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  • 5:53 AM

    I Wonder as I Wander; Coventry Carol; O Come, O Come Emmanuel

    Christmas Music

    A Christmas Collection

    Neil Hogan, guitar

    5:00
  • 5:33 AM

    Theme and Variations "Dried Flowers"

    Franz Schubert

    Vent

    Catherine Gregory, flute

    20:09
  • 5:15 AM

    Dream in White on White

    John Luther Adams

    John Luther Adams: The Far Country

    The Apollo Quartet and Strings

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Barbara Chapman, harp

    16:22
  • 5:06 AM

    Ode to the Snow

    Chen Pei-xun

    Chinese National Symphony Orchestra

    China National Symphony Orchestra

    Zuohuang Chen, conductor

    8:09
  • 5:01 AM

    Nocturne

    Louise Farrenc

    Piano Works

    Konstanze Eickhorst, piano

    4:51
  • 4:52 AM

    Canticle

    Jeff Beal

    Beal: House of Cards Symphony

    Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra

    Jeff Beal, conductor

    Jon Henrik Petersen, violin

    6:27
  • 4:39 AM

    Musica Callada (Silent Music): Book 3

    Federico Mompou

    Federico Mompou: Musica Callada

    Herbert Henck, piano

    11:45
  • 4:24 AM

    A Winter's Tale

    Josef Suk

    uk: A Summer's Tale, Op. 29 & A Winter's Tale, Op. 9

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Mogrelia, conductor

    14:43
  • 4:17 AM

    Huron Carol ('Twas in the Moon of Wintertime)

    Traditional

    Candlelight Carols: Music for Chorus and Harp

    Seraphic Fire

    Patrick Dupre Quigley, conductor

    Jacqueline Kerrod, harp

    5:00
  • 4:06 AM

    Winter Poem No. 1

    Glenn Buhr

    Winter Poems - Music of Glenn Buhr

    Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

    Bramwell Tovey, conductor

    10:02
  • 1:57 AM

    Miniatures: Dance Tune

    Sulkhan Tsintsadze

    Avi Avital: Between Worlds

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    1:06
  • 1:55 AM

    Miniatures: Shepherd's Dance

    Sulkhan Tsintsadze

    Avi Avital: Between Worlds

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    1:22
  • 1:53 AM

    Miniatures: Sachidao

    Sulkhan Tsintsadze

    Avi Avital: Between Worlds

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    1:50
  • 1:26 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    25:49
  • 1:23 AM

    The Nutcracker: March

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky Nutcracker & Swan Lake Suite

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    2:32
  • 1:07 AM

    Mandolin Concerto

    Johann Hummel

    Il Giardino Armonico

    Giovanni Antonini, conductor

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    15:10
  • 12:59 AM

    Samson and Delilah: Bacchanale

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Exotic Dances from the Opera

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    7:29
  • 12:48 AM

    Cello Sonata: 4th movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Carter: Sonata for Cello & Piano; Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19

    Anthony Ross, cello

    10:07
  • 12:44 AM

    The Road Home

    Stephen Paulus

    Concert Recording

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    3:41
  • 12:10 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3

    Mahler Chamber Orchestra

    Leif Ove Andsnes, conductor

    Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

    32:47
  • 12:04 AM

    O Nata Lux

    Rene Clausen

    2015 Concordia College Christmas Concert: Let Every Heart Awake and Sing

    Concordia Choir of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota

    Rene Clausen, conductor

    3:55
  • 12:01 AM

    Joy to the World

    Traditional

    Joy to the World

    Empire Brass

    2:23
  • 11:35 PM

    Symphony No. 92 "Oxford"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    24:47
  • 11:08 PM

    A Ceremony of Carols

    Benjamin Britten

    In Winter's House - Christmas with Tenebrae

    Tenebrae

    Nigel Short, conductor

    Camilla Pay, harp

    24:00
  • 11:02 PM

    Skating

    Vince Guaraldi

    Christmas On Copper Street

    Copper Street Brass Quintet

    4:28
  • 10:51 PM

    Wonder Tidings

    Stephen Paulus

    Christmas With The Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    Kathleen Robinson, oboe

    3:10
  • 10:46 PM

    This Endris Night

    Stephen Paulus

    Christmas With The Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    Kathleen Robinson, oboe

