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  • 4:43 AM

    Concert Piece for Harp and Orchestra

    Gabriel Pierne

    L. Laskine Joue Boieldieu, Mozart, Pierne

    French National Radio and Television Orchestra

    Jean Martinon, conductor

    Lily Laskine, harp

    15:31
  • 4:23 AM

    Four Paths of Light

    Pat Metheny

    Jason Vieaux, guitar

    19:13
  • 4:06 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: The Complete Piano Concertos

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Daniel Barenboim, piano

    15:10
  • 4:01 AM

    Calling Home the Cattle

    Veljo Tormis

    Water Under Snow is Weary

    Tapiola Choir

    Erkki Pohjola, conductor

    4:43
  • 3:50 AM

    Slavonic Dance No. 16

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    8:04
  • 3:21 AM

    Mississippi River Suite

    Florence Price

    The Oak - Mississippi River Suite - Symphony No. 3

    Women's Philharmonic

    Apo Hsu, conductor

    27:44
  • 3:18 AM

    Three Dream Portraits: Dream Variation

    Margaret Bonds

    Will Liverman, baritone

    Paul Sanchez, piano

    2:08
  • 3:06 AM

    The Dream of Gunnar

    Carl Nielsen

    Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor

    10:09
  • 3:01 AM

    Flute Quartet: Minuet

    Franz Schubert

    Martinu Quartet

    Robert Stallman, flute

    4:43
  • 2:29 AM

    Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)

    Leonard Bernstein

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Keith Lockhart, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    29:15
  • 2:14 AM

    Phaeton: Suite

    Jean-Baptiste Lully

    The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    13:00
  • 2:06 AM

    Scenes from the Poet's Dreams: Summer Shimmers Across the Glass of Green Ponds

    Jennifer Higdon

    Lark Quartet

    Gary Graffman, piano

    6:58
  • 2:01 AM

    Summer Evening

    John Ireland

    Eric Parkin, piano

    4:46
  • 1:42 AM

    Concerto for 2 Orchestras No. 3

    George Frideric Handel

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    16:28
  • 1:28 AM

    String Quartet No. 6

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Hagen Quartet

    12:49
  • 1:17 AM

    A Lotus on Irish Streams

    John McLaughlin

    Matt Haimovitz, cello

    Christopher O'Riley, piano

    8:47
  • 1:01 AM

    Notre Dame: Intermezzo

    Franz Schmidt

    Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    4:43
  • 12:53 AM

    Dialogue for Harp and Clarinet

    Anna Segal

    Rachel Talitman, harp

    Jean-Marc Fessard, clarinet

    5:44
  • 12:19 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Frederic Chopin

    CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2, Scherzi

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

    Seong-Jin Cho, piano

    31:34
  • 12:15 AM

    Planxty O'Rourke

    Turlough O'Carolan

    Fermi's Paradox

    Ronn McFarlane, lute

    2:52
  • 12:06 AM

    Four Scottish Dances

    Malcolm Arnold

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    8:19
  • 12:01 AM

    Pansies Polka Mazurka

    Josef Strauss

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    4:36
  • 11:50 PM

    Rodeo: Buckaroo Holiday

    Aaron Copland

    Essential Aaron Copland: 12 Greatest Hits

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    8:38
  • 11:46 PM

    Meditation

    Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov, Schoeck: Violin Concertos

    Swiss Italian Orchestra

    Alexander Vedernikov, conductor

    Chloe Hanslip, violin

    4:10
  • 11:16 PM

    Suite for Strings

    Ethel Smyth

    British Music for Strings, Vol. 3

    South German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim

    Douglas Bostock, conductor

    28:50
  • 11:10 PM

    String Quartet No. 4: 4th movement

    Dmitri Klebanov

    ARC Ensemble

    3:37
  • 11:06 PM

    Minuet

    Luigi Boccherini

    The Fantastic Stokowski

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    3:11
  • 11:01 PM

    Winter Serenade (Serenade d'Hiver)

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Asbury Brass Quintet

    4:33
  • 10:49 PM

    L'Etoile du Nord: Dance Suite

    Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

    Michal Nesterowicz, conductor

    9:06
  • 10:23 PM

    Violin Concerto

    Samuel Barber

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Maxim Shostakovich, conductor

    Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin

    25:25
  • 10:15 PM

    Everlasting Longing

    Traditional Chinese

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    Yuan Sha, guzheng

    5:42
  • 10:06 PM

    Oboe Concerto No. 3

    Tomaso Albinoni

    I Musici

    Heinz Holliger, oboe

    8:10
  • 10:01 PM

    Summer Evening: Waltz

    Oscar Merikanto

    Scandinavian Rhapsody, A Selection of Orchestral Favourites

    Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    4:36
  • 9:40 PM

    Fantasie for Piano Four-Hands

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Resonance De L'Originaire

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    18:38
  • 9:25 PM

    Symphony No. 6

    Carl Friedrich Abel

    Abel: Six Symphonies Op 7 / Shepherd, Cantilena

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    13:18
  • 9:22 PM

    Prelude No. 2 "Poor Mourner's Got a Home"

    Wallace Cheatham

    William Chapman Nyaho, piano

    1:57
  • 9:21 PM

    Prelude No. 1 "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho"

    Wallace Cheatham

    William Chapman Nyaho, piano

    :58
  • 9:06 PM

    Leonore Overture No. 3

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphony No 7, Leonore Overture No 3

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    13:53
  • 9:01 PM

    Leaving Home; A Single Bamboo

    Zhou Long

    The Flowing Stream

    Shanghai Quartet

    4:40
  • 8:43 PM

    Don Juan

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Don Quixote, Op. 35, Horn Concerto #1 in E Flat Major, Op. 11, Don Juan, Op. 20

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    15:49
  • 8:20 PM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 2

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Andrei Gavrilov, piano

    21:25
  • 8:14 PM

    Salut d'amour (Love's Greeting)

    Edward Elgar

    Carte Blanche

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    3:35
  • 8:06 PM

    Symphony No. 1: Adagio

    Emilie Mayer

    North German Radio Philharmonic

    Leo McFall, conductor

    7:36
  • 8:01 PM

    Songs of a Wayfarer: Ging heut Morgen ubers Feld (Morning Walk)

    Gustav Mahler

    Claudius Tanski, piano

    4:40
  • 7:31 PM

    Harp Concerto

    Reinhold Gliere

    City of London Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    Rachel Masters, harp

    26:59
  • 7:28 PM

    Scotch Cap

    John Playford

    On the Banks of Helicon

    Baltimore Consort

    1:52
  • 7:24 PM

    David Russell, guitar

    3:53
  • 7:06 PM

    Capriccio Espagnol

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies / Jarvi, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    15:43
  • 7:01 PM

    Serenade No. 7 "Haffner": 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Karl Bohm, conductor

    4:34
  • 6:52 PM

    Symphonic Dance No. 1

    Edvard Grieg

    Edvard Grieg

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    6:21
  • 6:17 PM

    Piano Quartet No. 2

    Antonin Dvorak

    Emanuel Ax, piano

    Isaac Stern, violin

    Jaime Laredo, viola

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    33:24
  • 6:06 PM

    La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: 7 Overtures

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    9:29
  • 6:00 PM

    Flute Quartet No. 1: 2nd movement

    Francois-Joseph Gossec

    Milliere String Trio

    Patrice Bocquillon, flute

    4:42
  • 5:29 PM

    Cello Concerto

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

    29:11
  • 5:17 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 50

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Maria Bergmann, piano

    9:55
  • 5:09 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 6

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel and Haydn Society

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    6:50
  • 5:06 PM

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Agustin Leon Ara, violin

    2:51
  • 5:01 PM

    Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    4:40
  • 4:50 PM

    Halcyon Days

    Eric Coates

    East of England Orchestra

    Malcolm Nabarro, conductor

    8:01
  • 4:32 PM

    Violin Concerto

    Amanda Rontgen-Maier

    Amanda Meyer: Volume 1

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Andreas Stoehr, conductor

    Gregory Maytan, violin

    17:14
  • 4:14 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 13

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Sonatas "Quasi una Fantasia"

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    15:31
  • 4:11 PM

    Joyne Hands

    Thomas Morley

    Baltimore Consort

    1:32
  • 4:06 PM

    Hungarian Dance No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Hungarian Dances

