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  • 4:50 AM

    Piano Trio "Notturno"

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2, Notturno, Rondo brillant & Arpeggione Sonata

    Christian Tetzlaff, violin

    8:31
  • 4:46 AM

    To be sung on the water

    Samuel Barber

    Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

    Graham Ross, conductor

    2:58
  • 4:06 AM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    38:22
  • 4:01 AM

    Herbstlied (Autumn Song)

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Phoenix in Flight

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Kirk Trevor, conductor

    Richard Stoltzman, clarinet

    4:41
  • 3:50 AM

    Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror)

    Arvo Part

    Fairy Tale

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    8:21
  • 3:45 AM

    Even This Laughter; Even Your Tears

    deVon Russell Gray

    Love at Last

    Lara Downes, piano

    4:26
  • 3:24 AM

    La Damoiselle Elue (The Blessed Damozel)

    Claude Debussy

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Dawn Upshaw, soprano

    Paula Rasmussen, mezzo-soprano

    20:13
  • 3:06 AM

    Five Pieces in Folk-Style

    Robert Schumann

    Steven Isserlis, cello

    Christoph Eschenbach, piano

    15:28
  • 3:01 AM

    Lute Suite No. 4: Menuets

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Rupert Boyd, guitar

    4:51
  • 2:51 AM

    Musical Moment No. 6

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert, Mazzoli

    Shai Wosner, piano

    7:24
  • 12:49 AM

    Quartet for Queen Mab

    Missy Mazzoli

    Aeolus Quartet

    8:40
  • 12:20 AM

    Symphony No. 48 "Maria Theresia"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    27:15
  • 12:16 AM

    Budapest Strings

    Lajos Lencses, oboe

    3:51
  • 12:08 AM

    Scottish March (Marche ecossaise)

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy & Ravel: Orchestral Works

    Ulster Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    6:02
  • 12:06 AM

    Stuttgart Brass Quartet

    1:53
  • 12:01 AM

    Sleeping Beauty: Jubilee March

    Erkki Melartin

    Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    4:32
  • 11:31 PM

    Clarinet Concerto

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Kegelstatt Trio

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Martin Frost, conductor

    Martin Frost, basset clarinet

    26:50
  • 11:27 PM

    A Bird Song

    Edvard Grieg

    Edvard Grieg: Songs from the Heart

    Melissa Holm-Johansen, soprano

    2:32
  • 11:05 PM

    Piano Trio No. 3

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Piano Trios

    Beaux Arts Trio

    20:15
  • 10:40 PM

    Appalachian Spring

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Appalachian Spring/Rodeo/Fanfare

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Louis Lane, conductor

    22:22
  • 10:19 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    Stephen Hough, piano

    19:30
  • 10:04 PM

    Cockaigne Overture (In London Town)

    Edward Elgar

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yehudi Menuhin, conductor

    14:13
  • 9:47 PM

    Capriccio Italien

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture

    Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    14:34
  • 9:42 PM

    Henry V: Non nobis domine

    Patrick Doyle

    Henry V: Original Soundtrack Recording

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    4:10
  • 9:29 PM

    Mephisto Waltz No. 1

    Franz Liszt

    Liszt: Piano Recital

    Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

    11:08
  • 9:22 PM

    Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Essential Ballet

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Lorin Maazel, conductor

    5:07
  • 9:17 PM

    Pieces de Fantasie: Naiades

    Louis Vierne

    Organ Odyssey

    Mary Preston, organ

    4:51
  • 9:07 PM

    Crown Imperial

    William Walton

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    6:50
  • 8:53 PM

    Christ on the Mount of Olives: Hallelujah

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Absolute Heaven

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    4:02
  • 8:45 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 1st movement

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Shostakovich: Concertos Nos 1 & 2, Piano Quintet

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Yefim Bronfman, piano

    7:11
  • 8:35 PM

    Samson and Delilah: Bacchanale

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    6:44
  • 8:31 PM

    Amazing Grace

    Traditional

    Lara Downes, piano

    2:57
  • 8:14 PM

    Danish National Chamber Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    14:14
  • 8:00 PM

    Four Seasons: Spring

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Joshua Bell, violin

    10:11
  • 5:52 PM

    Sinfonia for Strings

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Europa Galante

    Fabio Biondi, conductor

    6:10
  • 5:16 PM

    Symphony No. 3

    Louise Farrenc

    European Soloists, Luxembourg

    Christoph Konig, conductor

    34:08
  • 5:12 PM

    Forgotten Waltz No. 1

    Franz Liszt

    The Magic of Horowitz

    Vladimir Horowitz, piano

    3:11
  • 5:06 PM

    Polonaise

    Mauro Giuliani

    David Starobin Performs Mauro Giuliani, Volume Two

    David Starobin, guitar

    4:53
  • 5:00 PM

    Album Leaf

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Music of the Gilded Age

    Sylvan Winds

    Boris Baev, oboe

    4:38
  • 4:55 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Panorama

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    2:41
  • 4:48 PM

    Prince and the Mermaid Suite

    William Grant Still

    Oregon String Quartet

    7:24
  • 4:15 PM

    Enigma Variations

    Edward Elgar

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    31:24
  • 4:09 PM

    Marriage of Figaro: Voi che sapete

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Il tenero momento

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Harry Bicket, conductor

    Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano

    2:56
  • 4:06 PM

    Etude No. 1 "Aeolian Harp"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin Etudes

