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  • 5:49 AM

    Almost Morning

    Jeff Beal

    Extant Blues

    Trio Accento

    Michael Chang, viola

    9:10
  • 5:41 AM

    Dream

    John Cage

    Glass Cage

    Bruce Brubaker, piano

    7:38
  • 5:34 AM

    Nocturne

    Kaija Saariaho

    Bach and Beyond, Part 1

    Jennifer Koh, violin

    4:48
  • 5:18 AM

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Daniel Bjarnason, conductor

    15:43
  • 5:07 AM

    The De-Certified Highway of Dreams

    "Blue" Gene Tyranny

    Double Edge: U.S. Choice

    Double Edge

    Edmund Niemann, piano

    9:57
  • 5:01 AM

    lumee's dream (Nadia Sirota viola study)

    Ellen Reid

    Nadia Sirota, viola

    4:52
  • 4:50 AM

    Little Snow

    Angel Lam

    Guitar Recital: Bokyung Byun

    Bokyung Byun, guitar

    7:44
  • 4:44 AM

    Meditations on Li Po: ...and now the last cloud drains away

    Stephen Paulus

    Mandala: Meditations On The Wholeness Of Being

    The Esoterics

    Eric Banks, conductor

    4:19
  • 4:11 AM

    Piano Concerto "Memo Flora"

    Takashi Yoshimatsu

    Yoshimatsu: Piano Concerto

    Manchester Camerata

    Sachio Fujioka, conductor

    Kyoko Tabe, piano

    32:04
  • 4:07 AM

    Jess Gillam Ensemble

    Jess Gillam, soprano saxophone

    2:15
  • 4:01 AM

    The Walled Garden

    John Zorn

    In Lambeth: Visions from the Walled Garden of William Blake

    Bill Frisell, guitar

    4:33
  • 3:55 AM

    After a Dream (Apres un Reve)

    Gabriel Faure

    The Faure Album

    Gil Shaham, violin

    3:03
  • 3:14 AM

    Symphony No. 3

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: The Symphonies

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Andris Nelsons, conductor

    39:23
  • 3:06 AM

    The Little Consort: Suite No. 1

    Matthew Locke

    Fretwork

    Sergio Bucheli, lute

    Silas Wollston, harpsichord

    6:33
  • 3:01 AM

    Scherzo No. 2

    Clara Schumann

    Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

    4:47
  • 2:45 AM

    The Day Dawn

    Sally Beamish

    Sally Beamish: The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone

    Swedish Chamber Orchestra

    Ola Rudner, conductor

    13:19
  • 2:18 AM

    Piano Concerto

    John Ireland

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vernon Handley, conductor

    Kathryn Stott, piano

    24:56
  • 2:15 AM

    Minuet on the Name of Haydn

    Maurice Ravel

    Tesla Quartet

    1:54
  • 2:06 AM

    Trio No. 1 "London"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Laurel Zucker, flute

    Renee Siebert, flute

    Samuel Magill, cello

    8:26
  • 2:01 AM

    Fantasia Suite No. 8

    John Jenkins

    Locke Consort

    4:36
  • 1:43 AM

    Orchestra of the 18th Century

    Marc Destrube, conductor

    15:08
  • 1:23 AM

    L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2

    Georges Bizet

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    18:32
  • 1:16 AM

    Joshua Rifkin, piano

    5:18
  • 1:07 AM

    Dances in the Canebrakes

    Florence Price

    Project W: Works by Diverse Women Composers

    Chicago Sinfonietta

    Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

    9:29
  • 1:01 AM

    Peter Jacobs, piano

    4:36
  • 12:38 AM

    Variations on a Theme by Haydn "St. Antoni Chorale"

    Johannes Brahms

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    19:14
  • 12:33 AM

    Michelle

    John Lennon/Paul McCartney

    Here, There and Everywhere: Goran Sollscher Plays The Beatles

    Goran Sollscher, guitar

    3:13
  • 12:26 AM

    Romance

    Gerald Finzi

    Finzi: Suite From "Love's Labours Lost", Clarinet Concerto, Prelude, Romance

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    6:58
  • 12:21 AM

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

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Piano Sonatas

    Yundi Li, piano

    5:12
  • 12:06 AM

    Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1

    Georges Enescu

    Dallas Symphony Orchestra

    Eduardo Mata, conductor

    13:09
  • 12:01 AM

    Flowers of the Forest

    Anonymous

    On the Banks of Helicon

    Baltimore Consort

    4:36
  • 11:50 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 17: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    MOZART | Orli Shaham

