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  • 5:35 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 1

    Max Bruch

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    Isaac Stern, violin

    23:45
  • 5:21 AM

    Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Eri Klas, conductor

    11:45
  • 5:06 AM

    Phantasy Quintet

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Violin Sonata, String Quartet No. 2 Etc.

    Nash Ensemble

    14:23
  • 5:01 AM

    Pan Voyevoda: Nocturne

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor

    4:44
  • 4:54 AM

    Westminster Choir College

    Joe Miller, conductor

    4:20
  • 4:16 AM

    Boom of the Tingling Strings

    Jon Lord

    Odense Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Mann, conductor

    Nelson Goerner, piano

    36:21
  • 4:13 AM

    Songs My Mother Taught Me

    Antonin Dvorak

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Eivind Aadland, conductor

    Tine Thing Helseth, trumpet

    2:24
  • 4:07 AM

    Lullaby for Natalie

    John Corigliano

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    5:09
  • 4:01 AM

    Waltz after Lasse in Lyby

    Traditional

    Danish String Quartet

    4:37
  • 3:55 AM

    Pavan No. 26

    Thomas Lupo

    Birds on Fire

    Fretwork

    2:56
  • 3:46 AM

    Eclogue

    Gerald Finzi

    Ferguson: Amore Langueo; Piano Concerto/Finzi: Eclogue

    City of London Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    Howard Shelley, piano

    9:42
  • 3:12 AM

    Symphony No. 4

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Live at the Ordway Center

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    27:00
  • 2:57 AM

    Songs Without Words for Oboe and String Orchestra

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Live at the Ordway Center

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    15:00
  • 2:44 AM

    Intermission

    Live at the Ordway Center

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    20:00
  • 2:15 AM

    Concerto in C for Oboe and Orchestra

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Live at the Ordway Center

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    23:00
  • 2:04 AM

    Overture in the Italian Style

    Franz Schubert

    Live at the Ordway Center

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    7:00
  • 1:42 AM

    Lincolnshire Posy

    Percy Grainger

    Shepherd's Hey

    London Wind Orchestra

    Denis Wick, conductor

    16:01
  • 1:21 AM

    The Little Trifles (Les petits riens)

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Complete Mozart Edition, Vol. 25: Theatre and Ballet Music

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    19:46
  • 1:15 AM

    Chinese Tambourin

    Fritz Kreisler

    Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

    Long Yu, conductor

    Maxim Vengerov, violin

    3:43
  • 1:06 AM

    Variations on "I Got Rhythm"

    George Gershwin

    Gershwin: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra

    Eos Orchestra

    Jonathan Sheffer, conductor

    Michael Boriskin, piano

    8:55
  • 1:01 AM

    Magnetic Rag

    Scott Joplin

    Avatar Brass Ensemble

    4:43
  • 12:40 AM

    Dolly Suite

    Gabriel Faure

    French National Radio and Television Orchestra

    Thomas Beecham, conductor

    17:55
  • 12:22 AM

    Double Keyboard Concerto

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Concertos for Two, Three, and Four Pianos

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    David Fray, conductor

    David Fray, piano

    17:19
  • 12:18 AM

    Whoope, Do Me No Harm/Jog On

    Anonymous

    The Food of Love: Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare

    Baltimore Consort

    2:18
  • 12:06 AM

    The Fairies: Overture

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, An Orchestral Passion

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    10:47
  • 12:01 AM

    La Bergamasca: Sonata No. 21

    Marco Uccellini

    Arcadian Academy

    4:41
  • 11:38 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 1

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 4/Symphony No. 22

    National Arts Centre Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Pinchas Zukerman, violin

    19:55
  • 11:23 PM

    Dance Poem

    Frank Bridge

    Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    13:59
  • 11:18 PM

    Into the Blue: Skillet Licker's Stomp

    Greg Danner

    Cumberland Quintet

    3:35
  • 11:06 PM

    Bartered Bride: Dances

    Bedrich Smetana

    The Moldau

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Libor Pesek, conductor

    10:44
  • 11:01 PM

    Encantamento

    Camargo Guarnieri

    Barbara Westphal, viola

    Christian Ruvolo, piano

    4:36
  • 10:47 PM

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Paul Dukas

    Dukas: Symphonie en Ut, La Peri, L'Apprenti Sorcier

    French National Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    11:44
  • 10:18 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "Sinfonie Capricieuse"

