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  • 4:40 AM

    Concert Piece for Four Horns

    Robert Schumann

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Christian Thielemann, conductor

    18:47
  • 4:18 AM

    Symphony No. 53 "Imperial"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    21:30
  • 4:06 AM

    Scheherazade: The Young Prince and the Young Princess

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Mad About Love

    Orchestre de la Bastille

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    9:42
  • 4:01 AM

    China Gates

    John Adams

    Orli Shaham, piano

    4:45
  • 3:49 AM

    Serenade: 4th movement

    Ethel Smyth

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Odaline de la Martinez, conductor

    9:04
  • 3:25 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra

    Dennis Burkh, conductor

    Elizabeth Rich, piano

    22:31
  • 3:19 AM

    Prelude

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    The Fantastic Stokowski

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    4:35
  • 3:15 AM

    The Sound of Silence

    Paul Simon

    12 Ensemble

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    2:44
  • 3:06 AM

    12 Contredanses

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    8:48
  • 3:01 AM

    Gavotte No. 2

    David Popper

    Steven Isserlis, cello

    Stephen Hough, piano

    4:40
  • 2:46 AM

    Springtime Suite

    Eric Coates

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Penny, conductor

    13:25
  • 1:01 AM

    Caprice-Chaconne

    Francesco Corbetta

    Alfabeto

    Ensemble Kapsberger

    Rolf Lislevand, conductor

    4:48
  • 12:53 AM

    Silver Spring

    William Mason

    Ivan Davis, piano

    5:20
  • 12:28 AM

    Czech Suite

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphony No. 5 Czech Suite

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Libor Pesek, conductor

    23:03
  • 12:19 AM

    String Symphony No. 6

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Complete String Symphonies

    Gli Incogniti

    Amandine Beyer, conductor

    8:32
  • 12:16 AM

    Lincoln: "With Malice Toward None"

    John Williams

    Lincoln Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    1:51
  • 12:06 AM

    Flute Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: 6 Concertos

    I Solisti Veneti

    Claudio Scimone, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    9:14
  • 12:01 AM

    Fantasie Negre No. 4

    Florence Price

    Florence Price: Piano Discoveries: Fantsie Negre No. 4

    Lara Downes, piano

    4:45
  • 11:51 PM

    Aranjuez Concerto: 3rd movement

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasía para un gentilhombre

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    5:19
  • 11:50 PM

    Aranjuez Concerto: 3rd movement

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasía para un gentilhombre

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    5:19
  • 11:22 PM

    Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra)

    Richard Strauss

    Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    34:57
  • 11:17 PM

    Die Csardasfurstin: Heia, heia, in den Bergen

    Emmerich Kalman

    KÁLMÁN, E.: Csárdásfürstin (Die)

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    Yvonne Kenny, soprano

    3:12
  • 11:16 PM

    Aranjuez Concerto: 3rd movement

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasía para un gentilhombre

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    5:19
  • 11:03 PM

    Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": Largo

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Piano Quintets In A, Op.5 & Op.81; Borodin: Quartet

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    11:34
  • 10:56 PM

    The Band

    Lara Downes, piano

    4:14
  • 10:47 PM

    Cello Concerto No. 6: 1st movement

    Luigi Boccherini

    Vivaldi, Boccherini: Cello Concertos

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Mischa Maisky, cello

    6:46
  • 10:36 PM

    Piano Quintet: 1st movement

    Robert Schumann

    Leonard Bernstein Plays and Conducts: Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, Shostakovich, Gershwin

    Juilliard String Quartet

    Leonard Bernstein, piano

    9:27
  • 10:30 PM

    Make Our Garden Grow from Candide

    Leonard Bernstein

    Original Cast

    Robert Rounseville, baritone

    Barbara Cook, soprano

    4:50
  • 10:08 PM

    Variations on a Theme by Haydn "St. Antoni Chorale"

    Johannes Brahms

    New Classical Arrangements for Brass

    Copper Street Brass Quintet

    17:26
  • 10:04 PM

    The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe

    Ennio Morricone

    Roma Sinfonietta

    Ennio Morricone, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    2:25
  • 9:54 PM

