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  • 4:37 AM

    Harlem Symphony

    James Price Johnson

    Victory Stride: The Symphonic Music of James P. Johnson

    Concordia

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    21:44
  • 4:23 AM

    Symphony No. 5: 3rd movement

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    13:00
  • 4:06 AM

    Oboe d'Amore Concerto

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerti Virtuosi

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    John Abberger, oboe d'amore

    15:14
  • 4:01 AM

    Serenade for Strings: Andante

    Max Bruch

    Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra

    George Hanson, conductor

    4:34
  • 3:44 AM

    Concert Rondo "Krakowiak"

    Frederic Chopin

    CHOPIN, F.: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Fantasy on Polish Airs / Rondo a la krakowiak

    Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

    Antoni Wit, conductor

    Eldar Nebolsin, piano

    14:22
  • 3:30 AM

    Gayane Ballet Suite

    Aram Khachaturian

    Royal Scottish Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    12:20
  • 3:20 AM

    Concerto for Strings

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Arion

    8:26
  • 3:17 AM

    Las Abejas (The Bees)

    Agustin Barrios

    From The Jungles Of Paraguay: John Williams Plays Barrios

    John Williams, guitar

    2:17
  • 3:06 AM

    String Quartet No. 68 "Unfinished"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    L'Archibudelli

    10:31
  • 3:01 AM

    Winterreise (Winter Journey): Der Lindenbaum (The Linden Tree)

    Franz Schubert

    Schuber: Winterreise

    Jonas Kaufmann, tenor

    4:36
  • 2:53 AM

    Bird Songs at Eventide

    Eric Coates

    Eric Coates: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    John Wilson, conductor

    4:55
  • 2:01 AM

    Lyrical Serenade

    Edward Elgar

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Norman Del Mar, conductor

    4:41
  • 1:55 AM

    Summerland

    William Grant Still

    Violin Odyssey

    Itamar Zorman, violin

    3:57
  • 1:43 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 4

    John Field

    John Field: Piano Concerto No. 7

    Benjamin Frith, piano

    11:33
  • 1:38 AM

    Air vaudois

    Mel Bonis

    Mel Bonis: Chamber Music with Flute

    Tatjana Ruhland, flute

    4:01
  • 11:35 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 15

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Tate, conductor

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    23:33
  • 11:21 PM

    The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite

    Manuel de Falla

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Fritz Reiner, conductor

    12:11
  • 11:15 PM

    Symphony No. 5: Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

    West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    5:52
  • 11:10 PM

    Por Una Cabeza/La Cumparsita

    Carlos Gardel/Gerardo H. Matos Rodriguez

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    3:47
  • 11:06 PM

    Rotten Row

    Angela Morley

    Philharmonic Concert Orchestra

    Iain Sutherland, conductor

    2:24
  • 11:01 PM

    Cello Sonata: 2nd movement

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Matt Haimovitz, cello

    Christopher O'Riley, piano

    4:48
  • 10:36 PM

    Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Philharmonia Hungarica

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    22:29
  • 10:24 PM

    Symphony No. 5: Adagietto

    Gustav Mahler

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    11:02
  • 10:14 PM

    Italian Serenade

    Hugo Wolf

    Tchaikovsky, Barber, Elgar, Wolf

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    7:29
  • 10:09 PM

    Spring Breeze

    Yu-Xian Deng

    Romance de Amor

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    3:55
  • 10:06 PM

    Etude No. 5

    Frederic Chopin

    Maurizio Pollini, piano

    2:54
  • 10:01 PM

    Le roi s'amuse (The King Has Fun): Pavane and Scene du bouquet

    Leo Delibes

    Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:40
  • 9:49 PM

    James Ehnes, violin

    Luc Beausejour, harpsichord

    Benoit Loiselle, cello

    8:16
  • 9:39 PM

    Five Little Duets for Flute and Harp

    Jean Francaix

    Laurel Zucker, flute

    Susan Jolles, harp

    9:05
  • 9:26 PM

    Norwegian Dances Nos. 2-4

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg, Svendsen: Orchestral Works

