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  • 4:25 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 2

    Robert Schumann

    Enescu Dvorak Schumann

    Caroline Goulding, violin

    33:43
  • 4:22 AM

    Java Suite: Chattering Monkeys

    Leopold Godowsky

    Godowsky: Java Suite

    Esther Budiardjo, piano

    1:59
  • 4:06 AM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 4

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

    Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

    14:44
  • 4:01 AM

    Lute Suite: Sarabande and Gigue

    Jan Antonin Losy

    Jan Antonin Losy: Note d'oro

    Jakob Lindberg, lute

    4:39
  • 3:28 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Richard Strauss

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    Sarah Chang, violin

    30:45
  • 3:22 AM

    Arabesque No. 2

    Claude Debussy

    Impressions

    Katerina Englichova, harp

    4:17
  • 3:07 AM

    Dune of Footprints

    Tansy Davies

    Norwegian Radio Orchestra

    Karen Kamensek, conductor

    13:53
  • 3:01 AM

    The Capricious One

    Edward Elgar

    Sarah Chang, violin

    Sandra Rivers, piano

    4:44
  • 2:50 AM

    Suite for Oboe and Strings

    Tauno Pylkkanen

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Petri Sakari, conductor

    Aale Lindgren, oboe

    8:21
  • 2:38 AM

    Sonata No. 3

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    (Selected members), conductor

    11:09
  • 2:17 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 2

    Ernest Bloch

    Ernest Bloch: Concerti Grossi 1 & 2

    Amadeus Chamber Orchestra

    Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

    20:15
  • 2:07 AM

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Barry Tuckwell, horn

    8:40
  • 2:01 AM

    Chilean Dance

    Andrew York

    Andrew York, guitar

    4:30
  • 1:49 AM

    Everlasting Voices

    Elspeth Piggott, soprano

    Ana Beard Fernandez, soprano

    Robin Bier, alto

    Nils Greenhow, tenor

    8:48
  • 1:26 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 14

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    22:24
  • 1:15 AM

    Symphony No. 4: 4th movement

    Gustav Mahler

    Mahler: Symphony No. 4

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    Carolyn Sampson, soprano

    9:14
  • 1:06 AM

    Minuet Antique

    Maurice Ravel

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    6:14
  • 1:01 AM

    Morceaux de Fantaisie: Elegie

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Yuja Wang, piano

    4:44
  • 12:50 AM

    Mathis der Maler (Mathis the Painter): Angel's Concert

    Paul Hindemith

    San Francisco Symphony

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    8:20
  • 12:16 AM

    String Quartet No. 13 "Rosamunde"

    Franz Schubert

    Emerson String Quartet

    32:30
  • 12:12 AM

    Libertango

    Astor Piazzolla

    European Film Philharmonic Studio Orchestra

    Christoph Israel, conductor

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    Ksenija Sidorova, accordion

    3:01
  • 12:06 AM

    Beautiful Mazurka

    Emil Waldteufel

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    5:04
  • 12:01 AM

    Chi passa per'sta strada

    Filippo Azzaiolo

    Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble ?– Silk Road Journeys

    Silk Road Ensemble

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    4:39
  • 11:49 PM

    The Red Pony Suite: selections

    Aaron Copland

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    8:32
  • 11:41 PM

    Intermezzo No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Grigory Sokolov, piano

    6:53
  • 11:21 PM

    Images for Orchestra: Iberia

    Claude Debussy

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    19:16
  • 11:09 PM

    Iberia: Holy Festival in Seville

    Isaac Albeniz

    IBERIA Y FRANCIA

    Imogen Cooper, piano

    9:56
  • 11:06 PM

    The Secret of Susanna: Overture

    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Lance Friedel, conductor

    3:06
  • 11:01 PM

    Sonata No. 12

    Johann Schmelzer

    English Concert

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    4:37
  • 10:40 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 4

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites 1-4

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    18:00
  • 10:32 PM

    Valse-Caprice No. 2

    Gabriel Faure

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    7:33
  • 10:22 PM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique": 2nd movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    The Tchaikovsky Project, Volume 1

