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  • 4:42 AM

    Variations on a Rococo Theme

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 7

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    Leonard Rose, cello

    16:51
  • 4:25 AM

    Pohjola's Daughter

    Jean Sibelius

    Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    14:18
  • 4:06 AM

    November Woods

    Arnold Bax

    Ulster Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    18:33
  • 4:01 AM

    Lyric Quartet: The Quiet One

    William Grant Still

    William Grant Still

    Oregon String Quartet

    4:35
  • 3:47 AM

    La Valse

    Maurice Ravel

    Cliburn Gold 2017

    Yekwon Sunwoo, piano

    11:50
  • 3:26 AM

    Orchestral Suite No. 4

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Works For Orchestra

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    18:42
  • 3:17 AM

    Florida Suite: By the River

    Frederick Delius

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    6:49
  • 3:06 AM

    Flute Concertino

    Svend Erik Tarp

    Aarhus Symphony Orchestra

    Tobias Ringborg, conductor

    Lena Kildahl, flute

    10:49
  • 3:01 AM

    Mysterious Ones

    Patricia van Ness

    Ensemble Pan

    4:49
  • 2:40 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov: Complete Concertos

    Russian National Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    Alexander Romanovsky, piano

    18:30
  • 2:30 AM

    Rondo for Cello and Orchestra

    Charles Stanford

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    Gemma Rosefield, cello

    8:25
  • 2:22 AM

    Prelude Pastoral

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Vienna Philharmonic

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    6:37
  • 2:07 AM

    String Quartet No. 10

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Hagen Quartet

    14:57
  • 2:01 AM

    Concierto en Flamenco: Alegrias de Cadiz

    Federico Torroba

    Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra

    Manuel Coves, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    4:42
  • 1:41 AM

    Cinnamon Grove

    Nathaniel Dett

    My Cup Runneth Over: The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett

    Clipper Erickson, piano

    17:30
  • 1:16 AM

    Cello Concerto No. 1

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Cellokonzerte

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Mischa Maisky, cello

    23:07
  • 1:11 AM

    Fanfare on Amazing Grace

    Adolphus Hailstork

    Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port Of Call

    Virginia Symphony Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    3:25
  • 1:06 AM

    Souvenirs: Waltz

    Samuel Barber

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Schenck, conductor

    4:28
  • 1:01 AM

    Flute Sonata: Aria

    Otar Taktakishvili

    Marina Piccinini, flute

    Ewa Kupiec, piano

    4:39
  • 12:55 AM

    En avril a Paris

    Charles Trenet

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    3:04
  • 12:30 AM

    Czech Suite

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Czech Suite, Prague Waltzes, etc.

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    23:31
  • 12:20 AM

    Symphony No. 5

    Johann Christian Bach

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    8:09
  • 12:18 AM

    Seven Desires: 2

    Tan Dun

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    1:09
  • 12:06 AM

    From Italy (Aus Italien): On the Beach at Sorrento

    Richard Strauss

    R. Strauss: Aus Italien, Don Juan

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    11:50
  • 12:01 AM

    Three Chinese Folk Songs

    Zhou Long

    The Flowing Stream

    Shanghai Quartet

    4:44
  • 11:51 PM

    Concerto for Two Trumpets

    Francesco Manfredini

    Italian Trumpet Concertos

    New Bach Collegium Musicum Leipzig

    Max Pommer, conductor

    Ludwig Guttler, trumpet

    6:32
  • 11:27 PM

    String Quartet No. 2

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: String Quartets, Opus 18 (Complete)

    Miro Quartet

    22:45
  • 11:24 PM

    Polichinelle

    Fritz Kreisler

    Music of Fritz Kreisler

    James Ehnes, violin

    1:37
  • 11:19 PM

    Intermezzo No. 2 "Klavierstucke"

    Johannes Brahms

    Sivan Magen, harp

    4:13
  • 11:00 PM

    Quiet Summer Night

    Samuel A. Livingston

    Pedroia String Quartet

    Yhasmin Valenzuela, clarinet

    18:21
  • 10:51 PM

    Beatrice and Benedict: Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    7:51
  • 10:41 PM

    Macbeth: Act IV: Chorus of Scottish Refugees

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Verdi: Choruses

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    4:56
  • 10:30 PM

    Swan Lake: Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky Nutcracker & Swan Lake Suite

