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  • 5:38 AM

    Concertante for Flute and Clarinet

    Franz Danzi

    Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, conductor

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    Paul Meyer, clarinet

    19:49
  • 5:09 AM

    Piano Quintet

    Amy Beach

    Beach, Elgar: Piano Quintets

    Takacs Quartet

    Garrick Ohlsson, piano

    27:44
  • 5:06 AM

    Prelude

    Julia Perry

    Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women

    Helen Walker-Hill, piano

    2:02
  • 5:01 AM

    Contemplation

    Henriette Renie

    The Healing Harp

    Naoko Yoshino, harp

    4:33
  • 4:51 AM

    Soir, Matin

    Mel Bonis

    Ravel, Faure, and Bonis: Trios avec piano

    Trio George Sand

    7:11
  • 4:38 AM

    Air for Violin

    Aaron Jay Kernis

    Kernis: Colored Field, Musica Celestis, Air

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    Truls Mork, cello

    11:42
  • 4:14 AM

    American Triptych

    Jake Runestad

    The Hope of Loving: Choral Music of Jake Runestad

    Conspirare

    Craig Hella Johnson, conductor

    Carla McElhaney, piano

    23:35
  • 4:06 AM

    Impromptu No. 2

    Frederic Chopin

    The Chopin Collection: The Impromptus

    Artur Rubinstein, piano

    6:04
  • 4:01 AM

    Lyric Waltz

    Jean Sibelius

    Sibelius: Spring Song, The Bard, etc.

    Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:49
  • 3:52 AM

    Prayer

    Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)

    New Day Begun

    PUBLIQuartet

    6:07
  • 3:38 AM

    Delights and Dances

    Michael Abels

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    13:03
  • 3:17 AM

    Piano Concerto in One Movement

    Florence Price

    Recorded Music of the African Diaspora, Vol. 3 - Florence B. Price: Concerto in One Movement; Symphony in E Minor

    New Black Music Repertory Ensemble

    Leslie B. Dunner, conductor

    Karen Walwyn, piano

    18:25
  • 3:06 AM

    My Soul Hath Found Refuge in Thee

    Evelyn Simpson-Curenton

    The Aeolians

    The Aeolians

    Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor

    5:29
  • 3:01 AM

    city beautiful: prairie

    Shawn E. Okpebholo

    Trios from Contemporary Chicago

    Lincoln Trio

    4:47
  • 2:49 AM

    Quiet City

    Aaron Copland

    Quiet City

    Britten Sinfonia

    Scott Stroman, conductor

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    9:51
  • 2:26 AM

    Wand of Youth Suite No. 1

    Edward Elgar

    Elgar: The Wand of Youth & Nursery Suites

    Ulster Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    20:35
  • 2:18 AM

    Suite for Violin and Piano: Mother and Child

    William Grant Still

    Violin Lullabies / Rachel Barton Pine

    Rachel Barton Pine, violin

    6:19
  • 2:06 AM

    Ma vlast (My Country): Vltava (The Moldau)

    Bedrich Smetana

    Smetana: Ma Vlast

    Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

    Zdenek Macal, conductor

    11:44
  • 2:01 AM

    Canzon No. 29

    Samuel Scheidt

    Lamento

    Fretwork

    Silas Wollston, organ

    4:49
  • 1:52 AM

    Magnolia Suite: The Place Where the Rainbow Ends

    Nathaniel Dett

    Settle: Migration Music Part 3

    Lara Downes, piano

    6:05
  • 1:25 AM

    String Quartet No. 12 "American"

    Antonin Dvorak

    Beethoven, Bartok, Dvorak

    Juilliard String Quartet

    25:28
  • 1:16 AM

    Symphony No. 2: Adagio

    Charles Ives

    Charles Ives: Complete Symphonies

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    8:37
  • 1:11 AM

    Weeping Willow

    Scott Joplin

    Marcus Eley, clarinet

    2:50
  • 1:06 AM

    Autumn Landscape

    Martin Mailman

    Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra

    Howard Hanson, conductor

    5:03
  • 1:01 AM

    Flute Quartet: Minuet

    Franz Schubert

    Martinu Quartet

    Robert Stallman, flute

    4:43
  • 12:49 AM

    Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna

    Franz von Suppe

    Vienna Philharmonic

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    8:07
  • 12:16 AM

    Symphony No. 3

    Florence Price

    Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    31:05
  • 12:12 AM

    Symphony No. 3

    Florence Price

    Florence Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    31:05
  • 12:11 AM

