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  • 4:29 AM

    Enigma Variations

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: Enigma Variations, etc.

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Georg Solti, conductor

    28:52
  • 4:23 AM

    Hear us in Heaven

    Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Skylark Vocal Ensemble

    4:23
  • 4:06 AM

    Flute Quintet

    Ferdinand Ries

    Romberg/Ries: Flotenquintette

    Novsak Trio

    William Bennett, flute

    16:38
  • 4:01 AM

    Variations for Arinushka

    Arvo Part

    Elena Riu, piano

    4:30
  • 3:42 AM

    The Incredible Flutist: Suite

    Walter Piston

    Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra

    Howard Hanson, conductor

    16:21
  • 3:25 AM

    Rapsodie espagnole

    Maurice Ravel

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    14:50
  • 3:18 AM

    Marcus Eley, clarinet

    Lucerne DeSa, piano

    5:12
  • 3:06 AM

    Danish National Chamber Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    11:52
  • 2:59 AM

    Glassworks: Opening

    Philip Glass

    Philip Glass: Piano Works

    Jenny Lin, piano

    6:23
  • 12:42 AM

    Little Concert Suite

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha OVerture / Petite Suite

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    16:03
  • 12:31 AM

    Capriccio "On the Departure of a Brother"

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: French Overture, Italian Concerto, Duets

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    10:06
  • 12:21 AM

    Overture to a Comedy

    Henry Gardiner

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    8:26
  • 12:18 AM

    Mountain Songs: The House Carpenter

    Robert Beaser

    Songs of Love and Despair

    Laura Metcalf, cello

    2:02
  • 12:12 AM

    Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2, etc.

    San Francisco Symphony

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    5:34
  • 12:00 AM

    Hungarian Sketches

    Bela Bartok

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    11:23
  • 11:47 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Maurice Andre plays Telemann

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Maurice Andre, trumpet

    8:27
  • 11:40 PM

    America Will Be!

    Joel Thompson

    America Will Be

    Tonality

    Alexander Lloyd Blake, conductor

    6:16
  • 11:34 PM

    Valencia

    Caroline Shaw

    Orange

    Attacca Quartet

    5:49
  • 10:58 PM

    Flute and Harp Concerto

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Flute Concertos

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Susan Palma, flute

    26:30
  • 10:31 PM

    Symphony No. 8

    Vaughan-Williams

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    26:00
  • 10:30 PM

    Prelude No. 15 "Raindrop"

    Frederic Chopin

    Ivan Moravec, piano

    6:26
  • 10:24 PM

    Scherzo No. 2

    Clara Schumann

    Romance: The Music of Clara Schumann

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    4:48
  • 10:12 PM

    Fantasia and Fugue in g

    JS Bach

    Simon Preston, organ

    10:51
  • 10:04 PM

    Romance

    Gerald Finzi

    Finzi: Suite From "Love's Labours Lost", Clarinet Concerto, Prelude, Romance

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    6:58
  • 9:44 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Shostakovich: Concertos Nos 1 & 2, Piano Quintet

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Yefim Bronfman, piano

    18:58
  • 9:38 PM

    Doctor Zhivago: Lara's Theme

    Maurice Jarre

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Maurice Jarre, conductor

    5:16
  • 9:33 PM

    Gnossienne No. 2

    Erik Satie

    The Guitarist

    John Williams, guitar

    2:52
  • 9:22 PM

    Egmont Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 Pastoral

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    8:40
  • 9:16 PM

    Mass: Gloria

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Mass in B Minor

    Monteverdi Choir

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    6:00
  • 9:03 PM

    Arabesque No. 1

    Claude Debussy

    Piano Classics: Popular Works for Solo Piano

    John O'Conor, piano

    4:37
  • 8:55 PM

    Overture No. 2 "La Calamita de Cuori"

    Johann Christian Bach

    JC Bach: Sinfonias

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    4:40
  • 8:46 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 2: 3rd movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 50

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    Stephen Hough, piano

    7:02
  • 8:40 PM

    Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo

    Pietro Mascagni

    The Most Relaxing Classical Album In The World...Ever!

