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  • 4:37 AM

    String Quartet No. 62 "Emperor"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Amadeus Quartet

    21:12
  • 4:27 AM

    Nancy Ruffer, flute

    Helen Crayford, piano

    9:40
  • 4:06 AM

    Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain"

    Alan Hovhaness

    Hovhaness, Prokofiev, Stravinsky

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Fritz Reiner, conductor

    19:05
  • 4:01 AM

    Intermezzo No. 2 "Klavierstucke"

    Johannes Brahms

    Passionate Kiss: Romantic Piano Music

    Daniel Pollack, piano

    4:33
  • 3:45 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 1

    Giuseppe Tartini

    Tartini: Trio and Violin Sonatas

    La Magnifica Comunita

    Enrico Casazza, violin

    13:08
  • 3:21 AM

    Aranjuez Concerto

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Miguel Gomez Martinez, conductor

    Eduardo Fernandez, guitar

    22:17
  • 3:06 AM

    Orchestral Suite No. 2 "Characteristic": Dreams of a Child

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

    Stefan Sanderling, conductor

    13:09
  • 3:01 AM

    String Quartet: Vivace

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Complete String Quartets

    Sibelius Academy Quartet

    4:44
  • 2:53 AM

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg And Andersen: Music For Flute And Piano

    Paula Robison, flute

    5:37
  • 2:44 AM

    Air and Gavotte

    Arthur Foote

    Gowanus Arts Ensemble

    Reuben Blundell, conductor

    8:30
  • 2:22 AM

    Symphony No. 33

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies 29 & 33

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    20:31
  • 2:15 AM

    JFK: Theme

    John Williams

    Dallas Wind Symphony

    Jerry Junkin, conductor

    5:07
  • 2:06 AM

    Hermann and Dorothea Overture

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann, R.: Overtures

    Polish National Radio Orchestra

    Johannes Wildner, conductor

    8:19
  • 2:01 AM

    Concerto Grosso No. 2: 1st movement

    William Alwyn

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    4:36
  • 1:49 AM

    Keyboard Suite No. 5

    George Frideric Handel

    Murray Perahia, piano

    8:55
  • 1:17 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Violin Concerto; Sonata

    Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    Sarah Chang, violin

    30:41
  • 1:06 AM

    Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

    Aram Khachaturian

    Essential Ballet

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Aram Khachaturian, conductor

    9:09
  • 1:01 AM

    Doors of Thy Mercy

    Alexander Kastalsky

    Kastalsky: Vechnaya Pamiat Geroyam

    Clarion Choir

    Steven Fox, conductor

    4:41
  • 12:48 AM

    String Quartet

    Luigi Boccherini

    Cremona Quartet

    10:41
  • 12:23 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Saint-Saens | Ravel | Gershwin

    Prague Philharmonia

    Emmanuel Villaume, conductor

    Andrew von Oeyen, piano

    23:56
  • 12:06 AM

    Symphony No. 26 "The Lamentation"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies 26, 52, 53

    La Petite Bande

    Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor

    14:32
  • 12:01 AM

    King Lear: Overture and Fanfare

    Claude Debussy

    Radio Luxembourg Orchestra

    Louis de Froment, conductor

    4:38
  • 11:46 PM

    Jeromita Linares

    Carlos Guastavino

    "Impresiones"

    Camerata Bariloche

    Pablo Cohen, guitar

    11:43
  • 11:25 PM

    Piano Trio

    Louise Farrenc

    Farrenc, L.: Piano Trio, Op. 33 / Clarinet Trio, Op. 44 / Sextet, Op. 40

    Linos Ensemble

    30:59
  • 11:21 PM

    Viola Concerto: 1st movement

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Pachelbel: Canon & Gigue

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Pinchas Zukerman, viola

    3:14
  • 11:14 PM

    The Running Set

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto / The Wasps / English Folk Song Suite / The Running Set

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    James Judd, conductor

    6:15
  • 11:06 PM

    Balada

    Ciprian Porumbescu

    Appassionata

    Lydia Mordkovitch, violin

    6:16
  • 10:52 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Leopold Mozart

