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  • 4:41 AM

    Peer Gynt Suite No. 2

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2, etc.

    San Francisco Symphony

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    17:03
  • 4:23 AM

    Six Epigraphes Antiques

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Orchestral Works 5

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    17:47
  • 4:06 AM

    Five Bagatelles

    Gerald Finzi

    Joy and Desolation

    Tesla Quartet

    Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet

    14:52
  • 4:01 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 2nd movement

    Edward MacDowell

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Walter Hendl, conductor

    Van Cliburn, piano

    4:45
  • 3:46 AM

    Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

    Alexander Borodin

    Borodin: Prince Igor: Overture and Polovtsian Dances

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    11:43
  • 3:24 AM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    20:09
  • 3:15 AM

    Serenade for Winds

    Richard Strauss

    Richard Strauss: Don Juan; Burlesque; Serenade; Till Eulenspiegel

    Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Paavo Berglund, conductor

    9:16
  • 3:06 AM

    Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

    Hans Graf, conductor

    7:10
  • 3:01 AM

    Pavane and Gigue

    William Byrd

    Stokowski's Symphonic Baroque

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    4:43
  • 2:51 AM

    African Suite: Joyful Day

    Fela Sowande

    Black Composers Series 1974-1978

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    7:38
  • 2:32 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Saint-Georges: Violin Concertos, Opp. 2 & 7

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    Fumika Mohri, violin

    16:59
  • 2:19 AM

    Scaramouche

    Darius Milhaud

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Branford Marsalis, saxophone

    11:20
  • 2:15 AM

    Improvsation on Er Ra

    Alice Coltrane

    What is American

    PUBLIQuartet

    2:34
  • 2:06 AM

    Othello Suite: Children's Intermezzo

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Fawzi Haimor, conductor

    3:51
  • 2:01 AM

    Scherzo No. 2

    Clara Schumann

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    4:47
  • 1:56 AM

    Henry V Suite: Touch her soft lips and part

    William Walton

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    2:01
  • 1:26 AM

    Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    28:55
  • 1:20 AM

    Synnove Solbakken Suite: Yearning

    Hugo Alfven

    ALFVEN: Synnove Solbakken / En Bygdesaga / Elegie

    Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

    Niklas Willen, conductor

    3:38
  • 1:06 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 8

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 & 6

    Handel and Haydn Society

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    13:39
  • 1:01 AM

    Music for Symphony Orchestra: Andante

    Yasushi Akutagawa

    Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

    Ryusuke Numajiri, conductor

    4:41
  • 12:53 AM

    Norwegian Rhapsody: 2nd movement

    Edouard Lalo

    French National Radio and Television Orchestra

    Jean Martinon, conductor

    4:53
  • 12:15 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Andrew Constantine, conductor

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    37:29
  • 12:10 AM

    Venezuelan Dance (Seis por derecho)

    Antonio Lauro

    David Russell, guitar

    3:04
  • 12:06 AM

    Partita No. 1: Minuets

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Igor Levit, piano

    2:56
  • 12:01 AM

    Prayer of Saint Gregory

    Alan Hovhaness

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    Charles Butler, trumpet

    4:50
  • 11:52 PM

    Concert Paraphrase of Verdi's "Rigoletto"

    Franz Liszt

    Yundi Li: Liszt

    Yundi Li, piano

    6:23
  • 11:26 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 3

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    Yakov Kreizberg, conductor

