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For beginners and lifelong listeners of classical music, YourClassical's Essentials Stream features the best in classical music. Hear pieces that are friendly, familiar and performed by well-known musicians and ensembles across the world.

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  • 8:14 AM

    Polonaise No. 6 "Heroic"

    Frederic Chopin

    The Complete Piano Works of Chopin, Vol 5: Polonaises & Impromptus

    Garrick Ohlsson, piano

    7:00
  • 8:07 AM

    Symphonie Fantastique: A Ball

    Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Liszt - Solti

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    6:23
  • 8:03 AM

    Memories of the Alhambra

    Francisco Tarrega

    Julian Bream: La Guitarra Romantica

    Julian Bream, guitar

    3:56
  • 7:58 AM

    La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus): Overture

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Arias for Male Soprano

    Boston Baroque

    Martin Pearlman, conductor

    4:46
  • 7:54 AM

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

    Giuseppe Verdi

    A Hymn for the World 2

    Saint Cecilia Orchestra

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    4:52
  • 7:50 AM

    Orchestral Suite No. 3: Gavottes

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Greatest Hits: Trumpet

    Marlboro Festival Orchestra

    Pablo Casals, conductor

    3:34
  • 7:43 AM

    Symphony No. 5: 1st movement

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 8; Overture "Die Zauberharfe"

    Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    6:34
  • 7:39 AM

    Humoresque No. 7

    Antonin Dvorak

    Virtuoso

    Leonidas Kavakos, violin

    3:59
  • 7:27 AM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral": 2nd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven Complete Symphonies

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Andris Nelsons, conductor

    12:19
  • 7:21 AM

    Asturias (Leyenda)

    Isaac Albeniz

    Guitare Festival

    Turibio Santos, guitar

    6:03
  • 7:14 AM

    Symphony No. 94 "Surprise": 2nd movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 45 & 94; Horn Concerto No. 1

    London Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Warren-Green, conductor

    6:16
  • 7:09 AM

    Eugene Onegin: Polonaise

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Sibelius: Pelleas et Melisande, Valse Triste, Rakastava

    Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

    Uri Mayer, conductor

    4:44
  • 7:01 AM

    Symphony No. 40: 1st movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Key to Classics: Mozart

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    7:49
  • 6:58 AM

    Hungarian Dance No. 5

    Johannes Brahms

    With Love from Vienna

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    2:48
  • 6:43 AM

    Capriccio Espagnol

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Kabalevsky: The Comedians - Suite; Rimsky-Korsakov: Cappricio Espagnol; Glinka: Ruslan & Ludmilla Overture; Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia; Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain; Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges

    Bavarian State Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    15:39
  • 6:29 AM

    Tales from the Vienna Woods

    Johann StraussJr.

    Mad About the Waltz

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    13:13
  • 6:14 AM

    Symphony No. 5: 3rd and 4th movements

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The Symphonies

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    14:50
  • 6:10 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 1: 1st movement

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Violin Concertos, Gubaidulina: In Tempus Praesens

    Trondheim Soloists

    Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

    3:36
  • 6:00 AM

    Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Images, Prelude, La Mer

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    10:11
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