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  • 4:43 AM

    Flute Serenade

    Max Reger

    Reger: Flute Serenades

    Peter-Lukas Graf, flute

    15:03
  • 4:10 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Jennifer Higdon

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vasily Petrenko, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    31:46
  • 4:06 AM

    If the Silver Bird Could Speak

    Eleanor Alberga

    William Chapman Nyaho, piano

    3:17
  • 4:01 AM

    Impromptu-Caprice

    Gabriel Pierne

    Caprice: French Music For Harp

    Susann McDonald, harp

    4:51
  • 3:47 AM

    Psalms of David

    Cyrillus Kreek

    Baltic Voices 1

    Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

    Paul Hillier, conductor

    10:42
  • 3:28 AM

    Partita No. 5

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    For Glenn Gould

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    17:15
  • 3:20 AM

    Bridges to Bach

    Giya Kancheli

    The Art of Instrumentation: Homage to Glenn Gould

    Kremerata Baltica

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    7:50
  • 3:06 AM

    Symphony No. 5: Adagietto

    Gustav Mahler

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    12:38
  • 3:01 AM

    Sweet Smell of Jasmine

    Manos Hadjidakis

    Paper Moon: Songs by Manos Hadjidakis

    Elena Papandreou, guitar

    4:46
  • 12:51 AM

    Harlem Symphony: April in Harlem

    James Price Johnson

    Concordia

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    7:45
  • 12:41 AM

    Songs of the Seasons

    Margaret Bonds

    Rising

    Lawrence Brownlee, tenor

    9:27
  • 12:16 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Jan Lisiecki, piano

    22:47
  • 12:06 AM

    Der Rosenkavalier: Waltz Sequence No. 2

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Macbeth, etc.

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    8:25
  • 12:01 AM

    Two Etudes

    Marie Bigot

    Betty Ann Miller, piano

    4:53
  • 11:55 PM

    Mock Morris

    Percy Grainger

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

    3:29
  • 11:52 PM

    Song for Orchestra

    Ruth Gipps

    Gipps: Symphonies Nos 2 and 4, etc.

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    5:58
  • 11:39 PM

    Concertino for Clarinet and Bassoon

    Franz Danzi

    New Era

    Potsdam Chamber Academy

    Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet

    15:56
  • 11:33 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 1: 3rd movement

    Florence Price

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Randall Goosby, violin

    5:11
  • 11:24 PM

    Alborada del Gracioso (Morning Song of the Jester)

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Bolero

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    7:15
  • 11:07 PM

    Mandolin Concerto

    Giovanni Paisiello

    Il Giardino Armonico

    Giovanni Antonini, conductor

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    15:54
  • 10:55 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 16

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart Piano Sonatas Complete IV/KV576, KV545, KV533 + 494

    Ingrid Haebler, piano

    10:47
  • 10:46 PM

    Ambarvalia

    Ruth Gipps

    Bright & Gipps: Piano Concertos

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Peebles, conductor

    7:48
  • 10:42 PM

    Requiem: Pie Jesu

    Andrew Lloyd Webber

    Classics

    Studio Orchestra

    Paul Bateman, conductor

    Sarah Brightman, soprano

    3:44
  • 10:38 PM

    Tosca: E lucevan le stelle

    Giacomo Puccini

    Pavarotti's Opera Made Easy: My Favorite Puccini

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Nicola Rescigno, conductor

    Luciano Pavarotti, tenor

    3:00
  • 10:31 PM

    Goldfinch Yodel

    Arthur Jeffes

    Rain Before Seven...

    Penguin Cafe

    Arthur Jeffes, conductor

    4:50
  • 10:17 PM

    The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu): Suite

    Igor Stravinsky

    Ravel, Stravinsky

    Beatrice Rana, piano

    11:54
  • 10:06 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 3rd movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    Yuja Wang, piano

    10:57
  • 9:52 PM

    Les Eolides

    Cesar Franck

    Franck: Symphony in D minor; Les �olides

    New York Philharmonic

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    11:20
  • 9:46 PM

    Alleluia

    Randall Thompson

    Fancie

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    4:39
  • 9:36 PM

    Bataille

    Heinrich Biber

    Biber: Mensa Sonora; Battalia

    Baroque Band

    Garry Clarke, conductor

    8:46
  • 9:11 PM

    West Side Story: Symphonic Dances

    Leonard Bernstein

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    24:01
  • 9:07 PM

    Washington Post March

    John Philip Sousa

    United States Marine Band

    2:33
  • 8:54 PM

    Poet and Peasant Overture

    Franz von Suppe

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    9:48
  • 8:42 PM

    Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: La Mer, etc.