    Jan Lisiecki, piano

    2:25
  • 4:00 PM

    Fantasia Suite No. 8

    John Jenkins

    Locke Consort

    4:36
  • 3:49 PM

    An Outdoor Overture

    Aaron Copland

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    9:14
  • 3:44 PM

    Ford's Farm

    Mason Bates

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    Cory Smythe, piano

    3:19
  • 3:22 PM

    Horn Concerto No. 2

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Horn Concertos

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    Barry Tuckwell, horn

    20:29
  • 3:15 PM

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    5:21
  • 3:06 PM

    Oboe Concerto No. 3

    George Frideric Handel

    City of London Sinfonia

    Nicholas Ward, conductor

    Anthony Camden, oboe

    9:25
  • 3:01 PM

    Etiolles (Valse)

    Mel Bonis

    Memoires d'une femme

    Myriam Barbaux-Cohen, piano

    4:38
  • 2:50 PM

    Athalia: Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 5: Overtures

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Edward Gardner, conductor

    8:00
  • 2:44 PM

    Song of Jean Racine (Cantique de Jean Racine)

    Gabriel Faure

    Spheres

    German Chamber Orchestra Berlin

    Simon Halsey, conductor

    Daniel Hope, violin

    4:16
  • 2:35 PM

    Bishop Rock

    Doreen Carwithen

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

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    8:16
  • 2:32 PM

    Vincent

    Don McLean

    Evan Marshall, mandolin

    2:00
  • 2:26 PM

    Cypresses: Our love will never blossom to a happy end

    Antonin Dvorak

    Old World, New World

    Emerson String Quartet

    4:24
  • 2:04 PM

    Symphony No. 25

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concert Recording

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Joshua Bell, conductor

    20:55
  • 2:00 PM

    The Entertainer

    Scott Joplin

    Joe Brent, mandolin

    Lara Downes, piano

    3:14
  • 1:56 PM

    La Cenerentola (Cinderella): Non piu mesta

    Gioacchino Rossini

    The Ultimate Divas Album

    Bologna Theater Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano

    3:05
  • 1:48 PM

    La Cenerentola (Cinderella): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Favorite Overtures

    Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Gianluigi Gelmetti, conductor

    7:06
  • 1:43 PM

    Liebesfreud (Love's Joy)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Leonidas Kavakos Plays Debussy, Kreisler, Paganini, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Wieniawski & more

    Leonidas Kavakos, violin

    3:50
  • 1:34 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "Four Temperaments": 4th movement

    Carl Nielsen

    Nielsen: Symphony No. 2

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    7:37
  • 1:29 PM

    Seven Beauties: Waltz

    Kara Karayev

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Kirill Karabits, conductor

    4:17
  • 1:22 PM

    Symphony No. 94 "Surprise": 2nd movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 94 & 95; Mozart: Toy Symphony

    Hanover Band

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    6:01
  • 1:18 PM

    The Age of Gold: Polka

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Horizons

    Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

    2:08
  • 1:09 PM

    Polonaise

    Anatol Liadov

    Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    4:19
  • 1:04 PM

    The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu) Ballet

    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky: Firebird, Nightingale, Rite of Spring

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    20:41
  • 12:54 PM

    Symphonic Metamorphosis: March

    Paul Hindemith

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Rafael Kubelik, conductor

    4:44
  • 12:47 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 1: Divertimento

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Suites Nos. 1 And 2

    National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

    Stefan Sanderling, conductor

    5:17
  • 12:41 PM

    Bassoon Concerto: 3rd movement

    Johann Vanhal

    Mozart, Vanhal: Bassoon Concertos

    St. Mary's Chamber Players

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    John Miller, bassoon

    5:05
  • 12:35 PM

    Sonata in E, K. 380

    Domenico Scarlatti

    Eliot Fisk, guitar

    5:00
  • 12:32 PM

    Suite in e: Bourree

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Eliot Fisk, guitar

    1:00
  • 12:27 PM

    Serenade No. 1: Menuetto 1 and 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Serenade No. 1, etc.

