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  • 5:56 AM

    Tomorrow's Song

    Olafur Arnalds

    Living Room Songs

    Olafur Arnalds, piano

    2:54
  • 5:20 AM

    City Noir

    John Adams

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    David Robertson, conductor

    35:21
  • 5:07 AM

    Skylark Lullaby

    Jennifer Bellor

    Eastman Saxophone Project

    Chien-Kwan Lin, conductor

    10:22
  • 5:01 AM

    For Now I Am Winter

    Olafur Arnalds

    Winter

    Voces8

    4:41
  • 4:50 AM

    Pari Intervallo (Parallel Intervals)

    Arvo Part

    Labyrinth

    Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

    7:49
  • 4:26 AM

    Symphony

    Huw Watkins

    Halle Orchestra

    Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

    21:50
  • 4:18 AM

    Phantom Waltz

    Meredith Monk

    Double Edge: U.S. Choice

    Double Edge

    Edmund Niemann, piano

    6:52
  • 4:07 AM

    Words Fail

    Timo Andres

    Yevgeny Kutik, violin

    Timo Andres, piano

    9:40
  • 4:01 AM

    I lie

    David Lang

    I Want To Live

    The Crossing

    Donald Nally, conductor

    4:41
  • 3:38 AM

    In The South Overture (Alassio)

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: 4 Overtures

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Alexander Gibson, conductor

    20:37
  • 3:31 AM

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    Cory Smythe, piano

    5:25
  • 3:06 AM

    Symphony No. 18

    Julius Rontgen

    North German Radio Philharmonic

    David Porcelijn, conductor

    23:00
  • 3:01 AM

    Amazing Grace

    John Newton

    Esenvalds: Northern Lights and Other Choral Works

    Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge

    Stephen Layton, conductor

    Anna Cavaliero, soprano

    4:43
  • 2:46 AM

    Romance for Violin and Orchestra

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Encore Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Hege, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    12:37
  • 2:20 AM

    Quintet for Piano and Winds

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concerto KV 453, Piano Quintet KV 452

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    24:41
  • 2:07 AM

    Coincident Dances

    Jessie Montgomery

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    11:42
  • 2:01 AM

    Slavonic Dance No. 3

    Antonin Dvorak

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

    4:37
  • 1:28 AM

    Water Music Suite No. 1

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Water Music, Rodrigo

    Musicians of the Louvre

    Marc Minkowski, conductor

    30:13
  • 1:18 AM

    Swan of Tuonela

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Lemminkainen Suite; Spring Song; Belshazzar's Feast Suite

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Sakari Oramo, conductor

    Alison Teale, English horn

    8:54
  • 1:12 AM

    La Source (The Spring)

    Alphonse Hasselmans

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    3:47
  • 1:06 AM

    Sonata

    Domenico Scarlatti

    Avi Avital - Art of the Mandolin

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    5:35
  • 1:01 AM

    Sonatina No. 2 "Happy Workshop": 2nd movement

    Richard Strauss

    Netherlands Wind Ensemble

    Edo de Waart, conductor

    4:32
  • 12:43 AM

    The Enormous Room

    David Diamond

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    15:27
  • 12:25 AM

    In the Tatra Mountains

    Vitezslav Novak

    Novak, V.: In the Tatra Mountains; Lady Godiva; Eternal Longing

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    16:21
  • 12:21 AM

    Etude No. 12 "Revolutionary"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Etudes Op. 10 & Op. 25 op. posth.

