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  • 4:45 AM

    St. Carolyn by the Sea

    Bryce Dessner

    Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre de Ridder, conductor

    Bryce Dessner, guitar

    Aaron Dessner, guitar

    13:05
  • 4:36 AM

    Incantation for a Stormy Sea

    Veljo Tormis

    Cantus

    7:40
  • 4:32 AM

    The Haunted Ocean

    Max Richter

    Baltic Sea Philharmonic

    Kristjan Jarvi, conductor

    2:16
  • 4:22 AM

    Maya Beiser, cello

    9:49
  • 4:06 AM

    Become River

    John Luther Adams

    Seattle Symphony

    Ludovic Morlot, conductor

    14:49
  • 4:01 AM

    Caitlin Sullivan, cello

    4:37
  • 3:49 AM

    Meditations on Rilke: Herbst (Autumn)

    Michael Tilson Thomas

    Michael Tilson Thomas: Grace

    San Francisco Symphony

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    Sasha Cooke, mezzo-soprano

    9:03
  • 3:45 AM

    Kinds of Light: Twilight

    Michael Gilbertson

    Ghost Light

    Akropolis Reed Quintet

    2:33
  • 3:21 AM

    Concerto for Orchestra

    Kevin Puts

    Kevin Puts: Concerto for Orchestra, Silent Night Elegy, Virelai

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Stephane Deneve, conductor

    22:56
  • 3:15 AM

    Schola Cantorum Reykjavik

    Hordur Askelsson, conductor

    3:32
  • 3:06 AM

    October

    Eric Whitacre

    Whitacre: Marimba Quartets

    Joby Burgess, marimba

    7:36
  • 3:01 AM

    falling still

    Emily Doolittle

    English String Orchestra

    Kenneth Woods, conductor

    Harriet Mackenzie, violin

    4:52
  • 2:45 AM

    Musica Callada (Silent Music): Book 3

    Federico Mompou

    Jenny Lin, piano

    12:54
  • 2:18 AM

    Clarinet Quintet

    Paul Ben-Haim

    BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

    Guy Yehuda, clarinet

    26:12
  • 2:12 AM

    Kol nidre "Meditation"

    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

    Enrico Dindo, cello

    Alessandro Marangoni, piano

    4:00
  • 2:06 AM

    Suite for Orchestra: In October

    Edward MacDowell

    Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra

    Howard Hanson, conductor

    5:17
  • 2:01 AM

    Nocturne No. 10

    Frederic Chopin

    Maria Joao Pires, piano

    4:41
  • 1:49 AM

    Sacred and Profane Dances

    Claude Debussy

    Lyon National Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    Emmanuel Ceysson, harp

    9:13
  • 1:19 AM

    Dance Suite after Couperin

    Richard Strauss

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Rudolf Kempe, conductor

    28:39
  • 1:14 AM

    Virelai (after Guillaume de Machaut)

    Kevin Puts

    Kevin Puts: Concerto for Orchestra, Silent Night Elegy, Virelai

    Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra

    Stephane Deneve, conductor

    3:48
  • 1:06 AM

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    6:53
  • 1:01 AM

    Philharmonix

    4:23
  • 12:50 AM

    Sinfonia No. 4 "Strands"

    George Walker

    Cleveland Orchestra

    Franz Welser-Most, conductor

    8:44
  • 12:14 AM

    Symphony No. 4

    Florence Price

    Florence Price: Symphony No. 4; William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Yannick Nezet-Seguin, conductor

    33:44
  • 12:06 AM

    Worship: A Concert Overture

    Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    African American Voices II

