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  • 4:46 AM

    Ballade No. 4

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 | Ballades

    Seong-Jin Cho, piano

    12:07
  • 4:38 AM

    Ballade No. 3

    Frederic Chopin

    Seong-Jin Cho, piano

    7:48
  • 4:31 AM

    Ballade No. 2

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 | Ballades

    Seong-Jin Cho, piano

    7:35
  • 4:21 AM

    Ballade No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    Seong-Jin Cho, piano

    10:01
  • 4:07 AM

    Symphony No. 10: 3rd movement

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Andris Nelsons, conductor

    12:41
  • 4:01 AM

    Three Country Dances

    John Playford

    Broadside Band

    Jeremy Barlow, conductor

    4:43
  • 3:50 AM

    Iberia: El Albaicin

    Isaac Albeniz

    IBERIA Y FRANCIA

    Imogen Cooper, piano

    8:09
  • 3:15 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius, Chausson

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin

    34:04
  • 3:06 AM

    Palladian Ensemble

    6:47
  • 3:01 AM

    Night and Day

    Cole Porter

    Night and Day

    Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin

    4:34
  • 2:35 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 16

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 9

    Bernard Roberts, piano

    23:01
  • 2:20 AM

    Motet: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Sixteen

    Harry Christophers, conductor

    13:49
  • 2:13 AM

    Elegy for Cello and Orchestra

    John Williams

    Recording Arts Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    6:17
  • 2:06 AM

    Serenade for Winds: 4th movement

    Emil Hartmann

    Consortium Classicum

    5:45
  • 2:01 AM

    Dance: When you're broken open

    Anna Clyne

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    Inbal Segev, cello

    4:39
  • 1:40 AM

    An American in Paris

    George Gershwin

    Seattle Symphony

    Ludovic Morlot, conductor

    18:35
  • 1:30 AM

    El canto del ruisenor (The Song of the Nightingale)

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Sarasate

    Julia Fischer, violin

    8:20
  • 1:17 AM

    Marimba Concerto: 3rd movement

    Alexis Alrich

    City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong

    Jean Thorel, conductor

    Evelyn Glennie, marimba

    11:48
  • 1:06 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Pinchas Zukerman, violin

    9:26
  • 1:01 AM

    String Symphony No. 8: 3rd movement

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra

    Scott Yoo, conductor

    4:50
  • 12:38 AM

    November Woods

    Arnold Bax

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    20:27
  • 11:50 PM

    Julius Caesar Overture

    Robert Schumann

    Swedish Chamber Orchestra

    Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

    8:23
  • 11:27 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 5

    Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    Women's Philharmonic

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Terry Baune, violin

    21:15
  • 11:15 PM

    Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    New World Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    9:35
  • 11:06 PM

    Rustic Suite (Suite Champetre)

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Spring Song, The Bard, etc.

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    9:01
  • 11:00 PM

    Sacred Heart (Ubi Caritas III)

    Ola Gjeilo

    Ola Gjeilo

    Voces8

    Ben Hancox, violin

    4:37
  • 10:51 PM

    Letter from Home

    Aaron Copland

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    6:21
  • 10:28 PM

    Symphonic Variations

    Antonin Dvorak

    North German Radio Symphony

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    21:08
  • 10:20 PM

    Clarinet Quintet: 1st movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart at the Movies

    Harold Wright, clarinet

    7:07
  • 10:16 PM

    Canzon Noni Toni

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    Gabrieli and St. Marks: Venetian Brass Music

    Wallace Collection

    2:52
  • 10:06 PM

    An Irish Symphony: Twelfth of July

    Hamilton Harty

    Ulster Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    10:10
  • 10:01 PM

    12 Contradances: Nos. 1-5

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra

    Michi Gaigg, conductor

    4:50
  • 9:54 PM

    String Symphony No. 7: 3rd movement

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Sphinx Virtuosi

    Damon Gupton, conductor

    3:55
  • 9:51 PM

    La rosa y el sauce (The Rose and the Willow)