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    3:39
  • 8:36 PM

    Xerxes: Ombra mai fu

    George Frideric Handel

    ARC

    The King's Violins

    Jonathan Cohen, conductor

    Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor

    3:15
  • 8:29 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 2: 3rd movement

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Three Concerti For Violin And Orchestra

    Tromso Chamber Orchestra

    Henning Kraggerud, violin

    5:44
  • 8:19 PM

    Ballade No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Awadagin Pratt: A Long Way from Normal

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    6:23
  • 8:12 PM

    Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetee (Flower Song)

    Georges Bizet

    Jonas Kaufmann: Romantic Arias

    Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

    Marco Armiliato, conductor

    Jonas Kaufmann, tenor

    4:16
  • 8:00 PM

    Quiet City

    Aaron Copland

    Copland, Williams: Music for the Stage and Screen

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    Tim Morrison, trumpet

    10:30
  • 5:44 PM

    Concerto on Themes by Donizetti

    Antonio Pasculli

    Berlin Symphony Orchestra

    Claus Peter Flor, conductor

    Burkhard Glaetzner, oboe

    14:08
  • 5:43 PM

    Symphony

    Georges Bizet

    Prokofiev: Classical Symphony

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    28:07
  • 5:14 PM

    Symphony

    Georges Bizet

    Prokofiev: Classical Symphony

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    28:07
  • 5:11 PM

    Elizabethan Dance No. 3

    William Alwyn

    Alwyn: Symphony No. 4/Elizabethan Dances Etc

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    1:42
  • 5:06 PM

    Creole Sketches on themes collected by L.M. Gottschalk

    Lucien-Leon Lambert

    Sakiko Ohashi, piano

    Mary Scott Spry, pianoforte

    4:22
  • 5:00 PM

    String Quartet No. 62 "Emperor": Minuet

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Mozart: Hunt & Dissonance Quartets; Haydn

    Emerson String Quartet

    4:36
  • 4:48 PM

    Introduction and Variations

    Elias Parish-Alvars

    Carnaval de Venise

    Catrin Finch, harp

    11:06
  • 4:45 PM

    A Gaelic Blessing: Meditation

    John Rutter

    Blessing

    Sinfonia Cymru

    John Rutter, conductor

    Catrin Finch, harp

    4:43
  • 4:26 PM

    Siegfried Idyll

    Richard Wagner

    Brahms: Serenade No. 1; Wagner: Sigfried-Idyll

    Academy Chamber Ensemble

    18:02
  • 4:12 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 1

    Joseph Wolfl

    Wolfl: 4 Piano Sonatas

    Jon Nakamatsu, piano

    13:21
  • 4:06 PM

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Kenneth Smith, flute

    Paul Rhodes, piano

    6:00
  • 4:01 PM

    Choro No. 1 "Tipico Brasileiro"

    Heitor Villa-Lobos

    Aire Latino: Latin American Music for Guitar

    David Russell, guitar

    4:31
  • 3:44 PM

    Horn Concerto No. 11

    Giovanni Punto

    Telemann: Horn Concerto, Etc.

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Barry Tuckwell, horn

    14:21
  • 3:33 PM

    Gloriana: Courtly Dances

    Benjamin Britten

    Britten 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'

    English Symphony Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    10:00
  • 3:19 PM

    Cello Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Cello Concertos

    London Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Warren-Green, conductor

    Han-Na Chang, cello

    11:07
  • 3:15 PM

    Ruth Slenczynska, piano

    3:21
  • 3:06 PM

    String Quartet No. 2

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    W.A. Mozart: The String Quartets

