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  • 5:48 AM

    Fish Tale

    Osvaldo Golijov

    Facts of Life

    Tara Helen O'Connor, flute

    10:05
  • 5:44 AM

    Hear us in Heaven

    Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Meditatio

    Schola Cantorum Reykjavik

    Hordur Askelsson, conductor

    4:18
  • 5:06 AM

    Piano Quintet

    Edward Elgar

    Beach, Elgar: Piano Quintets

    Takacs Quartet

    Garrick Ohlsson, piano

    35:42
  • 5:01 AM

    Suite L'Inconnue: Chaconne

    Michel de la Barre

    Immanuel Davis, flute

    Arnie Tanimoto, viola da gamba

    Donald Livingston, harpsichord

    4:40
  • 4:49 AM

    Waltz Fantasy

    Mikhail Glinka

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    9:26
  • 4:17 AM

    Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)

    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein: Marin Alsop The Complete Naxos Recordings

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    Phillippe Quint, violin

    31:15
  • 4:14 AM

    Intermezzo No. 6

    Johannes Brahms

    Paul Lewis, piano

    3:01
  • 4:06 AM

    Trumpet Sonata No. 1

    Pietro Baldassare

    Italian Trumpet Concertos

    New Bach Collegium Musicum Leipzig

    Max Pommer, conductor

    Ludwig Guttler, trumpet

    5:28
  • 4:01 AM

    Sleepsong

    Rolf Lovland

    The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin

    Desmond Earley, conductor

    Emily Doyle, soprano

    4:36
  • 3:51 AM

    Nocturne No. 2

    Lowell Liebermann

    Piano Nocturnes

    David Quigley, piano

    7:40
  • 3:23 AM

    Idyll for String Orchestra

    Leos Janacek

    Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    26:28
  • 3:13 AM

    Sarabande and Cortege

    Henri Dutilleux

    French Works for Bassoon and Piano

    Karen Geoghegan, bassoon

    7:39
  • 3:06 AM

    Scottish March (Marche ecossaise)

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Complete Orchestral Works I

    French National Radio and Television Orchestra

    Jean Martinon, conductor

    6:20
  • 3:01 AM

    Violin Sonata: Ballad

    Leos Janacek

    Strauss, Janacek & Debussy: Sonatas for Violin and Piano

    Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin

    4:45
  • 2:46 AM

    Introduction and Allegro

    Robert Schumann

    Saint Cecilia Orchestra

    Antonio Pappano, conductor

    Jan Lisiecki, piano

    12:29
  • 2:29 AM

    Poem for Cello and Orchestra

    Henriette Bosmans

    Cello Concertos

    Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Ed Spanjaard, conductor

    Dimitri Ferschtman, cello

    14:32
  • 2:16 AM

    Swan Lake: Dance of the Swans

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    Barry Griffiths, violin

    12:05
  • 2:06 AM

    Etude No. 6 "En forme de valse"

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Lise de la Salle, piano

    7:56
  • 2:00 AM

    Cello Suite No. 4: Bourrees

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Paul Galbraith performs Mozart, Bach, Britten

    Paul Galbraith, guitar

    4:31
  • 1:51 AM

    Guard My Tongue

    Julia Wolfe

    .and...

    Ars Nova Copenhagen

    Paul Hillier, conductor

    7:33
  • 1:14 AM

    Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    35:05
  • 1:06 AM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Fasch

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

    6:10
  • 1:01 AM

    Nocturne No. 15

    Frederic Chopin

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    4:37
  • 12:34 AM

    Grand Concerto for Bassoon

    Johann Hummel

    Hummel, Weber: Bassoon Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Klaus Thunemann, bassoon

    23:11
  • 12:22 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 12 "La Follia"

    Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio Sonnerie

    Nigel North, lute/guitar

    11:01
  • 12:19 AM

    Roma Suite: Waltz

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha OVerture / Petite Suite

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    2:21
  • 12:14 AM

    Danse des Lutins

    Henriette Renie

    Caprice: French Music For Harp

    Susann McDonald, harp

    3:11
  • 12:06 AM

    Grand Canyon Suite: On the Trail

    Ferde Grofe

    Grofe: Grand Canyon / Gershwin: Porgy & Bess

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    8:02
  • 12:01 AM

    Oboe Quintet: Canzonetta

    Theodore Dubois

    Quatuor et quintette avec piano

    Trio Hochelaga

    Jean-Luc Plourde, viola

    4:39
  • 11:45 PM

    Rienzi: Overture

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner: Orchestral Works

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Klaus Tennstedt, conductor

    13:33
  • 11:36 PM

    Piano Trio No. 7 "Archduke": 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Trios

    Trio Sora

    7:10
  • 11:30 PM

    Legend No. 4

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Legends

    Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    6:17
  • 11:14 PM

    Oboe Concerto

    Johann Hasse

    Bella Napoli: Oboe Concertos

    Ensemble Berlin

    Christoph Hartmann, oboe

    13:50
  • 11:11 PM

    Piece in the Form of a Habanera

    Maurice Ravel

    Romances for Saxophone

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    Branford Marsalis, saxophone

    2:40
  • 11:06 PM

    Carmen: Habanera

    Georges Bizet

    Opera Without Words

    BBC Concert Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    4:22
  • 11:01 PM

    Billy the Kid: Prairie Night

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Old American Songs, Eight Poems Of Emily Dickinson Etc.

