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  • 4:43 AM

    Little Suite

    Carl Nielsen

    Orchestra of the Mill

    Andrew Penny, conductor

    15:12
  • 4:11 AM

    Summer Day on the Mountain

    Vincent d'Indy

    D'Indy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    30:41
  • 4:06 AM

    A Summer Day

    Lena McLin

    Helen Walker-Hill, piano

    3:57
  • 4:01 AM

    Suite from Esclarmonde: Hymenee

    Jules Massenet

    Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

    Kenneth Jean, conductor

    4:34
  • 3:47 AM

    Perfectly Voiceless

    Devonte Hynes

    Third Coast Percussion

    11:29
  • 3:29 AM

    A Shout, a Whisper, and a Trace

    Derek Bermel

    Albany Symphony Orchestra

    David Alan Miller, conductor

    16:23
  • 3:25 AM

    Honeyed Words

    Anna Meredith

    Ligeti Quartet

    3:38
  • 3:12 AM

    Evening Song

    Alan Hovhaness

    Crystal Chamber Orchestra

    Ernest Gold, conductor

    Eudice Shapiro, violin

    Gretel Shanley, flute

    10:34
  • 3:06 AM

    Vocalise

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Voyage Central Park

    Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

    Lisa Friend, flute

    6:08
  • 3:01 AM

    Ruhe, meine Seele

    Richard Strauss

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Lise Davidsen, soprano

    4:33
  • 2:44 AM

    Impressions

    Henriette Bosmans

    Out Of The Shadow

    Lucia Swarts, cello

    13:36
  • 2:20 AM

    Hours of the Day

    Lars-Erik Larsson

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra

    James DePreist, conductor

    22:36
  • 2:09 AM

    Stay On It

    Julius Eastman

    Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy

    Wild Up

    9:41
  • 2:06 AM

    Sure on This Shining Night

    Samuel Barber

    Zuill Bailey, cello

    Lara Downes, piano

    2:24
  • 2:01 AM

    Matinees Musicales: Nocturne

    Benjamin Britten

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Alexander Gibson, conductor

    4:32
  • 1:55 AM

    Polonaise No. 3

    Clara Schumann

    Angela Tirino, piano

    3:40
  • 1:22 AM

    Serenade No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Serenades

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

    31:07
  • 1:17 AM

    Romance

    Camille Saint-Saens

    (b)romancE

    Nicholas Canellakis, cello

    2:49
  • 1:06 AM

    Unter bluhenden Linden

    Lou Koster

    Koster: Orchestral Music

    Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra

    Jonathan Kaell, conductor

    10:53
  • 1:01 AM

    Oboe Quartet: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Chicago Chamber Musicians

    4:46
  • 12:53 AM

    Images, Book 1: Reflets dans l'eau (Reflections in the Water)

    Claude Debussy

    c. 1300-c. 2000

    Jeremy Denk, piano

    5:09
  • 12:03 AM

    Symphony No. 2

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Michael Rabin at the Hollywood Bowl

    Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    54:32
  • 11:55 PM

    Cinema Paradiso

    Ennio Morricone

    Always And Forever - Movies' Greatest Love Songs

    Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

    John Mauceri, conductor

    Gil Shaham, violin

    7:46
  • 11:03 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    Stephen Hough, piano

    50:58
  • 10:56 PM

    Summer Interlude

    Betty King

    Samantha Ege, piano

    3:03
  • 10:50 PM

    Evergreen

    Kevin Puts

    House of Belonging

    Conspirare

    Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

    6:27
  • 10:12 PM

    String Quartet No. 13

    Antonin Dvorak

    Emerson String Quartet

    37:07
  • 9:40 PM

    Symphony No. 3

    Florence Price

    Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    31:05
  • 9:06 PM

    A Midsummer Night's Dream Suite

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    31:46
  • 8:34 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 18

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    28:44
  • 8:05 PM

    Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto

    He Zhanhao/Chen Gang

    Butterfly Lovers

    Singapore Chinese Orchestra

    Tsung Yeh, conductor

    Joshua Bell, violin

    26:56
  • 7:32 PM

    Concerto for a Festival

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Naples Philharmonic Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    David Russell, guitar

