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  • 5:52 AM

    In the Well: The Rising of the Moon

    Vilem Blodek

    Small Czech Musical Gems

    Prague Symphony Orchestra

    Vaclav Smetacek, conductor

    6:26
  • 5:09 AM

    Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Antartica"

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    Catherine Bott, soprano

    41:24
  • 5:06 AM

    In the Stillness

    Sally Beamish

    Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge

    Anna Lapwood, conductor

    2:15
  • 5:01 AM

    Celeste

    Brian Eno/Roger Eno

    Study of the Invisible

    Vanessa Wagner, piano

    4:39
  • 4:52 AM

    Of Paradise and Light

    Augusta Read Thomas

    New Haven Symphony Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    5:54
  • 4:15 AM

    Concerto for Orchestra

    Bela Bartok

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    35:26
  • 4:10 AM

    Winter Bonfire: Waltz

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Prokofiev: Winter Bonfire

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    3:26
  • 4:06 AM

    Etude No. 11 "Winter Wind"

    Frederic Chopin

    Jan Lisiecki, piano

    3:39
  • 4:01 AM

    Lute Suite No. 4: Prelude

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    A Distant Show

    Ronn McFarlane, lute

    4:37
  • 3:50 AM

    Three Botticelli Pictures: Adoration of the Magi

    Ottorino Respighi

    Respighi: Ancient Airs And Dances, Etc

    Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    8:01
  • 3:25 AM

    Gaspard de la Nuit

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Works For Solo Piano

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    23:19
  • 3:09 AM

    Poem for Cello and Orchestra

    Henriette Bosmans

    Cello Concertos

    Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Ed Spanjaard, conductor

    Dimitri Ferschtman, cello

    14:32
  • 3:06 AM

    Louise Pellerin, oboe

    Dom Andre Laberge, organ

    2:34
  • 3:01 AM

    Images, Book 2: Cloches a travers les feuilles (Bells through the leaves)

    Claude Debussy

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    4:52
  • 2:51 AM

    Suite Mignonne

    Jean Sibelius

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    7:28
  • 2:44 AM

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Gustav Holst

    Isthmus Brass

    John Stevens, conductor

    5:57
  • 2:42 AM

    Songs of the Seasons: Winter Moon

    Margaret Bonds

    Rising

    Lawrence Brownlee, tenor

    :49
  • 2:19 AM

    Montgomery Variations

    Margaret Bonds

    African American Voices II

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Kellen Grey, conductor

    22:59
  • 2:06 AM

    The Magic Harp Overture (Rosamunde)

    Franz Schubert

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    10:32
  • 2:01 AM

    Two Bagatelles

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata and Other Piano Music

    Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

    4:48
  • 1:43 AM

    Rounds for String Orchestra

    David Diamond

    American Stringbook

    do.gma chamber orchestra

    Mikhail Gurewitsch, conductor

    14:46
  • 1:27 AM

    Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Tunes

    Franz Liszt

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Jun'ichi Hirokami, conductor

    Barry Douglas, piano

    14:39
  • 1:22 AM

    The First Noel

    Traditional

    Stille Nacht: Christmas Carols for Guitar

    Rossini Hayward, guitar

    3:10
  • 1:06 AM

    Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

    Alexander Borodin

    Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor

    15:07
  • 1:01 AM

    Lakme: Flower Duet

    Leo Delibes

    London Mozart Players

    Stuart Morley, conductor

    Claire Jones, harp

    4:52
  • 12:40 AM

    Oboe d'Amore Concerto

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    New Bach Collegium Musicum Leipzig

    Max Pommer, conductor

    Burkhard Glaetzner, oboe d'amore

    18:37
  • 12:39 AM

    Symphony No. 8 "Symphony of a Thousand": Part 1

    Gustav Mahler

    Mahler: Symphony No. 8

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    Carolyn Sampson, soprano

    23:01
  • 12:06 AM

    Piano Concerto

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg, Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos

    Norwegian Radio Orchestra

    Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

    Vadym Kholodenko, piano

    30:17
  • 12:03 AM

    Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

    George Frideric Handel

    Albinoni: Adagio; Pachelbel: Canon; Etc

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    3:04
  • 11:57 PM

    Messiah: He Shall Feed His Flock

    George Frideric Handel

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Margaret Marshall, soprano

    Catherine Robbin, alto

    4:27
  • 11:28 PM

    Negro Folk Symphony

    William Dawson

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    28:28
  • 11:25 PM

    Luminous Night of the Soul

    Ola Gjeilo

    Ola Gjeilo: Dark and Luminous Night

    Tenebrae

    Ola Gjeilo, conductor

    Thomas Gould, violin

    2:16
  • 11:15 PM

    The Planets: Jupiter

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: The Planets

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    7:49
  • 11:10 PM

    Cantata No. 61: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Complete Cantatas Volume 2

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    14:25
  • 10:36 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-5

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Hans Vonk, conductor

    Christian Zacharias, piano

    32:45
  • 10:33 PM

    People, Look East!

    Traditional

    Shout the Glad Tidings!

    The Singers

    Matthew Culloton, conductor

    1:46
  • 10:29 PM

    Christoph Denoth, guitar

    2:36
  • 10:13 PM

    William Tell: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Complete Overtures

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    11:03
  • 10:04 PM

    October

    Eric Whitacre

    Passions

    North Texas Wind Symphony

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    7:28
  • 9:54 PM

    Medley of Scots Tunes

    Rachel Barton Pine

    Scottish Fantasies for Violin & Orchestra

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Alexander Platt, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    5:58
  • 9:47 PM

    Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song

    Edvard Grieg

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    5:49
  • 9:44 PM

    Peer Gynt: In The Hall Of The Mountain King

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 And 2

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    2:08
  • 9:34 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Concerts Avec Plusiers Instruments Ii

    Cafe Zimmermann

    9:25
  • 9:17 PM

    Ma vlast (My Country): Vltava (The Moldau)

    Bedrich Smetana

    Ports of Call

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    12:37
  • 9:00 PM

    Wurttemberg Sonata No. 3

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Keith Jarrett: CPE Bach

    Keith Jarrett, piano

    13:04
  • 6:42 PM

    Simple Symphony

    Benjamin Britten

    Guildhall Strings

    15:54
  • 6:36 PM

    A Spotless Rose

    Paul Mealor

    Paul Mealor: A Tender Light

    Tenebrae

    Nigel Short, conductor

    4:37
  • 6:14 PM

    Symphony No. 85 "The Queen"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    22:00
  • 6:06 PM

    Cantata No. 49: Sinfonia

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Berlin Baroque Soloists

    Rainer Kussmaul, conductor

    Raphael Alpermann, organ

    6:00
  • 6:01 PM

    Vals gayo

    Theresa Carreno

    Clara Rodriguez Plays the Music of Teresa Carreno

    Clara Rodriguez, piano

    4:47
  • 5:43 PM

    The Good-humored Ladies

    Vincenzo Tommasini

    Irving: Glazunov, Scarlatti/Tommasini, Bach/Walton

    Concert Arts Orchestra

    Robert Irving, conductor

    14:56
  • 5:40 PM

    Canzon No. 13

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    Music of Gabrieli

    Empire Brass

    2:30
  • 5:38 PM

    HMS Pinafore: We sail the ocean blue

    W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan

    Gilbert and Sullivan: HMS Pinafore

    New Symphony Orchestra of London

    Isidore Godfrey, conductor

    2:22
  • 5:20 PM

    Cockaigne Overture (In London Town)

    Edward Elgar

    The Lark Ascending

    Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

    Bramwell Tovey, conductor

    16:49
  • 5:16 PM

    Winter's Falling Light

    Carolyn Surrick

    Surrounded By Angels

    Ensemble Galilei

    3:06
  • 5:16 PM

    The Anonymous Lover: Overture-Symphony

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    7:41
  • 5:06 PM

    Waltz-Scherzo

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    James Ehnes, violin

    8:51
  • 5:01 PM

    Spanish Dance No. 7 "Valenciana"