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    8:12
  • 10:20 PM

    Platee: Entrance of Mercury

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    1:26
  • 10:06 PM

    Serenade for Strings

    Edward Elgar

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    12:32
  • 10:01 PM

    Sonata Concertante: Rondo

    Louis Spohr

    Marielle Nordmann, harp

    Andras Adorjan, flute

    4:48
  • 9:54 PM

    Violin Concertino: Finale

    Lars-Erik Larsson

    Lars-Erik Larsson: Music for String Orchestra

    Orebro Chamber Orchestra

    Goran Nilson, conductor

    Sven-Ole Svarfvar, violin

    2:38
  • 9:50 PM

    Fur Elise

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Famous Piano Pieces by Great Masters

    Jorg Demus, piano

    3:50
  • 9:33 PM

    Horn Concerto No. 4

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    Dennis Brain, horn

    16:03
  • 9:29 PM

    Molly on the Shore

    Percy Grainger

    Michael McHale, piano

    3:37
  • 9:18 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 1

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Concerti Grossi Opus 3

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    9:57
  • 9:06 PM

    Capriccio Brillant

    Felix Mendelssohn

    New York Philharmonic

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    Helen Huang, piano

    11:25
  • 9:03 PM

    Noble Waltz No. 3

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert For Two / Gil Shaham, Göran Söllscher

    Gil Shaham, violin

    2:34
  • 8:38 PM

    The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu): Suite

    Igor Stravinsky

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    19:59
  • 8:28 PM

    The Bells of St. Genevieve

    Marin Marais

    Spectre de la Rose

    8:24
  • 8:20 PM

    Comedy Overture

    Ferruccio Busoni

    Ferruccio Busoni - Orchestral Works

    North German Radio Symphony

    Werner Andreas Albert, conductor

    7:12
  • 8:14 PM

    En Blanc et Noir: Avec emportement

    Claude Debussy

    Martha Argerich, piano

    Daniel Barenboim, piano

    4:20
  • 8:06 PM

    Otello: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures, Vol. 2

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    7:59
  • 8:01 PM

    Artists' Quadrille (Kunstler-Quadrille)

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    4:46
  • 5:41 PM

    Overture, Scherzo and Finale

    Robert Schumann

    Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    16:48
  • 5:35 PM

    In the Garden

    Mily Balakirev

    Margaret Fingerhut, piano

    5:04
  • 5:28 PM

    Raymonda: Entr'acte

    Alexander Glazunov

    Russian Adagios

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor

    6:01
  • 5:13 PM

    Cello Concerto

    Leonardo Leo

    Leonardo Leo: Cello Concertos

    Southwest German Chamber Orchestra

    Vladislav Czarnecki, conductor

    Julius Berger, cello

    13:12
  • 5:06 PM

    Holberg Suite: Air

    Edvard Grieg

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

    Mito Chamber Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    6:20
  • 5:01 PM

    Bassoon Concerto: Rondeau

    Antonio Rosetti

    Antonio Rosetti: Bassoon Concertos

    German Chamber Academy

    Eckart Hubner, bassoon

    4:34
  • 4:49 PM

    School for Scandal Overture

    Samuel Barber

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    8:56
  • 4:46 PM

    American Beauty: American Beauty

    Thomas Newman

    Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Alexander Shelley, conductor

    Daniel Hope, violin

    2:59
  • 4:14 PM

    Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    31:03
  • 4:06 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Fasch

    Baroque Music for Trumpet

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

    5:37
  • 4:01 PM

    Scottish Rondo

    John Field

    Miceal O'Rourke, piano

    4:34
  • 3:50 PM

    Egmont Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Triple Concerto

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    8:18
  • 3:44 PM

    Suite Bergamasque: Clair de lune (Moonlight)

    Claude Debussy

    The Healing Harp

    Naoko Yoshino, harp

    5:40
  • 3:25 PM

    The North Star

    Aaron Copland

    Eos Orchestra

    Jonathan Sheffer, conductor

    17:21
  • 3:20 PM

    The Cat and the Mouse

    Aaron Copland

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    4:08
  • 3:06 PM

    Twelve German Dances

    Franz Schubert

    Ensemble Wien

    12:40
  • 3:01 PM

    The Garden of Eden: Through Eden's Gates

    William Bolcom

    Logan Skelton, piano

    4:33
  • 2:24 PM

    Clarinet Quintet

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Hagen Quartet

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    32:15
  • 2:24 PM

    Clarinet Concerto: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Hans Vonk, conductor

