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  • 4:24 AM

    String Quartet No. 14 "Spring"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mosaiques Quartet

    34:20
  • 4:17 AM

    A Hermit Thrush at Eve

    Amy Beach

    Joanne Polk, piano

    5:01
  • 4:06 AM

    Fantasy on a Hymn by Justin Morgan

    Thomas Canning

    Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    10:14
  • 4:01 AM

    Two Meditations on Poems of Mary Oliver: Linen of Words

    Evan Premo

    River Town Duo

    4:37
  • 3:55 AM

    Sonora Slocum, flute

    John Wilson, piano

    3:46
  • 3:24 AM

    Concerto Antico

    Richard Harvey

    Harvey, Gray: Guitar Concertos

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Daniel, conductor

    John Williams, guitar

    28:41
  • 3:06 AM

    Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday

    Tomas Luis de Victoria

    Tomas Luis de Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories

    Stile Antico

    16:23
  • 3:01 AM

    Nocturne

    Cecile Chaminade

    Chaminade: Piano Music 2

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    4:37
  • 2:41 AM

    String Quartet No. 1 "Calvary"

    Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Uncovered, Volume 3

    Catalyst Quartet

    16:50
  • 2:15 AM

    Strange Fruit

    Abel Meeropol

    Lara Downes, piano

    3:57
  • 2:06 AM

    Valse de la Reine (The Queen's Waltz)

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    MUSICA CAMERATA MONTREAL: SALON VIENNOIS

    Musica Camerata Montreal

    3:39
  • 2:01 AM

    There Is a Balm in Gilead

    Spiritual

    In Bright Mansions

    Fisk Jubilee Singers

    4:36
  • 1:51 AM

    La Mer (The Sea): Jeux de vagues (Play of the Waves)

    Claude Debussy

    Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps; Debussy: La Mer

    New York Philharmonic

    Jaap van Zweden, conductor

    7:13
  • 1:46 AM

    Three Lacquer Prints

    Zachary Wadsworth

    Northwestern University Cello Ensemble

    5:22
  • 1:25 AM

    Three Botticelli Pictures

    Ottorino Respighi

    Pictures

    Long Beach Symphony Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    19:05
  • 1:17 AM

    Years of Pilgrimage: Sposalizio (Marriage of the Virgin)

    Franz Liszt

    Alan Marks, piano

    7:30
  • 1:06 AM

    Bright Blue Music

    Michael Torke

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    9:05
  • 1:01 AM

    Sonata for Flute and Harp

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Marc Grauwels, flute

    Catherine Michel, harp

    4:35
  • 12:48 AM

    In Spring Overture

    Karl Goldmark

    Goldmark: Overtures

    Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andras Korodi, conductor

    10:32
  • 12:43 AM

    Prelude on Rhosymedre

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Soundscapes

    Mississippi Guitar Quartet

    3:59
  • 12:24 AM

    Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

    Maurice Ravel

    Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra

    Lionel Bringuier, conductor

    Yuja Wang, piano

    17:26
  • 12:14 AM

    Global Warming

    Michael Abels

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    8:19
  • 12:06 AM

    The Planets: Mars

    Gustav Holst

    Kansas City Symphony

    Michael Stern, conductor

    7:38
  • 12:01 AM

    Wallom Green/Curtain Tune

    John Playford/Henry Purcell

    Barokksolistene

    Bjarte Eike, violin

    4:40
  • 11:55 PM

    Prelude No. 12

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    BEETHOVEN BRAHMS MOZART Sokolov

    Grigory Sokolov, piano

    3:03
  • 11:48 PM

    Danse Macabre

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Fantasia

    Yuja Wang, piano

    7:45
  • 11:43 PM

    Wind Quintet No. 1: Rondo

    Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini

    CAMBINI: Wind Quintets Nos. 1-3 / BRICCIALDI: Wind Quintet in D Major

    Avalon Wind Quintet

    4:34
  • 11:27 PM

    En voyage

    Elizabeth Lutyens

    Box of Delights: British Light Music Gems

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Simon Joly, conductor

    14:49
  • 11:20 PM

    Here's a health to thee, Mary

    Valentin Silvestrov

    Konstantin Krimmel, baritone

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    5:43
  • 10:59 PM

    Symphony No. 95

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    La Petite Bande

    Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor

    20:18
  • 10:46 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "In the Spring": 4th movement