    Carlos Guastavino

    Kim Kashkashian, viola

    Robert Levin, piano

    2:16
  • 9:22 PM

    Symphony No. 68

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

    Nicholas McGegan, conductor

    27:44
  • 9:16 PM

    Air and Simple Gifts

    John Williams

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    Gabriela Montero, piano

    4:30
  • 9:06 PM

    Overture on Hebrew Themes

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    Jorja Fleezanis, violin

    Ian Swensen, violin

    Paul Neubauer, viola

    David Finckel, cello

    Anna Polonsky, piano

    9:34
  • 9:03 PM

    Seven Popular Spanish Songs: Asturiana

    Manuel de Falla

    Cantilena

    Tabea Zimmermann, viola

    2:35
  • 8:47 PM

    Prelude, Fugue, and Variation

    Cesar Franck

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    10:20
  • 8:42 PM

    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

    Florence Price

    Apollo Chamber Players

    4:56
  • 8:34 PM

    Suite for Violin and Piano: Mother and Child

    William Grant Still

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    Matthew Hagle, piano

    6:18
  • 8:25 PM

    Harlem Symphony: April in Harlem

    James Price Johnson

    Concordia

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    7:45
  • 8:20 PM

    Sonata "Fuga del Gatto" (Cat's Fugue Sonata)

    Domenico Scarlatti

    Scarlatti: Piano Sonatas

    Yevgeny Sudbin, piano

    3:56
  • 8:06 PM

    Little Concert Suite

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    13:36
  • 8:01 PM

    The Prince and the Pauper

    Erich Korngold

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    4:48
  • 7:41 PM

    Clarinet Concerto

    Aaron Copland

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    Stanley Drucker, clarinet

    17:43
  • 5:58 PM

    Prelude No. 10

    Frederic Chopin

    The Complete Chopin Preludes

    Yundi Li, piano

    :24
  • 5:36 PM

    String Quintet No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: The String Quintets

    Amadeus Quartet

    Cecil Aronowitz, viola

    22:15
  • 5:32 PM

    Appalachian Barn Dance

    Traditional

    Come to the River: An Early American Gathering

    Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra

    Jeannette Sorrell, conductor

    2:24
  • 5:28 PM

    Ford's Farm

    Mason Bates

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    Cory Smythe, piano

    3:19
  • 5:06 PM

    Harp Concerto

    Francois Boieldieu

    Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra

    Antonio de Almeida, conductor

    Catherine Michel, harp

    20:29
  • 5:01 PM

    Kroke

    Nigel Kennedy, violin

    John Anderson, oboe

    Janice Knight, oboe

    Julie Price, bassoon

    David Heath, flute

    Doug Boyle, guitar

    4:41
  • 4:47 PM

    Second Suite

    Gustav Holst

    Composer's Collection: Gustav Holst

    North Texas Wind Symphony

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    11:33
  • 4:25 PM

    Variations for Piano and Orchestra

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Verdi Discoveries

    Milan Symphony Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    20:17
  • 4:21 PM

    Be Nort Da Dykes O'voe/Deltingside

    Traditional Shetland

    Nordic Fiddlers Bloc

    1:51
  • 4:06 PM

    Concerto for Recorder and Viola

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Michala Petri, recorder

    Pinchas Zukerman, viola

    14:44
  • 4:01 PM

    Quartet San Francisco

    Jeremy Cohen, violin

    Kayo Miki, violin

    Emily Onderdonk, viola

    Joel Cohen, cello

    4:37
  • 3:54 PM

    Mlada: Procession of the Nobles

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Orchestral Spectaculars

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    4:30
  • 3:51 PM

    Issam Rafea, oud

    Gao Hong, pipa

    2:46
  • 3:27 PM

    Symphony No. 100 "Military"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Musicians of the Louvre