    Enrique Granados

    Granados: Twelve Spanish Dances

    Razumovsky Sinfonia

    Peter Breiner, conductor

    Norbert Kraft, guitar

    4:34
  • 4:48 PM

    Flute Quartet No. 2

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Emerson String Quartet

    Carol Wincenc, flute

    10:31
  • 4:43 PM

    Sleigh Ride

    Leroy Anderson

    Jeffrey Biegel, piano

    3:27
  • 4:21 PM

    Rossiniana Suite

    Ottorino Respighi

    Respighi: Church Windows

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    21:00
  • 4:18 PM

    Contrafacta Hungarica: Passamezzo

    Ferenc Farkas

    Chanson et Danses

    Montreal Winds

    Jacques Lacombe, conductor

    1:27
  • 4:06 PM

    Keyboard Suite No. 8

    George Frideric Handel

    Lisa Smirnova, piano

    11:31
  • 4:01 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Jubilee March

    Erkki Melartin

    Scandinavian Rhapsody, A Selection of Orchestral Favourites

    Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    4:33
  • 3:51 PM

    The Anonymous Lover: Overture-Symphony

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    7:41
  • 3:46 PM

    Once in Royal David's City

    Henry Gauntlett

    A Cello Christmas

    London Cello Sound

    Geoffrey Simon, conductor

    3:15
  • 3:05 PM

    Violin Concerto

    Johannes Brahms

    Concert Recording

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Steven Copes, violin

    40:28
  • 3:02 PM

    The Love for Three Oranges: March

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Leonard Bernstein: The Encore Collection Vol. 2

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    1:49
  • 2:57 PM

    Italian Concerto: Presto

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Unlimited

    Lise de la Salle, piano

    3:07
  • 2:51 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: Scherzo

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    Andre Watts, piano

    5:38
  • 2:44 PM

    Octet: 3rd movement

    Franz Schubert

    Chamber Players of Canada

    6:27
  • 2:33 PM

    Dance of the Hours

    Amilcare Ponchielli

    Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Boccherini, Dvorak, Faure, Grieg, Nicolai, Ponchielli, Suppe, Tchaikovsky

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    9:12
  • 2:28 PM

    The Friendly Beasts

    Traditional, arr. Robert Scholz

    O Yule Full of Gladness

    The St. Olaf Choir

    Anton Armstrong, conductor

    4:15
  • 2:21 PM

    Romanian Christmas Carols

    Bela Bartok

    THE KNIGHTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS

    The Knights

    Eric Jacobsen, conductor

    6:45
  • 2:17 PM

    Jequibach

    Mario Albanese

    Bacheando

    Plinio Fernandes, guitar

    2:39
  • 2:08 PM

    Symphony No. 3: 3rd movement

    Louise Farrenc

    Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

    National Orchestra of Metz Grand Est

    David Reiland, conductor

    6:16
  • 2:05 PM

    Concert Etude No. 6: Pastoral

    Nikolai Kapustin

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    2:25
  • 1:56 PM

    Messiah: Every valley shall be exalted

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Messiah Highlights

    Boston Baroque

    Martin Pearlman, conductor

    Bruce Fowler, tenor

    3:10
  • 1:40 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn, Hummel, Etc.: Trumpet Concertos

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    14:38
  • 1:35 PM

    Snowride

    Angela Morley

    Another Night Before Christmas And Scrooge

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Gavin Sutherland, conductor

    3:36
  • 1:29 PM

    Violin Concerto: 1st movement

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

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

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    Fumika Mohri, violin

    5:53
  • 1:21 PM

    Festive Overture

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Summon the Heroes

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    6:17
  • 1:15 PM

    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring; Amazing Grace

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    John Bayless, piano

    4:50
  • 1:11 PM

    A Lullaby/Away in a Manger

    Thomas Bold/William J. Kirkpatrick

    Christmas with Chanticleer

    Chanticleer

    Dawn Upshaw, soprano

    3:25
  • 1:07 PM

    String Quartet No. 15: Minuet

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: String Quartets KV 421, KV 465, KV 80

    Mozarteum Quartet

    3:46
  • 1:05 PM

    Acis and Galatea: Happy We!