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Petri Sakari, conductor

    11:40
  • 9:14 PM

    Danish National Chamber Orchestra

    Adam Fischer, conductor

    10:34
  • 9:06 PM

    Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron): Overture

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

    7:57
  • 9:03 PM

    Four Sketches: Etude Melodieuse

    Horatio Parker

    American Reverie

    Peter Kairoff, piano

    2:40
  • 8:45 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 9

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Murray Perahia, piano

    12:59
  • 8:19 PM

    La Mer (The Sea)

    Claude Debussy

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade; Debussy: La Mer

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Fritz Reiner, conductor

    24:57
  • 8:10 PM

    The Forest: 1st movement

    Howard Shore

    The Moon and the Forest

    National Arts Centre Orchestra

    Alexander Shelley, conductor

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    6:58
  • 8:06 PM

    March of the Women

    Ethel Smyth

    Ethel Smyth: Mass In D

    Plymouth Music Festival Orchestra

    Philip Brunelle, conductor

    Eiddwen Harrhy, soprano

    3:24
  • 8:02 PM

    Suite for Flute and Piano: 1st movement

    Charles-Marie Widor

    Robert Langevin, flute

    Margaret Kampmeier, piano

    4:32
  • 5:41 PM

    Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

    Benjamin Britten

    Britten in America

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    17:02
  • 5:15 PM

    Symphony No. 43 "Mercury"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    23:55
  • 5:08 PM

    Estela "Rag Latino"

    William Bolcom

    Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano

    5:10
  • 5:06 PM

    Caprice

    Auguste Franchomme

    The Franchomme Project

    Louise Dubin, cello

    2:04
  • 5:00 PM

    Wind Quintet No. 1: Rondo

    Giovanni Giuseppe Cambini

    Avalon Wind Quintet

    4:34
  • 4:42 PM

    The Leopard (Il Gattopardo): Dances

    Nino Rota

    Rota: La Strada Ballet Suite

    Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    16:12
  • 4:30 PM

    Oboe Concerto No. 3

    George Frideric Handel

    City of London Sinfonia

    Nicholas Ward, conductor

    Anthony Camden, oboe

    9:25
  • 4:24 PM

    Neopolitan Galliard

    Antonio Valente

    Ostinato

    Hesperion XX

    Jordi Savall, conductor

    4:23
  • 4:06 PM

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    18:15
  • 4:01 PM

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

    4:35
  • 3:51 PM

    Adagio for Strings

    Samuel Barber

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    James Sedares, conductor

    7:29
  • 3:41 PM

    Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": 3rd movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, Carnival Overture

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    8:03
  • 3:33 PM

    String Quartet No. 5: 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven Complete String Quartets, Volume 1

    Dover Quartet

    6:19
  • 3:27 PM

    Viejo Zortzico

    Jesus Guridi

    Xavier de Maistre, harp

    6:20
  • 3:06 PM

    Ballet Suite No. 2

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    19:39
  • 3:01 PM

    Symphony No. 1: Menuetto

    Louise Farrenc

    European Soloists, Luxembourg

    Christoph Konig, conductor

    4:32
  • 2:49 PM

    Adagio

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Strings! The Definitive Collection

    Guildhall Strings

    8:37
  • 2:41 PM

    Double Violin Concerto

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Telemann: Sinfonia Melodica

    Berlin Baroque Soloists

    Rainer Kussmaul, conductor

    Rainer Kussmaul, violin

    7:47
  • 2:02 PM

    Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture

    Jacques Offenbach

    Offenbach: Overtures

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    9:22
  • 1:56 PM

    Memories of You

    Eubie Blake

    Butch Thompson Trio

    4:00
  • 1:48 PM

    Solace (A Mexican Serenade)

