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  • 5:48 AM

    Ciel d'Hiver (Winter Sky)

    Kaija Saariaho

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Hannu Lintu, conductor

    9:39
  • 5:41 AM

    of memory and minutiae

    Paula Matthusen

    Jody Redhage, cello

    Jody Redhage, vocals

    Paula Matthusen, electronics

    6:35
  • 5:23 AM

    Code

    Paola Prestini

    Stillpoint

    A Far Cry Orchestra

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    17:23
  • 5:17 AM

    Song from the Uproar: This World Within Me Is Too Small

    Missy Mazzoli

    Berlin Free Orchestra

    Jarkko Riihimaki, conductor

    Emily D'Angelo, mezzo-soprano

    4:23
  • 5:06 AM

    Breathing Sunlight

    Akshaya Avril Tucker

    Shapes in Collective Space

    Talla Rouge

    9:22
  • 5:01 AM

    In Our Softening

    Sophia Subbayya Vastek

    In Our Softening

    Sophia Subbayya Vastek, piano

    4:46
  • 4:54 AM

    Hear us in Heaven

    Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Meditatio

    Schola Cantorum Reykjavik

    Hordur Askelsson, conductor

    4:17
  • 4:40 AM

    Black Iris

    Reena Esmail

    Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    13:04
  • 4:29 AM

    Aghavni (Doves)

    Mary Kouyoumdjian

    Nicholas Phillips, piano

    8:53
  • 4:16 AM

    A Cage of Doves

    Sally Beamish

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Martyn Brabbins, conductor

    12:08
  • 4:07 AM

    Blueprint

    Caroline Shaw

    Aizuri Quartet

    7:38
  • 4:01 AM

    String Poetic: Nocturne

    Jennifer Higdon

    String Poetic

    Jennifer Koh, violin

    4:46
  • 3:44 AM

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    14:37
  • 3:14 AM

    Double Concerto

    Ethel Smyth

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Odaline de la Martinez, conductor

    Sophie Langdon, violin

    Richard Watkins, horn

    28:06
  • 3:06 AM

    Summer Night on the River

    Frederick Delius

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    6:13
  • 3:01 AM

    Petite Suite: Caprice

    Joseph Lauber

    Joseph Lauber, 1864-1952

    Rachel Talitman, harp

    4:53
  • 2:53 AM

    Aranjuez Concerto: 3rd movement

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Spanish Night

    Internationale Philharmonic

    Horst Backer, conductor

    Dale Kavanagh, guitar

    5:12
  • 2:47 AM

    Metamorphosis I

    Philip Glass

    Soundscape

    Kay Kyung Eun Kim, piano

    6:02
  • 2:24 AM

    Symphonic Metamorphosis

    Paul Hindemith

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    21:02
  • 2:17 AM

    Concert Krakowiak

    Grazyna Bacewicz

    Peter Jablonski, piano

    6:39
  • 2:12 AM

    Mazurka

    Johann Kaspar Mertz

    Charms to Soothe

    David Leisner, guitar

    3:16
  • 2:06 AM

    Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)

    Claude Debussy

    Ulster Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    5:35
  • 2:01 AM

    Forgotten Melodies: Festive Dance

    Nikolai Medtner

    Sonatas by Medtner, Rachmaninov, Scriabin

    Kenny Broberg, piano

    4:48
  • 1:41 AM

    The Night Callings

    Heino Eller

    Heino Eller: Symphonic Poems

    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Olari Elts, conductor

    17:36
  • 1:22 AM

    Eine kleine Nachtmusik

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Kremerata Baltica

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    17:28
  • 1:10 AM

    Capriccio for Bassoon and Orchestra

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Verdi Discoveries

    Milan Symphony Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    Andrea Magnani, bassoon