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    6:58
  • 10:26 PM

    On a Quiet Lake

    Florence Price

    Florence Price: Piano Discoveries: Excursions

    Lara Downes, piano

    3:01
  • 10:10 PM

    William Tell: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Italian Overtures

    Saint Cecilia Orchestra

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    11:03
  • 10:00 PM

    Song without Words

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Marcy Rosen, cello

    Lydia Artymiw, piano

    4:41
  • 9:48 PM

    Violin Concerto: 3rd movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak, Gershwin - Violin concerto; An American in Paris

    Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam

    Mario Venzago, conductor

    Liza Ferschtman, violin

    10:48
  • 9:34 PM

    Serenade for Strings: Elegy

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    8:56
  • 9:22 PM

    El pelele (The Straw Mannequin)

    Enrique Granados

    Alicia de Larrocha, piano

    4:28
  • 9:11 PM

    Symphony No. 5: 1st movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphonies No 4 & 5

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    7:35
  • 9:03 PM

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Stokowski Transcriptions

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    4:24
  • 8:45 PM

    Concert Rondo "Krakowiak"

    Frederic Chopin

    Warsaw Philharmonic

    Kazimierz Kord, conductor

    Garrick Ohlsson, piano

    14:17
  • 8:32 PM

    Toy Symphony

    Leopold Mozart

    I Musici Montreal

    Yuli Turovsky, conductor

    9:32
  • 8:23 PM

    Prelude

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Tharaud Plays Rachmaninoff

    Alexandre Tharaud, piano

    4:16
  • 8:18 PM

    Hungarian Dance No. 5

    Johannes Brahms

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Walter Weller, conductor

    2:09
  • 8:10 PM

    Canon

    Johann Pachelbel

    Albinoni: Adagio; Pachelbel: Canon; Etc

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    4:15
  • 8:00 PM

    Carmen: Bohemian Song

    Georges Bizet

    Debra Wendells-Cross, flute

    Robert Alemany, clarinet

    JoAnn Falletta, guitar

    4:12
  • 5:51 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 1: 3rd movement

    Max Bruch

    Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Joseph Swensen, conductor

    Robert McDuffie, violin

    7:08
  • 5:42 PM

    Sonata No. 4

    Heinrich Biber

    Biber: Twelve Sonatas (1676)

    Parley of Instruments

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    4:25
  • 5:37 PM

    String Quartet: 1st movement

    Josef Myslivecek

    Myslivecek: Oboe Quintets, String Quartets

    Dolezal Quartet

    4:40
  • 5:31 PM

    Septet: 3rd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schubert

    Melos Ensemble

    3:10
  • 5:26 PM

    Farewell to Stromness

    Peter Maxwell Davies

    Watercolour

    Yuanfan Yang, piano

    4:25
  • 5:17 PM

    Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Billy The Kid; Rodeo Etc.

    Colorado Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    5:15
  • 5:11 PM

    Arion

    Stephen Stubbs, conductor

    5:12
  • 5:02 PM

    Dreams of Love No. 3 (Liebestraum)

    Franz Liszt

    My Gift To You

    Antonin Kubalek, piano

    4:44
  • 4:53 PM

    Il barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures, Vol. 2

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    7:05
  • 4:45 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 2: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Violin Concertos 1, 2, 5

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Monica Huggett, conductor

    Monica Huggett, violin

    4:25
  • 4:40 PM

    Prussian Sonata No. 5: 2nd movement

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Jon Mendle, archguitar

    4:30
  • 4:18 PM

    Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

    Benjamin Britten

    Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    16:45
  • 4:08 PM

    L'Isle joyeuse (Joyous Isle)

    Claude Debussy

    Claude Debussy - Preludes - Book 1

    Maurizio Pollini, piano

    5:40
  • 4:01 PM

    Three Pieces for Strings: Reel

    Thomas C. Kelly

    Irish Chamber Orchestra

    Fionnuala Hunt, conductor

    2:25
  • 3:54 PM

    Kamarinskaya

    Mikhail Glinka

    Kabalevsky, Prokofiev, Glinka, Tchaikovsky

    San Diego Chamber Orchestra

    Donald Barra, conductor

    6:09
  • 3:34 PM

    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams, Barber, Grainger, Faure, Satie

