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  • 4:51 AM

    On the Nature of Daylight

    Max Richter

    Max Richter: Exiles

    Baltic Sea Philharmonic

    Kristjan Jarvi, conductor

    7:17
  • 4:43 AM

    Keymaster

    Caleb Burhans

    Janus

    7:33
  • 4:13 AM

    Gesungene Zeit (Time Chant)

    Wolfgang Rihm

    Wolfgang Rihm: Music for Violin & Orchestra, Vol. 2

    Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra

    Darrell Ang, conductor

    Tianwa Yang, violin

    27:44
  • 4:09 AM

    Seven Passion Texts: Tristis est anima mea

    Wolfgang Rihm

    Cappella Amsterdam

    Daniel Reuss, conductor

    2:43
  • 4:06 AM

    Continuance

    Daniel Kidane

    Sean Shibe, electric guitar

    2:05
  • 4:01 AM

    The Waves

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Pulsations

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:27
  • 3:45 AM

    At the Speed of Stillness

    Charlotte Bray

    Aldeburgh World Orchestra

    Mark Elder, conductor

    11:11
  • 3:39 AM

    Con Moto

    Hania Rani/Dobrawa Czocher

    Inner Symphonies

    Hania Rani, piano and vocals

    5:05
  • 3:27 AM

    Music in Similar Motion

    Philip Glass

    eighth blackbird

    11:20
  • 3:18 AM

    Perpetual Spark

    Alex Shapiro

    Fifth House Ensemble

    6:55
  • 3:10 AM

    Aurora Orchestra

    Nicholas Collon, conductor

    7:26
  • 3:06 AM

    Haerim Elizabeth Lee, violin

    2:50
  • 3:01 AM

    Perpetuum Mobile

    Jurgis Juozapaitis

    Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra

    Juha Kangas, conductor

    4:29
  • 2:56 AM

    Amelie's Waltz

    Yann Tiersen

    Manon Le Comte, harp

    Victor Fournelle-Blain, violin

    2:48
  • 2:31 AM

    String Quartet

    Claude Debussy

    Brooklyn Rider

    23:24
  • 2:17 AM

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Christopher Gunning, conductor

    12:13
  • 2:07 AM

    Kreisleriana No. 2

    Robert Schumann

    Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

    9:56
  • 2:01 AM

    Suite No. 11

    Francois Chauvon

    Chauvon

    Washington McClain, oboe

    4:46
  • 1:53 AM

    Piece en forme de Passacaille

    Alexandre Tansman

    Thibaut Garcia, guitar

    5:42
  • 1:49 AM

    Six Bagatelles: No. 3

    Gyorgy Ligeti

    London Winds

    2:40
  • 1:20 AM

    Variations on a Hungarian Folksong

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    28:25
  • 1:06 AM

    Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1

    Georges Enescu

    ENESCU ? SYMPHONIES Nos. 1?3, Romanian Rhapsodies 1 & 2

    French National Orchestra

    Cristian Macelaru, conductor

    11:49
  • 1:01 AM

    Scherzo-Tarantelle

    Henryk Wieniawski

    Introducing Shannon Lee, violin

    Shannon Lee, violin

    4:39
  • 12:44 AM

    Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves

    David Bedford

    Timothy Reynish International Repertoire Recordings, Vol. 10: The Music of David Bedford

    Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra

    Clark Rundell, conductor

    13:59
  • 12:20 AM

    American Suite

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor; American Suite

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Libor Pesek, conductor

    22:32
  • 12:08 AM

    Rhapsodie d'Auvergne

    Camille Saint-Saens

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

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor

    Alexandre Kantorow, piano

    10:02
  • 12:06 AM

    Stuttgart Brass Quartet

    1:53
  • 12:01 AM

    Gold Dust Waltz

    Erik Satie

    Noriko Ogawa, piano

    4:39
  • 11:51 PM

    Variations on "The Last Rose of Summer"

    Friedrich Kuhlau

    Abbie de Quant, flute

    Masumi Nagasawa, harp

    7:42
  • 11:36 PM

    Lachian Dances

    Leos Janacek

    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

    James Conlon, conductor

    22:40
  • 11:29 PM

    Suite for Piano

    Ethel Smyth

    Liana Serbescu, piano

    6:16
  • 11:14 PM

    Mediterranean Diptych

    Vincent d'Indy

    Rhapsodie

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    13:59
  • 11:06 PM

    Symphonie Espagnole: Rondo

    Edouard Lalo

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    6:58
  • 11:01 PM

    Holberg Suite: Rigaudon

    Edvard Grieg

    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg: Holberg Suite

    Mito Chamber Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    4:28
  • 10:58 PM

