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  • 5:45 AM

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Kristjan Jarvi, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    13:34
  • 5:38 AM

    Three Etudes: The Embrace

    Alexandre Desplat

    Montage: Great Film Composers And The Piano

    Gloria Cheng, piano

    6:38
  • 5:06 AM

    String Quartet

    Maurice Ravel

    Ebene Quartet

    29:46
  • 5:01 AM

    Sarabande: For Katharine in April

    Ron Nelson

    Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra

    Howard Hanson, conductor

    4:53
  • 4:47 AM

    Shorthand

    Anna Clyne

    The Knights

    11:05
  • 4:18 AM

    Cello Concerto

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar, Lalo: Cello Concertos

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    George Pehlivanian, conductor

    Ofra Harnoy, cello

    28:29
  • 4:07 AM

    The Air, Turning

    Edmund Finnis

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Ilan Volkov, conductor

    8:55
  • 4:01 AM

    Harp Consort No. 3

    William Lawes

    Lawes: Harp Consorts

    Les Voix Humaines

    Maxine Eilander, harp

    4:40
  • 3:54 AM

    Cantata No. 54: Widerstehe doch der Sunde

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    4:21
  • 3:17 AM

    Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable"

    Carl Nielsen

    Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 1

    New York Philharmonic

    Alan Gilbert, conductor

    35:57
  • 3:06 AM

    The Fenix

    Edie Hill

    The Crossing

    Donald Nally, conductor

    8:27
  • 3:01 AM

    Julian Bream, guitar

    John Williams, guitar

    4:42
  • 2:55 AM

    Fox Tracks

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Ludovico Einaudi: Seven Days Walking: Day One

    Ludovico Einaudi, piano

    3:38
  • 2:51 AM

    Nocturne No. 19

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: The Nocturnes

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    4:00
  • 2:18 AM

    Symphony No. 5

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Violin Concerto; Symphony No. 5

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    30:27
  • 2:07 AM

    Four Seasons: Spring

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

    Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

    Janos Rolla, conductor

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    8:54
  • 2:01 AM

    The Seasons: Petit Adagio

    Alexander Glazunov

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky, Glazunov: The Seasons, Concert Waltzes

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor

    4:48
  • 1:40 AM

    Piano Trio No. 4 "Gassenhauer"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Vienna Piano Trio

    18:38
  • 1:21 AM

    Serenade for Strings "Nachtmusik"

    Richard Heuberger

    RIAS Sinfonietta

    Jiri Starek, conductor

    17:30
  • 1:09 AM

    Romance

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Kevin John Edusei, conductor

    Elena Urioste, violin

    9:45
  • 1:06 AM

    Prince Igor: Dance of the Polovtsian Maidens

    Alexander Borodin

    Pops a la Russe

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    2:21
  • 1:01 AM

    Gold Dust Waltz

    Erik Satie

    Satie: Piano Works

    Pascal Roge, piano

    4:34
  • 12:52 AM

    Kolm mul oli kaunist sona (Three I had those words of beauty)

    Veljo Tormis

    While You Are Alive

    Cantus

    Julia Bogorad-Kogan, flute

    6:14
  • 12:38 AM

    Symphonic Metamorphosis

    Paul Hindemith

    Hindemith, Prokofiev, Bartok

    Kansas City Symphony

    Michael Stern, conductor

    20:35
  • 12:31 AM

    Symphonic Metamorphosis

    Paul Hindemith

    Hindemith, Prokofiev, Bartok

    Kansas City Symphony

    Michael Stern, conductor

    20:35
  • 12:26 AM

    Die Forelle (The Trout)

    Franz Schubert

    Liszt: Complete Piano Music Vol. 32

    Leslie Howard, piano

    3:50
  • 12:15 AM

    Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    New World Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    9:35
  • 12:12 AM

    Bachianinha No. 1

    Paulinho Nogueira

    Bacheando

    Plinio Fernandes, guitar

    3:21
  • 12:01 AM

    Gli Incogniti

    Amandine Beyer, conductor

    10:11
  • 11:40 PM

    Clarinet and Viola Concerto

    Max Bruch

    Bruch/Werke fur Klarinette und Viola

    Lyon Opera Orchestra

    Kent Nagano, conductor

    Paul Meyer, clarinet

    19:31
  • 11:35 PM

    A Little Piece of Music

    Sophie Eckhardt-Gramatte

    It's a Girl!