    29:40
  • 7:02 PM

    String Quartet

    Maurice Ravel

    Emerson String Quartet: Complete Recordings

    Emerson String Quartet

    28:03
  • 5:17 PM

    Symphony No. 3

    Gustav Mahler

    Mahler: Symphony No. 3

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    Jennifer Johnston, mezzo-soprano

    103:17
  • 4:48 PM

    Piano Concerto

    Ruth Gipps

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Peebles, conductor

    Murray McLachlan, piano

    26:05
  • 4:29 PM

    Five Bagatelles

    William Walton

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    Christopher Parkening, guitar

    15:54
  • 4:08 PM

    Seven Bagatelles

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Bagatelles

    Jeno Jando, piano

    20:02
  • 3:14 PM

    A Summer Tale

    Josef Suk

    Suk: A Summer Tale, etc.

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    50:28
  • 3:00 PM

    Summer Music

    Samuel Barber

    Bergen Wind Quintet

    11:26
  • 2:53 PM

    The Red Poppy: Russian Sailor's Dance

    Reinhold Gliere

    Pops a la Russe

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    3:38
  • 2:43 PM

    Piano Trio: 2nd movement

    Clara Schumann

    Dardington Piano Trio

    5:06
  • 2:35 PM

    Peer Gynt: Arabian Dance

    Edvard Grieg

    Minnesota Orchestra At One Hundred

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    4:15
  • 2:30 PM

    Overture "Water Music": Menuet; Gigue; Canarie

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Telemann: Water Music; Three Concertos

    Musica Antiqua Cologne

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor

    4:34
  • 2:21 PM

    Abu Hassan: Overture

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    3:31
  • 2:14 PM

    Symphony: Scherzo

    Georges Bizet

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    5:35
  • 2:03 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 3rd movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 50

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    Stephen Hough, piano

    7:02
  • 1:54 PM

    The Prophet: Ballet of the Skaters: Galop

    Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Meyerbeer: Ballet Music From The Operas / Nesterowicz

    Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

    Michal Nesterowicz, conductor

    4:55
  • 1:44 PM

    Sonatina: 1st movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak, Janacek, Smetana: Romantic Pieces

    James Ehnes, violin

    5:40
  • 1:38 PM

    Symphony No. 1: 3rd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Symphonies

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    4:24
  • 1:30 PM

    Arion

    Stephen Stubbs, conductor

    5:12
  • 1:23 PM

    Symphony No. 48 "Maria Theresia": 3rd movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies No 48 & 49

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    5:04
  • 1:17 PM

    Sentimental Waltz

    Ricardo Castro

    Salon Mexicano

    Jorge Federico Osorio, piano

    2:36
  • 1:11 PM

    Othello Suite: Military March

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Fawzi Haimor, conductor

    2:07
  • 1:04 PM

    La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus): Overture

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Cosi fan tutte; La Clemenza di Tito (Transcriptions for Wind Octet)

    Amadeus Ensemble

    Julius Rudel, conductor

    3:12
  • 12:57 PM

    Songs My Mother Taught Me

    Antonin Dvorak

    Stephen Hough, piano

    2:01
  • 12:46 PM

    Bartered Bride: Overture

    Bedrich Smetana

    The Moldau

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Libor Pesek, conductor

    6:52
  • 12:38 PM

    Jeux d'eau (Fountains)

    Maurice Ravel

    Chopin, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Molina, Cornejo, Buencamino

    Horacio Nuguid, piano

    6:12
  • 12:30 PM

    Symphony No. 10

    Georg Anton Benda

    Benda: Sinfonias Nos. 7-12

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Christian Benda, conductor

    4:15
  • 12:25 PM

    Suite for Flute, Violin and Piano: Scherzo

    Mel Bonis

    Trio Arkaede

    3:28
  • 12:18 PM

    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas from Norway

    Norwegian Radio Orchestra

    Christian Eggen, conductor

    Lise Davidsen, soprano

    2:54
  • 12:09 PM

    Il barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jaime Laredo, conductor

    7:16
  • 12:04 PM

    Acis and Galatea: Happy We!