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    15:35
  • 3:23 PM

    Serenade No. 1: Rondo

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms Serenade No. 1

    American Symphony Orchestra

    Leon Botstein, conductor

    5:57
  • 3:15 PM

    Spanish Renaissance Dance

    Gaspar Fernandes

    Spanish Renaissance Wind Music

    Piffaro

    4:23
  • 3:09 PM

    Iberia: Triana

    Isaac Albeniz

    Albeniz: Iberia, Navarra, Suite Espanola

    Alicia de Larrocha, piano

    5:03
  • 3:00 PM

    Handel in the Strand

    Percy Grainger

    The Grainger Edition, Vol.5 - Works for Chorus and Orchestra 2

    City of London Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    4:13
  • 2:46 PM

    Scheherazade: The Festival at Baghdad

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, etc.

    Kirov Orchestra

    Valery Gergiev, conductor

    Sergei Levitin, violin

    12:04
  • 2:38 PM

    Serenade for Strings: Scherzo

    Antonin Dvorak

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    5:19
  • 2:31 PM

    Symphony: Scherzo

    Georges Bizet

    Franck, Bizet: Overtures

    Paris Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    5:47
  • 2:22 PM

    Guitar Concerto: Largo

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Concerti & Other Works

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Eliot Fisk, guitar

    4:57
  • 2:14 PM

    Impromptu No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Impromptus, Waltzes and Mazurkas

    Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

    4:11
  • 2:07 PM

    Symphony No. 2

    William Boyce

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    5:05
  • 2:00 PM

    Mediterranean

    Arnold Bax

    Bax: Garden of Fand, Tintagel, November Woods

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Adrian Boult, conductor

    3:11
  • 1:53 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish": Finale

    Robert Schumann

    Robert Schumann Symphonies 1-4

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    5:33
  • 1:43 PM

    Serenade No. 3: 7th movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Serenades KV185, KV204

    Orchestra of the Auvergne

    Leopold Hager, conductor

    Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violin

    5:18
  • 1:37 PM

    Candide Suite

    Leonard Bernstein

    Bernstein: Candide Suite, etc.

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    18:09
  • 1:24 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Titan": 2nd movement

    Gustav Mahler

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    8:31
  • 1:18 PM

    Film en Miniature: Tango

    Bohuslav Martinu

    Intimate Studies: Piano Music by Janacek, Haas, Martinu, Suk

    Lada Valesova, piano

    2:33
  • 1:11 PM

    The Blue Pearl: Pas de deux

    Erkki Melartin

    Melartin: Orchestral Works

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Hannu Lintu, conductor

    3:07
  • 1:04 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 1: Bourrees

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Orchestral Suites

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    2:37
  • 12:52 PM

    Samson and Delilah: Bacchanale

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    6:44
  • 12:46 PM

    Symphony No. 4 "Tragic": 3rd movement

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Douglas Boyd, conductor

    2:59
  • 12:41 PM

    Fur Elise

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Journey

    Leon Fleisher, piano

    3:28
  • 12:32 PM

    Symphony No. 101 "The Clock": Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonien Nr. 101 & 102

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

    5:24
  • 12:25 PM

    Spanish Dance No. 5 "Andaluza"

    Enrique Granados

    Dances for Guitar

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    4:54
  • 12:16 PM

    Legend No. 8

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Legends

    Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    3:48
  • 12:11 PM

    Mother Goose (Ma mere l'oye): Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas

    Maurice Ravel

    French Impressions

    Northern Sinfonia of England

    Jean-Bernard Pommier, conductor

    3:48
  • 12:04 PM

    Sigurd Jorsalfar: In the King's Hall

    Edvard Grieg

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    3:31
  • 11:43 AM

    The Little Trifles (Les petits riens)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    19:45
  • 11:34 AM

    Romeo and Juliet: Queen Mab

    Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet, Les Nuits d'ete

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    7:18
  • 11:28 AM

    Cosi fan tutte: Overture

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Overtures

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    4:50
  • 11:20 AM

    Scottish March (Marche ecossaise)

    Claude Debussy

    Radio Luxembourg Orchestra

    Louis de Froment, conductor

    6:12
  • 11:16 AM

    Prelude for Lute

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    2:10
  • 11:07 AM

    Morning Song "Maytime in Sussex"

    Arnold Bax

    Orchestra Now

    Leon Botstein, conductor

    Piers Lane, piano

    7:35
  • 11:04 AM

    Rondeau

    Jean-Francois Dandrieu

    Wynton Marsalis: In Gabriel's Garden

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Anthony Newman, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

