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  • 4:23 AM

    Triple Concerto

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven Piano Concertos Part 1

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Alan Gilbert, conductor

    Inon Barnatan, piano

    35:42
  • 4:16 AM

    First Xinjiang Dance

    Ding Shan-de

    Shanghai Philharmonic

    Cao Peng, conductor

    5:01
  • 4:06 AM

    Alleluia and Fugue for Strings

    Alan Hovhaness

    Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain; And God Created Great Whales

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    9:18
  • 4:01 AM

    A Scotts Tune; A Scots Tune; Swit Sant Nickola

    Anonymous Scottish

    softLOUD

    Sean Shibe, guitar

    4:49
  • 3:44 AM

    Calidore String Quartet

    14:25
  • 3:22 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Lang Lang, piano

    20:50
  • 3:07 AM

    The Winter's Tale Overture

    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

    West Australian Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Penny, conductor

    13:23
  • 3:01 AM

    Water Night

    Eric Whitacre

    Elora Festival Singers

    Noel Edison, conductor

    4:32
  • 2:45 AM

    Fantasy on French Folk Themes

    Vincent d'Indy

    Wurttemberg Philharmonic

    Jean-Marc Burfin, conductor

    Philippe Cousu, oboe

    13:38
  • 2:26 AM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 3

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

    Janos Rolla, conductor

    Cyprien Katsaris, piano

    16:27
  • 2:20 AM

    Avos Chamber Orchestra

    Alessio Pianelli, cello

    5:02
  • 2:06 AM

    Grand Overture No. 3

    Johann Christian Bach

    English Symphony Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    13:11
  • 2:01 AM

    String Quartet No. 2: Scherzo

    Alexander Borodin

    Cleveland Quartet

    4:46
  • 1:49 AM

    Horn Concerto No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Peter Damm, horn

    9:02
  • 1:43 AM

    Carolan's Concerto

    Turlough O'Carolan

    Italian Concerto

    Harp Consort

    Andrew Lawrence-King, conductor

    Andrew Lawrence-King, harp

    5:17
  • 1:28 AM

    Suite for Strings

    Armstrong Gibbs

    Guildhall Strings

    Robert Salter, conductor

    14:02
  • 1:06 AM

    Petite Symphony

    Charles Gounod

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    20:00
  • 1:01 AM

    Koanga: La Calinda

    Frederick Delius

    Halle Orchestra

    John Barbirolli, conductor

    4:31
  • 12:50 AM

    Air and Scherzo

    Henry Cowell

    Manhattan Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Auldon Clark, conductor

    Gary Louie, saxophone

    8:06
  • 12:26 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 5 "Spring"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    Martha Argerich, piano

    23:36
  • 12:17 AM

    Kamarinskaya

    Mikhail Glinka

    Kabalevsky, Prokofiev, Glinka, Tchaikovsky

    San Diego Chamber Orchestra

    Donald Barra, conductor

    6:09
  • 12:06 AM

    Chamber Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Musica Pacifica

    10:20
  • 12:01 AM

    Bees and Bumblebees

    Eugene Arcade Dede

    Gowanus Arts Ensemble

    Reuben Blundell, conductor

    4:33
  • 11:40 PM

    Concert Piece for Four Horns

    Robert Schumann

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Christian Thielemann, conductor

    18:47
  • 11:26 PM

    String Quartet No. 12 "American"

    Antonin Dvorak

    Smetana, Dvorak: String Quartets

    Guarneri Quartet

    25:39
  • 11:01 PM

    La Mer (The Sea)

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes, Etc

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    23:37
  • 10:22 PM

    Serenade for Strings

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    30:25
  • 10:04 PM

    Tales from the Vienna Woods

    Johann StraussJr.

    New Year's Concert 2014

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Wilfrid Scharf, zither

    11:45
  • 9:42 PM

    Miss Sally's Party

    William Grant Still

    VocalEssence Orchestra

    Philip Brunelle, conductor

    19:02
  • 9:37 PM

    Cello Suite No. 1: Gigue

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Inspired by Bach

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    1:42
  • 9:33 PM

    Cello Suite No. 1: Allemande

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Six Evolutions

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    4:16
  • 9:31 PM

    Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Essential Yo-Yo Ma

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    2:17
  • 9:20 PM

    The Stars and Stripes Forever

    John Philip Sousa

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    3:33
  • 9:14 PM

    Porgy and Bess: Summertime

    George Gershwin

    The Essential Leontyne Price

    RCA Symphony Orchestra

    Skitch Henderson, conductor

    Leontyne Price, soprano

    2:28
  • 9:02 PM

    Four Seasons: Summer

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Il Cimento Dell'Armonia e Dell'Inventione

