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  • 5:52 AM

    Lyric for Strings

    George Walker

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    5:52
  • 5:09 AM

    Symphony No. 6

    Antonin Dvorak

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    41:53
  • 5:06 AM

    In Nomine No. 2

    Picforth

    Ariel Abramavich, lute

    Jacob Heringman, lute

    2:18
  • 5:01 AM

    Pastoral

    David Guion

    Eugene Rowley, piano

    4:36
  • 4:46 AM

    blue cathedral

    Jennifer Higdon

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Spano, conductor

    12:19
  • 4:33 AM

    String Symphony No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Amadeus Ensemble

    Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

    11:43
  • 4:16 AM

    Music for the Royal Fireworks

    George Frideric Handel

    Cleveland Symphonic Winds

    Frederick Fennell, conductor

    15:57
  • 4:11 AM

    Written on a Rainy Night

    Chen Yi

    Chanticleer

    3:30
  • 4:06 AM

    Dance of the Paper Umbrellas

    Elena Kats-Chernin

    Erica Ramallo Lucini, violin

    Marian Herrero, viola

    Simon Veis, cello

    Daniel Del Pino, piano

    3:53
  • 4:01 AM

    Suite of Dances No. 6

    Johann Ernst Rieck

    Stradivaria

    4:45
  • 3:44 AM

    Piano Concertino

    Henriette Bosmans

    Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

    Ed Spanjaard, conductor

    Ronald Brautigam, piano

    14:42
  • 3:16 AM

    String Quartet No. 1

    Robert Schumann

    Dover Quartet

    25:27
  • 3:11 AM

    Gary Steigerwalt, piano

    3:46
  • 3:06 AM

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Steven Isserlis, cello

    4:23
  • 3:01 AM

    Chiling o guiry (Celia O'Gara)

    Burke Thumoth

    Concerto Caledonia

    David McGuinness, conductor

    4:46
  • 2:25 AM

    Piano Quartet No. 2

    Antonin Dvorak

    Emanuel Ax, piano

    Isaac Stern, violin

    Jaime Laredo, viola

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    33:24
  • 2:15 AM

    Violin Sonata

    Frantisek Jiranek

    Lenka Torgersen, violin

    Vaclav Luks, harpsichord

    8:40
  • 2:06 AM

    Divertimento for Strings

    Grazyna Bacewicz

    Bacewicz: Music for String Orchestra

    Primuz Chamber Orchestra

    Lukasz Blaszczyk, conductor

    6:54
  • 2:01 AM

    Paul's Steeple and Stingo

    John Playford

    Apollo's Banquet

    4:42
  • 1:45 AM

    Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Neidich, clarinet

    13:04
  • 1:30 AM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    14:10
  • 1:24 AM

    Fretwork

    5:12
  • 1:18 AM

    Traveling Song

    Carlos Simon

    Together

    Carlos Simon, piano

    4:05
  • 1:07 AM

    Variations on The Wayfaring Stranger

    James Cohn

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Vakhtang Jordania, conductor

    11:29
  • 1:01 AM

    The Grumpy Old Bear

    Julius Fucik

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Libor Pesek, conductor

    Alan Pendlebury, bassoon

    4:36
  • 12:53 AM

    Three Improvisations

    Francis Poulenc

    Pascal Roge, piano

    4:42
  • 12:41 AM

    Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

    Claude Debussy

    Paris Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    10:22
  • 12:36 AM

    Spring Breeze

    Wei-Chieh Lin

    Formosa Quartet

    5:08
  • 12:15 AM

    Water Music Suite No. 2

    George Frideric Handel

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    19:26
  • 12:06 AM

    The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture

    Otto Nicolai

    Halle Orchestra

    John Barbirolli, conductor

    8:18
  • 12:01 AM

    Symphony No. 1: 4th movement

    Florence Price

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    4:46
  • 11:49 PM

    Symphonie Espagnole: Rondo

    Edouard Lalo

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    Chee-Yun, violin

    8:27
  • 11:28 PM

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    20:05
  • 11:22 PM

    Troubled Water

    Margaret Bonds

    Jeni Slotchiver, piano

    5:02
  • 11:11 PM

    Concert Waltz No. 2

    Alexander Glazunov

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    9:48
  • 11:06 PM

    Modern Times: Smile

    Charlie Chaplin

    I Salonisti

    4:31
  • 11:01 PM

    Conga del Fuego

    Arturo Marquez

    Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    4:46
  • 10:46 PM

    Violin Concerto in the Style of Vivaldi

    Fritz Kreisler

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Gil Shaham, violin

    11:12
  • 10:42 PM

    Magnificat

    Andrea Gabrieli

    Chanticleer

    3:45
  • 10:27 PM

    Four Characteristic Waltzes

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    13:42
  • 10:24 PM

    See-Saw Waltz

    Justin Holland

    Jiji Plays Justin Holland: Music for Guitar

    Jiji, guitar

    2:23
  • 10:14 PM

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    9:00
  • 10:06 PM

    Masquerade Suite: Waltz and Mazurka

    Aram Khachaturian

    Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra

    Aleksander Lazarev, conductor

    7:01
  • 10:03 PM

    Sara Aimee Smiseth, piano

    2:44
  • 9:40 PM

    Minuets and Trios

    Franz Schubert

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

    17:32
  • 9:18 PM

    Symphony No. 83 "The Hen"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    20:46
  • 9:14 PM