    Julia Fischer, violin

    23:23
  • 11:20 PM

    Spanish Waltz

    Emil Waldteufel

    Music of Waldteufel

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    5:26
  • 11:11 PM

    L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Italian Overtures

    Saint Cecilia Orchestra

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    7:42
  • 11:08 PM

    Prelude No. 7

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Conrad Tao, piano

    2:31
  • 11:01 PM

    String Quartet "For Art": 4th movement

    Eduard Toldra

    Casals, Toldra, Montsalvatge

    Andorra National Chamber Orchestra

    Gerard Claret, conductor

    4:42
  • 10:40 PM

    Clarinet Concerto No. 11

    Carl Stamitz

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    17:51
  • 10:25 PM

    Scherzo Capriccioso

    Antonin Dvorak

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

    14:04
  • 10:15 PM

    English Dances: First Set

    Malcolm Arnold

    Arnold for Band

    Dallas Wind Symphony

    Jerry Junkin, conductor

    9:30
  • 10:10 PM

    Out of Africa: Love Theme

    John Barry

    Cinema Serenade

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    3:21
  • 10:06 PM

    Simple Gifts

    Aaron Copland

    Labyrinth

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    2:59
  • 10:01 PM

    London Fields: St. James' Park - A Lakeside Reverie

    Phyllis Tate

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    4:52
  • 9:53 PM

    Zadok the Priest

    George Frideric Handel

    English Concert

    Simon Preston, conductor

    5:14
  • 9:48 PM

    Walking Tune

    Percy Grainger

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    4:13
  • 9:22 PM

    Symphony No. 83 "The Hen"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    24:17
  • 9:19 PM

    La Poule (The Hen)

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    2:38
  • 9:10 PM

    Raymond Overture

    Ambroise Thomas

    French Music for the Stage

    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    8:01
  • 9:06 PM

    Etude No. 12 "Revolutionary"

    Frederic Chopin

    Louis Lortie, piano

    2:43
  • 9:03 PM

    Piece in the Form of a Habanera

    Maurice Ravel

    Katerina Englichova, harp

    Vilem Veverka, oboe

    2:43
  • 8:53 PM

    Symphony No. 4: Scherzo

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    5:48
  • 8:32 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Helen Huang

    New York Philharmonic

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    Helen Huang, piano

    19:26
  • 8:25 PM

    Allegro for String Quartet

    Niels Gade

    Kontra Quartet

    6:14
  • 8:13 PM

    CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra

    Hartmut Haenchen, conductor

    10:42
  • 8:06 PM

    Hansel and Gretel: Evening Prayer

    Engelbert Humperdinck

    Leonard Slatkin conducts Concert Classics

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    5:35
  • 8:01 PM

    Two German Dances

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Piano Music for Four Hands, Vol IV

    Yaara Tal, piano

    4:39
  • 5:50 PM

    Carousel Waltz

    Richard Rodgers

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    Keith Lockhart, conductor

    7:49
  • 5:30 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Hummel

    Trumpet Concertos

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jahja Ling, conductor

    Rolf Smedvig, trumpet

    17:50
  • 5:17 PM

    Serenade No. 2

    Robert Volkmann

    German Chamber Academy

    Johannes Goritzki, conductor

    12:25
  • 5:10 PM

    Novelettes

    Francis Poulenc

    Eric Parkin, piano

    6:07
  • 5:06 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 1

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    3:46
  • 5:01 PM

    Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5: Aria (Cantilena)

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Siesta

    Michala Petri, recorder

    4:46
  • 4:49 PM

    The Wasps: Overture

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    James Judd, conductor

    9:51
  • 4:15 PM

    Piano Concerto

    George Gershwin

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Justin Brown, conductor

    Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

    32:25
  • 4:10 PM

    Travel Pictures: On the Road

    Vincent d'Indy

    D'Indy: Orchestral Works

    Wurttemberg Philharmonic

    Gilles Nopre, conductor

    2:53
  • 4:06 PM

    Nils-Erik Sparf, violin/viola

    Peter Jablonski, piano

    3:03
  • 4:00 PM

    Octet: 2nd movement

    Jean Francaix

    Gaudier Ensemble

    4:36
  • 3:40 PM

    Suite Bergamasque

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy Rediscovered

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Emil de Cou, conductor

    18:29
  • 3:09 PM

    Symphony No. 5

    Franz Schubert

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    28:46
  • 3:06 PM

    Orfeo: Toccata

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Saint Cecilia Orchestra

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    1:29
  • 3:00 PM

    Waltz-Impromptu

    Franz Liszt

    Alexis Weissenberg, piano

    4:35
  • 2:54 PM

    Candide: Overture

    Leonard Bernstein

    Bernstein: Candide Suite, etc.