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Kellen Grey, conductor

    6:23
  • 12:01 AM

    Troubled Water

    Margaret Bonds

    Senku

    William Chapman Nyaho, piano

    4:51
  • 11:49 PM

    The Merchant of Venice: Suite Anglaise No. 3

    Henri Rabaud

    Rabaud: Orchestral Works

    Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    8:53
  • 11:36 PM

    Eclogues

    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

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

    Chloe Dufossez, flute

    11:41
  • 11:25 PM

    Kol Nidrei

    Max Bruch

    Dvorak: Cello Concerto; Bruch: Kol Nidrei; Bloch: Schelomo

    Lamoureux Concert Orchestra

    Jean Martinon, conductor

    Pierre Fournier, cello

    10:30
  • 11:16 PM

    Prince and the Mermaid Suite

    William Grant Still

    William Grant Still

    Oregon String Quartet

    7:24
  • 11:06 PM

    As You Like It: Suite

    Roger Quilter

    British Light Music: Roger Quilter

    Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    9:17
  • 11:01 PM

    Vals gayo

    Theresa Carreno

    Clara Rodriguez Plays the Music of Teresa Carreno

    Clara Rodriguez, piano

    4:48
  • 10:42 PM

    Sageflower

    Vincent d'Indy

    D'Indy: Orchestral Works

    Wurttemberg Philharmonic

    Gilles Nopre, conductor

    16:17
  • 10:35 PM

    Serenade No. 2: Rondo

    Johannes Brahms

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    5:58
  • 10:30 PM

    Imaginary World

    Tamar Sagiv

    Shades of Mourning

    Tamar Sagiv, cello

    4:28
  • 10:14 PM

    Masques and Bergamasques

    Gabriel Faure

    Faure: Pavane; Pelleas et Melisande, etc.

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    13:42
  • 10:06 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Italian Concertos

    Scottish Ensemble

    Jonathan Morton, conductor

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    7:17
  • 9:50 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 20: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 4

    Manchester Camerata

    Gabor Takacs-Nagy, conductor

    Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano

    7:40
  • 9:47 PM

    Humoresque No. 7

    Antonin Dvorak

    The Romantic Violinist: A Celebration Of Joseph Joachim

    Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

    Sakari Oramo, conductor

    Daniel Hope, violin

    2:58
  • 9:30 PM

    Occasional Suite

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Music For The Royal Fireworks

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    15:02
  • 9:20 PM

    Benvenuto Cellini: Overture

    Hector Berlioz

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    10:12
  • 9:11 PM

    Symphony No. 1: Scherzo

    Charles Gounod

    Gounod Symphonies

    Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    6:44
  • 9:06 PM

    Impromptu No. 2

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Impromptus

    Radu Lupu, piano

    4:40
  • 9:03 PM

    Wedding on the Eiffel Tower: Waltz of the Telegrams

    Germaine Tailleferre

    French Ballet Music of the 1920s

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    Geoffrey Simon, conductor

    2:32
  • 8:47 PM

    Scaramouche

    Darius Milhaud

    Creation

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    Branford Marsalis, saxophone

    11:20
  • 8:27 PM

    Pines of Rome

    Ottorino Respighi

    Respighi: Symphonic Poems

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    18:47
  • 8:11 PM

    Violin Sonata No. 2

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    James Ehnes, violin

    Luc Beausejour, harpsichord

    13:32
  • 8:06 PM

    Intermezzo No. 2

    Vasily Kalinnikov

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    4:22
  • 8:01 PM

    All the Things You Are

    Jerome Kern

    Leon Fleisher: All The Things You Are

    Leon Fleisher, piano

    4:50
  • 7:47 PM

    Symphony No. 3

    Carl Friedrich Abel

    Abel: Six Symphonies Op 7 / Shepherd, Cantilena

    Cantilena

    Adrian Shepherd, conductor

    10:55
  • 5:51 PM

    The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Mad About Mad About

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    6:57
  • 5:17 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The Piano Concertos

    Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Hannu Lintu, conductor

    Stephen Hough, piano

    33:09
  • 5:12 PM

    Young Soldier's Joy

    Qi-Ming Lu

    Chinasong | Shanghai Quartet

    Shanghai Quartet

    2:54
  • 5:06 PM

    Festival March

    Antonin Dvorak

    Janacek: Lachian Dances; Dvorak: Suite in A, Op. 98b "American", Festival March

    Rochester Philharmonic

    David Zinman, conductor

    5:39
  • 5:01 PM

    Graceful Ghost Rag

    William Bolcom

    Eastman American Music Series, Vol. 4 - Brass Knuckles: An Excursion Into Contemporary Ragtime

    Tony Caramia, piano

    4:54
  • 4:49 PM

    Zigeunerliebe (Gypsy Love)

    Franz Lehar

    Lehar: Waltzes

    Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra

    Willi Boskovsky, conductor

    8:36
  • 4:20 PM

    Violin Concerto

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn, Bruch: Violin Concertos

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Mariss Jansons, conductor

    Midori, violin

    27:51
  • 4:10 PM

    Homestead Dances: Quilters' Dance

    Don Ray

    Home For The Harvest

    Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra

    Derek Gleeson, conductor

    7:58
  • 4:06 PM

    Album Leaf

    Edvard Grieg

    GRIEG: Norwegian Dances, Op. 35 / Peer Gynt, Op. 23 / Waltz Caprices

    Einar Steen-Nokleberg, piano

    3:22
  • 4:01 PM

    Bella Bocca Polka

    Emil Waldteufel

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    4:46
  • 3:49 PM

    Waltz Fantasy

    Mikhail Glinka

    Encore

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Neeme Jarvi, conductor

    9:32
  • 3:28 PM

    Carmen Suite No. 1

    Georges Bizet

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra: Portrait

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra

    James DePreist, conductor

    19:09
  • 3:14 PM

    Concerto No. 12 "Storm at Sea"

