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  • 5:30 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Andrew Constantine, conductor

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    27:57
  • 5:25 AM

    Aquarelle: Valseana

    Sergio Assad

    Saudade

    Plinio Fernandes, guitar

    3:05
  • 5:06 AM

    Symphony No. 1 "Night in the Tropics"

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Utah Symphony Orchestra

    Maurice Abravanel, conductor

    18:57
  • 5:01 AM

    Estampes: Pagodas

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Suite Bergamasque, Pour Le Piano, Etc

    Zoltan Kocsis, piano

    4:35
  • 4:45 AM

    Der Rosenkavalier: Waltz Sequence No. 1

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: The Alpine Symphony

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    13:29
  • 4:20 AM

    Clarinet Quintet

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Beethoven: Center of Gravity, 4

    Miro Quartet

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    24:12
  • 4:12 AM

    Suite for Violin and Piano: African Dancer

    William Grant Still

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Avlana Eisenberg, conductor

    Zina Schiff, violin

    5:41
  • 4:06 AM

    Graceful Ghost Rag

    William Bolcom

    Lise de la Salle, piano

    5:01
  • 4:01 AM

    Irmelin Prelude

    Frederick Delius

    Delius Miniatures

    Northern Sinfonia of England

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    4:46
  • 3:49 AM

    Toccata and Fugue

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Stokowski Transcriptions

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    9:39
  • 3:27 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Adolphus Hailstork

    Virginia Symphony Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    21:04
  • 3:22 AM

    Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

    Traditional

    Marian Anderson, contralto

    Franz Rupp, piano

    3:06
  • 3:18 AM

    Our Town: Grover's Corners

    Aaron Copland

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Aaron Copland, conductor

    3:11
  • 3:06 AM

    String Quartet No. 7

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Hagen Quartet

    11:00
  • 3:01 AM

    Morceaux de Fantaisie: Elegie

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Yuja Wang, piano

    4:44
  • 2:40 AM

    The Birds

    Ottorino Respighi

    Classical Zoo

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Louis Lane, conductor

    18:24
  • 2:25 AM

    Symphony No. 18

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 3, 11, 18, 19 & 20

    Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    13:43
  • 2:15 AM

    Ballade No. 4

    Johannes Brahms

    Awadagin Pratt: A Long Way from Normal

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    7:32
  • 2:06 AM

    Pavane for a Dead Princess (Pavane pour une infante defunte)

    Maurice Ravel

    Adagio

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    7:07
  • 2:01 AM

    Flute Concerto No. 6: Sicilienne

    Saverio Mercadante

    I Solisti Veneti

    Claudio Scimone, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    4:49
  • 1:51 AM

    String Quartet No. 5: 4th movement

    Alexander Glazunov

    Saint Petersburg String Quartet

    6:56
  • 1:15 AM

    Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    34:10
  • 1:12 AM

    Polonaise

    Johann Muthel

    Musica Alta Ripa

    3:08
  • 1:06 AM

    Ride On, King Jesus

    Spiritual

    J'nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano

    Paul Sanchez, piano

    3:58
  • 1:01 AM

    Blacksmith's Tune

    Bengt Hallberg

    Brass Festival

    Scandinavian Brass Ensemble

    Jorma Panula, conductor

    4:46
  • 12:50 AM

    Adagio

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    Yakov Kreizberg, conductor

    Julia Fischer, violin

    7:50
  • 12:20 AM

    Piano Concerto

    Edvard Grieg

    Schumann, Grieg, Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos

    Orchestra of Opera North

    Howard Shelley, conductor

    Howard Shelley, piano

    28:21
  • 12:12 AM

    Aladdin Suite: March and Dance

    Carl Nielsen

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    6:21
  • 12:06 AM

    Prelude, fugue et postlude

    Lucien-Leon Lambert

    Jia An, piano

    5:35
  • 12:01 AM

    Six Short Pieces: selections

    Henriette Renie

    La Harpe Consolatrice

    Kyunghee Kim-Sutre, harp

    4:47
  • 11:38 PM

    Idillio-Concertino

    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

    Wolf-Ferrari, Strauss, Vaughan Williams, Barber

    Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra

    Donald Spieth, conductor

    Humbert Lucarelli, oboe

    20:14
  • 11:32 PM

    String Quartet No. 12 "American": 4th movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Adagio for Strings

