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  • 4:55 AM

    Good Night, Dear Heart

    Dan Forrest

    Nightfall

    Voces8

    3:39
  • 4:06 AM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique"

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique"

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    46:44
  • 4:01 AM

    Prelude on an Old Folk Tune

    Amy Beach

    Joanne Polk, piano

    4:36
  • 3:49 AM

    White Landscapes

    Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Yoshimatsu: Piano Concerto

    Manchester Camerata

    Sachio Fujioka, conductor

    John Barrow, flute

    9:30
  • 3:19 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 3

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin

    Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

    27:47
  • 3:16 AM

    Mazurek

    Wladyslaw Szpilman

    Resilience

    Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

    2:16
  • 3:06 AM

    A Night Piece

    Arthur Foote

    Carol Wincenc, flute

    Kevin Lawrence, violin

    Carolyn Stuart, violin

    Sheila Brown, viola

    Brooks Whitehouse, cello

    8:42
  • 3:01 AM

    Doors of Thy Mercy

    Alexander Kastalsky

    Kastalsky: Vechnaya Pamiat Geroyam

    Clarion Choir

    Steven Fox, conductor

    4:41
  • 2:33 AM

    Harp Concerto

    Alberto Ginastera

    Ginastera: One Hundred

    Oberlin Orchestra

    Raphael Jimenez, conductor

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    25:14
  • 2:23 AM

    Reverie and Caprice

    Hector Berlioz

    Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll/Sibelius: Valse Triste/etc.

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Guillermo Figueroa, violin

    7:53
  • 2:22 AM

    An Italian Rant

    John Playford

    A Trip to Killburn

    Baltimore Consort

    1:29
  • 2:06 AM

    Prisms, Cycles, Leaps

    Derrick Skye

    Prisms, Cycles, Leaps

    Bridge to Everywhere

    14:08
  • 2:01 AM

    Symphonic Suite for Strings: Prelude

    Marion Bauer

    Ambache Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble

    4:38
  • 1:34 AM

    String Quartet No. 3

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven Complete String Quartets, Volume 1

    Dover Quartet

    24:52
  • 1:24 AM

    Vals Capricho

    Ricardo Castro Herrera

    Dances for Piano and Orchestra

    Northwest Sinfonietta

    Christophe Chagnard, conductor

    Joel Fan, piano

    7:56
  • 1:20 AM

    Balleto

    Manuel Ponce

    Guitar Recital: Perera, Cecilio - PONCE, M.M. / BROUWER, L. / OLIVA, J.C. / SOJO, V.E.

    Cecilio Perera, guitar

    3:40
  • 1:06 AM

    Der Mond: Three Dances and Finale

    Carl Orff

    Carl Orff: Kleines Konzert

    Mainz Wind Ensemble

    Klaus Rainer Scholl, conductor

    12:05
  • 1:01 AM

    Lute Suite: Sarabande and Gigue

    Jan Antonin Losy

    Jan Antonin Losy: Note d'oro

    Jakob Lindberg, lute

    4:39
  • 12:29 AM

    Nonet for Strings and Winds

    Louise Farrenc

    Farrenc: Musique de chambre

    Philippe Bernold, flute

    29:06
  • 12:15 AM

    Autumn Legend

    William Alwyn

    William Alwyn: Lyra Angelica, Autumn Legend

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    William Alwyn, conductor

    Geoffrey Browne, English horn

    12:09
  • 12:10 AM

    Dances of the Dolls: Lyric Waltz

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Lisa Batiashvili: Echoes Of Time

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Lisa Batiashvili, violin

    3:23
  • 12:06 AM

    Polichinelle

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff Performs his Solo Piano Works

    Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano

    3:44
  • 12:01 AM

    A Downland Suite: Minuet

    John Ireland

    IRELAND, J.: Forgotten Rite (The) / Mai-Dun / A Downland Suite / Epic March / A London Overture / Satyricon Overture

    Sinfonia of London

    John Wilson, conductor

    4:30
  • 11:47 PM

    Toccata

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Toccatas

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    10:53
  • 11:40 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 3rd movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: Piano concerto no. 2

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor

    Boris Giltburg, piano

    11:49
  • 11:28 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 2nd movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: Piano concerto no. 2