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    4:43
  • 10:48 PM

    Capriccio Brillant

    Felix Mendelssohn

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    Stephen Hough, piano

    10:39
  • 10:43 PM

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers Awake)

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Favorites

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    3:57
  • 10:33 PM

    Kunstler-Leben Walzer (Artist's Life)

    Johann StraussJr.

    Strauss: Gala IV

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    8:21
  • 10:21 PM

    Symphony

    Johann Reichardt

    Jet Set! Classical Glitterati

    New Dutch Academy

    Simon Murphy, conductor

    9:42
  • 10:17 PM

    Etude No. 3 "Tristesse"

    Frederic Chopin

    Helen Callus, viola

    Phillip Bush, piano

    4:08
  • 10:06 PM

    Overture

    Fanny Mendelssohn

    Boulanger, Tailleferre, Mendelssohn, Schumann

    Women's Philharmonic

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    10:31
  • 10:03 PM

    Dance Intermezzo

    Jean Sibelius

    Lahti Symphony Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    2:44
  • 9:42 PM

    Ballet Suite No. 3

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Shostakovich: Ballet Suites; Festive Overture

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    15:48
  • 9:30 PM

    Fantastic Rondo on a Spanish Theme ("El Contrabandista")

    Franz Liszt

    Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt

    Valentina Lisitsa, piano

    11:14
  • 9:21 PM

    Symphony No. 2

    Carl Friedrich Abel

    Abel: Six Symphonies Op 7 / Shepherd, Cantilena

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    8:15
  • 9:15 PM

    Les Sylvains (The Fauns)

    Cecile Chaminade

    Donna voce

    Anna Shelest, piano

    3:56
  • 9:06 PM

    Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune)

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Images, Etc

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    8:48
  • 9:01 PM

    Paul's Steeple and Stingo

    John Playford

    Apollo's Banquet

    4:42
  • 6:31 PM

    Symphony No. 2

    Randall Thompson

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    27:44
  • 6:20 PM

    Trio No. 1 "London"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: London Trios and Divertimentos

    Laurel Zucker, flute

    8:30
  • 6:18 PM

    Alexandre Tharaud, piano

    1:30
  • 6:06 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 1

    George Frideric Handel

    I Musici

    10:54
  • 6:01 PM

    Romance No. 1

    Johann StraussJr.

    J. Strauss, Jr. Edition: Vol. 14

    Czech State Symphony Orchestra, Kosice

    Alfred Walter, conductor

    4:39
  • 5:43 PM

    In a Summer Garden

    Frederick Delius

    Delius: Paris; In A Summer Garden; Brigg Fair Etc.

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    15:10
  • 5:14 PM

    String Quartet No. 3

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn Op. 44 Nos. 1, 2

    Cecilia String Quartet

    27:33
  • 5:06 PM

    Cringlemire Garden

    Ruth Gipps

    British Music for Strings, Vol. 3

    South German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim

    Douglas Bostock, conductor

    6:19
  • 5:01 PM

    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Andre Previn, conductor

    4:40
  • 4:51 PM

    The Limpid Stream

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Tchaikovsky, Miaskovsky, Shostakovich

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Maxim Shostakovich, conductor

    Julian Lloyd Webber, cello

    6:55
  • 4:49 PM

    Etude No. 2 "The Brook"

    Benna Moe

    Romantic Piano Works by Danish Women Composers

    Cathrine Penderup, piano

    2:04
  • 4:31 PM

    Eine kleine Nachtmusik

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    After Mozart

    Kremerata Baltica

    Gidon Kremer, violin

    17:28
  • 4:24 PM

    The Red Pony Suite: The Gift

    Aaron Copland

    Copland, Williams: Music for the Stage and Screen

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    4:57
  • 4:20 PM

    La captive

    Amy Beach

    Rebecca Clarke: Epilogue; Amy Beach: Sonata, Opus 40

    Pamela Frame, cello

    3:24
  • 4:06 PM

    Concerto for Recorder and Flute

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Telemann: Wind Concertos

    Musica Antiqua Cologne

    Reinhard Goebel, conductor

    13:24
  • 4:01 PM

    From Olden Times: Intrada

    Johan Halvorsen

    Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:46
  • 3:56 PM

    Le Rossignol-en-amour (The Nightingale in Love)