    Marc Minkowski, conductor

    22:35
  • 3:18 PM

    Years of Pilgrimage: Sonetto 123 del Petraca

    Franz Liszt

    Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

    7:23
  • 3:06 PM

    Oboe Concerto

    Alessandro Marcello

    A Baroque Feast

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    John Abberger, oboe

    11:10
  • 3:01 PM

    Algerian Suite: French Military March

    Camille Saint-Saens

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Yondani Butt, conductor

    4:30
  • 2:49 PM

    Nocturnes: Sirenes

    Claude Debussy

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    9:35
  • 2:47 PM

    Nocturnes: Sirenes

    Claude Debussy

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    9:35
  • 2:40 PM

    Impromptu No. 6

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius

    Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

    6:09
  • 2:16 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 3

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Richard Egarr, conductor

    22:21
  • 2:05 PM

    Variations on an African American Spiritual

    Joshua McGhee

    Where Freedom Rings: Compositions by Contemporary African American Composers

    Picasso Ensemble

    9:55
  • 1:59 PM

    Rosamunde: Hunter's Chorus

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Rosamunde

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    4:27
  • 1:54 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 3

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Opp. 46 & 72

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Rafael Kubelik, conductor

    4:10
  • 1:47 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 8 "Pathetique": 2nd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Emil Gilels, piano

    5:45
  • 1:43 PM

    Budapest Clarinet Quintet

    :00
  • 1:30 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 3

    George Frideric Handel

    I Musici

    11:35
  • 1:22 PM

    Sphinx Virtuosi

    Damon Gupton, conductor

    6:34
  • 1:18 PM

    Three Romances: No. 1

    Clara Schumann

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    3:01
  • 1:08 PM

    Symphony No. 5 "Western Hemisphere": 4th movement

    William Grant Still

    Fort Smith Symphony

    John Jeter, conductor

    6:47
  • 1:04 PM

    The Prince of Denmark's March

    Jeremiah Clarke

    Wynton Marsalis: In Gabriel's Garden

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Anthony Newman, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

    2:50
  • 12:44 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Classical"

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1-3

    Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    13:59
  • 12:31 PM

    Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    10:50
  • 12:25 PM

    Legend No. 6

    Antonin Dvorak

    Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    5:02
  • 12:20 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 2: 1st movement

    William Alwyn

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    4:36
  • 12:17 PM

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    2:09
  • 12:07 PM

    Schwanda the Bagpiper: Polka and Fugue

    Jaromir Weinberger

    Orchestral Spectaculars

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    8:27
  • 12:04 PM

    A Chloris (To Chloris)

    Reynaldo Hahn

    Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Olivieri-Munroe, conductor

    Sol Gabetta, cello

    2:26
  • 11:47 AM

    Tales from the Vienna Woods

    Johann StraussJr.

    Strauss: Gala II

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    11:05
  • 11:43 AM

    Wand of Youth: The Little Bells

    Edward Elgar

    Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    2:36
  • 11:40 AM

    Wand of Youth: Fountain Dance

    Edward Elgar

    Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    2:34
  • 11:34 AM

    Skipping Stones

    Michael Fine

    Alice K. Dade, flute

    Scott Yoo, violin

    Erik Arvinder, violin

    Maurycy Banaszek, viola

    Jonah Kim, cello

    Susan Cahill, double bass

    4:53
  • 11:29 AM

    String Trio: Minuet

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Complete Trios

    Grumiaux Trio

    3:59
  • 11:19 AM

    Concerto Serenade: 1st movement

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Rodrigo: Concertos and Orchestral Works

