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  • 4:26 AM

    Symphony

    Edvard Grieg

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    31:56
  • 4:23 AM

    A la antigua

    Ernesto Lecuona

    Gabriela Montero, piano

    2:12
  • 4:06 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 11

    George Frideric Handel

    Guildhall Strings

    15:47
  • 4:01 AM

    Madame Butterfly: Un bel di vedremo (One fine day)

    Giacomo Puccini

    The #1 Opera Album

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    Mirella Freni, soprano

    4:33
  • 3:46 AM

    Kol Nidrei

    Max Bruch

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor

    Han-Na Chang, cello

    12:32
  • 3:33 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 9

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Murray Perahia, piano

    12:59
  • 3:15 AM

    A Shout, a Whisper, and a Trace

    Derek Bermel

    Albany Symphony Orchestra

    David Alan Miller, conductor

    16:23
  • 3:06 AM

    Little Folk Suites: Selections

    William Grant Still

    Oregon String Quartet

    6:51
  • 3:01 AM

    Sonatina: 2nd movement

    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

    CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M.: Guitar Quintet / Fantasia / Ecloghe

    Chloe Dufossez, flute

    4:37
  • 2:38 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 2

    Karol Szymanowski

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vasily Petrenko, conductor

    Baiba Skride, violin

    19:44
  • 2:15 AM

    Symphony No. 31 "Paris"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    21:42
  • 2:11 AM

    Ten Turkish Folksong: Horon

    Cemal Resit Rey

    Beyza Yazgan, piano

    2:09
  • 2:06 AM

    Gotterdammerung: Closing Scene

    Richard Wagner

    Selections from the Ring

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Georg Solti, conductor

    4:33
  • 2:01 AM

    I'll make music

    Karl Jenkins

    Polyphony

    Stephen Layton, conductor

    4:33
  • 1:43 AM

    Rapsodie espagnole

    Maurice Ravel

    Seattle Symphony

    Ludovic Morlot, conductor

    15:13
  • 1:12 AM

    Piano Trio No. 4 "Dumky"

    Antonin Dvorak

    Wu Han, piano

    Philip Setzer, violin

    David Finckel, cello

    29:31
  • 1:06 AM

    Neopolitan Galliard

    Antonio Valente

    Hesperion XX

    Jordi Savall, conductor

    4:20
  • 1:01 AM

    Slavonic Dance No. 6

    Antonin Dvorak

    Genevieve Chinn, piano

    Allen Brings, piano

    4:31
  • 12:42 AM

    Ballade on a Norwegian Folk Song

    Julius Rontgen

    Rontgern: Symphony No. 18

    North German Radio Philharmonic

    David Porcelijn, conductor

    16:42
  • 12:22 AM

    Concerto for Two Horns

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Horn Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Hermann Baumann, horn

    18:28
  • 12:15 AM

    Rondo a Capriccio (Rage Over a Lost Penny)

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Alice Sara Ott: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

    Alice Sara Ott, piano

    6:20
  • 12:06 AM

    Berenice: Overture, Minuet and Gigue

    George Frideric Handel

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    7:11
  • 12:01 AM

    Romeo and Juliet: Ballet Music: Danse Bohemienne

    Charles Gounod

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Michel Plasson, conductor

    4:37
  • 11:43 PM

    Fantasia on Russian Themes

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra

    Dimitri Yablonsky, conductor

    Annelle Gregory, violin

    15:17
  • 11:37 PM

    Creole Sketches on themes collected by L.M. Gottschalk

    Lucien-Leon Lambert

    Sakiko Ohashi, piano

    Mary Scott Spry, pianoforte

    4:22
  • 11:20 PM

    String Quartet No. 13

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartetto Italiano

    16:15
  • 11:13 PM

    Piano Quartet No. 1: Scherzo

    Gabriel Faure

    Faure: Piano Quartets 1 And 2

    Domus

    5:09
  • 11:06 PM

    Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

    Aram Khachaturian

    Serenade

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    6:27
  • 11:01 PM

    Symphonic Dance No. 1

    Cyril Scott

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Martyn Brabbins, conductor

    4:40
  • 10:45 PM

    The Seasons: Autumn

    Alexander Glazunov

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Glazunov: The Seasons, Concert Waltzes

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor

    12:29
  • 10:26 PM

    Holberg Suite

    Edvard Grieg

    Orchestral Favourites Vol I

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    17:37
  • 10:18 PM

    Piano Trio No. 7 "Archduke": 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Trios

    Trio Sora

    7:10
  • 10:09 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Giuseppe Torelli

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    Maurice Andre, trumpet

    7:18
  • 10:06 PM

    Celebration!

