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  • 4:31 AM

    Cello Sonata No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms Cello Sonatas

    Steven Isserlis, cello

    26:58
  • 4:11 AM

    The Hours Suite

    Philip Glass

    Janacek Philharmonic

    Mark Shapiro, conductor

    Gregory Harrington, violin

    17:34
  • 4:06 AM

    The Arts and the Hours

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Baroque

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    5:15
  • 4:01 AM

    Lysning (Glade)

    Per Norgard

    Per Norgard: Symphony No. 8

    Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

    John Storgards, conductor

    4:43
  • 3:49 AM

    Why the Caged Bird Sings

    Jake Runestad

    The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad

    Conspirare

    Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

    Alissa Ruth Suver, soprano

    9:02
  • 3:35 AM

    Forest Idylls

    Vaino Raitio

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen, conductor

    12:51
  • 3:20 AM

    Red Maple

    Joan Tower

    Red Maple: Music for Bassoon and Strings

    Calidore String Quartet

    Peter Kolkay, bassoon

    14:36
  • 3:06 AM

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Avlana Eisenberg, conductor

    Zina Schiff, violin

    11:55
  • 3:01 AM

    Sarabande: For Katharine in April

    Ron Nelson

    Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra

    Howard Hanson, conductor

    4:53
  • 2:45 AM

    Musicians of the Louvre

    Marc Minkowski, conductor

    13:29
  • 2:23 AM

    Piano Concerto

    Grazyna Bacewicz

    Bacewicz: Piano Concerto, Concerto for 2 Pianos, Overture & Music for Strings, Trumpets and Percussion

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Nicholas Collon, conductor

    Peter Jablonski, piano

    20:46
  • 2:12 AM

    A Fish Will Rise

    Chris Rogerson

    Portraits: Works for Flute, Clarinet and Piano

    Demarre McGill, flute

    9:03
  • 2:06 AM

    Elegy "By the Lake"

    Balys Dvarionas

    Korngold, Dvarionas: Violin Concertos

    Residentie Orchestra of the Hague

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    Vadim Gluzman, violin

    5:20
  • 2:01 AM

    Romance No. 3

    Clara Schumann

    Marina Thibeault, viola

    Marie-Eve Scarfone, piano

    4:45
  • 1:53 AM

    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

    Florence Price

    Price and Sowerby: Music for String Quartet

    Avalon String Quartet

    5:01
  • 1:15 AM

    Symphony No. 2

    Adolphus Hailstork

    Hailstork: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3

    Grand Rapids Symphony

    David Lockington, conductor

    36:36
  • 1:09 AM

    A Prayer

    Rene Orth

    Show Me The Way

    Will Liverman, baritone

    3:56
  • 1:06 AM

    To a Wild Rose

    Edward MacDowell

    Manhattan Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Auldon Clark, conductor

    2:42
  • 1:01 AM

    Intermezzo No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: 7 Fantasies, Op. 116, 4 Piano Pieces, Op. 119, Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 2

    Emanuel Ax, piano

    4:46
  • 12:44 AM

    Concerto for Two Violins

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    New Symphony Orchestra of London

    Malcolm Sargent, conductor

    Jascha Heifetz, violin

    Erick Friedman, violin

    14:23
  • 12:18 AM

    Catfish Row

    George Gershwin

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    24:30
  • 12:16 AM

    Mussette de Nina

    Justin Holland

    Gabriele Leite, guitar

    1:32
  • 12:09 AM

    Liebesliedchen

    Richard Strauss

    Metamorphosen: Strauss Chamber Works

    Oculi Ensemble

    5:35
  • 12:06 AM

    Beautiful Rosemary (Schon Rosmarin)

    Fritz Kreisler

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    1:50
  • 12:01 AM

    Dance of the Graceful Girl

    Alberto Ginastera

    John Novacek, piano

    4:53
  • 11:53 PM

    Out of This World

    Ludovico Einaudi

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:58
  • 11:46 PM

    Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": 1st movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    12:31
  • 11:23 PM

