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  • 4:41 AM

    Bridge of Light

    Keith Jarrett

    Fairfield Orchestra

    Thomas Crawford, conductor

    Patricia McCarty, viola

    16:59
  • 4:38 AM

    Textures: Points of Light

    Paul Lansky

    icarus Quartet

    2:47
  • 4:26 AM

    Truro Canticles

    Dobrinka Tabakova

    Dobrinka Tabakova: Kynance Cove, On the South Downs, and Works for Choir

    Truro Cathedral Choir

    Christopher Gray, conductor

    Joseph Wicks, organ

    12:00
  • 4:19 AM

    Hymns for Private Use: Hark, the Vesper Hymn is Stealing

    Nico Muhly

    Akropolis Reed Quintet

    Shara Nova, vocals

    4:23
  • 4:07 AM

    Hymn for Everyone

    Jessie Montgomery

    Contemporary American Composers

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    11:19
  • 4:01 AM

    Chorale for Nanine with Birds (Hommage a Messiaen)

    Gerald Levinson

    Marcantonio Barone, piano

    4:35
  • 3:47 AM

    Icarus

    Elena Ruehr

    Icarus

    Borromeo String Quartet

    Jon Manasse, clarinet

    11:37
  • 3:42 AM

    Clio Gould, violin

    Rachel Portman, piano

    4:33
  • 3:19 AM

    Cello Concerto "Earth, Sea, Air"

    Cheryl Frances-Hoad

    Concert Recording

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

    Laura van der Heijden, cello

    21:04
  • 3:07 AM

    Aditus

    Erkki-Sven Tuur

    Concert Recording

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    9:17
  • 3:01 AM

    Blue Curve of the Earth

    Tina Davidson

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    Cory Smythe, piano

    4:53
  • 2:53 AM

    Autumn Landscape

    Martin Mailman

    Music For Quiet Listening

    Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra

    Howard Hanson, conductor

    5:03
  • 2:20 AM

    Octet

    Charles Martin Loeffler

    Forgotten Sounds

    Graeme Steele Johnson, clarinet

    31:14
  • 2:09 AM

    The Magic Harp

    Ina Boyle

    Dan Godfrey Encores

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Ronald Corp, conductor

    9:15
  • 2:06 AM

    Nocturne "The Stars are Twinkling"

    Selim Palmgren

    Nocturne

    Richard Saxel, piano

    2:40
  • 2:01 AM

    Sure on this Shining Night

    Morten Lauridsen

    A Company Of Voices: Conspirare In Concert

    Conspirare

    Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

    4:29
  • 1:53 AM

    Canon

    Johann Pachelbel

    "Pops in Love"

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    5:01
  • 1:25 AM

    Violin Sonata

    Cesar Franck

    Paris: La Belle Epoque

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    26:39
  • 1:12 AM

    Miniatures for Small Orchestra

    Roque Cordero

    African Heritage Symphonic Series, Vol. II

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    11:43
  • 1:06 AM

    Intermezzo No. 2 "Klavierstucke"

    Johannes Brahms

    Paul Lewis, piano

    4:47
  • 1:01 AM

    Carnival-Waltz

    Florent Schmitt

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Geoffrey Simon, conductor

    4:48
  • 12:54 AM

    Soir, Matin: Soir, a Mademoiselle Foltzer

    Mel Bonis

    Ravel, Faure, and Bonis: Trios avec piano

    Trio George Sand

    4:09
  • 12:17 AM

    Mediterranean Concerto

    John McLaughlin

    John McLaughlin: The Mediterranean Concerto

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    John McLaughlin, guitar

    36:07
  • 12:06 AM

    Carmen Suite No. 2

    Georges Bizet

    Grieg: Carmen - Peer Gynt

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    8:34
  • 12:01 AM

    Ballo detto Pollicio/La Cattarina

    Tarquinio Merula

    Ensemble Fitzwilliam

    4:45
  • 11:52 PM

    Arabesque

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann

    Nelson Freire, piano

    6:21
  • 11:52 PM

    Arabesque

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann

    Nelson Freire, piano

    6:21
  • 11:24 PM

    Serenade for Strings

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Serenades Op 22 & 44

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    28:08
  • 11:12 PM

    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Suite

    Joe Hisaishi

    A Symphonic Celebration: Music from the Studio Ghibli films of Hayao Miyazaki

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Joe Hisaishi, conductor

    10:09
  • 11:05 PM

    Concerto for Two Violas

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

    Bernhard Forck, conductor

    Antoine Tamestit, viola

    Sabine Fehlandt, viola

    5:58
  • 11:00 PM

    Cortege Solennel No. 3

    Alexander Glazunov

    GLAZUNOV, A.K.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 16 - The Sea / Oriental Rhapsody / Ballade / Cortege solennel

