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  • 5:42 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Yundi Li, piano

    15:44
  • 5:27 AM

    Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky

    Anton Arensky

    Orchestral Favourites Volume Ii

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    14:09
  • 5:06 AM

    Flute Concerto No. 2

    Saverio Mercadante

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Irena Grafenauer, flute

    20:13
  • 5:01 AM

    Missa "Regina Caeli": Kyrie

    Giovanni Palestrina

    Palestrina Volume 3

    The Sixteen

    Harry Christophers, conductor

    4:53
  • 4:48 AM

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

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: La Mer, Faune, Danses

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    10:41
  • 4:16 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Robert Schumann

    Mendelssohn and Schumann Ciolin Concertos

    Gottinger Symphony Orchestra

    Christoph-Mathias Mueller, conductor

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    29:32
  • 4:10 AM

    Adagio

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Transcriptions, 2

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    4:01
  • 4:06 AM

    Etude No. 21

    Louise Farrenc

    Joanne Polk, piano

    4:12
  • 4:01 AM

    Bass Tuba Concerto: Romance

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    20th-Century Tuba Concertos

    Singapore Symphony Orchestra

    Anne Manson, conductor

    Oystein Baadsvik, tuba

    4:45
  • 3:54 AM

    Farewell to Stromness

    Peter Maxwell Davies

    Yuanfan Yang, piano

    4:24
  • 3:21 AM

    Symphony No. 5

    Franz Schubert

    San Francisco Symphony

    Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

    30:07
  • 3:17 AM

    Pasaje "Aragueno"

    Antonio Lauro

    El Diablo Suelto

    John Williams, guitar

    1:50
  • 3:06 AM

    Divertimento No. 8

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Divertimenti

    Berlin Philharmonic Winds

    11:21
  • 3:01 AM

    Nocturne

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky, Miaskovsky, Shostakovich

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Maxim Shostakovich, conductor

    Julian Lloyd Webber, cello

    4:53
  • 2:53 AM

    The Fisherman

    Bedrich Smetana

    Smetana: Short Orchestral Pieces

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Robert Stankovsky, conductor

    4:22
  • 2:28 AM

    Clarinet Quintet

    Carl Maria von Weber

    Beethoven: Center of Gravity, 4

    Miro Quartet

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    24:11
  • 2:22 AM

    Canon

    Johann Pachelbel

    Orchestral Favourites Vol I

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    5:01
  • 2:07 AM

    Chimney of King Rene

    Darius Milhaud

    Danish National Symphony Wind Quintet

    12:42
  • 2:01 AM

    Four Preludes for Guitar

    Manuel Ponce

    Victoria Drake, harp

    4:45
  • 1:42 AM

    Six Etudes in Canonic Form

    Robert Schumann

    Martha Argerich, piano

    Daniel Barenboim, piano

    16:18
  • 1:18 AM

    Pulcinella Suite

    Igor Stravinsky

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Alexander Gibson, conductor

    22:34
  • 1:12 AM

    La Trasformata: Sonata No. 4

    Marco Uccellini

    Arcadian Academy

    4:02
  • 1:06 AM

    Images, Book 1: Reflets dans l'eau (Reflections in the Water)

    Claude Debussy

    Carol Rosenberger, piano

    5:32
  • 1:01 AM

    The Tempest: Rustic Dance

    Ernest Chausson

    Belgian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    4:50
  • 12:51 AM

    Mandolin Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi

    Venice Baroque Orchestra

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    7:33
  • 12:45 AM

    Romance No. 5

    Johannes Brahms

    Lilya Zilberstein, piano

    3:37
  • 12:24 AM

    Flute Concerto No. 1

    August Muller

    Muller: Flute Concertos

    South German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim

    Timo Handschuh, conductor

    Tatjana Ruhland, flute

    21:36
  • 12:12 AM

    English Dances: Second Set

    Malcolm Arnold

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    9:31
  • 12:06 AM

    Colas Breugnon Overture

    Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Russian Overtures

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    5:30
  • 12:01 AM

    All the Things You Are

    Jerome Kern

    Leon Fleisher: All The Things You Are

    Leon Fleisher, piano

    4:50
  • 11:47 PM

    Overture di Ballo

    Arthur Sullivan

    Sullivan: Cello Concerto, Irish Symphony

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Groves, conductor

    11:39
  • 11:28 PM

    Symphony No. 31 "Paris"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    17:10
  • 11:22 PM

    Sylvia: Procession of Bacchus

    Leo Delibes

    New Philharmonia Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    5:54
  • 11:11 PM

    Novelette "In Eastern Style"

    Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov: Five Novelettes; String Quartet No. 5