    Apollo Ballet

    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu, Apollon Musagete, Scherzo Fantastique

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    29:44
  • 11:01 PM

    Holberg Suite

    Edvard Grieg

    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    20:23
  • 10:57 PM

    Lyric Pieces Book V: Norwegian Dance

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Piano Sonata, Lyric Pieces

    Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

    3:22
  • 10:49 PM

    Scherzando No. 2

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn Ensemble Berlin

    Emmanuel Pahud, flute

    7:15
  • 10:25 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 2nd movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    50 Best Relaxing Piano

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    11:56
  • 10:18 PM

    You Come Here Often?

    Michael Tilson Thomas

    The American Project

    Yuja Wang, piano

    4:29
  • 10:01 PM

    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    15:28
  • 9:59 PM

    First Light

    Ola Gjeilo

    Dawn

    Ola Gjeilo, piano

    2:03
  • 9:46 PM

    First Suite

    Gustav Holst

    Composer's Collection: Gustav Holst

    North Texas Wind Symphony

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    10:35
  • 9:42 PM

    Gymnopedie No. 1

    Erik Satie

    Cinematic Piano

    Michael Chertock, piano

    3:02
  • 9:34 PM

    Highland Cathedral

    Michael Korb/Uli Roewer

    Musica Variata

    Musica Variata

    7:49
  • 9:16 PM

    Symphony No. 2: 3rd movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3; Isle of the Dead

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    16:11
  • 9:05 PM

    Cantata No. 82: Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Cantatas & Arias

    Europa Galante

    Fabio Biondi, conductor

    Ian Bostridge, tenor

    10:07
  • 9:01 PM

    In a Sentimental Mood

    Duke Ellington

    Play

    Jason Vieaux, guitar

    3:25
  • 8:54 PM

    Amelie: Amelie's Waltz

    Yann Tiersen

    Piano Book

    Lang Lang, piano

    2:49
  • 8:50 PM

    The Muppet Movie: Rainbow Connection

    Paul Williams/Kenneth Ascher

    Lang Lang, piano

    4:10
  • 8:26 PM

    Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky | Sleeping Beauty & Swan Lake

    Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra

    Aleksander Lazarev, conductor

    23:18
  • 8:14 PM

    Fur Elise

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Book

    Lang Lang, piano

    3:24
  • 8:03 PM

    Take Me Out to the Ballgame

    Norworth/Tizler

    Four of a Kind 2: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

    Joseph Alessi, trombone

    2:12
  • 8:00 PM

    I hide myself

    Eric Whitacre

    Polyphony

    Stephen Layton, conductor

    2:46
  • 5:42 PM

    Horn Concerto No. 3

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Peter Damm, horn

    15:52
  • 5:14 PM

    String Quartet No. 12 "American"

    Antonin Dvorak

    Simon Bolivar String Quartet

    26:45
  • 5:10 PM

    American Series: Tonada (Chilean Tune)

    Hector Ayala

    David Russell, guitar

    1:40
  • 5:06 PM

    Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Mighty Fortress is Our God)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Stokowski Transcriptions

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    4:01
  • 5:01 PM

    Witness: Building the Barn

    Maurice Jarre

    1985 At The Movies

    Varese Sarabande Symphony Orchestra

    David Newman, conductor

    4:39
  • 4:58 PM

    Prelude No. 26

    Frederic Chopin

    The Complete Chopin Preludes

    Yundi Li, piano

    :45
  • 4:46 PM

    Orchestra-Symphony No. 4

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    CPE Bach: 4 Symphonies

    English Concert

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    11:34
  • 4:18 PM

    The Golden Cockerel: Suite

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    26:44
  • 4:15 PM

    Six Fish: Spangled Emperor

    Nigel Westlake

    Guitar Trek

    1:15
  • 4:06 PM

    Gold and Silver Waltz

    Franz Lehar

    Viennese Favourites, Vol. 1

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Michael Dittrich, conductor

    8:38
  • 4:01 PM

    Staatskapelle Weimar

    Peter Gulke, conductor

    4:38
  • 3:48 PM

    Capriccio for Bassoon and Orchestra

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Milan Symphony Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    Andrea Magnani, bassoon

