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  • 4:20 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 2 "In Evening Light"

    Peteris Vasks

    In Evening Light

    Munich Chamber Orchestra

    Sergej Bolkhovets, conductor

    Sebastian Bohren, violin

    38:09
  • 4:10 AM

    The Masks

    Ronald LoPresti

    Menotti: Apocalypse

    Oregon Symphony

    James DePreist, conductor

    8:10
  • 4:06 AM

    Semper Dowland semper Dolens

    John Dowland

    Dowland: Lachrimae, Fretwork

    Fretwork

    3:38
  • 4:01 AM

    Zambra Granadina

    Isaac Albeniz

    David Russell, guitar

    4:43
  • 3:54 AM

    Verses

    Olafur Arnalds

    The Chopin Project

    Alice Sara Ott, piano

    4:01
  • 3:46 AM

    Hymn of the Universe: Fold Your Wings, My Soul

    Tina Davidson

    Hymn to the Universe

    VocalEssence

    Philip Brunelle, conductor

    Tina James, English horn

    7:47
  • 3:22 AM

    String Quartet

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Puccini: Chrisantemi/3 Minuetti, etc.

    Orchestra of the Auvergne

    Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor

    22:16
  • 3:07 AM

    Requiem: Libera Me

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Concert Recording

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Ryan Bancroft, conductor

    Latonia Moore, soprano

    13:32
  • 3:01 AM

    Partita No. 6: Courante

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    JS Bach: Partitas 1, 3, 6

    Piotr Anderszewski, piano

    4:35
  • 2:55 AM

    Narayama

    Kozaburo Hirai

    Japanese Folk Melodies

    Ensemble Lunaire

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    2:51
  • 2:36 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Shostakovich, Shchedrin: Piano Concertos

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    19:12
  • 2:22 AM

    Snow Maiden Suite

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Orchestral Suites

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    12:28
  • 2:18 AM

    Impressions: The Little Shepherd

    Ulvi Cemal Erkin

    To Anatolia - Selections from the Turkish Five

    Beyza Yazgan, piano

    1:30
  • 2:06 AM

    Symphony No. 8

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 8, 9, 44, 47, 45, & 11

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    11:39
  • 2:01 AM

    Portraits of Langston: Silver Rain

    Valerie Coleman

    Demarre McGill, flute

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    Michael McHale, piano

    4:47
  • 1:51 AM

    Waltz No. 1 "Grand Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    My Life in Music

    Ruth Slenczynska, piano

    7:12
  • 1:24 AM

    String Quartet No. 10

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Quartets D804 Rosamunde, D87 and Quartettsatz

    Borodin Quartet

    25:25
  • 1:13 AM

    Symphony No. 9: Scherzo

    Anton Bruckner

    Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

    Manfred Honeck, conductor

    10:09
  • 1:06 AM

    Piano Quartet No. 1: Scherzo

    Emilie Mayer

    Mariani Piano Quartet

    4:01
  • 1:01 AM

    Serenade for Guitar and Strings

    Malcolm Arnold

    English Guitar Concertos

    Northern Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    Craig Ogden, guitar

    4:31
  • 12:43 AM

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    15:46
  • 12:18 AM

    Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    23:16
  • 12:13 AM

    Danza lucumi

    Ernesto Lecuona

    Manuel Barrueco, guitar

    3:28
  • 12:06 AM

    Five Preludes

    William Alwyn

    Alwyn: Orchestral Music

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    5:58
  • 12:01 AM

    Lyric Pieces: Det var engang (Once upon a time)

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Lyric Pieces

    Emil Gilels, piano

    4:36
  • 11:55 PM

    Romance No. 5

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Paganini-Variationen; Intermezzi op 117; Klavierstucke op. 118

    Lilya Zilberstein, piano

    3:37
  • 11:52 PM

    Rondo for Violin and Orchestra

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    Yakov Kreizberg, conductor

    Julia Fischer, violin

    6:10
  • 11:42 PM

    Triple Concerto: Rondo alla Polacca

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven Piano Concertos Part 1

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Alan Gilbert, conductor

    Inon Barnatan, piano

    12:57
  • 11:17 PM

    La Mer (The Sea)

