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  • 5:26 AM

    Symphony No. 5

    Jean Sibelius

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor

    32:20
  • 5:20 AM

    Hymnus for 12 Cellos

    Julius Klengel

    Elgar

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

    5:10
  • 5:06 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 4

    Pieter Hellendaal

    Combattimento Consort Amsterdam

    Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor

    12:40
  • 5:01 AM

    Serenade for Guitar and Strings

    Malcolm Arnold

    English Guitar Concertos

    Northern Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    Craig Ogden, guitar

    4:31
  • 4:44 AM

    Concerto for Two Violins

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Hilary Hahn: Bach Violin Concertos

    Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Kahane, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    14:14
  • 4:41 AM

    Szatmar Dances

    Sandor Veress

    Hungarian Serenade

    Offenburg String Trio

    2:31
  • 4:27 AM

    Summer Scenes

    Tauno Pylkkanen

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Petri Sakari, conductor

    11:55
  • 4:06 AM

    Sinfonietta No. 2 "Generations"

    Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    19:29
  • 4:01 AM

    Fragments from Hans Andersen: A leaf from the sky

    York Bowen

    Bowen: Fragments from Hans Andersen, Studies for piano Op.46

    Nicolas Namoradze, piano

    4:40
  • 3:49 AM

    Violin Concerto: Finale

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Violin Concerto

    Lucerne Festival Strings

    Daniel Dodds, conductor

    Midori, violin

    9:46
  • 3:40 AM

    Scherzo No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

    8:10
  • 3:20 AM

    La Guiablesse

    William Grant Still

    William Grant Still: La Guiablesse, Danzas de Panama, Quit Dat Fool'nish, Summerland

    Berlin Symphony Orchestra

    Isaiah Jackson, conductor

    18:25
  • 3:16 AM

    Odeon

    Ernesto Nazareth

    Solatino

    Gabriela Montero, piano

    2:12
  • 3:06 AM

    Serenade No. 10 "Gran Partita": Theme and Variations

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Armonia Ensemble

    9:27
  • 3:01 AM

    Festival Scherzo for Piano and Strings

    Madeleine Dring

    Guildhall Strings

    Robert Salter, conductor

    Martin Roscoe, piano

    4:32
  • 2:46 AM

    Cello Concerto No. 2 "Presence": 3rd movement

    Peteris Vasks

    Vasks: Presence

    Amsterdam Sinfonietta

    Candida Thompson, conductor

    Sol Gabetta, cello

    12:25
  • 2:18 AM

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Wayne Marshall, conductor

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    26:57
  • 2:12 AM

    String Sextet No. 1: Scherzo

    Johannes Brahms

    Cypress String Quartet

    Barry Shiffman, violin

    Zuill Bailey, cello

    3:10
  • 2:06 AM

    Cantata No. 208: Sheep May Safely Graze

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach: Lieder ohne Worte

    Sinfonia Varsovia

    Albrecht Mayer, oboe

    4:25
  • 2:01 AM

    There Is a Balm in Gilead

    Spiritual

    In Bright Mansions

    Fisk Jubilee Singers

    4:36
  • 1:38 AM

    Six Dances for String Orchestra

    Ulysses Kay

    Westphalian Symphony Orchestra, Recklinghausen

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    20:17
  • 1:23 AM

    Symphony No. 10: 4th movement

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Andris Nelsons, conductor

    13:41
  • 1:20 AM

    Three Fanfares from the Court of Louis XIV

    Jean-Baptiste Lully

    New York Chamber Musicians

    Ilonna Pederson, conductor

    2:20
  • 1:06 AM

    Birdflight

    Christopher Gunning

    Gunning: Violin & Cello Concertos - Birdflight

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Christopher Gunning, conductor

    12:13
  • 1:01 AM

    Trumpet Sonata a 7

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Baroque Trumpet Music

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    John Wallace, trumpet

    4:44
  • 12:52 AM

    My Soul Hath Found Refuge in Thee

    Evelyn Simpson-Curenton

    The Aeolians

    The Aeolians

    Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor

    5:29
  • 12:31 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 28

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Sonatas Opp. 101 & 106 "Hammerklavier"

    Maurizio Pollini, piano

    20:13
  • 12:28 AM

    La Peri (The Fairy): Fanfare

    Paul Dukas

    Dukas: Symphonie en Ut, La Peri, L'Apprenti Sorcier

    French National Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    2:13
  • 12:19 AM

    Concerto for Two Violins

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

    Janos Rolla, conductor

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    Isaac Stern, violin

    9:01
  • 12:06 AM

    The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan

    Charles Tomlinson Griffes

    The Musical Fantasies of Charles Griffes and Deems Taylor

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    10:45
  • 12:01 AM

    Four Poetic Waltzes

    Enrique Granados

    Granados: Goyescas, etc.