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    David Robertson, conductor

    Orli Shaham, piano

    7:38
  • 11:40 PM

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

    Antonio Vivaldi

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    Lisa Beznosiuk, flute

    9:57
  • 11:22 PM

    The Lark Ascending

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Elgar: Violin Concerto, Vaughan Williams: The Lark

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    Hilary Hahn, violin

    16:11
  • 11:16 PM

    The Lost Birds: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers

    Christopher Tin

    Christopher Tin: The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy

    Voces8

    4:46
  • 11:06 PM

    La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Overtures

    Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    Claudio Abbado, conductor

    8:53
  • 10:48 PM

    Symphony No. 2: 2nd movement

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Dances from Aleko, Scherzo

    Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    9:50
  • 10:46 PM

    Tambourin

    Francois-Joseph Gossec

    Music to My Ears: A Collection of Music for Children of All Ages

    Carol Wincenc, flute

    1:20
  • 10:27 PM

    Dolly Suite

    Gabriel Faure

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    17:17
  • 10:17 PM

    Miniature Suite

    Vitezslava Kapralova

    University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra

    Kenneth Kiesler, conductor

    9:46
  • 10:09 PM

    Cringlemire Garden

    Ruth Gipps

    British Music for Strings, Vol. 3

    South German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim

    Douglas Bostock, conductor

    6:19
  • 10:06 PM

    The Prince of Denmark's March

    Jeremiah Clarke

    Wynton Marsalis: In Gabriel's Garden

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Anthony Newman, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, trumpet

    2:50
  • 10:03 PM

    Etude No. 1 "Venezia"

    Benna Moe

    Romantic Piano Works by Danish Women Composers

    Cathrine Penderup, piano

    2:50
  • 9:49 PM

    Grand Overture No. 2

    Johann Christian Bach

    English Symphony Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    9:17
  • 9:41 PM

    Grand Tarantelle

    Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    GOTTSCHALK, L.M.: Night in the Tropics (A) / Celebre Tarantelle / Berceuse

    Sakiko Ohashi, piano

    6:18
  • 9:19 PM

    Symphonic Variations

    Antonin Dvorak

    North German Radio Symphony

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    21:08
  • 9:09 PM

    Suite dramatique

    Lou Koster

    Koster: Orchestral Music

    Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra

    Jonathan Kaell, conductor

    8:15
  • 9:06 PM

    Preludes, Book 1: La fille aux cheveux de lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)

    Claude Debussy

    Daniel Hope, violin

    Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano

    2:19
  • 9:01 PM

    Bella Bocca Polka

    Emil Waldteufel

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    4:46
  • 6:46 PM

    Shades of Darkness: Midnight Blue

    Stefania de Kenessey

    Stefania de Kenessey ?� Chamber Music: Shades of Light, Shades of Dark

    Andiamo Chamber Ensemble

    12:33
  • 6:28 PM

    Rhapsody in Blue

    George Gershwin

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Wayne Marshall, conductor

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    16:08
  • 6:24 PM

    Blues from Lenox Avenue

    William Grant Still

    Zina Schiff, violin

    Cameron Grant, piano

    2:42
  • 6:06 PM

    Symphony No. 12

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Il Giardino Armonico

    Giovanni Antonini, conductor

    17:04
  • 6:01 PM

    Novelette (Interlude in Olden Style)

    Alexander Glazunov

    Glazunov: String Quartets Vol. 4

    Utrecht String Quartet

    4:45
  • 5:48 PM

    Concerto

    Alessandro Marcello

    Reverie

    Kassia Ensemble

    Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet

    10:48
  • 5:42 PM

    Aladdin: A Whole New World

    Alan Menken

    Lang Lang, piano

    4:16
  • 5:32 PM

    The Magic Harp

    Ina Boyle

    Dan Godfrey Encores

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Ronald Corp, conductor

    9:15
  • 5:11 PM

    Kuentz Chamber Orchestra

    Paul Kuentz, conductor

    Nicanor Zabaleta, harp

    18:57
  • 5:06 PM

    Candide: Overture

    Leonard Bernstein

    "Somewhere" - The Leonard Bernstein Album

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    4:29
  • 5:01 PM

    Suite Piedra libre: La Mancha

    Denis Plante

    Pentaedre

    4:51
  • 4:53 PM

    Inner Mongolia Suite: Nostalgia

    Ma Sicong

    Taipei Chinese Orchestra

    Yiu-Kwong Chung, conductor

    Lu Siqing, violin

    5:45
  • 4:24 PM

    Symphony No. 36 "Linz"