    Dusk

    Nkeiru Okoye

    Kete: Piano Music of the African Diaspora

    William Chapman Nyaho, piano

    3:24
  • 12:06 AM

    Serenade No. 10 "Gran Partita": Adagio

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sabine Meyer: Clarinet Connection

    Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble

    5:23
  • 12:01 AM

    Symphony No. 1: 2nd movement

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Utah Symphony & Thierry Fischer

    Utah Symphony

    Thierry Fischer, conductor

    4:47
  • 11:39 PM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 2

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Keyboard Concerti Vol. 2

    Australian Chamber Orchestra

    Richard Tognetti, conductor

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    19:04
  • 11:30 PM

    Symphony No. 1 "Winter Dreams": 3rd movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies

    Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    7:35
  • 11:25 PM

    Rustic Triptych: Dance at Dusk

    Charlotte Sohy

    Charlotte Sohy: Compositrice de la Belle Epoque

    Mathilde Calderini, flute

    5:01
  • 11:18 PM

    Rolling River (Sketches on Shenandoah)

    Peter Boyer

    Peter Boyer: Balance of Power - Orchestral Works

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Peter Boyer, conductor

    5:10
  • 11:06 PM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral": 1st movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Sympohonies Nos. 4 & 6

    Orchestra of the 18th Century

    Frans Bruggen, conductor

    10:57
  • 11:01 PM

    Seasons: Autumn

    Dominick Argento

    The Singers

    Matthew Culloton, conductor

    4:35
  • 10:51 PM

    Harvest Dances (Ernte Tanze) Waltz

    Johann StraussJr.

    J. Strauss, Jr. Edition: Vol. 14

    Czech State Symphony Orchestra, Kosice

    Alfred Walter, conductor

    7:12
  • 10:44 PM

    New England Triptych: Chester

    William Schuman

    United States Air Force Band

    Lt. Col. Lowell E. Graham, conductor

    7:16
  • 10:19 PM

    Guitar Concerto No. 1

    Mauro Giuliani

    Giuliani: Guitar Concertos Nos. 1 & 3

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    22:27
  • 10:10 PM

    Alice Kogan Weinreb, flute

    Nicholas Stovall, oboe

    Paul Cigan, clarinet

    Truman Harris, bassoon

    Laurel Bennert Ohlson, horn

    7:49
  • 10:06 PM

    Xerxes: Largo

    George Frideric Handel

    Albinoni: Adagio; Pachelbel: Canon; Etc

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    3:01
  • 10:03 PM

    Serenade d'automne

    Cecile Chaminade

    Double Trouble

    Bengt Forsberg, piano

    2:40
  • 9:52 PM

    Schlagobers (Whipped Cream Waltz)

    Richard Strauss

    Bamberg Symphony Orchestra

    Karl Anton Rickenbacher, conductor

    5:57
  • 9:25 PM

    Appalachian Spring

    Aaron Copland

    Copland: The Music Of America 

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    25:23
  • 9:22 PM

    Shine

    Ola Gjeilo

    Dawn

    Ola Gjeilo, piano

    2:31
  • 9:12 PM

    Trio No. 1 "London"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: London Trios and Divertimentos

    Laurel Zucker, flute

    8:30
  • 9:06 PM

    Waltz No. 1 "Grand Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 3; Ballade No. 4; Waltzes, Mazurkas, Barcarolle

    Ingrid Fliter, piano

    5:29
  • 9:01 PM

    Fantasia Suite No. 5

    John Jenkins

    Locke Consort

    4:34
  • 8:31 PM

    Piano Quartet No. 2

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Quartets, K. 478 & 493

    Faure Piano Quartet

    27:27
  • 8:17 PM

    The Oak

    Florence Price

    The Oak - Mississippi River Suite - Symphony No. 3

    Women's Philharmonic

    Apo Hsu, conductor

    12:36
  • 8:06 PM

    Chicago

    Edmond Dede

    DEDE: Mon pauvre coeur / Francoise et Tirtillard / Mefisto masque

    Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Rosenberg, conductor

    8:36
  • 8:01 PM

    Abbywood Trail

    Dale Kavanagh

    Guitar Gala Night

    Dale Kavanagh, guitar

    4:44
  • 7:48 PM

    Three Romances

    Clara Schumann

    Sarah Frisof, flute

    10:20
  • 7:18 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "Romantic"

