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  • 4:30 AM

    The Knights

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    Michael Ward-Bergeman, hyper-accordion

    Jamey Haddad, percussion

    Cyro Baptista, percussion

    28:06
  • 4:09 AM

    Flute Concerto

    Carl Nielsen

    Nielsen: Flute Concerto, Symphony No. 3, Pan and Syrinx

    Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

    Edward Gardner, conductor

    Adam Walker, flute

    19:17
  • 4:06 AM

    Look about one summer day

    Carl Nielsen

    Carl Nielsen: Songs For Choir

    Ars Nova Copenhagen

    Michael Bojesen, conductor

    2:21
  • 4:01 AM

    Abbywood Trail

    Dale Kavanagh

    Guitar Gala Night

    Dale Kavanagh, guitar

    4:44
  • 3:46 AM

    This Midnight Hour

    Anna Clyne

    Anna Clyne: Mythologies

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Sakari Oramo, conductor

    12:42
  • 3:40 AM

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

    Richard Wagner

    Love Music

    Svetlin Roussev, violin

    4:12
  • 3:19 AM

    Summer Night Suite

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Prokofiev: Cinderella

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    20:15
  • 3:06 AM

    Splash of Indigo

    Marty Regan

    Apollo Chamber Players

    11:31
  • 12:48 AM

    Africa Fantasie

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Africa - Wedding Cake - Allegro appassionato

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor

    Alexandre Kantorow, piano

    10:20
  • 12:16 AM

    Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Philharmonic of La Scala

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    30:09
  • 12:06 AM

    Global Warming

    Michael Abels

    Songs for Our Times

    Sphinx Virtuosi

    8:31
  • 12:01 AM

    Images oubliees (Forgotten Images): Souvenir du Louvre

    Claude Debussy

    Zoltan Kocsis, piano

    4:52
  • 11:54 PM

    Here Comes the Sun

    George Harrison

    Blackbird: The Beatles Album

    String Ensemble

    Christopher Austin, conductor

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    3:02
  • 11:50 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Military": Finale Militaire

    Emilie Mayer

    North German Radio Philharmonic

    Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor

    8:17
  • 11:45 PM

    Tosca: Vissi d'arte

    Giacomo Puccini

    Aria: A Passion for Opera

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    Montserrat Caballe, soprano

    3:36
  • 11:13 PM

    Piano Concerto

    Edvard Grieg

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Alice Sara Ott, piano

    30:13
  • 11:01 PM

    Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1

    Edward Elgar

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yehudi Menuhin, conductor

    5:51
  • 10:54 PM

    Bogoroditse Djevo (Rejoice, O Virgin Mary)

    Sergey Khvoshchinsky

    Fire of the Soul: Choral Virtuosity in 17th-Century Russia & Poland

    Rose Ensemble

    5:05
  • 10:49 PM

    Carrickfergus

    Traditional Irish

    Barry Douglas, piano

    4:54
  • 10:23 PM

    La Mer (The Sea)

    Claude Debussy

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Fritz Reiner, conductor

    24:58
  • 10:18 PM

    For the Beauty of the Earth

    John Rutter

    Rutter: Gloria

    City of London Sinfonia

    John Rutter, conductor

    3:43
  • 10:03 PM

    The Lark Ascending

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Poeme

    Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yakov Kreizberg, conductor

    Julia Fischer, violin

    14:15
  • 9:25 PM

    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Symphony No. 4

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    11:26
  • 9:12 PM

    Egmont Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5, "Egmont" Overture

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    8:56
  • 8:56 PM

    Finlandia

    Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia: A Festival of Finnish Music

    Lahti Symphony Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    8:32
  • 8:50 PM

    Enigma Variations: Nimrod

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: Enigma Variations, Cockaigne & Froissart Overtures