    Amadeus Quartet

    8:47
  • 3:01 PM

    4 Pieces: No. 2. Autumn Night

    Wanda Landowska

    The Salon of Polish Women Composers

    Magdalena Lisak, piano

    4:34
  • 2:54 PM

    A Moorside Suite: March

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    4:10
  • 2:05 PM

    Gabriele Leite, guitar

    7:41
  • 2:01 PM

    Xerxes: Largo

    George Frideric Handel

    Albinoni: Adagio; Pachelbel: Canon; Etc

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    3:01
  • 1:48 PM

    Violin Concerto: Finale

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Staatskapelle Berlin

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Lisa Batiashvili, violin

    10:01
  • 1:43 PM

    The Merchant of Venice: Suite Anglaise No. 2: 1st movement

    Henri Rabaud

    Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    3:18
  • 1:38 PM

    African Suite: Waltz

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Bach to Black: Suites for Piano

    Rochelle Sennet, piano

    4:06
  • 1:28 PM

    Four Norwegian Moods

    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps, etc.

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    8:41
  • 1:20 PM

    Piano Quartet: 3rd movement

    Robert Schumann

    Trio Wanderer

    Christopher Gaugue, viola

    6:03
  • 1:17 PM

    Our Town: Grover's Corners

    Aaron Copland

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    2:20
  • 1:04 PM

    Vienna 3/4 Time - Waltz Cycle

    Johann Wagenaar

    Wagenaar: Saul En David, Amphitrion, Etc / Riccardo Chailly

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    9:37
  • 12:52 PM

    Die Fledermaus: Overture

    Johann StraussJr.

    Strauss: Waltzes And Overtures

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Franz Welser-Most, conductor

    7:48
  • 12:45 PM

    Piano Concerto: Scherzo

    Amy Beach

    Beach, Chaminade, Howell: Piano Concertos

    BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Rebecca Miller, conductor

    Danny Driver, piano

    5:34
  • 12:39 PM

    Concertino Pastorale: Finale

    John Ireland

    English Music for Strings

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    George Hurst, conductor

    3:59
  • 12:36 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight": 2nd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Richard Goode, piano

    2:16
  • 12:26 PM

    As You Like It: Suite

    Roger Quilter

    British Light Music: Roger Quilter

    Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    9:17
  • 12:16 PM

    Flute Concerto No. 5

    Antonio Vivaldi

    I Musici

    Aurele Nicolet, flute

    7:55
  • 12:07 PM

    Vals Capricho

    Ricardo Castro Herrera

    Dances for Piano and Orchestra

    Northwest Sinfonietta

    Christophe Chagnard, conductor

    Joel Fan, piano

    7:56
  • 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
  • 11:53 AM

    La Scala di Seta (Silken Ladder): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures Vol 2 / Benda, Prague Sinfonia

    Prague Sinfonia Orchestra

    Christian Benda, conductor

    6:02
  • 11:45 AM

    Scherzo on Tropical Airs

    Santos Cifuentes

    Inca Trail Connections

    Norwegian Radio Orchestra

    Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor

    6:48
  • 11:39 AM

    Ave Maria

    Franz Schubert

    Voice Of The Violin

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Michael Stern, conductor

    Joshua Bell, violin

    4:41
  • 11:34 AM

    Sleeping Beauty: Grand Pas de Deux

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Greatest Hits: The Ballet, Vol. III

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    4:02
  • 11:23 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 25: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Leonard Bernstein Plays and Conducts: Mozart, Beethoven, Ravel, Shostakovich, Gershwin

    Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    Leonard Bernstein, piano

    9:35
  • 11:16 AM

    Fantasy Pieces: Minuet and Trio

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Uncovered Vol. 1

    Catalyst Quartet

    6:53
  • 11:11 AM

    Mysterious Barricades

    Francois Couperin

    Home

    Elizabeth Hainen, harp

    2:36
  • 11:05 AM

    Schlagobers (Whipped Cream Waltz)