    Howard Hanson

    Seattle Symphony

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    28:18
  • 7:15 PM

    Nocturne

    Amy Beach

    Joanne Polk, piano

    1:10
  • 7:06 PM

    Homestead Dances: Quilters' Dance

    Don Ray

    Home For The Harvest

    Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra

    Derek Gleeson, conductor

    7:58
  • 7:01 PM

    String Quartet No. 50: Minuet

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Leipzig String Quartet

    4:53
  • 3:44 PM

    Variations on The Wayfaring Stranger

    James Cohn

    COHN: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 7 / Variations on The Wayfaring Stranger

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Vakhtang Jordania, conductor

    11:30
  • 3:40 PM

    Wayfaring Stranger

    Traditional

    American Angels

    Anonymous 4

    2:50
  • 3:18 PM

    Violin Concerto No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Isaac Stern - A Life in Music - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Double Concertos

    Columbia Symphony Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    Isaac Stern, violin

    20:48
  • 3:07 PM

    My Home Overture

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Symphony No. 7; Overture ("My Home"), Op. 62

    Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    9:32
  • 3:02 PM

    Old Hundredth

    Hymn

    Made in the USA

    Canadian Brass

    Lukas Foss, conductor

    3:42
  • 2:51 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "America": Thanksgiving Day

    Dan Locklair

    Locklair: Symphony No. 2 "America"

    Slovak National Symphony Orchestra

    Kirk Trevor, conductor

    9:05
  • 2:47 PM

    Thanksgiving Waltz

    Jay Ungar

    Jay Ungar, fiddle

    Molly Mason, guitar

    Abby Newton, cello

    Steve Rust, bass

    Mary Lea, fiddle

    3:46
  • 2:30 PM

    Concerto for 2 Orchestras No. 1

    George Frideric Handel

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    15:23
  • 2:23 PM

    Symphony: Scherzo

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet, Prokofiev, Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 1

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Hugh Wolff, conductor

    5:27
  • 2:19 PM

    Airport Scenes: Departures

    Jonathan Dove

    The Orchestral Music of Jonathan Dove

    BBC Philharmonic

    Timothy Redmond, conductor

    3:31
  • 2:15 PM

    The Seasons: November (Troika)

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings; The Seasons

    Moscow Chamber Orchestra

    Constantine Orbelian, conductor

    2:37
  • 2:07 PM

    Dank sei dir, Herr

    Siegfried Ochs

    Philharmonia Virtuosi

    RIchard Kapp, conductor

    4:25
  • 2:04 PM

    Carnival of the Animals: The Swan

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

    2:29
  • 1:57 PM

    Carnival of the Animals: The Swan

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

    2:29
  • 1:44 PM

    Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola: 1st movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Serenade for flute, violin & viola in D major, Op. 25

    James Galway, flute

    3:26
  • 1:40 PM

    Canzon per sonare No. 2

    Giovanni Gabrieli

    The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli

    Philadelphia Brass Ensemble

    2:32
  • 1:34 PM

    Celtic Dawn

    John Du Prez

    Alchemist

    New London Consort, conductor

    5:00
  • 1:23 PM

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Slatkin, conductor

    9:05
  • 1:16 PM

    Serenade

    William Grant Still

    Still: Summerland - Violin Suite - Pastorela - American Suite

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Avlana Eisenberg, conductor

    5:58
  • 1:08 PM

    Sonorous Table Suite (Mensa sonora): Part 5

    Heinrich Biber

    Baroque Band

    Garry Clarke, conductor

    6:16
  • 1:04 PM

    Simple Gifts

    Joseph Brackett

    Simple Gifts

    William Coulter, guitar

    Barry Phillips, cello

    3:00
  • 12:59 PM

    Goin' Home

    Antonin Dvorak

    That Eternal Day

    Cantus

    5:18
  • 12:46 PM

    Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": Largo

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Piano Quintets In A, Op.5 & Op.81; Borodin: Quartet