    Saint Petersburg String Quartet

    8:06
  • 11:06 PM

    Waltz No. 2 "Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin

    Mikhail Pletnev, piano

    5:00
  • 11:01 PM

    Symphony No. 1: 4th movement

    Florence Price

    Fort Smith Symphony

    John Jeter, conductor

    4:45
  • 10:54 PM

    Symphony No. 93: Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93, 95 & 97

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    4:41
  • 10:51 PM

    Jubilation, shouts of glee

    Carl Nielsen

    Carl Nielsen: Songs For Choir

    Ars Nova Copenhagen

    Michael Bojesen, conductor

    2:25
  • 10:29 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Lang Lang, piano

    20:50
  • 10:22 PM

    Octet: 3rd movement

    Franz Schubert

    Isabelle Faust, violin

    Anne-Katharina Schreiber, violin

    James Boyd, viola

    Kristin von der Goltz, cello

    James Munro, bass

    Lorenzo Coppola, clarinet

    5:48
  • 10:10 PM

    Academic Festival Overture

    Johannes Brahms

    Halle Orchestra

    Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, conductor

    10:43
  • 10:06 PM

    Salut d'amour (Love's Greeting)

    Edward Elgar

    Songs From the Arc of Life

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    2:42
  • 10:03 PM

    Legend No. 7

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Legends, Symphony No. 8

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    2:43
  • 9:47 PM

    El Camino Real

    Alfred Reed

    Senzoku Gakuen Symphonic Wind Orchestra

    Alfred Reed, conductor

    11:01
  • 9:31 PM

    Carmen Suite

    Georges Bizet

    French National Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    14:56
  • 9:21 PM

    Overture to a Comedy

    Henry Gardiner

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    8:26
  • 9:15 PM

    The Woods so Wild

    William Byrd

    Barley Moon

    Ayreheart

    4:32
  • 9:06 PM

    Symphony No. 1

    Thomas Arne

    Arne: Four Symphonies / Adrian Shepherd, Cantilena

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    8:36
  • 9:01 PM

    Scherzo No. 1

    Clara Schumann

    Jozef de Beenhouwer, piano

    4:38
  • 6:45 PM

    Concerto for Two Horns

    Leopold Mozart

    Concerto Rotterdam

    Heinz Freisen, conductor

    Herman Jeurissen, horn

    Michael Holtzel, horn

    13:31
  • 6:35 PM

    Capriccio for Orchestra

    Nancy Dalberg

    Capriccio

    Danish Philharmonic Orchestra

    Frans Rasmussen, conductor

    8:09
  • 6:16 PM

    Suite Bergamasque

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Images; Children's Corner; Suite Bergamasque; L'Isle Joyeuse

    Seong-Jin Cho, piano

    18:12
  • 6:09 PM

    Bartered Bride: Polka

    Bedrich Smetana

    Smetana: The Bartered Bride & From My Life

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Geoffrey Simon, conductor

    4:57
  • 6:06 PM

    Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo

    Pietro Mascagni

    The Last Dance: Music for a Vanishing Era

    I Salonisti

    2:50
  • 6:01 PM

    Madame Bovary: Waltz

    Miklos Rozsa

    The Great Waltz

    Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

    John Mauceri, conductor

    4:50
  • 5:49 PM

    Toccata and Fugue

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Transcriptions, 2

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    9:03
  • 5:21 PM

    Symphony No. 4

    Louis Theodore Gouvy

    German Radio Philharmonic

    Jacques Mercier, conductor

    27:11
  • 5:14 PM

    Six Irish Fantasies: Jig

    Charles Stanford

    Stanford: Chamber Music

    Lucy Gould, violin

    5:33
  • 5:06 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Giuseppe Torelli

    Trumpet Concertos

    Scottish Chamber Orchestra

    Jahja Ling, conductor

    Rolf Smedvig, trumpet

    6:34
  • 5:01 PM

    Three Country Dances

    John Playford

    Broadside Band

    Jeremy Barlow, conductor

    4:43
  • 4:49 PM

    Don Quixote Dances the Fandango

    Viktor Ullmann

    Ullmann, V.: Symphony No. 2 / 6 Lieder, Op. 17 / Concerto for Orchestra / Don Quixote Tanzt Fandango

    Gurzenich Orchestra

    James Conlon, conductor

    9:01
  • 4:26 PM

    Fantasy for a Gentleman

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Rodrigo: Fantasía para un gentilhombre & Concierto de Aranjuez

    Spanish Radio and TV Orchestra

    Pedro Amaral, conductor

    Xianji Liu, guitar

    21:43
  • 4:23 PM

    Embraceable You

    George Gershwin

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    2:57
  • 4:06 PM

    Cello Sonata

    Luigi Boccherini

    Anner Bylsma, cello

    Hopkinson Smith, guitar

    Wieland Kuijken, cello

    14:58
  • 4:01 PM

    The Prince and the Pauper

    Erich Korngold

    Elizabeth & Essex: Classic Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Gerhardt, conductor