    Francois Couperin

    Baroque Journey

    Lucie Horsch, recorder

    2:39
  • 3:40 PM

    American Rhapsody

    Ernst von Dohnanyi

    Dohnanyi: Violin Concerto

    Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Alun Francis, conductor

    14:35
  • 3:18 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Franz Liszt

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    Andre Watts, piano

    20:44
  • 3:06 PM

    Four Seasons: Spring

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Four Seasons

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Pinchas Zukerman, violin

    10:58
  • 3:00 PM

    Symphony: Larghetto

    Joseph Martin Kraus

    Kraus: Complete Symphonies, Vol. 4

    Swedish Chamber Orchestra

    Petter Sundkvist, conductor

    4:34
  • 2:52 PM

    Novelette "In Spanish Style"

    Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov: Five Novelettes; String Quartet No. 5

    Saint Petersburg String Quartet

    6:42
  • 2:47 PM

    The Three-Cornered Hat: Neighbor's Dance

    Manuel de Falla

    Manuel de Falla: El sombrero de tres picos; El amor brujo

    Mahler Chamber Orchestra

    Pablo Heras-Casado, conductor

    3:27
  • 2:41 PM

    Requiem: The Lord is My Shepherd

    John Rutter

    Rutter: Requiem

    City of London Sinfonia

    John Rutter, conductor

    5:10
  • 2:36 PM

    Gott ist mein Hirt (The Lord is My Shepherd)

    Franz Schubert

    Agnus Dei II

    Choir of New College, Oxford

    Edward Higginbottom, conductor

    4:35
  • 2:33 PM

    Song without Words No. 6 "Barcarolle (Gondola Song)"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Silence Wakes My Song

    Julia Shaw, harp

    2:15
  • 2:29 PM

    Winter Bonfire: Waltz

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Prokofiev: Winter Bonfire

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    3:26
  • 2:22 PM

    Waltz No. 1 "Grand Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Mad About Chopin

    Jean-Marc Luisada, piano

    5:34
  • 2:18 PM

    I Puritani: Son vergin vezzosa (Polka d'Elvira)

    Vincenzo Bellini

    Opera Arias for Trumpet

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Michel Plasson, conductor

    Maurice Andre, trumpet

    3:32
  • 2:08 PM

    Hercules Overture

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Hercules

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    6:58
  • 2:04 PM

    Carnival of the Animals: The Swan

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Claremont Duo

    2:39
  • 1:57 PM

    Matt Haimovitz, cello

    Mari Kodama, piano

    1:36
  • 1:52 PM

    Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture

    Mikhail Glinka

    Russian Sketches

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    4:56
  • 1:46 PM

    Turandot: Nessun dorma

    Giacomo Puccini

    Orquestra De La Comunitat Valenciana

    Piotr Beczala, tenor

    :00
  • 1:35 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jeunehomme": 1st movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart, Haydn: Jeunehomme

    The King's Violins

    Bernard Labadie, conductor

    Alexandre Tharaud, piano

    10:26
  • 1:31 PM

    The Merchant of Venice: Suite Anglaise No. 2: 3rd movement

    Henri Rabaud

    Rabaud: Orchestral Works

    Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    2:20
  • 1:20 PM

    Irish Suite for Strings

    Arthur Duff

    Silver Apples of the Moon

    Irish Chamber Orchestra

    Fionnuala Hunt, conductor

    10:06
  • 1:15 PM

    Peer Gynt: Arabian Dance

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2, etc.

    San Francisco Symphony

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    4:45
  • 1:10 PM

    Orchestral Suite No. 3: Air on the G String

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Pure Classics

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    3:28
  • 1:04 PM

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

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Il mondo della luna

    Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    4:16
  • 12:50 PM

    Concert Suite No. 4

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    Rameau: Six Concerts en sextuor

    Les Talens Lyriques

    Christophe Rousset, conductor

    9:10
  • 12:45 PM

    We Shall Walk Through the Valley

    Traditional

    Where the Sun Will Never Go Down: Spirituals and Traditional Gospel Music

    Chanticleer

    3:58
  • 12:34 PM

    Symphony No. 39: 1st movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 39 & 41

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Donald Runnicles, conductor

    10:36
  • 12:30 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 15

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor

    3:26
  • 12:19 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 2nd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Simon Rattle, conductor

    Krystian Zimerman, piano

    9:05
  • 12:15 PM

    Carmen: Aragonaise

    Georges Bizet

    Dance!: The World's Favourite Ice-Skating Music

    French National Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    2:25
  • 12:07 PM