    Europa Galante

    Fabio Biondi, conductor

    Fabio Biondi, violin

    9:15
  • 8:50 PM

    Jazz Suite No. 1

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Shostakovich: Jazz Music

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    8:04
  • 8:38 PM

    Treemonisha: A Real Slow Drag

    Scott Joplin

    Silks and Rags

    Great American Main St. Band

    4:32
  • 8:32 PM

    American Patrol

    Frank Meacham

    Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra

    Frederick Fennell, conductor

    4:16
  • 8:17 PM

    West Side Story Medley

    Leonard Bernstein

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    9:07
  • 8:11 PM

    He's Got the Whole World in His Hands

    Traditional

    Jessye Norman Live

    Jessye Norman, soprano

    3:18
  • 8:00 PM

    Four Seasons: Spring

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Gil Shaham, violin

    9:48
  • 5:28 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg: Holberg Suite

    Mito Chamber Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    Martha Argerich, piano

    30:00
  • 5:15 PM

    Violin Sonata

    Josef Gurecky

    Lenka Torgersen, violin

    Vaclav Luks, harpsichord

    Libor Masek, cello

    11:42
  • 5:11 PM

    American Series: Peruvian Waltz

    Hector Ayala

    David Russell, guitar

    1:20
  • 5:06 PM

    Louise Pellerin, oboe

    Dom Andre Laberge, organ

    5:09
  • 5:01 PM

    Grand Duchess of Gerolstein: Overture

    Jacques Offenbach

    Gulbenkian Orchestra

    Michel Swierczewski, conductor

    4:33
  • 4:44 PM

    Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

    Richard Strauss

    R. Strauss

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

    Manfred Honeck, conductor

    14:27
  • 4:23 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 59 "Genzinger"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Emanuel Ax, piano

    19:15
  • 4:18 PM

    Canzon "La Serafina"

    Pietro Lappi

    Royal Academy of Music Brass

    2:41
  • 4:06 PM

    Aida: Triumphal March

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    11:48
  • 4:01 PM

    Six Short Pieces: selections

    Henriette Renie

    La Harpe Consolatrice

    Kyunghee Kim-Sutre, harp

    4:47
  • 3:38 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 3

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Orchestra Mozart

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    Giuliano Carmignola, violin

    20:20
  • 3:30 PM

    An 18th Century Scherzo

    Haydn Wood

    Royal Ballet Sinfonia

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    6:36
  • 3:21 PM

    Scherzo No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

    8:10
  • 3:17 PM

    Puffin' Billy

    Edward White

    RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin

    Ernest Tomlinson, conductor

    3:05
  • 3:06 PM

    Flute Concerto

    Giuseppe Tartini

    I Solisti Veneti

    Claudio Scimone, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    9:37
  • 3:01 PM

    String Quartet No. 2: 4th movement

    Robert Schumann

    Ying String Quartet

    4:43
  • 2:40 PM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique": 1st movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    17:51
  • 2:31 PM

    Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4

    Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

    Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor

    27:12
  • 2:29 PM

    Mela Tenenbaum, violin

    Richard Kapp, piano

    1:14
  • 2:20 PM

    L'amant anonyme: Overture-Symphony

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Le Mozart Noir

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    7:42
  • 2:00 PM

    Hungarian Dance No. 5

    Johannes Brahms

    Joseph Alessi: Trombonastics

    Juilliard Alumni Trombone Choir

    Virginia Allen, conductor

    2:52
  • 1:56 PM

    Shimmeree

    Peter Togni

    CBC Vancouver Orchestra

    Arthur Polson, conductor

    3:00
  • 1:47 PM

    Corsair: Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Paray, conductor

    7:42
  • 1:42 PM

    Paganini Etude No. 3 "La Campanella"

    Franz Liszt

    Liszt: Complete Piano Music Vol. 48

    Leslie Howard, piano

    4:38
  • 1:35 PM

    Old American Songs: Selections

    Aaron Copland

    VocalEssence

    Philip Brunelle, conductor

    5:33
  • 1:31 PM

    Noble Waltz No. 3

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert For Two / Gil Shaham, Göran Söllscher

    Gil Shaham, violin

    2:34
  • 1:21 PM

    Symphony No. 2: 2nd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    9:13
  • 1:18 PM

    Pluck the Fruit and Taste the Pleasure

    Libby Larsen

    Concert Recording

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    1:27
  • 1:04 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1: Rondo

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1, Fantaisie op. 49 etc.

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Emmanuel Krivine, conductor

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    10:55
  • 12:50 PM

    Norwegian Radio Orchestra

    Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

    9:12
  • 12:44 PM

    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

    Florence Price

    Apollo Chamber Players

    4:56
  • 12:37 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 4

    Tomaso Albinoni

    The Birth of the North Italian Violin Concerto: 1690-1740, Vol. 1: The Dawn of the Virtuoso

    La Serenissima

    Adrian Chandler, conductor

    Adrian Chandler, violin

    5:30
  • 12:30 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 21 "Elvira Madigan": Andante

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos K467 And K595

    Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    Lars Vogt, piano

    6:27
  • 12:23 PM

    String Quartet No. 9 "Razumovsky No. 3": 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Kernis Project: Beethoven

    Jasper String Quartet

    6:20
  • 12:16 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 8

    Antonin Dvorak

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    4:18
  • 12:07 PM

    Four Seasons: Winter

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Il Cimento Dell'Armonia e Dell'Inventione

