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  • 5:45 AM

    Concerto for Viola d'amore and Lute

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Concertos For Guitar And Strings

    I Musici

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    13:06
  • 5:39 AM

    Attacca Quartet

    5:49
  • 5:32 AM

    Buenas noches (Sweet Night)

    Traditional Sephardic

    Arianna Savall, mezzo-soprano

    Petter Udland Johansen, voice and Hardanger fiddle

    Sveinung Lillehier, guitar

    Miquel Angel Cordero, double bass

    David Mayoral, percussion

    5:46
  • 5:06 AM

    Nights in the Gardens of Spain

    Manuel de Falla

    Falla, Albeniz

    Paris Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Martha Argerich, piano

    24:54
  • 5:01 AM

    Stephen Hough, piano

    4:36
  • 4:49 AM

    A Winter Idyll

    Gustav Holst

    Ulster Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    8:59
  • 4:43 AM

    John Williams, guitar

    5:09
  • 4:19 AM

    Swanwhite Suite

    Jean Sibelius

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Pekka Kuusisto, conductor

    23:06
  • 4:14 AM

    Five Turkish Piano Pieces: Poem

    Necil Kazim Akses

    To Anatolia - Selections from the Turkish Five

    Beyza Yazgan, piano

    2:45
  • 4:06 AM

    Lore-Lore

    Lou Koster

    Koster: Orchestral Music

    Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra

    Jonathan Kaell, conductor

    7:54
  • 4:01 AM

    Four Waltzes

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms on Brass

    Canadian Brass

    4:53
  • 3:53 AM

    Thais: Meditation

    Jules Massenet

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Scott Yoo, conductor

    Hee-Young Lim, cello

    5:23
  • 3:28 AM

    Harp Concerto

    Nino Rota

    Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    Jennifer Swartz, harp

    24:21
  • 3:13 AM

    Suite for Flute

    Louis de Caix D'Hervelois

    Dans le sillage de Marin Marais

    La Reveuse

    Serge Saitta, transverse flute

    12:37
  • 3:07 AM

    The White Peacock

    Charles Tomlinson Griffes

    The Musical Fantasies of Charles Griffes and Deems Taylor

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    6:06
  • 3:01 AM

    Hungarian Dance

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Sitkovetsky Plays Romantic Russian Rarities

    Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin

    4:48
  • 2:46 AM

    Cienfuegos Concerto: Song to the Night

    Lorenzo Palomo

    Palomo: My Secluded Garden

    Seville Royal Symphony Orchestra

    Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, conductor

    12:01
  • 2:22 AM

    Gaspard de la Nuit

    Maurice Ravel

    Ravel: Works For Solo Piano

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    23:19
  • 2:11 AM

    Play of the Elves

    Franz Berwald

    Franz Berwald: Symphonies Nos. 1-4

    Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

    8:42
  • 2:06 AM

    Caprice viennois (Viennese Caprice)

    Fritz Kreisler

    James Ehnes, violin

    Eduard Laurel, piano

    4:17
  • 2:01 AM

    Gondoliera

    Moritz Moszkowski

    From Foreign Lands

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    4:46
  • 1:46 AM

    Serenade No. 6 "Serenata Notturna"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Serenades 5 & 6

    Prague Chamber Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    12:09
  • 1:39 AM

    Dreams of Love No. 3 (Liebestraum)

    Franz Liszt

    Nocturne

    Gerhard Oppitz, piano

    5:08
  • 1:30 AM

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    8:49
  • 1:16 AM

    Ethiopia's Shadow in America

    Florence Price

    Price: Symphony No. 3 - The Mississippi River - Ethiopia's Shadow in America

    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

    John Jeter, conductor

    12:45
  • 1:06 AM

    Sigurd Jorsalfar: Homage March

    Edvard Grieg

    Sibelius: Finlandia

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Eugene Ormandy, conductor

    8:52
  • 1:01 AM

    Gold Dust Waltz

    Erik Satie

    Noriko Ogawa, piano

    4:39
  • 12:46 AM

    Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": 1st movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    12:31
  • 12:25 AM

    String Quartet No. 25

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Capriccios

    Capriccio Quartet

    18:56
  • 12:20 AM

    When I Lay Me Down to Sleep

    James Mulholland

    The Aeolians

    Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor

    4:34
  • 12:11 AM

    Ambarvalia

    Ruth Gipps

    Bright & Gipps: Piano Concertos

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Peebles, conductor

    7:48
  • 12:06 AM

    Romance No. 2

    Robert Schumann

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    Samuel Sanders, piano

    4:10
  • 12:01 AM

    Flute Quartet No. 1: 2nd movement

    Francois-Joseph Gossec

    Milliere String Trio

    Patrice Bocquillon, flute

    4:42
  • 11:44 PM

    Ramuntcho Suite No. 2

    Gabriel Pierne

    Pierne: Orchestral Works

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Juanjo Mena, conductor

    14:36
  • 11:36 PM

    Concerto for Orchestra: Giuoco delle coppie

    Bela Bartok

    Bartok, Martinu, Klein

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Christoph Eschenbach, conductor