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    8:16
  • 2:24 PM

    Symphony No. 29: 4th movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Introducing the Complete Mozart Edition

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    4:55
  • 2:23 PM

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    20:05
  • 2:22 PM

    String Quintet No. 4

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Takacs Quartet

    Gyorgy Pauk, viola

    34:03
  • 2:22 PM

    Symphony No. 40: 1st movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart 250 - A Celebration

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    8:13
  • 2:04 PM

    Symphony No. 39

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    Simon Standage, violin

    17:46
  • 1:59 PM

    Funeral March of a Marionette

    Charles Gounod

    Marches And Overtures A La Francaise

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Paray, conductor

    3:39
  • 1:57 PM

    Flight of the Bumblebee

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Greatest Classical Show On Earth

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    1:16
  • 1:42 PM

    Symphony No. 2: 3rd movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vasily Petrenko, conductor

    14:00
  • 1:37 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 2 in E: 3rd mvt

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Midori, violin

    :00
  • 1:34 PM

    Musical Toys: The Drummer

    Sofia Gubaidulina

    Jenny Lin, piano

    1:23
  • 1:30 PM

    London Fields: Hampstead Heath - Rondo for Roundabouts

    Phyllis Tate

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    3:18
  • 1:24 PM

    Gavotte

    David Popper

    Le Grand Tango and Other Dances for Cello and Piano

    Maria Kliegel, cello

    5:12
  • 1:17 PM

    Festmarsch (Festive March)

    Richard Strauss

    Metamorphosen: Strauss Chamber Works

    Oculi Ensemble

    5:17
  • 1:08 PM

    The Spanish Lady: Suite

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: Music for Strings

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    5:50
  • 1:04 PM

    Fairy Tale: Folk Dance

    Josef Suk

    Suk: Fairy Tale / Fantasy in G Minor / Fantasticke scherzo

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    3:19
  • 12:51 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Tomaso Albinoni

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Simon Preston, conductor

    Hannes Laubin, trumpet

    7:24
  • 12:45 PM

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Pachelbel: Canon, etc

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    4:28
  • 12:35 PM

    Symphony No. 1: 1st movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    8:22
  • 12:32 PM

    Airborne Dances: 2nd movement

    Oliver Davis

    Oliver Davis: Flight

    Kerenza Peacock, violin

    2:07
  • 12:23 PM

    Four Seasons: Winter

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Il Cimento Dell'Armonia e Dell'Inventione

    Raglan Baroque Players

    Nicholas Kraemer, conductor

    Monica Huggett, violin

    7:55
  • 12:15 PM

    Overture "In the Italian Style"

    Franz Schubert

    Hanover Band

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    7:14
  • 12:09 PM

    The Maiden's Wish

    Frederic Chopin

    Luiza Borac, piano

    4:16
  • 12:04 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Grand Pas de Deux

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Greatest Hits: The Ballet, Vol. III

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    4:02
  • 11:48 AM

    Sinfonia Melodica

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    The Colourful Telemann

    Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra

    Barthold Kuijken, conductor

    11:00
  • 11:39 AM

    Prague Waltzes

    Antonin Dvorak

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    7:35
  • 11:33 AM

    The Bourgeois Gentleman: Entrance and Dance of the Tailors

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, etc.