    Xiayin Wang, piano

    4:39
  • 11:55 PM

    MLK

    U2

    Cantus

    2:57
  • 11:48 PM

    Catalyst Quartet

    6:52
  • 11:32 PM

    Russian Easter Festival Overture

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Russian Sketches

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    14:25
  • 11:23 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 23: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos 21 And 23

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Ingrid Jacoby, piano

    8:13
  • 11:18 PM

    Seven Popular Spanish Songs: Jota

    Manuel de Falla

    Augustin Hadelich, violin

    Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar

    3:03
  • 11:06 PM

    Symphony No. 5: 4th movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    12:03
  • 11:01 PM

    Summer Evening: Waltz

    Oscar Merikanto

    Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    4:35
  • 10:47 PM

    Our Town

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Our Town, El Salon Mexico

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Aaron Copland, conductor

    10:58
  • 10:42 PM

    Prelude

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    The Fantastic Stokowski

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    4:35
  • 10:36 PM

    Prelude

    Marin Marais

    Marin Marais, Sainte-Colombe: The Greates Masterworks

    Spectre de la Rose

    5:03
  • 10:33 PM

    To A Red Rose

    Florence Price

    Lara Downes, piano

    2:28
  • 10:31 PM

    To A White Rose

    Florence Price

    Lara Downes, piano

    1:53
  • 10:28 PM

    To A Yellow Rose

    Florence Price

    Lara Downes, piano

    2:38
  • 10:11 PM

    Symphonic Poem No. 6 "Mazeppa"

    Franz Liszt

    New York Philharmonic

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    15:25
  • 10:06 PM

    Fugue "Little"

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Favorites

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    3:59
  • 10:03 PM

    From Foreign Lands: Poland

    Moritz Moszkowski

    From Foreign Lands

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    2:48
  • 9:45 PM

    Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1

    Georges Enescu

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    13:09
  • 9:35 PM

    Concerto for Two Violins

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Rebel

    Jorg-Michael Schwarz, conductor

    Jorg-Michael Schwarz, violin

    Karen Marie Marmer, violin

    9:08
  • 9:28 PM

    Red Clay and Mississippi Delta

    Valerie Coleman

    Startin' Sumthin'

