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  • 5:50 AM

    Romance for Viola and Orchestra

    Max Bruch

    Bruch: Violin Concerto; Romanze

    Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    Vadim Gluzman, violin

    8:56
  • 5:18 AM

    Piano Quartet No. 3

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Piano Quartets Nos. 1-3

    Domus

    30:45
  • 5:06 AM

    Lumen in Christo: Andante

    Howard Hanson

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    10:36
  • 5:01 AM

    Waterfalls: 2nd movement

    Gareth Farr

    Fantasie

    Duo Venandi

    4:28
  • 4:44 AM

    Little Suite

    Carl Nielsen

    Grieg; Nielsen; Sibelius; Wiren

    Guildhall Strings

    14:44
  • 4:20 AM

    String Quartet No. 16

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The String Quartets

    Emerson String Quartet

    22:31
  • 4:12 AM

    Gravity

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Ludovico Einaudi: Seven Days Walking: Day One

    Ludovico Einaudi, piano

    5:27
  • 4:06 AM

    Serenade No. 10 "Gran Partita": Adagio

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Serenade in B flat Major "Gran Partita"

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    5:28
  • 4:01 AM

    Lament

    Frank Bridge

    Finzi; Parry; Bridge

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    4:41
  • 1:53 AM

    Red Clay and Mississippi Delta

    Valerie Coleman

    Imani Winds

    5:19
  • 1:32 AM

    Symphony No. 78

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos 78 & 102

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    19:48
  • 1:09 AM

    Piano Concerto

    Maurice Ravel

    Montero & Ravel: Piano Concertos

    Orchestra of the Americas

    Carlos Miguel Prieto, conductor

    Gabriela Montero, piano

    21:35
  • 1:05 AM

    Canzonetta

    Gabriel Pierne

    Belle Epoque

    Lille National Orchestra

    Alexandre Bloch, conductor

    Annelien Van Wauwe, clarinet

    3:39
  • 1:00 AM

    Lyric Waltz

    Jean Sibelius

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:49
  • 12:53 AM

    Prelude Petulant Rococo

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Piano Works, Vol. 5

    Stefan Irmer, piano

    7:28
  • 12:33 AM

    Cello Concerto No. 1

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Dvorak, etc.

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor

    Mstislav Rostropovich, cello

    24:42
  • 12:20 AM

    "Twinkle, Twinkle" Variations (Ah, vous dirai-je, maman)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Book

    Lang Lang, piano

    10:13
  • 12:20 AM

    Benedictio

    Urmas Sisask

    Go, Lovely Rose

    Luther College Nordic Choir

    Allen Hightower, conductor

    6:22
  • 12:01 AM

    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Spano, conductor

    16:17
  • 11:55 PM

    Vocalise (study in the form of a Habanera)

    Maurice Ravel

    Jessye Norman Live

    Jessye Norman, soprano

    4:10
  • 11:41 PM

    Symphony No. 2: Finale

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: Symphonies 1 & 2

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    12:31
  • 11:34 PM

    The Right Stuff: Yeager's Triumph

    Bill Conti

    Varese Sarabande - A 25th Anniversary Celebration

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Bill Conti, conductor

    5:12
  • 11:23 PM

    Prelude, Fugue and Riffs

    Leonard Bernstein

    New World Jazz

    New World Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    Tad Calcara, clarinet

    8:25
  • 11:07 PM

    Bolero

    Maurice Ravel

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Ravel: Boler

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    14:02
  • 10:52 PM

    Fantasy for Trombone and Orchestra

    Paul Creston

    American Trombone Concertos

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra

    James DePreist, conductor

    Christian Lindberg, trombone

    12:12
  • 10:47 PM

    Eternal Father, Strong to Save

    John B. Dykes

    The Great Thanksgiving: Hymns And Songs Of Thanks And Brotherhood

    Mormon Tabernacle Choir

    Richard Condie, conductor

    3:16
  • 10:25 PM

    Le Tombeau de Couperin

    Maurice Ravel

    Diamond Settings: Hommage a Satie

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    20:54
  • 10:06 PM

    Katherine on my Chest/with you at your Grave

    Stanley Woolner

    Katherine on my Chest/with you at your Grave

    Ivan Konev, piano

    13:16
  • 9:47 PM

    Prelude to a Million Years

    Tony Banks

    Five

    Czech National Symphony Orchestra

    Nick Ingman, conductor

    15:33
  • 9:35 PM

    Celebration

    Philip Sparke

    Standards

    Gustavus Band

    Douglas Nimmo, conductor

    10:47
  • 9:10 PM

    Pulcinella Suite

    Igor Stravinsky

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    22:30
  • 9:01 PM

    Trumpet Concerto: 1st movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn, Hummel, Etc.: Trumpet Concertos

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    6:37
  • 6:50 PM

    Mandolin Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi Guitar Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    7:35
  • 6:13 PM

    Symphonic Variations

    Antonin Dvorak

    Brahms: Nine Hungarian Dances; Dvorak

    North German Radio Symphony

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    21:15
  • 6:13 PM

    Concerto Koln

    14:38
  • 6:06 PM

    Il Signor Bruschino: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jaime Laredo, conductor