    Thomas Albertus Irnberger, violin

    5:03
  • 11:26 PM

    Italian Serenade

    Hugo Wolf

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

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    7:18
  • 11:11 PM

    Bassoon Concerto

    Antonio Rosetti

    Antonio Rosetti: Bassoon Concertos

    German Chamber Academy

    Eckart Hubner, bassoon

    13:27
  • 11:06 PM

    Musette en rondeau

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    3:13
  • 11:00 PM

    Rolling River (Sketches on Shenandoah)

    Peter Boyer

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Peter Boyer, conductor

    5:10
  • 10:49 PM

    Dance of the Hours

    Amilcare Ponchielli

    Philharmonic of La Scala

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    9:42
  • 10:42 PM

    Grand Tarantelle

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Sakiko Ohashi, piano

    Gary Hammond, piano

    6:18
  • 10:27 PM

    Symphony No. 38 "Echo"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Philharmonia Hungarica

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    13:52
  • 10:23 PM

    Romantic Pieces: Romance

    Antonin Dvorak

    Renaud Capucon, violin

    Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

    2:55
  • 10:20 PM

    Dolce cantavi

    Caroline Shaw

    The Secret Love

    Tenet

    2:41
  • 10:07 PM

    Fair Melusina Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    11:28
  • 10:03 PM

    Violin Sonata No. 3: 3rd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Complete Beethoven Edition Vol. 7: Violin Sonatas

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    4:03
  • 9:58 PM

    Gloria: Laudamus Te

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria! Vivaldi's Angels

    Ensemble Caprice

    Matthias Maute, conductor

    Monika Mauch, soprano

    2:08
  • 9:47 PM

    Concerto for Mixed Instruments

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Philharmonia Virtuosi

    Richard Kapp, conductor

    10:42
  • 9:29 PM

    Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy's Corner

    Bernard Pierreuse, flute

    17:11
  • 9:17 PM

    Pastoral Suite

    Gunnar De Frumerie

    Stockholm Chamber Ensemble

    Jan-Olav Wedin, conductor

    Gunilla von Bahr, flute

    11:28
  • 9:13 PM

    Suite for Piano: Gavotte and Bourree

    Ethel Smyth

    Liana Serbescu, piano

    2:49
  • 9:00 PM

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Richard Studt, conductor

    12:18
  • 6:40 PM

    Norwegian Dances

    Edvard Grieg

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Petri Sakari, conductor

    18:00
  • 6:38 PM

    Norwegian Folk Tunes and Folk Dances: Springdans (Vinje)

    Agathe Grondahl

    Sara Aimee Smiseth, piano

    1:11
  • 6:14 PM

    String Quartet No. 66

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    The Haydn Project

    Emerson String Quartet

    22:55
  • 6:06 PM

    Voices of Spring Waltz (Fruhlingsstimmen)

    Johann StraussJr.

    Strauss: Gala I

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    6:10
  • 6:01 PM

    Butterfly's Day Out

    Mark O'Connor

    Mark O'Connor, mandolin

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    Edgar Meyer, double bass

    4:42
  • 5:42 PM

    Songs of the Oak

    Florence Price

    Price: Songs of the Oak - Concert Overtures Nos. 1-2

    Wurttemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen

    John Jeter, conductor

    16:21
  • 5:24 PM

    Concertino for Horn

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Barry Tuckwell, horn

    16:49
  • 5:11 PM

    Suite No. 5 for Two Pianos "Children's Suite"

