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  • 4:55 AM

    Whispering

    Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Arctic

    Arctic Philharmonic

    Christian Kluxen, conductor

    Eldbjorg Hemsing, violin

    2:58
  • 4:50 AM

    Whispered Lullaby

    Dobrinka Tabakova

    Maxim Rysanov, viola

    Evelyn Chang, piano

    4:18
  • 4:13 AM

    Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night)

    Arnold Schoenberg

    Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht, Pelleas und Melisande

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    35:24
  • 4:06 AM

    Preludes, Book 1: La Cathedrale engloutie (Sunken Cathedral)

    Claude Debussy

    Jorge Federico Osorio, piano

    6:38
  • 4:01 AM

    Two Pastorales

    Lou Harrison

    Lou Harrison: Seven Pastorales

    Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra

    Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

    4:36
  • 3:54 AM

    Impressions: Calm Night

    Henriette Bosmans

    Lucia Swarts, cello

    Elena Malinova, piano

    4:31
  • 3:23 AM

    Concerto Gregoriano

    Ottorino Respighi

    Respighi: Concerto Gregoriano, Poema Autunnale

    Singapore Symphony Orchestra

    Choo Hoey, conductor

    Takako Nishizaki, violin

    30:39
  • 3:13 AM

    Iberia: El Albaicin

    Isaac Albeniz

    IBERIA Y FRANCIA

    Imogen Cooper, piano

    8:09
  • 3:06 AM

    Passacaglia

    Dietrich Buxtehude

    Variations for Guitar

    Tilman Hoppstock, guitar

    5:10
  • 3:01 AM

    Miniatures: Brecolada and Copla

    Joan Manen

    National Chamber Orchestra of Andorra

    Gerard Claret, conductor

    4:31
  • 2:29 AM

    String Quartet

    Gabriel Faure

    Franck: Piano Quintet, Faure: String Quartet

    Medici String Quartet

    29:05
  • 2:24 AM

    Berceuse

    Theresa Carreno

    El Fin del Silencio: Latin American Women Composers

    Antonio Oyarzabal, piano

    4:02
  • 2:20 AM

    Abendlied (Evening Song)

    Josef Rheinberger

    Monteverdi Choir

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    3:36
  • 2:06 AM

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Ben Palmer, conductor

    Peter Cigleris, clarinet

    11:26
  • 2:01 AM

    Prayer of Saint Gregory

    Alan Hovhaness

    Manhattan Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Auldon Clark, conductor

    Chris Gekker, trumpet

    4:37
  • 1:37 AM

    The Water Goblin

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphony 7 etc.

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

    21:21
  • 1:19 AM

    Four Episodes for Chamber Orchestra

    Ernest Bloch

    Ernest Bloch: Concerti Grossi 1 & 2

    Amadeus Chamber Orchestra

    Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

    16:31
  • 1:13 AM

    Vers la vie nouvelle (Toward a New Life)

    Nadia Boulanger

    Emile Naoumoff, piano

    4:27
  • 1:06 AM

    Toward a New Life

    Josef Suk

    Pomp & Pizazz

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    5:48
  • 1:01 AM

    Canto

    Erland von Koch

    Music for Flute and Guitar

    Diego Blanco, guitar

    4:43
  • 12:46 AM

    Mujeres espanolas (Spanish Women)

    Joaquin Turina

    Mujeres Españolas "Women Of Spain" - Five Suites For Piano

    Sara Davis Buechner, piano

    12:07
  • 12:25 AM

    Clarinet and Viola Concerto

    Max Bruch

    Bruch/Werke fur Klarinette und Viola

    Lyon Opera Orchestra

    Kent Nagano, conductor

    Paul Meyer, clarinet

    19:31
  • 12:06 AM

    Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3

    Ottorino Respighi

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    16:57
  • 12:01 AM

    Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Romance

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart 250 - A Celebration

    Tafelmusik

    Bruno Weil, conductor

    4:34
  • 11:42 PM

    The Lark Ascending

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Iona Brown, violin

    16:06
  • 11:28 PM

    Wind Concertino

    Szymon Laks

    Joaquin Valdepenas, clarinet

    Sarah Jeffrey, oboe

    Frank Morelli, bassoon

    13:21
  • 11:22 PM

    Romance No. 2

    Robert Schumann

    Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

    3:49
  • 11:07 PM

    Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

    Alexander Borodin

    Borodin: Symphony No. 2 in B minor, etc.

    Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor

    15:07
  • 11:01 PM

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    Matthew Hagle, piano

    4:46
  • 10:50 PM

    Anacreon: Overture

    Luigi Cherubini

    Cherubini: Overtures

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    8:36
  • 10:16 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "Antar"

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Bergen Symphony Orchestra

    Dmitri Kitayenko, conductor

    32:30
  • 10:10 PM

    Etude No. 21

    Louise Farrenc

    Joanne Polk, piano

    4:12
  • 10:06 PM

    Madame Butterfly: Humming Chorus

    Giacomo Puccini

    The #1 Opera Album

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    2:57
  • 10:01 PM

    Valse Triste

    Jean Sibelius

    Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll/Sibelius: Valse Triste/etc.

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    4:37
  • 9:45 PM

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

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, Carnival Overture

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    13:20
  • 9:34 PM

    String Quartet No. 6

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Saint-Georges: 6 Concertante Quartets

    Arabella String Quartet

    9:52
  • 9:14 PM

    Prelude, Chorale and Fugue

    Cesar Franck

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    18:42
  • 9:06 PM

    Pictures at an Exhibition: Tuileries

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Awadagin Pratt: Transformations

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    1:09
  • 9:01 PM

    Perpetual Motion

    Niccolo Paganini

    Eastman Wind Ensemble

    Donald Hunsberger, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, cornet

    4:33
  • 8:42 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble

    16:52
  • 8:16 PM

    Cello Sonata No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Music for Cello and Piano

    Antonio Meneses, cello

    23:41
  • 8:06 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 6

    George Frideric Handel

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    7:20
  • 8:01 PM

    "Still Life" at the Penguin Cafe: Air a danser

    Simon Jeffes

    BBC Concert Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    Isobel Bradshaw, contralto

    Henry Roche, piano

    4:33
  • 4:34 PM

    Cello Concerto

    Robert Schumann

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    Mischa Maisky, cello

    24:19
  • 4:22 PM

    Divertimento No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    London Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Warren-Green, conductor

    10:55
  • 4:15 PM

    Symphony No. 5: Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    5:45
  • 4:10 PM

    Moving Mountains

    Skylar Grey

    12 Ensemble

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    Katherine Tinker, piano

    3:41
  • 4:06 PM

    The Merchant of Venice: Suite Anglaise No. 2: 1st movement

    Henri Rabaud

    Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    3:18
  • 4:01 PM

    Nocturne No. 10

    Gabriel Faure

    Kathryn Stott, piano

    4:43
  • 3:48 PM

    Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz)

    Johann StraussJr.

    The Key to Classics: J. Strauss

    Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    10:12
  • 3:20 PM

    Serenade for Strings

    Antonin Dvorak

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    27:05
  • 3:15 PM

    Blackwater Side

    Traditional Irish

    Ronn McFarlane, lute

    Carolyn Surrick, viola da gamba

    2:46
  • 3:06 PM

    Rondo for Cello and Orchestra

    Charles Stanford

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    Gemma Rosefield, cello

    8:25
  • 3:01 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 50: 1st movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Maria Bergmann, piano

    4:31
  • 2:44 PM

    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Elgar: Introduction and Allegro, etc; Vaughan Williams

