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  • 4:32 AM

    Symphony No. 6

    Jean Sibelius

    Lahti Symphony Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    26:47
  • 4:17 AM

    Fantasie for Violin and Harp

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Glorian Duo

    12:51
  • 4:06 AM

    Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    10:10
  • 4:01 AM

    Angela's Ashes: Angela's Prayer

    John Williams

    Angela's Ashes (Music From The Motion Picture)

    Studio Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    4:47
  • 3:39 AM

    Cello Suite No. 2

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    18:58
  • 3:37 AM

    Little Prelude No. 8 "Fughetta"

    Joseph Jongen

    Ivan Ilic, piano

    1:12
  • 3:15 AM

    Symphonic Variations

    Antonin Dvorak

    North German Radio Symphony

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    21:08
  • 3:06 AM

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    6:53
  • 3:01 AM

    Symphonic Suite for Strings: Prelude

    Marion Bauer

    Marion Bauer: American Youth Concerto

    Ambache Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble

    4:39
  • 2:48 AM

    Dances in the Canebrakes

    Florence Price

    Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    9:29
  • 2:32 AM

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    14:16
  • 2:18 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 9

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Awadagin Pratt: Beethoven Piano Sonatas

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    13:00
  • 2:06 AM

    Duo for Flute and Piano: Flowing

    Aaron Copland

    Return

    Sonora Slocum, flute

    5:57
  • 2:01 AM

    Lyric Quartet: The Quiet One

    William Grant Still

    William Grant Still

    Oregon String Quartet

    4:35
  • 1:44 AM

    Serenade

    E.J. Moeran

    Northern Sinfonia of England

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    14:23
  • 1:31 AM

    Night on Bald Mountain

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Mephisto and Co.

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    11:49
  • 1:14 AM

    Serenade for Strings

    Hans Gal

    Symphony Nova Scotia

    Georg Tintner, conductor

    15:11
  • 1:06 AM

    L'Isle joyeuse (Joyous Isle)

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Orchestral Works 5

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    6:55
  • 1:01 AM

    Prelude No. 25

    Frederic Chopin

    Vanessa Perez, piano

    4:50
  • 12:50 AM

    Symphony No. 2: Finale

    Niels Gade

    Gade: Symphonies 2 & 7

    Stockholm Sinfonietta

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    8:39
  • 12:23 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Erich Korngold

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Kirill Karabits, conductor

    Nicola Benedetti, violin

    25:33
  • 12:16 AM

    Sylvia: Procession of Bacchus

    Leo Delibes

    The Flag Series - France

    New Philharmonia Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    5:52
  • 12:11 AM

    Janoska Ensemble

    3:43
  • 12:06 AM

    Valse Triste

    Jean Sibelius

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    4:26
  • 12:01 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 1

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Maria Bergmann, piano

    4:37
  • 11:56 PM

    Four Mazurkas

    Maria Szymanowska

    Katelyn Bouska, piano

    2:28
  • 11:51 PM

    Symphony No. 7: 3rd movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Echoes of Eastern Europe

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    7:04
  • 11:35 PM

    Aranjuez Concerto

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Julian Bream, guitar

    21:15
  • 11:17 PM

    Sinfonia No. 4

    Franz Beck

    Beck: Symphonies Op. 3, Nos. 1-4

    Toronto Chamber Orchestra

    Kevin Mallon, conductor

    16:45
  • 11:07 PM

    Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture

    Jacques Offenbach

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    9:36
  • 11:01 PM

    "Still Life" at the Penguin Cafe: Air a danser

    Simon Jeffes

    BBC Concert Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    Isobel Bradshaw, contralto

    Henry Roche, piano

    4:33
  • 10:57 PM

    Alicia de Larrocha, piano

    2:56
  • 10:46 PM

    South American Suite

    Brian Packham

    Highlands

    Camerata Bariloche

    Chris Norman, flute

    10:10
  • 10:27 PM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 6

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Saulius Sondeckis, conductor