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    5:04
  • 8:41 PM

    Carmina Burana: O Fortuna

    Carl Orff

    German Opera Orchestra

    Eugen Jochum, conductor

    5:10
  • 8:29 PM

    The Planets: Jupiter

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    8:29
  • 8:14 PM

    Summer Music

    Samuel Barber

    Bergen Wind Quintet

    11:26
  • 8:01 PM

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Richard Studt, conductor

    12:18
  • 5:38 PM

    Symphony No. 4

    Niels Gade

    Stockholm Sinfonietta

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    20:35
  • 5:16 PM

    Concerto for violin and string orchestra

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Viktoria Mullova, violin

    22:11
  • 5:11 PM

    A George M. Cohan Salute

    George M. Cohan

    Canadian Brass

    3:11
  • 5:07 PM

    National Emblem March

    Edwin Bagley

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    Arthur Fiedler, conductor

    3:01
  • 5:01 PM

    Blacksmith's Tune

    Bengt Hallberg

    Brass Festival

    Scandinavian Brass Ensemble

    Jorma Panula, conductor

    4:46
  • 4:48 PM

    Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": 4th movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 8 And 9

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    11:05
  • 4:31 PM

    Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

    Richard Strauss

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    15:47
  • 4:11 PM

    A Downland Suite

    John Ireland

    Music of John Ireland and Frank Bridge

    English Chamber Orchestra

    David Garforth, conductor

    17:30
  • 4:06 PM

    Symphony No. 82 "The Bear": Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies, Vol. 1 (Nos. 82, 96, 100)

    Capella Istropolitana

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    3:59
  • 4:01 PM

    Arcata String Quartet

    Don Bailey, flute

    4:49
  • 3:51 PM

    The Planets: Jupiter

    Gustav Holst

    Dallas Space Spectacular

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    7:50
  • 3:22 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Andrew Constantine, conductor

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    27:56
  • 3:13 PM

    Sense and Sensibility: Suite

    Patrick Doyle

    Sense And Sensibility Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    Studio Ensemble

    Robert Ziegler, conductor

    6:40
  • 3:06 PM

    Zadok the Priest

    George Frideric Handel

    phil Blech Wien

    Olivier Latry, organ

    5:49
  • 3:01 PM

    Hungarian Dance

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin

    Olga Sitkovetsky, piano

    4:48
  • 2:54 PM

    March of the Trolls

    Edvard Grieg

    Witches' Brew

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yondani Butt, conductor

    3:53
  • 2:54 PM

    March of the Trolls

    Edvard Grieg

    Witches' Brew

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yondani Butt, conductor

    3:53
  • 2:21 PM

    Elena Urioste, violin

    Tom Poster, piano

    12:35
  • 2:10 PM

    String Symphony No. 5

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Gli Incogniti

    Amandine Beyer, conductor

    9:52
  • 2:00 PM

    Roman Carnival Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Alexander Gibson, conductor

    9:10
  • 1:50 PM

    Petite Suite: Finale

    Alexander Borodin

    Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor

    7:32
  • 1:43 PM

    Minuet Antique

    Maurice Ravel

    Tesla Quartet

    5:44
  • 1:34 PM

    Clarinet Concerto: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Hans Vonk, conductor

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    8:16
  • 1:25 PM

    Bolero

    Frederic Chopin

    CHOPIN: Scherzo No. 4 in E major / Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major

    Roland Pontinen, piano

    7:24
  • 1:22 PM

    Light-Hearted (Leichtes Blut) Polka

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    2:27
  • 1:17 PM

    The Planets: Mercury

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: The Planets; Elgar: Pomp and Cirucmstance March No. 1

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    3:53
  • 1:11 PM

    La Lisonjera (The Flatterer)

    Cecile Chaminade

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    2:20
  • 1:04 PM

    Tancredi: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    5:55
  • 12:50 PM

    Concerto Serenade: 1st movement

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Rodrigo: Concertos and Orchestral Works

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    Nancy Allen, harp

    8:31
  • 12:47 PM

    La Boheme: Musetta's Waltz ("Quando m'en vo")

    Giacomo Puccini

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    Renee Fleming, soprano

    2:47
  • 12:31 PM

    Ma vlast (My Country): Vysehrad

    Bedrich Smetana

    Smetana: Ma Vlast

    Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

    Zdenek Macal, conductor

    14:08
  • 12:22 PM

    Andante and Rondo Capriccioso

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Jan Lisiecki, piano

    7:06
  • 12:15 PM

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Avlana Eisenberg, conductor

    5:58
  • 12:07 PM

    King Stephen: Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    6:45
  • 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
  • 11:53 AM