    Virtuoso Trumpet: Bach, Mozart, Telemann

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jahja Ling, conductor

    Rolf Smedvig, trumpet

    12:58
  • 10:46 PM

    Bogoroditse Djevo (Rejoice, O Virgin Mary)

    Sergey Khvoshchinsky

    Fire of the Soul: Choral Virtuosity in 17th-Century Russia & Poland

    Rose Ensemble

    5:05
  • 10:25 PM

    Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad": 4th movement

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 "Leningrad"

    Kirov Orchestra

    Valery Gergiev, conductor

    19:59
  • 10:17 PM

    Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror)

    Arvo Part

    Smile

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    7:00
  • 10:12 PM

    Wayfaring Stranger

    Traditional

    Blue Wheat

    Dale Warland Singers

    Dale Warland, conductor

    3:59
  • 10:05 PM

    Pines of Rome: Pines of the Appian Way

    Ottorino Respighi

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    5:33
  • 9:54 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety": Prologue; Variations 1-7

    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein: Marin Alsop The Complete Naxos Recordings

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    10:01
  • 9:45 PM

    Two Ballades

    Fazil Say

    Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra

    Scott Yoo, conductor

    Fazil Say, piano

    7:24
  • 9:33 PM

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Paul Dukas

    Tchaikovsky: 1812; Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice; Smetana: Vltava (Die Moldau); Dvorak: Scherzo capriccioso; Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    11:07
  • 9:26 PM

    Rhapsody No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Radu Lupu, piano

    5:42
  • 9:21 PM

    A Moorside Suite: March

    Gustav Holst

    Music for Brass and Percussion

    London Brass

    David Honeyball, conductor

    4:41
  • 9:13 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 3: Air on the G String

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Simply Baroque

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    5:00
  • 9:06 PM

    Ensemble Clarimonia

    Charles Neidich, clarinet

    6:19
  • 9:00 PM

    La Gioconda: Cielo e mar!

    Amilcare Ponchielli

    Pavarotti's Greatest Hits

    New Philharmonia Orchestra

    Leone Magiera, conductor

    Luciano Pavarotti, tenor

    5:10
  • 8:55 PM

    Prelude and Fugue No. 5

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87

    Keith Jarrett, piano

    4:04
  • 8:22 PM

    Run

    Michael Torke

    Javelin - the Music of Michael Torke

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    6:32
  • 8:12 PM

    Lullaby

    George Gershwin

    New World Quartets

    Brodsky Quartet

    9:02
  • 8:00 PM

    Capriol Suite

    Peter Warlock

    Parkening Plays Vivaldi, Warlock & Praetorius

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Christopher Parkening, guitar

    10:52
  • 5:43 PM

    Bassoon Concerto No. 1

    Francois Devienne

    Devienne: Bassoon Concertos

    Slovak Chamber Orchestra

    Bohdan Warchal, conductor

    Eckart Hubner, bassoon

    15:24
  • 5:16 PM

    String Quartet No. 12 "American"

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Quartet No. 14, No. 12 American

    Cleveland Quartet

    24:59
  • 5:06 PM

    Athalia: Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn Overtures

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Claus Peter Flor, conductor

    8:26
  • 5:00 PM

    Waltz No. 5 "Grande Valse"

    Frederic Chopin

    Claudio Arrau, piano

    4:33
  • 4:43 PM

    Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

    Richard Strauss

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    15:22
  • 4:22 PM

    Miss Sally's Party

    William Grant Still

    VocalEssence Orchestra

    Philip Brunelle, conductor

    19:02
  • 4:11 PM

    North West German Philharmonic

    Werner Albert, conductor

    8:48
  • 4:06 PM

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Water Is Wide

    Mark Small, guitar

    5:01
  • 4:01 PM

    In the Mountains: Sunny Day

    Josef Foerster

    Foerster: Symphony No. 5 & In den Bergen

    Osnabruck Symphony Orchestra

    Hermann Baumer, conductor

    4:29
  • 3:58 PM

    Prelude No. 7

    Frederic Chopin

    The Complete Chopin Preludes

    Yundi Li, piano

    :47
  • 3:51 PM

    Piano Trio: 3rd movement

    Charles Wakefield Cadman

    Peter Zazofsky, violin

    Paul Posnak, piano

    Ross Harbough, cello

    6:13
  • 3:29 PM

    The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu) Ballet

    Igor Stravinsky

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    20:43
  • 3:19 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Leopold Mozart