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    11:34
  • 12:39 PM

    Give to God our thankful songs

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn and His English Friends

    Parley of Instruments

    Peter Holman, conductor

    4:53
  • 12:32 PM

    String Quartet No. 62 "Emperor": Adagio

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Emerson String Quartet

    6:37
  • 12:14 PM

    Horn Concerto No. 4

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Hermann Baumann, horn

    16:38
  • 12:08 PM

    Air and Simple Gifts

    John Williams

    The Music of America: John Williams

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    4:30
  • 12:04 PM

    Serenade

    Roman Hoffstetter

    Favourite Serenades for Orchestra

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    3:24
  • 11:45 AM

    Symphony No. 30 "Alleluia"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Academy of Ancient Music

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    13:33
  • 11:37 AM

    Before the Dawn

    Howard Hanson

    Americascapes

    Basque National Orchestra

    Robert Trevino, conductor

    6:45
  • 11:26 AM

    Miniature Suite

    Poldowski

    Music of the Gilded Age

    Sylvan Winds

    10:29
  • 11:19 AM

    Joshua Rifkin, piano

    5:18
  • 11:06 AM

    Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

    Aram Khachaturian

    Russian Adagios

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor

    11:53
  • 11:01 AM

    Sonata No. 2

    Dario Castello

    Lucie Horsch, recorder

    Thomas Dunford, lute

    4:34
  • 10:43 AM

    Dumbarton Oaks Concerto

    Igor Stravinsky

    The Ground Beneath Our Feet

    The Knights

    14:57
  • 10:21 AM

    November Woods

    Arnold Bax

    Bax: Tone Poems

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    20:31
  • 10:13 AM

    A Morning in the Woods

    Leo Ornstein

    Explore America: Volume 1

    Janice Weber, piano

    6:17
  • 10:06 AM

    The City: New England Countryside

    Aaron Copland

    London Sinfonietta

    Elgar Howarth, conductor

    6:09
  • 10:01 AM

    Chamber Concerto: Sicilienne

    Ernest Chausson

    Alcan Quartet

    David Lefevre, violin

    Alain Lefevre, piano

    4:41
  • 9:42 AM

    Noble and Sentimental Waltzes

    Maurice Ravel

    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    16:37
  • 9:14 AM

    Piano Quintet

    Florence Price

    UNCOVERED Vol. 2

    Catalyst Quartet

    Michelle Cann, piano

    26:56
  • 9:06 AM

    In the Well: The Rising of the Moon

    Vilem Blodek

    Small Czech Musical Gems

    Prague Symphony Orchestra

    Vaclav Smetacek, conductor

    6:26
  • 9:01 AM

    String Poetic: Nocturne

    Jennifer Higdon

    String Poetic

    Jennifer Koh, violin

    4:46
  • 8:40 AM

    Fantasy Variations

    Ulysses Kay

    Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Arthur Fagen, conductor

    17:55
  • 8:34 AM

    Berceuse

    Stephen Paulus

    American Harp

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    5:45
  • 8:06 AM

    String Quartet No. 10

    Franz Schubert

    L'Archibudelli

    26:10
  • 8:01 AM

    Nocturne No. 15

    Frederic Chopin

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    4:37
  • 7:42 AM

    Oboe Concerto

    (Marie) Clemence de Grandval

    GRANDVAL: Oboe Works

    Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Andrey Boreyko, conductor

    Lajos Lencses, oboe

    16:54
  • 7:27 AM

    Approaching Autumn

    Mark Abel

    Approaching Autumn

    Jonah Kim, cello

    14:46
  • 7:18 AM

    i thank You God for most this amazing day

    Eric Whitacre

    Eric Whitacre Singers

    Eric Whitacre, conductor

    6:56
  • 7:06 AM

    Improvisations on Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"

    Noam Sivan

    88 Keys To Joy

    Yael Weiss, piano

    10:47
  • 7:01 AM

    Suite on Sixteenth Century Hymn Tunes: Choeur celeste

    George Frederick McKay

    MCKAY: Violin Concerto / Sinfonietta No. 4 / Song Over the Great Plains

    National Radio Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

    John McLaughlin Williams, conductor

    4:46
  • 6:39 AM

    Partita No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Partitas

    Igor Levit, piano

    18:54
  • 6:35 AM

    Pastorale

    Amy Beach

    Ambache Chamber Ensemble

    3:34
  • 6:30 AM

    3 Hungarian Folksongs from the Czik District

    Bela Bartok

    From Afar

    Vikingur Olafsson, piano

    3:21
  • 6:01 AM

    The Kid on the Mountain; The Butterfly

    Traditional Irish

    The Celtic Lute

    Ronn McFarlane, lute

    4:53