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  • 4:14 AM

    Symphony No. 4

    Johannes Brahms

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    44:25
  • 4:06 AM

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Okko Kamu, conductor

    5:48
  • 4:01 AM

    Estampes: Pagodas

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Images; Estampes; Children's Corner; Masques

    Steven Osborne, piano

    4:45
  • 3:54 AM

    Elena Papandreou, guitar

    4:36
  • 3:12 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    Ingrid Fliter, piano

    39:41
  • 3:10 AM

    Pensees lyriques: Berceuse

    Jean Sibelius

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    2:01
  • 3:06 AM

    Humoresque

    Francis Poulenc

    Pascal Roge, piano

    1:58
  • 3:01 AM

    Vespers: Laudate Dominum

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Michael Stern, conductor

    Joshua Bell, violin

    4:40
  • 2:37 AM

    Harlem Symphony

    James Price Johnson

    Concordia

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    21:44
  • 2:20 AM

    African Suite

    Fela Sowande

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    14:44
  • 2:14 AM

    Ride On, King Jesus

    Spiritual

    J'nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano

    Paul Sanchez, piano

    3:58
  • 2:06 AM

    A Jazz Trifle

    Zenobia Powell Perry

    Zenobia Powell Perry: Piano Works

    LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, piano

    2:11
  • 2:01 AM

    Clarinet Quintet: 3rd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Pacifica String Quartet

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    4:32
  • 1:49 AM

    Field of Dreams: The Place Where Dreams Come True

    James Horner

    Studio Orchestra

    James Horner, conductor

    9:07
  • 1:22 AM

    Cello Concerto No. 2

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Cello Concertos

    Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Truls Mork, cello

    25:11
  • 1:13 AM

    Four Dances

    Thomas Morley

    Dances From Renaissance To Nutcracker

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    7:18
  • 1:06 AM

    Star Wars: Main Theme

    John Williams

    Vienna Philharmonic

    John Williams, conductor

    6:20
  • 1:01 AM

    Music for Symphony Orchestra: Andante

    Yasushi Akutagawa

    Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

    Ryusuke Numajiri, conductor

    4:41
  • 12:55 AM

    Three Dances: Waltz

    Alfred Uhl

    Montreal Winds

    Jacques Lacombe, conductor

    3:13
  • 12:17 AM

    Symphony No. 7

    Antonin Dvorak

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    36:21
  • 12:10 AM

    Jota of San Fermin

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Sarasate: Violin and Orchestra Music, Vol. 4

    Navarra Symphony Orchestra

    Ernest Martinez Izquierdo, conductor

    Tianwa Yang, violin

    5:53
  • 12:06 AM

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    2:43
  • 12:01 AM

    Village Dance

    Claude Champagne

    Quebec Symphony Orchestra

    Yoav Talmi, conductor

    4:47
  • 11:52 PM

    Be Still and Know

    Carlos Simon

    My Ancestor's Gift

    Phoebe Wu, piano

    6:28
  • 11:37 PM

    Seven Last Words of the Unarmed

    Joel Thompson

    University of Michigan Men's Glee Club

    Eugene Rogers, conductor

    14:50
  • 11:17 PM

    Serenade for Strings "Nachtmusik"

    Richard Heuberger

    RIAS Sinfonietta

    Jiri Starek, conductor

    17:30
  • 11:01 PM

    Wind Quintet

    Franz Danzi

    Danzi: Wind Quintets, Op. 56 Nos. 1 & 2, Op. 68 Nos. 1 & 2

    Academia Wind Quintet

    15:08
  • 10:58 PM

    Etude-Tableau No. 6

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    1:37
  • 10:44 PM

    Symphonic Dances: 3rd movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Gateways

    Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

    Long Yu, conductor

    13:09
  • 10:27 PM

    Concert Piece for Harp and Orchestra

    Gabriel Pierne

    L. Laskine Joue Boieldieu, Mozart, Pierne

    French National Radio and Television Orchestra

    Jean Martinon, conductor

    Lily Laskine, harp

    15:31
  • 10:22 PM

    Village Dance

    Claude Champagne

    Quebec Symphony Orchestra

    Yoav Talmi, conductor

    4:47
  • 10:16 PM

    Dance Suite after Couperin: Carillon

    Richard Strauss

    Kempe Conducts Richard Strauss - 3

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Rudolf Kempe, conductor

    3:28
  • 10:07 PM

    Flute Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Australian Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Tognetti, conductor

    Emmanuel Pahud, flute

    8:56
  • 9:59 PM

    Aida: Triumphal March

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Classic Marches

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    6:21
  • 9:51 PM

    Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror)

    Arvo Part

    Smile

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    7:00
  • 9:37 PM

    Petite Suite

    Claude Debussy

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    12:57
  • 9:33 PM

    Men's Songs: Bundling Song

    Veljo Tormis

    Tormis: Works for Men's Voices

    Svanholm Singers

    Sofia Soderberg Eberhard, conductor

    3:06
  • 9:15 PM

    Guitar Concerto

    Ferdinando Carulli

    Carulli, Molino: Guitar Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    16:18
  • 9:06 PM

    Beatrice and Benedict: Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    8:10
  • 9:02 PM

    After the Cakewalk

    Nathaniel Dett

    My Cup Runneth Over: The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett

    Clipper Erickson, piano

    3:26
  • 8:52 PM

    Generations: Sinfonietta No. 2: Alla sarabande

    Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Serenely Cedille: Relaxing Rarities From Chicago's Classical Label

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    5:36
  • 8:38 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Classical"

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Prokofiev: Classical Symphony and Symphony No. 5

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    13:42
  • 8:23 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 9

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    12:59
  • 8:16 PM

    Serenade

    Roman Hoffstetter

    Promenade Concert

    I Solisti Italiani

    5:29
  • 8:06 PM

    Overture for Wind Instruments

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Romantic Wind Serenades

    Consortium Classicum

    9:21
  • 8:00 PM

    Etude No. 3 "Tristesse"

    Frederic Chopin

    Cecile Licad, piano

    4:54
  • 5:53 PM

    Billy the Kid: Conclusion

    Aaron Copland

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    5:30
  • 5:19 PM

    Double Concerto

    Johannes Brahms

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    31:58
  • 5:14 PM

    Capriccio No. 4: In Tempo di Canarie

    Jan Zelenka

    Zelenka: The Capriccios

    Bach Sinfonia

    Daniel Abraham, conductor

    2:37
  • 5:06 PM

    Raymond Overture

    Ambroise Thomas

    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    8:07
  • 5:01 PM

    From Foreign Lands: Germany

    Moritz Moszkowski

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    4:37
  • 4:54 PM

    Hallelujah

    Leonard Cohen

    Canadiana

    Canadian Brass

    3:35
  • 4:17 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 3

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Andrew Constantine, conductor

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    35:47
  • 4:13 PM

    Estudio brillante

    Francisco Tarrega

    Eduardo Fernandez, guitar

    1:45
  • 4:06 PM

    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Overture; March

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Famous Overtures & Marches

    Concentus Musicus Vienna

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

    7:08
  • 4:00 PM

    Handel in the Strand

    Percy Grainger

    Music of Percy Grainger

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

    Philip Martin, piano

    4:46
  • 3:48 PM

    The Wasps: Overture

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    James Judd, conductor

    9:51
  • 3:24 PM

    Violin Concerto

    Samuel Barber

    Barber & Meyer Violin Concertos

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    23:03
  • 3:16 PM

    Waltz No. 1 "Grand Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    The Chopin Album