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor

    Boris Giltburg, piano

    11:31
  • 11:11 PM

    Irish Rhapsody

    Victor Herbert

    Victor Herbert: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2

    Ulster Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    15:47
  • 11:00 PM

    Valentino Dances

    Dominick Argento

    Argento: Valentino Dances

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    William Schimmel, accordion

    10:05
  • 10:41 PM

    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan-Williams - Symphony No.5, Tallis Fantasia

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    15:57
  • 10:38 PM

    Why fum'th in fight

    Thomas Tallis

    Tallis

    Theater of Voices

    Paul Hillier, conductor

    3:45
  • 10:03 PM

    Pictures at an Exhibition

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Heaven and Hell: Macal conducts Mussorgsky

    New Jersey Symphony Orchestra

    Zdenek Macal, conductor

    32:27
  • 9:53 PM

    Tosca: Recondita armonia

    Giacomo Puccini

    Pavarotti's Greatest Hits

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Nicola Rescigno, conductor

    Luciano Pavarotti, tenor

    2:59
  • 9:38 PM

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Fawzi Haimor, conductor

    15:03
  • 9:17 PM

    Saint Cecilia Mass: Sanctus

    Charles Gounod

    Sacred Songs

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Michel Plasson, conductor

    Roberto Alagna, tenor

    6:15
  • 9:06 PM

    Toccata and Fugue

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Works for Organ and Harpsichord

    Ton Koopman, organ

    7:58
  • 8:54 PM

    The Planets: Jupiter

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    8:29
  • 8:49 PM

    The Shadows of October

    Michael Whalen

    Michael Whalen: The Shadows of October

    Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra

    Dennis Burkh, conductor

    Mitchell Estrin, clarinet

    7:42
  • 8:39 PM

    Thais: Meditation

    Jules Massenet

    Paris: La Belle Epoque

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    5:48
  • 8:30 PM

    Die Fledermaus: Overture

    Johann StraussJr.

    J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus

    Vienna Symphony Orchestra

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    8:12
  • 8:14 PM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral": 1st movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    11:47
  • 8:00 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 1

    George Frideric Handel

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    11:16
  • 5:49 PM

    Scaramouche

    Darius Milhaud

    Encores 2

    Emma Johnson, clarinet

    9:44
  • 5:22 PM

    String Quartet No. 12 "American"

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorák, Smetana - String Quartets; Guarneri Quartet

    Guarneri Quartet

    25:32
  • 5:17 PM

    After the Cakewalk

    Nathaniel Dett

    My Cup Runneth Over: The Complete Piano Works of R. Nathaniel Dett

    Clipper Erickson, piano

    3:26
  • 5:06 PM

    Symphony No. 11

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    9:30
  • 5:01 PM

    English Suite: Prelude and Round Dance

    John Duarte

    Stein-Erik Olsen, guitar

    4:46
  • 4:36 PM

    An English Suite

    Hubert Parry

    Elgar: Seranade, etc./Parry: An English Suite, etc.

    City of London Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    22:37
  • 4:23 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
  • 4:13 PM

    Images for Orchestra: Rondes de printemps (Spring Rounds)

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Images, etc.

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    8:20
  • 4:06 PM

    Tarantella

    Camillo Sivori

    Sivori: Violin and Piano Works

    Mauro Tortorelli, violin

    6:09
  • 4:01 PM

    O clap your hands together

    Orlando Gibbons

    Faire is the Heaven

    Cambridge Singers

    John Rutter, conductor

    4:38
  • 3:44 PM

    Concerto on Themes by Donizetti

    Antonio Pasculli

    Berlin Symphony Orchestra

    Claus Peter Flor, conductor

    Burkhard Glaetzner, oboe

    14:08
  • 3:19 PM

    Symphony No. 91

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    23:40
  • 3:13 PM

    Six Pieces: Waltz

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Works for Two Pianos

    Elizabeth and Marcel Bergmann, piano duo

    4:13
  • 3:06 PM

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Alexander Borodin

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    6:08
  • 3:01 PM

    The Brooklyn Dodge

    William Bolcom

    William Bolcom: The Complete Rags

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    4:48
  • 2:48 PM

    Violin Concerto: Finale

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Higdon, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vasily Petrenko, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    10:31
  • 2:47 PM