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    4:30
  • 2:44 PM

    Aladdin Suite: March and Dance

    Carl Nielsen

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    6:21
  • 2:42 PM

    The Love for Three Oranges: March

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Woody Allen Classics

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    1:29
  • 2:31 PM

    Symphonie Fantastique: A Ball

    Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Liszt - Solti

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    6:23
  • 2:28 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 1: Gavottes

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: 4 Ouverturen-Suites, Ouverture Bwv 1070

    Musica Antiqua Cologne

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor

    3:06
  • 2:14 PM

    Sigurd Jorsalfar: Homage March

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Symphonic Dances/Sigurd Jorsalfar/Peer Gynt

    Ulster Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    9:09
  • 2:06 PM

    Il Trovatore: Vedi, le fosche nottune (Anvil Chorus)

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    4:02
  • 2:03 PM

    Prelude No. 12

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Conrad Tao, piano

    2:26
  • 1:54 PM

    Fantasy for a Gentleman: Canario

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    RODRIGO: Concierto Pastorale / Fantasia para un Gentilhombre (Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 8)

    Asturias Symphony Orchestra

    Maximiano Valdez, conductor

    Joanna G'froerer, flute

    4:52
  • 1:43 PM

    Bourree Fantasque

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    French National Orchestra

    Armin Jordan, conductor

    7:02
  • 1:38 PM

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1: Menuet

    Georges Bizet

    Breakfast in Bed

    Toronto Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    3:17
  • 1:29 PM

    1941: March

    John Williams

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    4:13
  • 1:25 PM

    California Porcupine Rag

    William Bolcom

    William Bolcom: The Complete Rags

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    3:26
  • 1:18 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 11

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Opp. 46 & 72

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Rafael Kubelik, conductor

    3:15
  • 1:12 PM

    Carmina Burana: Dance

    Carl Orff

    Orff: Carmina Burana, Holst: The Planets

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    David Hill, conductor

    1:42
  • 1:04 PM

    Algerian Suite: French Military March

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    4:41
  • 12:54 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Spring": 3rd movement

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann: The Symphonies

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    5:11
  • 12:44 PM

    String Quartet No. 9 "Razumovsky No. 3": 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven Quartets Op. 59 & 74

    Takacs Quartet

    5:53
  • 12:39 PM

    Solitaire: Sarabande

    Malcolm Arnold

    Arnold: Dances

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    3:11
  • 12:29 PM

    Scottish Fantasy: Finale

    Max Bruch

    Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole; Bruch: Scottish Fantasy

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    6:52
  • 12:26 PM

    Musical Moment No. 3

    Franz Schubert

    Piano Book

    Lang Lang, piano

    2:01
  • 12:14 PM

    Mandolin Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Venice Baroque Orchestra

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    7:33
  • 12:10 PM

    Swan Lake: Neapolitan Dance

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky Nutcracker & Swan Lake Suite

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    2:12
  • 12:04 PM

    Sinfonietta: Fanfare

    Leos Janacek

    The 20th Century Album

    Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

    2:16
  • 11:57 AM

    The Syncopated Clock

    Leroy Anderson

    ANDERSON, L.: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 - Sleigh Ride / The Typewriter / Plink, Plank, Plunk! / The Syncopated Clock

    BBC Concert Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    2:19
  • 11:52 AM

    Symphony No. 101 "The Clock": Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: The London Symphonies, Vol. II

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    4:40
  • 11:42 AM

    From Italy (Aus Italien): Life in Naples

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Don Juan; Aus Italien

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    8:13
  • 11:30 AM

    Carmen Fantasy

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    Gil Shaham, violin

    11:15
  • 11:21 AM

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    7:58
  • 11:18 AM

    Waltz No. 6 "Minute"