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: La Mer, Nocturnes, Etc

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    23:37
  • 11:12 PM

    Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Essential Bach

    Marisa Robles, harp

    3:13
  • 11:01 PM

    The Fairies: Overture

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, An Orchestral Passion

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    10:47
  • 10:49 PM

    Variations Concertantes

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Felix Mendelssohn: Complete Works for Cello and Piano

    Marcy Rosen, cello

    9:35
  • 10:43 PM

    Elegy for Viola and Piano

    Alexander Glazunov

    The Russian Viola

    Nobuko Imai, viola

    6:03
  • 10:30 PM

    Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

    Aram Khachaturian

    Russian Adagios

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor

    11:53
  • 10:18 PM

    Aires de la Mancha

    Federico Torroba

    Joao Luiz, guitar

    9:42
  • 10:11 PM

    Iolanthe Overture

    Arthur Sullivan

    A Gilbert & Sullivan Gala

    Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

    Bramwell Tovey, conductor

    6:59
  • 10:00 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Giuseppe Tartini

    Italian Concertos

    Scottish Ensemble

    Jonathan Morton, conductor

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    9:40
  • 9:49 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 5 "Turkish": 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Violin Concertos 3, 4, And 5

    Lucerne Festival Strings

    Daniel Dodds, conductor

    Arabella Steinbacher, violin

    9:15
  • 9:36 PM

    The Butterfly's Ball

    Frederic Cowen

    Overtures from the British Isles

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    11:49
  • 9:30 PM

    Goin' Home

    Antonin Dvorak

    That Eternal Day

    Cantus

    5:18
  • 9:15 PM

    O'Carolan Suite in Baroque Style

    Thomas C. Kelly

    Silver Apples of the Moon

    Irish Chamber Orchestra

    Fionnuala Hunt, conductor

    13:55
  • 9:09 PM

    Entry March of the Boyars

    Johan Halvorsen

    Russian Fireworks

    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Kenneth Jean, conductor

    5:01
  • 9:05 PM

    Liebesfreud (Love's Joy)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Bravura

    Cho-Liang Lin, violin

    3:22
  • 9:02 PM

    Gloria: Laudamus Te

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi's Cello

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    2:21
  • 8:51 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Titan": 2nd movement

    Gustav Mahler

    Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Blumine

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    8:03
  • 8:27 PM

    Faithful Shepherd: Suite

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Water Music, Il Pastor Fido

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    23:09
  • 8:14 PM

    Consort for Ten Winds

    Robert Spittal

    Atlanta Chamber Winds

    Robert J. Ambrose, conductor

    10:35
  • 8:05 PM

    Concerto for Two Oboe d'amore

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Camerata Cologne

    Hans-Peter Westermann, oboe d'amore

    Piet Dhont, oboe d'amore

    8:25
  • 8:00 PM

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:15
  • 5:42 PM

    Wand of Youth Suite No. 2

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    15:55
  • 5:30 PM

    Concerto for Two Horns

    Leopold Mozart

    L. Mozart, Fasch, Mouret: Concerti da caccia

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Hermann Baumann, horn

    11:03
  • 5:21 PM

    Spring Song

    Jean Sibelius

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    8:20
  • 5:12 PM

    A Fugal Concerto

    Gustav Holst

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    Kathryn Greenbank, oboe

    Julia Bogorad-Kogan, flute

    7:22
  • 5:06 PM

    Serenade

    Roman Hoffstetter

    Promenade Concert

    I Solisti Italiani

    5:29
  • 5:01 PM

    Symphony No. 5: Scherzo

    Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov: Symphony No. 5 The Seasons

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    4:47
  • 4:43 PM

    Bull on the Roof (Le boeuf sur le toit)

    Darius Milhaud

    French Showpieces

    Quebec Symphony Orchestra

    Yoav Talmi, conductor

    James Ehnes, violin

    15:15
  • 4:28 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 18

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Orli Shahm Mozart Sonatas Vol. 2 and 3