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    4:52
  • 11:25 AM

    Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp

    Claude Debussy

    Marina Piccinini, flute

    Kim Kashkashian, viola

    Sivan Magen, harp

    18:04
  • 11:19 AM

    Partita No. 6: Courante

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Partitas

    Igor Levit, piano

    5:15
  • 11:15 AM

    Abduction from the Seraglio: Ich gehe, doch rate ich dir

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Complete Mozart Edition, Vol. 45: Rarieties and Surprises

    Netherlands Wind Ensemble

    2:46
  • 11:10 AM

    Carmen: Gypsy Dance

    Georges Bizet

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    3:32
  • 11:04 AM

    Greensleeves to a Ground

    Anonymous

    Daniel Hope: Air

    Daniel Hope, violin

    4:42
  • 11:01 AM

    Carmen: Gypsy Dance

    Georges Bizet

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    3:32
  • 10:48 AM

    Canzon Noni Toni

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    Philadelphia Brass Ensemble

    3:15
  • 10:31 AM

    Flute Concerto

    Carl Stamitz

    Flute Concertos

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    Barthold Kuijken, flute

    16:14
  • 10:28 AM

    Suite: Cowboy Song

    Robert Russell Bennett

    Barn Dances

    Shannon Scott, clarinet

    1:44
  • 10:11 AM

    The Lark Ascending

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    Nicola Benedetti, violin

    15:55
  • 10:06 AM

    Candide: Overture

    Leonard Bernstein

    Bernstein: West Side Story; On the Town; Candide - Overture; Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    4:27
  • 10:01 AM

    Three Improvisations

    Francis Poulenc

    Pascal Roge, piano

    4:42
  • 9:39 AM

    Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Lorin Maazel, conductor

    19:15
  • 9:18 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    Leonard Bernstein, piano

    19:13
  • 9:14 AM

    Young Soldier's Joy

    Qi-Ming Lu

    Shanghai Quartet

    2:54
  • 9:07 AM

    Overture No. 1

    Louise Farrenc

    European Soloists, Luxembourg

    Christoph Konig, conductor

    6:59
  • 9:01 AM

    Missa L'homme arme: Gloria in excelsis Deo

    Francisco de Penalosa

    New York Polyphony

    4:43
  • 8:55 AM

    Concert Etude "Feu follet"

    Laura Netzel

    Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano

    3:08
  • 8:19 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Charles Ives

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    35:37
  • 8:06 AM

    Suite No. 5 for Two Pianos "Children's Suite"

    Anton Arensky

    Arensky: Five Suites For Two Pianos / Genova & Dimitrov Piano Duo

    Aglika Genova, piano

    11:13
  • 8:01 AM

    From Andersen's Fairy-Tales: Barcarolle and Arabesque

    Bohuslav Martinu

    Giorgio Koukl, piano

    4:38
  • 7:50 AM

    String Symphony No. 6

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    CPhE Bach: 6 Hamburg Symphonies Wq. 182

    Camerata Bern

    Thomas Furi, conductor

    8:45
  • 7:26 AM

    Guitar Concerto

    Stephen Goss

    Concerto

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Paul Daniel, conductor

    John Williams, guitar

    23:30
  • 7:10 AM

    Il Cimento: Violin Concerto No. 11

    Antonio Vivaldi

    I Solisti Italiani

    13:26
  • 7:06 AM

    Nocturne

    Edvard Grieg

    Wonderland

    Alice Sara Ott, piano

    3:51
  • 7:01 AM

    Veni, dilecte mi

    Sebastian de Vivanco

    Desires: A Song of Songs Collection

    ORA

    Suzi Digby, conductor

    4:40
  • 6:34 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 16

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Andras Schiff, piano

    24:39
  • 6:28 AM

    Gustavus Adolphus II: Elegy

    Hugo Alfven

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Okko Kamu, conductor

    5:16
  • 6:06 AM

    Suite for Cello and Orchestra (after C. Debussy)

    Sally Beamish

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Gabor Takacs-Nagy, conductor

    Steven Isserlis, cello

    20:01
  • 6:01 AM

    The Girl from Corsica

    Trevor Duncan

    British Light Music Classics - 3

    New London Orchestra

    Ronald Corp, conductor

    4:39
  • 5:30 AM

    Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Romantica"

    Kurt Atterberg

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    28:31
  • 5:26 AM

    Chen Yi, violin

    Lars Hannibal, guitar

    3:48
  • 5:06 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 8

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Alicia de Larrocha, piano

    17:35
  • 5:01 AM

    Minuet No. 1

    Giacomo Puccini

    Puccini

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor

    4:39