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  • 5:42 AM

    Harp Concertino

    Germaine Tailleferre

    Boulanger, Tailleferre, Mendelssohn, Schumann

    Women's Philharmonic

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Gillian Benet, harp

    16:01
  • 5:22 AM

    Nocturnes

    Francis Poulenc

    Poulenc: Piano Music

    Pascal Roge, piano

    19:31
  • 5:07 AM

    The Lark Ascending

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Poeme

    Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yakov Kreizberg, conductor

    Julia Fischer, violin

    14:15
  • 5:01 AM

    Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: The Lord's Prayer (Otche nash)

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Choir of King's College, Cambridge

    Stephen Cleobury, conductor

    4:38
  • 4:38 AM

    Sextet for Winds

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leipzig Radio Orchestra Winds

    19:25
  • 4:22 AM

    Rapsodie espagnole

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Orchestral Works, Saint-Saens: Organ Symphony

    Seattle Symphony

    Ludovic Morlot, conductor

    15:23
  • 4:13 AM

    A Dream in the Forest (Un Sueno en la Floresta)

    Agustin Barrios

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    7:02
  • 4:06 AM

    Cinderella: Adagio

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Russian Adagios

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor

    6:23
  • 4:01 AM

    Romance No. 2

    Robert Schumann

    Albrecht Mayer, oboe

    Markus Becker, piano

    4:38
  • 3:43 AM

    Fountains of Rome

    Ottorino Respighi

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    15:25
  • 3:18 AM

    Arpeggione Sonata

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert

    Ludwig Quandt, cello

    22:45
  • 3:14 AM

    Lang Lang, piano

    1:50
  • 3:06 AM

    Reverie and Caprice

    Hector Berlioz

    Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll/Sibelius: Valse Triste/etc.

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Guillermo Figueroa, violin

    7:53
  • 3:01 AM

    Night Song

    Edward Elgar

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Norman Del Mar, conductor

    4:43
  • 2:39 AM

    String Quintet No. 6 "L'ucceliera" (The Aviary)

    Luigi Boccherini

    Smithsonian Chamber Players

    18:57
  • 2:18 AM

    Images for Orchestra: Iberia

    Claude Debussy

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    19:16
  • 2:11 AM

    Valse Triste

    Jean Sibelius

    World Encores

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    5:08
  • 2:06 AM

    The Garden of Eden: The Eternal Feminine

    William Bolcom

    Logan Skelton, piano

    4:56
  • 2:01 AM

    A Lady in Her Tower

    Gabriel Faure

    Sivan Magen, harp

    4:38
  • 1:43 AM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 4

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Boston Baroque

    Martin Pearlman, conductor

    15:08
  • 1:15 AM

    Symphony

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Saint-Saens: Symphonies 2

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra

    Marc Soustrot, conductor

    26:17
  • 1:11 AM

    Six Etudes in Canonic Form: Nicht zu schnell

    Robert Schumann

    Martha Argerich, piano

    Daniel Barenboim, piano

    2:24
  • 1:06 AM

    Sonata No. 25

    Niccolo Paganini

    Dale Kavanagh, guitar

    4:26
  • 1:01 AM

    Nonetto: 4th movement

    Bohuslav Martinu

    Lahti Chamber Ensemble

    4:49
  • 12:42 AM

    The Comedians

    Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Charles Groves, conductor

    15:25
  • 12:32 AM

    The Merry Wives of Windsor: Overture

    Otto Nicolai

    Halle Orchestra

    John Barbirolli, conductor

    8:18
  • 12:18 AM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Neruda

    Haydn, Hummel: Trumpet Concertos

    Swedish Chamber Orchestra

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    Niklas Eklund, trumpet

    14:01
  • 12:11 AM

    Calling My Children Home

    Various

    Our American Journey

    Chanticleer

    5:09
  • 12:06 AM

    Torre Bermeja (Vermillion Tower)

    Isaac Albeniz

    Xavier de Maistre, harp

    Lucero Tena, castanets

    4:50
  • 12:01 AM

    Violin Concerto: 3rd movement

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Encore Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Hege, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    4:37
  • 11:47 PM

    Symphony: Finale

    Cesar Franck

    Metropolitan Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    11:21
  • 11:30 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 13

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Sonatas "Quasi una Fantasia"

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    15:31
  • 11:21 PM

    Carousel Waltz

    Richard Rodgers

    My Favorite Things: A Richard Rogers Celebration

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    Keith Lockhart, conductor

