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  • 5:50 AM

    Vicky Chow, piano

    8:13
  • 5:40 AM

    O'Keeffe Images: Sky Above Clouds

    Elena Ruehr

    Elena Ruehr: O'Keeffe Images

    Boston Modern Orchestra Project

    Gil Rose, conductor

    9:29
  • 5:32 AM

    Soliloquy

    Jennifer Higdon

    Jennifer Higdon: Summer Shimmers

    Lark Quartet

    Susan Glaser, flute

    6:43
  • 5:18 AM

    Still Point

    Judd Greenstein

    Stillpoint

    A Far Cry Orchestra

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    12:38
  • 5:07 AM

    Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror)

    Arvo Part

    Lisa Batiashvili: Echoes Of Time

    Lisa Batiashvili, violin

    10:19
  • 5:01 AM

    Things We Trust In

    Robert Jurjendal

    Five Seasons

    Volkmar Zimmermann, guitar

    4:35
  • 4:52 AM

    Two Serenades: Serenade pour la vie

    Einojuhani Rautavaara

    Paris

    Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra

    Mikko Franck, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    6:35
  • 4:45 AM

    again (after ecclesiastes)

    David Lang

    Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion

    Theatre of Voices

    Paul Hillier, conductor

    5:31
  • 4:40 AM

    Winter Song

    Gordon Getty

    Primavera IV: The Heart

    Matt Haimovitz, cello

    3:14
  • 4:25 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 3: 3rd movement

    Philip Glass

    Circles: Piano Concertos by Bach and Glass

    A Far Cry Orchestra

    Simone Dinnerstein, piano

    13:54
  • 4:18 AM

    Home: 1st movement

    Kevin Puts

    Home

    Miro Quartet

    6:02
  • 4:06 AM

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    James Sedares, conductor

    9:32
  • 4:03 AM

    Sunset

    Connor Chee

    Scenes from Dinetah

    Connor Chee, piano

    2:19
  • 4:01 AM

    Sunrise

    Connor Chee

    Scenes from Dinetah

    Connor Chee, piano

    2:15
  • 3:53 AM

    Intermezzo No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Late Piano Works

    Garrick Ohlsson, piano

    5:11
  • 3:15 AM

    Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable"

    Carl Nielsen

    Carl Nielsen: The Symphonies

    Danish National Symphony Orchestra

    Fabio Luisi, conductor

    36:30
  • 3:06 AM

    Overture No. 2

    Louise Farrenc

    Farrenc: Symphony No. 1 - Overtures - Grand Variations

    European Soloists, Luxembourg

    Christoph Konig, conductor

    7:08
  • 3:01 AM

    Lute Suite No. 4: Prelude

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    A Distant Show

    Ronn McFarlane, lute

    4:37
  • 2:45 AM

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Greensleeves/Tallis Fantasia

    New Queen's Hall Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    13:14
  • 2:41 AM

    Something Like This

    Elena Kats-Chernin

    Something Like This

    Sally Walker, flute

    3:05
  • 2:17 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 3

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Violin Concertos

    Champs-Elysees Orchestra

    Alessandro Moccia, conductor

    Giuliano Carmignola, violin

    22:49
  • 2:09 AM

    Villanelle

    Paul Dukas

    Gliere, Saint-Saens, Dukas, Chabrier: Works For Horn

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    Hermann Baumann, horn

    6:02
  • 2:07 AM

    To a Wild Rose

    Edward MacDowell

    Schumann & MacDowell Piano Concertos

    Van Cliburn, piano

    2:12
  • 2:01 AM

    Three Parts on a Ground

    Henry Purcell

    Stradivaria

    4:45
  • 1:50 AM

    Etude No. 6 "En forme de valse"

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Lise de la Salle, piano

    7:56
  • 11:47 PM

    The Seasons: Autumn

    Alexander Glazunov

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    11:46
  • 11:43 PM

    The Four Seasons in Janoska Style: The Hunter and the Jazzy Fox

    Janoska Ensemble

    The Four Seasons in Janoska Style

    Janoska Ensemble

    4:07
  • 11:38 PM

    Aleko: Men's Dance

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Dances from Aleko, Scherzo

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    4:49
  • 11:16 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Six Concertos for the Margrave of Brandenburg

    European Brandenburg Ensemble

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    Katy Bircher, flute

    20:40
  • 10:58 PM

    Variations on This Land is Your Land

    Kian Ravaei

    This Land

    Lara Downes, piano

    7:22
  • 10:46 PM

    Aida: Triumphal March

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Verdi: Choruses

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    11:49
  • 10:39 PM

    Rusalka: Song to the Moon

    Antonin Dvorak

    The #1 Opera Album

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    Renee Fleming, soprano

    6:39
  • 10:22 PM

    Clarinet Concerto

    Johann Stamitz

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    15:39
  • 10:19 PM

    Little David Play on Your Harp

    Florence Price

    UNCOVERED Vol. 2

    Catalyst Quartet

    1:39
  • 10:09 PM

    Kunstler-Leben Walzer (Artist's Life)

    Johann StraussJr.