    10:27
  • 1:06 AM

    Slavonic Dance No. 5

    Antonin Dvorak

    Katia & Marielle Labeque, pianos

    2:55
  • 1:01 AM

    Nocturne-Quadrille

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra

    Alfred Walter, conductor

    4:42
  • 12:48 AM

    String Quintet: Finale

    Franz Schubert

    Miro Quartet

    Matt Haimovitz, cello

    9:29
  • 12:32 AM

    Othello Suite

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Fawzi Haimor, conductor

    15:04
  • 12:19 AM

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Songs of Paradise

    Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

    Kazuhiro Koizumi, conductor

    11:49
  • 12:14 AM

    Danse rythmique

    Ida Presti

    Legado

    Berta Rojas, guitar

    3:07
  • 12:06 AM

    School for Scandal Overture

    Samuel Barber

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    8:16
  • 12:01 AM

    Holberg Suite: Rigaudon

    Edvard Grieg

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

    Mito Chamber Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    4:28
  • 11:41 PM

    Bassoon Concerto

    Carl Maria von Weber

    BBC Philharmonic

    Juanjo Mena, conductor

    Karen Geoghegan, bassoon

    17:08
  • 11:38 PM

    (mit gutem Humor, un poco lol ma con serioso vibes)

    Caroline Shaw

    New Dances of the League of David

    David Kaplan, piano

    1:45
  • 11:36 PM

    Ungeduldig

    Michael Brown

    New Dances of the League of David

    David Kaplan, piano

    1:58
  • 11:20 PM

    Marosszek Dances

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Kodaly: The Peacock, Galanta Dances, Marosszek Dances

    Budapest Symphony Orchestra

    Gyorgy Lehel, conductor

    13:53
  • 11:06 PM

    Consecration of the House: Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, The Consecration of the House

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    12:39
  • 10:53 PM

    Festival March

    Johan Halvorsen

    Halvorsen, J.: Kongen / Vasantasena / Tordenskjold

    Latvian National Symphony Orchestra

    Terje Mikkelsen, conductor

    4:27
  • 10:45 PM

    Te Deum

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Nelsonmesse; Theresienmesse

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    8:00
  • 10:20 PM

    Czech Suite

    Antonin Dvorak

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Libor Pesek, conductor

    23:00
  • 10:16 PM

    Polonaise No. 3

    Clara Schumann

    Angela Tirino, piano

    3:40
  • 10:08 PM

    Rossini on Ilkla Moor Overture

    Eric Fenby

    British Light Music Discoveries

    Royal Ballet Sinfonia

    Gavin Sutherland, conductor

    6:35
  • 10:06 PM

    Rondeau

    Jean-Joseph Mouret

    Royal Brass: Music from the Renaissance & Baroque

    Empire Brass

    1:29
  • 10:03 PM

    Staccato Polka

    Clara Gottschalk-Peterson

    Nasty Women: Piano Music in the Age of Women's Suffrage

    Joanna Goldstein, piano

    2:24
  • 9:52 PM

    Waltz-Scherzo

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Odense Symphony Orchestra

    Alexander Vedernikov, conductor

    Jennifer Koh, violin

    6:22
  • 9:30 PM

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Emmanuel Krivine, conductor

    20:13
  • 9:16 PM

    Sonatina No. 2 "Happy Workshop": 1st movement

    Richard Strauss

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    12:12
  • 9:06 PM

    Variations on "I Got Rhythm"

    George Gershwin

    Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    9:05
  • 9:01 PM

    Two Poetic Waltzes

    Enrique Granados

    40 Degrees North

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    4:40
  • 8:49 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Scottish": 4th movement

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 Scottish

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    8:54
  • 6:43 PM

    Russian Easter Festival Overture

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov: 3 Symphonies / Jarvi, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    14:59
  • 6:20 PM

    Flute Concerto No. 1

    Saverio Mercadante

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    21:38
  • 6:15 PM

    The Chrysanthemum

    Scott Joplin

    Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered

    Lara Downes, piano

    3:29
  • 6:06 PM

    A Fugal Concerto

    Gustav Holst

    City of London Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    Duke Dobing, flute