    Anton Arensky

    Arensky: Five Suites For Two Pianos / Genova & Dimitrov Piano Duo

    Aglika Genova, piano

    11:13
  • 5:06 PM

    Swan Lake: Russian Dance

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    Janine Jansen, violin

    4:01
  • 5:01 PM

    Flute Quartet No. 1: 2nd movement

    Francois-Joseph Gossec

    Milliere String Trio

    Patrice Bocquillon, flute

    4:42
  • 4:50 PM

    Dayspring

    Dan Locklair

    Dan Locklair: Orchestral Music

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Kirk Trevor, conductor

    Jozef Zsapka, guitar

    7:50
  • 4:19 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 25

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Jeremy Denk, piano

    30:34
  • 4:10 PM

    Two Shandong Folk Songs

    Shi-Guang Cui

    Chinasong | Shanghai Quartet

    Shanghai Quartet

    7:13
  • 4:06 PM

    Wand of Youth: Sun Dance

    Edward Elgar

    Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    2:48
  • 4:01 PM

    Dance of the Flowers

    Amy Beach

    Joanne Polk, piano

    4:41
  • 3:50 PM

    La Cenerentola (Cinderella): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jaime Laredo, conductor

    7:50
  • 3:46 PM

    Georgian Chamber Orchestra

    Lisa Batiashvili, conductor

    Lisa Batiashvili, violin

    12:25
  • 3:31 PM

    Fantasy Sonata

    John Ireland

    Reawakened

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Martyn Brabbins, conductor

    Robert Plane, clarinet

    13:27
  • 3:22 PM

    Four Seasons: Winter

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi - The Four Seasons

    Boston Baroque

    Martin Pearlman, conductor

    Christina Day Martinson, violin

    8:50
  • 3:04 PM

    Simple Symphony

    Benjamin Britten

    Britten: Works for String Orchestra

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    16:49
  • 3:01 PM

    Carmen: Aragonaise

    Georges Bizet

    Dance!: The World's Favourite Ice-Skating Music

    French National Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    2:25
  • 2:57 PM

    Embraceable You

    George Gershwin, arr. Earl Wild

    Carte Blanche

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    2:00
  • 2:49 PM

    Janitzio

    Silvestre Revueltas

    Revueltas: Centennial Anthology (1899-1999)

    New Philharmonia Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    7:08
  • 2:45 PM

    Three Latin-American Sketches: Dance from Jalisco

    Aaron Copland

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    3:25
  • 2:39 PM

    In The Bottoms Suite: Barcarolle

    Nathaniel Dett

    Bach to Black: Suites for Piano

    Rochelle Sennet, piano

    5:33
  • 2:27 PM

    Marche Slave

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    10:31
  • 2:19 PM

    Piano Trio No. 1: Scherzo

    Johannes Brahms

    For the Love of Brahms

    Joshua Bell, violin

    6:33
  • 2:17 PM

    Gloria: Gloria in Excelsis

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria! Vivaldi's Angels

    Ensemble Caprice

    Matthias Maute, conductor

    2:16
  • 2:09 PM

    Porgy and Bess: Summertime

    George Gershwin

    Leila Josefowicz, violin

    John Novacek, piano

    4:07
  • 2:04 PM

    Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

    George Frideric Handel

    London Horns

    Geoffrey Simon, conductor

    4:01
  • 1:51 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Eroica": 3rd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    5:44
  • 1:45 PM

    Valse Triste

    Jean Sibelius

    West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    5:15
  • 1:41 PM

    Liebesfreud (Love's Joy)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Bravura

    Cho-Liang Lin, violin

    3:22
  • 1:26 PM

    Symphony No. 30 "Alleluia"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies 22, 24, 30

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    13:51
  • 1:17 PM

    Four South African Folktunes

    Traditional

    National Symphony Orchestra of the S.A.B.C.