    George Frideric Handel

    Grand & Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses / Robert Shaw

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    1:56
  • 12:55 PM

    Medley of French Carols

    Traditional

    Winter Gift

    Adagio Trio

    3:51
  • 12:50 PM

    From Olden Times: Gigue

    Johan Halvorsen

    Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:15
  • 12:46 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 2: Badinerie

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Richard Egarr, conductor

    1:41
  • 12:31 PM

    Symphony breve

    Louis Theodore Gouvy

    Gouvy: Symphony 4; Fantasie symphonique

    German Radio Philharmonic

    Jacques Mercier, conductor

    14:00
  • 12:21 PM

    Suite No. 4

    Francois Chauvon

    Chauvon

    Washington McClain, oboe

    9:24
  • 12:15 PM

    Czech Suite: Prelude-Pastorale

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Czech Suite; Nocturne; Serenade for Strings

    Padua Chamber Orchestra

    David Golub, conductor

    4:24
  • 12:07 PM

    Suite for Piano

    Ethel Smyth

    Smyth: Complete Piano Works

    Liana Serbescu, piano

    6:16
  • 12:05 PM

    Shepherd's Hey

    Percy Grainger

    Music of Percy Grainger

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

    2:15
  • 11:42 AM

    Concerto for 2 Orchestras No. 2

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, Concerti a due cori

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    16:01
  • 11:27 AM

    Six Promenades

    Edward Elgar

    Athena Ensemble

    14:03
  • 11:22 AM

    Five Meditations: Candlelight

    John Rutter

    Distant Land

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    John Rutter, conductor

    4:01
  • 11:17 AM

    Berta Rojas, guitar

    3:47
  • 11:06 AM

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor

    Shlomo Mintz, violin

    10:19
  • 11:01 AM

    Song without Words No. 7

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Tzimon Barto: Popular Encores

    Tzimon Barto, piano

    4:44
  • 10:32 AM

    Flute Concerto No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Eugenia Zukerman, flute

    26:25
  • 10:20 AM

    Brazilian Suite: Dawn at the Mountains

    Alberto Nepomuceno

    Nepomuceno: Symphony in G minor

    Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra

    Fabio Mechetti, conductor

    10:07
  • 10:06 AM

    Dawn

    Heino Eller

    MUSIC FROM ESTONIA - Tobias, Lemba, Eller, Raid, Tormis, Part

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    John Digney, oboe

    8:12
  • 10:01 AM

    String Trio: Nocturne

    Henri Tomasi

    Black Oak Ensemble

    4:45
  • 9:08 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Piano Concerto #2, Haydn Variations

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    Andre Watts, piano

    50:31
  • 9:01 AM

    I Wonder as I Wander; Coventry Carol; O Come, O Come Emmanuel

    Christmas Music

    A Christmas Collection

    Neil Hogan, guitar

    5:00
  • 8:50 AM

    Four Seasons: Winter

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Gil Shaham, violin

    8:37
  • 8:46 AM

    The Traveller Benighted in Snow

    Traditional Scottish

    Winter's Delights

    Quadriga Consort

    3:27
  • 8:13 AM

    Grand Fantasy Quintet

    Rita Strohl

    Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

    Hanson Quartet

    Ismael Margain, piano

    31:21
  • 8:01 AM

    Air Varie No. 1

    Giulio Regondi

    David Starobin, guitar

    11:04
  • 7:09 AM

    Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven 3/Strauss

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

    Manfred Honeck, conductor

    48:43
  • 7:06 AM

    We Three Kings

    Traditional

    A Harp For Christmas, Vol. 2

    Emily Mitchell, harp

    2:00
  • 7:02 AM

    Sebastian: Barcarolle

    Gian Carlo Menotti

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    3:41
  • 6:54 AM

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Cecilia McDowall

    The Christmas Album

    Phoenix Chorale

    Christopher Gabbitas, conductor

    4:17
  • 6:26 AM

    Symphony No. 2

    Randall Thompson

    American Masters: Harris, Thompson, Diamond

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    27:45
  • 6:01 AM

    Clarinet Trio

    Louise Farrenc

    Farrenc, L.: Piano Trio, Op. 33 / Clarinet Trio, Op. 44 / Sextet, Op. 40

    Linos Ensemble

    22:53