    Demetrio e Polibio: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Prague Sinfonia Orchestra

    Christian Benda, conductor

    6:30
  • 12:04 PM

    Trumpet Tune

    Henry Purcell

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Donald Fraser, conductor

    2:40
  • 11:52 AM

    Rondo for Violin and Orchestra

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Swedish Chamber Orchestra

    Eivind Aadland, conductor

    Baiba Skride, violin

    6:06
  • 11:47 AM

    Jazz Suite No. 2: Waltz No. 2

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Voyage Central Park

    Aquarelle Guitar Quartet

    Lisa Friend, flute

    3:43
  • 11:39 AM

    Pest Waltzes

    Joseph Lanner

    Concerto Koln

    7:38
  • 11:35 AM

    Second Suite: Petite Waltz and Menuet

    Theodore Dubois

    Music of the Gilded Age

    Sylvan Winds

    Diva Goodfriend-Koven, flute

    4:18
  • 11:12 AM

    Symphony

    Luigi Boccherini

    Boccherini: Seven Symphonies

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    21:41
  • 11:06 AM

    Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Billy the Kid, Rodeo; Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite

    Morton Gould Orchestra

    4:27
  • 11:01 AM

    English Suite No. 4: Prelude

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    4:30
  • 10:51 AM

    Prelude and Quadruple Fugue

    Alan Hovhaness

    Hovhaness: Symphony No. 48 / Prelude and Quadruple Fugue / Soprano Saxophone Concerto

    Eastern Music Festival Orchestra

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    6:54
  • 10:37 AM

    Castelli Romani: Frascati

    Joseph Marx

    Marx: Romantic Piano Concerto; Castelli Romani

    Bochum Symphony Orchestra

    Steven Sloane, conductor

    David Lively, piano

    12:23
  • 10:30 AM

    Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond

    Traditional

    Homecoming

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Rory Macdonald, conductor

    Nicola Benedetti, violin

    5:18
  • 10:07 AM

    Pibroch Suite

    Alexander Mackenzie

    Scottish Fantasies for Violin & Orchestra

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Alexander Platt, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    23:37
  • 10:01 AM

    Consolation No. 3

    Franz Liszt

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    4:42
  • 9:56 AM

    By the Cradle

    Moritz Moszkowski

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    2:10
  • 9:16 AM

    Ukrainian Quintet

    Boris Lyatoshinsky

    Ukrainian Piano Quintets

    Taras Yaropud, violin

    40:14
  • 9:06 AM

    The Meaning of Water

    Andrew Schultz

    Seven Harp Ensemble

    Alice Giles, conductor

    7:33
  • 9:01 AM

    Miniatures: A Piacere

    Vivian Fung

    Composers in the Loft

    Maia String Quartet

    John Bruce Yeh, clarinet

    4:40
  • 8:53 AM

    Alsacian Scenes: Under the Lindens

    Jules Massenet

    Rhapsodie

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    5:28
  • 8:45 AM

    St. Matthew Passion: Erbarme dich

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Simply Baroque

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    7:18
  • 8:06 AM

    Symphony No. 3

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Symphony No 3, Etc

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    37:37
  • 8:01 AM

    Reflexoes No. 6: Doloroso

    Jaime Zenamon

    Rupert Boyd, guitar

    Laura Metcalf, cello

    4:35
  • 7:54 AM

    Burlesque

    Vitezslava Kapralova

    Vitezslava Kapralova

    Virginia Eskin, piano

    4:04
  • 7:24 AM

    Symphony No. 8

    Kurt Atterberg

    Atterberg: Symphonies

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    29:40
  • 7:06 AM

    Tabula Rasa

    Arvo Part

    Part: Sanctuary

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Richard Studt, conductor

    Tasmin Little, violin

    16:15
  • 7:01 AM

    Three Late Love Songs: Tranquillo

    Kurt Schwertsik

    Christopher van Kampen, cello

    Nicola Meecham, piano

    4:32
  • 6:35 AM

    Mythic Gardens

    Howard Shore

    21st Century Chamber Orchestra

    Ludwig Wicki, conductor

    Sophie Shao, cello

    23:35
  • 6:20 AM

    From Grandmother's Garden

    Amy Beach

    Beach: Fire-flies: The Solo Piano Music of Amy Beach Vol. 3

    Joanne Polk, piano

    14:04
  • 6:06 AM

    Chimney of King Rene

    Darius Milhaud

    French Wind Music

    Reykjavik Wind Quintet

    12:26
  • 6:01 AM

    Garden of Roses (Il giardino di rose): Overture

    Alessandro Scarlatti

    Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Torelli, Stradella

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Simon Wright, conductor

    John Wallace, trumpet

    4:26