    Moscow Symphony Orchestra

    Igor Golovchin, conductor

    4:09
  • 10:48 PM

    Symphony No. 36 "Linz": Finale

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies No. 36 & 38

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    10:09
  • 10:41 PM

    Scottish March (Marche ecossaise)

    Claude Debussy

    French National Radio and Television Orchestra

    Jean Martinon, conductor

    6:27
  • 10:24 PM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 3

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Murray Perahia, conductor

    Murray Perahia, piano

    15:37
  • 10:10 PM

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    12:40
  • 10:06 PM

    Ships that Pass in the Night

    Florence Price

    Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price

    Karen Slack, soprano

    3:53
  • 9:47 PM

    Serenade and Allegro giocoso

    Felix Mendelssohn

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    Stephen Hough, piano

    12:35
  • 9:42 PM

    Joke Polka (Scherz-Polka)

    Johann StraussJr.

    Musik Des Biedermeier

    Biedermeier Ensemble Vienna

    3:15
  • 9:32 PM

    Global Warming

    Michael Abels

    Songs for Our Times

    Sphinx Virtuosi

    8:31
  • 9:25 PM

    The Little Square Suite

    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

    Wolf-Ferrari: Orchestral Works

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

    5:57
  • 9:18 PM

    Oboe Concerto: 3rd movement

    (Marie) Clemence de Grandval

    GRANDVAL: Oboe Works

    Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Andrey Boreyko, conductor

    Lajos Lencses, oboe

    6:27
  • 9:14 PM

    Little Birds

    Eric Whitacre

    Echoes

    Concordia Choir of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota

    Rene Clausen, conductor

    4:09
  • 9:06 PM

    Light Cavalry Overture

    Franz von Suppe

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    6:47
  • 9:03 PM

    Carnival: Suite of Five Dances: Pierrette

    Montague Ring

    Rochelle Sennet, piano

    2:43
  • 8:45 PM

    Froissart Overture

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: 4 Overtures

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Alexander Gibson, conductor

    13:52
  • 8:29 PM

    Symphony No. 4

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    14:28
  • 8:10 PM

    Swan Lake: Dance of the Swans

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tschaikowsky: Der Schwanensee

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    Joseph Silverstein, violin

    17:34
  • 8:07 PM

    Prelude No. 6

    Gayane Chebotaryan

    By Women

    Sahan Arzruni, piano

    2:43
  • 8:00 PM

    Romance No. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Violin Concerto

    Lucerne Festival Strings

    Daniel Dodds, conductor

    Midori, violin

    6:02
  • 5:52 PM

    Symphonic Dance No. 1

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Before a Southern Convent, Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak, Bergliot

    Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

    Edward Gardner, conductor

    6:22
  • 5:22 PM

    Nonet for Strings and Winds

    Louise Farrenc

    Farrenc: Musique de chambre

    Philippe Bernold, flute

    29:06
  • 5:16 PM

    Hold Out for Joy

    Regina Harris Baiocchi

    Picasso Ensemble

    LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, voice

    3:57
  • 5:06 PM

    An Outdoor Overture

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Orchestral Works

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Louis Lane, conductor

    8:57
  • 5:01 PM

    Scherzo

    Alfredo Catalani

    Puccini, Catalani, Ponchielli: for orchestra

    Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    4:42
  • 4:56 PM

    Cavatina: Danza pomposa

    Alexandre Tansman

    Dimitri Illarionov - Guitar Recital

    Dimitri Illarionov, guitar

    2:32
  • 4:16 PM

    Cello Concerto

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak, Tchaikovsky

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    Mstislav Rostropovich, cello

