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  • 4:16 AM

    Symphony No. 2

    Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Serenade; Excelsior!

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    42:00
  • 4:13 AM

    Moonlit Pavement

    Elie Siegmeister

    Lara Downes, piano

    1:35
  • 4:06 AM

    Midsummer Moon

    Rebecca Clarke

    Lorraine McAslan, violin

    Ian Jones, piano

    6:14
  • 4:01 AM

    Two Aquarelles

    Frederick Delius

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Norman Del Mar, conductor

    4:35
  • 3:42 AM

    Romeo and Juliet: Love Scene

    Hector Berlioz

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    16:11
  • 3:18 AM

    Cello Concerto

    Albert Dietrich

    Romantic Cello Concerto Vol. 2

    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Hannu Lintu, conductor

    Alban Gerhardt, cello

    22:47
  • 3:15 AM

    Media Vita

    Kerensa Briggs

    All Things Are Quite Silent

    Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge

    Anna Lapwood, conductor

    2:58
  • 3:06 AM

    All Things Majestic: String Lake

    Jennifer Higdon

    Nashville Symphony Orchestra

    Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor

    7:04
  • 3:01 AM

    Leaving Home; A Single Bamboo

    Zhou Long

    The Flowing Stream

    Shanghai Quartet

    4:40
  • 2:37 AM

    Caprice russe

    Anton Rubinstein

    RUBINSTEIN: Piano Concerto No. 5 / Caprice Russe

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Stankovsky, conductor

    Joseph Banowetz, piano

    20:27
  • 2:21 AM

    Overture burlesque

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Telemann, Vol. 2: 'Ouverture Burlesque'

    Collegium Musicum 90

    14:54
  • 2:15 AM

    Sonatina: 2nd movement

    Geghuni Chitchyan

    By Women

    Sahan Arzruni, piano

    3:54
  • 2:06 AM

    The Dream of Cleopatra

    Mel Bonis

    Aux etoiles: French Symphonic Poems

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, conductor

    9:01
  • 2:01 AM

    In the Mists: No. 1

    Leos Janacek

    Water

    Helene Grimaud, piano

    4:35
  • 1:51 AM

    Transcendental Etude No. 4 "Mazeppa"

    Franz Liszt

    Liszt - Transscendental Etudes

    Haochen Zhang, piano

    7:15
  • 1:35 AM

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Simon Joly, conductor

    14:48
  • 1:26 AM

    Cloudburst

    Eric Whitacre

    Whitacre: Cloudburst

    Polyphony

    Stephen Layton, conductor

    Stephen Betteridge, piano

    8:20
  • 1:16 AM

    Grand Canyon Suite: Cloudburst

    Ferde Grofe

    Utah Symphony Orchestra

    Maurice Abravanel, conductor

    8:53
  • 1:07 AM

    Cuban Landscape with Rain

    Leo Brouwer

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    6:59
  • 1:01 AM

    Eine kleine Nachtmusik: 1st movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart at the Movies

    Columbia Symphony Orchestra

    Bruno Walter, conductor

    4:36
  • 12:38 AM

    Symphony No. 8: 4th movement

    Anton Bruckner

    Bruckner: The Symphonies

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    20:46
  • 12:22 AM

    Marosszek Dances

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Kodaly: The Peacock, Galanta Dances, Marosszek Dances

    Budapest Symphony Orchestra

    Gyorgy Lehel, conductor

    13:53
  • 12:20 AM

    Joao Luiz, guitar

    2:17
  • 12:06 AM

    Le Roi d'Ys Overture

    Edouard Lalo

    Bizet/Roma/Lalo/Le Roi d'Ys

    Bordeaux Aquitaine Orchestra

    Roberto Benzi, conductor

    12:02
  • 12:01 AM

    Liti Kersti: Bjorgulv the Fiddler

    Arne Eggen

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Bjarte Engeset, conductor

    4:33
  • 11:47 PM

    Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Saint-Saens: Jinjoo Cho Appassionato Mathieu Herzog

