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  • 5:28 AM

    String Quartet No. 3

    Robert Schumann

    Brahms, Schumann: String Quartets

    Melos Quartet

    29:36
  • 5:23 AM

    If I Fell

    John Lennon

    Here, There and Everywhere: Goran Sollscher Plays The Beatles

    Goran Sollscher, guitar

    4:34
  • 5:06 AM

    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    THE BRITISH PROJECT

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor

    15:18
  • 5:01 AM

    The rising of the moon

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Bart Schneemann, oboe

    Paolo Giacometti, piano

    4:34
  • 4:50 AM

    Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

    Aram Khachaturian

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    8:50
  • 4:42 AM

    Favourite Things (More Light)

    Errollyn Wallen

    Errollyn Wallen, piano

    6:10
  • 4:14 AM

    Double Concerto

    Ethel Smyth

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Odaline de la Martinez, conductor

    Sophie Langdon, violin

    Richard Watkins, horn

    28:06
  • 4:06 AM

    Le Tombeau de Couperin: Menuet

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Sheherazade; Le Tombeau De Couperin/Debussy: Ballades de Villon

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    5:16
  • 4:01 AM

    Sonata No. 8

    Henry Purcell

    Purcell Quartet

    4:49
  • 12:45 AM

    Der Rosenkavalier: Waltz Sequence No. 1

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: The Alpine Symphony

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    13:29
  • 12:28 AM

    Improvisations on Pieces by Farnaby

    Edmund Rubbra

    Rubbra: Symphony No. 10, etc.

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Hans-Hubert Schonzeler, conductor

    15:48
  • 12:19 AM

    L'Isle joyeuse (Joyous Isle)

    Claude Debussy

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    6:54
  • 12:10 AM

    Prelude and Fugue

    Ethel Smyth

    Liana Serbescu, piano

    8:08
  • 12:00 AM

    Roman Carnival Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: 5 Overtures

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Alexander Gibson, conductor

    9:10
  • 11:54 PM

    Symphony No. 100 "Military": Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies No. 100 Military and No. 103 Drimroll

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    4:59
  • 11:42 PM

    Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6

    Franz Liszt

    Liszt: Les Preludes, Mazeppa, Hungarian Rhapsodies

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    7:53
  • 11:40 PM

    Anna Magdalena Notebook: Minuet

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Piano Book

    Lang Lang, piano

    1:41
  • 11:28 PM

    The Sea Hawk: Suite

    Erich Korngold

    Oregon Symphony

    James DePreist, conductor

    7:57
  • 11:19 PM

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

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: 6 Flute Concertos Op 10

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    Lisa Beznosiuk, flute

    6:54
  • 11:11 PM

    Miniature Viennese March

    Fritz Kreisler

    Encore!

    Midori, violin

    3:11
  • 11:00 PM

    Donna Diana Overture

    Emil von Reznicek

    Great Comedy Overtures

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Lance Friedel, conductor

    6:00
  • 10:53 PM

    Serenade for Strings: Scherzo

    Antonin Dvorak

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    5:13
  • 10:45 PM

    Scherzo a la Russe

    Igor Stravinsky

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    3:59
  • 10:39 PM

    Suite for Strings

    Arnold Schoenberg

    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

    John Mauceri, conductor

    5:40
  • 10:29 PM

    Le Roi malgre lui (The King in Spite of Himself): Danse slave

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Paray, conductor

    5:06
  • 10:16 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 14: 1st movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: The Piano Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Alfred Brendel, piano

    8:37
  • 10:09 PM

    Perpetual Motion

    Niccolo Paganini

    Carnaval

    Eastman Wind Ensemble

    Donald Hunsberger, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, cornet

    4:33
  • 10:01 PM

    Candide: Overture

    Leonard Bernstein

    Great American Showpieces

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    4:21
  • 9:53 PM

    Flute Concerto: 1st movement

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    C.P.E. Bach Concertos

    Lyra Baroque Orchestra

    Jacques Ogg, conductor

    Wilbert Hazelzet, flute

    6:46
  • 9:44 PM

    Cello Concerto No. 2: 3rd movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: The Cello Concertos