    Orli Shaham, piano

    13:31
  • 4:21 PM

    Introduction and Tarantella

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Gil Shaham, violin

    Akira Eguchi, piano

    5:12
  • 4:06 PM

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"; Hebrides, Meerstille Und Glückliche Fahrt & Ruy Blas Overtures

    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Oliver Dohnanyi, conductor

    13:32
  • 4:01 PM

    Waltz No. 4

    Cecile Chaminade

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    4:47
  • 3:54 PM

    Spanish Dance No. 5 "Andaluza"

    Enrique Granados

    Romance D'amour

    Narciso Yepes, guitar

    4:35
  • 3:43 PM

    Variations on "I Got Rhythm"

    George Gershwin

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Orion Weiss, piano

    8:43
  • 3:06 PM

    Symphony No. 3

    Johannes Brahms

    Concert Recording

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

    35:16
  • 3:01 PM

    Rondo

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas And Rondos

    Mikhail Pletnev, piano

    4:42
  • 2:51 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "Four Temperaments": 4th movement

    Carl Nielsen

    Carl Nielsen: Symphonies 2 And 3

    New York Philharmonic

    Alan Gilbert, conductor

    7:27
  • 2:49 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "Four Temperaments": 4th movement

    Carl Nielsen

    Carl Nielsen: Symphonies 2 And 3

    New York Philharmonic

    Alan Gilbert, conductor

    7:27
  • 2:31 PM

    Faust Ballet Music

    Charles Gounod

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Michel Plasson, conductor

    16:22
  • 2:24 PM

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Avlana Eisenberg, conductor

    5:58
  • 2:19 PM

    Intermezzo No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms Inspired

    Orli Shaham, piano

    4:58
  • 2:05 PM

    Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1

    Georges Enescu

    Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Night on Bald Mountain, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, Bolero

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    13:09
  • 2:00 PM

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Nightmoods - Solo Journey

    Wilhelm Kempff, piano

    4:43
  • 1:50 PM

    Polonaise No. 6 "Heroic"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1

    Olga Kern, piano

    6:49
  • 1:37 PM

    Second Suite

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: Hammersmith, Moorside Suite, Suites 1 And 2 / Dunn

    Dallas Wind Symphony

    Howard Dunn, conductor

    11:20
  • 1:32 PM

    Canzon Duodecimi Toni No. 2

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    Gabrieli and St. Marks: Venetian Brass Music

    Wallace Collection

    4:05
  • 1:24 PM

    Namouna: Cigarette Waltz

    Edouard Lalo

    Lalo: Namuona - Musique de Ballet

    Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

    David Robertson, conductor

    6:15
  • 1:19 PM

    Prelude No. 5

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Plinio Fernandes, guitar

    3:58
  • 1:08 PM

    Serenade for Strings: Finale

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Favourite Serenades for Orchestra

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    7:30
  • 1:04 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 8

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    3:59
  • 12:48 PM

    Dances in the Canebrakes

    Florence Price

    Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    9:29
  • 12:34 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Eroica": 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonien 1-9

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    11:42
  • 12:30 PM

    Caprice-Burlesque

    Ossip Gabrilowitsch

    Stephen Hough: The Piano Album, Vol.1

    Stephen Hough, piano

    4:26
  • 12:20 PM

    Oboe Concerto No. 3

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Venetian Oboe Concertos

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Simon Wright, conductor

    John Anderson, oboe

    8:18
  • 12:15 PM

    The Swan-Queen

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    From Russia with Harp

    Sasha Boldachev, harp

    3:55
  • 12:09 PM

    Double Quartet No. 1: Scherzo

    Louis Spohr

    Spohr: The Four Double Quartets

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

    4:26
  • 12:04 PM

    Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz

    Aaron Copland

    Morton Gould Orchestra

    4:24
  • 11:58 AM

    Intermezzo No. 3

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Last Piano Pieces

    Stephen Hough, piano

    1:38
  • 11:49 AM

    Serenade No. 2: 1st movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Symphonies