    Bagatelle No. 1

    Valentin Silvestrov

    Consolation: Forgotten Treasures of the Ukrainian Soul

    Natalya Pasichnyk, piano

    2:17
  • 10:37 PM

    London Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Warren-Green, conductor

    19:50
  • 10:19 PM

    A Song of Agincourt

    Charles Stanford

    Ulster Orchestra

    Howard Shelley, conductor

    15:39
  • 10:11 PM

    Nameday (Namensfeier) Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    6:43
  • 10:06 PM

    Viola Sonata: 2nd movement

    Henriette Bosmans

    TRAILBLAZERS: Sonatas by Henriette Bosmans, Ethel Smyth, and Dora Peja?evi?

    Molly Gebrian, viola

    4:29
  • 9:49 PM

    Die Meistersinger von Nurmberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremburg): Prelude to Act I

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Orchestral Works

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Klaus Tennstedt, conductor

    10:07
  • 9:35 PM

    Porgy and Bess: Summertime

    George Gershwin

    Honey and Rue

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Andre Previn, conductor

    Kathleen Battle, soprano

    2:34
  • 9:20 PM

    Fair Maid of Perth: Suite

    Georges Bizet

    Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    13:22
  • 9:12 PM

    Trio in one movement "Sonatensatz"

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: The Piano Trio

    Beaux Arts Trio

    7:41
  • 9:03 PM

    La Cenerentola (Cinderella): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    8:06
  • 8:44 PM

    Prelude and Fugue "St Anne"

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    14:44
  • 8:29 PM

    The Tale of Honza: Dances and Adagio

    Oskar Nedbal

    Dvorak Chamber Orchestra

    Miroslav Homolka, conductor

    14:40
  • 8:20 PM

    Larghetto for Horn and Orchestra

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Gliere, Saint-Saens, Dukas, Chabrier: Works For Horn

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    Hermann Baumann, horn

    8:31
  • 8:06 PM

    Sonata for Flute and Orchestra

    Francis Poulenc

    Twentieth Century Flute Concerti

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Steuart Bedford, conductor

    Jennifer Stinton, flute

    12:04
  • 8:00 PM

    Perpetual Motion

    Niccolo Paganini

    Eastman Wind Ensemble

    Donald Hunsberger, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, cornet

    4:33
  • 5:41 PM

    Papillons (Butterflies)

    Robert Schumann

    Jeanne Golan, piano

    16:53
  • 5:16 PM

    Concerto Serenade

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra

    Antonio de Almeida, conductor

    Catherine Michel, harp

    23:27
  • 5:08 PM

    The Wedding at Dovre

    Johan Svendsen

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Bjarte Engeset, conductor

    5:33
  • 5:06 PM

    Umoja (Unity)

    Valerie Coleman

    Umoja

    Imani Winds

    2:23
  • 5:00 PM

    Symphonic Metamorphosis: March

    Paul Hindemith

    American Maestros

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    4:35
  • 4:47 PM

    Cantata No. 192: Nun danket alle Gott

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Monteverdi Choir

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Joanne Lunn, soprano

    William Towers, alto

    James Gilchrist, tenor

    Peter Harvey, bass

    10:42
  • 4:28 PM

    Simple Symphony

    Benjamin Britten

    Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

    Iona Brown, conductor

    17:35
  • 4:19 PM

    Suite No. 1: Fuga con Pajarillo

    Aldemaro Romero

    Fiesta

    Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    7:07
  • 4:06 PM

    Capriccio for Bassoon and Orchestra

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Paganini, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini & Respighi: Orchestral Works

    Wurzburg Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrico Calesso, conductor