    38:48
  • 4:10 PM

    The Winter's Tale: Siciliana

    Lars-Erik Larsson

    A Swedish Pastorale

    Stockholm Sinfonietta

    Jan-Olav Wedin, conductor

    3:26
  • 4:06 PM

    Years of Pilgrimage: Eclogue

    Franz Liszt

    Liszt: Annees De Pelerinage, Vol. 1

    Jeno Jando, piano

    3:39
  • 4:01 PM

    From Foreign Lands: Italy

    Moritz Moszkowski

    From Foreign Lands

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    4:45
  • 3:49 PM

    Rondo for Piano

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos 21 And 23

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Ingrid Jacoby, piano

    9:32
  • 3:41 PM

    Polska after Snickar-Erik Olsson

    Anonymous

    Baroque Tales

    Lynx Ensemble

    5:26
  • 3:06 PM

    Violin Concerto

    Jean Sibelius

    Concert Recording

    Royal Northern Sinfonia

    Dinis Sousa, conductor

    Alena Baeva, violin

    33:06
  • 3:01 PM

    The Deliberations of the Gods: Overture

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Opera Overtures

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    4:45
  • 2:50 PM

    Negro Folk Symphony: O, Le' Me Shine, Shine Like A Morning Star!

    William Dawson

    African American Voices

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Kellen Gray, conductor

    8:16
  • 2:49 PM

    Visit to a Summer Farm

    Ole Bull

    Ole Bull

    Bergen Symphony Orchestra

    Karsten Andersen, conductor

    Arve Tellefsen, violin

    9:06
  • 2:40 PM

    Visit to a Summer Farm

    Ole Bull

    Ole Bull

    Bergen Symphony Orchestra

    Karsten Andersen, conductor

    Arve Tellefsen, violin

    9:06
  • 2:28 PM

    Symphony No. 3: 2nd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Symphonies

    Staatskapelle Berlin

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    10:56
  • 2:23 PM

    Intermezzo No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Fantasien

    Sivan Magen, harp

    4:22
  • 2:09 PM

    Serenade on Country Dances

    Jeno Takacs

    Classical Wind Quintets

    Vienna Quintet

    11:19
  • 2:01 PM

    Concerto for Two Trumpets

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Trumpet Works

    Ensemble

    Layton James, conductor

    Gary Bordner, trumpet

    7:17
  • 1:50 PM

    Toccata and Fugue

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Stokowski Transcriptions

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    9:39
  • 1:47 PM

    Fugata

    Astor Piazzolla

    Piazzolla: Buenos Aires

    Martingale Ensemble

    Ken Selden, conductor

    Tomas Cotik, violin

    2:32
  • 1:31 PM

    Symphony No. 9 "Choral": 2nd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    13:26
  • 1:28 PM

    Hary Janos Suite: Musical Clock

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    1:55
  • 1:20 PM

    Symphony: 2nd movement

    Charlotte Sohy

    Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

    French National Orchestra

    Debora Waldman, conductor

    7:42
  • 1:17 PM

    D'un jardin clair (A Sunny Garden)

    Lili Boulanger

    In Memoriam Lili Boulanger

    Emile Naoumoff, piano

    2:20
  • 1:08 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 6

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    5:29
  • 1:04 PM

    Entr'acte

    Jacques Ibert

    Duos for Flute & Harp

    Shigenori Kudo, flute

    3:02
  • 12:54 PM

    Algerian Suite: French Military March

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Saint Saens: Symphony No. 2/Suite Algerienne/Phaeton

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Yondani Butt, conductor

    4:34
  • 12:47 PM

    African Suite

    Andrew York/William Kanengiser

    L.A.G.Q.

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    5:16
  • 12:41 PM

    Three American Pieces: Early Song

    Lukas Foss

    Foss: Symphony No. 1; Renaissance Concerto; Three American Pieces; Ode

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Nikki Chooi, violin

    4:50
  • 12:30 PM

    Aus den Bergen Waltz

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    CSSR State Philharmonic

    Alfred Walter, conductor

    10:41
  • 12:23 PM

    Caprice viennois (Viennese Caprice)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Joshua Bell, violin

    Paul Coker, piano

    4:34
  • 12:21 PM

    Piano Quintet: 3rd movement

    Florence Price

    UNCOVERED Vol. 2

    Catalyst Quartet

    Michelle Cann, piano

    2:07
  • 12:09 PM

    Trumpet Symphony

    Giuseppe Torelli

    Wynton Marsalis: In Gabriel's Garden

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Anthony Newman, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

    4:59
  • 12:04 PM

    Serenade for Strings: Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    4:01
  • 11:56 AM

    Joyous March

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    3:40
  • 11:50 AM

    Four Characteristic Waltzes: Queen's Waltz

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Rochelle Sennet, piano

    4:58
  • 11:40 AM

    Symphony No. 1: 3rd movement

    Carl Nielsen

    Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, 'The Four Temperaments'

    Seattle Symphony

    Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

    8:29
  • 11:31 AM

    The Anonymous Lover: Dances

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    SAINT-GEORGES, J.B.C. de: L'Amant anonyme

