henry Purcell

    Baroque Trumpet Music

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    John Wallace, trumpet

    6:43
  • 4:23 PM

    Symphony No. 7

    John Marsh

    Marsh: Symphonies

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    10:01
  • 4:15 PM

    Gary Hammond, piano

    6:27
  • 4:06 PM

    Don Quixote: Grand Pas de Deux

    Leon Minkus

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    8:07
  • 4:01 PM

    Gold Dust Waltz

    Erik Satie

    Anne Queffelec, piano

    4:33
  • 3:52 PM

    We Shall Overcome

    Spiritual

    The Aeolians

    The Aeolians

    Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor

    6:30
  • 3:44 PM

    Elegy - In Memoriam - Stephen Lawrence

    Philip Herbert

    Spark Catchers

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Anthony Parnther, conductor

    6:54
  • 3:13 PM

    Symphony No. 3

    Florence Price

    Women's Philharmonic

    Apo Hsu, conductor

    29:20
  • 3:06 PM

    Generations: Sinfonietta No. 2: Alla sarabande

    Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Serenely Cedille: Relaxing Rarities From Chicago's Classical Label

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    5:36
  • 3:01 PM

    Prelude: 2nd movement

    William Grant Still

    New Zealand String Quartet

    Alexa Still, flute

    Susan DeWitt Smith, piano

    4:30
  • 2:52 PM

    Waltz No. 2 "Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin

    Claudio Arrau, piano

    6:12
  • 2:32 PM

    Guitar Concerto No. 1

    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Miguel Gomez Martinez, conductor

    Eduardo Fernandez, guitar

    19:49
  • 2:15 PM

    Horn Concerto

    Leopold Mozart

    Swedish Chamber Orchestra

    Nicholas McGegan, conductor

    Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn

    14:28
  • 2:11 PM

    The Willow Tree

    Traditional

    The Lark in the Clear Air

    Cambridge Singers

    John Rutter, conductor

    2:58
  • 2:06 PM

    Serenade for Strings: Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    4:01
  • 2:01 PM

    Piano Trio No. 1 "Four Seasons in Belleville": Spring

    Rick Sowash

    Mirecourt Trio

    4:40
  • 1:26 PM

    String Quintet "American"

    Antonin Dvorak

    Emerson String Quartet

    Paul Neubauer, viola

    32:36
  • 1:19 PM

    Hook: Flight to Neverland

    John Williams

    John Williams in Vienna

    Vienna Philharmonic

    John Williams, conductor

    5:06
  • 1:15 PM

    Curtain Tune on a Ground

    Henry Purcell

    Collegium Musicum 90

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    2:11
  • 1:06 PM

    Huapango

    Jose Moncayo

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    Keith Lockhart, conductor

    8:00
  • 1:01 PM

    Nocturne No. 10

    Frederic Chopin

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    4:41
  • 10:57 AM

    Children's Games (Jeux d'enfants): The Top

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet, Ravel, Faure

    Katia & Marielle Labeque, pianos

    1:00
  • 10:40 AM

    Children's Corner

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Petite Suite, etc

    Ulster Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    17:09
  • 10:30 AM

    Three Movements from Petrushka: La semaine grasse

    Igor Stravinsky

    Tippet Rise OPUS 2016: Domo

    Jenny Chen, piano

    8:18
  • 10:20 AM

    Sonata da Camera

    George Frideric Handel

    Baroque Music for Brass and Organ

    Empire Brass

    William Kuhlman, organ

    9:32
  • 10:06 AM

    Fantasy on Der Freischutz

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Emmanuel Pahud, flute

    11:39
  • 10:01 AM

    Go, My Children

    Traditional

    Great Hymns of Faith II

    St. Olaf Choir

    Anton Armstrong, conductor

    4:50
  • 9:45 AM

    Fantasia

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: 3 Piano Sonatas

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    13:07
  • 9:26 AM

    Clarinet Concerto No. 10

    Carl Stamitz

    Johann & Carl Stamitz: Clarinet Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    17:23
  • 9:19 AM

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    Stuart Duncan, fiddle

    Chris Thile, mandolin

    Edgar Meyer, double bass

    5:40
  • 9:06 AM

    Transylvanian Symphony for Strings

    Kurt Schwertsik

    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

    HK Gruber, conductor

    11:55
  • 9:01 AM

    Clio Gould, violin

    Rachel Portman, piano

    4:33
  • 8:12 AM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique"

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    45:56
  • 8:06 AM

    Romance

    Bent Sorensen

    Full Circle

    Seunghee Lee, clarinet

    4:30
  • 8:01 AM

    The Queen's Delight; Half hanniken

    Anonymous

    The Queen's Delight

    King's Noyse

    4:35
  • 7:46 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 24

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Piano Sonatas

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    11:57
  • 7:37 AM

    Summer Pastorale

    Arthur Honegger

    Honegger: Pacific 231, Horace Victorieux Etc.

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Michel Plasson, conductor

    8:55
  • 7:10 AM

    Concierto Antillano

    Ernesto Cordero

    Sofia Soloists

    Plamen Djurov, conductor

    Carlos Barbosa-Lima, guitar

    25:58
  • 7:06 AM

    The Hope of Loving: The Hope of Loving

    Jake Runestad

    Conspirare

    Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

    Stefanie Moore, soprano

    Dann Coakwell, tenor

    Simon Barrad, baritone

    Stephen Redfield, violin

    Caleb Polashek, violin

    Bruce Williams, viola

    2:45
  • 7:01 AM

    Harp Consort No. 3

    William Lawes

    Lawes: Harp Consorts

    Les Voix Humaines

    Maxine Eilander, harp

    4:40
  • 6:29 AM

    Piano Sextet

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Martha Argerich And Friends Live From The Lugano Festival 2009

    Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

    29:05
  • 6:27 AM

    New York Waltzes: Waltz No. 2

    Lou Harrison

    Lara Downes, piano

    1:16
  • 6:06 AM

    Concerto Ballata

    Alexander Glazunov

    Russian National Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    Wen-Sinn Yang, cello

    19:51
  • 6:01 AM

    Views of the Sea: 1st movement

    Eduard Toldra

    Andorra National Chamber Orchestra

    Gerard Claret, conductor

    4:38
  • 5:53 AM

    Chorale

    Errollyn Wallen

    Timelapse

    Orchestra of the Swan

    5:00
  • 5:17 AM

    Symphony No. 3 "A Pastoral Symphony"

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    36:09
  • 5:06 AM

    Serenade for Winds

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: An Alpine Symphony, Serenade

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Edo de Waart, conductor

    8:49
  • 5:01 AM

    Elegy

    Alla Pavlova

    Alla Pavlova: Symphony No. 5; Elegy

    Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra

    Vladimir Ziva, conductor

    Andrei Korobeinikov, piano

    4:36