    Manhattan String Quartet

    5:06
  • 11:18 PM

    Gayane Ballet Suite

    Aram Khachaturian

    Royal Scottish Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    12:20
  • 11:12 PM

    Sometime I Feel Like a Motherless Child

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    3:57
  • 11:06 PM

    Espana

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne; Gounod, Thomas, Chabrier

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    6:07
  • 11:01 PM

    Sinfonia

    Lelio Colista

    Colista: Sinfonie a Tre

    Ensemble Giardino di Delizie

    4:36
  • 10:48 PM

    Violin Concerto: Finale

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven and Brahms Violin Concertos

    The Knights

    Eric Jacobsen, conductor

    Gil Shaham, violin

    9:48
  • 10:21 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American"

    William Grant Still

    Black Composers Series 1974-1978

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    24:32
  • 10:09 PM

    Little Serenade

    Lars-Erik Larsson

    Orebro Chamber Orchestra

    Goran Nilson, conductor

    10:29
  • 10:06 PM

    Piano Quintet: 4th movement

    Florence Price

    UNCOVERED Vol. 2

    Catalyst Quartet

    Michelle Cann, piano

    2:54
  • 10:03 PM

    Les Tours de Passe-Passe (Sleight of Hand)

    Francois Couperin

    Air on a G String

    David Russell, guitar

    2:47
  • 9:43 PM

    Symphony No. 4

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    14:28
  • 9:26 PM

    Capriccio Espagnol

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Bavarian State Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    15:35
  • 9:18 PM

    Ducal Suite: Heaven

    Duke Ellington

    Clarinet Quintets for Our Time

    Dover Quartet

    David Shifrin, clarinet

    6:27
  • 9:15 PM

    Ezekiel Saw the Wheel

    Spiritual

    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

    American Spiritual Ensemble

    Dr. Everett McCorvey, conductor

    2:31
  • 9:06 PM

    Horn Concerto

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    From the Forest: Early Classical Works for Horn

    St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble

    Stewart Rose, horn

    8:49
  • 9:01 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 9

    Antonin Dvorak

    Katia & Marielle Labeque, pianos

    4:37
  • 6:51 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 1: 3rd movement

    Max Bruch

    Ray Chen: The Golden Age

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Robert Trevino, conductor

    Ray Chen, violin

    7:38
  • 6:29 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 31

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Awadagin Pratt: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    20:15
  • 6:21 PM

    Fanfare, Hymn and Finale

    Peter Boyer

    Peter Boyer: Balance of Power - Orchestral Works

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Peter Boyer, conductor

    7:45
  • 6:16 PM

    God Bless the Child

    Billie Holiday/Arthur HerzogJr.

    A Billie Holiday Songbook

    Lara Downes, piano

    3:26
  • 6:06 PM

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    8:55
  • 6:01 PM

    Youthful Suite: English Waltz

    Percy Grainger

    Martin Jones, piano

    4:45
  • 5:56 PM

    Serenata for Orchestra: Con spirito

    Walter Piston

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    2:47
  • 5:16 PM

    New Black Music Repertory Ensemble

    Leslie B. Dunner, conductor

    38:27
  • 5:06 PM

    Four South African Folktunes

    Traditional

    South African Music

    National Symphony Orchestra of the S.A.B.C.