    Appassionato

    Mathieu Herzog, conductor

    Jinjoo Cho, violin

    9:47
  • 11:39 PM

    String Quartet No. 6: 1st movement

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Arabella String Quartet

    6:47
  • 11:22 PM

    Karelia Suite

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Karelia Suite; Rakastava; Lemminkainen

    Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

    Susanna Malkki, conductor

    17:04
  • 11:13 PM

    Octet: 5th movement

    Franz Schubert

    Isabelle Faust, violin

    Anne-Katharina Schreiber, violin

    James Boyd, viola

    Kristin von der Goltz, cello

    James Munro, bass

    Lorenzo Coppola, clarinet

    7:15
  • 11:06 PM

    King Stephen: Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven" Symphonis Nos 4 and 8

    Hanover Band

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    6:39
  • 11:01 PM

    Conga del Fuego

    Arturo Marquez

    Gustavo Dudamel: Discoveries

    Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    4:47
  • 10:46 PM

    Concerto for Trombone

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Trombone Concerti

    Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra

    Chikara Imamura, conductor

    Christian Lindberg, trombone

    11:41
  • 10:34 PM

    Water Music Suite No. 1

    George Frideric Handel

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    10:11
  • 10:26 PM

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Lorin Maazel, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    8:08
  • 10:14 PM

    Gli Incogniti

    Amandine Beyer, conductor

    10:16
  • 10:06 PM

    Das Rheingold: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Orchestral Music from The Ring

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    7:33
  • 10:01 PM

    Ensemble Giardino di Delizie

    4:35
  • 9:47 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 22: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mahler Chamber Orchestra

    Leif Ove Andsnes, conductor

    Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

    10:46
  • 9:41 PM

    All Seems Beautiful to Me

    Eric Whitacre

    Home

    Voces8

    4:48
  • 9:29 PM

    Capriccio Brillant

    Felix Mendelssohn

    New York Philharmonic

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    Helen Huang, piano

    11:25
  • 9:24 PM

    Two Romantic Preludes

    Marcel Tournier

    Glorian Duo

    3:35
  • 9:13 PM

    Orchestra Rehearsal

    Nino Rota

    Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    10:02
  • 9:06 PM

    La Scala di Seta (Silken Ladder): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jaime Laredo, conductor

    6:25
  • 9:03 PM

    Libertango

    Astor Piazzolla

    Latigo

    Quartet San Francisco

    2:31
  • 8:48 PM

    Symphony No. 2: 4th movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Symphonie 2, Academic Festival Overture

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    10:05
  • 8:28 PM

    Miss Sally's Party

    William Grant Still

    Skyward My People Rose

    VocalEssence Orchestra

    Philip Brunelle, conductor

    19:02
  • 8:16 PM

    From Italy (Aus Italien): In Rome's Ruins

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Don Juan; Aus Italien

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    11:01
  • 8:13 PM

    A Prole Do Bebe (The Baby's Family of Dolls): O Polichinelo (Clown)

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    1:32
  • 8:06 PM

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Bela Bartok

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    6:14
  • 8:01 PM

    Two Sketches

    Amy Beach

    Beach: Fire-flies: The Solo Piano Music of Amy Beach Vol. 3

    Joanne Polk, piano

    4:38
  • 7:49 PM

    Spanish Overture No. 2 "Summer Night in Madrid"

    Mikhail Glinka

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

    8:58
  • 5:47 PM

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

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, Carnival Overture

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    11:55
  • 5:30 PM

    Capriccio Espagnol

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Iberia: Music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy, Turina