    Peter Marchbank, conductor

    7:42
  • 1:08 PM

    Symphony: 2nd movement

    Frederic Lamond

    Lamond: Symphony; Scottish Highlands Overture

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Martyn Brabbins, conductor

    7:35
  • 1:05 PM

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

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    2:23
  • 12:51 PM

    Symphony No. 5: 1st movement

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphonies 5 & 8

    San Francisco Symphony

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    7:07
  • 12:47 PM

    Mlada: Bohemian Dance

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    3:48
  • 12:37 PM

    Dance of the Blessed Spirits

    Christoph Gluck

    Pachelbel Canon

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    Lisa Beznosiuk, flute

    7:36
  • 12:30 PM

    Quartetto Ascanio

    6:42
  • 12:18 PM

    Unter bluhenden Linden

    Lou Koster

    Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra

    Jonathan Kaell, conductor

    10:53
  • 12:07 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 7

    Arcangelo Corelli

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    9:26
  • 12:05 PM

    Waltz No. 6 "Minute"

    Frederic Chopin

    Aleck Karis, piano

    1:47
  • 11:44 AM

    Horn Concerto No. 11

    Giovanni Punto

    Telemann: Horn Concerto, Etc.

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Barry Tuckwell, horn

    14:21
  • 11:22 AM

    Symphony on a Hymn Tune

    Virgil Thomson

    Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra

    Howard Hanson, conductor

    20:21
  • 11:18 AM

    The Deer Hunter: Cavatina

    Stanley Myers

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    3:40
  • 11:10 AM

    Andante for Flute and Orchestra

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Flute Concertos

    Mozart Ensemble of Amsterdam

    Frans Bruggen, conductor

    Frans Vester, flute

    6:38
  • 11:07 AM

    Song without Words No. 25 "May Breezes"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Songs without Words

    Ilse von Alpenheim, piano

    3:15
  • 11:01 AM

    A Waltz for Maurice

    Frederic Hand

    Across Time

    Frederic Hand, guitar

    4:32
  • 10:42 AM

    Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Orchestral Works

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    15:52
  • 10:37 AM

    Buenos dias, Marco!

    Roman Janoska

    The Big B's

    Janoska Ensemble

    3:29
  • 10:24 AM

    Forest Idylls

    Vaino Raitio

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen, conductor

    12:51
  • 10:06 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
  • 10:01 AM

    A Hermit Thrush at Morn

    Amy Beach

    The Solo Piano Music of Amy Beach, Vol. 2

    Joanne Polk, piano

    4:50
  • 9:45 AM

    Rustic Triptych

    Charlotte Sohy

    Charlotte Sohy: Compositrice de la Belle Epoque

    Mathilde Calderini, flute

    13:57
  • 9:07 AM

    Symphony No. 3 "A Pastoral Symphony"

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    Yvonne Kenny, soprano

    35:59
  • 9:01 AM

    Home Sweet Home

    Henry Bishop

    Christopher Mallett, guitar

    4:49
  • 8:43 AM

    Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra

    Samuel Friedman, conductor

    15:07
  • 8:30 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 2

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Andrew Manze, violin

    Richard Egarr, harpsichord

    Jaap ter Linden, baroque cello

    13:05
  • 8:05 AM

    Linen and Lace

    Bill Whelan

    RTE National Symphony Orchestra

    David Brophy, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    22:50
  • 8:01 AM

    Spatter the Dew

    Traditional Irish

    Message of the Sea: Celtic Music for Guitar

    David Russell, guitar

    3:09
  • 7:50 AM

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    Gemma Rosefield, cello

    8:17
  • 7:26 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 15 "Pastoral"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 8, 15, 27 & 30

    Jonathan Biss, piano

    23:41
  • 7:01 AM

    Oboe Concerto

    Peter Schickele

    Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    Pamela Pecha, oboe

    22:30
  • 6:36 AM

    String Quartet

    Niels Gade

    Gade: Chamber Works, Vol. 5

    Ensemble MidtVest

    22:48
  • 6:32 AM

    Heavy, gloomy clouds of night

    Carl Nielsen

    Carl Nielsen: Songs For Choir

    Ars Nova Copenhagen

    Michael Bojesen, conductor

    3:02
  • 6:02 AM

    Symphony No. 2

    Elfrida Andree

    Stockholm Symphony Orchestra

    Gustaf Sjokvist, conductor

    28:53