    Frederic Chopin

    Autograph

    Alexandre Tharaud, piano

    1:50
  • 11:13 AM

    Atalanta: Overture

    George Frideric Handel

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    3:50
  • 11:04 AM

    Symphonic Dance No. 1

    Edvard Grieg

    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    7:16
  • 10:52 AM

    Festive Overture

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra: Portrait

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra

    James DePreist, conductor

    6:13
  • 10:34 AM

    Eine kleine Nachtmusik

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    James Galway, conductor

    16:39
  • 10:21 AM

    From Tale to Tale: The Months

    Oskar Nedbal

    Dvorak Chamber Orchestra

    Miroslav Homolka, conductor

    11:49
  • 10:11 AM

    Serenade No. 5: 2nd movement

    Robert Fuchs

    Fuchs: Piano Concerto

    Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra

    Alun Francis, conductor

    8:37
  • 10:06 AM

    Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

    4:24
  • 10:01 AM

    L'incoronazione di Poppea: Pur ti miro

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Axiom Quartet

    4:35
  • 9:36 AM

    Rossiniana Suite

    Ottorino Respighi

    Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra

    George Hanson, conductor

    21:49
  • 9:23 AM

    Sonatina No. 2 "Happy Workshop": 1st movement

    Richard Strauss

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    12:12
  • 9:18 AM

    Vem ca, Branquinha (Come here, little darling)

    Ernesto Nazareth

    Joel Fan, piano

    2:45
  • 9:06 AM

    Variations on a Swedish Air

    Bernhard Crusell

    Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 73 and works by Crusell, Tartini and Debussy

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    Emma Johnson, clarinet

    11:15
  • 9:01 AM

    Alleluia

    Randall Thompson

    Gloria! Music Of Praise And Inspiration

    Robert Shaw Festival Singers

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    4:52
  • 8:31 AM

    Mississippi River Suite

    Florence Price

    Women's Philharmonic

    Apo Hsu, conductor

    27:44
  • 8:28 AM

    American Suite: Danse

    William Grant Still

    Still: Summerland - Violin Suite - Pastorela - American Suite

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Avlana Eisenberg, conductor

    1:40
  • 8:23 AM

    Serenade

    Edward Elgar

    Peter Pettinger, piano

    3:07
  • 8:06 AM

    Concertino for Horn

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Barry Tuckwell, horn

    16:49
  • 8:01 AM

    Zambra Granadina

    Isaac Albeniz

    Isaac Albeniz: Spanish Music For Classical Guitar

    David Russell, guitar

    4:43
  • 7:28 AM

    Piano Concerto

    Edvard Grieg

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Alice Sara Ott, piano

    30:13
  • 7:19 AM

    Ode to the Snow

    Chen Pei-xun

    Chinese National Symphony Orchestra

    China National Symphony Orchestra

    Zuohuang Chen, conductor

    8:09
  • 7:06 AM

    String Symphony No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Amadeus Ensemble

    Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

    11:43
  • 7:01 AM

    Eva Waltz

    Johann StraussJr.

    J. Strauss, Jr. Edition: Vol. 45

    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Alfred Walter, conductor

    4:50
  • 6:47 AM

    Symphonic Dances: 1st movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Gateways

    Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

    Long Yu, conductor

    11:32
  • 6:24 AM

    Cello Concerto No. 2

    Victor Herbert

    Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    Gautier Capucon, cello

    22:11
  • 6:07 AM

    Orchestra of the 18th Century

    Marc Destrube, conductor

    16:01
  • 6:01 AM

    Suite for Flute and Piano: Romance

    Charles-Marie Widor

    Paris: La Belle Epoque

    Robert Langevin, flute

    4:33
  • 5:39 AM

    The Golden Cockerel: Suite

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    19:08
  • 5:27 AM

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    12:04
  • 5:19 AM

    Goyescas: Maiden and the Nightingale

    Enrique Granados

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    6:11
  • 5:07 AM

    The Messenger

    Valentin Silvestrov

    Concert Recording

    Kremerata Baltica

    Gidon Kremer, conductor

    12:07
  • 5:01 AM

    Contemplation

    Henriette Renie

    The Healing Harp

    Naoko Yoshino, harp

    4:33