    Lorenzo Zavateri

    Zavateri: Concerti Da Chiesa E Da Camera

    Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

    Gottfried von der Goltz, conductor

    12:21
  • 3:06 PM

    Pirates of Penzance Overture

    Arthur Sullivan

    Gilbert & Sullivan: Overtures

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    7:08
  • 3:01 PM

    Hungarian Dance

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin

    Olga Sitkovetsky, piano

    4:48
  • 2:48 PM

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    10:00
  • 2:40 PM

    String Quartet No. 30 "The Joke"

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Emerson String Quartet

    16:16
  • 2:33 PM

    Saltarello and Piva

    Joan Ambrosio Dalza

    Rolf Lislevand & Ensemble

    6:33
  • 2:16 PM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 3

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    JS Bach

    The King's Violins

    Bernard Labadie, conductor

    Alexandre Tharaud, piano

    15:36
  • 2:12 PM

    Blackbird

    John Lennon/Paul McCartney

    Blackbird: The Beatles Album

    Milos Karadaglic, guitar

    2:31
  • 2:02 PM

    La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie): Overture

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Classical Zoo

    Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

    Yoel Levi, conductor

    9:34
  • 1:47 PM

    Mignon Overture

    Ambroise Thomas

    Offenbach: Gaité Parisienne; Gounod: Faust - Ballet Music; Chabrier: Espana; Thomas: Mignon

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    8:01
  • 1:40 PM

    La Pieta

    Angele Dubeau, conductor

    Angele Dubeau, violin

    4:56
  • 1:29 PM

    Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished": 2nd movement

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Douglas Boyd, conductor

    10:51
  • 1:23 PM

    Symphony No. 29: 3rd movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Symphonies No. 29 & 34

    Vienna Philharmonic

    James Levine, conductor

    4:08
  • 1:17 PM

    Ki Hineih Kachomer

    Judith Clurman

    REJOICE! Honoring the Jewish Spirit

    Essential Voices USA

    Judith Clurman, conductor

    James Cunningham, piano

    5:44
  • 1:07 PM

    New England Triptych: Chester

    William Schuman

    Wind Symphony

    Cincinnati Conservatory Wind Symphony

    Eugene Corporon, conductor

    6:13
  • 1:04 PM

    Hungarian Dance No. 5

    Johannes Brahms

    Dance

    Zurich Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Hope, violin

    2:08
  • 12:50 PM

    Two Fifteenth Century Fanfares

    Anonymous

    Royal Brass: Music from the Renaissance & Baroque

    Empire Brass

    1:25
  • 12:40 PM

    Kreisleriana No. 2

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann: Kreisleriana; Sonata No. 3 In F minor; Toccata in C Major

    Anton Kuerti, piano

    8:23
  • 12:33 PM

    Sylvia: Procession of Bacchus

    Leo Delibes

    The Flag Series - France

    New Philharmonia Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras, conductor

    5:52
  • 12:24 PM

    Symphonie Espagnole: Rondo

    Edouard Lalo

    Greatest Hits

    Paris Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    8:01
  • 12:20 PM

    Prelude No. 5

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Horowitz plays Rachmaninoff

    Vladimir Horowitz, piano

    3:23
  • 12:06 PM

    Symphony No. 101 "The Clock": 2nd movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: The London Symphonies, Vol. II

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Colin Davis, conductor

    6:56
  • 12:04 PM

    Waltz No. 6 "Minute"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin

    Jon Kimura Parker, piano

    1:45
  • 11:50 AM

    Overture "In the Italian Style"

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Early Symphonies and Stage Music

    Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra

    Lawrence Foster, conductor

    8:19
  • 11:39 AM

    Sonata No. 3

    Jean-Joseph Mondonville

    Mondonville: Six Sonatas Op. 3

    Musicians of the Louvre

    Marc Minkowski, conductor

    8:58
  • 11:34 AM

    Bassoon Concerto: Rondo-Allegretto

    Antonio Rosetti

    Antonio Rosetti: Bassoon Concertos

    German Chamber Academy

    Eckart Hubner, bassoon

    4:30
  • 11:28 AM

    October

    Charlotte Sohy

    Charlotte Sohy: Compositrice de la Belle Epoque

    Heloise Luzzati, cello

    5:01
  • 11:20 AM

    Dance Suite

    Tielman Susato

    Ludwig Guttler Brass Ensemble

    Ludwig Guttler, conductor

    7:12
  • 11:15 AM

    Masques and Bergamasques: Overture

    Gabriel Faure

    Faure: L'Oeuvre D'Orchestre, Vol. I

    Orchestra of Toulouse

    Michel Plasson, conductor

    3:39
  • 11:07 AM

    Orchestral Suite No. 2 "Characteristic": Waltz

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

    Stefan Sanderling, conductor

    6:28
  • 11:04 AM

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

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Preludes

    Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

    2:19
  • 10:43 AM

    Second Rhapsody

    George Gershwin

    Gershwin: The Complete Orchestral Collection

    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

    Erich Kunzel, conductor

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    15:11
  • 10:40 AM

    Brazilian Dance

    Camargo Guarnieri

    Essencia Do Brasil

    Brazilian Guitar Quartet

    2:08
  • 10:18 AM

    Orchestral Suite No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Orchestral Suites for a Young Prince

    Sonnerie

    Monica Huggett, conductor

    20:39
  • 10:06 AM

    Paganini Variations

    Eugene Ysaye

    Capriccios

    Capriccio Quartet

    10:09
  • 10:01 AM

    Andante

    Elfrida Andree

    Elfrida Andree: Complete Piano Works

    Oskar Ekberg, piano

    4:39
  • 9:41 AM

    Holberg Suite

    Edvard Grieg

    Orchestral Favourites Vol I

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    17:37
  • 9:20 AM

    November Woods

    Arnold Bax

    Bax: 4 Tone Poems

    Ulster Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    18:34
  • 9:17 AM

    Star of the County Down

    Traditional

    Song

    Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

    1:59
  • 9:06 AM

    Scintillation

    Carlos Salzedo

    Solo Harp: The Best of Yolanda Kondonassis

    Yolanda Kondonassis, harp

    9:53
  • 9:01 AM

    Symphonic Suite for Strings: Prelude

    Marion Bauer

    Marion Bauer: American Youth Concerto

    Ambache Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble

    4:39
  • 8:32 AM

    Clarinet Concerto

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Hans Vonk, conductor

    Sabine Meyer, clarinet

    26:45
  • 8:18 AM

    Poema Autunnale (Autumn Poem)

    Ottorino Respighi

    Respighi: Concerto Gregoriano, Poema Autunnale

    Singapore Symphony Orchestra

    Choo Hoey, conductor

    Takako Nishizaki, violin

    13:32
  • 8:06 AM

    Consort for Ten Winds

    Robert Spittal

    Wind Music

    Atlanta Chamber Winds

    Robert J. Ambrose, conductor

    10:36
  • 8:01 AM

    Jazz Suite No. 2: Dance No. 2

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Shostakovich: Jazz Music

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    3:36
  • 7:18 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 3

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra

    Gustavo Dudamel, conductor

    Yuja Wang, piano

    40:29
  • 7:05 AM

    Free Variations and Finale

    Gabriel Pierne

    Netherlands Harp Ensemble

    10:38
  • 7:01 AM

    Reverie

    Germaine Tailleferre

    The Flower of France

    Quynh Nguyen, piano

    3:25
  • 6:28 AM

    Symphony No. 1

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1, 4, and 6

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    30:42
  • 6:19 AM

    Romance No. 2

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Simply Anne-Sophie

    New York Philharmonic

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

    8:20
  • 6:02 AM

    Divertimento for Strings

    Gareth Walters

    Sea Sketches

    Manitoba Chamber Orchestra

    Roy Goodman, conductor

    15:51
  • 5:48 AM

    Invitation to the Dance

    Carl Maria von Weber

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Juanjo Mena, conductor

    10:01
  • 5:23 AM

    Ascanio: Act III Ballet music

    Camille Saint-Saens

    SAINT-SAËNS, C.: Ascanio: Ballet / Overtures to Stage Works (Malmö Symphony, Märkl)

    Malmo Symphony Orchestra

    Jun Markl, conductor

    24:18
  • 5:01 AM

    Overture-Suite "La Changeante"

    Georg Philipp Telemann

    Georg Philipp Telemann: Viola Concertos

    Academy for Ancient Music Berlin

    Bernhard Forck, conductor

    20:22
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