    Orchestre De Bretagne

    Stefan Sanderling, conductor

    Matt Haimovitz, cello

    5:18
  • 9:37 PM

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Romantic Favorites

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    4:55
  • 9:27 PM

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    4:35
  • 9:18 PM

    Valse-Caprice No. 2

    Gabriel Faure

    Kathryn Stott, piano

    7:44
  • 9:10 PM

    Hungarian Dances Nos. 20 and 21

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Hungarian Dances

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    4:04
  • 9:00 PM

    Bartered Bride: Polka

    Bedrich Smetana

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Geoffrey Simon, conductor

    4:58
  • 6:54 PM

    Festival March

    Johan Halvorsen

    Halvorsen, J.: Kongen / Vasantasena / Tordenskjold

    Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

    Terje Mikkelsen, conductor

    4:27
  • 6:47 PM

    Memories of the Alhambra

    Francisco Tarrega

    Dreams of a World

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    4:09
  • 6:43 PM

    Nymphs and Satyr Suite: Scherzo

    Howard Hanson

    Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Spalding, conductor

    Holly Blake, bassoon

    3:02
  • 6:31 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 3rd movement

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Piano Concertos

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    Ingrid Fliter, piano

    8:49
  • 6:23 PM

    Song for Athene

    John Tavener

    Enchanted Isle

    Voces8

    6:32
  • 6:16 PM

    Ricercar del sesto tuono

    Andrea Gabrieli

    American Brass Quintet

    2:44
  • 6:10 PM

    Presto No. 2

    Miguel del Aguila

    Camerata San Antonio

    4:54
  • 6:01 PM

    Mlada: Procession of the Nobles

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Orchestral Suites

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    4:52
  • 5:53 PM

    Rondo for Violin and Orchestra

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 4

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    Cho-Liang Lin, violin

    7:02
  • 5:43 PM

    Prague Waltzes

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Legends, Prague Waltzes

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    7:35
  • 5:35 PM

    Ritirata notturna di Madrid

    Luigi Boccherini

    Berio: Orchestral Transcriptions

    Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra of Milan

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    6:30
  • 5:27 PM

    Angry Birds Theme

    Ari Pulkkinen

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    3:10
  • 5:19 PM

    Symphony No. 6

    William Boyce

    Boyce: Symphonies I-VIII

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    6:39
  • 5:12 PM

    Coppelia: Waltz of The Hours

    Leo Delibes

    Delibes: Coppelia

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    3:11
  • 5:08 PM

    Pearl Fishers: Au fond du temple saint (Temple Duet)

    Georges Bizet

    La Belle Vie: French Opera Fantasie

    Bell' Alma Duo

    3:30
  • 5:01 PM

    Lieutenant Kije: Troika

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Pops a la Russe

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    3:04
  • 4:53 PM

    Crown Imperial

    William Walton

    Walton: Symphony No. 1; Orb & Sceptre; Crown Imperial

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    6:25
  • 4:43 PM

    Mandolin Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi

    Venice Baroque Orchestra

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    7:33
  • 4:37 PM

    The April Fools

    Burt Bacharach

    Earl Klugh, guitar

    3:43
  • 4:25 PM

    Espana

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Symphonic Spectacular

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    6:20
  • 4:21 PM

    Koanga: La Calinda

    Frederick Delius

    Delius Miniatures

    Northern Sinfonia of England

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    4:06
  • 4:13 PM

    A Moorside Suite: March

    Gustav Holst

    English String Miniatures, Vol. 6

    Royal Ballet Sinfonia

    Gavin Sutherland, conductor

    4:20
  • 4:10 PM

    Indian Queen: Trumpet Overture

    Henry Purcell

    Rule Brittania

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    John Wallace, trumpet

    2:28
  • 4:01 PM

    Algerian Suite: French Military March

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Saint Saens: Symphony No. 2/Suite Algerienne/Phaeton

