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  • 4:27 AM

    Enigma Variations

    Edward Elgar

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    31:24
  • 4:17 AM

    Renaissance Scottish Dances

    Peter Maxwell Davies

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Peter Maxwell Davies, conductor

    9:18
  • 4:06 AM

    Spem in Alium (Hope in all things)

    Thomas Tallis

    Tallis: Spem in Alium

    ORA

    Suzi Digby, conductor

    9:13
  • 4:01 AM

    Church Sonata No. 6

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    German Bach Soloists

    Helmut Winschermann, conductor

    4:40
  • 3:45 AM

    Chimney of King Rene

    Darius Milhaud

    FRENCH MUSIC FOR WIND QUINTET

    Danish National Symphony Wind Quintet

    12:50
  • 3:26 AM

    Simple Symphony

    Benjamin Britten

    Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

    Iona Brown, conductor

    17:35
  • 3:21 AM

    Intermezzo No. 6

    Johannes Brahms

    Lullabies For Mila

    Alessio Bax, piano

    4:42
  • 3:11 AM

    Fantasy Overture

    York Bowen

    Overtures from the British Isles Volume 2

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    8:28
  • 3:06 AM

    Peer Gynt: Ase's Death

    Edvard Grieg

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    4:30
  • 3:01 AM

    Love's Labours Lost: 3 Soliloquies

    Gerald Finzi

    Northern Sinfonia

    Howard Griffiths, conductor

    4:48
  • 2:54 AM

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    3:46
  • 2:10 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 3

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Yefim Bronfman, piano

    43:02
  • 2:06 AM

    Serenade for Frank Wigglesworth

    Lou Harrison

    Lou Harrison: The Perilous Chapel

    David Tanenbaum, guitar

    1:53
  • 2:01 AM

    Eduardo Mata University Youth Orchestra

    Gustavo Rivero Weber, conductor

    4:46
  • 1:48 AM

    English Dances: First Set

    Malcolm Arnold

    Dallas Wind Symphony

    Jerry Junkin, conductor

    9:30
  • 1:15 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Jean Sibelius

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Leila Josefowicz, violin

    31:44
  • 1:11 AM

    Romance Without Words

    Gabriel Faure

    The Sounds Of Remembered Dreams

    Susan Jolles, harp

    2:40
  • 1:06 AM

    Canzon No. 8

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    Empire Brass

    4:16
  • 1:01 AM

    Hook: Flight to Neverland

    John Williams

    Williams on Williams

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    4:43
  • 12:52 AM

    Piano Quintet: Scherzo

    Josef Suk

    Suk: Klavier- und Kammermusik

    Kiveli Dorken, piano

    5:47
  • 12:15 AM

    Symphony No. 7

    Antonin Dvorak

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    36:19
  • 12:10 AM

    Until We Meet Again

    Michael Thurber/Tessa Lark

    Tessa Lark, violin

    Michael Thurber, double bass

    2:52
  • 12:06 AM

    The Aspen

    George Chadwick

    American Character

    Peter Kairoff, piano

    3:05
  • 12:01 AM

    Alleluia

    Randall Thompson

    Gloria! Music Of Praise And Inspiration

    Robert Shaw Festival Singers

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    4:52
  • 11:52 PM

    Don Pasquale: Sinfonia

    Gaetano Donizetti

    Saint Cecilia Orchestra

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    6:43
  • 11:28 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 11 "Turkish"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Sonatas KV 331 & 457

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    23:40
  • 11:20 PM

    Clarinet Quintet: 3rd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: String Quartets, Clarinet Quintet

    Juilliard String Quartet

    Charles Neidich, clarinet

    5:03
  • 11:12 PM

    Four Dances

    Thomas Morley

    Dances From Renaissance To Nutcracker

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    7:18
  • 11:06 PM

    Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: Billy The Kid; Rodeo Etc.