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    Eliot Chapo, violin

    15:18
  • 5:20 PM

    Suite on Galician Songs: Morning Song

    Enrique Granados

    Granados: Orchestral Works Vol. 1

    Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

    Pablo Gonzalez, conductor

    9:21
  • 5:13 PM

    They Can't Take That Away from Me

    George Gershwin

    Classical Gershwin

    Katie Mahan, piano

    4:37
  • 5:06 PM

    Espana

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Ports of Call

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    6:31
  • 5:01 PM

    Waltz-Impromptu

    Franz Liszt

    Alexis Weissenberg, piano

    4:35
  • 4:45 PM

    Introduction and Allegro

    Edward Elgar

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    13:10
  • 4:19 PM

    Cello Concerto No. 1

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Cello Concertos

    Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Truls Mork, cello

    23:55
  • 4:11 PM

    Serenade No. 1: Rondo

    Johannes Brahms

    Residentie Orchestra of the Hague

    Jan Willem de Vriend, conductor

    6:24
  • 4:06 PM

    Lute Sonata No. 128 "The Famous Pirate": Courante

    Silvius Weiss

    Weiss, S.L.: Lute Sonatas, Vol. 10

    Robert Barto, lute

    4:37
  • 4:01 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Slavyanskaya": Scherzo

    Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov: Symphonies 1 & 5

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:48
  • 3:53 PM

    Carmina Burana: O Fortuna

    Carl Orff

    German Opera Orchestra

    Eugen Jochum, conductor

    5:10
  • 3:36 PM

    Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise

    Frederic Chopin

    Lang Lang, piano

    15:16
  • 3:21 PM

    String Symphony No. 6

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn String Symphonies

    Amadeus Ensemble

    Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

    13:30
  • 3:06 PM

    Excelsior! Symphonic Overture

    Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Stenhammer: Symphony No. 2

    Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    14:19
  • 3:01 PM

    String Quartet: Vivace

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius Academy Quartet

    4:44
  • 2:47 PM

    Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter": Finale

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies No. 40 & No. 41

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    11:37
  • 2:46 PM

    Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter": Finale

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies No. 40 & No. 41

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    11:37
  • 2:22 PM

    Pulcinella Suite

    Igor Stravinsky

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    20:36
  • 2:12 PM

    Symphony No. 7

    William Boyce

    Boyce: Symphonies, Op. 2

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    8:55
  • 2:05 PM

    Minuet Antique

    Maurice Ravel

    Heidi Lowy, piano

    5:33
  • 1:57 PM

    La Stravaganza: Violin Concerto No. 8

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Arte Dei Suonatori Baroque Orchestra

    Rachel Podger, violin

    7:06
  • 1:48 PM

    Symphony No. 8: 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    7:44
  • 1:45 PM

    Letter from Home

    Pat Metheny

    Jason Vieaux, g

    2:33
  • 1:43 PM

    Symphony No. 1: 4th movement

    Joe Jackson

    Studio Orchestra

    Joe Jackson, conductor

    10:16
  • 1:33 PM

    Symphony

    Leopold Mozart

    Leopold Mozart: Symphonies

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    9:52
  • 1:29 PM

    March

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sound Off!

    United States Marine Band

    Col. John Bourgeois, conductor

    2:02
  • 1:17 PM

    Variations serieuses (Serious Variations)

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1 & 2

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    10:49
  • 1:10 PM

    Arabesque No. 1

    Claude Debussy

    Reverie

    Carol Rosenberger, piano

    4:25
  • 1:04 PM

    Colas Breugnon Overture

    Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Tchaikovsky: Pathetique Symphony

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Fritz Reiner, conductor

    4:47
  • 12:52 PM

    Scottish Fantasy: Finale

    Max Bruch

    Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole; Bruch: Scottish Fantasy

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    6:52
  • 12:49 PM

    Jazz Suite No. 1: Waltz

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Shostakovich: Ballet Suites Nos. 1 & 3, Jazz Suites Nos. 1 & 2

    Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Dmitri Kitayenko, conductor

    2:19
  • 12:45 PM

    Novelettes

    Francis Poulenc

    Eric Parkin, piano

    6:07
  • 12:33 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 2

    George Frideric Handel

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Richard Egarr, conductor

    11:18
  • 12:23 PM

    Porgy and Bess: Summertime

    George Gershwin

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    Audra McDonald, soprano

    4:00
  • 12:16 PM

    The Tempest: Dance of Nymphs and Reapers

    Arthur Sullivan

    Kansas City Symphony

    Michael Stern, conductor

    5:05
  • 12:10 PM

    Octet: Scherzo

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: The Complete String Quartets