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Yondani Butt, conductor

    4:34
  • 3:56 PM

    Puffin' Billy

    Edward White

    British Light Music: Miniatures

    RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin

    Ernest Tomlinson, conductor

    3:05
  • 3:44 PM

    Double Concerto: 3rd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms

    Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Amsterdam

    Yakov Kreizberg, conductor

    Julia Fischer, violin

    8:09
  • 3:41 PM

    Etude No. 2

    Frederic Chopin

    Boris Berezovsky, piano

    2:03
  • 3:33 PM

    Symphony No. 103 "Drum Roll": 4th movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies No. 100 Military and No. 103 Drimroll

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    5:09
  • 3:24 PM

    Oboe Concerto No. 6

    Tomaso Albinoni

    I Solisti Italiani

    Hansjorg Schellenberger, oboe

    7:02
  • 3:17 PM

    Valse de la Reine (The Queen's Waltz)

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Musica Camerata Montreal

    3:39
  • 3:09 PM

    Finlandia

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Finlandia, Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    7:32
  • 3:01 PM

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    3:48
  • 2:55 PM

    The Prince and the Pauper

    Erich Korngold

    Elizabeth & Essex: Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    4:49
  • 2:45 PM

    Piano Quintet: Scherzo

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Piano Quintet, Songs, Cypresses

    Thymos Quartet

    Christoph Eschenbach, piano

    4:17
  • 2:39 PM

    Entry March of the Boyars

    Johan Halvorsen

    Russian Fireworks

    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Kenneth Jean, conductor

    5:01
  • 2:33 PM

    Fanfare for the Common Man

    Aaron Copland

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    3:01
  • 2:30 PM

    Three Shanties: 1st movement

    Malcolm Arnold

    Ibert, J.: 3 Pieces Breves / Reicha, A.: Wind Quintet in E-Flat Major / Arnold, M.: 3 Shanties / Klughardt, A.F.M.: Wind Quintet

    Bergen Wind Quintet

    2:12
  • 2:20 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 14: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 13 & 14

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    6:34
  • 2:14 PM

    Le Carnaval de Londres: Filch; Filch's Dance; Mazurka

    Darius Milhaud

    New London Orchestra

    Ronald Corp, conductor

    2:21
  • 2:04 PM

    Il Signor Bruschino: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Prague Sinfonia Orchestra

    Christian Benda, conductor

    4:52
  • 1:53 PM

    Sylvia: Procession of Bacchus

    Leo Delibes

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    6:00
  • 1:46 PM

    Canzon No. 16

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    Gabrieli, Monteverdi: Antiphonal Music

    Canadian Brass

    Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor

    3:55
  • 1:37 PM

    Scottish March (Marche ecossaise)

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Orchestral Music

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    6:44
  • 1:30 PM

    Cherry Ripe

    Frank Bridge

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    3:14
  • 1:25 PM

    Symphony No. 1: 3rd movement

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: The 10 Symphonies

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    4:41
  • 1:16 PM

    Peer Gynt: Arabian Dance

    Edvard Grieg

    Minnesota Orchestra At One Hundred

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    4:15
  • 1:12 PM

    Carmen: Toreadors

    Georges Bizet

    LAGQ Latin

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    2:18
  • 1:05 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Polacca

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    4:25
  • 12:48 PM

    Organ Concerto No. 2

    George Frideric Handel

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Richard Egarr, conductor

    Richard Egarr, organ

    9:41
  • 12:45 PM

    Othello Suite: Dance

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    2:16
  • 12:42 PM

    Music for Children: March

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Brodsky Unlimited

    Brodsky Quartet

    1:04
  • 12:35 PM

    Serenade for Winds: Scherzo

    Julius Rontgen

    The Romantic Era in the Netherlands

    Viotta Ensemble

    6:40
  • 12:25 PM

    Radiance

    Peter Boyer

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Peter Boyer, conductor

    9:18
  • 12:18 PM

    Girl Crazy: Overture

    George Gershwin

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    5:45
  • 12:09 PM

    Contentment

    William Bolcom

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    7:37
  • 12:04 PM

    Our Town: Grover's Corners

    Aaron Copland

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Aaron Copland, conductor

    3:11
  • 11:46 AM

    Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1

    Johan Halvorsen

    Halvorsen, J.: Norwegian Rhapsodies Nos. 1 and 2 / Svendsen, J.: Norwegian Rhapsodies Nos. 1-4