    Imani Winds

    5:19
  • 9:21 PM

    String Symphony No. 7: 4th movement

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Sphinx Virtuosi

    Damon Gupton, conductor

    5:43
  • 9:06 PM

    Concerto Koln

    14:38
  • 9:01 PM

    Suite of Three Pieces: Idylle

    Benjamin Godard

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Steuart Bedford, conductor

    William Bennett, flute

    4:37
  • 6:49 PM

    L'Africaine: Indian March

    Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

    Michal Nesterowicz, conductor

    8:44
  • 6:39 PM

    Guitar Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi, Giuliani, Rodrigo

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Groves, conductor

    John Williams, guitar

    8:38
  • 6:26 PM

    Suite for Violin and Piano

    William Grant Still

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    Matthew Hagle, piano

    12:51
  • 6:13 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 2

    George Frideric Handel

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    11:32
  • 6:06 PM

    London Mozart Players

    James Galway, flute

    6:11
  • 6:01 PM

    Dr. Case's Pavan

    John Dowland

    Lute Music of Dowland

    Ronn McFarlane, lute

    4:41
  • 5:54 PM

    A Change Is Gonna Come

    Sam Cooke

    New Day Begun

    Lara Downes, piano

    3:53
  • 5:21 PM

    Pictures at an Exhibition

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    33:02
  • 5:13 PM

    New London Orchestra

    Ronald Corp, conductor

    6:03
  • 5:11 PM

    Prelude No. 3

    Alexander Scriabin

    Septura

    1:11
  • 5:06 PM

    Idomeneo: Overture

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Overtures

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    4:24
  • 5:01 PM

    Above the Clouds

    Ulric Cole

    Nasty Women: Piano Music in the Age of Women's Suffrage

    Joanna Goldstein, piano

    4:30
  • 4:43 PM

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    15:16
  • 4:25 PM

    Le Tombeau de Couperin

    Maurice Ravel

    Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra

    Lionel Bringuier, conductor

    16:32
  • 4:23 PM

    Matt Haimovitz, cello

    Mari Kodama, piano

    1:36
  • 4:06 PM

    Bassoon Concerto No. 1

    Francois Devienne

    Devienne: Bassoon Concertos

    Slovak Chamber Orchestra

    Bohdan Warchal, conductor

    Eckart Hubner, bassoon

    15:24
  • 4:01 PM

    Sonatine: Modere

    Maurice Ravel

    Arcata String Quartet

    Don Bailey, flute

    Grace Paradise, harp

    4:41
  • 3:53 PM

    Nobody Knows the Trouble I See

    J. Rosamond Johnson

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    Matthew Hagle, piano

    4:46
  • 3:31 PM

    The River Suite

    Duke Ellington

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    21:04
  • 3:19 PM

    Concerto Armonico No. 4

    Wilhelm van Wassenaer

    The "Pergolesi" Concerti Armonici

    I Musici Montreal

    Yuli Turovsky, conductor

    11:07
  • 3:13 PM

    Duo Dolce

    4:33
  • 3:04 PM

    Egmont Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Overtures

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Daniel Harding, conductor

    7:37
  • 2:59 PM

    Pastoral

    Lars-Erik Larsson

    Lars-Erik Larsson: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    3:39
  • 2:51 PM

    Promenade sentimentale

    Vladimir Cosma

    "Diva" soundtrack

    Vladimir Cosma, piano

    2:33
  • 2:46 PM

    Gymnopedie No. 1

    Erik Satie

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    3:36
  • 2:31 PM

    Shout For Joy

    Adolphus Hailstork

    The Aeolians

    The Aeolians

    Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor

    13:30
  • 2:26 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 1

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    3:54
  • 2:22 PM

    Four Characteristic Waltzes: Bohemian Waltz

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    2:22
  • 2:18 PM

    Petite Suite: Mazurka No. 1

    Alexander Borodin

    Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B minor, etc.

    Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor

    3:38
  • 2:07 PM

    Flute Concerto No. 1 "La Tempesta di Mare" ("Storm at Sea")

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    Stephen Preston, flute

    6:45
  • 2:04 PM

    A Chloris (To Chloris)

    Reynaldo Hahn

    Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Olivieri-Munroe, conductor

    Sol Gabetta, cello

    2:26
  • 1:45 PM

    Concerto for Two Horns

    Franz Pokorny

    Concerto Amsterdam

    Jaap Schroder, conductor

    Hermann Baumann, horn

    Christoph Kohler, horn

    13:54
  • 1:42 PM

    Fantasy for a Gentleman: Dance

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez

    Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    2:01
  • 1:35 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 6: 1st movement

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    JS Bach: 6 Brandenburg Concertos

    Oregon Bach Festival Chamber Orchestra

    Helmuth Rilling, conductor

    6:04
  • 1:31 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American": Animato

    William Grant Still

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    3:06
  • 1:21 PM

    Rosen aus dem Suden (Roses from the South) Waltz

    Johann StraussJr.

    Strauss Waltzes

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Fritz Reiner, conductor

    8:38
  • 1:16 PM

    Caprice viennois (Viennese Caprice)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    Robert McDuffie, violin