    6:29
  • 11:33 PM

    See-Saw Waltz

    Justin Holland

    Jiji Plays Justin Holland: Music for Guitar

    Jiji, guitar

    2:23
  • 11:26 PM

    Symphony No. 5: Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky Waltzes

    Houston Symphony Orchestra

    Sergiu Comissiona, conductor

    6:27
  • 11:14 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 8

    Bruce Haynes

    J.S. Bach: Nouveaux "Brandebourgeois" Nos. 7-12

    Montreal Baroque Orchestra

    Eric Milnes, conductor

    11:06
  • 11:07 PM

    Paulus (St. Paul): Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 5: Overtures

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Edward Gardner, conductor

    6:29
  • 11:00 PM

    Springtime Suite: Dance in the Twilight

    Eric Coates

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Penny, conductor

    4:50
  • 10:47 PM

    Sonata No. 6

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Sonatas Op. 5

    London Baroque

    11:28
  • 10:23 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 4

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4

    Netherlands Chamber Orchestra

    Yakov Kreizberg, conductor

    Julia Fischer, violin

    22:17
  • 10:19 PM

    Romance without Words

    Mel Bonis

    Memoires d'une femme

    Myriam Barbaux-Cohen, piano

    3:10
  • 10:11 PM

    Brook Green Suite

    Gustav Holst

    Holst: Works for Chamber Orchestra

    New Zealand Chamber Orchestra

    Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor

    7:07
  • 10:06 PM

    Tales of Hoffmann: Barcarolle

    Jacques Offenbach

    Opera Without Words

    BBC Concert Orchestra

    Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    3:34
  • 10:01 PM

    Pastorale

    Albert Ketelbey

    Ketelbey: A Dream Picture

    Rosemary Tuck, piano

    2:36
  • 9:43 PM

    Capriccio Espagnol

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Rostropovich Edition: Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, etc.

    Paris Orchestra

    Mstislav Rostropovich, conductor

    15:51
  • 9:36 PM

    Rondo a Capriccio (Rage Over a Lost Penny)

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Alice Sara Ott, piano

    6:20
  • 9:23 PM

    Winged Creatures

    Michael Abels

    Winged Creatures

    Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra

    Allen Tinkham, conductor

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    11:39
  • 9:21 PM

    The Love for Three Oranges: March

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Encore!

    Midori, violin

    1:35
  • 9:06 PM

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    12:25
  • 9:01 PM

    Perpetual Motion

    Niccolo Paganini

    Carnaval

    Eastman Wind Ensemble

    Donald Hunsberger, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, cornet

    4:33
  • 6:49 PM

    Lullaby

    George Gershwin

    New World Quartets

    Brodsky Quartet

    9:02
  • 6:24 PM

    Variations on a Nursery Song

    Ernst von Dohnanyi

    Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Song

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    Eldar Nebolsin, piano

    24:12
  • 6:12 PM

    Poem

    Anatoly Kos-Anatolsky

    Poems and Rhapsodies

    Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

    Volodymyr Sirenko, conductor

    Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin

    9:22
  • 6:06 PM

    Sunflower Polka-Mazurka (Sonnenblume)

    Johann Strauss, Jr.

    Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

    Christian Pollack, conductor

    5:43
  • 6:01 PM

    Lute Suite No. 4: Menuets

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Rupert Boyd: The Guitar

    Rupert Boyd, guitar

    4:51
  • 5:43 PM

    Ports of Call (Escales)

    Jacques Ibert

    French National Radio and Television Orchestra

    Jean Martinon, conductor

    15:25
  • 5:30 PM

    Symphony No. 13

    William Herschel

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    11:59
  • 5:24 PM

    Africa Fantasie

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Carnival Fantasy

    Salut Salon

    5:08
  • 5:08 PM

    Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra No. 2 "La Fenice"