    7:49
  • 11:15 PM

    Folk Suite No. 4

    William Grant Still

    Vintage America

    Calico Winds

    5:26
  • 11:06 PM

    The Planets: Jupiter

    Gustav Holst

    Dallas Space Spectacular

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    7:50
  • 11:01 PM

    Butterfly's Day Out

    Mark O'Connor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    Mark O'Connor, mandolin

    Edgar Meyer, double bass

    4:40
  • 10:44 PM

    Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 "Midsummer Vigil"

    Hugo Alfven

    Alfven: Symphony No. 2, etc

    Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    13:43
  • 10:39 PM

    Vassily Primakov, piano

    4:28
  • 10:28 PM

    L'assedio di Corinto (Siege of Corinth): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Prague Sinfonia Orchestra

    Christian Benda, conductor

    9:34
  • 10:24 PM

    Four Characteristic Waltzes: Moorish Waltz

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    3:02
  • 10:11 PM

    El Salon Mexico

    Aaron Copland

    Bernstein: Reaching For The Note

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    11:58
  • 10:06 PM

    The Harmonious Blacksmith

    George Frideric Handel

    Intrada - London Brass

    London Brass

    4:31
  • 10:03 PM

    Minuet No. 3

    Giacomo Puccini

    Enso String Quartet

    2:41
  • 9:44 PM

    Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise

    Frederic Chopin

    Warsaw Philharmonic

    Kazimierz Kord, conductor

    Garrick Ohlsson, piano

    14:10
  • 9:28 PM

    Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Elgar: Introduction and Allegro, etc; Vaughan Williams

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    14:10
  • 9:25 PM

    The Merchant of Venice: Suite: Introduction

    Arthur Sullivan

    Ruddigore

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Vivian Dunn, conductor

    2:21
  • 9:14 PM

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    Sarah Chang, violin

    9:41
  • 9:06 PM

    Pest Waltzes

    Joseph Lanner

    The Waltz - Ecstasy and Mysticism

    Concerto Koln

    7:38
  • 9:01 PM

    Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite: March

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    4:43
  • 8:36 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Carl Maria von Weber

    C. Schumann: Concerto, Op. 7; Weber: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

    Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra

    Dennis Burkh, conductor

    Elizabeth Rich, piano

    22:31
  • 6:57 PM

    Etude No. 9 "Butterfly"

    Frederic Chopin

    Maurizio Pollini, piano

    :57
  • 6:41 PM

    Five Pieces in Folk-Style

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann: Cello Concerto

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    16:07
  • 6:14 PM

    Symphony No. 29

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies No. 28, 29 & 34

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    26:05
  • 6:09 PM

    Calling All Workers

    Eric Coates

    The Music of Eric Coates

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Reginald Kilbey, conductor

    3:06
  • 6:06 PM

    Lauda Jerusalem

    Gabriel Diaz

    The Glory of Gabrieli

    Empire Brass & Friends

    2:54
  • 6:01 PM

    Bees and Bumblebees

    Eugene Arcade Dede

    American Romantics

    Gowanus Arts Ensemble

    Reuben Blundell, conductor

    4:33
  • 5:49 PM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 5

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Murray Perahia plays Bach Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Murray Perahia, conductor

    Murray Perahia, piano

    9:15
  • 5:31 PM

    Karelia Suite

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Tone Poems & Incidental Music

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    15:42
  • 5:13 PM

    German Dances and Trios

    Franz Schubert

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

    16:11
  • 5:06 PM

    Be Thou My Vision

    David Gillingham

    Recollections

    North Texas Wind Symphony

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    7:01
  • 5:01 PM

    Morning on the Water

    Jacques Ibert

    La Harpe Consolatrice

    Kyunghee Kim-Sutre, harp

    4:33
  • 4:53 PM

    Pavane

    Gabriel Faure

    Faure, G.: Music for Cello and Piano

    Ina-Esther Joost Ben-Sasson, cello

    5:41
  • 4:17 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    34:10
  • 4:08 PM

    Introduction No. 5

    Pietro Locatelli

    Raglan Baroque Players

    Elizabeth Wallfisch, conductor

    6:34
  • 4:06 PM

    American Series: Takirari (Bolivian Dance)