    Adolphus Hailstork

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    3:19
  • 10:01 PM

    Suite L'Inconnue: Chaconne

    Michel de la Barre

    La Magnifique: Flute Music for the Court of Louis XIV

    Immanuel Davis, flute

    4:40
  • 9:43 PM

    Cello Concerto No. 3

    Luigi Boccherini

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    Anner Bylsma, cello

    14:54
  • 9:39 PM

    Our Town: Grover's Corners

    Aaron Copland

    London Sinfonietta

    Elgar Howarth, conductor

    2:55
  • 9:26 PM

    Sonatine

    Maurice Ravel

    Rachmaninoff, Ravel

    Lise de la Salle, piano

    10:58
  • 9:21 PM

    Memories of the Alhambra

    Francisco Tarrega

    Xavier de Maistre, harp

    3:58
  • 9:06 PM

    Flute Concerto

    Frederick the Great

    CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra

    Hartmut Haenchen, conductor

    Manfred Friedrich, flute

    14:42
  • 9:03 PM

    Minuet No. 2

    Giacomo Puccini

    R. Strauss, Verdi, Puccini: String Quartets

    Enso String Quartet

    2:37
  • 8:37 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Felix Mendelssohn

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    Stephen Hough, piano

    21:02
  • 8:35 PM

    The Married Beau: Hornpipe on a Ground

    Henry Purcell

    Boston Baroque

    Martin Pearlman, conductor

    1:21
  • 8:22 PM

    Serenata for Chamber Orchestra

    George Walker

    Cleveland Chamber Symphony

    Edwin London, conductor

    11:45
  • 8:06 PM

    Tannhauser: Overture

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Tannhauser, Parsifal, Tristan Und Isolde

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    14:17
  • 8:01 PM

    Cello Suite No. 6: Gavotte

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Suites For Solo Cello

    Pierre Fournier, cello

    4:37
  • 5:27 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 26 "Coronation"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Concertos Nos. 22 & 26

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    Alicia de Larrocha, piano

    31:34
  • 5:21 PM

    Postcards from the Sky: "Unfolding Sky"

    Marjan Mozetich

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:13
  • 5:18 PM

    Sinfonia "La Bergamasca"

    Lodovico Viadana

    Wallace Collection

    2:29
  • 5:06 PM

    Helios Overture

    Carl Nielsen

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    9:59
  • 5:01 PM

    Sonata

    Domenico Scarlatti

    Labyrinth

    Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

    4:40
  • 4:49 PM

    Overture for Wind Instruments

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Romantic Wind Serenades

    Consortium Classicum

    9:21
  • 4:22 PM

    Cello Concerto

    Edouard Lalo

    Romance: Lalo, Tchaikovsky, Casals, etc.

    Saint Cecilia Orchestra

    Antonio Pappano, conductor

    Han-Na Chang, cello

    25:17
  • 4:17 PM

    Duo Concertante: Dithyrambe

    Igor Stravinsky

    Souvenirs

    Kyung Wha Chung, violin

    3:20
  • 4:06 PM

    Marche Slave

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    10:31
  • 4:01 PM

    Spanish Serenade

    Xaver Scharwenka

    Stephen Hough, piano

    4:32
  • 3:51 PM

    Pavane

    Gabriel Faure

    Dies Irae: The Essential Choral Collection

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    6:46
  • 3:27 PM

    Flute Concerto

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    CPE Bach: The Complete Flute Concertos

    Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

    Janos Rolla, conductor

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    23:09
  • 3:19 PM

    Goyescas: Maiden and the Nightingale

    Enrique Granados

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    6:11
  • 3:06 PM

    String Quartet No. 1

    Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    Sirmen: The 6 String Quartets / Allegri String Quartet