    Franz Berwald

    Berwald: Symphonies and Overtures

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    27:12
  • 10:13 PM

    Perpetual Motion

    Niccolo Paganini

    PAGANINI, N.: La Campanella / Le streghe / Variations

    Philippe Quint, violin

    4:13
  • 10:06 PM

    Serenade No. 1: Rondo

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Serenade No. 1, Variations on a Theme by Haydn

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    5:26
  • 10:01 PM

    Bassoon Concerto: Rondeau

    Antonio Rosetti

    Antonio Rosetti: Bassoon Concertos

    German Chamber Academy

    Eckart Hubner, bassoon

    4:34
  • 9:30 PM

    Bassoon Concerto: Rondeau

    Antonio Rosetti

    Antonio Rosetti: Bassoon Concertos

    German Chamber Academy

    Eckart Hubner, bassoon

    4:34
  • 9:29 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 18

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Concertos Nos. 18, K 456 & 20, K 466

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Goode, piano

    28:35
  • 9:16 PM

    My Heart is Inditing

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Coronation Anthems

    The Sixteen

    Harry Christophers, conductor

    12:02
  • 9:09 PM

    Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums)

    Giacomo Puccini

    R. Strauss, Verdi, Puccini: String Quartets

    Enso String Quartet

    5:48
  • 9:06 PM

    Sasha Boldachev, harp

    1:51
  • 9:01 PM

    Music for Symphony Orchestra: Andante

    Yasushi Akutagawa

    Japanese Orchestral Favourites

    Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

    Ryusuke Numajiri, conductor

    4:42
  • 8:39 PM

    Variations on a Rococo Theme

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    Steven Isserlis, cello

    18:42
  • 8:36 PM

    Ten Pieces: Gavotte

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Music For Brass Septet 3

    Septura

    2:45
  • 8:13 PM

    Symphony No. 89

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Philharmonia Hungarica

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    21:40
  • 8:06 PM

    Symphony No. 3

    William Boyce

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Ronald Thomas, conductor

    5:05
  • 8:01 PM

    The Queen's Delight; Half hanniken

    Anonymous

    King's Noyse

    4:34
  • 7:50 PM

    Souvenirs: Three Dances

    Samuel Barber

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    8:50
  • 7:12 PM

    Triple Concerto

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    Sviatoslav Richter, piano

    David Oistrakh, violin

    Mstislav Rostropovich, cello

    36:21
  • 7:06 PM

    Time For Three

    3:54
  • 7:01 PM

    Canon

    Johann Pachelbel

    The Bells of St. Genevieve and other Baroque delights

    Baroque Chamber Orchestra

    Ettore Stratta, conductor

    4:49
  • 6:50 PM

    Roman Carnival Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: Overtures, Queen Mab Scherzo

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Charles Munch, conductor

    8:04
  • 6:31 PM

    Sinfonia Concertante

    Domenico Cimarosa

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Aurele Nicolet, flute

    Heinz Holliger, oboe

    17:13
  • 6:20 PM

    Maria Waltz

    Johann StraussSr.

    2018 New Year's Concerto

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    8:50
  • 6:06 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    For Thy Pleasure

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    14:10
  • 6:01 PM

    The Capricious One

    Edward Elgar

    Sarah Chang, violin

    Sandra Rivers, piano

    4:44
  • 5:41 PM

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet/Serebrier: Carmen Symphony

    Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    16:51
  • 5:16 PM

    String Quartet No. 22 "Prussian"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Dover Quartet Plays Mozart

    Dover Quartet

    23:19
  • 5:12 PM

    The Seasons: November (Troika)