    10:26
  • 3:41 PM

    Waltz No. 1 "Grand Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Lang Lang, piano

    5:47
  • 3:22 PM

    Romeo and Juliet: Ballet Music

    Charles Gounod

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Michel Plasson, conductor

    18:01
  • 3:08 PM

    Fantasie on Mozart's "Magic Flute"

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Gil Shaham, violin

    Akira Eguchi, piano

    11:48
  • 3:06 PM

    Carmina Burana: Dance

    Carl Orff

    Orff: Carmina Burana

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    1:41
  • 3:01 PM

    Tarantella

    Cecile Chaminade

    Chaminade: Piano Music 2

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    4:35
  • 2:55 PM

    Ruckert-Lieder: Ich atmet einen linden Duft (I breathed a gentle fragrance)

    Gustav Mahler

    Mahler: Orchestral Songs

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Susanna Malkki, conductor

    Katarina Karneus, mezzo-soprano

    2:25
  • 2:44 PM

    Four Seasons: Spring

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

    Orchestra of Flanders

    Rudolf Werthen, conductor

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    10:07
  • 2:40 PM

    Song without Words No. 30 "Spring Song"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Wu Han, piano

    2:20
  • 2:40 PM

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1

    Georges Bizet

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    18:09
  • 2:11 PM

    Serenade for Strings

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Concert Recording

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    28:57
  • 2:00 PM

    My Home Overture

    Antonin Dvorak

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    9:31
  • 1:57 PM

    Shakespeare Songs of Night-Time: Light thickens

    Owain Park

    Epiphoni Consort

    Tim Reader, conductor

    2:19
  • 1:45 PM

    Poet and Peasant Overture

    Franz von Suppe

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    10:17
  • 1:38 PM

    L'elisir d'amore: Una furtiva lagrima

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Pavarotti's Greatest Hits

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    Luciano Pavarotti, tenor

    4:47
  • 1:28 PM

    Symphony

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Symphonies - From Berlin to Hamburg

    Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

    Mayumi Hirasaki, conductor

    9:06
  • 1:24 PM

    Miniature Viennese March

    Fritz Kreisler

    Renaud Capucon, violin

    Gautier Capucon, cello

    Aude Capucon, piano

    3:13
  • 1:16 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "The Camp Meeting": Children's Day

    Charles Ives

    Ives: Symphony No. 4; The Unanswered Question

    Seattle Symphony

    Ludovic Morlot, conductor

    6:47
  • 1:06 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    The Enlightened Trumpet

    Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

    Marios Papadopoulous, conductor

    Paul Merkelo, trumpet

    6:50
  • 1:04 PM

    3 Hungarian Folksongs from the Czik District

    Bela Bartok

    From Afar

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    3:21
  • 12:50 PM

    Beatrice and Benedict: Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, etc

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    7:50
  • 12:47 PM

    Much Ado About Nothing: Hornpipe

    Erich Korngold

    Barber, Korngold: Violin Concertos Etc.

    Gil Shaham, violin

    2:01
  • 12:40 PM

    Cantata No. 49: Sinfonia

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Berlin Baroque Soloists

    Rainer Kussmaul, conductor

    Raphael Alpermann, organ

    6:00
  • 12:33 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 2: 3rd movement

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-4

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    2:55
  • 12:31 PM

    Invention No. 10

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bela Fleck, banjo

    Edgar Meyer, bass

    1:00
  • 12:22 PM

    Symphony No. 39: Finale

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    7:56
  • 12:18 PM

    The Dancing Doll

    Ede Poldini

    Sir Charles' Precious Music Box Ii

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Charles Groves, conductor

    3:45
  • 12:16 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 1: Marche Miniature

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    Arthur Fiedler, conductor

    1:58
  • 12:06 PM

    The Skaters Waltz

    Emil Waldteufel

    Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    7:49
  • 12:04 PM

    Acis and Galatea: Happy We!