    Celtic Fare

    Scott Tennant/Simon Jeffes

    Air and Ground

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    5:55
  • 11:45 AM

    Be Thou My Vision

    David Gillingham

    Recollections

    North Texas Wind Symphony

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    7:01
  • 11:34 AM

    Symphony No. 4: 4th movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    9:15
  • 11:27 AM

    Oboe Concerto No. 9

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Albinoni: Concerti, Op. 7 and Sonatas, Op. 2

    I Musici

    Heinz Holliger, oboe

    6:14
  • 11:18 AM

    Nabucco: Overture

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    7:15
  • 11:11 AM

    Armida: Sinfonia

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Opera Overtures

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    5:43
  • 11:04 AM

    Appalachian Spring: Variations on a Shaker Tune

    Aaron Copland

    American Postcard

    Christina and Michelle Naughton, piano duo

    5:37
  • 10:49 AM

    As You Like It: Suite

    Roger Quilter

    Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    9:16
  • 10:28 AM

    Sleeping Beauty Ballet Suite

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    19:56
  • 10:22 AM

    Lyric Quartet: The Quiet One

    William Grant Still

    Catalyst Quartet

    5:21
  • 10:19 AM

    Children's Album: Villanelle

    Cecile Chaminade

    Chaminade: Piano Music 3

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    1:59
  • 10:06 AM

    Concerto for Mixed Instruments

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Concerti per Mandolini

    I Solisti Veneti

    Claudio Scimone, conductor

    Ugo Orlandi, mandolin

    11:43
  • 10:01 AM

    A John Field Suite: Polka

    Hamilton Harty

    Ulster Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    4:51
  • 9:50 AM

    Halcyon Days

    Eric Coates

    East of England Orchestra

    Malcolm Nabarro, conductor

    8:01
  • 9:37 AM

    Concerto for Oboe and Violin

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cafe Zimmermann

    Amandine Beyer, violin

    Antoine Torunczyk, oboe

    11:50
  • 9:23 AM

    Serenade No. 2

    Robert Volkmann

    German Chamber Academy

    Johannes Goritzki, conductor

    12:25
  • 9:06 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 8

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sara Davis Buechner, piano

    15:59
  • 9:01 AM

    English Idyll No. 2

    George Butterworth

    Halle Orchestra

    Mark Elder, conductor

    4:36
  • 8:25 AM

    Symphony

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet: Symphony, Jeux d'enfants, Roma

    Paris Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    33:26
  • 8:21 AM

    Waltz No. 8

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    3:33
  • 8:01 AM

    The Wise Virgins Ballet Suite

    William Walton

    English Northern Philharmonia

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    18:07
  • 7:41 AM

    Guitar Quintet No. 5

    Luigi Boccherini

    Academy Chamber Ensemble

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    17:50
  • 7:32 AM

    Two Ballades

    Fazil Say

    Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra

    Scott Yoo, conductor

    Fazil Say, piano

    7:24
  • 7:20 AM

    Quartet No. 6

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Six Wind Quartets

    Vienna-Berlin Ensemble

    10:49
  • 7:01 AM

    3 Argentinian Cantilenas and Finale

    Carlos Guastavino

    Camerata Bariloche

    18:07
  • 6:29 AM

    Serenade No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Paris Orchestral Ensemble

    Armin Jordan, conductor

    29:39
  • 6:24 AM

    The Green Bough

    Joan Trimble

    Bruce Posner, piano

    Donald Garvelmann, piano

    4:28
  • 6:01 AM

    Clarinet Concerto No. 1

    Carl Maria von Weber

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    Janet Hilton, clarinet

    20:34
  • 5:38 AM

    Holberg Suite

    Edvard Grieg

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    19:51
  • 5:26 AM

    Carmina Burana Wind Suite

    Carl Orff

    Carl Orff: Kleines Konzert

    Mainz Wind Ensemble

    Klaus Rainer Scholl, conductor

    12:40
  • 5:01 AM

    Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

    Lambert Orkis, piano

    22:27