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Lang Lang, piano

    2:55
  • 5:06 PM

    Fancy Free Ballet: Danzon

    Leonard Bernstein

    Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    3:03
  • 5:01 PM

    Sinfonia

    Antonio Leal Moreira

    Spanish and Portuguese Orchestral Music

    Algarve Orchestra

    Alvaro Cassuto, conductor

    4:36
  • 4:52 PM

    The Polar Express: Suite

    Alan Silvestri

    The Polar Express Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    Original Soundtrack Recording

    Alan Silvestri, conductor

    6:02
  • 4:35 PM

    Hugo: Suite

    Howard Shore

    Hugo Original Score

    Studio Orchestra

    Howard Shore, conductor

    16:30
  • 4:30 PM

    Doctor Zhivago: Suite

    Maurice Jarre

    Doctor Zhivago: The Classic Film Music Of Maurice Jarre

    City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

    Paul Bateman, conductor

    9:12
  • 4:25 PM

    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Platform Nine-and-Three-Quarters and The Journey to Hogwarts

    John Williams

    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    Studio Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    3:12
  • 4:15 PM

    Strangers on a Train: Short Suite

    Dimitri Tiomkin

    Psycho: The Essential Alfred Hitchcock

    City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

    Paul Bateman, conductor

    7:47
  • 4:10 PM

    Murder on the Orient Express: Waltz

    Richard Rodney Bennett

    The Great Waltz

    Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

    John Mauceri, conductor

    3:35
  • 4:06 PM

    The Lady Vanishes: Prelude

    Louis Levy/Charles Williams

    To Catch A Thief: A History Of Hitchcock II

    City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

    Paul Bateman, conductor

    3:05
  • 4:01 PM

    North by Northwest: Conversation Piece

    Bernard Herrmann

    Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

    John Mauceri, conductor

    4:51
  • 3:43 PM

    Masques and Bergamasques

    Gabriel Faure

    French Impressions

    Northern Sinfonia of England

    Jean-Bernard Pommier, conductor

    15:34
  • 3:20 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 62

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Wei Luo, piano

    20:32
  • 3:13 PM

    African Suite

    Andrew York/William Kanengiser

    L.A.G.Q.

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    5:16
  • 3:06 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 6

    Antonin Dvorak

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vaclav Neumann, conductor

    6:00
  • 2:39 PM

    Piano Trio

    Johann Hummel

    Hummel: Piano Trios

    Beaux Arts Trio

    18:33
  • 2:28 PM

    The Happy Forest

    Arnold Bax

    Bax: 4 Tone Poems

    Ulster Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    10:15
  • 2:13 PM

    An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise

    Peter Maxwell Davies

    Peter Maxwell Davies

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Peter Maxwell Davies, conductor

    George McIlwham, bagpipes

    12:09
  • 2:09 PM

    Promenade (Walking the Dog)

    George Gershwin

    Russell: Carnival of the Animals

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    John Morris Russell, conductor

    Jonathan Gunn, clarinet

    2:49
  • 2:06 PM

    Simple Gifts

    Aaron Copland

    Classic Yo-Yo

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    2:30
  • 2:01 PM

    Izumi Tateno, piano

    4:42
  • 1:46 PM

    Georgian Chamber Orchestra

    Lisa Batiashvili, conductor

    Lisa Batiashvili, violin

    12:25
  • 1:40 PM

    Spring Soiree No. 2

    Felicien David

    Les Quatre Saisons

    Limoges Baroque Ensemble

    5:09
  • 1:15 PM

    Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    23:16
  • 1:06 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Scottish Ensemble

    Jonathan Morton, conductor

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    7:16
  • 1:01 PM

    Anthony Glise, guitar

    4:33
  • 12:51 PM

    Capriccio No. 1

    Muzio Clementi

    Lilya Zilberstein, piano

    7:30
  • 12:29 PM

    12 German Dances for Orchestra

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Complete Overtures

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    20:05
  • 12:18 PM

    Divertimento No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    London Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Warren-Green, conductor

    10:55
  • 12:09 PM

    Rustic Suite (Suite Champetre)