    4:34
  • 10:43 PM

    The Holly and the Ivy

    Stephen Paulus

    Christmas With The Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    Kathleen Robinson, oboe

    3:34
  • 10:33 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Organ": 4th movement

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Barber, Poulenc, Saint Saens

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

    Olivier Latry, organ

    8:41
  • 10:24 PM

    Four Seasons: Winter

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

    Raglan Baroque Players

    Nicholas Kraemer, conductor

    Monica Huggett, violin

    7:58
  • 10:20 PM

    "Jig" Fugue

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Hits Back

    Swingle Singers

    2:03
  • 10:17 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3: 1st movement

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Hits Back

    Swingle Singers

    2:44
  • 10:11 PM

    El cant dels ocells (Song of the Birds)

    Pablo Casals

    Inspiration

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestral Cellos

    Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

    2:54
  • 10:03 PM

    Summa

    Arvo Part

    Arvo Part: Portrait

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    5:05
  • 9:50 PM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique": 3rd movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Mad About Tchaikovsky

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    9:52
  • 9:42 PM

    Equus

    Eric Whitacre

    Water Night

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Eric Whitacre, conductor

    8:52
  • 9:36 PM

    Farewell to Stromness

    Peter Maxwell Davies

    At the Break

    Christopher O'Riley, piano

    3:32
  • 9:25 PM

    Pluie de diamants

    Emil Waldteufel

    Waldteufel: Famous Waltzes

    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Alfred Walter, conductor

    10:25
  • 9:18 PM

    Organ Concerto No. 5

    George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Amsterdam

    Jaap Schroder, conductor

    Daniel Chorzempa, organ

    8:32
  • 9:07 PM

    Lux Aurumque

    Eric Whitacre

    Lux Aurumque

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    3:37
  • 9:00 PM

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Favourites

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    James Judd, conductor

    4:32
  • 6:47 PM

    Breaking Waves

    Helena Munktell

    Gavle Symphony Orchestra

    Tobias Ringborg, conductor

    11:13
  • 6:46 PM

    Water Drops

    Jean Sibelius

    SIBELIUS E PROKOFIEV Violin Concertos

    Janine Jansen, violin

    :43
  • 6:25 PM

    The Little Trifles (Les petits riens)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    19:45
  • 6:19 PM

    French Carol Medley

    Traditional French

    Christmas on Copper Street, Vol. 2

    Copper Street Brass Quintet

    5:14
  • 6:06 PM

    Fair Melusina Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony, Three Overtures

    Bern Symphony Orchestra

    Peter Maag, conductor

    12:04
  • 6:01 PM

    Gondoliera

    Moritz Moszkowski

    From Foreign Lands

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    4:46
  • 5:39 PM

    Clarinet Quartet

    Franz Hoffmeister

    Hoffmeister: Clarinet Quartets

    Vlach Quartet Prague

    Dieter Klocker, clarinet

    18:56
  • 5:15 PM

    Piano Concerto

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Piano Concertos, Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, Sonatine

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    Alicia de Larrocha, piano

    22:14
  • 5:11 PM

    Silver Bells

    Jay Livingston

    Have Yourself an OK Christmas

    The OK Factor

    2:37
  • 5:06 PM

    Very Favorite Reminiscence Landler

    Johann Strauss

    STRAUSS I, J.: Edition - Vol. 2

    Slovak Sinfonietta, Zilina

    Christian Pollack, conductor

    4:26
  • 5:00 PM

    Zefiro torna

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Jeremy Denk, piano

    4:36
  • 4:44 PM

    Dumbarton Oaks Concerto

    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Dumbarton Oaks

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    14:46
  • 4:16 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Orchestral Suites

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    25:36
  • 4:12 PM

    Peace on Earth

    Errollyn Wallen

    Errollyn Wallen: Peace on Earth

    Choir of King's College, Cambridge

    3:35
  • 4:06 PM

    In the Mountains: Sunny Day

    Josef Foerster

    Foerster: Symphony No. 5 & In den Bergen

    Osnabruck Symphony Orchestra

    Hermann Baumer, conductor

    4:29
  • 4:00 PM

    Forgotten Melodies: Festive Dance

    Nikolai Medtner

    Sonatas by Medtner, Rachmaninov, Scriabin

    Kenny Broberg, piano

    4:48
  • 3:53 PM

    Once Upon a Time in America: Deborah's Theme

    Ennio Morricone

    Labyrinth

    Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

    5:13
  • 3:49 PM

    Concerto for Three Oboes, 3 Violins, and Continuo

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Telemann: Wind Concertos

    Musica Antiqua Cologne

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor

    Hans-Peter Westermann, oboe

    9:04
  • 3:24 PM

    Piano Trio No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn Trios op. 49 and 66