    Boris Berezovsky, piano

    2:53
  • 12:06 AM

    Othello Overture

    Antonin Dvorak

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    13:40
  • 12:01 AM

    Violin Sonata: 4th movement

    Johann Georg Pisendel

    La Serenissima

    Adrian Chandler, violin

    4:35
  • 11:43 PM

    Fantasia on Russian Themes

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra

    Dimitri Yablonsky, conductor

    Annelle Gregory, violin

    15:17
  • 11:31 PM

    Symphony No. 3: 1st movement

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    11:21
  • 11:25 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 14: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart and Contemporaries

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    4:26
  • 11:21 PM

    Song: It was in the early spring

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Vocalise: Russian Romances

    Mischa Maisky, cello

    2:21
  • 11:06 PM

    Carmina Burana: On the Green

    Carl Orff

    Orff: Carmina Burana

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    14:00
  • 10:50 PM

    Mignon: Overture

    Ambroise Thomas

    Great Comedy Overtures

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Lance Friedel, conductor

    8:22
  • 10:31 PM

    Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp

    Claude Debussy

    Marina Piccinini, flute

    Kim Kashkashian, viola

    Sivan Magen, harp

    18:04
  • 10:21 PM

    Overture for Wind Instruments

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Consortium Classicum

    9:21
  • 10:19 PM

    Sinfonia No. 6

    Leonora Duarte

    Birds on Fire

    Fretwork

    1:49
  • 10:06 PM

    Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    New Queen's Hall Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    10:44
  • 10:03 PM

    The Drunken Sailor

    Traditional

    Cantus

    2:46
  • 9:51 PM

    Symphony No. 7 "Pastoral": Allegro moderato

    Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov: Symphonies 4 And 7

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    7:26
  • 9:37 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 4

    Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Kabalevsky: Piano Concertos

    North German Radio Philharmonic

    Alun Francis, conductor

    Michael Korstick, piano

    12:33
  • 9:16 PM

    Pastoral Suite

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    19:05
  • 9:06 PM

    Concerto for Violin and Cello

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Concertos for Strings

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    Anner Bylsma, cello

    8:43
  • 9:01 PM

    Scarborough Fair

    Traditional English

    Claire Jones: Royal Harp Strings

    London Mozart Players

    Stuart Morley, conductor

    Claire Jones, harp

    4:49
  • 6:53 PM

    Symphony No. 3: 3rd movement

    Florence Price

    Price: Symphony No. 3 - The Mississippi River - Ethiopia's Shadow in America

    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

    John Jeter, conductor

    4:58
  • 6:31 PM

    Aranjuez Concerto

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    21:25
  • 6:12 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 31

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Rudolf Buchbinder, piano

    16:21
  • 6:06 PM

    Overture to an unfinished comedy opera

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    5:34
  • 6:01 PM

    Liza/Promenade

    George Gershwin

    Rendezvous with Tashi

    Tashi

    4:46
  • 5:50 PM

    Don Quixote: Grand Pas de Deux

    Leon Minkus

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    8:07
  • 5:36 PM

    German Chamber Academy

    Johannes Goritzki, conductor

    12:58
  • 5:28 PM

    Czardashian Rhapsody

    Traditional

    Shiksa

    Lara St. John, violin

    6:03
  • 5:06 PM

    Faust Ballet Music

    Charles Gounod

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Paray, conductor

    21:09
  • 5:01 PM

    L'Orfeo Baroque Orchestra

    Michi Gaigg, conductor

    4:31
  • 4:57 PM

    Aghavni (Doves)

    Mary Kouyoumdjian

    Lara Downes, piano

    1:59
  • 4:43 PM

    Parsifal: Prelude to Act I

    Richard Wagner

    Klemperer Conducts Wagner: Album II

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Otto Klemperer, conductor

    13:06
  • 4:18 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 10

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    Georg Solti, piano

    Daniel Barenboim, piano

    23:30
  • 4:06 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 11

    Arcangelo Corelli

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    9:40
  • 4:01 PM

    William Tell: Pas de Soldats (Soldiers' Dance)