    Christopher Hooker, oboe

    8:25
  • 6:01 PM

    Biguine

    Jerome Moross

    Frankie And Johnny

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    4:48
  • 5:48 PM

    El Salon Mexico

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Symphony No. 3; Danzon Cubano; El Salon Mexico

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    10:46
  • 5:25 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    John Field

    New Irish Chamber Orchestra

    Janos Furst, conductor

    John O'Conor, piano

    20:25
  • 5:20 PM

    El Amor Brujo: Ritual Fire Dance

    Manuel de Falla

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    3:45
  • 5:06 PM

    Symphony No. 5: 2nd movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    The Best of Tchaikovsky

    Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Antoni Wit, conductor

    13:36
  • 5:01 PM

    Iberia: El Puerto

    Isaac Albeniz

    Imogen Cooper, piano

    4:52
  • 4:45 PM

    Fair Maid of Perth: Suite

    Georges Bizet

    Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    13:22
  • 4:15 PM

    Pictures at an Exhibition

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Lorin Maazel, conductor

    30:20
  • 4:06 PM

    Light Cavalry Overture

    Franz von Suppe

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Franz Welser-Most, conductor

    6:51
  • 4:01 PM

    If Music be the Food of Love

    David Dickau

    Repertoire For Mixed Voices, Volume 1

    St. Olaf Choir

    Anton Armstrong, conductor

    4:23
  • 3:52 PM

    Aladdin Suite: March and Dance

    Carl Nielsen

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    6:21
  • 3:36 PM

    Mandolin Concerto

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Potsdam Chamber Academy

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    Shalev Ad-El, harpsichord

    20:25
  • 3:23 PM

    Les Eolides

    Cesar Franck

    New York Philharmonic

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    11:20
  • 3:15 PM

    The Lord of the Rings: Suite

    Howard Shore

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Klauspeter Seibel, conductor

    James Galway, flute

    6:43
  • 3:05 PM

    Mignon: Overture

    Ambroise Thomas

    Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne; Gounod, Thomas, Chabrier

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    8:07
  • 2:59 PM

    Stephen Hough, piano

    4:29
  • 2:51 PM

    La Scala di Seta (Silken Ladder): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Prague Sinfonia Orchestra

    Christian Benda, conductor

    6:01
  • 2:46 PM

    Memories of the Alhambra

    Francisco Tarrega

    Dreams of a World

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    4:09
  • 2:36 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 17: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Mitsuko Uchida, conductor

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    8:22
  • 2:32 PM

    O sole mio

    Eduardo Di Capua

    The Greatest Classical Show On Earth

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Giancarlo Chiaramello, conductor

    Luciano Pavarotti, tenor

    3:21
  • 2:25 PM

    The Gadfly: Romance

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    The Sound of the Academy

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    6:22
  • 2:17 PM

    The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Joy To The World

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    7:06
  • 2:09 PM

    Trumpet Sonata No. 1

    Henry Purcell

    Purcell: Miscellany

    Purcell Quartet

    Mark Bennett, trumpet

    4:09
  • 2:04 PM

    Romeo and Juliet: Arrival of the Guests

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    4:02
  • 1:52 PM

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    18:11
  • 1:49 PM

    Nabucco: Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    5:09
  • 1:38 PM

    Symphony No. 8: 1st movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Andris Nelsons, conductor

    9:49
  • 1:34 PM

    Maria Jette, soptrano

    Judith Kogan, harp

    3:00
  • 1:32 PM

    Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    2:30
  • 1:22 PM

    Piano Trio No. 1: 4th movement

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Saint Saens, Debussy, Faure: French Piano Trios

    David Golub, piano

    7:23
  • 1:20 PM

    Ungeduldig

    Michael Brown

    New Dances of the League of David

    David Kaplan, piano

    1:58
  • 1:07 PM

    Festival March

    Antonin Dvorak

    Rochester Philharmonic

    David Zinman, conductor

    5:39
  • 1:04 PM

    Down a Country Lane

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Complete Music for Solo Piano