    Lang Lang, piano

    5:48
  • 3:06 PM

    Symphony No. 11

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 8, 9, 44, 47, 45, & 11

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    9:30
  • 3:01 PM

    Two Sketches

    Amy Beach

    Joanne Polk, piano

    4:38
  • 2:53 PM

    Brea(d)th: Elegy

    Carlos Simon

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Bill Eddins, conductor

    4:00
  • 2:28 PM

    Montgomery Variations

    Margaret Bonds

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Scott Yoo, conductor

    24:00
  • 2:23 PM

    Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo

    Pietro Mascagni

    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    Studio Orchestra

    2:17
  • 2:09 PM

    Symphony Concertante

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    Yury Revich, violin

    Libor Jezek, violin

    13:02
  • 2:00 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Introduction and March

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    8:33
  • 1:50 PM

    String Symphony No. 7: 4th movement

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Sphinx Virtuosi

    Damon Gupton, conductor

    5:43
  • 1:37 PM

    Aranjuez Concerto: 2nd movement

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    11:29
  • 1:32 PM

    There is a Balm in Gilead

    Spiritual

    Spirituals in Concert

    Unknown orchestra/ensemble

    James Levine, conductor

    Kathleen Battle, soprano

    4:33
  • 1:25 PM

    Serenade: 4th movement

    Arthur Bird

    North Texas Chamber Players

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    5:25
  • 1:18 PM

    Luisa Miller: Sinfonia

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Verdi: Overtures and Preludes

    Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    5:52
  • 1:10 PM

    Double Quartet No. 1: Scherzo

    Louis Spohr

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

    4:26
  • 1:04 PM

    Cantata No. 208: Sheep May Safely Graze

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Essential Bach

    Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

    Karl Munchinger, conductor

    4:31
  • 12:47 PM

    Agnus Dei

    Samuel Barber

    Evocation of the Spirit

    Robert Shaw Festival Singers

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    10:56
  • 12:43 PM

    The Deserted Garden

    Florence Price

    Zina Schiff, violin

    Cameron Grant, piano

    2:01
  • 12:31 PM

    Children's Games (Jeux d'enfants)

    Georges Bizet

    Paris Conservatoire Orchestra

    Jean Martinon, conductor

    10:57
  • 12:22 PM

    "Twinkle, Twinkle" Variations (Ah, vous dirai-je, maman)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 26

    Andre Previn, piano

    7:45
  • 12:15 PM

    The Spanish Lady: Suite

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: Music for Strings

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    5:50
  • 12:11 PM

    Romance Without Words

    Gabriel Faure

    Susan Jolles, harp

    2:40
  • 12:04 PM

    Sylvia: Procession of Bacchus

    Leo Delibes

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    6:00
  • 11:55 AM

    John Peel

    Traditional, arr. Chris Hazell

    Greensleeves

    Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    4:00
  • 11:47 AM

    Blumenstuck (Flower Piece)

    Robert Schumann

    Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

    7:19
  • 11:33 AM

    String Symphony No. 6

    Felix Mendelssohn

    London Festival Orchestra

    Ross Pople, conductor

    12:22
  • 11:24 AM

    Clarinet Quintet: 2nd movement

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Hawthorne String Quartet

    Harold Wright, clarinet

    7:28
  • 11:18 AM

    Eugene Onegin: Polonaise

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Encore!

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    4:49
  • 11:15 AM

    Clap Yo' Hands

    George Gershwin

    Lark Quartet

    2:11
  • 11:08 AM

    The Ruins of Athens: Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Overtures

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Daniel Harding, conductor

    5:00
  • 11:04 AM

    La Source (The Spring)

    Alphonse Hasselmans

    Solo Harp: The Best of Yolanda Kondonassis

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    3:47
  • 10:50 AM

    Huapango

    Jose Moncayo

    Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas

    Alondra de la Parra, conductor

    8:19
  • 10:42 AM

    Prelude Baroque

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Piano Works, Vol. 5

    Stefan Irmer, piano

    6:22
  • 10:29 AM

    Horn Concerto No. 2

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Horn Concertos and Concert Rondo