    Patrick de Ritis, bassoon

    12:50
  • 4:00 PM

    Lute Sonata: 1st movement

    Bernhard Joachim Hagen

    John Schneiderman, lute

    Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin

    William Skeen, cello

    4:39
  • 3:46 PM

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

    Bedrich Smetana

    Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

    Zdenek Macal, conductor

    12:13
  • 3:25 PM

    London Mozart Players

    Jane Glover, conductor

    20:15
  • 3:17 PM

    Variations on Lift Every Voice and Sing

    Lettie B. Alston

    Lara Downes, piano

    6:10
  • 3:06 PM

    Poet and Peasant Overture

    Franz von Suppe

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    9:48
  • 3:01 PM

    The Dance of the Goblins (La ronde des Lutins)

    Antonio Bazzini

    Shannon Lee, violin

    Pamela Mia Paul, piano

    4:31
  • 2:52 PM

    Symphonic Dance No. 1

    Edvard Grieg

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    6:45
  • 2:39 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Night in the Tropics"

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Utah Symphony Orchestra

    Maurice Abravanel, conductor

    18:57
  • 2:35 PM

    Le Bananier (The Banana Tree)

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Paul Bisaccia, piano

    2:47
  • 2:20 PM

    Introduction and Allegro appassionato

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann

    Saint Cecilia Orchestra

    Antonio Pappano, conductor

    Jan Lisiecki, piano

    14:26
  • 2:08 PM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral": 1st movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven For All: Music of Passion, Power and Beauty

    West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    10:39
  • 2:01 PM

    Tarantella

    Cecile Chaminade

    Chaminade: Piano Music 2

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    4:35
  • 1:56 PM

    Gladiolus Rag

    Scott Joplin

    Lara Downes, piano

    3:43
  • 1:52 PM

    String Quartet No. 1: Rondeau

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Black Composers Series 1974-1978

    Juilliard String Quartet

    2:51
  • 1:48 PM

    Variations on a Theme by Corelli

    Giuseppe Tartini

    Itzhak Perlman Encores

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    3:18
  • 1:45 PM

    The Bourgeois Gentleman: The Fencing Master

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, etc.

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    1:51
  • 1:32 PM

    Gayane: Sabre Dance

    Aram Khachaturian

    Dance!: The World's Favourite Ice-Skating Music

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yuri Temirkanov, conductor

    2:22
  • 1:26 PM

    Symphony No. 40: 1st movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    4:45
  • 1:23 PM

    Venezuelan Waltz No. 3 "Natalia"

    Antonio Lauro

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    Gaudencio Thiago de Mello, percussion

    2:22
  • 1:17 PM

    Merry Mount: Maypole Dances

    Howard Hanson

    American Visions

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    Keith Lockhart, conductor

    4:43
  • 1:07 PM

    Letter from Home

    Aaron Copland

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    6:38
  • 1:04 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 2: Badinerie

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Rolf Smedvig: Virtuoso

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jahja Ling, conductor

    Rolf Smedvig, trumpet

    1:31
  • 12:48 PM

    Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz)

    Johann StraussJr.

    Strauss: Waltzes And Overtures

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Franz Welser-Most, conductor

    10:30
  • 12:41 PM

    Festival March

    Antonin Dvorak

    Rochester Philharmonic

    David Zinman, conductor

    5:39
  • 12:31 PM

    Drottningholm Suite

    Johan Roman

    Roman: Music for a Royal Wedding

    Uppsala Chamber Orchestra

    Anthony Halstead, conductor

    9:34
  • 12:27 PM

    Panamanian Dances: Cumbia y Congo

    William Grant Still

    Oregon String Quartet

    2:59
  • 12:21 PM

    Viola Sonata: 3rd movement

    Ethel Smyth

    TRAILBLAZERS: Sonatas by Henriette Bosmans, Ethel Smyth, and Dora Peja?evi?

    Molly Gebrian, viola

    5:15
  • 12:10 PM

    Six Airs

    John Jenkins

    A Baroque Celebration

    New York Kammermusiker

    Ilonna Pederson, conductor

    11:10
  • 12:04 PM

    Candide: Overture

    Leonard Bernstein

    Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    4:19
  • 11:44 AM

    Symphony No. 9 "Great": 4th movement

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphony No. 9 "The Great"

    Northern Sinfonia

    Thomas Zehetmair, conductor

    14:09
  • 11:40 AM

    Viola Quintet: Rondo

    Alberto Hemsi

    ARC Ensemble

    Steven Dann, viola

    2:35
  • 11:37 AM

    Over Laughing Waters

    Cecil Burleigh

    Zina Schiff, violin

    Mary Barranger, piano

    1:42
  • 11:33 AM

    Etude No. 1 "Aeolian Harp"