    Colorado Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Litton, conductor

    5:16
  • 11:01 PM

    Maskarade: Overture

    Carl Nielsen

    Scandinavian Rhapsody, A Selection of Orchestral Favourites

    Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    4:36
  • 10:44 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Neruda

    Haydn, Hummel, Etc.: Trumpet Concertos

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    14:17
  • 10:24 PM

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet/Serebrier: Carmen Symphony

    Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    18:06
  • 10:19 PM

    Double Quartet No. 1: Scherzo

    Louis Spohr

    Spohr: The Four Double Quartets

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

    4:26
  • 10:11 PM

    Novelettes

    Francis Poulenc

    Eric Parkin, piano

    6:07
  • 10:06 PM

    Il Signor Bruschino: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    4:46
  • 10:01 PM

    Canzon No. 29

    Samuel Scheidt

    Fretwork

    Silas Wollston, organ

    4:49
  • 9:49 PM

    The Royal Children: Overture

    Engelbert Humperdinck

    Humperdinck: Fairy-Tale Music

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor

    7:49
  • 9:47 PM

    Nursery Suite: The Merry Doll

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: The Wand of Youth, Suites I & II; Dream Children; Nursery Suite; Starlight Express

    Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    1:36
  • 9:29 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 2

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Steven Mercurio, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    16:46
  • 9:12 PM

    Afro-Cuban Concerto

    Valerie Coleman

    Imani Winds: The Classical Underground

    Imani Winds

    15:32
  • 9:06 PM

    Romeo and Juliet: Montagues and Capulets

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    5:08
  • 9:03 PM

    L'Egyptienne

    Jean-Philippe Rameau

    The French Album

    Jorge Federico Osorio, piano

    2:32
  • 8:47 PM

    Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz)

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    10:52
  • 8:24 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 28

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Changyong Shin

    Changyong Shin, piano

    21:07
  • 8:06 PM

    A Downland Suite

    John Ireland

    Sinfonia of London

    John Wilson, conductor

    16:50
  • 8:01 PM

    Trumpet Sonata a 7

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Baroque Trumpet Music

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    John Wallace, trumpet

    4:44
  • 5:41 PM

    Peer Gynt Suite No. 2

    Edvard Grieg

    San Francisco Symphony

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    17:03
  • 5:16 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 11

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    23:32
  • 5:13 PM

    Sasha Boldachev, harp

    2:37
  • 5:06 PM

    Nabucco: Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves)

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Grand & Glorious - Great Operatic Choruses / Robert Shaw

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    5:08
  • 5:01 PM

    Flute Concerto: 1st movement

    Vilem Blodek

    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Uros Lajovic, conductor

    Karl Bernhard Sebon, flute

    4:39
  • 4:50 PM

    The Skaters Waltz

    Emil Waldteufel

    With Love from Vienna

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    8:04
  • 4:20 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Spring"

    Robert Schumann

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    29:23
  • 4:12 PM

    Joshua Rifkin, piano

    5:18
  • 4:06 PM

    Introduction No. 3

    Pietro Locatelli

    Raglan Baroque Players

    Elizabeth Wallfisch, conductor

    5:27
  • 4:01 PM

    Concerto Grosso No. 2: 1st movement

    William Alwyn

    Alwyn: Concerti Grossi Nos. 2 and 3

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    David Lloyd-Jones, conductor

    4:36
  • 3:51 PM

    Waltz-Scherzo

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor

    Esther Yoo, violin

    6:21
  • 3:32 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Hummel

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jahja Ling, conductor

    Rolf Smedvig, trumpet

    17:47
  • 3:28 PM

    Toothache Fughetta

    Elfrida Andree

    Elfrida Andree: Complete Piano Works

    Oskar Ekberg, piano

    2:36
  • 3:14 PM

    Concertino for Oboe

    Lille Soderlundh

    A Swedish Serenade

    Stockholm Sinfonietta

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    Alf Nilsson, oboe

    13:13
  • 3:06 PM

    Karelia Overture

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: 7 Symphonies

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor

    7:59
  • 3:01 PM

    The Running Set

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    George Hurst, conductor

    4:43
  • 2:14 PM

    Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

    Antonin Dvorak

    44:15
  • 2:14 PM

    Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

    Antonin Dvorak

    44:15
  • 2:03 PM

    Drottningholm Suite

    Johan Roman

    Roman: Music for a Royal Wedding

    Uppsala Chamber Orchestra

    Anthony Halstead, conductor

    9:34
  • 1:56 PM

    Goin' Home

    Antonin Dvorak

    Bryn Terfel Sings Favorites

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    Bryn Terfel, baritone

    5:38
  • 1:52 PM

    Liebesfreud (Love's Joy)