    4:49
  • 3:48 PM

    The Planets: Jupiter

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    8:29
  • 3:35 PM

    Emblems

    Aaron Copland

    Contemporaries

    Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble

    Mallory Thompson, conductor

    11:29
  • 3:28 PM

    Samsom: Let the bright seraphim

    George Frederick Handel

    Baroque Duet

    Orchestra of St. Luke's

    John Nelson, conductor

    Kathleen Battle, soprano

    Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

    5:33
  • 3:26 PM

    Rondeau

    Jean-Joseph Mouret

    Wynton Marsalis: In Gabriel's Garden

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Anthony Newman, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

    2:02
  • 3:05 PM

    London Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Warren-Green, conductor

    19:50
  • 2:58 PM

    Waltz-Intermezzo

    Frank Bridge

    Showpieces and Encores

    Moscow Chamber Orchestra

    Constantine Orbelian, conductor

    6:13
  • 2:57 PM

    impermanence: last song

    Meredith Monk

    Meredith Monk, vocal

    2:00
  • 2:54 PM

    Exultate, jubilate: Allelujah

    Wolfgang Mozart

    The Christmas Album

    Sumi Jo, soprano

    2:00
  • 2:51 PM

    Early in the Morning

    Ned Rorem

    Songs of Ned Rorem

    Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano

    Malcom Martineau, piano

    2:00
  • 2:46 PM

    Lieutenant Kije: Troika

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Pops a la Russe

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    3:04
  • 2:35 PM

    Gloriana: Courtly Dances

    Benjamin Britten

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

    English Symphony Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    10:00
  • 2:30 PM

    Violin Concerto: Presto

    Samuel Barber

    Barber & Meyer Violin Concertos

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    3:23
  • 2:22 PM

    Perpetual Motion Pieces

    Francis Poulenc

    Voyage Central Park

    Lisa Friend, flute

    6:42
  • 2:17 PM

    Duet

    Steve Reich

    Compassion: A Journey of the Spirit

    Karlsruhe Ensemble

    Edna Michell, violin

    4:37
  • 2:07 PM

    Espana

    Emmanuel Chabrier

    Chabrier: Orchestral Works

    Orchestra de la Suisse Romande

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    6:20
  • 2:04 PM

    Panamanian Dances: Cumbia y Congo

    William Grant Still

    William Grant Still

    Oregon String Quartet

    3:00
  • 1:51 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 17 "The Tempest": 3rd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    7:15
  • 1:45 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 8 "Pathetique": 2nd movement

    The Big B's

    Janoska Ensemble

    4:57
  • 1:41 PM

    Norwegian Dance No. 2

    Edvard Grieg

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Bjarte Engeset, conductor

    2:28
  • 1:33 PM

    Three Short Pieces

    Jacques Ibert

    Reykjavik Wind Quintet

    6:51
  • 1:29 PM

    Chinese Tambourin

    Fritz Kreisler

    Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

    Long Yu, conductor

    Maxim Vengerov, violin

    3:43
  • 1:20 PM

    Concerto for Two Trumpets

    Antonio Vivaldi

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    Mark Bennett, trumpet

    Michael Harrison, trumpet

    7:20
  • 1:16 PM

    Pensees d'automne (Autumn Thoughts)

    Mel Bonis

    Memoires d'une femme

    Myriam Barbaux-Cohen, piano

    3:43
  • 1:08 PM

    Tancredi: Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures (Complete), Vol. 3

    Prague Sinfonia Orchestra

    Christian Benda, conductor

    6:01
  • 1:04 PM

    Walking Tune

    Percy Grainger

    Music of Percy Grainger

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

    3:34
  • 12:54 PM

    Avi Avital, mandolin

    Richard Galliano, accordion

    4:29
  • 12:49 PM

    Sonata alla Scarlatti

    Germaine Tailleferre

    La Promenade des Dames: French Women Composers and Harp Music

    Alessandra Ziveri, harp

    3:08
  • 12:37 PM

    Symphony No. 3

    Carl Friedrich Abel

    Abel: Six Symphonies Op 7 / Shepherd, Cantilena

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    10:55
  • 12:31 PM

    Oboe d'Amore Concerto: 3rd movement

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Strauss, Bach, Marcello: Oboe Concertos

    Academy of London

    Richard Stamp, conductor

    Ray Still, oboe

    4:48
  • 12:21 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 5 "Turkish": 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Hilary Hahn: Mozart 5, Vieuxtemps 4