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    10:14
  • 8:29 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 27

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Maurizio Pollini, piano

    12:37
  • 8:23 PM

    23rd Psalm (dedicated to my mother)

    Bobby McFerrin

    That Eternal Day

    Cantus

    3:37
  • 8:08 PM

    Piano Concerto: 1st movement

    Edvard Grieg

    Wonderland

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Alice Sara Ott, piano

    13:09
  • 8:00 PM

    Abendsterne Waltz (Evening Star)

    Joseph Lanner

    Lanner: Waltzes

    Berlin Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Stolz, conductor

    5:48
  • 5:49 PM

    The Wreckers Overture

    Ethel Smyth

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Sakari Oramo, conductor

    9:10
  • 5:25 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 4

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Viktoria Mullova, conductor

    Viktoria Mullova, violin

    22:26
  • 5:19 PM

    Walking Tune

    Percy Grainger

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    4:13
  • 5:06 PM

    Indian Queen: selections

    Henry Purcell

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    12:40
  • 5:00 PM

    Symphony No. 2: 3rd movement

    Richard Hol

    Hol: Symphonies

    Residentie Orchestra The Hague

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    4:42
  • 4:48 PM

    String Quartet No. 5

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Arabella String Quartet

    10:43
  • 4:15 PM

    Symphony No. 7 "Pastoral"

    Alexander Glazunov

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    30:49
  • 4:10 PM

    I will lift up mine eyes

    Morten Lauridsen

    Polyphony

    Stephen Layton, conductor

    3:10
  • 4:06 PM

    Peer Gynt: Morning Mood

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 And 2; Lyric Pieces; Sigurd Jorsalfar

    Slovak State Phiharmonic, Kosice

    Stephen Gunzenhauser, conductor

    3:39
  • 4:01 PM

    Suite Piedra libre: La Mancha

    Denis Plante

    Summer Music

    Pentaedre

    4:51
  • 3:45 PM

    Violin Sonatina No. 1

    Franz Schubert

    Anne Gastinel, cello

    Claire Desert, piano

    13:26
  • 3:44 PM

    Bach Again

    Dave Brubeck

    John Salmon, piano

    :58
  • 3:30 PM

    Oboe d'Amore Concerto

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cafe Zimmermann

    Antoine Torunczyk, oboe d'amore

    12:32
  • 3:19 PM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique": 2nd movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    8:11
  • 3:06 PM

    Liebeslieder Walzer (Love-Song Waltzes)

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Symphonies

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    12:52
  • 3:01 PM

    Bardenklange: Love Song

    Johann Kaspar Mertz

    The Romantic Guitar

    Raphaella Smits, guitar

    4:39
  • 2:52 PM

    Cringlemire Garden

    Ruth Gipps

    British Music for Strings, Vol. 3

    South German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim

    Douglas Bostock, conductor

    6:19
  • 2:45 PM

    Sussex Landscape

    Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Roderick Cox, conductor

    13:31
  • 2:41 PM

    Four Characteristic Waltzes: Rustic Waltz

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Rochelle Sennet, piano

    3:09
  • 2:18 PM

    Symphony No. 43 "Mercury"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Concert Recording

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    21:58
  • 2:02 PM

    Carmina Burana: On the Green

    Carl Orff

    Orff: Carmina Burana

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Andre Previn, conductor

    14:29
  • 1:58 PM

    Rustle of Spring

    Christian Sinding

    Jerome Lowenthal, piano

    2:38
  • 1:55 PM

    Turandot: Riddle Scene

    Giacomo Puccini

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Zubin Mehta, conductor

    Luciano Pavarotti, t

    :00
  • 1:48 PM

    Little Women: Main Title

    Alexandre Desplat

    Little Women Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    Studio Orchestra

    Alexandre Desplat, conductor

    3:13
  • 1:39 PM

    Invitation to the Dance

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Concert A La Carte

    Vienna-Berlin Ensemble

    7:42
  • 1:31 PM

    Concerto for Two Trumpets

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Maurice Andre, trumpet

    Bernard Soustrot, trumpet

    7:15
  • 1:19 PM

    Symphony No. 3: 1st movement

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Klaus Makela, conductor

    10:12
  • 1:18 PM

    Etude No. 9 "Butterfly"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Etudes

    Maurizio Pollini, piano

    :57
  • 1:11 PM

    Sonatina: 1st movement

    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

    Serenade to the Dawn

    Andrea Lieberknecht, flute

    3:47
  • 1:05 PM

    Violin Concerto: 3rd movement

    Joseph White

    Violin Concertos by Black Composers Through the Centuries: 25th Anniversary Edition

    Encore Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Hege, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    5:01
  • 12:58 PM

    Phantoms

    Amy Beach

    Anna Shelest, piano

    1:45
  • 12:50 PM

    Symphony No. 3: 3rd movement

    Louise Farrenc

    Farrenc: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3

    European Soloists, Luxembourg

    Christoph Konig, conductor

    7:36
  • 12:45 PM

    Kronos Quartet

    Soloists

    4:23
  • 12:37 PM

    Nocturnes: Fetes (Festivals)