    Strauss: Waltzes And Overtures

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Franz Welser-Most, conductor

    9:23
  • 10:05 PM

    Miniature Viennese March

    Fritz Kreisler

    Renaud Capucon, violin

    Gautier Capucon, cello

    Aude Capucon, piano

    3:13
  • 10:01 PM

    Trumpet Tune

    Henry Purcell

    Baroque Brass

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Donald Fraser, conductor

    2:43
  • 9:49 PM

    Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture

    Jacques Offenbach

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    9:36
  • 9:31 PM

    Bull on the Roof (Le boeuf sur le toit)

    Darius Milhaud

    Milhaud, Poulenc, Ibert: Orchestral Works

    Ulster Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    16:22
  • 9:20 PM

    As You Like It: Suite

    Roger Quilter

    Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    9:16
  • 9:07 PM

    Divertimento No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Divertimenti KN 113, 137 & 251

    Academy Chamber Ensemble

    12:55
  • 9:00 PM

    Andante and Rondo Capriccioso

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder Ohne Worte

    Javier Perianes, piano

    6:33
  • 6:43 PM

    Rapsodie espagnole

    Maurice Ravel

    Escales: French Orchestral Works

    Sinfonia of London

    John Wilson, conductor

    14:32
  • 6:20 PM

    Symphony No. 93

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93 & 101 "The Clock"

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    22:26
  • 6:14 PM

    Sicilienne

    Germaine Tailleferre

    Violon au feminin

    Sara Chenal, violin

    3:18
  • 6:06 PM

    Mignon: Overture

    Ambroise Thomas

    Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne; Gounod, Thomas, Chabrier

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    8:07
  • 6:01 PM

    Loch Lomond

    Traditional

    Chanticleer

    4:39
  • 5:50 PM

    From Italy (Aus Italien): Life in Naples

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Don Juan; Aus Italien

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    8:13
  • 5:28 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Lang Lang, piano

    20:50
  • 5:20 PM

    Vocalise

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Voyage Central Park

    Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

    Lisa Friend, flute

    6:08
  • 5:06 PM

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

    Bedrich Smetana

    SMETANA: Ma Vlast (My Country)

    Polish State Philharmonic

    Antoni Wit, conductor

    13:11
  • 5:01 PM

    String Quartet No. 1 "From the Salvation Army": 1st movement

    Charles Ives

    Emerson String Quartet

    4:48
  • 4:42 PM

    Horn Concerto No. 3

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Peter Damm, horn

    15:52
  • 4:16 PM

    Catfish Row

    George Gershwin

    GERSHWIN, G.: Rhapsody in Blue / Strike Up the Band: Overture / Promenade / Catfish Row

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    25:21
  • 4:13 PM

    American Suite: Danse

    William Grant Still

    Still: Summerland - Violin Suite - Pastorela - American Suite

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Avlana Eisenberg, conductor

    1:40
  • 4:06 PM

    Rondo a Capriccio (Rage Over a Lost Penny)

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bach-Busoni: Chaconne; Schumann: Kreislerianna

    Evgeny Kissin, piano

    5:30
  • 4:01 PM

    Csardas

    Vittorio Monti

    In a Monastery Garden

    London Festival Orchestra

    Josef Sakonov, violin

    4:36
  • 3:53 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Bluebird pas de deux

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    5:28
  • 3:42 PM

    Papillons (Butterflies)

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann: Piano Works Vol. 1

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano

    15:08
  • 3:37 PM

    Carmen: Habanera

    Georges Bizet

    Maria Callas: The Studio Recordings

    French National Radio and Television Orchestra

    Georges Pretre, conductor

    Maria Callas, soprano

    4:01
  • 3:22 PM

    Fair Maid of Perth: Suite

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet Orchestral Works Vol. 2

    Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    13:23
  • 3:07 PM

    Bolero

    Maurice Ravel

    Sommernachtskonzert 2023

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    14:26
  • 2:59 PM

    Graceful Ghost Rag

    William Bolcom

    Lise de la Salle, piano

    5:01
  • 2:55 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
  • 2:49 PM

    American Triptych: The Peace of Wild Things

    Jake Runestad

    The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad

    Conspirare

    Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

    Carla McElhaney, piano

    5:12
  • 2:44 PM

    Candide: Make Our Garden Grow

    Leonard Bernstein

    The Green Album

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    3:46
  • 2:37 PM

    The Days (I giorni)

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Ludovico Einaudi: Portrait

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    5:44
  • 2:31 PM

    Vespers: Laudate Dominum

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Voice Of The Violin

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Michael Stern, conductor

    Joshua Bell, violin

    4:44
  • 2:22 PM

    Violin Concerto

    Johann Fasch

    Fasch: Overture; Five Concertos

    La Stravaganza Cologne

    Veronika Skuplik, violin

    8:03
  • 2:18 PM

    The Snowman: Prelude and Serenade

    Erich Korngold

    Escape To Paradise: The Hollywood Album

    Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Alexander Shelley, conductor

    Daniel Hope, violin

    2:31
  • 2:10 PM

    Atalanta: Overture

    George Frideric Handel

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    3:50
  • 2:04 PM

    Danse (Tarantelle styrienne)