    Julia Zilberquit, piano

    17:11
  • 10:19 PM

    Overture "In the Italian Style"

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphonies, Vol. 2

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Edward Gardner, conductor

    7:20
  • 10:07 PM

    Irish Suite for Strings

    Arthur Duff

    Silver Apples of the Moon

    Irish Chamber Orchestra

    Fionnuala Hunt, conductor

    10:06
  • 10:00 PM

    Medley of Scots Tunes

    Rachel Barton Pine

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Alexander Platt, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    Alasdair Fraser, fiddle

    5:58
  • 9:54 PM

    Madeleine Stucki, piano

    4:19
  • 9:31 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 4

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    Yakov Kreizberg, conductor

    Julia Fischer, violin

    22:29
  • 9:27 PM

    Ubi Caritas

    Ola Gjeilo

    The Music of King's

    Choir of King's College, Cambridge

    Stephen Cleobury, conductor

    3:01
  • 9:14 PM

    Concert Overture No. 1

    Alberto Williams

    Fiesta Criolla: Latin-American Orchestral Works

    Wurttemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen

    Gabriel Castagna, conductor

    10:10
  • 9:05 PM

    String Quartet: 1st movement

    Richard Strauss

    Enso String Quartet

    8:18
  • 9:02 PM

    Little Concert Suite: Tarantelle Fretillante

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    2:39
  • 8:45 PM

    Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9

    Franz Liszt

    Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos. 1-6

    Vienna State Opera Orchestra

    Anatole Fistoulari, conductor

    13:33
  • 8:23 PM

    Three Dances

    Maurice Durufle

    Escales: French Orchestral Works

    Sinfonia of London

    John Wilson, conductor

    21:14
  • 8:11 PM

    Introduction and Allegro

    Maurice Ravel

    Allegri String Quartet

    Vanessa McKeand, harp

    Carol Wincenc, flute

    David Campbell, clarinet

    10:28
  • 8:04 PM

    Iberia: Triana

    Isaac Albeniz

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    4:53
  • 8:00 PM

    Impromptu No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    Yundi Li, piano

    4:00
  • 5:42 PM

    Dances of Galanta

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Kodaly: The Peacock, Galanta Dances, Marosszek Dances

    Budapest Symphony Orchestra

    Gyorgy Lehel, conductor

    16:04
  • 5:40 PM

    Prelude No. 22

    Frederic Chopin

    The Complete Chopin Preludes

    Yundi Li, piano

    :40
  • 5:17 PM

    Symphony No. 91

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    23:00
  • 5:14 PM

    Elizabethan Masque

    Fredric Bayco

    British Light Music Classics, Vol. 4

    New London Orchestra

    Ronald Corp, conductor

    Ruth Scott, oboe

    2:17
  • 5:11 PM

    Brejeiro (Mischievous)

    Ernesto Nazareth

    Gabriela Montero, piano

    1:46
  • 5:06 PM

    Il Signor Bruschino: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    5:00
  • 5:00 PM

    Giuliano Sommerhalder, trumpet

    Kasia Wieczorek, piano

    4:46
  • 4:47 PM

    Guitar Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Sharon Isbin Plays Baroque Favorites for Guitar

    Zurich Chamber Orchestra

    Howard Griffiths, conductor

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    11:37
  • 4:22 PM

    Serenade for Winds

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Serenades

    Vienna Philharmonic Winds

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    22:54
  • 4:14 PM

    African Suite: Dance

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Kevin John Edusei, conductor

    6:13
  • 4:06 PM

    Jerusalem: Pas de Quatre

    Giuseppe Verdi

    VERDI, G.: Ballet Music from the Operas

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    7:35
  • 4:01 PM

    Contredanse and Tarantelle

    Frederic Chopin

    Malcolm Frager, piano

    4:35
  • 3:52 PM

    American Serenade: Dance

    Antal Dorati

    DORATI: Night Music

    Aalborg Symphony Orchestra

    Moshe Atzmon, conductor

    7:01
  • 3:19 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    Martha Argerich, piano