    London Sinfonietta

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    Richard Watkins, horn

    12:40
  • 10:24 AM

    Torre Bermeja (Vermillion Tower)

    Isaac Albeniz

    Isaac Albeniz: Spanish Music For Classical Guitar

    David Russell, guitar

    4:25
  • 10:14 AM

    Concerto for Three Oboes

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Telemann: Triple Concertos

    Collegium Musicum 90

    Simon Standage, conductor

    8:55
  • 10:07 AM

    Masquerade Suite: Waltz and Mazurka

    Aram Khachaturian

    Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra

    Aleksander Lazarev, conductor

    7:01
  • 10:01 AM

    Izumi Tateno, piano

    4:42
  • 9:42 AM

    Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain"

    Alan Hovhaness

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    16:00
  • 9:23 AM

    Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes

    Benjamin Britten

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    17:54
  • 9:17 AM

    Passaros em Festa

    Ernesto Nazareth

    Odeon: Brazilian Dances by Ernesto Nazareth

    Antoine Zemor, piano

    4:24
  • 9:06 AM

    String Symphony No. 4

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Amadeus Ensemble

    Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

    9:58
  • 9:01 AM

    The Mermaid Suite: Dance of 24 Mermaids

    Wu Zuqiang/Du Mingxin

    China National Symphony Orchestra

    Zuohuang Chen, conductor

    4:43
  • 8:41 AM

    Gil Shaham, violin

    Orli Shaham, piano

    17:31
  • 8:36 AM

    Die Nachtigall (The Nightingale)

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Songs for Male Chorus

    Robert Shaw Chamber Singers

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    Karl Dent, tenor

    3:57
  • 8:19 AM

    String Quartet No. 30 "The Joke"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Emerson String Quartet

    16:08
  • 8:06 AM

    Rapsodia santiaguena

    Manuel Gomez Carrillo

    Fiesta Criolla: Latin-American Orchestral Works

    Wurttemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen

    Gabriel Castagna, conductor

    11:48
  • 8:01 AM

    Black Anemones

    Joseph Schwantner

    Schoenfield/Schwantner/Beaser

    Ransom Wilson, flute

    4:43
  • 7:26 AM

    The Bourgeois Gentleman Suite

    Richard Strauss

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    33:00
  • 7:21 AM

    Forgotten Waltz No. 1

    Franz Liszt

    AndrĂ© Watts Plays Liszt – Album 2 - Sonata In B Minor

    Andre Watts, piano

    3:25
  • 7:06 AM

    German Chamber Academy

    Johannes Goritzki, conductor

    13:25
  • 7:01 AM

    Les Huguenots: Gypsy Dance

    Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Meyerbeer: Ballet Music From The Operas / Nesterowicz

    Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

    Michal Nesterowicz, conductor

    4:40
  • 6:27 AM

    Symphony No. 7 "Pastoral"

    Alexander Glazunov

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    30:49
  • 6:24 AM

    By the Still Waters

    Amy Beach

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    3:03
  • 6:06 AM

    String Quartet No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Hagen Quartet

    15:50
  • 6:01 AM

    Octet: 2nd movement

    Jean Francaix

    Gaudier Ensemble

    4:36
  • 5:50 AM

    Le Corsaire: Pas de Deux

    Riccardo Drigo

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    7:56
  • 5:39 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 4

    George Frideric Handel

    I Musici

    10:27
  • 5:32 AM

    The Tale of Honza: Valse Triste

    Oskar Nedbal

    The Moldau

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Libor Pesek, conductor

    5:20
  • 5:07 AM

    Cello Sonata No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Anastasia Kobekina, cello

    Jean-Selim Abdelmoula, piano

    25:38
  • 5:01 AM

    Woodland Sketches (selected)

    Edward MacDowell

    Paula Robison, flute

    Eliot Fisk, guitar

    4:33