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    Nancy Allen, harp

    8:31
  • 11:14 AM

    Canzona Bergamasca

    Samuel Scheidt

    Royal Brass: Music from the Renaissance & Baroque

    Empire Brass

    4:03
  • 11:07 AM

    Raymonda: Grand Adagio

    Alexander Glazunov

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor

    5:14
  • 11:04 AM

    Memory Mist

    Florence Price

    Holes in the Sky

    Lara Downes, piano

    2:39
  • 10:35 AM

    Alessandro Ballet Music

    Christoph Gluck

    Musica Antiqua Cologne

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor

    23:37
  • 10:19 AM

    Cape Breton Concerto

    Brian Packham

    Highlands

    Camerata Bariloche

    Chris Norman, flute

    14:54
  • 10:14 AM

    Ofra Harnoy, cello

    Mike Herriott, trombone

    3:58
  • 10:06 AM

    Rivers, Set 2: No. 4

    Ann Southam

    Southam, A.: Canadian Composers Portraits

    Christina Petrowska Quilico, piano

    6:16
  • 10:01 AM

    Sarabande

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Ludovico Einaudi: Portrait

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:42
  • 9:43 AM

    Idomeneo: Ballet Music: Selections

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Complete Mozart Edition, Vol. 25: Theatre and Ballet Music

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    15:01
  • 9:33 AM

    Flute Sonatina

    Henri Dutilleux

    Emmanuel Pahud, flute

    Eric le Sage, piano

    9:07
  • 9:17 AM

    Little Suite

    Carl Nielsen

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Richard Studt, conductor

    15:51
  • 9:06 AM

    Theme and Variations

    Jean Francaix

    Sinfonia Iuventas

    Gabriel Chmura, conductor

    Waldemar Zarow, clarinet

    8:28
  • 9:01 AM

    Scherzo-Tarantelle

    Henryk Wieniawski

    Introducing Shannon Lee, violin

    Shannon Lee, violin

    4:39
  • 8:55 AM

    Tristesse (The Sad One)

    Gabriel Faure

    Apres un reve

    Mischa Maisky, cello

    3:06
  • 8:30 AM

    Harp Concerto

    Nino Rota

    Nino Rota

    Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Jennifer Swartz, harp

    24:21
  • 8:09 AM

    Symphony No. 62

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Philharmonia Hungarica

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    20:01
  • 8:06 AM

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    2:05
  • 8:01 AM

    Caitlin Sullivan, cello

    4:37
  • 7:47 AM

    Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    11:45
  • 7:41 AM

    Fretwork

    5:12
  • 7:06 AM

    Symphony No. 6 "Dollar"

    Kurt Atterberg

    Atterberg: Symphony No. 6, etc.

    Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

    Jun'ichi Hirokami, conductor

    33:27
  • 7:01 AM

    Der Erlkonig (The Elf King)

    Franz Schubert

    Valerie Tryon, piano

    4:36
  • 6:33 AM

    String Quartet No. 13

    Nikolay Myaskovsky

    Pacifica String Quartet

    25:36
  • 6:30 AM

    Prelude No. 6

    Paul Bowles

    Exiles' Cafe

    Lara Downes, piano

    1:50
  • 6:06 AM

    Berlin Chamber Orchestra

    Max Pommer, conductor

    Burkhard Glaetzner, oboe

    22:29
  • 6:01 AM

    The Mist: Part 1

    Franz Bak

    Nordic Noir

    Trondheim Soloists

    Mari Samuelsen, violin

    4:46
  • 5:49 AM

    Sicilienne et Burlesque

    Alfredo Casella

    Immanuel Davis, flute

    Stephen Gosling, piano

    9:30
  • 5:44 AM

    Mass for Pope Marcellus: Sanctus

    Giovanni Palestrina

    Roma Aeterna

    New York Polyphony

    3:48
  • 5:06 AM

    Symphony No. 3

    Johannes Brahms

    BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3 / Haydn Variations

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    36:30
  • 5:01 AM

    Faust, the Damned: Mirror Pas de Deux

    Laszlo Dubrovay

    László Dubrovay: Faust, the Damned

    Budapest Symphony Orchestra

    Laszlo Kovacs, conductor

    4:37