    George Frederick Handel

    Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    2:00
  • 11:43 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 5

    George Frideric Handel

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    15:15
  • 11:38 AM

    Gymnopedie No. 1

    Erik Satie

    Memory

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    3:12
  • 11:33 AM

    Suite Bergamasque: Clair de lune (Moonlight)

    Claude Debussy

    Bonjour Paris

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Mathias Monius, conductor

    Albrecht Mayer, oboe

    5:13
  • 11:22 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 16: 1st movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: The Piano Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Alfred Brendel, piano

    10:12
  • 11:13 AM

    Appalachia Waltz

    Mark O'Connor

    Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra

    Scott Yoo, conductor

    6:54
  • 11:09 AM

    Las Dos Hermanitas (Two Sisters)

    Francisco Tarrega

    Celedonio Romero, guitar

    2:38
  • 11:04 AM

    Mlada: Bohemian Dance

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    3:48
  • 10:44 AM

    London Mozart Players

    Jane Glover, conductor

    8:25
  • 10:27 AM

    Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Orchestral Works

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    15:52
  • 10:22 AM

    Choro No. 1 "Tipico Brasileiro"

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Prole do bebe n.1 per piano - Cirandas, 2 Preludes

    Anna-Stella Schic, piano

    4:34
  • 10:09 AM

    Estonian Dance Suite

    Eduard Tubin

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Hans-Peter Frank, conductor

    11:14
  • 10:07 AM

    Etude No. 1 "Aeolian Harp"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Etudes

    Maurizio Pollini, piano

    2:12
  • 10:01 AM

    Overture No. 2 "La Calamita de Cuori"

    Johann Christian Bach

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    4:40
  • 9:50 AM

    Concert Piece for Horn and Orchestra

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    Hermann Baumann, horn

    8:34
  • 9:34 AM

    The Lark Ascending

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Janine Jansen

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    Janine Jansen, violin

    14:31
  • 9:19 AM

    Piano Trio "Variations on an Original Theme"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios

    Weiss Kaplan Stumpf Trio

    13:18
  • 9:06 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 6

    Arcangelo Corelli

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    11:58
  • 9:01 AM

    Octet: 2nd movement

    Jean Francaix

    Gaudier Ensemble

    4:36
  • 8:21 AM

    Concerto for Orchestra

    Bela Bartok

    San Francisco Symphony

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    36:45
  • 8:18 AM

    Amelie's Waltz

    Yann Tiersen

    Manon Le Comte, harp

    Victor Fournelle-Blain, violin

    2:48
  • 8:01 AM

    Fantasia on Russian Themes

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    TANEYEV, S.I.: Suite de Concert / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, N.A.: Fantasia on 2 Russian Themes (A.K. Gregory, Kiev Virtuosi Symphony, D. Yablonsky)

    Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra

    Dimitri Yablonsky, conductor

    Annelle Gregory, violin

    15:17
  • 7:54 AM

    Milonga "Tango"

    Astor Piazzolla

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    Akira Eguchi, piano

    3:36
  • 7:19 AM

    Symphony No. 2 "Four Temperaments"

    Carl Nielsen

    New York Philharmonic

    Alan Gilbert, conductor

    35:08
  • 7:07 AM

    The Strange Highway

    Gity Razaz

    All-American Cello Band

    10:09
  • 7:01 AM

    Strange Days (Giorni dispari)

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Ludovico Einaudi: Portrait

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    5:30
  • 6:55 AM

    Partita No. 3: Sarabande

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Six Partitas

    Andras Schiff, piano

    3:14
  • 6:17 AM

    Piano Concerto

    Antonin Dvorak

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    Andras Schiff, piano

    38:16
  • 6:01 AM

    Yoruban Songs of Cuba

    Hector Angulo

    Manuel Barrueco, guitar

    13:07
  • 5:34 AM

    Sextet

    Louise Farrenc

    Farrenc, L.: Piano Trio, Op. 33 / Clarinet Trio, Op. 44 / Sextet, Op. 40

    Linos Ensemble

    24:51
  • 5:27 AM

    A Dream at Sea

    Teresa Carreno

    Sarah Cahill, piano

    5:49
  • 5:01 AM

    String Quartet No. 7

    Walter Kaufmann

    ARC Ensemble

    24:14