    Hector Ayala

    David Russell, guitar

    1:52
  • 4:01 PM

    Rusalka: Polonaise

    Antonin Dvorak

    Exotic Dances from the Opera

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    4:30
  • 3:52 PM

    Northwest Sinfonietta

    Christophe Chagnard, conductor

    Joel Fan, piano

    6:17
  • 3:48 PM

    Introduction, Theme, and Variations

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

    David Shifrin, clarinet

    8:49
  • 3:43 PM

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    2:00
  • 3:29 PM

    Negro Folk Symphony: Hope in the Night

    William Dawson

    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Arthur Fagen, conductor

    12:39
  • 3:11 PM

    Eine kleine Nachtmusik

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Divertimenti

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    17:20
  • 3:06 PM

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    John Adams

    John Adams: The Chairman Dances/Two Fanfares/Other Works

    San Francisco Symphony

    Edo de Waart, conductor

    4:17
  • 3:01 PM

    Procession of the Sardar

    Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

    Stokowski Showcase / National Philharmonic Orchestra

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leopold Stokowski, conductor

    3:32
  • 2:53 PM

    Northwest Sinfonietta

    Christophe Chagnard, conductor

    Joel Fan, piano

    6:17
  • 2:47 PM

    Louise: Depuis le jour ou je me suis donnee (Since the day)

    Gustave Charpentier

    Souvenirs

    Prague Philharmonia

    Emmanuel Villaume, conductor

    Anna Netrebko, soprano

    5:19
  • 2:42 PM

    The Prophet: Coronation March

    Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Classic Marches

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    3:41
  • 2:33 PM

    Four Seasons: Winter

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

    Janine Jansen, violin

    7:50
  • 2:27 PM

    Witness: Building the Barn

    Maurice Jarre

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Maurice Jarre, conductor

    4:30
  • 2:20 PM

    Symphony No. 1: 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven For All: Symphonies 1-9

    West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    6:09
  • 2:16 PM

    Hungarian Dance No. 10

    Johannes Brahms

    Moskowski

    Esther Budiardjo, piano

    2:05
  • 2:07 PM

    The Word of a Nobleman: Overture

    Stanislaw Moniuszko

    Moniuszko: Overtures

    Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

    Antoni Wit, conductor

    5:11
  • 2:04 PM

    Sinfonietta: Fanfare

    Leos Janacek

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    2:29
  • 1:53 PM

    Girl Crazy: Overture

    George Gershwin

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    5:00
  • 1:49 PM

    Girl Crazy: Bidin' My Time

    George Gershwin

    Studio orchestra

    Frederick Fennell, conductor

    3:00
  • 1:37 PM

    Piano Concerto: 1st movement

    Maurice Ravel

    Broadway-Lafayette

    MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Kristjan Jarvi, conductor

    Simone Dinnerstein, piano

    8:45
  • 1:32 PM

    Peer Gynt: Arabian Dance

    Edvard Grieg

    Minnesota Orchestra At One Hundred

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    4:14
  • 1:20 PM

    Oboe Concerto

    Alessandro Marcello

    Venetian Oboe Concertos

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Simon Wright, conductor

    John Anderson, oboe

    10:59
  • 1:15 PM

    Il mondo della luna (Life on the Moon): Overture

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Opera Overtures

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    3:46
  • 1:08 PM

    Milan Symphony Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    5:11
  • 1:04 PM

    Greensleeves to a Ground

    Anonymous

    Dances on Moveable Ground

    Ciaramella

    3:11
  • 12:53 PM

    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
  • 12:45 PM

    Symphony No. 4: 4th movement

    Richard Hol

    Residentie Orchestra The Hague

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    6:10
  • 12:39 PM

    Shall We Gather at the River

    Robert Lowry

    At the River: American Folk Songs, Spirituals, and Hymns

    The Singers

    Matthew Culloton, conductor

    Lynette Johnson, alto

    3:39
  • 12:30 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Winter Dreams": 3rd movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    8:29
  • 12:27 PM

    Leise rieselt der Schnee

    Traditional German

    Stille Nacht: Christmas Carols for Guitar

    Rossini Hayward, guitar

    1:47
  • 12:20 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 10

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    6:16
  • 12:16 PM

    Gayane: Waltz

    Aram Khachaturian

    Catherine Manoukian, violin

    Satoshi Sando, piano

    2:52
  • 12:08 PM

    Flute Concerto: 3rd movement

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    C.P.E. Bach Concertos

    Lyra Baroque Orchestra

    Jacques Ogg, conductor

    Wilbert Hazelzet, flute

    6:14
  • 12:04 PM

    Little Concert Suite: Tarantelle Fretillante

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha OVerture / Petite Suite

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    2:39
  • 11:52 AM

    Bartered Bride: Overture

    Bedrich Smetana

    Dvorak: New World Symphony,

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Fritz Reiner, conductor

    6:33
  • 11:37 AM

    Trumpet Concerto No. 1

    Johann Hertel

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Elgar Howarth, conductor

    Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet

    13:22
  • 11:26 AM

    Schlagobers Ballet: Entrance and dance of the Sugar; Round dance of Sugar, Coffee, and Cocoa; Whipped cream waltz