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    8:47
  • 12:17 PM

    Myfanwy

    Joseph Parry

    Song

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

    3:41
  • 12:08 PM

    The Skaters Waltz

    Emil Waldteufel

    Karajan Conducts Orchestral Favorites I

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    7:29
  • 12:04 PM

    Simple Symphony: Playful Pizzicato

    Benjamin Britten

    Works By Britten, Tippett, Walton

    Guildhall Strings

    3:09
  • 11:50 AM

    Wiener Blut (Vienna Blood)

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    8:01
  • 11:40 AM

    Symphony No. 2: 4th movement

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann: The Symphonies

    Staatskapelle Berlin

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    8:11
  • 11:32 AM

    Concerto No. 9

    Pietro Locatelli

    Locatelli: Introduttioni Teatralli and Concerti, Op. 4

    Raglan Baroque Players

    Elizabeth Wallfisch, conductor

    7:45
  • 11:28 AM

    The Royal Palaces Suite: The Ballroom in Buckingham Palace

    Arthur Bliss

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Rumon Gamba, conductor

    4:00
  • 11:12 AM

    A Moorside Suite

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: Hammersmith, Moorside Suite, Suites 1 And 2 / Dunn

    Dallas Wind Symphony

    Howard Dunn, conductor

    14:10
  • 11:06 AM

    Slavonic Dance No. 10

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Slavonic Dances

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

    5:38
  • 11:01 AM

    Symphony No. 2

    William Boyce

    Boyce: The Eight Symphonies

    Menuhin Festival Orchestra

    Yehudi Menuhin, conductor

    4:39
  • 10:44 AM

    Rondo for Violin and Strings

    Franz Schubert

    Beethoven, Dvorak, Schubert

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Pinchas Zukerman, violin

    14:41
  • 10:30 AM

    Sonata for Flute and Harp

    Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz

    Shigenori Kudo, flute

    Naoko Yoshino, harp

    12:15
  • 10:22 AM

    Allegro Appassionato

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 - Africa - Wedding Cake - Allegro appassionato

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor

    Alexandre Kantorow, piano

    6:06
  • 10:06 AM

    Guitar Quintet No. 2

    Luigi Boccherini

    Academy Chamber Ensemble

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    15:13
  • 10:01 AM

    Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song

    Edvard Grieg

    Wonderland

    Alice Sara Ott, piano

    4:36
  • 9:25 AM

    Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Five Symphonies

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    33:16
  • 9:21 AM

    Little Passacaglia

    Peter Sculthorpe

    .Spirits of Place

    Ananda Sukarlan, piano

    3:15
  • 9:06 AM

    Violin Concerto No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jalbert and Bach: Violin Concertos, etc.

    Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

    Jeffrey Kahane, conductor

    Margaret Batjer, violin

    13:21
  • 9:01 AM

    Pastoral and Reel

    Thomas C. Kelly

    Irish Chamber Orchestra

    Fionnuala Hunt, conductor

    4:39
  • 8:42 AM

    Papillons (Butterflies)

    Robert Schumann

    Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano

    16:10
  • 8:37 AM

    Epilogue

    Belinda Gehlert

    Epilogue

    Zephyr Quartet

    4:27
  • 8:23 AM

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    12:28
  • 8:06 AM

    German Dances and Trios

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphony No. 5

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

    16:12
  • 8:01 AM

    Three Parts on a Ground

    Henry Purcell

    Stradivaria

    4:45
  • 7:37 AM

    The Tender Land Suite

    Aaron Copland

    Suite from "The Tender Land" / 3 Latin-American Sketches / Suite from "The Red Pony"

    Phoenix Symphony

    James Sedares, conductor

    21:22
  • 7:30 AM

    Nightclub 1960

    Astor Piazzolla

    'Pot-Pourri' for flute & guitar

    William Bennett, flute

    5:35
  • 7:06 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Josef Myslivecek

    Myslivecek: Violin Concertos - 1

    Dvorak Chamber Orchestra

    Libor Pesek, conductor

    Shizuka Ishikawa, violin

    22:49
  • 7:01 AM

    From Olden Times: Gigue

    Johan Halvorsen

    Norwegian Radio Orchestra

    Ari Rasilainen, conductor

    4:35
  • 6:39 AM

    Suite on Russian Themes

    Max Bruch

    Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Werner Andreas Albert, conductor

    19:11
  • 6:22 AM

    Four Episodes for Chamber Orchestra

    Ernest Bloch

    Ernest Bloch: Concerti Grossi 1 & 2

    Amadeus Chamber Orchestra

    Agnieszka Duczmal, conductor

    16:31
  • 6:06 AM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Johann Neruda

    Haydn, Hummel, Etc.: Trumpet Concertos

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    14:17
  • 6:01 AM

    Nocturne No. 2

    Stephan Elmas

    Elmas: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1

    Mikael Ayrapetyan, piano

    4:40