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Martin Frost - Vivaldi

    Concerto Koln

    Martin Frost, clarinet

    13:00
  • 5:06 PM

    Etude No. 10

    Frederic Chopin

    Jan Lisiecki, piano

    2:16
  • 5:01 PM

    Nocturne

    Auguste Franchomme

    The Franchomme Project

    Louise Dubin, cello

    4:43
  • 4:49 PM

    L'Etoile du Nord: Dance Suite

    Giacomo Meyerbeer

    Meyerbeer: Ballet Music From The Operas / Nesterowicz

    Barcelona Symphony Orchestra

    Michal Nesterowicz, conductor

    9:08
  • 4:44 PM

    Jeux d'eau (Fountains)

    Maurice Ravel

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    5:42
  • 4:23 PM

    Horn Concerto No. 2

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Britten: Serenade Op. 31

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Ingo Metzmacher, conductor

    Marie Luise Neunecker, horn

    18:52
  • 4:19 PM

    Hello Francis

    John Williams

    John Williams, guitar

    2:33
  • 4:06 PM

    Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Favourites

    New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

    James Judd, conductor

    11:36
  • 4:01 PM

    String Symphony No. 8: 3rd movement

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra

    Scott Yoo, conductor

    4:50
  • 3:46 PM

    On the Town: Three Dance Episodes

    Leonard Bernstein

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    10:31
  • 3:42 PM

    Louisiana Blues Strut (A Cakewalk)

    Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    2:32
  • 3:37 PM

    Piano Trio No. 10

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol. 1

    Florestan Trio

    4:50
  • 3:12 PM

    Children's Games (Jeux d'enfants)

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    23:35
  • 3:02 PM

    Whirling Dance

    Yiu-Kwong Chung

    Chung, Yiu-Kwong: Whirling Dance / Flute Concerto / Ma, Shui-Long: Bamboo Flute Concerto

    Taipei Chinese Orchestra

    Yiu-Kwong Chung, conductor

    Sharon Bezaly, flute

    8:22
  • 2:59 PM

    The Birds: The Hen

    Ottorino Respighi

    Respighi: Ancient Airs And Dances I & Iii, Etc

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    2:47
  • 2:51 PM

    Morgenmusik

    Paul Hindemith

    Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

    6:44
  • 2:43 PM

    Concerto for Two Horns: 1st movement

    Franz Pokorny

    Herrmann Baumann

    Concerto Amsterdam

    Jaap Schroder, conductor

    Hermann Baumann, horn

    6:01
  • 2:38 PM

    Scherzo

    Arthur Foote

    Chamber Music with Flute

    Boston Chamber Music Society

    4:28
  • 2:30 PM

    Polonaise No. 6 "Heroic"

    Frederic Chopin

    Martha Argerich, piano

    6:17
  • 2:25 PM

    Song for St. Cecilia's Day: From harmony, from heav'nly harmony

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, Look Down, Harmonious Saint & Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 7

    Ludus Baroque

    Richard Neville-Towle, conductor

    3:47
  • 2:19 PM

    In Praise of Music: For the Saint, Cecilia

    Dominick Argento

    Casa Gudi - Frederica Von Stade Sings Dominick Argento

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    4:34
  • 2:09 PM

    Il barbiere di Siviglia (Barber of Seville): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Barber of Seville (highlights)

    Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    7:04
  • 2:04 PM

    Cello Suite No. 4: Courante

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Six Evolutions

    Yo-Yo Ma, cello

    3:52
  • 1:51 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 1: 3rd mvt

    Max Bruch

    Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Pamela Frank, violin

    7:22
  • 1:40 PM

    Corsair: Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    8:44
  • 1:31 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 17: 3rd Movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 21

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    7:24
  • 1:28 PM

    Hymn to St. Cecilia

    Benjamin Britten

    After Silence

    Voces8

    11:02
  • 1:20 PM

    Clo-Clo Overture

    Franz Lehar

    Lehar: Overtures and Waltzes

    Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Mikhail Jurowski, conductor

    6:21
  • 1:16 PM

    Funeral March of a Marionette

    Charles Gounod

    Chiller

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    3:36
  • 1:08 PM

    The Spanish Lady: Suite

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: Music for Strings

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    5:50
  • 1:04 PM

    Narciso Yepes, guitar

    3:18
  • 12:52 PM

    Ottone overture

    George Frideric Handel

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    7:55
  • 12:47 PM

    Violin Sonata No. 6

    Francesco Veracini

    Veracini Sonatas

    John Holloway, violin

    20:35
  • 12:39 PM

    Concerto for Two Flutes

    Antonio Vivaldi

    City of London Sinfonia

    Nicholas Kraemer, conductor

    6:40
  • 12:35 PM

    Romantic Pieces: Cavatina

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Legends, Prague Waltzes

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    3:05
  • 12:31 PM

    Song without Words No. 1 "Sweet Remembrance"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    A Pianist's Journey