    Jean Sibelius

    Finland Sinfonietta

    Pekka Helasvuo, conductor

    7:09
  • 12:06 PM

    Sasha Boldachev, harp

    2:03
  • 12:01 PM

    Vento Chiaro

    4:33
  • 11:48 AM

    Symphony No. 5: Adagietto

    Gustav Mahler

    Mahler: Symphony No. 5

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    9:45
  • 11:24 AM

    Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Mahler Chamber Orchestra

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    Yuja Wang, piano

    23:01
  • 11:18 AM

    Les illusions non perdue

    Aleksander Yasnev

    White Nights Serenades

    Anton Baranov, guitar

    5:19
  • 11:06 AM

    Evocations: La Ville rose (The pink city)

    Albert Roussel

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    9:49
  • 11:01 AM

    Suite No. 4

    Francois Chauvon

    Alison Melville, recorder

    Charlotte Nediger, harpsichord

    4:46
  • 10:25 AM

    Enigma Variations

    Edward Elgar

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    32:37
  • 10:19 AM

    Stabat mater dolorosa

    Pedro de Escobar

    New York Polyphony

    4:00
  • 10:16 AM

    Melancholia

    Duke Ellington

    America Again

    Lara Downes, piano

    2:58
  • 10:06 AM

    Nocturnes: Nuages (Clouds)

    Claude Debussy

    Paris Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    8:31
  • 10:01 AM

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:42
  • 9:51 AM

    Tralala

    Christina Courtin

    The Brooklyn Rider Almanac

    Brooklyn Rider

    7:14
  • 9:24 AM

    Kremerata Baltica

    Gidon Kremer, conductor

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    Tatjana Grindenko, violin

    26:56
  • 9:17 AM

    Intermezzo No. 2 "Klavierstucke"

    Johannes Brahms

    Khatia Buniatishvili, piano

    5:11
  • 9:06 AM

    Evening Song

    Alan Hovhaness

    Crystal Chamber Orchestra

    Ernest Gold, conductor

    Eudice Shapiro, violin

    Gretel Shanley, flute

    10:34
  • 9:01 AM

    Tall as the Poplar Tree

    Gomidas Vartabed

    Chamber Players of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra

    Eduard Topchjan, conductor

    Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano

    4:47
  • 8:32 AM

    Idyll for String Orchestra

    Leos Janacek

    Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    26:28
  • 8:25 AM

    Allegretto

    Gyorgy Ligeti

    Ligeti: String Quartets

    Parker Quartet

    6:14
  • 8:06 AM

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    17:14
  • 8:01 AM

    The Moon

    William S Lloyd Webber

    And the Bridge is Love: English Music for Strings

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Julian Lloyd Webber, conductor

    4:26
  • 7:42 AM

    Harp Concertino

    Germaine Tailleferre

    Boulanger, Tailleferre, Mendelssohn, Schumann

    Women's Philharmonic

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Gillian Benet, harp

    16:01
  • 7:35 AM

    Notturno

    Emilie Mayer

    Mayer: Piano Trios; Notturno

    Trio Vivente

    6:25
  • 7:14 AM

    Suite for Cello and Orchestra (after C. Debussy)

    Sally Beamish

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Gabor Takacs-Nagy, conductor

    Steven Isserlis, cello

    20:01
  • 7:06 AM

    Portraits of Josephine: Paris 1925

    Valerie Coleman

    Imani Winds

    6:39
  • 7:01 AM

    Dreaming

    Amy Beach

    Anna Shelest, piano

    4:43
  • 6:35 AM

    Roman Festivals

    Ottorino Respighi

    Respighi: Pini di Roma; Fontane di Roma; Feste Romane

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    23:49
  • 6:25 AM

    Concertino for Oboe, Clarinet, and Strings

    Marion Bauer

    Ambache Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble

    Jeremy Polmear, oboe

    Eli Eban, clarinet

    9:22
  • 6:06 AM

    Imagenes

    Candelario Huizar

    Mi Alma Mexicana

    Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas

    Alondra de la Parra, conductor

    16:46
  • 6:01 AM

    Violin Partita No. 2: Sarabande

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    James Ehnes, violin

    4:30
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