    Emerson String Quartet

    4:14
  • 12:04 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 3

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak Symphony No. 2, Slavonic Dances

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    5:04
  • 11:50 AM

    Moravian Dances

    Leos Janacek

    Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

    Antoni Wit, conductor

    8:56
  • 11:44 AM

    Sonata No. 6

    Niccolo Paganini

    Gil Shaham, violin

    Goran Sollscher, guitar

    4:25
  • 11:31 AM

    Recorder Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    I Solisti Veneti

    Claudio Scimone, conductor

    Michala Petri, recorder

    10:55
  • 11:19 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 16

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

    Ingrid Haebler, piano

    10:47
  • 11:16 AM

    La Peri (The Fairy): Fanfare

    Paul Dukas

    Dukas: Symphonie en Ut, La Peri, L'Apprenti Sorcier

    French National Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    2:13
  • 11:09 AM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Giuseppe Torelli

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    5:45
  • 11:04 AM

    Tales of Hoffmann: Barcarolle

    Jacques Offenbach

    Karajan Conducts Orchestral Favorites II

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    4:09
  • 10:32 AM

    Dolly Suite

    Gabriel Faure

    The French Connection

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    17:18
  • 10:27 AM

    Spring Breeze

    Wei-Chieh Lin

    From Hungary to Taiwan

    Formosa Quartet

    5:08
  • 10:17 AM

    Whimsical Symphony (Grillensymphonie)

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Suites and Concertos by Telemann

    Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra

    Jeannette Sorrell, conductor

    8:32
  • 10:06 AM

    Academic Festival Overture

    Johannes Brahms

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    10:05
  • 10:01 AM

    Flute Concerto: 3rd movement

    Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

    Musica Antiqua Cologne

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor

    Verena Fischer, flute

    4:47
  • 9:48 AM

    By the Beautiful Blue Danube (An der schonen, blauen Donau)

    Johann StraussJr.

    Bernstein Favorites: Waltzes

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    10:20
  • 9:32 AM

    L'assedio di Corinto (Siege of Corinth): Ballet Music

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Ballet Music

    Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra

    Antonio de Almeida, conductor

    14:13
  • 9:25 AM

    Prelude and Fugue No. 1

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Jenny Lin, piano

    5:25
  • 9:06 AM

    A Downland Suite

    John Ireland

    City of London Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    18:20
  • 9:01 AM

    Choro No. 1 "Tipico Brasileiro"

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    David Russell, guitar

    4:30
  • 8:21 AM

    Triple Concerto

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    36:41
  • 8:17 AM

    Reverie

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy's Harp

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    4:04
  • 8:01 AM

    Flute Quartet No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Emerson String Quartet

    Carol Wincenc, flute

    14:00
  • 7:33 AM

    Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Hanson Conducts Moore, Carpenter, Rogers and Philips

    Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, conductor

    25:16
  • 7:16 AM

    Suite in the Ancient Style

    Vincent d'Indy

    Vincent D'Indy

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    16:19
  • 7:07 AM

    African Suite: Joyful Day

    Fela Sowande

    Black Composers Series 1974-1978

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    7:38
  • 7:01 AM

    Shenandoah

    Traditional

    Jeni Slotchiver, piano

    5:01
  • 6:35 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

    Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin

    22:47
  • 6:22 AM

    Chimney of King Rene

    Darius Milhaud

    Milhaud: Music for Wind Instruments

    Athena Ensemble

    12:53
  • 6:01 AM

    Symphony No. 21

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    18:47
  • 5:44 AM

    Spanish Dances

    Moritz Moszkowski

    From Foreign Lands

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    14:19
  • 5:25 AM

    Guitar Concerto

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    New York Philharmonic

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    18:30
  • 5:01 AM

    Viola Sonata No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Emily Skala, flute

    Norman Krieger, piano

    22:04