    31:50
  • 3:09 PM

    Traditional Hornpipe Suite

    Adrian Cruft

    Royal Ballet Sinfonia

    Gavin Sutherland, conductor

    7:08
  • 3:06 PM

    Schwanda the Bagpiper: Polka

    Jaromir Weinberger

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    2:17
  • 3:01 PM

    Romanza Andaluza

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Gil Shaham, violin

    4:46
  • 2:54 PM

    Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture

    Mikhail Glinka

    Russian Overtures

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    4:39
  • 2:52 PM

    Norwegian Dance No. 1

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg, Svendsen: Orchestral Works

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Petri Sakari, conductor

    6:15
  • 2:46 PM

    Devil's Trill Sonata

    Giuseppe Tartini

    Frank Almond, violin

    William Wolfram, piano

    13:34
  • 2:07 PM

    Piano Quartet No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Piano Quartets Op. 25, Op. 60

    Guarneri Quartet

    Artur Rubinstein, piano

    38:20
  • 2:01 PM

    Sinfonia No. 3: 3rd movement

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Gli Incogniti

    Amandine Beyer, conductor

    4:51
  • 1:59 PM

    Pictures from Bashu (Six Sichuan Folk Songs): Evening Dance at Aba

    Hu-Wei Huang

    Chinasong | Shanghai Quartet

    Shanghai Quartet

    Eugenia Zukerman, flute

    1:06
  • 1:45 PM

    The Chairman Dances

    John Adams

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    12:47
  • 1:34 PM

    Warsaw Concerto

    Richard Addinsell

    Concertos: Mathieu, Addinsell, Gershwin

    Quebec Symphony Orchestra

    Yoav Talmi, conductor

    Alain Lefevre, piano

    9:27
  • 1:30 PM

    Ezekiel Saw de Wheel

    William Dawson

    The Spirituals of William Dawson

    St. Olaf Choir

    Anton Armstrong, conductor

    2:54
  • 1:21 PM

    Carousel Waltz

    Richard Rodgers

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    Keith Lockhart, conductor

    7:49
  • 1:17 PM

    Looking Glass Insects

    Deems Taylor

    The Musical Fantasies of Charles Griffes and Deems Taylor

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    2:52
  • 1:09 PM

    Hungarian Dance

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin

    Olga Sitkovetsky, piano

    4:48
  • 1:04 PM

    The Gumsuckers March

    Percy Grainger

    Michigan State University Band

    Keith Brion, conductor

    3:46
  • 12:51 PM

    Symphonic Scherzo

    Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Donald Johanos, conductor

    7:13
  • 12:46 PM

    German Dance No. 5

    Franz Schubert

    Dance

    Zurich Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Hope, violin

    4:28
  • 12:36 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1: Rondo

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Concertos / Fischer, Goode, Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    Richard Goode, piano

    9:11
  • 12:30 PM

    The Merchant of Venice: Suite: A la Valse

    Arthur Sullivan

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Vivian Dunn, conductor

    4:55
  • 12:21 PM

    Suite Mignonne

    Jean Sibelius

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    7:02
  • 12:16 PM

    Spanish Dance No. 5 "Andaluza"

    Enrique Granados

    Razumovsky Sinfonia

    Peter Breiner, conductor

    Norbert Kraft, guitar

    4:29
  • 12:10 PM

    Academy Chamber Ensemble

    4:30
  • 12:04 PM

    Callirhoe: Prelude

    Cecile Chaminade

    Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

    National Orchestra of Metz Grand Est

    David Reiland, conductor

    5:19
  • 11:55 AM

    Symphony No. 99: 3rd movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    4:34
  • 11:47 AM