    Claremont Trio

    27:43
  • 3:16 PM

    Romanian Christmas Carols

    Bela Bartok

    THE KNIGHTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS

    The Knights

    Eric Jacobsen, conductor

    6:45
  • 3:10 PM

    The Lion King: Can You Feel the Love Tonight

    Elton John

    Lang Lang: The Disney Book

    Lang Lang, piano

    2:34
  • 3:05 PM

    Oblivion

    Astor Piazzolla

    Concert Recording

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Sang Yoon Kim, clarinet

    4:04
  • 2:58 PM

    Magic Flute: Overture

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart Die Zauberflote

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    6:31
  • 2:53 PM

    The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu): Suite

    Igor Stravinsky

    Ravel, Stravinsky

    Beatrice Rana, piano

    11:54
  • 2:48 PM

    Messiah: The Trumpet Shall Sound

    George Frideric Handel

    Christmas with Septura

    Septura

    4:06
  • 2:45 PM

    Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus

    George Frideric Handel

    The Cambridge Buskers

    Cambridge Buskers

    1:40
  • 2:31 PM

    Triple Concerto: Rondo alla Polacca

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven Piano Concertos Part 1

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Alan Gilbert, conductor

    Inon Barnatan, piano

    12:57
  • 2:21 PM

    Carmen Suite No. 2

    Georges Bizet

    Grieg: Carmen - Peer Gynt

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    8:34
  • 2:17 PM

    Soirees Musicales: Mazurka

    Clara Schumann

    The Young Clara: Early Piano Works

    Angela Tirino, piano

    3:26
  • 2:08 PM

    Aleko: Women's Dance

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2; Dances from Aleko

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vasily Petrenko, conductor

    4:58
  • 2:04 PM

    Peer Gynt: Anitra's Dance

    Edvard Grieg

    Minnesota Orchestra At One Hundred

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    3:25
  • 1:53 PM

    Scottish March (Marche ecossaise)

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy & Ravel: Orchestral Works

    Ulster Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    6:02
  • 1:45 PM

    The Prophet: Ballet of the Skaters: Redowa

    Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

    Michal Nesterowicz, conductor

    7:05
  • 1:33 PM

    Concerto for Two Violins

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Concertos For Two Violins

    Venice Baroque Orchestra

    Andrea Marcon, conductor

    Viktoria Mullova, violin

    10:40
  • 1:27 PM

    White Christmas

    Irving Berlin

    Christmas

    Carlos Simon, piano

    3:51
  • 1:19 PM

    Symphony No. 6: Scherzo

    Emilie Mayer

    Emilie Mayer: Music From The Shadows - Symphonies Nos. 6 & 3

    Bremerhaven Symphony Orchestra

    Marc Niemann, conductor

    7:16
  • 1:15 PM

    Morning Song

    Edward Elgar

    Breakfast in Bed

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    3:01
  • 1:06 PM

    Serenade for Strings: Waltz

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Serenades Op 22 & 44

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    6:56
  • 1:04 PM

    Acis and Galatea: Happy We!

    George Frideric Handel

    Grand & Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses / Robert Shaw

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    1:56
  • 12:51 PM

    String Quartet No. 4

    Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    Sirmen: Six String Quartets

    Lombardini Quartet

    7:59
  • 12:46 PM

    L'Estro Armonico: Concerto No. 10 for Four Violins and Cello: 3rd movement

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Il Giardino Armonico

    Giovanni Antonini, conductor

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    3:10
  • 12:31 PM

    A Moorside Suite

    Gustav Holst

    English String Miniatures, Vol. 4

    Northern Sinfonia of England

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    14:10
  • 12:22 PM

    Concerto No. 8

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Albinoni: 12 Concerti a cinque, Op.5