    George Frideric Handel

    Grand & Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses / Robert Shaw

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    1:56
  • 11:50 AM

    Sinfonia Concertante: 1st movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Mozart: Symphony No. 96; Sinfonia Concertante

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    Marieke Blankestijn, violin

    9:11
  • 11:36 AM

    Symphony No. 13

    William Herschel

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    11:59
  • 11:32 AM

    Stars

    Connor Chee

    Scenes from Dinetah

    Connor Chee, piano

    2:55
  • 11:20 AM

    Gloriana: Courtly Dances

    Benjamin Britten

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    10:18
  • 11:15 AM

    Two Greek Dances

    Nikos Skalkottas

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra

    Nikos Christodoulou, conductor

    4:55
  • 11:08 AM

    Symphony No. 104 "London": Minuet

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos 101 The Clock and 104 London

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    4:39
  • 11:04 AM

    The Water is Wide

    Traditional

    The Fairie Round

    Shelley Phillips, english horn

    4:03
  • 10:45 AM

    Mandolin Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Christopher Parkening, guitar

    13:09
  • 10:23 AM

    Eternal Longing

    Vitezslav Novak

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    20:25
  • 10:19 AM

    Tjonneblomen (Water Lily)

    Gjermund Haugen

    Danish String Quartet

    3:51
  • 10:10 AM

    Three Sacred Hymns

    Alfred Schnittke

    Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

    Paul Hillier, conductor

    6:46
  • 10:06 AM

    Pelleas and Melisande: Sicilienne

    Gabriel Faure

    Mad About Love

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    3:59
  • 10:01 AM

    Coracao que sente

    Ernesto Nazareth

    Odeon: Brazilian Dances by Ernesto Nazareth

    Antoine Zemor, piano

    4:28
  • 9:46 AM

    Ebb and Flow

    Tony Banks

    Czech National Symphony Orchestra

    Nick Ingman, conductor

    12:48
  • 9:24 AM

    Piano Trio No. 4 "Gassenhauer"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios

    Trio Wanderer

    19:24
  • 9:16 AM

    Romance of the Prairie Lilies

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    6:33
  • 9:06 AM

    Serenade for Winds

    Richard Strauss

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

    Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Paavo Berglund, conductor

    9:16
  • 9:01 AM

    Wind Quintet: 2nd movement

    Carl Nielsen

    Bergen Wind Quintet

    4:43
  • 8:26 AM

    La Boite a Joujoux (The Toy Box)

    Claude Debussy

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    32:44
  • 8:09 AM

    Ninerias

    Joaquin Turina

    Children's World

    Mirian Conti, piano

    14:21
  • 8:01 AM

    Dream Children

    Edward Elgar

    English Symphony Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    7:59
  • 7:23 AM

    Petrushka

    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky, Petrouchka: Scherzo a la Russe, The Firebird Suite

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    35:16
  • 7:07 AM

    Negro Folk Symphony: Hope in the Night

    William Dawson

    Seattle Symphony

    Roderick Cox, conductor

    11:35
  • 7:01 AM

    Magdalena Hoffmann, harp

    4:59
  • 6:24 AM

    String Quartet No. 10

    Antonin Dvorak

    Stamitz Quartet

    34:49
  • 6:15 AM

    Preludio, Fuga, and Vivace

    Sergio Assad

    Bacheando

    Plinio Fernandes, guitar

    7:00
  • 6:01 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 2

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: The Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    12:54
  • 5:56 AM

    Fragments from Hans Andersen: The snowdrop, or summer-geck

    York Bowen

    Nicolas Namoradze, piano

    2:42
  • 5:13 AM

    Symphony No. 1 "Winter Dreams"

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Lorin Maazel, conductor

    42:20
  • 5:01 AM

    String Quartet No. 6

    Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    Allegri String Quartet

    9:57