    Ulster Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    3:54
  • 12:19 PM

    Symphony: 2nd movement

    Charlotte Sohy

    French National Orchestra

    Debora Waldman, conductor

    7:42
  • 12:15 PM

    Preludes, Book 1: La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)

    Claude Debussy

    Brodsky Unlimited

    Brodsky Quartet

    3:00
  • 12:07 PM

    Traditional Hornpipe Suite

    Adrian Cruft

    Royal Ballet Sinfonia

    Gavin Sutherland, conductor

    7:08
  • 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
  • 11:54 AM

    Symphony No. 5 "Reformation": 2nd movement

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: The 5 Symphonies

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    5:28
  • 11:50 AM

    Flowers from Froso: Lawn Tennis

    Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

    Christian Bergqvist, violin

    Mats Bergstrom, guitar

    3:02
  • 11:46 AM

    Flowers from Froso: To the Roses

    Wilhelm Peterson-Berger

    Christian Bergqvist, violin

    Mats Bergstrom, guitar

    4:07
  • 11:33 AM

    Pulcinella Suite: Selections

    Igor Stravinsky

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    15:00
  • 11:18 AM

    Orchestral Suite No. 3: Overture

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Orchestral Suites

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    10:11
  • 11:14 AM

    Fantasy Pieces: Humoresque

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Uncovered Vol. 1

    Catalyst Quartet

    3:17
  • 11:07 AM

    The Jester at the Wedding: Caprice

    Eric Coates

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    John Wilson, conductor

    4:41
  • 11:04 AM

    Humoresque No. 7

    Antonin Dvorak

    Vienna-Berlin Ensemble

    3:02
  • 10:51 AM

    Four Seasons: Winter

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Il Cimento Dell'Armonia e Dell'Inventione

    Europa Galante

    Fabio Biondi, conductor

    Fabio Biondi, violin

    7:44
  • 10:36 AM

    Umbrian Scene

    Ulysses Kay

    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Arthur Fagen, conductor

    13:33
  • 10:31 AM

    Bas-Pelles Eriks Brudpolska

    Per Westberg

    Bonfrost

    Nordic Fiddlers Bloc

    3:31
  • 10:19 AM

    Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2

    Johan Halvorsen

    Trondheim Symphony Orchestra

    Ole Kristian Ruud, conductor

    11:55
  • 10:16 AM

    Salut d'amour (Love's Greeting)

    Edward Elgar

    Fantasies for Bassoon

    Karen Geoghegan, bassoon

    2:56
  • 10:06 AM

    Sinfonia

    Johan Roman

    Orpheus Chamber Ensemble

    8:05
  • 10:01 AM

    Four Pieces: Dudelsack and Waltz

    Alfred Uhl

    Into The Blue

    Cumberland Quintet

    4:43
  • 9:45 AM

    Divertimento No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Divertimenti KN 113, 137 & 251

    Academy Chamber Ensemble

    12:55
  • 9:19 AM

    Utah Symphony

    Thierry Fischer, conductor

    25:35
  • 9:13 AM

    The Muppet Movie: Rainbow Connection

    Paul Williams/Kenneth Ascher

    Lang Lang, piano

    4:10
  • 9:06 AM

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

    Maurice Ravel

    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    5:58
  • 9:01 AM

    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Alfred Walter, conductor

    4:49
  • 8:18 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 3

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2

    Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    Yuja Wang, piano

    40:29
  • 8:06 AM

    Concerto for Two Flutes

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Rebel

    Jorg-Michael Schwarz, conductor

    Matthias Maute, recorder

    Sophie Lariviere, recorder

    9:44
  • 8:01 AM

    In Praise of Music: For the Saint, Cecilia

    Dominick Argento

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    4:33
  • 7:37 AM

    Nordic Chamber Orchestra

    Patrik Ringborg, conductor

    Delphine Constantin-Reznik, harp

    21:42
  • 7:30 AM

    Impromptu No. 6

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius

    Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

    6:09
  • 7:12 AM

    Orchestra of the 18th Century

    Marc Destrube, conductor

    16:01
  • 7:06 AM

    Chor Leoni Men's Chorus

    Erick Lichte, conductor

    5:32
  • 7:01 AM

    Chamber Concerto: Sicilienne

    Ernest Chausson

    Alcan Quartet

    David Lefevre, violin

    Alain Lefevre, piano

    4:41
  • 6:43 AM

    Little Suite

    Carl Nielsen

    Nielsen: Symphony No. 1

    Stockholm Sinfonietta

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    15:22
  • 6:35 AM

    Elegie

    Gabriel Faure

    Elgar

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

    7:32
  • 6:07 AM

    Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphonien Nos 5 & 8 "Unfinished"

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    26:39
  • 6:01 AM

    String Trio: Nocturne

    Henri Tomasi

    Black Oak Ensemble

    4:45
  • 5:43 AM

    Concerto for Two Violins

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    L'Appassionata

    Lorenzo Gugole, conductor

    Krzysztof Kaczka, flute

    Jaroslaw Nadrzycki, violin

    14:50
  • 5:24 AM

    Ballad Without Words

    Kurt Atterberg

    Atterberg: Symphony No. 6, etc.

    Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

    Jun'ichi Hirokami, conductor

    18:31
  • 5:07 AM

    Piano Sonata

    Fanny Mendelssohn

    Anna Shelest, piano

    16:35
  • 5:01 AM

    Two Pastorales

    Lou Harrison

    Lou Harrison: Seven Pastorales

    Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra

    Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

    4:36