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  • 4:29 AM

    Swanwhite Suite

    Jean Sibelius

    Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    29:24
  • 4:23 AM

    Great White Bird

    Hilary Kleinig

    Zephyr Quartet

    4:12
  • 4:07 AM

    Harp Concertino

    Germaine Tailleferre

    Women's Philharmonic

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Gillian Benet, harp

    16:01
  • 4:01 AM

    In the Mists: No. 1

    Leos Janacek

    Water

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    4:35
  • 3:44 AM

    Finding Rothko

    Adam Schoenberg

    Kansas City Symphony

    Michael Stern, conductor

    14:48
  • 3:40 AM

    Blue

    Ola Gjeilo

    Dawn

    Ola Gjeilo, piano

    3:25
  • 3:14 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 2

    Gabriel Faure

    Le Temps Retrouve

    Elena Urioste, violin

    24:12
  • 3:06 AM

    Pavane for a Dead Princess (Pavane pour une infante defunte)

    Maurice Ravel

    Bonjour Paris

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Mathias Monius, conductor

    Albrecht Mayer, oboe

    5:54
  • 3:01 AM

    Nachtstuck

    Franz Schubert

    Elisabeth Plank, harp

    4:48
  • 2:51 AM

    Inbal Segev, cello

    Anna Polonsky, piano

    7:19
  • 2:19 AM

    Symphony No. 3

    Adam Pounds

    Ravel, Berkeley, Pounds: Orchestral Works

    Sinfonia of London

    John Wilson, conductor

    30:37
  • 2:12 AM

    In Winter's House

    Joanna Marsh

    Morning Star

    Gesualdo Six

    Owain Park, conductor

    5:45
  • 2:06 AM

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    4:30
  • 2:01 AM

    Where Mountains Meet the Sky

    Ronn McFarlane

    Ronn McFarlane, lute

    Carolyn Surrick, viola da gamba

    Yousif Sheronick, percussion

    4:25
  • 1:51 AM

    Yellow Beach

    Michael Nyman

    Ahn Trio

    6:54
  • 1:16 AM

    Images for Orchestra

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Images, Etc

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    33:56
  • 1:06 AM

    The Blessed Cathedral

    Mel Bonis

    Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

    Francois Dumont, piano

    6:37
  • 1:01 AM

    Lyric Waltz

    Jean Sibelius

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:49
  • 12:52 AM

    Die tote Stadt: Gluck, das mir verblieb (Marietta's Song)

    Erich Korngold

    Songs of Comfort and Hope

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    6:07
  • 12:16 AM

    Symphony No. 38 "Prague"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies No. 36 & 38

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    34:23
  • 12:13 AM

    Gavotte

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Kodaly: String Quartets No. 1 and 2; Gavotte

    Kontra Quartet

    2:32
  • 12:06 AM

    Paul Lewis, piano

    5:13
  • 12:01 AM

    Oboe Quintet No. 1: Minuet

    Josef Myslivecek

    Dolezal Quartet

    Michaela Hrabankova, oboe

    4:46
  • 11:47 PM

    Hungarian Sketches

    Bela Bartok

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    10:59
  • 11:40 PM

    Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes

    Benjamin Britten

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    17:54
  • 11:35 PM

    Sunset

    Foday Musa Suso

    Kronos Quartet: Pieces of Africa

    Kronos Quartet

    Soloists

    4:24
  • 11:08 PM

    Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"

    Franz Schubert

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    25:50
  • 11:03 PM

    Reverie

    Germaine Tailleferre

    Reverie

    Kassia Ensemble

    Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet

    4:21
  • 10:45 PM

    Petite Suite Gauloise

    Louis Theodore Gouvy

    The Chamber Winds

    United States Air Force Band

    Lowell Graham, conductor

    13:43
  • 10:38 PM

    Navarra

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Ani and Ida Kavafian: Mozart: Duo; Moszkowski: Suite; Sarasate: Navarra

    Ani Kavafian, violin

    6:04
  • 10:23 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 7

    George Frideric Handel

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    14:55
  • 10:11 PM

    Morning Papers Waltz

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Zubin Mehta, conductor

    10:17
  • 10:05 PM

    Harp Quintet: 3rd movement

    Jean Cras

    Ligeti, Villa-Lobos, Barber

    Isabelle Moretti, harp

    5:14
  • 10:01 PM

    Dance Suite after Couperin: Entrance

    Richard Strauss

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Rudolf Kempe, conductor

    3:31
  • 9:49 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jeunehomme": 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 and 15

    Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

    Leif Ove Andsnes, conductor

    Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

    9:04
  • 9:39 PM

    Suite of Creole Dances

    Alberto Ginastera

    Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra

    Gisele Ben-Dor, conductor

    9:12
  • 9:26 PM

    Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Favourites

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    James Judd, conductor

    11:36
  • 9:21 PM

    American Symphonette No. 2: Pavanne

    Morton Gould

    American Light Music Classics

    New London Orchestra

    Ronald Corp, conductor

    3:52
  • 9:14 PM

    Magnolia Suite: The Place Where the Rainbow Ends

    Nathaniel Dett

    Settle: Migration Music Part 3

    Lara Downes, piano

    6:05
  • 9:04 PM

    Flower Festival in Genzano: Pas de deux

    Eduard Helsted

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    9:03
  • 9:01 PM

    Beautiful Rosemary (Schon Rosmarin)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Lara St. John, violin

    Matt Herskowitz, piano

    2:10
  • 8:49 PM

    Serenade for Strings: Finale

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    7:43
  • 8:35 PM

    Four Penitential Motets

    Francis Poulenc

    Durufle: Requiem; Poulenc: Lenten Motets

    Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge

    Stephen Layton, conductor

    13:37
  • 8:29 PM

    Tara Kamangar, piano

    5:05
  • 8:07 PM

    Billy the Kid

    Aaron Copland

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    21:09
  • 8:00 PM

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Bela Bartok

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    6:14
  • 5:42 PM

    String Quartet No. 30 "The Joke"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Emerson String Quartet

    16:08
  • 5:24 PM

    Variations on a Theme by Haydn "St. Antoni Chorale"

    Johannes Brahms

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    17:06
  • 5:18 PM

    Joanne Polk, piano

    5:05
  • 5:09 PM

    Romance of the Prairie Lilies

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    6:33
  • 5:06 PM

    Preludes, Book 1: La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)

    Claude Debussy

    Brodsky Unlimited

    Brodsky Quartet

    3:00
  • 5:01 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 1: Gavotte

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

    Stefan Sanderling, conductor

    4:40
  • 4:46 PM

    La Reveuse

    Serge Saitta, transverse flute

    12:37
  • 4:15 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 2

    Emil Mlynarski

    Polish Chamber Orchestra

    Jacek Kaspszyk, conductor

    Nigel Kennedy, violin

    28:47
  • 4:12 PM

    Mazurka No. 21

    Maria Szymanowska

    Maria Szymanowska - Piano Works / Anna Ciborowska

    Anna Ciborowska, piano

    2:43
  • 4:06 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 1

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    4:05
  • 4:01 PM

    Guitar Sonata: 3rd movement

    Ferdinando Carulli

    Richard Savino, guitar

    4:39
  • 3:41 PM

    Overture, Scherzo and Finale

    Robert Schumann

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    17:50
  • 3:19 PM

    Symphonic Poem No. 2 "Tasso, Lament and Triumph"

    Franz Liszt

    Liszt: Symphonic Poems

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    20:38
  • 3:10 PM

    Sisyphus in the Big City

    Ricardo Herz

    Songs for Our Times

    Sphinx Virtuosi

    6:42
  • 3:06 PM

    Canzon Noni Toni

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    Philadelphia Brass Ensemble

    3:15
  • 3:01 PM

    Piano Trio No. 9: 3rd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: 11 Trios

    Beaux Arts Trio

    4:42
  • 2:51 PM

    Once Upon a Time in America: Deborah's Theme

    Ennio Morricone

    Labyrinth

    Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

    5:13
  • 2:38 PM

    Ma vlast (My Country): From Bohemia's Woods and Fields

    Bedrich Smetana

    Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

    Zdenek Macal, conductor

    12:13
  • 2:32 PM

    Waltz No. 2

    Cecile Chaminade

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    4:54
  • 2:05 PM

    Symphony No. 97

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Orchestra of the 18th Century

    Frans Bruggen, conductor

    26:10
  • 2:01 PM

    Parisiana: Pas de Deux

    Germaine Tailleferre

    The Flower of France

    Quynh Nguyen, piano

    2:58
  • 1:57 PM

    Harmonica Concerto: 1st mvt

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

    John Sebastian, harmonica

    5:44
  • 1:55 PM

    The Harmonica Player

    David Guion

    Byron Janis, piano

    1:00
  • 1:43 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 3rd mvt

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    Byron Janis, p

    10:20
  • 1:32 PM

    Carnival Overture

    Antonin Dvorak

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    9:20
  • 1:22 PM

    Clarinet Concerto: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart 250 - A Celebration

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    Robert Marcellus, clarinet

    8:49
  • 1:19 PM

    The Ruins of Athens: Turkish March

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fielder's Greatest Hits

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    Arthur Fiedler, conductor

    1:36
  • 1:10 PM

    Filles de l'Elysee

    Paul Brantley

    Songs of Love and Despair

    Laura Metcalf, cello

    5:34
  • 1:04 PM

    Karelia Suite: Alla Marcia

    Jean Sibelius

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    Pietari Inkinen, conductor

    4:49
  • 12:50 PM

    Das Rheingold: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Orchestral Music from The Ring

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    7:33
  • 12:31 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Hummel

    Haydn, Hummel, Etc.: Trumpet Concertos

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    17:36
  • 12:28 PM

    Platee: Entrance of Mercury

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    The Galileo Project: Music of the Spheres

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    1:24
  • 12:23 PM

    Suite of Dances

    Florence Price

    Wurttemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen

    John Jeter, conductor

    3:52
  • 12:17 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Bluebird pas de deux

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Stravinsky: Le Baiser de la Fee, etc.