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    14:10
  • 2:29 PM

    Oboe Concerto

    Christoph Forster

    Oboe Concertos by Handel and Forster

    La Follia

    Christophe Poiget, conductor

    Lajos Lencses, oboe

    13:29
  • 2:24 PM

    Heartstrings

    Chris Marshall

    Claire Jones: Royal Harp Strings

    London Mozart Players

    Stuart Morley, conductor

    Claire Jones, harp

    4:01
  • 2:06 PM

    Mother Goose (Ma mere l'oye): Suite

    Maurice Ravel

    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    16:57
  • 2:01 PM

    Sonata No. 3

    Giovanni Fontana

    John Holloway, violin

    Lars Ulrik Mortensen, harpsichord

    4:31
  • 1:34 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 12

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart Piano Concertos

    Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

    Leon Fleisher, conductor

    Leon Fleisher, piano

    25:38
  • 1:24 PM

    Ave Maria

    Franz Biebl

    Our Heart's Joy: A Chanticleer Christmas

    Chanticleer

    7:31
  • 1:18 PM

    Petite Symphony: Scherzo

    Charles Gounod

    Bizet: L'Arlesienne; Gounod: Symphonies

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    4:08
  • 1:06 PM

    Gotterdammerung: Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey

    Richard Wagner

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    10:57
  • 1:01 PM

    Three Chinese Folk Songs

    Zhou Long

    Shanghai Quartet

    4:43
  • 10:47 AM

    Norwegian Dances Nos. 2-4

    Edvard Grieg

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Petri Sakari, conductor

    11:40
  • 10:43 AM

    Clare Hammond, piano

    3:26
  • 10:25 AM

    String Quartet No. 13

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartetto Italiano

    16:15
  • 10:18 AM

    Oriental Wind

    Joe Hisaishi

    Studio Orchestra

    Joe Hisaishi, piano

    5:30
  • 10:06 AM

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Infalice, Trompeten-Ouverture

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    11:02
  • 10:01 AM

    Stephen Hough, piano

    4:36
  • 9:45 AM

    Black Iris

    Reena Esmail

    Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    13:04
  • 9:27 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 2

    Florence Price

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Randall Goosby, violin

    15:54
  • 9:21 AM

    Poetic Tone Pictures: At the Old Castle

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85

    Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

    5:16
  • 9:06 AM

    Ma vlast (My Country): Vysehrad

    Bedrich Smetana

    Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

    Zdenek Macal, conductor

    14:05
  • 9:01 AM

    Christmas Tree Suite: Abendglocken (Evening Bells)

    Franz Liszt

    Franz Liszt

    Jerome Lowenthal, piano

    4:30
  • 8:35 AM

    Symphony No. 9: Adagio

    Gustav Mahler

    Mahler: Symphony No. 9

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    23:22
  • 8:26 AM

    Dumka-Shumka

    Mykola Lysenko

    Natalya Pasichnyk, piano

    8:50
  • 8:06 AM

    Don Quichotte Suite

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    TELEMANN: Don Quixote / La Lyra / Ouverture in D Minor

    Northern Chamber Orchestra

    Nicholas Ward, conductor

    17:50
  • 8:01 AM

    Per Flemstrom, flute

    Mats Bergstrom, guitar

    4:34
  • 7:17 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 | Ballades

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

    Seong-Jin Cho, piano

    41:11
  • 7:12 AM

    Goldfish Through Summer Rain

    Anne Boyd

    Alexa Still, flute

    Stephen Gosling, piano

    3:39
  • 7:06 AM

    Summer Soiree No. 5

    Felicien David

    Les Quatre Saisons

    Limoges Baroque Ensemble

    4:55
  • 7:01 AM

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Avlana Eisenberg, conductor

    Zina Schiff, violin

    4:39
  • 6:36 AM

    Symphony No. 7

    Jean Sibelius

    One Movement Symphonies

    Kansas City Symphony

    Michael Stern, conductor

    22:36
  • 6:31 AM

    Cinema Paradiso: Love Theme

    Ennio Morricone

    Morricone 60

    Czech National Symphony Orchestra

    Ennio Morricone, conductor

    3:30
  • 6:06 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 7

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Complete Beethoven Edition Vol. 7: Violin Sonatas

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    23:45
  • 6:01 AM

    Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens: Adagio

    John Williams

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    4:31
  • 5:36 AM

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    22:10
  • 5:26 AM

    Stories for Ocean Shells

    Kate Moore

    Ashley Bathgate, cello

    9:21
  • 5:06 AM

    Guitar Concerto "Chaconne"

    Wayne Siegel

    Jakob Bangsø: Guitar Concertos

    Tallinn Chamber Orchestra

    Kaisa Roose, conductor

    Jakob Bangso, guitar

    18:29
  • 5:01 AM

    Nocturne No. 2

    Stephan Elmas

    Elmas: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1

    Mikael Ayrapetyan, piano

    4:40