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    Andras Keller, violin

    3:21
  • 4:01 PM

    Masques

    Claude Debussy

    Shadowlines

    Gilles Vonsattel, piano

    4:35
  • 3:55 PM

    The Third Man: Theme

    Anton Karas

    From Holland With Love

    Johann Strauss Orchestra

    Andre Rieu, conductor

    4:12
  • 3:50 PM

    The Bridge on the River Kwai: Prelude

    Malcolm Arnold

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    6:24
  • 3:39 PM

    A Passage to India: Suite

    Maurice Jarre

    Maurice Jarre: The Emotion And The Strength

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Maurice Jarre, conductor

    10:04
  • 3:34 PM

    The Inspector Clouseau Theme

    Henry Mancini

    Premier Pops

    Royal Philharmonic Pops

    Henry Mancini, conductor

    2:50
  • 3:29 PM

    Henry V: Non nobis domine

    Patrick Doyle

    Henry V: Original Soundtrack Recording

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    4:10
  • 3:22 PM

    Henry V Suite

    William Walton

    Orchestral Favourites Vol. 2

    English Symphony Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    5:19
  • 3:16 PM

    Goodbye Mr Chips: Theme

    Richard Addinsell

    British Light Music: Richard Addinsell

    BBC Concert Orchestra

    Kenneth Alwyn, conductor

    3:19
  • 3:07 PM

    The Belles of St. Trinian's: Comedy Suite

    Malcolm Arnold

    Arnold: Film Music, Vol. 2

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    7:59
  • 3:01 PM

    Ladies in Lavender

    Nigel Hess

    Claire Jones: Royal Harp Strings

    London Mozart Players

    Stuart Morley, conductor

    Claire Jones, harp

    4:42
  • 2:40 PM

    Toronto Chamber Orchestra

    Kevin Mallon, conductor

    Zhou Qian, violin

    18:24
  • 2:27 PM

    Scherzo No. 4

    Frederic Chopin

    CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2, Scherzi

    Seong-Jin Cho, piano

    10:45
  • 2:09 PM

    Symphony No. 39

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Il Giardino Armonico

    Giovanni Antonini, conductor

    16:01
  • 2:06 PM

    Mysterious Barricades

    Francois Couperin

    Home

    Elizabeth Hainen, harp

    2:37
  • 2:01 PM

    Mysterious Barricades

    Francois Couperin

    Home

    Elizabeth Hainen, harp

    2:37
  • 1:50 PM

    Rondo for Piano and Orchestra

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    8:23
  • 1:46 PM

    My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord

    Moses Hogan

    The Worlds Above

    Concordia Choir of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota

    Rene Clausen, conductor

    3:11
  • 1:29 PM

    Five Bagatelles

    Gerald Finzi

    Joy and Desolation

    Tesla Quartet

    Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet

    14:52
  • 1:11 PM

    Sinfonia "Le campane di Roma" ("Bells of Rome")

    Giuseppe Demachi

    Improvisata: Sinfonie con titoli

    Europa Galante

    Fabio Biondi, conductor

    Fabio Biondi, violin

    15:57
  • 1:06 PM

    Paganini Etude No. 3 "La Campanella"

    Franz Liszt

    Liszt: My Piano Hero

    Lang Lang, piano

    4:46
  • 12:53 PM

    Proud Thames, Coronation Overture

    Elizabeth Maconchy

    Maconchy: Orchestral Works

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    5:46
  • 12:18 PM

    Symphony No. 4 "Tragic"

    Franz Schubert

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

    33:05
  • 12:06 PM

    Academic Festival Overture

    Johannes Brahms

    The Berlin Album

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    10:04
  • 12:01 PM

    Pastoral Suite: Villagers' Dance

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Dukas: La Peri; L'Apprenti sorcier/Chabrier: Suite pastorale; Espana

    Ulster Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    4:42
  • 11:50 AM

    Corsair: Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    8:04
  • 11:47 AM

    Waltz

    Francis Poulenc

    Melancolie

    Miki Aoki, piano

    1:58
  • 11:35 AM

    Fantasia

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Helene Grimaud: The Messenger