    Scott Joplin

    Thompson Plays Joplin

    Butch Thompson, piano

    5:52
  • 1:44 PM

    Little Women: Under the Umbrella (End Title)

    Thomas Newman

    Little Women Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Thomas Newman, conductor

    3:41
  • 1:39 PM

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

    Giuseppe Verdi

    Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Shaw, conductor

    5:09
  • 1:32 PM

    Clarinet Quintet: 3rd movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Melos Ensemble

    Gervase de Peyer, clarinet

    4:44
  • 1:24 PM

    Gaelic Symphony: 2nd movement

    Amy Beach

    Beach: Gaelic Symphony, Piano Concerto

    Nashville Symphony Orchestra

    Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor

    7:26
  • 1:18 PM

    Reflections on the Mississippi: Steamboat

    Michael Daugherty

    Albany Symphony Orchestra

    David Alan Miller, conductor

    Carol Jantsch, tuba

    4:37
  • 1:09 PM

    Horn Concerto

    Leopold Mozart

    St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble

    Stewart Rose, horn

    16:42
  • 1:04 PM

    Slavonic Dance No. 1

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: The Slavonic Dances

    Katia & Marielle Labeque, pianos

    3:20
  • 12:52 PM

    La Vida Breve: Interlude and Dance

    Manuel de Falla

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor

    6:59
  • 12:47 PM

    Prelude for Lute

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    2:10
  • 12:42 PM

    Mock Morris

    Percy Grainger

    Music of Percy Grainger

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

    3:33
  • 12:35 PM

    String Quartet No. 4: Andante

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Emerson String Quartet

    6:04
  • 12:32 PM

    Serenade for Strings: 1st movement

    Ernst von Dohnanyi

    Dohnanyi: String Quartet, Serenade, and Sextet

    Nash Ensemble

    1:59
  • 12:20 PM

    Symphony "Obligato"

    Samuel Wesley

    Wesley: Symphonies

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    11:08
  • 12:18 PM

    Kleine Gigue

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart and Contemporaries

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    1:38
  • 12:07 PM

    Oberon Overture

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Weber: Overtures; Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    9:19
  • 12:04 PM

    La Peri (The Fairy): Fanfare

    Paul Dukas

    New York Philharmonic

    Pierre Boulez, conductor

    2:24
  • 11:51 AM

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Alexander Borodin

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    7:21
  • 11:43 AM

    Three Celebrations: At the Bay

    Jenny McLeod

    McLeod: The Emperor and the Nightingale

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    Uwe Grodd, conductor

    6:26
  • 11:36 AM

    Swan Lake: Three Dances

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Highlights) - Marinsky Theatre

    Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre

    Valery Gergiev, conductor

    5:32
  • 11:28 AM

    Flute Concerto No. 4

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra

    Nicholas McGegan, conductor

    Marion Verbruggen, recorder

    6:56
  • 11:18 AM

    BBC Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    Louis Lortie, piano

    9:04
  • 11:15 AM

    Scenes from Childhood: Of Foreign Lands and People

    Robert Schumann

    Michael Chertock, piano

    1:56
  • 11:08 AM

    Symphonic Dance No. 3

    Edvard Grieg

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    5:50
  • 11:04 AM

    Turkish Rondo

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Albeniz, Piazzolla, Weill, Grieg, Mozart, Koetsier, Bizet

    tenThing

    3:22
  • 10:43 AM

    Russian Easter Festival Overture

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, Russian Easter Overture

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Spano, conductor

    15:15
  • 10:30 AM

    String Quartet No. 3

    Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    Sirmen: Six String Quartets

    Lombardini Quartet

    11:07
  • 10:24 AM

    Prelude No. 15 "Raindrop"