    5:04
  • 6:01 PM

    Overture No. 2 "La Calamita de Cuori"

    Johann Christian Bach

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    4:40
  • 5:40 PM

    Four African Dances

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    John Fadial, violin

    Andrew Harley, piano

    18:07
  • 5:19 PM

    Symphony No. 35 "Haffner"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    19:27
  • 5:16 PM

    March for Winds

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Music for Winds

    David Shifrin, clarinet

    1:23
  • 5:06 PM

    Marche Slave

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: 1812, Marche Slave, Etc / Järvi, Gothenburg So

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    9:36
  • 5:01 PM

    Battle Suite

    Samuel Scheidt

    American Brass Quintet

    4:49
  • 4:49 PM

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    Sarah Chang, violin

    9:41
  • 4:25 PM

    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    23:27
  • 4:21 PM

    Saint Petersburg Etchings: Romance

    Yuriy Smirnov

    Anton Baranov, guitar

    2:41
  • 4:18 PM

    Fedora: Amor ti vieta

    Umberto Giordano

    Jonas Kaufmann: Verismo Arias

    Saint Cecilia Orchestra

    Antonio Pappano, conductor

    Jonas Kaufmann, tenor

    1:43
  • 4:06 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 1

    John Stanley

    Stanley: Concertos, Op. 2

    Collegium Musicum 90

    Simon Standage, conductor

    10:17
  • 4:01 PM

    Impromptu-Caprice

    Gabriel Pierne

    Harp Spectacular

    Susann McDonald, harp

    4:51
  • 3:52 PM

    Symphony of Seasons: Autumn

    Dan Locklair

    Locklair: Symphony Of Seasons

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Kirk Trevor, conductor

    6:46
  • 3:47 PM

    King Lear Overture

    Mily Balakirev

    Balakirev: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, etc.

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

    10:39
  • 3:25 PM

    Symphony No. 88

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Orchestra of the 18th Century

    Frans Bruggen, conductor

    21:05
  • 3:07 PM

    Six Italian Dance Tunes

    Peter Warlock

    Warlock: Capriol Suite; The Curlew; Six English Tunes; Serenade; Six Italian Dance Tunes; Ross Pople/London Festival Orchestra

    London Festival Orchestra

    Ross Pople, conductor

    10:39
  • 2:38 PM

    Appalachian Fantasy

    Tessa Lark

    Tessa Lark, violin

    4:16
  • 2:35 PM

    Elizabethan Dance No. 3

    William Alwyn

    Alwyn: Symphony No. 4/Elizabethan Dances Etc

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    1:42
  • 2:30 PM

    La danza

    Gioacchino Rossini

    The Clarinotts

    Wiener Virtuosen

    4:29
  • 2:20 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 17: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lang Lang in Paris

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

    Lang Lang, piano

    8:15
  • 2:17 PM

    Carmen: March of the Toreadors

    Georges Bizet

    Mad About the Classics

    Orchestre de la Bastille

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    2:07
  • 2:06 PM

    Guitar Quintet No. 4 "Fandango": Fandango

    Luigi Boccherini

    Pacifica Quartet

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    6:59
  • 2:04 PM

    Hungarian Dance No. 18

    Johannes Brahms

    Quebec Symphony Orchestra

    Yoav Talmi, conductor

    1:28
  • 1:47 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Double Sens

    Nemanja Radulovic, violin

    11:37
  • 1:44 PM

    Hary Janos Suite: Entrance of the Emperor and His Court

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    2:46
  • 1:36 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Spring": 3rd movement

    Robert Schumann

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    6:04
  • 1:31 PM

    East: 1st movement

    Michael Torke

    Albany Symphony Orchestra

    David Alan Miller, conductor

    Weixiong Wang, clarinet

    3:56
  • 1:25 PM

    The Tempest: Banquet Dance

    Arthur Sullivan

    Shakespeare's Tempest

    Kansas City Symphony

    Michael Stern, conductor

    4:07
  • 1:20 PM

    Midnight Polka

    Emil Waldteufel

    Waldteufel: Bal au second Empire

    Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra

    Theodor Guschlbauer, conductor

    4:24
  • 1:15 PM

    Miniature Viennese March

    Fritz Kreisler

    The Kreisler Album

    Joshua Bell, violin

    3:15
  • 1:07 PM

    Concerto No. 5

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Albinoni: 12 Concerti a cinque, Op.5

    Collegium Musicum 90

    Simon Standage, conductor

    7:18
  • 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
  • 12:50 PM

    Concerto Serenade: 1st movement

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Rodrigo: Concertos and Orchestral Works