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra

    Antonio de Almeida, conductor

    4:31
  • 3:41 PM

    Horn Concerto No. 1

    Richard Strauss

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Ingo Metzmacher, conductor

    Marie Luise Neunecker, horn

    15:35
  • 3:25 PM

    Panamanian Dances

    William Grant Still

    Berlin Symphony Orchestra

    Isaiah Jackson, conductor

    14:00
  • 3:15 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

    Musica Antiqua Cologne

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor

    9:00
  • 3:10 PM

    Cello Suite No. 6: Gigue

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    3:43
  • 2:59 PM

    The Wreckers Overture

    Ethel Smyth

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Sakari Oramo, conductor

    9:10
  • 2:55 PM

    Concert Etude No. 6: Pastoral

    Nikolai Kapustin

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    2:25
  • 2:46 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1: 3rd mvt

    Frederic Chopin

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Paul Kletzki, conductor

    Maurizio Pollini, piano

    8:33
  • 2:41 PM

    Etude No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Etudes

    Maurizio Pollini, piano

    1:55
  • 2:33 PM

    Nocturnes: Fetes (Festivals)

    Claude Debussy

    Paris Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    6:56
  • 2:27 PM

    El amor brujo: Ritual Fire Dance

    Manuel de Falla

    Spanish Fireworks

    Alicia de Larrocha, piano

    3:56
  • 2:21 PM

    Jongo

    Paulo Bellinati

    From Moment to Moment

    Duo Transatlantique

    5:32
  • 2:19 PM

    Saudades do Brazil: Corcovado

    Darius Milhaud

    The Roaring 20s

    Windscape

    1:47
  • 2:10 PM

    Piano Quartet No. 2: Finale

    Emilie Mayer

    Emilie Mayer: Piano Quartets 1 & 2

    Mariani Piano Quartet

    5:10
  • 2:05 PM

    Andante festivo

    Jean Sibelius

    Sphinx Virtuosi

    Damon Gupton, conductor

    4:35
  • 1:48 PM

    Academic Festival Overture

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Symphony No. 4

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    10:57
  • 1:44 PM

    Canzon No. 12

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    Wallace Collection

    2:30
  • 1:35 PM

    Four Seasons: Winter

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Il Cimento Dell'Armonia e Dell'Inventione

    Europa Galante

    Fabio Biondi, conductor

    Fabio Biondi, violin

    7:44
  • 1:32 PM

    Fancy Free Ballet: Waltz

    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein: Marin Alsop The Complete Naxos Recordings

    Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    2:39
  • 1:24 PM

    Clarinet Quintet: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart & Brahms

    Pacifica String Quartet

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    6:42
  • 1:20 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 42

    Domenico Cimarosa

    Mozart and Contemporaries

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    2:23
  • 1:06 PM

    Ottone overture

    George Frideric Handel

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    7:55
  • 1:04 PM

    Saul: Sinfonia

    George Frideric Handel

    The Handel Collection

    City of London Sinfonia

    John Rutter, conductor

    1:22
  • 12:57 PM

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    :56
  • 12:50 PM

    Bourree Fantasque

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Chabrier: Espana

    French National Orchestra

    Armin Jordan, conductor

    7:02
  • 12:45 PM

    Little Trio: Finale

    Helena Munktell

    Helena Munktell: Dix Mélodies - Violin Sonata - Piano Trio

    Tobias Ringborg, violin

    4:04
  • 12:38 PM

    Castor and Pollux: Overture

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Rameau: Castor et Pollux; Purcell: 3 Fantasias

    Orchestra of the 18th Century

    Frans Bruggen, conductor

    5:02
  • 12:31 PM

    Harp Quintet: 2nd movement

    Jean Cras

    Ligeti, Villa-Lobos, Barber

    Isabelle Moretti, harp

    5:59
  • 12:30 PM

    Swan Lake: Dance of the Little Swans

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3

    Behzod Abduraimov, piano

    1:30
  • 12:21 PM

    Voices of Spring Waltz (Fruhlingsstimmen)

    Johann StraussJr.