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Simon Wright, conductor

    John Wallace, trumpet

    8:47
  • 3:06 PM

    Divertimento No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Serenata Notturna, 3 Divertimenti

    I Musici

    12:42
  • 3:01 PM

    Il finto Stanislao: Overture

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Overtures, Preludes, and Intermezzi

    Philharmonic of La Scala

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    4:44
  • 2:46 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 58

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    12:23
  • 2:39 PM

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet: Carmen Suite, Symphony No. 1

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    18:02
  • 2:33 PM

    Studio Orchestra

    Claire Jones, harp

    5:29
  • 2:25 PM

    Three Short Pieces

    Jacques Ibert

    Gounod, Poulenc, Ibert: Music for Wind

    Athena Ensemble

    6:59
  • 2:04 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    Stephen Hough, piano

    19:30
  • 1:59 PM

    Raymonda: Grand Pas d'action

    Alexander Glazunov

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:25
  • 1:45 PM

    El Salon Mexico

    Aaron Copland

    Bernstein: Reaching For The Note

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    11:58
  • 1:36 PM

    Invitation to the Dance

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Concert A La Carte

    Vienna-Berlin Ensemble

    7:42
  • 1:33 PM

    Canzon Quarta

    Girolamo Frescobaldi

    The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli

    Boston Brass Ensemble

    E. Power Biggs, organ

    2:27
  • 1:29 PM

    Lionel Rogg, organ

    3:12
  • 1:23 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish": Finale

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann: The Symphonies

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    5:29
  • 1:18 PM

    Duettino

    Jan Dussek

    Genetic Harps

    Gretchen Van Hoesen, harp

    4:08
  • 1:09 PM

    Symphony No. 100 "Military": Minuet

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 99 & 100

    London Classical Players

    Roger Norrington, conductor

    5:51
  • 1:04 PM

    Candide: Overture

    Leonard Bernstein

    Bernstein: Candide; Facsimile; Fancy Free; On the Town

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    4:18
  • 12:53 PM

    Symphony No. 1: Scherzo

    Charles Gounod

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Michel Plasson, conductor

    6:27
  • 12:46 PM

    Concerto No. 2

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Collegium Musicum 90

    Simon Standage, conductor

    6:04
  • 12:35 PM

    Scottish Fantasy: Finale

    Max Bruch

    Jean Sibelius: Concerto for Violin in D minor, Op. 47, Max Bruch: Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 46

    Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

    Zubin Mehta, conductor

    Midori, violin

    9:39
  • 12:31 PM

    A Scots Tune

    Anonymous Scottish

    softLOUD

    Sean Shibe, guitar

    2:47
  • 12:26 PM

    Karelia Suite: Alla Marcia

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Karelia and Kuolema (complete versions)

    Lahti Symphony Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    4:07
  • 12:17 PM

    Morning Song "Maytime in Sussex"

    Arnold Bax

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    Margaret Fingerhut, piano

    8:10
  • 12:13 PM

    The Bourgeois Gentleman: Courante

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Der Burger als Edelmann

    Winterthur Music Collegium

    Douglas Boyd, conductor

    2:22
  • 12:06 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 6

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak Symphony No. 2, Slavonic Dances

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    5:21
  • 12:04 PM

    Acis and Galatea: Happy We!

    George Frideric Handel

    Grand & Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses / Robert Shaw

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    1:56
  • 11:56 AM

    Shimmeree

    Peter Togni

    CBC Vancouver Orchestra

    Arthur Polson, conductor

    4:00
  • 11:54 AM

    If Ye Love Me

    Thomas Tallis

    Out Of This World

    Chanticleer

    2:22
  • 11:45 AM

    Kunstler-Leben Walzer (Artist's Life)

    Johann StraussJr.