    Peter Marchbank, conductor

    7:43
  • 5:01 PM

    Song without Words

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Steven Isserlis, cello

    Stephen Hough, piano

    4:40
  • 4:50 PM

    Empire Brass

    7:58
  • 4:21 PM

    Symphony No. 2

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert; Zuckerman

    National Arts Centre Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    27:57
  • 4:12 PM

    We Shall Overcome

    Spiritual

    The Aeolians

    The Aeolians

    Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor

    6:30
  • 4:06 PM

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits

    Christoph Gluck

    Fantasy: A Night At The Opera

    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Emmanuel Pahud, flute

    5:42
  • 4:01 PM

    Gold Dust Waltz

    Erik Satie

    Satie: Piano Works

    Pascal Roge, piano

    4:34
  • 3:51 PM

    Peace Piece

    Bill Evans

    Conversations with Bill Evans

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    7:22
  • 3:45 PM

    We Shall Walk Through the Valley

    Traditional

    Where the Sun Will Never Go Down: Spirituals and Traditional Gospel Music

    Chanticleer

    3:58
  • 3:23 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Marlboro Festival Orchestra

    Pablo Casals, conductor

    21:35
  • 3:17 PM

    Village Dances

    Robert Ballard

    The Renaissance Album

    Goran Sollscher, guitar

    4:28
  • 3:09 PM

    African Suite: Joyful Day

    Fela Sowande

    Black Composers Series 1974-1978

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    7:38
  • 3:01 PM

    Introduction and Caprice-Jota

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Navarra Symphony Orchestra

    Ernest Martinez Izquierdo, conductor

    Tianwa Yang, violin

    7:08
  • 2:52 PM

    Alborada del Gracioso (Morning Song of the Jester)

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Bolero, Rapsodie Espagnole etc.

    Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

    Ernest Ansermet, conductor

    6:57
  • 2:46 PM

    A Native Hill: Animals and Birds

    Gavin Bryars

    Bryars: A Native Hill

    The Crossing

    Donald Nally, conductor

    4:13
  • 2:37 PM

    Ruy Blas Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Winterthur Music Collegium

    Douglas Boyd, conductor

    8:07
  • 2:32 PM

    O Mistress Mine

    Thomas Morley

    Corona Guitar Quartet

    Corona Guitar Quartet

    3:44
  • 2:20 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor": Rondo

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Concertos / Fischer, Goode, Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    Richard Goode, piano

    10:16
  • 2:17 PM

    Umoja (Unity)

    Valerie Coleman

    Imani Winds

    Imani Winds

    2:49
  • 2:08 PM

    Impromptu-Caprice

    Gabriel Pierne

    Caprice: French Music For Harp

    Susann McDonald, harp

    4:51
  • 2:04 PM

    Peer Gynt: Morning Mood

    Edvard Grieg

    Minnesota Orchestra At One Hundred

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    3:23
  • 1:55 PM

    MLK

    U2

    On The Shoulders Of Giants

    Cantus

    2:58
  • 1:38 PM

    Ein Heldenleben

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, etc.

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    47:25
  • 1:31 PM

    Empire Brass

    Michael Murray, organ

    5:48
  • 1:25 PM

    Impromptu No. 2

    Franz Schubert

    Michael McHale, piano

    4:49
  • 1:16 PM

    The Planets: Venus

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: The Planets

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Colin Davis, conductor

    8:02
  • 1:07 PM

    Rodeo: Buckaroo Holiday

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: The Music Of America 

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    7:43
  • 1:04 PM

    Three Spirituals: Oh Freedom

    Adolphus Hailstork

    Virginia Symphony Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    2:25
  • 12:51 PM

    Symphony No. 29: 4th movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    6:52
  • 12:43 PM

    Andante for Clarinet and Orchestra

    Alice Mary Smith

    Smith, A.M.: Symphonies

    London Mozart Players

    Howard Shelley, conductor

    Angela Malsbury, clarinet

    7:05
  • 12:38 PM

    Little Concert Suite: A Love Sonnet

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Anthony Parnther, conductor

    3:40
  • 12:31 PM

    Serenade for Strings: Scherzo

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Serenades Opp. 22 & 24

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    6:23
  • 12:20 PM

    Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Janine Jansen

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    Janine Jansen, violin

    8:58
  • 12:15 PM

    Ballet Scenes: Mazurka

    Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov: From the Middle Ages; Scenes de Ballet

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    3:56
  • 12:10 PM

    Concerto alla rustica (Rustic Concerto)