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    Nancy Allen, harp

    8:31
  • 12:45 PM

    String Quartet No. 63 "Sunrise": Minuet

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76, Nos. 4 & 6

    Orlando Quartet

    4:25
  • 12:38 PM

    Kamarinskaya

    Mikhail Glinka

    Kabalevsky, Prokofiev, Glinka, Tchaikovsky

    San Diego Chamber Orchestra

    Donald Barra, conductor

    6:09
  • 12:32 PM

    3 Dances

    William Byrd

    Gypsy's Round

    Buffalo Guitar Quartet

    5:17
  • 12:27 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 5

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    3:19
  • 12:21 PM

    Symphony No. 5 "Reformation": 2nd movement

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: The 5 Symphonies

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    5:28
  • 12:16 PM

    Les Sylvains (The Fauns)

    Cecile Chaminade

    Donna voce

    Anna Shelest, piano

    3:56
  • 12:10 PM

    Sonatina No. 2 "Happy Workshop": 3rd movement

    Richard Strauss

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    4:11
  • 12:04 PM

    Thais: Meditation

    Jules Massenet

    Violin for Relaxation

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    5:21
  • 11:50 AM

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    8:27
  • 11:41 AM

    Prague Sinfonia

    Christian Benda, conductor

    6:40
  • 11:35 AM

    Romanian Folk Dances

    Bela Bartok

    Bartok: Romanian Folk-Dances, Kodaly: Galanta Dances, Marosszek Dances

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    6:07
  • 11:30 AM

    Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes

    Florence Price

    Apollo Chamber Players

    4:10
  • 11:15 AM

    Overture No. 2

    Jean-Marie Leclair

    Musica Antiqua Cologne

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor

    13:33
  • 11:06 AM

    String Quartet No. 2: Nocturne

    Alexander Borodin

    Borodin: Three Symphonies, Petite Suite, Polovetsian Dances

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    8:28
  • 11:01 AM

    Music for Symphony Orchestra: Andante

    Yasushi Akutagawa

    Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

    Ryusuke Numajiri, conductor

    4:41
  • 10:47 AM

    Mephisto Waltz No. 1 "Dance in the Village Inn"

    Franz Liszt

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    10:40
  • 10:22 AM

    Piano Concerto

    Clara Schumann

    Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra

    Dennis Burkh, conductor

    Elizabeth Rich, piano

    23:50
  • 10:15 AM

    Spirited Light

    Jake Runestad

    The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad

    Conspirare

    Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

    Jason Awbrey, bass

    4:54
  • 10:06 AM

    Alleluia and Fugue for Strings

    Alan Hovhaness

    I Fiamminghi

    Rudolf Werthen, conductor

    8:39
  • 10:01 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 1: Scherzo

    Robert Schumann

    Evgeny Kissin, piano

    4:26
  • 9:37 AM

    Octet for Winds

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Music for Winds

    Stephen Taylor, oboe

    21:22
  • 9:30 AM

    Prelude and Fugue No. 13

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Jenny Lin, piano

    5:59
  • 9:19 AM

    In a Landscape

    John Cage

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    9:46
  • 9:06 AM

    Ocean's Kingdom: Moonrise

    Paul McCartney

    Paul McCartney: Ocean's Kingdom

    London Classical Orchestra

    John Wilson, conductor

    12:25
  • 9:01 AM

    Norwegian Wood

    John Lennon

    Ofra Harnoy: Imagine

    Armin String Quartet

    Ofra Harnoy, cello

    4:29
  • 8:51 AM

    Ambarvalia

    Ruth Gipps

    Bright & Gipps: Piano Concertos

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Peebles, conductor

    7:48
  • 8:47 AM

    Blue Piece

    Libby Larsen

    Holes in the Sky

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    2:43
  • 8:20 AM

    The Blue Pearl

    Erkki Melartin

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Hannu Lintu, conductor

    26:15
  • 8:06 AM

    Concerto for Viola d'amore and Lute

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Concert for the Prince of Poland

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    12:50
  • 8:01 AM

    David of the White Rock

    John Thomas

    Sebastien Lipman, harp

    4:29
  • 7:27 AM

    Meditations on a Theme of John Blow

    Arthur Bliss

    Bliss: Meditations on a Theme of John Blow; Checkmate; Adam Zero

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    31:42
  • 7:21 AM

    Giunto alla tomba

    Giaches de Wert

    Giaches de Wert: Madrigals

    Gabriele Palomba, lute

    4:47
  • 7:09 AM

    Sonatine

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, La Valse, Valses Nobles, Sonatine

    Boris Berezovsky, piano

    10:29
  • 7:06 AM

    Letter to Composer Bidzina Kvernadze

    Giya Kancheli

    Kancheli: Letters to Friends

    Georgian Strings

    Andrea Cortesi, violin

    2:25
  • 7:01 AM

    In Delius' Sleep

    Harold Budd

    Harold Budd: She is a Phantom

    Zeitgeist

    Harold Budd, piano

    4:41
  • 6:15 AM

    Symphony No. 6

    Antonin Dvorak

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    43:01
  • 6:06 AM

    Folk Suite No. 2

    William Grant Still

    Get on Board

    Sierra Winds

    7:11
  • 6:01 AM

    Night

    Ludovico Einaudi

    Pulsations

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:37
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