    La Poule (The Hen)

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    2:38
  • 9:06 PM

    Il barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jaime Laredo, conductor

    7:19
  • 9:01 PM

    Staatskapelle Weimar

    Peter Gulke, conductor

    4:38
  • 8:47 PM

    Scheherazade: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    10:39
  • 6:46 PM

    Scherzo fantastique

    Igor Stravinsky

    New York Philharmonic

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    11:53
  • 6:26 PM

    Images for Orchestra: Iberia

    Claude Debussy

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    19:16
  • 6:17 PM

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    7:59
  • 6:06 PM

    Symphony No. 7

    William Boyce

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    9:15
  • 6:01 PM

    Minuet No. 1

    Giacomo Puccini

    Orchestra of the Auvergne

    Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor

    4:38
  • 5:41 PM

    The Garden of Fand

    Arnold Bax

    Bax: Tone Poems

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    17:27
  • 5:23 PM

    Horn Concerto No. 4

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart y Mambo La Bella Cubana

    Havana Lyceum Orchestra

    Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor

    Sarah Willis, horn

    16:39
  • 5:11 PM

    Suite Bucolique

    Hugo Godron

    Sara Fraker, oboe

    Casey Robards, piano

    9:35
  • 5:06 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Classical": Finale

    Sergei Prokofiev

    PROKOFIEV: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Dreams, Op. 6

    Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

    Theodore Kuchar, conductor

    4:20
  • 5:01 PM

    Prelude No. 1

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Manuel Barrueco, guitar

    4:21
  • 4:53 PM

    Entry March of the Boyars

    Johan Halvorsen

    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Kenneth Jean, conductor

    5:01
  • 4:17 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor

    Martha Argerich, piano

    35:07
  • 4:12 PM

    Angry Birds Theme

    Ari Pulkkinen

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    3:10
  • 4:06 PM

    Bartered Bride: Polka

    Bedrich Smetana

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Geoffrey Simon, conductor

    4:58
  • 4:01 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Slavyanskaya": Scherzo

    Alexander Glazunov

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:48
  • 3:41 PM

    Dances of Galanta

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Hungarian State Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    17:09
  • 3:41 PM

    Dances of Galanta

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Hungarian State Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    17:09
  • 3:37 PM

    Liebesfreud (Love's Joy)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    Patricia Zander, piano

    3:08
  • 3:31 PM

    The Spring and the Fall

    Stephen Paulus

    Splendid Jewel: Choral Music Of Stephen Paulus

    The Singers

    Matthew Culloton, conductor

    5:03
  • 3:23 PM

    Scherzando No. 5

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn Ensemble Berlin

    Emmanuel Pahud, flute

    7:08
  • 3:04 PM

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1

    Georges Bizet

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    18:09
  • 3:01 PM

    Shepherd's Hey

    Percy Grainger

    Music of Percy Grainger

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

    2:15
  • 2:50 PM

    Theme and Variations

    Charlotte Sohy

    Charlotte Sohy: Compositrice de la Belle Epoque

    National Orchestra of Avignon-Provence

    Debora Waldman, conductor

    Cordelia Palm, violin

    8:40
  • 2:46 PM

    Versa est in luctum cithara mea

    Juan Gutierrez de Padilla

    The King's Singers

    3:25
  • 2:34 PM

    Old Hungarian Dances

    Ferenc Farkas

    Frosunda Wind Quintet

    9:35
  • 2:30 PM

    Hungarian Dance No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Hungarian Dances

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    Andras Keller, violin

    3:21
  • 2:22 PM

    Symphony No. 3: 4th movement

    Marcel Tyberg

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    6:34
  • 2:18 PM

    Minuet No. 60

    Traditional Danish

    Last Leaf

    Danish String Quartet

    2:39
  • 2:12 PM

    Candide Suite

    Leonard Bernstein

    Bernstein: Candide Suite, etc.