    Jeffrey Biegel, piano

    3:39
  • 12:21 PM

    Symphony No. 99: 1st movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: The London Symphonies, Vol. II

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    8:49
  • 12:16 PM

    Serenade for Strings: Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    The Tchaikovsky Project

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    4:01
  • 12:07 PM

    String Quartet No. 3

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Saint-Georges: 6 Concertante Quartets

    Arabella String Quartet

    7:27
  • 12:04 PM

    Othello Suite: Dance

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    2:16
  • 11:46 AM

    Pastoral Suite

    Lars-Erik Larsson

    A Swedish Pastorale

    Stockholm Sinfonietta

    Jan-Olav Wedin, conductor

    12:24
  • 11:37 AM

    Symphony No. 5: 3rd movement

    Emilie Mayer

    Emilie Mayer - Symphony No. 5

    Berlin Chamber Symphony Ensemble

    Jurgen Bruns, conductor

    6:46
  • 11:27 AM

    String Quartet No. 2

    Maddalena Laura Sirmen

    Lombardini Quartet

    10:19
  • 11:24 AM

    Sasha Boldachev, harp

    2:03
  • 11:10 AM

    Sonatina No. 2 "Happy Workshop": 1st movement

    Richard Strauss

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    12:12
  • 11:06 AM

    Fidelity Rewarded: Sinfonia

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Opera Overtures

    Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice

    Michael Halasz, conductor

    3:48
  • 11:01 AM

    North Texas Wind Symphony

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    4:42
  • 10:46 AM

    Concerto for Two Violins

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Violin Concertos

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    Andrew Manze, violin

    12:40
  • 10:34 AM

    Brazilian Suite: Dawn at the Mountains

    Alberto Nepomuceno

    Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra

    Fabio Mechetti, conductor

    10:07
  • 10:20 AM

    Gesange der Fruhe (Songs of the Dawn)

    Robert Schumann

    Arabesque

    Nicolas Namoradze, piano

    14:07
  • 10:15 AM

    Romantic Etude

    Frederic Hand

    Across Time

    Frederic Hand, guitar

    3:18
  • 10:06 AM

    Dance Card: Celestial Blue

    Jennifer Higdon

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    7:57
  • 10:01 AM

    Scherzo No. 2

    Clara Schumann

    Romance: The Music of Clara Schumann

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    4:48
  • 9:40 AM

    Flute Concerto

    Johann Quantz

    Arion

    Claire Guimond, flute

    18:20
  • 9:32 AM

    A Moonlit Night on the Spring River

    Traditional Chinese

    Sketches of China

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    7:18
  • 9:16 AM

    Piano Trio

    Amy Beach

    Her Voice

    Neave Trio

    14:44
  • 9:06 AM

    Alleluia

    Eric Whitacre

    Water Night

    Eric Whitacre Singers

    Eric Whitacre, conductor

    9:07
  • 9:01 AM

    The Bells of St. Genevieve

    Marin Marais

    Strings! The Definitive Collection

    Guildhall Strings

    4:47
  • 8:14 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Symphonies

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    44:12
  • 8:06 AM

    Sphinx Virtuosi

    Damon Gupton, conductor

    6:34
  • 8:01 AM

    Barcarolle No. 9

    Gabriel Faure

    Faure: Barcarolles

    Paul Crossley, piano

    4:44
  • 7:41 AM

    Serenade for Strings "Nachtmusik"

    Richard Heuberger

    Heuberger/Fuchs/Straus: Serenaden

    RIAS Sinfonietta

    Jiri Starek, conductor

    17:35
  • 7:28 AM

    Eclogues

    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

    CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M.: Guitar Quintet / Fantasia / Ecloghe

    Chloe Dufossez, flute

    11:41
  • 7:06 AM

    Nocturnal Dances of Don Juanquixote (Chamber Music III)

    Aulis Sallinen

    Tapiola Sinfonietta

    Osmo Vanska, conductor

    Torleif Thedeen, cello

    20:34
  • 7:01 AM

    Lullaby (Berceuse)

    Arnold Bax

    Charles Matthews, piano

    4:33
  • 6:28 AM

    String Quartet No. 18

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Alban Berg Quartet

    30:16
  • 6:18 AM

    Elegy for Strings

    Judith Lang Zaimont

    Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra

    8:32
  • 6:06 AM

    Scherzo No. 2

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Sonata No. 2

    Mikhail Pletnev, piano

    11:04
  • 6:01 AM

    Intermezzo No. 4

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Symphonies

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    4:39
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