    A Favorite French Air

    Sophia Dussek

    Favourite Airs Arranged for the Harp

    Kyunghee Kim-Sutre, harp

    5:51
  • 11:37 AM

    Symphony No. 1 "Titan": 2nd movement

    Gustav Mahler

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    8:31
  • 11:32 AM

    Thais: Meditation

    Jules Massenet

    A La Carte

    Abbey Road Ensemble

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    4:36
  • 11:25 AM

    Norwegian Dance No. 1

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg, Svendsen: Orchestral Works

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Petri Sakari, conductor

    6:15
  • 11:17 AM

    Three Shanties

    Malcolm Arnold

    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

    6:36
  • 11:11 AM

    Slavonic Dance No. 10

    Antonin Dvorak

    Deborah Moriarty and Zhihua Tang, piano

    4:46
  • 11:04 AM

    Symphony No. 2: 4th movement

    Alexander Borodin

    Borodin: Three Symphonies, Petite Suite, Polovetsian Dances

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    6:33
  • 10:43 AM

    Suite in the Old Style

    Alfred Schnittke

    Modern Portaits

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

    15:26
  • 10:30 AM

    Trio No. 3 "London"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: London Trios and Divertimentos

    Laurel Zucker, flute

    12:00
  • 10:25 AM

    Mary Poppins: Feed the Birds

    Richard Sherman/Robert Sherman

    Lang Lang: The Disney Book

    Lang Lang, piano

    4:22
  • 10:13 AM

    The Wasps: Overture

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Sound of Everest

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Adrian Boult, conductor

    10:33
  • 10:06 AM

    Trumpet Sinfonia "Il Barcheggio"

    Alessandro Stradella

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    John Nelson, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

    5:57
  • 10:01 AM

    Notre Dame: Intermezzo

    Franz Schmidt

    Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    4:43
  • 9:47 AM

    Invitation to the Dance

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Ballet Gala - Invitation to the Dance

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Richard Bonynge, conductor

    10:56
  • 9:28 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Franz Liszt

    Chopin, Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    Yundi Li, piano

    17:48
  • 9:19 AM

    Vocalise

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    shadow, echo, memory

    Northwestern University Cello Ensemble

    7:27
  • 9:06 AM

    Norbert Kraft, guitar

    12:02
  • 9:01 AM

    Loch Lomond

    Traditional

    Chanticleer

    4:39
  • 8:41 AM

    Tapiola

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Symphonies 6 & 7, Tapiola

    Lahti Symphony Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    17:23
  • 8:21 AM

    An English Suite

    Hubert Parry

    Finzi; Parry; Bridge

    English Symphony Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    19:07
  • 8:09 AM

    Suite of Three Pieces

    Benjamin Godard

    La Flute Enchantee

    City of London Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    Susan Milan, flute

    10:48
  • 8:01 AM

    Straussiana

    Erich Korngold

    Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

    Kazuki Yamada, conductor

    7:14
  • 7:24 AM

    Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    34:10
  • 7:19 AM

    Piano Sonata: 4th movement

    Clara Schumann

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    5:08
  • 7:01 AM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Stamitz

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet

    15:38
  • 6:38 AM

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet: Carmen. L'Arlesienne, etc.

    Paris Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    19:33
  • 6:15 AM

    Mythic Gardens

    Howard Shore

    Howard Shore: Two Concerti

    21st Century Chamber Orchestra

    Ludwig Wicki, conductor

    Sophie Shao, cello

    23:36
  • 6:01 AM

    Keyboard Suite No. 1

    George Frideric Handel

    Philip Edward Fisher, piano

    11:34
  • 5:52 AM

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Alexander Borodin

    Ports of Call

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    6:09
  • 5:49 AM

    To a Wild Rose

    Edward MacDowell

    Paula Robison, flute

    Eliot Fisk, guitar

    1:52
  • 5:01 AM

    Serenade No. 10 "Gran Partita"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concert Recording

    Musikkollegium Winterthur

    Matthias Pintscher, conductor

    46:25