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    18:09
  • 2:05 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 6

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    5:47
  • 1:57 PM

    Watching the White Wheat (Bugello'r Gwenith Gwyn)

    Traditional

    Watching the White Wheat

    King's Singers

    Skaila Kanga, harp

    2:28
  • 1:53 PM

    Watching the White Wheat

    Traditional

    Jacqueline Schwab, piano

    3:13
  • 1:42 PM

    Oboe Concerto

    Domenico Cimarosa

    Scottish Ensemble

    Jonathan Morton, conductor

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    9:42
  • 1:31 PM

    Benvenuto Cellini: Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, etc

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    10:01
  • 1:29 PM

    Dance Suite after Couperin: March

    Richard Strauss

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Rudolf Kempe, conductor

    1:06
  • 1:20 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 4: 1st movement

    Chevalier de Meude-Monpas

    Violin Concertos by Black Composers

    Encore Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Hege, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    7:58
  • 1:16 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American": Animato

    William Grant Still

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    3:06
  • 1:09 PM

    Serenade: 4th movement

    Arthur Bird

    North Texas Chamber Players

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    5:25
  • 1:04 PM

    Serenade

    Roman Hoffstetter

    Jewels of the Classics

    Philharmonia Virtuosi

    Richard Kapp, conductor

    3:39
  • 12:43 PM

    Overture in C: Selections

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    11:30
  • 12:38 PM

    Peer Gynt: Anitra's Dance

    Edvard Grieg

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    3:18
  • 12:34 PM

    Howl's Moving Castle: Merry-Go-Round of Life

    Joe Hisaishi

    Cinema

    Plinio Fernandes, guitar

    3:20
  • 12:32 PM

    Thurber's Dogs: Dog and Butterfly

    Peter Schickele

    Voices from the Gallery: Stephen Paulus/Thurber's Dogs: Peter Schickele

    Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra

    Timothy Russell, conductor

    2:47
  • 12:23 PM

    Italian Serenade

    Hugo Wolf

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

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    7:18
  • 12:20 PM

    Xerxes: Largo

    George Frideric Handel

    Albinoni: Adagio; Pachelbel: Canon; Etc

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    3:01
  • 12:15 PM

    Our Town: Grover's Corners

    Aaron Copland

    London Sinfonietta

    Elgar Howarth, conductor

    2:55
  • 12:09 PM

    Symphony No. 101 "The Clock": Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    4:36
  • 12:04 PM

    Impromptu No. 1

    Frederic Chopin

    Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

    4:11
  • 11:49 AM

    Mephisto Waltz No. 1

    Franz Liszt

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    8:53
  • 11:30 AM

    Flute Concerto No. 2

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Swedish Chamber Orchestra

    Patrick Gallois, flute

    17:55
  • 11:26 AM

    Suffolk Suite: Suffolk Morris

    Doreen Carwithen

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    3:19
  • 11:15 AM

    String Quartet No. 1

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Juilliard String Quartet

    9:26
  • 11:06 AM

    Prague Waltzes

    Antonin Dvorak

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    8:58
  • 11:01 AM

    Four Romances

    Darius Milhaud

    Grant Johannesen, piano

    4:45
  • 10:51 AM

    The Merchant of Venice: Suite Anglaise No. 2

    Henri Rabaud

    Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    7:11
  • 10:36 AM

    Carmen Fantasy

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Leila Josefowicz, violin

    13:53
  • 10:18 AM

    Irish Rhapsody No. 2

    Charles Stanford

    Ulster Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    15:42
  • 10:06 AM

    Keyboard Suite No. 5

    George Frideric Handel

    Lisa Smirnova, piano

    11:27
  • 10:01 AM

    Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: The Lord's Prayer (Otche nash)

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Choir of King's College, Cambridge

    Stephen Cleobury, conductor

    4:38
  • 9:47 AM

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    11:10
  • 9:24 AM

    Clarinet Concerto No. 2

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    22:04
  • 9:09 AM

    Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves

    David Bedford

    Timothy Reynish International Repertoire Recordings, Vol. 10: The Music of David Bedford

    Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra

    Clark Rundell, conductor

    13:59
  • 9:01 AM

    Siegfried: Forest Murmurs

    Richard Wagner

    New York Philharmonic

    Zubin Mehta, conductor

    7:01
  • 8:22 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Harding, conductor

    Ray Chen, violin

    36:06
  • 8:17 AM

    Partita No. 6: Courante

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    5:14
  • 8:01 AM

    Suite: Paris

    Haydn Wood

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Ernest Tomlinson, conductor

    13:34
  • 7:31 AM

    Serenade for Strings

    Antonin Dvorak

    New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra

    Paavo Berglund, conductor

    27:38
  • 7:22 AM

    Four South African Folktunes

    Traditional

    National Symphony Orchestra of the S.A.B.C.

    Peter Marchbank, conductor

    7:42
  • 7:01 AM

    Guitar Concerto No. 1

    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    Kazuhito Yamashita, guitar

    19:13
  • 6:31 AM

    Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto

    He Zhanhao/Chen Gang

    Singapore Symphony Orchestra

    Lan Shui, conductor

    Gil Shaham, violin

    27:25
  • 6:21 AM

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    8:51
  • 6:01 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 30

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Alexandre Tharaud, piano

    18:26