    John Knowles Paine

    Ulster Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    11:09
  • 10:34 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 1

    Arcangelo Corelli

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    11:40
  • 10:30 PM

    Songs My Mother Taught Me

    Antonin Dvorak

    American Virtuosa - Tribute to Maud Powell

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    1:49
  • 10:16 PM

    Petite Suite

    Claude Debussy

    Bach: Organ Music (Complete), Vol. 7

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    12:58
  • 10:11 PM

    Home Sweet Home with Variations

    Justin Holland

    Justin Holland Recording Project

    Mark Delpriora, guitar

    4:09
  • 10:00 PM

    Prince Igor: Overture

    Alexander Borodin

    Borodin: Prince Igor: Overture and Polovtsian Dances

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    10:31
  • 9:43 PM

    Carmen Suite

    Georges Bizet

    French National Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    14:56
  • 9:39 PM

    Women of Legend: Desdemona

    Mel Bonis

    Maria Garcia, piano

    2:58
  • 9:28 PM

    Drottningholm Suite

    Johan Roman

    Roman: Music for a Royal Wedding

    Uppsala Chamber Orchestra

    Anthony Halstead, conductor

    9:34
  • 9:23 PM

    The Road Home

    Stephen Paulus

    Concert Recording

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    3:41
  • 9:08 PM

    Ports of Call (Escales)

    Jacques Ibert

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    14:52
  • 9:05 PM

    Tambourin

    Francois-Joseph Gossec

    James Galway - Celebrating 70: A Collection of Personal Favorites

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    1:24
  • 9:03 PM

    Seven Creole Pieces: Pomme Cannelle

    Alain-Pierre Pradel

    William Chapman Nyaho, piano

    2:41
  • 8:40 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Sunday Symphony"

    William Grant Still

    Fort Smith Symphony

    John Jeter, conductor

    17:48
  • 8:36 PM

    Gary Steigerwalt, piano

    3:46
  • 8:22 PM

    St. Paul's Suite

    Gustav Holst

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    12:32
  • 8:11 PM

    Overture No. 3

    William Smethergell

    Smethergell: Overtures, Volume 1

    Southwest German Chamber Orchestra

    Douglas Bostock, conductor

    9:00
  • 8:00 PM

    Poem for Flute and Orchestra

    Charles Tomlinson Griffes

    Residentie Orchestra of the Hague

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    Sharon Bezaly, flute

    10:01
  • 5:50 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Military": Finale Militaire

    Emilie Mayer

    North German Radio Philharmonic

    Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor

    8:17
  • 5:35 PM

    Kullervo

    Leevi Madetoja

    Scenes from the Kalevala

    Lahti Symphony Orchestra

    Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor

    14:05
  • 5:20 PM

    Flute Concerto

    Frederick the Great

    CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra

    Hartmut Haenchen, conductor

    Manfred Friedrich, flute

    14:42
  • 5:14 PM

    Henry V: Non nobis domine

    Patrick Doyle

    Henry V: Original Soundtrack Recording

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    4:10
  • 5:06 PM

    A Fugal Concerto

    Gustav Holst

    Tippett, Holst, Corelli, Bach

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    Kathryn Greenbank, oboe

    7:23
  • 5:01 PM

    Church Sonata No. 4

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Complete Mozart Edition, Vol. 21: Organ Sonatas & Solos

    German Bach Soloists

    Helmut Winschermann, conductor

    4:50
  • 4:50 PM

    Dana Maiben, violin

    Sarah Cunningham, viola da gamba

    Lisa Goode Crawford, harpsichord

    8:05
  • 4:21 PM

    Mississippi River Suite

    Florence Price

    Women's Philharmonic

    Apo Hsu, conductor

    27:44
  • 4:14 PM

    Jeux d'eau (Fountains)

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Piano music, Vol. 1

    Louis Lortie, piano

    5:51
  • 4:06 PM

    A Severn Rhapsody

    Gerald Finzi

    FINZI: Clarinet Concerto / Five Bagatelles / Three Soliloquies / Romance

    Northern Sinfonia

    Howard Griffiths, conductor

    6:43
  • 4:01 PM

    Four Sketches: Legend

    Eugene Goossens

    Goossens: Chamber Works

    London Chamber Music Group

    Susan Milan, flute

    4:48
  • 3:50 PM

    Whimsical Symphony (Grillensymphonie)