    Richard Strauss

    Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

    Hiroshi Wakasugi, conductor

    10:31
  • 11:22 AM

    Cancion de Cuna (Afro-Cuban Lullaby)

    Leo Brouwer

    Berta Rojas, guitar

    3:18
  • 11:10 AM

    Little Serenade

    Lars-Erik Larsson

    Orebro Chamber Orchestra

    Goran Nilson, conductor

    10:29
  • 11:06 AM

    Carnival of the Animals: The Swan

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1; Cello Sonata No. 1; Romance

    Steven Isserlis, cello

    3:21
  • 11:01 AM

    Hary Janos Suite: Intermezzo

    Zoltan Kodaly

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    4:35
  • 10:47 AM

    Quartet No. 1

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Six Wind Quartets

    Vienna-Berlin Ensemble

    11:03
  • 10:20 AM

    Symphony No. 60 "Il Distratto"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    25:10
  • 10:10 AM

    Variations on "Early One Morning"

    Jean-Michel Damase

    Shigenori Kudo, flute

    Naoko Yoshino, harp

    8:33
  • 10:06 AM

    Princeton Grand March

    Francis Johnson

    Symphony Orchestra of America

    Matthew H. Phillips, conductor

    3:10
  • 10:01 AM

    I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Capulets and Montagues): Sinfonia

    Vincenzo Bellini

    Orchestra of St. Cecilia

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    4:40
  • 9:42 AM

    Summer Scenes from Hame

    Vaino Raitio

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen, conductor

    15:58
  • 9:37 AM

    Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

    Florence Price

    Blurred Boundaries

    Apollo Chamber Players

    4:56
  • 9:10 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 7 for Three Pianos

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    Katia & Marielle Labeque, pianos

    Semyon Bychkov, piano

    25:16
  • 9:06 AM

    Three Works from the Glogauer Songbook

    Charles Wuorinen

    Speculum Musicae

    3:09
  • 9:01 AM

    Pavane and Gigue

    William Byrd

    Stokowski's Symphonic Baroque

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    4:43
  • 8:29 AM

    Symphony No. 6

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Symphones Nos. 3, 6, and 7

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    29:01
  • 8:22 AM

    Bethena

    Scott Joplin

    Magnetic Rags

    Avatar Brass Ensemble

    5:28
  • 8:06 AM

    Noble and Sentimental Waltzes

    Maurice Ravel

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    15:20
  • 8:01 AM

    Rondo Amoroso

    Harald Saeverud

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Per Dreier, conductor

    4:35
  • 7:31 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 4

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos 1 & 4; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vasily Petrenko, conductor

    Simon Trpceski, piano

    26:58
  • 7:24 AM

    Red Clay and Mississippi Delta

    Valerie Coleman

    Imani Winds

    5:19
  • 7:06 AM

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    17:23
  • 7:01 AM

    Sonatine for Bassoon and Harp

    Joseph Lauber

    Rachel Talitman, harp

    Pierre Martens, bassoon

    4:31
  • 6:53 AM

    Sonatine for Bassoon and Harp

    Joseph Lauber

    Rachel Talitman, harp

    Pierre Martens, bassoon

    4:31
  • 6:53 AM

    Romance No. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    BEETHOVEN, L. van: Violin Concerto in D Major / Romances Nos. 1 and 2

    Cappella Aquileia

    Marcus Bosch, conductor

    Lena Neudauer, violin

    5:49
  • 6:48 AM

    La Cupis (fr Pieces Suite No. 5)

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Debussy | Rameau | Vikingur Olafsson

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    4:11
  • 6:35 AM

    The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan

    Charles Tomlinson Griffes

    Griffes: Orchestral Music

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    12:19
  • 6:01 AM

    Gott ist mein Hirt (The Lord is My Shepherd)

    Franz Schubert

    Agnus Dei II

    Choir of New College, Oxford

    Edward Higginbottom, conductor

    4:35
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