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    11:32
  • 11:22 AM

    Sinfonia No. 5

    Gaspard Fritz

    Fritz: 5 Sinfonias

    La Stagione Frankfurt

    Michael Schneider, conductor

    11:34
  • 11:06 AM

    Fantastic Scherzo

    Josef Suk

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    14:50
  • 11:01 AM

    What Inspires Poetry: About Rain and Storm

    Jorge Grundman

    Minds

    Ara Malikian, violin

    4:38
  • 10:47 AM

    Rienzi: Overture

    Richard Wagner

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    11:42
  • 10:21 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 16

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    Rudolf Serkin, piano

    24:30
  • 10:13 AM

    You and Me

    Qigang Chen

    Paris Chamber Orchestra

    Adrien Perruchon, conductor

    Gautier Capucon, cello

    5:44
  • 10:06 AM

    Five Variations on "I am still in my spring"

    Louis Spohr

    Virtuoso Harp

    Marion Hoffman, harp

    6:36
  • 10:01 AM

    Hary Janos Suite: Intermezzo

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    4:35
  • 9:43 AM

    Night Ride and Sunrise

    Jean Sibelius

    Nielsen: Symphony No. 5; Sibelius: Luonnotar, etc.

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    15:16
  • 9:34 AM

    Capriccio No. 1

    Muzio Clementi

    Lilya Zilberstein, piano

    7:30
  • 9:29 AM

    Benjamin Perrot, theorbo

    3:03
  • 9:06 AM

    An English Suite

    Hubert Parry

    Elgar: Seranade, etc./Parry: An English Suite, etc.

    City of London Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    22:37
  • 9:01 AM

    Herbstlied (Autumn Song)

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Phoenix in Flight

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Kirk Trevor, conductor

    Richard Stoltzman, clarinet

    4:41
  • 8:55 AM

    The Blue Bird

    Charles Stanford

    On the Air: Live Radio Highlights

    Chanticleer

    3:28
  • 8:49 AM

    Legend

    Charles Stanford

    Stanford: Chamber Music

    Lucy Gould, violin

    5:27
  • 8:11 AM

    Symphony No. 3

    Johannes Brahms

    Bernstein Century - Brahms: Symphonies No 2 & 3

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    36:21
  • 8:06 AM

    Red Flowers in Bloom

    Qi Liu

    Shanghai Quartet

    4:22
  • 8:01 AM

    Lullaby (Berceuse)

    Arnold Bax

    Bax: Viola and Piano Music

    Charles Matthews, piano

    4:34
  • 7:47 AM

    Concerto No. 2

    Lorenzo Zavateri

    Zavateri: Concerti Da Chiesa E Da Camera

    Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

    Gottfried von der Goltz, conductor

    11:10
  • 7:44 AM

    Romance No. 2

    Robert Schumann

    Brahms Inspired

    Orli Shaham, piano

    3:21
  • 7:06 AM

    Clarinet Quintet

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Hawthorne String Quartet

    Harold Wright, clarinet

    35:39
  • 7:01 AM

    The Seawall Song

    Tamezo Narita

    Paillard Chamber Orchestra

    Jean-Francois Paillard, conductor

    4:33
  • 6:41 AM

    Sinfonia No. 1

    Franz Beck

    Beck: Symphonies Op. 3, Nos. 1-4

    Toronto Chamber Orchestra

    Kevin Mallon, conductor

    16:33
  • 6:36 AM

    Jobiniana No. 1

    Sergio Assad

    Sergio & Odair Assad, guitars

    5:08
  • 6:06 AM

    The Knights

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    Michael Ward-Bergeman, hyper-accordion

    Jamey Haddad, percussion

    Cyro Baptista, percussion

    28:06
  • 6:01 AM

    Two German Dances

    Franz Schubert

    Yaara Tal, piano

    Andreas Groethuysen, piano

    4:39
  • 5:25 AM

    Symphony No. 6 "Dollar"

    Kurt Atterberg

    Atterberg: Symphony No. 6, etc.

    Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

    Jun'ichi Hirokami, conductor

    33:27
  • 5:21 AM

    Beloved (Wa Habibi)

    Traditional

    Floodplain

    Kronos Quartet

    3:11
  • 5:06 AM

    Prince of Clouds

    Anna Clyne

    Two x Four

    Curtis 20/21 Ensemble

    Vinay Parameswaran, conductor

    Jennifer Koh, violin

    13:30
  • 5:01 AM

    Sarabande

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Ludovico Einaudi: Portrait

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:42