    Strauss

    Vienna Volksoper Orchestra

    Franz Bauer-Theussl, conductor

    7:05
  • 12:16 PM

    The Girl from Corsica

    Trevor Duncan

    New London Orchestra

    Ronald Corp, conductor

    4:39
  • 12:07 PM

    Symphony No. 1

    William Boyce

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    7:10
  • 12:04 PM

    Song without Words No. 25 "May Breezes"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Andras Schiff, piano

    2:24
  • 11:40 AM

    Cockaigne Overture (In London Town)

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: Symphonies 1 & 2

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    14:12
  • 11:34 AM

    Carmen: Habanera

    Georges Bizet

    Paris Opera Orchestra

    Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, conductor

    Grace Bumbry, mezzo-soprano

    4:19
  • 11:20 AM

    A Moorside Suite

    Gustav Holst

    English Folk Songs

    Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra

    Frederick Fennell, conductor

    12:57
  • 11:10 AM

    Concerto No. 1

    John Hebden

    Hebden: Six Concertos for Strings

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    9:07
  • 11:06 AM

    Hungarian Dance No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello

    Alexandre Tharaud, piano

    2:56
  • 11:01 AM

    Bassoon Concerto: Rondo

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Janne Nisonen, conductor

    Jaakko Luoma, bassoon

    4:45
  • 10:48 AM

    Symphony Concertante

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    Yury Revich, violin

    Libor Jezek, violin

    Pavla Honsova, viola

    10:40
  • 10:39 AM

    Two Ballades

    Fazil Say

    Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra

    Scott Yoo, conductor

    Fazil Say, piano

    7:24
  • 10:21 AM

    Viola Sonata

    Mikhail Glinka

    White Nights: Viola Music From Saint Petersburg

    Tatjana Masurenko, viola

    16:20
  • 10:06 AM

    Overture No. 1

    Francesco Veracini

    Musica Antiqua Cologne

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor

    13:58
  • 10:01 AM

    Three Parts on a Ground

    Henry Purcell

    Stradivaria

    4:45
  • 9:24 AM

    Symphony No. 45 "Farewell"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    34:03
  • 9:19 AM

    Reflections on Air

    Augusta Gross

    Still Sound

    Bruce Levingston, piano

    3:29
  • 9:06 AM

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Richard Studt, conductor

    12:18
  • 9:01 AM

    Spanish Serenade

    Joaquin Malats

    Christoph Denoth, guitar

    4:34
  • 8:43 AM

    String Quartet No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartetto Italiano

    15:19
  • 8:35 AM

    Impromptu for Harp

    Gabriel Faure

    Susann McDonald, harp

    7:07
  • 8:16 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    I Musici Montreal

    Maxim Shostakovich, conductor

    Dmitri Shostakovich, piano

    18:01
  • 8:06 AM

    Summer Pastorale

    Arthur Honegger

    The Four Seasons: A Musical Calendar Of Favorite Classics

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Michel Plasson, conductor

    8:55
  • 8:01 AM

    Pastoral

    David Guion

    Prairie Echoes - Piano Music of David Guion

    Eugene Rowley, piano

    4:37
  • 7:38 AM

    Shakespeare's Tempest

    John Knowles Paine

    Ulster Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    19:59
  • 7:34 AM

    Free Range Saxophone Quartet

    4:18
  • 7:06 AM

    String Quartet No. 10

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Quartets D804 Rosamunde, D87 and Quartettsatz

    Borodin Quartet

    25:25
  • 7:01 AM

    Winter Serenade (Serenade d'Hiver)

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Asbury Brass Quintet with Adolph Herseth, soloist

    Asbury Brass Quintet

    4:33
  • 6:41 AM

    French Suite No. 5

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Murray Perahia, piano

    16:51
  • 6:37 AM

    Tropical Sonatina: Song of the Dawn

    Jose Lezcano

    Song and Dances from the New Village

    Laura Gilbert, flute

    3:50
  • 6:06 AM

    Sinfonia for Strings

    Kurt Atterberg

    ATTERBERG: Sinfonia for Strings

    Camerata Nordica

    Ulf Wallin, conductor

    29:03
  • 6:01 AM

    Gayane: Lullaby

    Aram Khachaturian

    Khachaturian: Piano Concerto, etc.

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:37