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    5:30
  • 12:08 PM

    Italian Serenade

    Hugo Wolf

    Favourite Serenades for Orchestra

    I Musici

    7:25
  • 12:04 PM

    Puffin' Billy

    Edward White

    RTE Concert Orchestra, Dublin

    Ernest Tomlinson, conductor

    3:05
  • 11:48 AM

    Concert Piece

    Franz Schubert

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Pinchas Zukerman, violin

    9:43
  • 11:39 AM

    Concerto No. 3

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Collegium Musicum 90

    Simon Standage, conductor

    6:42
  • 11:30 AM

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    8:44
  • 11:22 AM

    Concerto for Two Flutes

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Concerti Per Flauto Traversiere

    Academia Montis Regalis

    Barthold Kuijken, conductor

    Barthold Kuijken, flute

    6:45
  • 11:16 AM

    In the Mountains: Sunny Day

    Josef Foerster

    Foerster: Symphony No. 5 & In den Bergen

    Osnabruck Symphony Orchestra

    Hermann Baumer, conductor

    4:29
  • 11:09 AM

    Cringlemire Garden

    Ruth Gipps

    British Music for Strings, Vol. 3

    South German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim

    Douglas Bostock, conductor

    6:19
  • 11:04 AM

    Canon

    Johann Pachelbel

    Albinoni: Adagio; Pachelbel: Canon; Etc

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    4:15
  • 10:43 AM

    Dolly Suite

    Gabriel Faure

    Faure: Nocturnes and Barcarolles

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    15:24
  • 10:21 AM

    The Little Trifles (Les petits riens)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    19:45
  • 10:18 AM

    Gretchen Van Hoesen, harp

    Heidi van Hoesen Gorton, harp

    2:42
  • 10:09 AM

    Don Quixote: Grand Pas de Deux

    Leon Minkus

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    8:07
  • 10:06 AM

    Waltz No. 4 "Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Maurizio Pollini, piano

    2:05
  • 10:01 AM

    Lute Suite No. 3: Allemande

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Vol. 1: Works for Lute

    Jason Vieaux, guitar

    4:41
  • 9:45 AM

    Quartet No. 3

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Six Wind Quartets

    Vienna-Berlin Ensemble

    13:38
  • 9:22 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Le Mozart Noir

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    Linda Melsted, violin

    21:08
  • 9:13 AM

    Exaltation of Larks

    Norman Dello Joio

    Music for Martha Graham

    Atlantic Sinfonietta

    Edvard Tchivzhel, conductor

    7:44
  • 9:06 AM

    Sakura, Sakura

    Traditional Japanese

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    5:59
  • 9:01 AM

    Spring Ensemble

    Eric Dudley, conductor

    4:46
  • 8:09 AM

    Lemminkainen Suite (Four Legends from the Kalevala)

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Karelia Suite; Rakastava; Lemminkainen

    Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

    Susanna Malkki, conductor

    49:28
  • 8:01 AM

    Nocturne and Allegro Scherzando

    Philippe Gaubert

    Robert Langevin, flute

    Margaret Kampmeier, piano

    5:44
  • 7:25 AM

    String Quartet No. 5

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: The String Quartets

    Prague Quartet

    33:21
  • 7:15 AM

    Music for a Young Prince: Dreams

    Godfrey Ridout

    Godfrey Ridout: Orchestral Works

    Toronto Symphony Orchestra

    Victor Feldbrill, conductor

    8:32
  • 7:10 AM

    Wesendonck-Lieder (Wesendonk Songs): Traume (Dreams)

    Richard Wagner

    Love Music

    Svetlin Roussev, violin

    4:12
  • 7:01 AM

    Dawn

    Heino Eller

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

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    John Digney, oboe

    8:12
  • 6:50 AM

    Nocturne No. 13

    Gabriel Faure

    A Fauré Recital, Vol. 2

    Louis Lortie, piano

    8:39
  • 6:32 AM

    Mother Goose (Ma mere l'oye): Suite

    Maurice Ravel

    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    16:57
  • 6:01 AM

    Nonet for Strings and Winds

    Louise Farrenc

    Farrenc: Musique de chambre

    Philippe Bernold, flute

    29:06
  • 5:54 AM

    My Lagan Love

    Traditional Irish

    Barry Douglas, piano

    4:17
  • 5:12 AM

    Gaelic Symphony

    Amy Beach

    Nashville Symphony Orchestra

    Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor

    41:50
  • 5:01 AM

    Nocturne No. 4

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Mozzafiato

    8:46