    Haymarket Opera Orchestra

    Craig Trompeter, conductor

    7:36
  • 11:26 AM

    Transcendental Etude No. 5 "Feux follets"

    Franz Liszt

    Liszt: 12 Etudes d'Execution Transcendante

    Alice Sara Ott, piano

    3:51
  • 11:20 AM

    Minuet of the Will-o'-the-Wisps

    Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: La Marseillaise, Etc

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    5:42
  • 11:16 AM

    Concert Etude "Feu follet"

    Laura Netzel

    Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano

    3:08
  • 11:08 AM

    Italian Serenade

    Hugo Wolf

    In the South

    Brodsky Quartet

    6:48
  • 11:04 AM

    The Gadfly: Romance

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    The Silver Violin

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Kirill Karabits, conductor

    Nicola Benedetti, violin

    3:37
  • 10:39 AM

    Symphony No. 95

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 94 & 95; Mozart: Toy Symphony

    Hanover Band

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    19:03
  • 10:20 AM

    Minuets and Trios

    Franz Schubert

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

    17:32
  • 10:13 AM

    The Arts and the Hours

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Baroque

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    5:15
  • 10:06 AM

    Pavane for a Dead Princess (Pavane pour une infante defunte)

    Maurice Ravel

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Klauspeter Seibel, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    6:11
  • 10:01 AM

    Sleepsong

    Rolf Lovland

    Invisible Stars - Choral Works of Ireland and Scotland

    The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin

    Desmond Earley, conductor

    Emily Doyle, soprano

    4:37
  • 9:46 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Telemann: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol. 7

    Wallfisch Band

    Elizabeth Wallfisch, conductor

    Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin

    11:55
  • 9:24 AM

    Symphony No. 33

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies 29 & 33

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    20:31
  • 9:20 AM

    Liu Yang River

    Bi-Guang Tang

    Shanghai Quartet

    2:42
  • 9:06 AM

    Masques and Bergamasques

    Gabriel Faure

    Faure: Requiem Op. 48

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Emmanuel Krivine, conductor

    12:58
  • 9:01 AM

    Tianjin Suite: The Sunlight in Mt. Panshan

    Xiaogang Ye

    Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra

    Stephan Malzew, conductor

    4:49
  • 8:55 AM

    Gertrude's Dream Waltz

    Justin Holland

    Justin Holland Recording Project

    Michael Vascones, guitar

    3:03
  • 8:37 AM

    Fantasy Variations

    Ulysses Kay

    Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony - U. Kay: Fantasy Variations - Umbrian Scene

    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Arthur Fagen, conductor

    17:55
  • 8:20 AM

    Piano Trio "Elegiaque" No. 1

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff

    Barbican Piano Trio

    15:01
  • 8:01 AM

    Ballad Without Words

    Kurt Atterberg

    Atterberg: Symphony No. 6, etc.

    Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

    Jun'ichi Hirokami, conductor

    18:31
  • 7:47 AM

    Recorder Sonata No. 4

    George Frideric Handel

    G. F. Handel: Recorder & Oboe Sonatas

    Amarillis

    11:11
  • 7:16 AM

    Symphony No. 2

    Emilie Mayer

    North German Radio Philharmonic

    Leo McFall, conductor

    30:37
  • 7:04 AM

    Sacred and Profane Dances

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy, Caplet

    IRIS Orchestra

    Michael Stern, conductor

    Elizabeth Hainen, harp

    9:53
  • 7:01 AM

    Angel Springs

    Joe Hisaishi

    The Bedtime Sessions

    Lara Downes, piano

    2:31
  • 6:32 AM

    Symphony No. 10: Adagio

    Gustav Mahler

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    26:25
  • 6:25 AM

    Thais: Meditation

    Jules Massenet

    Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

    Lambert Orkis, piano

    6:24
  • 6:01 AM

    Arpeggione Sonata

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert

    Australian Chamber Orchestra

    John Williams, guitar

    22:02
  • 5:16 AM

    Rustic Wedding Symphony

    Karl Goldmark

    Goldmark, Enesco

    Utah Symphony Orchestra

    Maurice Abravanel, conductor

    42:23
  • 5:09 AM

    Romance

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Cantabile: Anthems for Viola

    Jordan Bak, viola

    6:30
  • 5:01 AM

    Toute vie

    Lou Koster

    Koster: Orchestral Music

    Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra

    Jonathan Kaell, conductor

    6:05