    Strauss: Gala IV

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    8:21
  • 11:40 AM

    Ragtime Dance

    Scott Joplin

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    Andre Previn, piano

    3:10
  • 11:30 AM

    Concerto Koln

    8:42
  • 11:26 AM

    Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1: Balletto

    Ottorino Respighi

    Respighi: Ancient Airs And Dances, Etc

    Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    2:57
  • 11:20 AM

    Symphony No. 2: 3rd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Symphonies

    Staatskapelle Berlin

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    6:02
  • 11:15 AM

    Tjonneblomen (Water Lily)

    Gjermund Haugen

    Danish String Quartet

    3:51
  • 11:08 AM

    Sleeping Beauty: Pas de quatre

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    5:49
  • 11:04 AM

    Hansel and Gretel: Evening Prayer

    Engelbert Humperdinck

    Opera without Words

    Andre Kostelanetz Orchestra

    Andre Kostelanetz, conductor

    3:08
  • 10:42 AM

    Symphony "The Hunt"

    Carl Stamitz

    Stamitz: Symphonies

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    16:18
  • 10:25 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Violin Concertos

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Oscar Shumsky, violin

    15:06
  • 10:23 AM

    Mr. Giles Hoby's Galliard

    John Dowland

    Dowland: Lachrimae, Fretwork

    Fretwork

    1:37
  • 10:19 AM

    Legend No. 1

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Legends, Prague Waltzes

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    3:17
  • 10:11 AM

    Oboe Concerto: 3rd movement

    Jan Anton Kozeluh

    Lost and Found

    Potsdam Chamber Academy

    Albrecht Mayer, conductor

    Albrecht Mayer, oboe

    7:28
  • 10:06 AM

    Cancion de Cuna (Afro-Cuban Lullaby)

    Leo Brouwer

    Modern Mandolin Quartet

    3:58
  • 10:01 AM

    Billy the Kid: Prairie Night

    Aaron Copland

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    4:43
  • 9:49 AM

    Symphony No. 2: Finale

    Otto Nicolai

    Nicolai: 4 Overtures, Symphony in D Major

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Karl Anton Rickenbacker, conductor

    9:03
  • 9:27 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 13

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Sonatas

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    20:04
  • 9:06 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 2

    Karol Szymanowski

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vasily Petrenko, conductor

    Baiba Skride, violin

    19:44
  • 9:01 AM

    Terpsichore: Chaconne

    George Frideric Handel

    The Power Of Love: Arias From Handel Operas

    Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra

    Jeannette Sorrell, conductor

    4:43
  • 8:37 AM

    String Quartet No. 3

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Complete Beethoven Edition Vol. 11: The Early Quartets

    Amadeus Quartet

    21:35
  • 8:11 AM

    Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra

    Claude Debussy

    DEBUSSY, C.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 7 (Markl) - Fantaisie / 2 Danses / Rhapsodies

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    24:15
  • 8:06 AM

    Adagetto

    Giacomo Puccini

    Puccini Discoveries

    Milan Symphony Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    4:17
  • 8:01 AM

    Figure Humaine: Liberte

    Francis Poulenc

    12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic

    4:34
  • 7:45 AM

    The Fairy Queen: Suite

    Henry Purcell

    New York Chamber Musicians

    Ilonna Pederson, conductor

    13:26
  • 7:06 AM

    Symphonic Dances

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    36:58
  • 7:01 AM

    Mikhail Pletnev, piano

    4:42
  • 6:36 AM

    Nursery Suite

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: The Wand of Youth, Suites I & II; Dream Children; Nursery Suite; Starlight Express

    Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    22:00
  • 6:30 AM

    Khovanshchina: Prelude (Dawn over the River Moscow)

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Valery Gergiev, conductor

    5:47
  • 6:06 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 6

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Complete Beethoven Edition Vol. 7: Violin Sonatas

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    22:03
  • 6:01 AM

    Elegy, to Calvin Simmons

    Lou Harrison

    California Symphony

    Barry Jekowsky, conductor

    4:43
  • 5:28 AM

    Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    30:45
  • 5:21 AM

    Arabian Caprice

    Francisco Tarrega

    Julian Bream, guitar

    5:24
  • 5:06 AM

    Potpourri on Themes of Mozart

    Louis Spohr

    Spohr: String Sextet, etc.

    Academy Chamber Ensemble

    13:32
  • 5:01 AM

    L'incoronazione di Poppea: Pur ti miro

    Claudio Monteverdi

    Axiom Quartet

    4:35
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