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra

    Jeannette Sorrell, conductor

    8:32
  • 3:49 PM

    Mazurka No. 4

    Frederic Chopin

    At the Break

    Christopher O'Riley, piano

    :48
  • 3:45 PM

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    Samuel Sanders, piano

    3:47
  • 3:27 PM

    Overture, Scherzo and Finale

    Robert Schumann

    Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    16:48
  • 3:20 PM

    Etude No. 10

    Giulio Regondi

    Giulio Regondi: A 200th Birthday Bouquet

    David Starobin, guitar

    5:25
  • 3:06 PM

    The Fairy Tale: Overture

    Stanislaw Moniuszko

    Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

    Antoni Wit, conductor

    13:22
  • 3:01 PM

    The Merrymakers

    Eric Coates

    Boult conducts Coates

    New Philharmonia Orchestra

    Adrian Boult, conductor

    4:34
  • 2:50 PM

    Guitar Quintet No. 4 "Fandango": Fandango

    Luigi Boccherini

    Boccherini, Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Quintets

    Tokyo String Quartet

    Kazuhito Yamashita, guitar

    7:19
  • 2:29 PM

    Ramuntcho Suite No. 1

    Gabriel Pierne

    Piano Concerto in C Minor

    Philharmonie de Lorraine

    Jacques Houtmann, conductor

    19:43
  • 2:19 PM

    ODTAA (One Damned Thing After Another)

    Doreen Carwithen

    CARWITHEN: Piano Concerto / Bishop Rock / ODTAA / Suffolk Suite

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    8:16
  • 2:06 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Six Concertos for the Margrave of Brandenburg

    European Brandenburg Ensemble

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    11:40
  • 2:00 PM

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sara Davis Buechner, piano

    4:56
  • 1:56 PM

    Te Deum: Prelude

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier

    Rolf Smedvig, trumpet

    Michael Murray, organ

    2:29
  • 1:43 PM

    Die Meistersinger: Prelude to Act I

    Richard Wagner

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Sir Georg Solti, conductor

    12:30
  • 1:40 PM

    Concerto No. 8

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Albinoni: 12 Concerti a cinque, Op.5

    Collegium Musicum 90

    Simon Standage, conductor

    7:50
  • 1:30 PM

    Rodeo: Buckaroo Holiday

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: The Music Of America 

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    7:43
  • 1:26 PM

    The Foggy Dew

    Traditional Irish

    Barry Douglas, piano

    3:10
  • 1:21 PM

    Maids of Cadiz

    Leo Delibes

    Soprano

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    Nicole Cabell, soprano

    3:16
  • 1:18 PM

    Bolero

    Carlos Salzedo

    Solo Harp: The Best of Yolanda Kondonassis

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    2:55
  • 1:11 PM

    Polichinelle

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    A Rachmaninov Collection

    Kathryn Stott, piano

    3:10
  • 1:04 PM

    Symphony: Scherzo

    Georges Bizet

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    5:35
  • 12:54 PM

    Tosca: Te Deum

    Giacomo Puccini

    Pops Plays Puccini

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    4:44
  • 12:44 PM

    Le Roi malgre lui (The King in Spite of Himself): Fete polonaise

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Vienna Philharmonic

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    7:23
  • 12:36 PM

    The Conspirators (or, The Domestic War): Overture

    Franz Schubert

    Prague Sinfonia

    Christian Benda, conductor

    6:57
  • 12:28 PM

    Cringlemire Garden

    Ruth Gipps

    British Music for Strings, Vol. 3

    South German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim

    Douglas Bostock, conductor

    6:19
  • 12:18 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Spring": Finale

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    8:57
  • 12:15 PM

    Seven Popular Spanish Songs: Jota

    Manuel de Falla

    Claremont Duo

    2:55
  • 12:08 PM

    String Quartet: 3rd movement

    Florence Price

    UNCOVERED Vol. 2

    Catalyst Quartet

    4:26
  • 12:04 PM

    Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

    George Frideric Handel

    Albinoni: Adagio; Pachelbel: Canon; Etc

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    3:04
  • 11:48 AM

    Sinfonia Melodica

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra

    Barthold Kuijken, conductor

    11:00
  • 11:39 AM

    Hansel and Gretel: Overture

    Engelbert Humperdinck

    Humperdinck: Fairy-Tale Music

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor

    7:29
  • 11:35 AM

    Scaramouche

    Darius Milhaud

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Branford Marsalis, saxophone