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    10:07
  • 2:43 PM

    Intermezzo

    Anton Arensky

    Russian Moods

    USSR Symphony Orchestra

    Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor

    3:16
  • 2:25 PM

    Mother Goose (Ma mere l'oye): Suite

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Ballet And Dance Music

    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    16:57
  • 2:21 PM

    After a Dream (Apres un Reve)

    Gabriel Faure

    Cello Dreams

    Emmanuelle Bertrand, cello

    3:08
  • 2:12 PM

    Echorus

    Philip Glass

    Concert Recording

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Maureen Nelson, violin

    7:23
  • 2:07 PM

    Musica Antiqua Cologne

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor

    4:21
  • 1:59 PM

    Concerto for Two Flutes

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    William Bennett, flute

    Lenore Smith, flute

    6:42
  • 1:50 PM

    Sinfonia Concertante: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante K 364, Concertone K 190

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

    Vladimir Spivakov, violin

    6:08
  • 1:37 PM

    Ma vlast (My Country): Vltava (The Moldau)

    Bedrich Smetana

    Tchaikovsky: 1812; Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice; Smetana: Vltava (Die Moldau); Dvorak: Scherzo capriccioso; Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    12:05
  • 1:34 PM

    Wien bleibt Wien

    Johann Schrammel

    I Salonisti

    2:00
  • 1:26 PM

    Scottish March (Marche ecossaise)

    Claude Debussy

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    6:44
  • 1:21 PM

    Othello Suite: Children's Intermezzo

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Fawzi Haimor, conductor

    3:52
  • 1:17 PM

    The Bourgeois Gentleman: Intermezzo

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, etc.

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    3:26
  • 1:09 PM

    La Boheme: Musetta's Waltz ("Quando m'en vo")

    Giacomo Puccini

    Opera Without Words

    BBC Concert Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    4:43
  • 1:04 PM

    La Vida Breve: Spanish Dance

    Manuel de Falla

    Virtuoso Guitar Transcriptions

    Nicola Hall, guitar

    3:41
  • 12:50 PM

    Symphony No. 7: 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonien 1-9

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    8:16
  • 12:40 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Grand Pas de Deux

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    4:58
  • 12:33 PM

    Troisieme Valse brillante

    Cecile Chaminade

    Chaminade: Piano Music 3

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    5:16
  • 12:29 PM

    Deborah: Polka

    Josef Foerster

    Small Czech Musical Gems

    Prague Symphony Orchestra

    Vaclav Smetacek, conductor

    3:07
  • 12:21 PM

    Double Concerto: 3rd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto; Brahms: Double Concerto

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    8:11
  • 12:14 PM

    Pastoral Suite: Scherzo-valse

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Chabrier: Espana, Etc / Gardiner, Wiener Philharmoniker

    Vienna Philharmonic

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    5:20
  • 12:06 PM

    Oboe Concerto No. 9

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Albinoni: Concerti, Op. 7 and Sonatas, Op. 2

    I Musici

    Heinz Holliger, oboe

    6:14
  • 12:04 PM

    Acis and Galatea: Happy We!

    George Frederick Handel

    Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    2:00
  • 11:53 AM

    Waltzes and Landler

    Franz Schubert

    Bonbons aus Wien

    Boskovsky Ensemble

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    6:04
  • 11:48 AM

    Holberg Suite: Gavotte

    Edvard Grieg

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

    Mito Chamber Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    3:48
  • 11:34 AM

    Concerto for Two Mandolins

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Concerti per Mandolini

    I Solisti Veneti

    Claudio Scimone, conductor

    Ugo Orlandi, mandolin

    12:20
  • 11:32 AM

    Little Prelude No. 11 "Pastorale"

    Joseph Jongen

    Jongen: 13 Preludes/24 Petits Preludes

    Ivan Ilic, piano

    1:59
  • 11:22 AM

    String Quartet No. 63 "Sunrise": 1st movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76, Nos. 4-6