    Allegri String Quartet

    12:14
  • 3:01 PM

    Paul's Steeple and Stingo

    John Playford

    Apollo's Banquet

    4:42
  • 2:51 PM

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Bela Bartok

    Bartok: Romanian Folk-Dances, Kodaly: Galanta Dances, Marosszek Dances

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    6:07
  • 2:34 PM

    Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1

    Ottorino Respighi

    Respighi: Trittico Botticelliano, Gli Uccelli, Antiche Danze

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    14:53
  • 2:21 PM

    Calico Winds

    12:22
  • 2:09 PM

    Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto; Saint-Saens: Havanaise

    New York Chamber Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin

    10:40
  • 2:00 PM

    Overture in the French Style: Overture

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Andrew von Oeyen, piano

    7:48
  • 1:55 PM

    Lazy Afternoon

    Jerome Moross

    Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano

    Antonio Pappano, piano

    2:45
  • 1:45 PM

    A Tall Story for Orchestra

    Jerome Moross

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    9:04
  • 1:30 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Neruda

    Haydn, Hummel: Trumpet Concertos

    Swedish Chamber Orchestra

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    Niklas Eklund, trumpet

    14:01
  • 1:25 PM

    Concerto Grosso: March

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    James Judd, conductor

    3:30
  • 1:22 PM

    Scenes from Childhood: Of Foreign Lands and People

    Robert Schumann

    Michael Chertock, piano

    1:56
  • 1:17 PM

    Two Step Passion

    Kamran Ince

    Kamran Ince: Passion & Dreams

    Present Music

    Kamran Ince, conductor

    3:46
  • 1:09 PM

    Symphony: 4th movement

    Johan Zander

    Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra

    Philip Brunelle, conductor

    4:44
  • 1:04 PM

    Peer Gynt: Morning Mood

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2, etc.

    San Francisco Symphony

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    4:19
  • 12:51 PM

    New England Triptych: Chester

    William Schuman

    United States Air Force Band

    Lt. Col. Lowell E. Graham, conductor

    7:16
  • 12:45 PM

    Don Giovanni: Madamina, il catalogo e questo

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Bryn Terfel: Tutto Mozart

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    Bryn Terfel, baritone

    5:44
  • 12:33 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 27: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Alessio Bax plays Mozart

    Southbank Sinfonia

    Simon Over, conductor

    Alessio Bax, piano

    10:06
  • 12:25 PM

    Scherzo on Tropical Airs

    Santos Cifuentes

    Inca Trail Connections

    Norwegian Radio Orchestra

    Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

    6:48
  • 12:18 PM

    Symphony No. 7: Scherzo

    Emilie Mayer

    Berlin Chamber Symphony Ensemble

    Jurgen Bruns, conductor

    6:46
  • 12:15 PM

    Waltz No. 6 "Minute"

    Frederic Chopin

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    2:05
  • 12:15 PM

    Symphony No. 7: Scherzo

    Emilie Mayer

    Berlin Chamber Symphony Ensemble

    Jurgen Bruns, conductor

    6:46
  • 12:07 PM

    Schlagobers (Whipped Cream Waltz)

    Richard Strauss

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor

    5:57
  • 12:04 PM

    Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Claire Jones, harp

    2:26
  • 11:49 AM

    Wand of Youth Suite No. 2

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: The Wand of Youth & Nursery Suites

    Ulster Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    17:45
  • 11:46 AM

    March

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sound Off!

    United States Marine Band

    Col. John Bourgeois, conductor

    2:02
  • 11:34 AM

    Carmen: Aragonaise

    Georges Bizet

    Dance!: The World's Favourite Ice-Skating Music

    French National Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    2:25
  • 11:27 AM

    Polonaise for Violin and Strings

    Franz Schubert

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Thomas Zehetmair, conductor

    Thomas Zehetmair, violin

    5:36
  • 11:20 AM

    William Tell: Pas de six

    Gioacchino Rossini

    The Flag Series: Italy

    Concert Arts Orchestra

    Erich Leinsdorf, conductor

    5:33
  • 11:15 AM

    Auf Flugeln des Gesanges (On wings of song)