    Trondheim Symphony Orchestra

    Ole Kristian Ruud, conductor

    12:41
  • 11:41 AM

    23rd Psalm (dedicated to my mother)

    Bobby McFerrin

    That Eternal Day

    Cantus

    3:37
  • 11:24 AM

    Wand of Youth Suite No. 2

    Edward Elgar

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    James Judd, conductor

    16:45
  • 11:19 AM

    My Lagan Love

    Traditional Irish

    Barry Douglas, piano

    4:17
  • 11:09 AM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 7

    Bruce Haynes

    J.S. Bach: Nouveaux "Brandebourgeois" Nos. 7-12

    Montreal Baroque Orchestra

    Eric Milnes, conductor

    8:17
  • 11:06 AM

    Shepherd's Hey

    Percy Grainger

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

    2:15
  • 11:01 AM

    Symphony: 1st movement

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    4:49
  • 10:39 AM

    Ballet de Cour

    Gabriel Pierne

    Prisms

    Chamber Music Palm Beach

    19:55
  • 10:18 AM

    La Guiablesse

    William Grant Still

    Berlin Symphony Orchestra

    Isaiah Jackson, conductor

    18:25
  • 10:10 AM

    Notturno

    Emilie Mayer

    Trio Vivente

    6:25
  • 10:06 AM

    Pelleas and Melisande: Sicilienne

    Gabriel Faure

    Music for Flute & Harp

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    3:29
  • 10:01 AM

    Christmas Tree Suite: Abendglocken (Evening Bells)

    Franz Liszt

    Franz Liszt

    Jerome Lowenthal, piano

    4:30
  • 9:40 AM

    String Quartet No. 53 "The Lark"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn String Quartets - Live at the Wigmore Hall, Vol. 2

    Lindsay String Quartet

    18:31
  • 9:26 AM

    Two Pieces

    Frank Bridge

    Northern Sinfonia

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    12:41
  • 9:22 AM

    Here, There and Everywhere

    John Lennon/Paul McCartney

    Here, There and Everywhere: Goran Sollscher Plays The Beatles

    Goran Sollscher, guitar

    3:13
  • 9:06 AM

    Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra

    Samuel Friedman, conductor

    15:07
  • 9:01 AM

    Ian Jones, piano

    4:41
  • 8:29 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Robert Schumann

    Gottinger Symphony Orchestra

    Christoph-Mathias Mueller, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    29:36
  • 8:23 AM

    Scherzo No. 2

    Clara Schumann

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    4:47
  • 8:06 AM

    In a Summer Garden

    Frederick Delius

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    15:33
  • 8:01 AM

    Waltz No. 9 "L'adieu"

    Frederic Chopin

    Claudio Arrau, piano

    4:41
  • 7:48 AM

    Symphony No. 3: 2nd movement

    Gustav Mahler

    Mahler: Symphony No. 3; Kindertotenlieder

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    10:10
  • 7:32 AM

    Piano Trio "Lovisa"

    Jean Sibelius

    Jean Sibelius: Early Chamber Works

    Tapiola Trio

    16:00
  • 7:07 AM

    Concerto for Two Clarinets

    Franz Krommer

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Kenneth Sillito, conductor

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    Julian Bliss, clarinet

    23:41
  • 7:01 AM

    Walking (Hommage a Thoreau)

    Lars Aksel Bisgaard

    Carl Petersson, piano

    4:52
  • 6:34 AM

    String Quartet

    Gabriel Faure

    Debussy, Faure, Ravel: String Quartets

    Ebene Quartet

    24:20
  • 6:29 AM

    Two Elegiac Melodies: Last Spring (Varen)

    Edvard Grieg

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    4:10
  • 6:24 AM

    love fail: Head, Heart

    David Lang

    Lorelei Ensemble

    3:14
  • 6:01 AM

    Le Temps des lilas (In the time of the lilacs)

    Ernest Chausson

    Mischa Maisky, cello

    Daria Hovora, piano

    4:45