    Claude Debussy

    Ravel: Ma Mere L'Oye, Le Tombeau de Couperin

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    5:26
  • 1:55 PM

    Estancia: Dance of the Wheat

    Alberto Ginastera

    Tangazo

    New World Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    3:59
  • 1:50 PM

    Letter from Home

    Pat Metheny

    The Water Is Wide

    Mark Small, guitar

    3:30
  • 1:48 PM

    Lyric Pieces: I hjemmet (In the Home Country)

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Lyric Pieces

    Stephen Hough, piano

    1:44
  • 1:38 PM

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

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Hilary Hahn: Mozart 5, Vieuxtemps 4

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    8:47
  • 1:29 PM

    Il barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jaime Laredo, conductor

    7:16
  • 1:26 PM

    Children's Games (Jeux d'enfants): Saute-Mouton (Leap-Frog)

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    1:25
  • 1:24 PM

    Jugueteando (Playfully)

    Jorge Morel

    Sonidos Latinos

    David Russell, guitar

    2:31
  • 1:19 PM

    America

    Paul Simon

    This Land

    Lara Downes, piano

    3:08
  • 1:09 PM

    Valdres-March

    Johannes Hanssen

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Bjarte Engeset, conductor

    3:45
  • 1:04 PM

    Molly on the Shore

    Percy Grainger

    The Grainger Edition, Vol.5 - Works for Chorus and Orchestra 2

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    4:06
  • 12:41 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 11

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: 12 Concerti Grossi

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    16:43
  • 12:36 PM

    Dank sei dir, Herr

    Siegfried Ochs

    Sacred Songs

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andreas Delfs, conductor

    Renee Fleming, soprano

    3:16
  • 12:29 PM

    Symphony No. 97: Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: The London Symphonies, Vol. II

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    5:37
  • 12:22 PM

    Jonathan Biss, piano

    6:07
  • 12:18 PM

    Panamanian Dances: Tamborito

    William Grant Still

    Berlin Symphony Orchestra

    Isaiah Jackson, conductor

    4:05
  • 12:08 PM

    Symphony No. 5

    Johann Christian Bach

    JC Bach: 6 Symphonies, Op. 3

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    8:10
  • 12:04 PM

    Waltz No. 4 "Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Claudio Arrau, piano

    2:46
  • 11:48 AM

    Symphony No. 2: 4th movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Staatskapelle Berlin

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    10:09
  • 11:29 AM

    Bassoon Concerto

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Weber: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2, Bassoon Concerto

    BBC Philharmonic

    Juanjo Mena, conductor

    Karen Geoghegan, bassoon

    17:06
  • 11:14 AM

    Rob Roy: Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: 5 Overtures

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Alexander Gibson, conductor

    13:03
  • 11:06 AM

    Three Pieces

    Arthur Foote

    Huntingdon Trio

    7:47
  • 11:01 AM

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    4:30
  • 10:46 AM

    San Diego Chamber Orchestra

    Donald Barra, conductor

    12:00
  • 10:29 AM

    Wind Octet

    Franz Krommer

    Krommer: Octets for Wind Instruments

    Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble

    16:00
  • 10:13 AM

    Symphony No. 2: 3rd movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2; Dances from Aleko

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vasily Petrenko, conductor

    14:00
  • 10:06 AM

    Cinema Nostalgia

    Joe Hisaishi

    Dream Songs

    Studio Orchestra

    Joe Hisaishi, piano

    6:09
  • 10:01 AM

    Waltz No. 3

    Agustin Barrios

    Lily Afshar, guitar

    4:25
  • 9:44 AM

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    Natalie Zhu, piano

    14:17
  • 9:30 AM

    Bavarian Dances

    Edward Elgar

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Norman Del Mar, conductor

    12:47
  • 9:05 AM

    Clarinet Concerto No. 2

    Louis Spohr

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Kenneth Sillito, conductor

    Julian Bliss, clarinet

    24:14
  • 9:01 AM

    Young Soldier's Joy

    Qi-Ming Lu

    Shanghai Quartet

    2:54
  • 8:40 AM

    Kuentz Chamber Orchestra

    Paul Kuentz, conductor

    Nicanor Zabaleta, harp

    17:25
  • 8:25 AM

    Manfred Overture

    Robert Schumann

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Christian Thielemann, conductor

    14:47
  • 8:05 AM

    Symphony No. 6

    Samuel Wesley

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    18:21
  • 8:01 AM

    Gavotte Fantastique

    Amy Beach

    Joanne Polk, piano

    3:45
  • 7:25 AM

    Serenade No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    33:20
  • 7:15 AM

    String Symphony No. 5

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Gli Incogniti

    Amandine Beyer, conductor

    9:52
  • 7:01 AM

    Quartet No. 2

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Vienna-Berlin Ensemble

    11:43
  • 6:38 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 5

    Henri Vieuxtemps

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    Chee-Yun, violin

    20:50
  • 6:18 AM

    Bagatelles

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Serenade, Bagatelles, Czech Suite

    National Chamber Players

    Lowell Graham, conductor

    18:34
  • 6:01 AM

    French Suite No. 2

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    15:30