    Fritz Kreisler

    Salut d'Amour

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    3:30
  • 1:45 PM

    Toccata Marziale

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Eastman Wind Ensemble

    Eastman Wind Ensemble

    Donald Hunsberger, conductor

    4:32
  • 1:39 PM

    Lincolnshire Posy: Selections

    Percy Grainger

    Eastman Wind Ensemble

    Frederick Fennell, conductor

    5:30
  • 1:31 PM

    Sinfonia for Four Trumpets

    Giuseppe Torelli

    La Serenissima

    Adrian Chandler, conductor

    7:41
  • 1:21 PM

    Symphony No. 104 "London": 1st movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos 101 The Clock and 104 London

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    8:42
  • 1:17 PM

    Orfeo and Euridice: Melody

    Christoph Gluck

    Fantasia

    Yuja Wang, piano

    3:02
  • 1:09 PM

    Cinema Paradiso: Love Theme

    Ennio Morricone

    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Nikoloz Rachveli, conductor

    Lisa Batiashvili, violin

    Maximilian Hornung, cello

    4:20
  • 1:04 PM

    Marriage of Figaro: Overture

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    4:17
  • 12:48 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Eroica": 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    10:42
  • 12:41 PM

    Symphony No. 5: 2nd movement

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, Op. 47 - Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

    Manfred Honeck, conductor

    5:43
  • 12:33 PM

    String Quartet No. 4

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Saint-Georges: 6 Concertante Quartets

    Arabella String Quartet

    6:48
  • 12:30 PM

    King Christian II Suite: Musette

    Sibelius: Finlandia, En Saga, The Swan of Tuonela, The Oceanides, Valse Triste, King Christian II Suite

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Thomas Sondergard, conductor

    2:18
  • 12:19 PM

    Flute Concerto No. 3 "Il gardellino" ("The Goldfinch")

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Oiseaux tendres

    Musica Vitae

    Peter Csaba, conductor

    Manuela Wiesler, flute

    9:17
  • 12:15 PM

    Danza Brasilera

    Jorge Morel

    Milos: Pasion

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    3:10
  • 12:09 PM

    Wind Quintet No. 1: Rondo

    Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini

    Avalon Wind Quintet

    4:34
  • 12:09 PM

    Movement for String Trio

    Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Coleridge-Tayler Perkinson - A Celebration

    Sanford Allen, violin

    3:57
  • 12:04 PM

    Hungarian March

    Hector Berlioz

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    4:00
  • 11:56 AM

    The Bumblebee

    Emilio Pujol

    Romance D'amour

    Narciso Yepes, guitar

    1:49
  • 11:48 AM

    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo and Intermezzo

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    7:33
  • 11:46 AM

    Summer Dreams: Robin Redbreast

    Amy Beach

    Amy Beach: Complete Works for Piano Duo

    Aglika Genova, piano

    1:36
  • 11:37 AM

    Presto

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Spring Song, The Bard, etc.

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    6:42
  • 11:31 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 16

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas (disc 6)

    Richard Goode, piano

    22:37
  • 11:18 AM

    Sinfonia Melodica

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    The Colourful Telemann

    Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra

    Barthold Kuijken, conductor

    10:56
  • 11:16 AM

    Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    A New Baroque

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    2:10
  • 11:09 AM

    Slavonic Dance No. 3

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"; Two Slavonic Dances

    Houston Symphony Orchestra

    Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor

    4:51
  • 11:04 AM

    Go, My Children

    Traditional

    Great Hymns of Faith II

    St. Olaf Choir

    Anton Armstrong, conductor

    4:50
  • 11:04 AM

    Slavonic Dance No. 3

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"; Two Slavonic Dances

    Houston Symphony Orchestra

    Andres Orozco-Estrada, conductor

    4:51
  • 10:48 AM

    Violin Concerto: Finale

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Higdon, Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vasily Petrenko, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    10:31
  • 10:36 AM