    3:59
  • 1:12 PM

    Scenes from Childhood: Dreaming

    Robert Schumann

    The World's Favorite Piano Music

    Van Cliburn, piano

    3:06
  • 1:04 PM

    We Shall Overcome

    Spiritual

    The Aeolians

    The Aeolians

    Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor

    6:30
  • 12:53 PM

    Symphony No. 3: 4th movement

    Florence Price

    Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    5:04
  • 12:48 PM

    Legend No. 3

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Legends, Symphony No. 8

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    4:02
  • 12:38 PM

    Suite for Strings: 1st movement

    Ethel Smyth

    South German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim

    Douglas Bostock, conductor

    8:58
  • 12:32 PM

    Dance of the Shepherd Girl

    Hugo Alfven

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra: Portrait

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra

    James DePreist, conductor

    4:15
  • 12:20 PM

    Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

    Bernhard Forck, conductor

    Antoine Tamestit, viola

    11:33
  • 12:15 PM

    Symphony No. 1: 3rd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

    4:03
  • 12:07 PM

    Waltzes and Landler

    Franz Schubert

    Bonbons aus Wien

    Boskovsky Ensemble

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    6:04
  • 12:04 PM

    Carmen: Intermezzo

    Georges Bizet

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    Futaba Inoue, piano

    2:23
  • 11:41 AM

    The Red Pony Suite

    Aaron Copland

    Phoenix Symphony

    James Sedares, conductor

    11:25
  • 11:23 AM

    Wand of Youth Suite No. 2

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    15:55
  • 11:18 AM

    Peer Gynt: Ase's Death

    Edvard Grieg

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    4:30
  • 11:15 AM

    Philadelphia Gray's Quickstep

    Francis Johnson

    Symphony Orchestra of America

    Matthew H. Phillips, conductor

    2:05
  • 11:10 AM

    Mirliton fin de siecle (End of the Century Kazoo)

    Edmond Dede

    Hot Springs Music Festival Chorus

    Richard Rosenberg, conductor

    3:54
  • 11:06 AM

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    3:10
  • 11:01 AM

    Graceful Ghost Rag

    William Bolcom

    Richard Dowling, piano

    4:32
  • 10:51 AM

    Danse Macabre

    Camille Saint-Saens

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

    Paris Orchestra

    Pierre Dervaux, conductor

    6:46
  • 10:15 AM

    Clarinet Quintet

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Hawthorne String Quartet

    Harold Wright, clarinet

    35:39
  • 10:11 AM

    Into the Blue: Bluegrass Breakdown

    Greg Danner

    Cumberland Quintet

    2:35
  • 10:06 AM

    F.C.'s Jig

    Mark O'Connor

    Mark O'Connor, violin

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    Edgar Meyer, bass

    3:15
  • 10:01 AM

    Waltz No. 5 "Grande Valse"

    Frederic Chopin

    Claudio Arrau, piano

    4:33
  • 9:33 AM

    Guitar Quintet

    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

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

    Louis Vandory, violin

    24:50
  • 9:24 AM

    Tragic Interlude

    William Alwyn

    Alwyn: Orchestral Music

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    9:07
  • 9:06 AM

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    16:09
  • 9:01 AM

    Total Tango

    David Matthews

    Orchestra Nova

    George Vass, conductor

    4:40
  • 8:41 AM

    Six Bagatelles

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Stephen Kovacevich, piano

    16:58
  • 8:37 AM

    Christoph Denoth, guitar

    4:02
  • 8:20 AM

    Trio Sonata No. 5

    Jan Zelenka

    Zelenka: Trio Sonatas

    Heinz Holliger Ensemble

    15:40
  • 8:07 AM

    Lonely Angel

    Peteris Vasks

    Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Kahane, conductor

    Margaret Batjer, violin

    12:53
  • 8:01 AM

    Magic Forest Dances: Flower Nymphs

    Stefania de Kenessey

    William Meredith, oboe

    Stefania de Kenessey, piano

    4:35
  • 7:33 AM

    Cello Concerto

    Charles Stanford

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    Gemma Rosefield, cello

    25:30
  • 7:22 AM

    The Winter's Tale

    Lars-Erik Larsson

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    10:10
  • 7:06 AM

    Violin Sonata

    Claude Debussy

    Bomsori Kim, violin

    Rafal Blechacz, piano

    14:14
  • 7:01 AM

    When I Lay Me Down to Sleep

    James Mulholland

    The Aeolians

    The Aeolians

    Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor

    4:35
  • 6:42 AM

    Partita No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach: The Six Partitas

    Sergey Schepkin, piano

    16:32
  • 6:36 AM

    Fantasia which imitates the harp in the manner of Ludovico

    Alonso Mudarra

    Rolf Lislevand & Ensemble

    5:14
  • 6:06 AM

    Clarinet Concerto

    Gerald Finzi

    Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 - Finzi: Clarinet Concerto

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Michael Collins, conductor

    Michael Collins, clarinet

    28:13
  • 6:01 AM

    Five Marian Songs: We shall praise You forever

    Henryk Gorecki

    Gorecki: Miserere

    Los Angeles Master Chorale

    Grant Gershon, conductor

    4:32