    Collegium Musicum 90

    Simon Standage, conductor

    7:50
  • 12:16 PM

    Ave Maria

    Franz Schubert

    Sanctuary

    Adagio Trio

    4:51
  • 12:08 PM

    Sicilian Vespers: Four Seasons: Winter

    Giuseppe Verdi

    VERDI, G.: Ballet Music from the Operas

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    6:33
  • 12:04 PM

    Mock Morris

    Percy Grainger

    The Record of Singing - The Very Best of Vols 1-4

    Studio Orchestra

    Harry Rabinowitz, conductor

    Martin Jones, piano

    3:14
  • 11:52 AM

    Kamarinskaya

    Mikhail Glinka

    Kabalevsky, Prokofiev, Glinka, Tchaikovsky

    San Diego Chamber Orchestra

    Donald Barra, conductor

    6:09
  • 11:41 AM

    Concert Pieces

    Francois Couperin

    CanCan Macabre

    Sophie Shao, cello

    10:23
  • 11:25 AM

    Othello Suite

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Fawzi Haimor, conductor

    15:04
  • 11:20 AM

    Candlelight Carol

    John Rutter

    Rejoice! A String Quartet Christmas

    Arturo Delmoni, violin

    4:25
  • 11:09 AM

    Trumpet Concerto

    George Frideric Handel

    Maurice Andre plays Telemann

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Maurice Andre, trumpet

    9:29
  • 11:06 AM

    Etude No. 10

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Etudes

    Yunchan Lim, piano

    2:14
  • 11:01 AM

    Paul's Steeple and Stingo

    John Playford

    Apollo's Banquet

    4:42
  • 10:44 AM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Concerts Brandebourgeois Nos. 1, 3, 4

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    13:34
  • 10:23 AM

    Symphony No. 20

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    20:25
  • 10:16 AM

    O Come, O Come Emmanuel; Infant Holy, Infant Lowly; I Saw Three Ships

    Christmas Music

    A Star in the East

    Carolyn Surrick, viola da gamba

    5:05
  • 10:06 AM

    Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

    Claude Debussy

    Escales: French Orchestral Works

    Sinfonia of London

    John Wilson, conductor

    9:11
  • 10:01 AM

    Le Concert: Overture and Gigue

    Mademoiselle Laurant

    Destinees

    Sophie de Bardonneche, violin

    4:48
  • 9:39 AM

    Trio for Oboe, Clarinet and Piano

    Ruth Gipps

    Piper of Dreams

    Juliana Koch, oboe

    19:31
  • 9:35 AM

    and the swallow

    Caroline Shaw

    Rolling River

    Choir of Clare College, Cambridge

    Graham Ross, conductor

    3:11
  • 9:01 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: The Symphonies

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    32:06
  • 8:26 AM

    Serenade

    Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Serenade; Excelsior!

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    32:37
  • 8:21 AM

    The First Noel

    Traditional

    Stille Nacht: Christmas Carols for Guitar

    Rossini Hayward, guitar

    3:10
  • 8:10 AM

    Piano Suite No. 2 "Times of Solitude"

    John Wineglass

    Summerland: Music for Piano and Cello by Composers of African Descent

    Duo Dolce

    10:46
  • 8:01 AM

    Adagio

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Classical Favorites

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    7:44
  • 7:26 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Georges Enescu

    ENESCU ? SYMPHONIES Nos. 1?3, Romanian Rhapsodies 1 & 2

    French National Orchestra

    Cristian Macelaru, conductor

    32:02
  • 7:20 AM

    Christmas Medley

    Traditional

    A String Quartet Christmas

    Arturo Delmoni, violin

    6:33
  • 7:06 AM

    Mystic Dance

    Charlotte Sohy

    Aux etoiles: French Symphonic Poems

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, conductor

    12:43
  • 7:01 AM

    Two Waltzes

    Germaine Tailleferre

    Germaine Tailleferre: Music for 2 Pianos & Piano 4 Hands

    Mark Clinton, piano

    3:14
  • 6:20 AM

    String Quintet No. 4

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: The Bicentennial Program

    New York Philomusica

    37:55
  • 6:05 AM

    Sussex Landscape

    Avril Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Roderick Cox, conductor

    13:31
  • 6:01 AM

    Lullay, My Liking

    Gustav Holst

    A Christmas Feast

    Helen Campo, flute

    3:13