    Leo Smit, piano

    2:07
  • 12:50 PM

    Gaelic Symphony: 2nd movement

    Amy Beach

    Beach: Gaelic Symphony, Piano Concerto

    Nashville Symphony Orchestra

    Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor

    7:26
  • 12:45 PM

    Fanfare on Amazing Grace

    Adolphus Hailstork

    Adolphus Hailstork: An American Port Of Call

    Virginia Symphony Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    3:25
  • 12:32 PM

    Concerto for Two Violins

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Double Sens

    Nemanja Radulovic, violin

    Tijana Milosevic, violin

    12:27
  • 12:20 PM

    Capriol Suite

    Peter Warlock

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    10:02
  • 12:17 PM

    Nais: Rigaudons

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Musicians of the Louvre

    Marc Minkowski, conductor

    2:17
  • 12:08 PM

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Alexander Borodin

    Bavarian State Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    7:23
  • 12:04 PM

    Orli Shaham, piano

    3:50
  • 11:49 AM

    Sinfonia No. 3

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Symphonies - From Berlin to Hamburg

    Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

    Georg Kallweit, conductor

    9:13
  • 11:25 AM

    Arpeggione Sonata

    Franz Schubert

    Ludwig Quandt, cello

    Marie-Pierre Langlamet, harp

    22:45
  • 11:13 AM

    Snowflake Ballet

    Jacques Offenbach

    Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    10:23
  • 11:07 AM

    Intermezzo No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet

    Yuja Wang, piano

    5:43
  • 11:01 AM

    Rondo Amoroso

    Harald Saeverud

    Norwegian Composers Now - For Tomorrow: Harald Saeverud

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Per Dreier, conductor

    4:36
  • 10:39 AM

    Serenade

    Julius Rontgen

    Röntgen: Orchestral Works

    Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt

    David Porcelijn, conductor

    19:24
  • 10:17 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 28

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Stephen Kovacevich, piano

    20:21
  • 10:11 AM

    Othello Suite: Children's Intermezzo

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha OVerture / Petite Suite

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    3:44
  • 10:06 AM

    Goldberg Variations: Aria

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Yo-Yo Ma Plays Bach

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    4:40
  • 10:01 AM

    Let My Love Be Heard

    Jake Runestad

    Enchanted Isle

    Voces8

    4:45
  • 9:42 AM

    Wand of Youth Suite No. 2

    Edward Elgar

    Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    16:27
  • 9:24 AM

    Tuba Concerto

    John Williams

    Singapore Symphony Orchestra

    Anne Manson, conductor

    Oystein Baadsvik, tuba

    17:03
  • 9:06 AM

    String Quartet No. 30 "The Joke"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    The Haydn Project

    Emerson String Quartet

    16:20
  • 9:01 AM

    Le roi s'amuse (The King Has Fun): Pavane and Scene du bouquet

    Leo Delibes

    French Music for the Stage

    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:41
  • 8:36 AM

    Concerto for Flute and Guitar

    Ferdinando Carulli

    Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

    Janos Rolla, conductor

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    Alexandre Lagoya, guitar

    22:05
  • 8:25 AM

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    10:35
  • 8:09 AM

    Romantic Pieces

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Legends, Prague Waltzes

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    14:18
  • 8:02 AM

    The Hours Suite: Movement II

    Philip Glass

    Philip Glass, Portrait

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    7:15
  • 7:25 AM

    Symphony No. 2

    Franz Schubert

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

    33:47
  • 7:17 AM

    Thais: Meditation

    Jules Massenet

    Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

    Lambert Orkis, piano

    6:24
  • 7:01 AM

    Waltzes for Piano Four-Hands

    Julius Rontgen

    Bengt Forsberg, piano

    David Huang, piano

    14:39
  • 6:36 AM

    Symphony No. 11

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    22:38
  • 6:13 AM

    Sonata for Strings

    Carlos Gomes

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Neil Thomson, conductor

    21:55
  • 6:01 AM

    Fantasy on Mozart's "La ci darem la mano"

    Franz Danzi

    Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra

    Jorg Faerber, conductor

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    10:11