    Frederic Chopin

    Daniel Barenboim, piano

    2:50
  • 11:19 AM

    Horn Concerto No. 2

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Horn Concertos and Concert Rondo

    London Sinfonietta

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    Richard Watkins, horn

    12:40
  • 11:15 AM

    Time Lapse

    Patrick Harlin

    Five MInutes for Earth

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    3:16
  • 11:08 AM

    Orchestral Suite No. 2 "Characteristic": Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Prague Symphony Orchestra

    Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

    6:10
  • 11:04 AM

    Les Tours de Passe-Passe (Sleight of Hand)

    Francois Couperin

    David Russell, guitar

    2:46
  • 10:32 AM

    Concerto for Oboe and Violin

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    JS Bach: Violin Concertos

    Janine Jansen and Friends

    Janine Jansen, violin

    13:31
  • 10:18 AM

    String Symphony No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn String Symphonies

    Amadeus Ensemble

    Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

    11:43
  • 10:06 AM

    Overture di Ballo

    Arthur Sullivan

    Gilbert & Sullivan: Overtures

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    11:25
  • 10:01 AM

    Vexilla regis

    Anton Bruckner

    Bruckner: Motets

    Choir of St. Bride's

    4:43
  • 9:43 AM

    Noble and Sentimental Waltzes

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Valses nobles et sentimentales / Gaspard de la nuit

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    15:21
  • 9:25 AM

    Tuba Concerto

    John Williams

    Singapore Symphony Orchestra

    Anne Manson, conductor

    Oystein Baadsvik, tuba

    17:03
  • 9:21 AM

    Slumber Song

    Roger Quilter

    Lullaby

    Julian Lloyd Webber, cello

    1:41
  • 9:06 AM

    Wind Quintet

    Anton Reicha

    Ibert, J.: 3 Pieces Breves / Reicha, A.: Wind Quintet in E-Flat Major / Arnold, M.: 3 Shanties / Klughardt, A.F.M.: Wind Quintet

    Bergen Wind Quintet

    14:06
  • 9:01 AM

    9:15 Revue: Get Happy

    Harold Arlen

    Jenny Lin, piano

    4:50
  • 8:28 AM

    Fairy Tale

    Josef Suk

    Suk: Praga; Fairy Tale "Pohadka"

    North West German Philharmonic

    Alun Francis, conductor

    29:31
  • 8:22 AM

    Aria in Classic Style

    Marcel Grandjany

    Classics for Chamber Orchestra

    Stockholm Chamber Orchestra

    Jan-Olav Wedin, conductor

    Christine Muhlbach, harp

    5:58
  • 8:10 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 46

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Balakirev

    Lang Lang, piano

    10:48
  • 8:01 AM

    A Fugal Concerto

    Gustav Holst

    Bax: Garden of Fand, Tintagel, November Woods

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Imogen Holst, conductor

    William Bennett, flute

    7:58
  • 7:47 AM

    Symphony No. 2: 4th movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    The Tchaikovsky Project

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    11:22
  • 7:28 AM

    Guitar Quintet No. 7

    Luigi Boccherini

    Boccherini: The Guitar Quintets

    Academy Chamber Ensemble

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    18:32
  • 7:09 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 11

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 & 6

    Handel and Haydn Society

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    16:50
  • 7:01 AM

    Siegfried: Forest Murmurs

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Orchestral Music from The Ring

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    7:40
  • 6:26 AM

    Symphony No. 38 "Prague"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 & 38

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    32:15
  • 6:16 AM

    Concertino

    Ernest Bloch

    Ernest Bloch: Concerti Grossi 1 & 2

    Amadeus Chamber Orchestra

    Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

    Michael Martin Kofler, flute

    9:59
  • 6:01 AM

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    12:40
  • 5:34 AM

    Intermezzo: Interludes

    Richard Strauss

    R. Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite, Etc

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Andre Previn, conductor

    23:43
  • 5:19 AM

    Miserere

    Gregorio Allegri

    Agnus Dei: Music Of Inner Harmony

    Choir of New College, Oxford

    Edward Higginbottom, conductor

    14:51
  • 5:01 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 10

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATAS OPP 2/1, 14/2, 53 & 54

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    16:21