    Frederic Chopin

    A Remniscence

    Vladimir Horowitz, piano

    5:12
  • 10:17 AM

    Laurel Zucker, flute

    Richard Savino, guitar

    7:30
  • 10:11 AM

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1: Adagietto

    Georges Bizet

    Orchestra of the Bastille

    Myung-Whun Chung, conductor

    3:26
  • 10:06 AM

    Goldberg Variations: Aria

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

    Ton Koopman, conductor

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    4:39
  • 10:01 AM

    Symphony No. 1: 2nd movement

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra

    Marc Soustrot, conductor

    4:41
  • 9:52 AM

    Brook Green Suite

    Gustav Holst

    Holst, Williams, Delius, Warlock

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Norman Del Mar, conductor

    6:17
  • 9:41 AM

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Hans-Peter Frank, conductor

    9:33
  • 9:21 AM

    String Quartet No. 2

    Bedrich Smetana

    Smetana: String Quartets

    Pavel Haas Quartet

    18:55
  • 9:06 AM

    Ballade

    Gabriel Faure

    French Piano Music

    Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg

    Louis de Froment, conductor

    Grant Johannesen, piano

    13:45
  • 9:01 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 1: 3rd movement

    Florence Price

    Janacek Philharmonic

    Ryan Cockerham, conductor

    Er-Gene Kahng, violin

    4:33
  • 8:45 AM

    Concerto for 2 Orchestras No. 1

    George Frideric Handel

    Tafelmusik

    Jeanne Lamon, conductor

    13:31
  • 8:37 AM

    London Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Warren-Green, conductor

    7:46
  • 8:24 AM

    Road to the Sun: Parts 4-5

    Pat Metheny

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    10:54
  • 8:06 AM

    The North Star

    Aaron Copland

    Celluloid Copland

    Eos Orchestra

    Jonathan Sheffer, conductor

    17:21
  • 8:01 AM

    Two Pastorales

    Lou Harrison

    Lou Harrison: Seven Pastorales

    Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra

    Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

    4:36
  • 7:18 AM

    Cello Concerto

    Antonin Dvorak

    Prague Philharmonia

    Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

    Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello

    39:56
  • 7:13 AM

    As She Sleeps

    Michael Byron

    Byron: Awakening at the Inn of the Birds

    Sarah Cahill, piano

    3:17
  • 7:06 AM

    A Severn Rhapsody

    Gerald Finzi

    Northern Sinfonia

    Howard Griffiths, conductor

    6:42
  • 7:01 AM

    Au gre des ondes: Prelude en Berceuse; Claquettes

    Henri Dutilleux

    Robert Levin, piano

    4:44
  • 6:44 AM

    String Quartet No. 12

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Amadeus Quartet

    14:25
  • 6:35 AM

    Mathis der Maler (Mathis the Painter): Angel's Concert

    Paul Hindemith

    Hindemith: Mathis Der Maler Etc.

    San Francisco Symphony

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    8:20
  • 6:06 AM

    Concertino

    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

    Wolf-Ferrari: Idillio Concertino, Op. 15; Concertino, Op. 34

    Folkwang Chamber Orchestra

    Robert Maxym, conductor

    Omar Zoboli, English horn

    26:52
  • 6:01 AM

    Staatskapelle Weimar

    Peter Gulke, conductor

    4:38
  • 5:29 AM

    Serenade No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Symphonies

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    29:24
  • 5:24 AM

    Elegie

    Frank Bridge

    Bridge, F.: Cello Sonata / 4 Short Pieces / Serenade in A Major / Berceuse / Britten, B.: Cello Sonata in C Major

    Oystein Birkeland, cello

    4:18
  • 5:06 AM

    Guitar Concerto "Affinity"

    Chris Brubeck

    Maryland Symphony Orchestra

    Elizabeth Schulze, conductor

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    16:01
  • 5:01 AM

    In the Blue Mountains: I Trollhallen

    Agathe Grondahl

    Backer Grondahl: Piano Works

    Sara Aimee Smiseth, piano

    4:42