    Egmont Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Essential Beethoven

    Vienna Philharmonic

    George Szell, conductor

    8:33
  • 9:47 PM

    Eccomi in lieta vesta from Capulets and Montagues

    Vincenzo Bellini

    Beverly Sills, soprano

    :00
  • 9:44 PM

    Symphony No. 3: II

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    London Philharmonic

    Adrian Boult, conductor

    8:30
  • 9:34 PM

    Eccomi in lieta vesta from Capulets and Montagues

    Vincenzo Bellini

    Beverly Sills, soprano

    :00
  • 9:33 PM

    Variations on a Theme by Haydn "St. Antoni Chorale"

    Johannes Brahms

    New Classical Arrangements for Brass

    Copper Street Brass Quintet

    17:26
  • 9:30 PM

    Make Our Garden Grow from Candide

    Leonard Bernstein

    Original Cast

    Robert Rounseville, baritone

    Barbara Cook, soprano

    4:50
  • 9:22 PM

    Romance for Viola and Orchestra

    Max Bruch

    Mendelssohn, Bruch: Concerto & Romance

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    Janine Jansen, viola

    8:23
  • 9:17 PM

    Panis Angelicus

    Cesar Franck

    Voices of Ascension

    Dennis Keene, conductor

    Mark Kruczek, organ

    3:58
  • 9:05 PM

    Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror)

    Arvo Part

    Lisa Batiashvili, violin

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    10:18
  • 8:57 PM

    True Light

    Keith Hampton

    Winter Wonderland

    Minnesota Boychoir

    Mark S. Johnson, conductor

    Todd Price, piano

    3:56
  • 8:40 PM

    Tannhauser: Overture

    Richard Wagner

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Klaus Tennstedt, conductor

    15:27
  • 8:34 PM

    Bonnie Jean of Aberdeen/O'er the Moor, Among the Heather

    Neil Gow/Traditional Scottish

    ALTA

    Ensemble Galilei

    4:56
  • 8:15 PM

    Blue as the Turquoise Night of Neyshabur

    Kayhan Kalhor

    Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble ?– Silk Road Journeys

    Silk Road Ensemble

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    15:34
  • 8:10 PM

    Lullaby: My Little Sweet Darling

    Anonymous

    Hesperion XXI

    Montserrat Figueras, soprano

    3:56
  • 8:00 PM

    Queen of Spades Overture

    Franz von Suppe

    SUPPE: Famous Overtures

    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Alfred Walter, conductor

    7:37
  • 5:55 PM

    Elmer Iseler Singers

    Lydia Adams, conductor

    2:40
  • 5:18 PM

    Symphony No. 7

    Antonin Dvorak

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    36:21
  • 5:14 PM

    Waltz No. 17

    Frederic Chopin

    Richard Raymond, piano

    2:29
  • 5:06 PM

    Welcome the Queen

    Arthur Bliss

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    6:46
  • 5:01 PM

    English Suite No. 4: Prelude

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: English Suites

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    4:30
  • 4:53 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 2 "Characteristic": Scherzo burlesque

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

    Stefan Sanderling, conductor

    5:20
  • 4:24 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Andrew Constantine, conductor

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    27:56
  • 4:11 PM

    Cuban Overture

    George Gershwin

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Edo de Waart, conductor

    10:34
  • 4:06 PM

    Algerian Suite: French Military March

    Camille Saint-Saens

    French Bon Bons

    Grimethorpe Colliery Band

    Major Peter Parkes, conductor

    4:28
  • 4:01 PM

    From Foreign Lands: Italy

    Moritz Moszkowski

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    4:44
  • 3:48 PM

    Symphony No. 19

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    10:38
  • 3:22 PM

    Concerto Andaluz

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Interchange: Concertos by Rodrigo and Assad

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    David Amado, conductor

    24:25
  • 3:14 PM

    Minuet Antique

    Maurice Ravel

    Haydn, Ravel, Stravinsky

    Tesla Quartet

    5:44
  • 3:06 PM

    Oboe Concerto No. 3

    Tomaso Albinoni

    I Musici

    Heinz Holliger, oboe

    8:10
  • 3:01 PM

    Etiolles (Valse)

    Mel Bonis

    Memoires d'une femme

    Myriam Barbaux-Cohen, piano

    4:38
  • 2:46 PM

    Violin Concerto: 3rd movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Eclipse

    Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    10:43
  • 2:32 PM

    Piano Trio No. 1

    Franz Schubert

    Pinchas Zukerman: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Philips

    Pinchas Zukerman, violin

    44:06
  • 2:32 PM

    Piano Trio No. 1

    Franz Schubert

    Pinchas Zukerman: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Philips

    Pinchas Zukerman, violin

    44:06
  • 2:24 PM

    Romance

    Gerald Finzi

    Concert Recording

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Egarr, conductor

    7:05
  • 2:11 PM

    Four Dances

    Edward Elgar

    Athena Ensemble

    11:38
  • 2:11 PM

    Four Dances

    Edward Elgar

    Athena Ensemble

    11:38
  • 2:05 PM

    Four Last Songs: September

    Richard Strauss

    Metropolitan Opera Orchestra - A Concert for Ukraine

    Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Lise Davidsen, soprano

    5:00
  • 2:05 PM

    Four Dances

    Edward Elgar

    Athena Ensemble

    11:38
  • 2:01 PM

    Intermezzo: Happy End

    Richard Strauss

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Andre Previn, conductor

    2:18
  • 1:55 PM

    Goldberg Variations: Aria

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Goldberg Variations

    Beatrice Rana, piano

    5:04
  • 1:46 PM

    The Skaters Waltz

    Emil Waldteufel

    With Love from Vienna

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    8:04
  • 1:41 PM

    Mazurka in a, Op. 17 No. 4

    Frederic Chopin

    The Pianist Soundtrack

    Wladslaw Szpilman, piano

    3:40
  • 1:38 PM

    Prelude in e, Op. 28 No.4

    Frederic Chopin

    The Pianist Soundtrack

    Janusz Olejniczak, piano

    2:15
  • 1:29 PM

    String Quartet No. 5: 4th movement

    Alexander Glazunov

    Saint Petersburg String Quartet

    6:56
  • 1:25 PM

    Carmen: Aragonaise

    Georges Bizet

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

    French National Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    2:25
  • 1:21 PM

    Dance from Jalisco

    Aaron Copland

    LAGQ Latin

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    3:42
  • 1:18 PM

    Flute Quartet No. 4: Minuet

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Emerson String Quartet

    Carol Wincenc, flute

    2:15
  • 1:10 PM

    The Barber of Seville: Sinfonia

    Giovanni Paisiello

    Paisiello: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia / Carella, Siragusa, Etc

    Trieste Teatro Verdi Orchestra

    Giuliano Carella, conductor

    4:56
  • 1:04 PM

    Eugene Onegin: Polonaise

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Russian Sketches

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    4:33
  • 12:48 PM

    Academic Festival Overture

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Serenade No. 2; Haydn: Variationen

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    9:59
  • 12:37 PM

    Clarinet Concertino

    Carl Maria von Weber

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet

    9:11
  • 12:30 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 6

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Opp. 46 & 72

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Rafael Kubelik, conductor

    5:23
  • 12:27 PM

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    Matthew Hagle, piano

    1:45
  • 12:26 PM

    The Elements

    Tom Lehrer

    An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer

    Tom Lehrer, vocal

    1:33
  • 12:20 PM

    Symphony No. 2: Scherzo

    Alexander Borodin

    Toronto Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    4:51
  • 12:15 PM

    Arabesque No. 2

    Claude Debussy

    Maria Graf, harp

    3:29
  • 12:07 PM

    Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna

    Franz von Suppe

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Paray, conductor

    7:32
  • 12:04 PM

    Acis and Galatea: Happy We!

    George Frideric Handel

    Grand & Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses / Robert Shaw

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    1:56
  • 11:53 AM

    Concerto Grosso: March

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    4:30
  • 11:46 AM

    Die tote Stadt: Gluck, das mir verblieb (Marietta's Song)

    Erich Korngold

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Kirill Karabits, conductor

    Nicola Benedetti, violin

    5:15
  • 11:33 AM

    Symphony No. 3 "Eroica": 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    11:38
  • 11:29 AM