    Richard Strauss

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor

    5:57
  • 10:47 AM

    Symphony No. 8

    William Herschel

    Herschel: Symphonies

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    11:42
  • 10:39 AM

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    6:41
  • 10:26 AM

    The Virtuous Wife: Suite

    Henry Purcell

    Purcell: Ayres for the Theatre

    Parley of Instruments

    Peter Holman, conductor

    11:42
  • 10:22 AM

    Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Violin Romances

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Gil Shaham, violin

    3:37
  • 10:18 AM

    The Wise Woman (Die Kluge): Scene with Three Vagabonds

    Carl Orff

    Carl Orff: Kleines Konzert

    Mainz Wind Ensemble

    Klaus Rainer Scholl, conductor

    3:15
  • 10:08 AM

    In Ireland Fantasy

    Hamilton Harty

    Ulster Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    9:13
  • 10:06 AM

    Michala Petri, recorder

    Lars Hannibal, guitar

    1:22
  • 10:01 AM

    Grand Duchess of Gerolstein: Overture

    Jacques Offenbach

    Offenbach Music from the Operettas

    Gulbenkian Orchestra

    Michel Swierczewski, conductor

    4:33
  • 9:52 AM

    Rhapsody No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Emanuel Ax, piano

    6:18
  • 9:29 AM

    Symphony No. 47 "Palindrome"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Philharmonia Hungarica

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    21:09
  • 9:21 AM

    Waltz No. 1 "Grand Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Ruth Slenczynska, piano

    7:11
  • 9:06 AM

    Concerto for 2 Orchestras No. 3

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Music For The Royal Fireworks

    English Baroque Soloists

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    13:24
  • 9:01 AM

    Four Romances

    Darius Milhaud

    Grant Johannesen, piano

    4:45
  • 8:32 AM

    Symphony No. 1 "Towards the Mountains"

    Eivind Groven

    Groven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

    Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra

    Peter Szilvay, conductor

    26:02
  • 8:26 AM

    Notturno

    Ottorino Respighi

    A Pianist's Journey

    Jeffrey Biegel, piano

    5:22
  • 8:07 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Alexander Glazunov

    Full Dimensional Sound - Dvorak, Glazunov, Schubert

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

    William Steinberg, conductor

    Nathan Milstein, violin

    18:44
  • 8:01 AM

    Festival Scherzo for Piano and Strings

    Madeleine Dring

    Peacock Pie: Gibbs, Jacob, Rootham, Milford, Dring

    Guildhall Strings

    Robert Salter, conductor

    Martin Roscoe, piano

    4:32
  • 7:32 AM

    Symphony No. 10: Adagio

    Gustav Mahler

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    26:25
  • 7:26 AM

    Homage to Paradise Valley: Paradise Theater Jump!

    Jeff Scott

    Ghost Light

    Akropolis Reed Quintet

    5:16
  • 7:10 AM

    Piano Trio "Variations on an Original Theme"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beaux Arts Trio

    14:06
  • 7:06 AM

    War Horse: Dartmoor, 1912

    John Williams

    War Horse: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    Studio Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    3:36
  • 7:01 AM

    Summer Idyls: Meadow-Rest

    Herbert Howells

    Matthew Schellhorn, piano

    4:46
  • 6:35 AM

    Clarinet Quintet

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor

    Martin Frost, clarinet

    23:10
  • 6:31 AM

    The Piano's 12 Sides: Legend

    Carter Pann

    Joel Hastings, piano

    3:45
  • 6:06 AM

    Swedish Dances

    Max Bruch

    Bruch: Orchestral Works

    Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra

    George Hanson, conductor

    22:53
  • 6:01 AM

    Two Poetic Waltzes

    Enrique Granados

    40 Degrees North

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    4:40
  • 5:26 AM

    La Boite a Joujoux (The Toy Box)

    Claude Debussy

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    32:44
  • 5:19 AM

    Die tote Stadt: Gluck, das mir verblieb (Marietta's Song)

    Erich Korngold

    Songs of Comfort and Hope

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    6:07
  • 5:07 AM

    Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra

    Hans Graf, conductor

    10:52
  • 5:01 AM

    Homage (to William Levi Dawson)

    Zenobia Powell Perry

    Soulscapes

    Maria Corley, piano

    4:31