    Kodaly Quartet

    8:03
  • 11:16 AM

    Dala Suite: Rustic Dances

    Helena Munktell

    Gavle Symphony Orchestra

    Tobias Ringborg, conductor

    5:14
  • 11:10 AM

    Symphony No. 1: 3rd movement

    Cyril Scott

    Scott: Concerto For Cello, Symphony No 1 / Watkins, Brabbins

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Martyn Brabbins, conductor

    4:57
  • 11:04 AM

    The Immovable Do

    Percy Grainger

    Percy Grainger: Symphonic Band Music

    Michigan State University Band

    Keith Brion, conductor

    4:47
  • 10:44 AM

    Don Juan and Faust: Six airs de ballet

    Moritz Moszkowski

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    14:02
  • 10:24 AM

    The Birds

    Ottorino Respighi

    Classical Zoo

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Louis Lane, conductor

    18:24
  • 10:20 AM

    The English Nightingale

    Mandora book of John Skene

    Nocturnal

    Jakob Lindberg, lute

    2:57
  • 10:14 AM

    Melodie for Violin and Orchestra

    Gustavo E. Campa

    Mi Alma Mexicana

    Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas

    Alondra de la Parra, conductor

    Daniel Andai, violin

    5:26
  • 10:06 AM

    The Red Pony Suite: selections

    Aaron Copland

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    7:21
  • 10:01 AM

    Bassoon Concerto: Allegro

    Christoph Graupner

    Graupner: Instrumental and Vocal Music, Vol. 1

    L'Ensemble des Idees heureuses

    Genevieve Soly, conductor

    Mathieu Lussier, bassoon

    4:43
  • 9:46 AM

    Suite Francaise

    Francis Poulenc

    Paris Orchestra

    Georges Pretre, conductor

    12:22
  • 9:30 AM

    The Mission: Suite

    Ennio Morricone

    Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture: The Mission

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Ennio Morricone, conductor

    13:41
  • 9:13 AM

    Suite for String Orchestra

    Susan Spain-Dunk

    British Music for Strings, Vol. 3

    South German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim

    Douglas Bostock, conductor

    15:37
  • 9:06 AM

    Symphony No. 4

    William Boyce

    Boyce: 8 Symphonies

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    6:50
  • 9:01 AM

    Bass Tuba Concerto: Romance

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    20th-Century Tuba Concertos

    Singapore Symphony Orchestra

    Anne Manson, conductor

    Oystein Baadsvik, tuba

    4:45
  • 8:19 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 "Emperor"

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    Emanuel Ax, piano

    39:40
  • 8:15 AM

    Piece in the Form of a Habanera

    Maurice Ravel

    Bejeweled: Encore Gems For Flute And Harp

    Julie Scolnik, flute

    3:09
  • 8:01 AM

    Die Meistersinger von Nurmberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremburg): Prelude to Act III; Dance; Finale

    Richard Wagner

    Reiner Conducts Wagner

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Fritz Reiner, conductor

    12:06
  • 7:42 AM

    Don Juan

    Richard Strauss

    Bravura: Respighi, Strauss

    Oregon Symphony

    James DePreist, conductor

    16:42
  • 7:25 AM

    German Dances and Trios

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphony No. 5

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

    16:12
  • 7:05 AM

    Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes

    Benjamin Britten

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    17:54
  • 7:01 AM

    Liu Yang River

    Bi-Guang Tang

    The Red Piano

    Yundi Li, piano

    3:25
  • 6:34 AM

    Orchestral Suite No. 4

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Richard Egarr, conductor

    23:36
  • 6:28 AM

    Nunc dimittis

    Arvo Part

    Meditatio

    Schola Cantorum Reykjavik

    Hordur Askelsson, conductor

    Thelma Hronn Sigurdorsdottir, soprano

    5:54
  • 6:01 AM

    Symphony No. 5: 4th and 5th movements

    Gustav Mahler

    Mahler: Symphony No. 5

    Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    24:41
  • 5:29 AM

    Concerto for a Festival

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez and More

    Naples Philharmonic Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    David Russell, guitar

    29:40
  • 5:25 AM

    Sarah Frisof, flute

    3:09
  • 5:01 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 6

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Complete Beethoven Edition Vol. 7: Violin Sonatas

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    22:03