    Consecration of the House: Overture

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Complete Beethoven Edition Vol. 3: Music For The Stage

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Bernhard Klee, conductor

    10:48
  • 10:26 AM

    Sonatina No. 1 "From an Invalid's Workshop": 2nd movement

    Richard Strauss

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    8:53
  • 10:21 AM

    1941: March

    John Williams

    By Request: The Best of John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    4:26
  • 10:11 AM

    Serenade No. 2: 1st movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Serenades

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

    8:39
  • 10:06 AM

    The Harmonious Blacksmith

    George Frideric Handel

    Intrada - London Brass

    London Brass

    4:31
  • 10:01 AM

    Concerto Grosso: 2nd movement

    Henry Cowell

    Manhattan Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Auldon Clark, conductor

    4:41
  • 9:52 AM

    I Musici Montreal

    Yuli Turovsky, conductor

    David Owen Norris, piano

    6:13
  • 9:33 AM

    Noble and Sentimental Waltzes

    Maurice Ravel

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, conductor

    17:58
  • 9:23 AM

    Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror)

    Arvo Part

    Arvo Part: Portrait

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    8:23
  • 9:06 AM

    Clarinet Concerto

    Johann Stamitz

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    15:39
  • 9:01 AM

    2 Pieces for piano 6 hands: Romance

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Tharaud Plays Rachmaninoff

    Alexandre Tharaud, piano

    4:33
  • 8:36 AM

    String Quartet

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Puccini: Chrisantemi/3 Minuetti, etc.

    Orchestra of the Auvergne

    Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor

    22:16
  • 8:29 AM

    The Adventures of Robin Hood: Love Theme

    Erich Korngold

    East of England Orchestra

    Malcolm Nabarro, conductor

    7:14
  • 8:12 AM

    Five Pieces in Folk-Style

    Robert Schumann

    Steven Isserlis, cello

    Christoph Eschenbach, piano

    15:28
  • 8:06 AM

    Startin' Sumthin'

    Jeff Scott

    Imani Winds

    4:50
  • 8:01 AM

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

    Vincenzo Bellini

    Italian Overtures

    Orchestra of St. Cecilia

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    4:41
  • 7:33 AM

    Symphony No. 20

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies, Vol. 6

    Danish National Chamber Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    24:56
  • 7:28 AM

    Pavan and Galliard No. 6

    William Byrd

    Glenn Gould, piano

    5:17
  • 7:06 AM

    Impressions: Suite for Chamber Orchestra

    Clarice Assad

    New Century Chamber Orchestra

    19:52
  • 7:01 AM

    Woodland Sketches (selected)

    Edward MacDowell

    Mountain Songs: A Cycle of American Folk Music

    Paula Robison, flute

    4:34
  • 6:40 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 4

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Handel and Haydn Society

    Harry Christophers, conductor

    Aisslinn Nosky, violin

    18:23
  • 6:18 AM

    Moses: Ballet Music

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Ballet Music

    Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra

    Antonio de Almeida, conductor

    21:16
  • 6:06 AM

    Quartettino

    Rezso Kokai

    Walter Boeykens Ensemble

    10:14
  • 6:01 AM

    Scotch Strathspey and Reel

    Percy Grainger

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    4:39
  • 5:25 AM

    Symphony No. 2

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    33:38
  • 5:21 AM

    Tango

    Isaac Albeniz

    Albeniz: Piano Music for Guitar

    Jason Vieaux, guitar

    3:14
  • 5:06 AM

    Oboe Concerto

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: 3 Oboe Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Heinz Holliger, oboe

    12:58
  • 5:01 AM

    Sine Nomine

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Composer's Collection: Vaughan Williams

    North Texas Wind Symphony

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    4:43