    Felix Mendelssohn

    My Gift To You

    Antonin Kubalek, piano

    4:04
  • 11:04 AM

    Sacred and Profane Dances

    Claude Debussy

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Edmon Colomer, conductor

    Vanessa McKeand, harp

    9:40
  • 10:45 AM

    Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 "Midsummer Vigil"

    Hugo Alfven

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    12:55
  • 10:41 AM

    Canzon No. 12

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canadian Brass

    Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor

    3:05
  • 10:33 AM

    Symphony No. 7: 2nd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Carlos Kleiber, conductor

    8:05
  • 10:29 AM

    The King's Speech

    Alexandre Desplat

    Traffic Quintet Plays Alexander Desplat

    Traffic Quintet

    Alain Planes, piano

    3:41
  • 10:12 AM

    Second Rhapsody

    George Gershwin

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Orion Weiss, piano

    15:47
  • 10:07 AM

    Idomeneo: Overture

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Overtures

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    4:24
  • 10:01 AM

    Butterfly's Day Out

    Mark O'Connor

    Mark O'Connor, mandolin

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    Edgar Meyer, double bass

    4:42
  • 9:52 AM

    Penelope: Overture

    Domenico Cimarosa

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Patrick Gallois, conductor

    Jan Karas, horn

    Marketa Cepicka, violin

    5:59
  • 9:49 AM

    Stingo

    John Playford

    Nobody's Jig

    Les Witches

    2:57
  • 9:31 AM

    Fantastic Dances

    Joaquin Turina

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    17:00
  • 9:28 AM

    Contrafacta Hungarica: Passamezzo

    Ferenc Farkas

    Chanson et Danses

    Montreal Winds

    Jacques Lacombe, conductor

    1:27
  • 9:06 AM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Six Concertos for the Margrave of Brandenburg

    European Brandenburg Ensemble

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    Katy Bircher, flute

    20:40
  • 9:01 AM

    365: A fox and a hound met early one morning on a hillside

    Aidan O'Rourke

    365: Volume 1

    Aidan O'Rourke, fiddle

    4:33
  • 8:54 AM

    Come Wander with Me

    Jeff Alexander

    Voces8

    4:02
  • 8:51 AM

    Lyric Pieces: Ensom vandrer (Lonely Wanderer)

    Edvard Grieg

    Emil Gilels, piano

    2:15
  • 8:16 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Zdenek Fibich

    Fibich: Symphony No. 1/Smetana: Vysehrad, Vlatava

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    33:54
  • 8:06 AM

    Ballade No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    Yundi Li, piano

    9:28
  • 8:01 AM

    Reverie

    Claude Debussy

    Reverie

    Kassia Ensemble

    Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet

    4:38
  • 7:30 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 32

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Dinnerstein - The Berlin Concert

    Simone Dinnerstein, piano

    27:42
  • 7:11 AM

    Flute Concerto

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

    Janos Rolla, conductor

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    18:01
  • 7:06 AM

    And the Swallow

    Caroline Shaw

    Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge

    Anna Lapwood, conductor

    3:58
  • 7:01 AM

    Overture No. 2 "La Calamita de Cuori"

    Johann Christian Bach

    JC Bach: Sinfonias

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    4:40
  • 6:55 AM

    Idyll No. 2

    Josef Suk

    Margaret Fingerhut, piano

    3:26
  • 6:51 AM

    My Gentle Harp

    Traditional Irish

    David Russell, guitar

    3:30
  • 6:06 AM

    Symphony "Urbs Roma"

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 2; Danse Macabre; Urbs Roma

    Utah Symphony

    Thierry Fischer, conductor

    43:01
  • 6:01 AM

    French Suite No. 4: Allemande; Courante

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Murray Perahia, piano

    4:36
  • 5:30 AM

    String Quartet No. 1 "From My Life"

    Bedrich Smetana

    Cleveland Quartet

    27:53
  • 5:21 AM

    Melody

    Alexander Glazunov

    Romance: Lalo, Tchaikovsky, Casals, etc.

    Saint Cecilia Orchestra

    Antonio Pappano, conductor

    Han-Na Chang, cello

    8:11
  • 5:01 AM

    Ave Maria

    Gabriel Faure

    Choir of Trinity College

    Richard Marlow, conductor

    Camilla Otaki, soprano

    Joanne Andrews, soprano

    Richard Pearce, organ

    4:32