    1:59
  • 10:46 AM

    Der fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman): Overture

    Richard Wagner

    Lorin Maazel Conducts Wagner

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Lorin Maazel, conductor

    11:55
  • 10:41 AM

    Pelleas and Melisande: Sicilienne

    Gabriel Faure

    Humbert Lucarelli, oboe

    Susan Jolles, harp

    Frank Morelli, bassoon

    3:47
  • 10:34 AM

    Creatures of Prometheus Ballet Music

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    6:23
  • 10:22 AM

    Folk Songs for Orchestra

    George Walker

    Cleveland Chamber Symphony

    Edwin London, conductor

    11:35
  • 10:10 AM

    Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1

    Johan Svendsen

    Halvorsen, J.: Norwegian Rhapsodies Nos. 1 and 2 / Svendsen, J.: Norwegian Rhapsodies Nos. 1-4

    Trondheim Symphony Orchestra

    Ole Kristian Ruud, conductor

    10:19
  • 10:06 AM

    Humoresque No. 7

    Antonin Dvorak

    Stephen Hough, piano

    3:06
  • 10:01 AM

    String Quartet No. 62 "Emperor": Minuet

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Mozart: Hunt & Dissonance Quartets; Haydn

    Emerson String Quartet

    4:36
  • 9:46 AM

    The Chairman Dances

    John Adams

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    12:39
  • 9:32 AM

    The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite

    Manuel de Falla

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Fritz Reiner, conductor

    12:11
  • 9:21 AM

    Symphony

    Carl Friedrich Abel

    Jet Set! Classical Glitterati

    New Dutch Academy

    Simon Murphy, conductor

    8:27
  • 9:06 AM

    Serenade No. 6 "Serenata Notturna"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    After Mozart

    Kremerata Baltica

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    14:56
  • 9:01 AM

    The Hours: Dead Things

    Philip Glass

    Valentina Lisitsa, piano

    4:34
  • 8:50 AM

    Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    8:17
  • 8:21 AM

    Road to the Sun

    Pat Metheny

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    28:46
  • 8:10 AM

    Musica Antiqua Cologne

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor

    8:38
  • 8:06 AM

    Tessa Lark, violin

    Michael Thurber, double bass

    3:37
  • 8:01 AM

    Romeo and Juliet: Juliet

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Suites 1 - 3 (complete)

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    4:34
  • 7:31 AM

    Quintet for Piano and Winds

    Andre Caplet

    Belle Epoque: French Music for Winds

    Orsino Ensemble

    Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

    27:32
  • 7:24 AM

    Folk Songs for Orchestra: Little Blue Flower

    Huang Ruo

    Into the Vast World

    Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra

    Liang Zhang, conductor

    5:51
  • 7:06 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 6

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Sonates pour violon et clavecin, vol. 1

    James Ehnes, violin

    16:38
  • 7:01 AM

    Symphony No. 3 "Pastoral": Finale

    Francois-Joseph Gossec

    Le Mozart Noir

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    4:38
  • 6:37 AM

    Fantasie Symphonique

    Louis Theodore Gouvy

    German Radio Philharmonic

    Jacques Mercier, conductor

    21:40
  • 6:19 AM

    In the Summer Wind (Im Sommerwind)

    Anton Webern

    Boulez Conducts Webern II

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    15:58
  • 6:06 AM

    Summer Dances

    Peteris Vasks

    Vasks: Distant Light, Piano Quartet, Summer Dances

    Vadim Gluzman, violin

    12:00
  • 6:01 AM

    Piece for Flute and Piano

    Mel Bonis

    Tatjana Ruhland, flute

    Florian Wiek, piano

    4:17
  • 5:29 AM

    Guitar Concerto No. 1

    Mauro Giuliani

    Schubert

    Australian Chamber Orchestra

    John Williams, guitar

    29:49
  • 5:24 AM

    O sacrum convivium

    Olivier Messiaen

    Vaughan Williams: Mass In G Minor, And Other A Cappella Works

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus

    Norman Mackenzie, conductor

    3:08
  • 5:06 AM

    Imagenes

    Candelario Huizar

    Mi Alma Mexicana

    Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas

    Alondra de la Parra, conductor

    16:46
  • 5:01 AM

    Nachtstuck

    Franz Schubert

    Elisabeth Plank, harp

    4:48