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    7:43
  • 11:41 AM

    36 Original Dances "First Waltzes": selections

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Landler

    Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

    6:39
  • 11:31 AM

    Symphony No. 40: Finale

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies No. 40 & 41

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    9:05
  • 11:22 AM

    My Life is Love and Laughter Waltz

    Josef Strauss

    1995 New Year's Concert

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Zubin Mehta, conductor

    7:39
  • 11:16 AM

    String Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Italian Oratorios

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    5:33
  • 11:10 AM

    Il Postino: Main Theme

    Luis Bacalov

    Cinema Serenade

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    3:46
  • 11:04 AM

    Vocalise

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    A La Carte

    Abbey Road Ensemble

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    5:48
  • 10:49 AM

    Invitation to the Dance

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Weber Overtures

    Hanover Band

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    9:29
  • 10:29 AM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Hummel

    Haydn, Hummel, Etc.: Trumpet Concertos

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    17:36
  • 10:25 AM

    Legend No. 2

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Legends, Prague Waltzes

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    4:11
  • 10:14 AM

    Symphony

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Symphonies - From Berlin to Hamburg

    Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

    Mayumi Hirasaki, conductor

    9:06
  • 10:06 AM

    Hansel and Gretel: Overture

    Engelbert Humperdinck

    Humperdinck: Fairy-Tale Music

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor

    7:29
  • 10:01 AM

    Paris Quartet No. 11: Pas vite and Un peu gai

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Telemann: 12 Paris Quartets

    Barthold Kuijken, flute

    4:41
  • 9:40 AM

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet: "Carmen" Suite, "L'Arlesienne" Suite/Offenbach: Barcarolle, "Orpheus in the Underworld" Overture

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    18:33
  • 9:30 AM

    Magnolia Suite: Part 2

    Nathaniel Dett

    Denver Oldham, piano

    8:29
  • 9:17 AM

    Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes

    Grace Williams

    Grace Williams: Sea Sketches

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Charles Groves, conductor

    10:54
  • 9:06 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Pinchas Zukerman, violin

    10:08
  • 9:01 AM

    Prelude No. 1

    Ketil Bjornstad

    Rainbow Sessions

    Ketil Bjornstad, piano

    4:37
  • 8:24 AM

    Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish"

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann: Symphony No. 3, Piano Concerto

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    34:27
  • 8:20 AM

    Shadows

    Ola Gjeilo

    Ola Gjeilo: Night

    Ola Gjeilo, piano

    3:10
  • 8:01 AM

    Flute Quartet No. 3

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Flute Quartets Nos. 1-4

    Jasmine Choi, flute

    17:04
  • 7:43 AM

    Symphonie Fantastique: Reveries

    Hector Berlioz

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    15:29
  • 7:27 AM

    Serenade for Strings

    Dag Wiren

    Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite; Wiren: Serenade, Op. 11

    National Arts Centre Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    14:53
  • 7:13 AM

    Concerto Grosso "Alexander's Feast"

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Alexander's Feast, 3 Oboe Concertos, Sonata A 5

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    12:45
  • 7:01 AM

    Introduction and Variations

    Elias Parish-Alvars

    Carnaval de Venise

    Catrin Finch, harp

    11:06
  • 6:38 AM

    Serenade No. 1

    Robert Fuchs

    Cologne Chamber Orchestra

    Christian Ludwig, conductor

    19:38
  • 6:32 AM

    Praeludium and Allegro

    Fritz Kreisler

    Encore!

    Midori, violin

    5:52
  • 6:01 AM

    Petite Suite

    Alexander Borodin

    Borodin: Three Symphonies, Petite Suite, Polovetsian Dances

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    29:08
  • 5:40 AM

    Guitar Quintet No. 5

    Luigi Boccherini

    Boccherini: Quintets IV, V, VI

    Artaria Quartet

    Richard Savino, guitar

    18:46
  • 5:30 AM

    The Lord is My Shepherd

    Charles Stanford

    The English Anthem, Vol. 3

    Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral

    John Scott, conductor

    8:22
  • 5:01 AM

    Cello Sonata No. 2

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Marcy Rosen, cello

    Lydia Artymiw, piano

    27:48