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 28 & 36 "Linz"

    Orchestra of the 18th Century

    Frans Bruggen, conductor

    27:34
  • 4:18 PM

    Coffee and Cakes

    Charlie Chaplin

    Thomas Beckmann, cello

    Johannes Cernota, piano

    4:20
  • 4:06 PM

    Moseltraume

    Lou Koster

    Koster: Orchestral Music

    Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra

    Jonathan Kaell, conductor

    10:42
  • 4:00 PM

    Concerto for Strings "Conch Shell"

    Antonio Vivaldi

    I Musici

    4:34
  • 3:51 PM

    Impromptu No. 3

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Impromptus Op. 90 And Op. 142

    Alfred Brendel, piano

    6:03
  • 3:34 PM

    Oboe Concerto

    (Marie) Clemence de Grandval

    GRANDVAL: Oboe Works

    Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Andrey Boreyko, conductor

    Lajos Lencses, oboe

    16:54
  • 3:21 PM

    Hungarian Sketches

    Bela Bartok

    Budapest Festival Orchestra

    Ivan Fischer, conductor

    11:23
  • 3:14 PM

    Serenity (O Magnum Mysterium)

    Ola Gjeilo

    Emmanuel

    National Lutheran Choir

    David Cherwien, conductor

    Leah Bergman, cello

    6:39
  • 3:04 PM

    Die Fledermaus: Overture

    Johann StraussJr.

    Strauss: Waltzes And Overtures

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Franz Welser-Most, conductor

    7:48
  • 3:00 PM

    Prelude for Lute

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sharon Isbin, guitar

    2:10
  • 2:49 PM

    Bright Blue Music

    Michael Torke

    Javelin - the Music of Michael Torke

    Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

    David Zinman, conductor

    9:06
  • 2:36 PM

    Fair Melusina Overture

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony, Three Overtures

    Bern Symphony Orchestra

    Peter Maag, conductor

    12:04
  • 2:33 PM

    Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit

    Traditional

    Umoja

    Imani Winds

    2:06
  • 2:28 PM

    Danny Boy

    Traditional Irish

    Celtic Reflections

    Barry Douglas, piano

    3:01
  • 2:21 PM

    An Irish Symphony: 3rd movement

    Arthur Sullivan

    Sullivan: Symphony in E major 'Irish'

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    6:13
  • 2:18 PM

    Fancy Free Ballet: Danzon

    Leonard Bernstein

    The Joy Of Bernstein

    Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    2:50
  • 2:11 PM

    String Quartet No. 6: 2nd movement

    Sirmen: Six String Quartets

    Lombardini Quartet

    3:32
  • 2:04 PM

    Serenade for Strings: Alla marcia

    Dag Wiren

    Grieg, Sibelius, Nielsen, Wiren

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    5:15
  • 1:46 PM

    Symphony No. 4: 1st movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphonies No. 4 & 7

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    10:00
  • 1:39 PM

    Jeux d'eau (Fountains)

    Maurice Ravel

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    5:42
  • 1:33 PM

    Ports of Call (Escales): Valencia

    Jacques Ibert

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    5:29
  • 1:28 PM

    Rodeo: Hoe-Down

    Aaron Copland

    Labyrinth

    Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

    3:24
  • 1:23 PM

    The Lost Birds: Bird Raptures

    Christopher Tin

    Voces8

    4:47
  • 1:09 PM

    Rondo for Violin and Orchestra

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 4

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    Cho-Liang Lin, violin

    7:02
  • 12:53 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    4:05
  • 12:50 PM

    Pizzicato Polka

    Johann StraussJr.