    Europa Galante

    Fabio Biondi, conductor

    Fabio Biondi, violin

    7:44
  • 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
  • 11:48 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 1

    Arcangelo Corelli

    Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

    Nicholas McGegan, conductor

    11:06
  • 11:41 AM

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    5:06
  • 11:30 AM

    Snowflake Ballet

    Jacques Offenbach

    Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    10:23
  • 11:26 AM

    Umoja (Unity)

    Valerie Coleman

    Umoja

    Imani Winds

    2:23
  • 11:18 AM

    Scherzando No. 6

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    FJ and JM Haydn: Flute Concertos

    Haydn Ensemble Berlin

    Emmanuel Pahud, flute

    7:32
  • 11:10 AM

    Appearances are Deceptive: Overture

    Domenico Cimarosa

    Cimarosa: Overtures, Vol. 6

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice

    Patrick Gallois, conductor

    6:39
  • 11:04 AM

    Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 2: Bergamasca

    Ottorino Respighi

    Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    5:05
  • 10:45 AM

    Symphony No. 5

    Samuel Wesley

    Wesley: Symphonies

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    13:08
  • 10:38 AM

    The Gadfly: Romance

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    The Sound of the Academy

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    6:22
  • 10:33 AM

    Arabesque No. 2

    Claude Debussy

    Maria Graf, harp

    3:29
  • 10:29 AM

    Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra

    Jorg Faerber, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    3:24
  • 10:16 AM

    Old American Songs

    Aaron Copland

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Carl Davis, conductor

    Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano

    12:16
  • 10:12 AM

    The Dragonfly Polka Mazurka

    Josef Strauss

    Schwanen Salon Orchestra

    Georg Huber, conductor

    3:25
  • 10:06 AM

    Waltz No. 2 "Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Opp. 33-36, 38

    Maurizio Pollini, piano

    4:57
  • 10:01 AM

    Vespers: Laudate Dominum

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Michael Stern, conductor

    Joshua Bell, violin

    4:40
  • 9:45 AM

    Wind Quintet

    Pavel Haas

    Turbulent Winds: Music from Eastern Europe

    Prairie Winds

    13:35
  • 9:31 AM

    The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite

    Manuel de Falla

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Fritz Reiner, conductor

    12:11
  • 9:23 AM

    Secret of Mana

    Hiroki Kikuta

    Angele Dubeau & La Pieta: Game Music

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    6:00
  • 9:06 AM

    Wand of Youth Suite No. 2

    Edward Elgar

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    James Judd, conductor

    16:45
  • 9:01 AM

    Prussian Sonata No. 5: 2nd movement

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Jon Mendle, archguitar

    4:30
  • 8:24 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Yefim Bronfman, piano

    33:54
  • 8:23 AM

    Quick! we have but a second

    Charles Stanford

    There is Sweet Music

    Cambridge Singers

    John Rutter, conductor

    :44
  • 8:06 AM

    The Lark Ascending

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Concertos

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    Michael Davis, violin

    15:37
  • 8:01 AM

    Juditha Triumphans: Noli, o Cara

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    Alfredo Bernardini, oboe

    Ton Koopman, organ

    4:54
  • 7:48 AM

    Miniature Suite

    Vitezslava Kapralova

    University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra

    Kenneth Kiesler, conductor

    9:46
  • 7:26 AM

    Ulster Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    21:38
  • 7:11 AM

    Keyboard Suite No. 5

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Keyboard Suites 2

    Philip Edward Fisher, piano

    13:27
  • 7:06 AM

    Liza/Promenade

    George Gershwin

    Rendezvous with Tashi

    Tashi

    4:46
  • 7:01 AM

    Le roi s'amuse (The King Has Fun): Pavane and Scene du bouquet

    Leo Delibes

    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:40
  • 6:27 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Jean Sibelius

    Mendelssohn, Sibelius: Violin Concertos

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    Sarah Chang, violin

    31:14
  • 6:18 AM

    Prelude and Quadruple Fugue

    Alan Hovhaness

    Eastern Music Festival Orchestra

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    6:53
  • 6:06 AM

    Splash of Indigo

    Marty Regan

    Apollo Chamber Players

    11:31
  • 6:01 AM

    Serenade for Guitar and Strings

    Malcolm Arnold

    English Guitar Concertos

    Northern Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    Craig Ogden, guitar

    4:31
  • 5:42 AM

    English Suite No. 2

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Glenn Gould, piano

    16:00
  • 5:35 AM

    Miserere mei, Deus

    Gregorio Allegri

    Ofra Harnoy, cello

    6:03
  • 5:06 AM

    Symphony No. 3 "Sinfonie singuliere"

    Franz Berwald

    Berwald: Symphonies and Overtures

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    27:45
  • 5:01 AM

    Inishlacken: Evening Ceili

    Bill Whelan

    RTE National Symphony Orchestra

    David Brophy, conductor

    Zoe Conway, violin

    Helena Woods, violin

    4:44