    Antonio Vivaldi

    The Italian Job

    La Serenissima

    Adrian Chandler, conductor

    4:10
  • 12:04 PM

    Fileuse

    Cecile Chaminade

    Chaminade: The Flatterer

    Joanne Polk, piano

    5:05
  • 11:50 AM

    Symphony No. 7: 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonien 1-9

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    8:16
  • 11:35 AM

    Fair Maid of Perth: Suite

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet Orchestral Works Vol. 2

    Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    13:23
  • 11:27 AM

    German Dance Suite

    Johann Pezel

    Canadian Brass

    7:29
  • 11:22 AM

    Prelude No. 1

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Julian Bream, guitar

    4:04
  • 11:12 AM

    Miniature Concerto

    Robin Milford

    Guildhall Strings

    9:09
  • 11:06 AM

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    Futaba Inoue, piano

    5:17
  • 11:01 AM

    Symphony No. 2 "Four Temperaments": 2nd movement

    Carl Nielsen

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    4:42
  • 10:45 AM

    Sonata No. 4

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Sonatas For Strings

    Camerata Bern

    Thomas Furi, conductor

    13:45
  • 10:25 AM

    Symphony No. 3 "Sunday Symphony"

    William Grant Still

    Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3; Wood Notes

    Fort Smith Symphony

    John Jeter, conductor

    17:48
  • 10:20 AM

    Estrellita (My little star)

    Manuel Ponce

    Voice Of The Violin

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Michael Stern, conductor

    Joshua Bell, violin

    3:13
  • 10:06 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 3

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Telemann: Music of the Nations

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    Derek Han, piano

    13:15
  • 10:01 AM

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

    Richard Strauss

    R. Strauss: Music for Wind Ensemble

    Netherlands Wind Ensemble

    Edo de Waart, conductor

    4:32
  • 9:44 AM

    Prelude and Fugue "St Anne"

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    14:44
  • 9:33 AM

    Scintillation

    Carlos Salzedo

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    9:44
  • 9:06 AM

    Cello Concerto No. 1

    Victor Herbert

    Victor Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2

    Ulster Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Mark Kosower, cello

    25:23
  • 9:01 AM

    Seringapatam

    Bruce Paine

    Waitemata Reverie: Music by Bruce Paine

    Gunter Herbig, guitar

    4:34
  • 8:40 AM

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Marek Stilec, conductor

    18:00
  • 8:24 AM

    Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Early Chamber Music

    Nash Ensemble

    15:31
  • 8:14 AM

    Whimsical Symphony (Grillensymphonie)

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Suites and Concertos by Telemann

    Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra

    Jeannette Sorrell, conductor

    8:32
  • 8:06 AM

    Oboe Quintet: 1st movement

    Michael Fine

    Five for Five

    Xiaodi Liu, oboe

    7:17
  • 8:01 AM

    Rondo

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas And Rondos

    Mikhail Pletnev, piano

    4:42
  • 7:26 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Alexander Borodin

    Borodin

    Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

    Bramwell Tovey, conductor

    32:31
  • 7:23 AM

    Angelic Dance

    Stephen Hough

    Steven Isserlis, cello

    Stephen Hough, piano

    1:31
  • 7:06 AM

    Guitar Concerto

    Ferdinando Carulli

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    15:28
  • 7:01 AM

    Festival Scherzo for Piano and Strings

    Madeleine Dring

    Guildhall Strings

    Robert Salter, conductor

    Martin Roscoe, piano

    4:32
  • 6:40 AM

    A Downland Suite

    John Ireland

    Ireland: A Downland Suite Etc.

    City of London Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    18:21
  • 6:20 AM

    Serenade for Winds

    Emil Hartmann

    Romantic Wind Serenades

    Consortium Classicum

    19:39
  • 6:06 AM

    Jeromita Linares

    Carlos Guastavino

    "Impresiones"

    Camerata Bariloche

    Pablo Cohen, guitar

    11:43
  • 6:01 AM

    Minuets with Contredances

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Dances and Minuets

    Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

    Hans Graf, conductor

    4:41