    Ein Straussfest

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    2:34
  • 12:42 PM

    Tarantella

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Winged Creatures

    Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra

    Allen Tinkham, conductor

    Anthony McGill, clarinet

    6:08
  • 12:33 PM

    Violin Concerto: Andante

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor

    Chineke! Orchestra

    Kevin John Edusei, conductor

    Elena Urioste, violin

    8:48
  • 12:18 PM

    Overture burlesque

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

    Bernhard Forck, conductor

    12:49
  • 12:14 PM

    Trumpet Voluntary

    John Stanley

    Intrada - London Brass

    London Brass

    3:35
  • 12:04 PM

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    5:21
  • 11:51 AM

    Images for Orchestra: Rondes de printemps (Spring Rounds)

    Claude Debussy

    The Rites of Spring

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Libor Pesek, conductor

    7:04
  • 11:46 AM

    Introduction No. 1

    Pietro Locatelli

    Raglan Baroque Players

    Elizabeth Wallfisch, conductor

    5:28
  • 11:41 AM

    Miniature Viennese March

    Fritz Kreisler

    Inventions

    Renaud Capucon, violin

    3:14
  • 11:31 AM

    The Magic Harp Overture (Rosamunde)

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphony in C Major

    Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Roger Norrington, conductor

    10:00
  • 11:22 AM

    Harlem Symphony: April in Harlem

    James Price Johnson

    Victory Stride: The Symphonic Music of James P. Johnson

    Concordia

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    7:46
  • 11:19 AM

    Memory Mist

    Florence Price

    Holes in the Sky

    Lara Downes, piano

    2:39
  • 11:10 AM

    Carolan's Harp

    Turlough O'Carolan

    Harp Consort

    6:49
  • 11:06 AM

    Pelleas and Melisande: Sicilienne

    Gabriel Faure

    Pavane

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Susan Palma, flute

    3:33
  • 11:01 AM

    Dance of the Orange Blossoms

    Eric Coates

    Coates: Four Centuries

    East of England Orchestra

    Malcolm Nabarro, conductor

    4:32
  • 10:44 AM

    Piano Sonata No. 18

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mitsuko Uchida, piano

    14:35
  • 10:22 AM

    String Quartet

    Fanny Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Felix & Fanny

    Ebene Quartet

    20:21
  • 10:14 AM

    Toute vie

    Lou Koster

    Koster: Orchestral Music

    Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra

    Jonathan Kaell, conductor

    6:05
  • 10:06 AM

    Barcarolle No. 2

    Stephan Elmas

    Elmas: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1

    Mikael Ayrapetyan, piano

    7:03
  • 10:01 AM

    Eduardo Mata University Youth Orchestra

    Gustavo Rivero Weber, conductor

    4:46
  • 9:31 AM

    Pas de Deux

    James Horner

    Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vasily Petrenko, conductor

    Mari Samuelsen, violin

    Hakon Samuelsen, cello

    27:40
  • 9:24 AM

    Suite for Oboe and Harp

    William Alwyn

    Sarah Francis, oboe

    Lucy Wakeford, harp

    5:45
  • 9:06 AM

    Noble and Sentimental Waltzes

    Maurice Ravel

    Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    16:37
  • 9:01 AM

    Nocturne No. 15

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin: The Nocturnes

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    4:41
  • 8:54 AM

    Northern Lights (Pulchra es, amica mea)

    Ola Gjeilo

    Phoenix Chorale

    Charles Bruffy, conductor

    4:21
  • 8:35 AM

    National Philharmonic Orchestra

    Alan Hovhaness, conductor

    Meir Rimon, horn

    17:57
  • 8:31 AM

    Silver Clouds Chasing the Moon

    Ren Guang

    Xuefei Yang, guitar

    3:33
  • 8:06 AM

    String Quartet No. 49

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    London Haydn Quartet

    23:37
  • 8:01 AM

    Stephen Hough, piano

    4:39
  • 7:47 AM

    Shorthand

    Anna Clyne

    The Kreutzer Project

    The Knights

    11:05
  • 7:12 AM

    Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer"

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Key of A

    Lara St. John, violin

    35:05
  • 7:06 AM

    Ballet Airs

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Celebration for Flute and Orchestra

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Steuart Bedford, conductor

    William Bennett, flute

    4:02
  • 7:01 AM

    Valse Triste

    Jean Sibelius

    Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll/Sibelius: Valse Triste/etc.

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    4:37
  • 6:35 AM

    Suite for 13 Wind Instruments

    Richard Strauss

    Netherlands Wind Ensemble

    Edo de Waart, conductor

    23:44
  • 6:16 AM

    Poeme for Violin and Orchestra

    George Walker

    Cleveland Chamber Symphony

    Edwin London, conductor

    Gregory Walker, violin

    17:50
  • 6:06 AM

    Basque Melody

    Antonio Jimenez Manjon

    Leyendas

    Thibaut Garcia, guitar

    8:21
  • 6:01 AM

    Two Pastorales

    Lou Harrison

    Lou Harrison: Seven Pastorales

    Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra

    Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

    4:36