    11:20
  • 11:31 AM

    Minuet in Blue

    Ron Goodwin

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    Ron Goodwin, conductor

    2:47
  • 11:21 AM

    Symphony No. 33: Finale

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 31, 33 & 34

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    8:43
  • 11:16 AM

    From Olden Times: Gigue

    Johan Halvorsen

    Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:15
  • 11:07 AM

    Gaelic Symphony: 2nd movement

    Amy Beach

    Nashville Symphony Orchestra

    Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor

    7:20
  • 11:04 AM

    Cello Suite No. 1: Prelude

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Zuill Bailey

    Zuill Bailey, cello

    2:23
  • 10:47 AM

    Little Serenade

    Lars-Erik Larsson

    A Swedish Serenade

    Stockholm Sinfonietta

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    11:09
  • 10:44 AM

    Estrellita (My little star)

    Manuel Ponce

    David Russell, guitar

    2:53
  • 10:27 AM

    Concertino

    Josef Myslivecek

    Myslivecek: Symphonies

    Concerto Koln

    14:39
  • 10:23 AM

    Scherzo

    (Marie) Clemence de Grandval

    GRANDVAL: Oboe Works

    Budapest Strings

    Lajos Lencses, oboe

    4:17
  • 10:10 AM

    Music for a Garden

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    11:16
  • 10:06 AM

    Gymnopedie No. 1

    Erik Satie

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    3:36
  • 10:01 AM

    Sleepsong

    Rolf Lovland

    Invisible Stars - Choral Works of Ireland and Scotland

    The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin

    Desmond Earley, conductor

    Emily Doyle, soprano

    4:37
  • 9:43 AM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Stamitz

    Haydn, Hummel, Stamitz, Hertel: Trumpet Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet

    15:38
  • 9:25 AM

    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    15:28
  • 9:12 AM

    Hymn to St. Cecilia

    Charles Gounod

    Leslie Howard, piano

    11:21
  • 9:06 AM

    Orchestral Suite No. 3: Air on the G String

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

    5:41
  • 9:01 AM

    Impromptu-Caprice

    Gabriel Pierne

    Caprice: French Music For Harp

    Susann McDonald, harp

    4:51
  • 8:37 AM

    Violin Sonata

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin

    Alina Ibragimova, violin

    21:07
  • 8:30 AM

    Toute vie

    Lou Koster

    Koster: Orchestral Music

    Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra

    Jonathan Kaell, conductor

    6:05
  • 8:19 AM

    String Quartet

    Germaine Tailleferre

    Stenhammar Quartet

    9:45
  • 8:06 AM

    Ocean's Kingdom: Moonrise

    Paul McCartney

    Paul McCartney: Ocean's Kingdom

    London Classical Orchestra

    John Wilson, conductor

    12:25
  • 8:01 AM

    Sketchbook of a Journey: Night at Sea with Stars

    Anthony Sidney

    Miguel Bonachea, guitar

    Gretchen Chell Cover, harp

    4:24
  • 7:51 AM

    Two Ballades

    Fazil Say

    Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra

    Scott Yoo, conductor

    Fazil Say, piano

    7:24
  • 7:47 AM

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    3:47
  • 7:07 AM

    Symphony No. 5

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    38:47
  • 7:01 AM

    Mischa Maisky, cello

    Pavel Gililov, piano

    4:31
  • 6:49 AM

    Citywinds

    9:35
  • 6:22 AM

    Variations, Chaconne and Finale

    Norman Dello Joio

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    James Sedares, conductor

    25:37
  • 6:07 AM

    Phantasy Quintet

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Violin Sonata, String Quartet No. 2 Etc.

    Nash Ensemble

    14:23
  • 6:01 AM

    Sospiri (Sighs)

    Edward Elgar

    THE BRITISH PROJECT

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor

    4:48
  • 5:52 AM

    In the Well: The Rising of the Moon

    Vilem Blodek

    Small Czech Musical Gems

    Prague Symphony Orchestra

    Vaclav Smetacek, conductor

    6:26
  • 5:48 AM

    Janine Jansen, violin

    Itamar Golan, piano

    3:12
  • 5:01 AM

    Duo Concertant No. 2: Adagio cantabile

    Antoine de L'Hoyer

    Matteo Mela, guitar

    Lorenzo Micheli, guitar

    4:40