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Trois Nocturnes, Jeux

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    6:17
  • 12:32 PM

    Waltz No. 1

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Streichquartette Vol. 4

    Stamitz Quartet

    4:03
  • 12:27 PM

    Sumer is icumen in

    Anonymous

    Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    4:00
  • 12:18 PM

    Blumenstuck (Flower Piece)

    Robert Schumann

    Vladimir Horowitz, piano

    7:28
  • 12:14 PM

    Umoja (Unity)

    Valerie Coleman

    Imani Winds

    Imani Winds

    2:49
  • 12:06 PM

    A Toi (To You) Waltz

    Emil Waldteufel

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    6:59
  • 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
  • 11:54 AM

    Das Rheingold: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Orchestral Works

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Klaus Tennstedt, conductor

    4:46
  • 11:47 AM

    Cringlemire Garden

    Ruth Gipps

    British Music for Strings, Vol. 3

    South German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim

    Douglas Bostock, conductor

    6:19
  • 11:32 AM

    Overture

    Fanny Mendelssohn

    Boulanger, Tailleferre, Mendelssohn, Schumann

    Women's Philharmonic

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    10:31
  • 11:28 AM

    Song without Words No. 6 "Barcarolle (Gondola Song)"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Silence Wakes My Song

    Julia Shaw, harp

    2:09
  • 11:20 AM

    Zurich Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Hope, violin

    6:58
  • 11:15 AM

    Sleeping Beauty: Entry of the Fairies

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    4:28
  • 11:07 AM

    Oboe Concerto No. 6

    Tomaso Albinoni

    I Solisti Italiani

    Hansjorg Schellenberger, oboe

    7:02
  • 11:04 AM

    Shepherd's Hey

    Percy Grainger

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

    2:15
  • 10:43 AM

    Mother Goose (Ma mere l'oye): Suite

    Maurice Ravel

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    15:41
  • 10:23 AM

    Symphony No. 6 "Morning"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    18:07
  • 10:17 AM

    Spring Breeze

    Wei-Chieh Lin

    Formosa Quartet

    5:08
  • 10:09 AM

    Reverie

    Frederic Cowen

    British Tone Poems, Vol. 2

    BBC Philharmonic

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    6:20
  • 10:06 AM

    The Spring time of the year

    Traditional

    Cambridge Singers

    John Rutter, conductor

    2:46
  • 10:01 AM

    Sylvan Winds

    Boris Baev, oboe

    Mark Dover, clarinet

    Nanci Belmont, bassoon

    Eric C. Davis, horn

    4:37
  • 9:40 AM

    Piano Trio

    Johann Hummel

    Hummel: Piano Trios

    Beaux Arts Trio

    18:33
  • 9:21 AM

    Dolly Suite

    Gabriel Faure

    Musical Fun and Games

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    17:13
  • 9:18 AM

    Valse lente

    Germaine Tailleferre

    Saint-Saens

    Lang Lang, piano

    2:38
  • 9:07 AM

    Old Polish Suite

    Andrei Panufnik

    Polish Chamber Orchestra

    Mariusz Smolij, conductor

    10:03
  • 9:01 AM

    Pianto dell'Amante

    Johann Kaspar Mertz

    The Romantic Guitar

    Raphaella Smits, guitar

    4:53
  • 8:38 AM

    Die Frau ohne Schatten (Woman without a Shadow): Fantasy

    Richard Strauss

    Mephisto and Co.

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    20:17
  • 8:31 AM

    Tristan and Isolde: Love Music

    Franz Waxman

    Love Music

    Svetlin Roussev, violin

    5:58
  • 8:06 AM

    Spring Music

    Joseph Marx

    Marx: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

    Bochum Symphony Orchestra

    Steven Sloane, conductor

    23:05
  • 8:01 AM

    Musical Moment No. 1

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert, Mazzoli

    Shai Wosner, piano

    5:12
  • 7:44 AM

    Dance Poem

    Frank Bridge

    Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    13:59
  • 7:31 AM

    La Reveuse

    Serge Saitta, transverse flute

    12:37
  • 7:25 AM

    Princess Mononoke: Ashitaka and San

    Joe Hisaishi

    Dream Songs

    Joe Hisaishi, piano

    3:57
  • 7:01 AM

    The Fairy's Kiss: Divertimento

    Igor Stravinsky

    London Sinfonietta

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    23:38
  • 6:42 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Sonatas and Partitas - Complete

    Paul Galbraith, guitar

    15:30
  • 6:25 AM

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    16:09
  • 6:01 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 3

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Violinkonzerte, Mozart: Rondo

    Northern Sinfonia of England

    Heinrich Schiff, conductor

    Christian Tetzlaff, violin

    22:50
  • 5:43 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 2

    Zara Levina

    Maria Lettberg, piano

    15:06
  • 5:32 AM

    Shorthand

    Anna Clyne

    The Knights

    11:05
  • 5:01 AM

    String Quartet No. 5

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Dover Quartet

    28:33