    Scottish Legend

    Amy Beach

    Adalberto Maria Riva, piano

    3:08
  • 11:22 AM

    Sylvia: Procession of Bacchus

    Leo Delibes

    Delibes: Coppelia / Gounod: Faust

    Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra

    Janos Sandor, conductor

    5:58
  • 11:16 AM

    Le Tombeau de Couperin: Menuet

    Maurice Ravel

    Pavane

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    4:42
  • 11:10 AM

    Symphony No. 4

    William Boyce

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Ronald Thomas, conductor

    5:55
  • 11:04 AM

    Peer Gynt: Arabian Dance

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 And 2

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    4:55
  • 10:48 AM

    Morning Papers Waltz

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Zubin Mehta, conductor

    10:17
  • 10:42 AM

    Double Quartet No. 1: Scherzo

    Louis Spohr

    Spohr: The Four Double Quartets

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

    4:26
  • 10:30 AM

    Quartet No. 2

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Vienna-Berlin Ensemble

    11:43
  • 10:25 AM

    Cello Suite No. 6: Gavotte

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Transcriptions for Guitar

    Goran Sollscher, guitar

    3:58
  • 10:14 AM

    Renaissance Scottish Dances

    Peter Maxwell Davies

    Peter Maxwell Davies

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Peter Maxwell Davies, conductor

    9:19
  • 10:06 AM

    Adagio

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    Yakov Kreizberg, conductor

    Julia Fischer, violin

    7:50
  • 10:01 AM

    Deep River

    Spiritual

    Blue Wheat

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    4:42
  • 9:33 AM

    Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 1 And 5

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    25:38
  • 9:24 AM

    Oboe Concertino

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Stuttgart Arcata Chamber Orchestra

    Patrick Strub, conductor

    Lajos Lencses, oboe

    7:25
  • 9:20 AM

    The Fabelmans: Mother and Son

    John Williams

    Studio Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    2:28
  • 9:06 AM

    Polonaise-Fantasie

    Frederic Chopin

    Artur Rubinstein, piano

    12:56
  • 9:01 AM

    Suite for Strings: Prelude

    Joan Trimble

    Irish Chamber Orchestra

    Fionnuala Hunt, conductor

    4:46
  • 8:46 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 4

    George Frideric Handel

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    12:45
  • 8:42 AM

    Standchen (Serenade)

    Richard Strauss

    Sonatas And Other Interludes

    Pedja Muzijevic, piano

    3:03
  • 8:06 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Reinhold Gliere

    Gliere: Symphony No. 1, Suite: The Red Poppy

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Edward Downes, conductor

    34:15
  • 8:01 AM

    Orchestral Quartet No. 5: Rondo

    Carl Stamitz

    Carl Stamitz: Orchestral Quartets, Op. 14

    NZSO Chamber Orchestra

    Donald Armstrong, conductor

    4:40
  • 7:35 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Samuel Barber

    Barber & Meyer Violin Concertos

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    23:03
  • 7:29 AM

    From the Dreaming: Wildflower

    Phillip Houghton

    Painted Music

    Quatra Duo

    5:13
  • 7:17 AM

    Jeromita Linares

    Carlos Guastavino

    "Impresiones"

    Camerata Bariloche

    Pablo Cohen, guitar

    11:43
  • 7:06 AM

    Vienna 3/4 Time - Waltz Cycle

    Johann Wagenaar

    Wagenaar: Saul En David, Amphitrion, Etc / Riccardo Chailly

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    9:37
  • 7:01 AM

    Partita No. 6: Courante

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sergey Schepkin, piano

    4:39
  • 6:38 AM

    Harp Concerto

    Francois Boieldieu

    Harp Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Marisa Robles, harp

    20:15
  • 6:32 AM

    Variations on a Theme of Chopin: Variation 22; Theme

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Daniil Trifonov, piano

    5:52
  • 6:06 AM

    Serenade for Strings

    Josef Suk

    Summer Evening - Works By Kodály & Suk

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    23:46
  • 6:01 AM

    Four Waltzes

    Johannes Brahms

    Canadian Brass

    4:52
  • 5:39 AM

    Choral Fantasy

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    19:01
  • 5:23 AM

    The Leopard (Il Gattopardo): Dances

    Nino Rota

    Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    16:11
  • 5:07 AM

    Concerto for Recorder and Viola

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Michala Petri, recorder

    Pinchas Zukerman, viola

    14:44
  • 5:01 AM

    The Seasons: June (Barcarolle)

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    50 Best Relaxing Piano

    Mikhail Pletnev, piano

    4:35