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  • 4:43 AM

    Symphonie Fantastique: Reveries

    Hector Berlioz

    Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Liszt - Solti

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    15:29
  • 4:19 AM

    Violin Sonata

    Reynaldo Hahn

    Le Temps Retrouve

    Elena Urioste, violin

    22:56
  • 4:06 AM

    D'un soir triste (Of a sad evening)

    Lili Boulanger

    Boulanger, Tailleferre, Mendelssohn, Schumann

    Women's Philharmonic

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    11:32
  • 4:01 AM

    Flute Sonata: Aria

    Otar Taktakishvili

    Flute Recital

    Marina Piccinini, flute

    4:40
  • 3:44 AM

    Little Suite

    Carl Nielsen

    Grieg; Nielsen; Sibelius; Wiren

    Guildhall Strings

    14:44
  • 3:38 AM

    Ballade No. 3

    Johannes Brahms

    Awadagin Pratt: A Long Way from Normal

    Awadagin Pratt, piano

    3:48
  • 3:20 AM

    In the Forest

    Mikalojus Ciurlionis

    Ciurlionis: The Sea - In the Forest - Kestutis Overture

    Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra

    Modestas Pitrenas, conductor

    17:09
  • 3:17 AM

    I Am Sitting on a Rock

    Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoi

    David Starobin: A Song From The East

    David Starobin, guitar

    1:29
  • 3:06 AM

    Moseltraume

    Lou Koster

    Koster: Orchestral Music

    Estro Armonico Luxembourg Chamber Orchestra

    Jonathan Kaell, conductor

    10:42
  • 3:01 AM

    Second Suite: Intermezzo

    Charles-Edouard Lefebvre

    Music of the Gilded Age

    Sylvan Winds

    Nicholas Gallas, clarinet

    4:31
  • 2:54 AM

    Hold Out for Joy

    Regina Harris Baiocchi

    Where Freedom Rings: Compositions by Contemporary African American Composers

    Picasso Ensemble

    LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, voice

    3:58
  • 2:52 AM

    Ode to Joyful

    Jon Batiste

    Beethoven Blues

    Jon Batiste, piano

    2:04
  • 2:22 AM

    Piano Concerto No. 2

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: The Complete Piano Concertos

    BBC National Orchestra of Wales

    Andrew Constantine, conductor

    Stewart Goodyear, piano

    27:57
  • 2:17 AM

    Alla Turc Movement

    Jon Batiste

    Black Mozart

    Jon Batiste, piano

    3:17
  • 2:06 AM

    My Soul Hath Found Refuge in Thee

    Evelyn Simpson-Curenton

    The Aeolians

    The Aeolians

    Jason Max Ferdinand, conductor

    5:29
  • 11:55 PM

    Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    A Bach Festival

    Empire Brass

    Douglas Major, organ

    3:11
  • 11:42 PM

    The Caledonian Road

    Sally Beamish

    Sally Beamish: The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone

    Swedish Chamber Orchestra

    Ola Rudner, conductor

    12:50
  • 11:14 PM

    String Quartet No. 1

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Emerson String Quartet: Complete Recordings

    Emerson String Quartet

    26:44
  • 11:07 PM

    Wonderful Town: Overture

    Leonard Bernstein

    Leonard Bernstein: Marin Alsop The Complete Naxos Recordings

    Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra

    Marin Alsop, conductor

    5:17
  • 11:03 PM

    Cantata for a More Hopeful Tomorrow: Hope

    Damien Geter

    Cantata for a More Hopeful Tomorrow

    Washington Chorus

    Eugene Rogers, conductor

    Aundi Marie Moore, soprano

    3:01
  • 10:51 PM

    Poet and Peasant Overture

    Franz von Suppe

    Overtures by Suppe and Auber

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Paray, conductor

    9:23
  • 10:36 PM

    Concert Rondo "Krakowiak"

    Frederic Chopin

    Dances for Piano and Orchestra

    Northwest Sinfonietta

    Christophe Chagnard, conductor

    Joel Fan, piano

    13:54
  • 10:28 PM

    A Favorite French Air

    Sophia Dussek

    Favourite Airs Arranged for the Harp

    Kyunghee Kim-Sutre, harp

    5:51
  • 10:18 PM

    Three Pieces for Cello and Piano

    Nadia Boulanger

    Mademoiselle: Unknown Music of Nadia Boulanger

    Amit Peled, cello

    8:27
  • 10:05 PM

    Symphony No. 2 "Sinfonie Capricieuse": 1st movement

    Franz Berwald

    BERWALD: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2

    Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra

    Okko Kamu, conductor

    11:44
  • 10:00 PM

    Perpetual Motion Piece No. 3

    Francis Poulenc

    'Pot-Pourri' for flute & guitar

    William Bennett, flute

    3:37
  • 9:49 PM

    Symphony No. 3: 1st movement

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Symphony No. 3; Tragic Overture

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    9:34
  • 9:43 PM

    Piano Trio: 2nd movement

    Clara Schumann

    Mendelssohn, Schumann: Piano Trios

    Dardington Piano Trio

    5:06
  • 9:36 PM

    The Gadfly: Romance

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Film Music of Dmitri Shostakovich, Vol. 2

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Vassily Sinaisky, conductor

    6:33
  • 9:30 PM

    Show Me

    Aoife O'Donovan

    The Brooklyn Rider Almanac

    Brooklyn Rider

    4:53
  • 9:16 PM

    Plow That Broke the Plains Suite

    Virgil Thomson

    Virgil Thompson: Music for Film, "The River" & "Plow That Broke the Plains"

    Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    12:37
  • 9:06 PM

    Horn Concerto No. 1

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart y Mambo: Cuban Dances

    Havana Lyceum Orchestra

    Jose Antonio Mendez Padron, conductor

    Sarah Willis, horn

    8:44
  • 9:02 PM

    Summer Moon

    Florence Price

    Florence Price: Piano Discoveries: Excursions

    Lara Downes, piano

    2:45
  • 8:53 PM

    Sleeping Beauty: Polacca

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty

    Russian National Orchestra

    Mikhail Pletnev, conductor

    4:35
  • 8:46 PM

    Sinfonietta No. 1

    Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

    Live in Concert

    Sphinx Virtuosi

    Damon Gupton, conductor

    6:34
  • 8:35 PM

    Othello Suite

    Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Coleridge-Taylor: Hiawatha OVerture / Petite Suite

    RTE Concert Orchestra

    Adrian Leaper, conductor

    10:35
  • 8:18 PM

    Dumbarton Oaks Concerto

    Igor Stravinsky

    Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Dumbarton Oaks

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Christopher Hogwood, conductor

    14:46
  • 8:05 PM

    Concerto Grosso "Alexander's Feast"

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Alexander's Feast, 3 Oboe Concertos, Sonata A 5

    English Concert

    Trevor Pinnock, conductor

    12:46
  • 8:00 PM

    Good Sweet Ham

    Henry Hart

    Waltzes and Love Songs of Henry Hart

    Gregory Rahming, baritone

    3:37
  • 5:55 PM

    Romanesca

    Diego Ortiz

    Ostinato

    Hesperion XXI

    Jordi Savall, conductor

    3:12
  • 5:18 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 3

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Concertos pour piano N° 3 & 5 [Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic - Rudolf Serkin]

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    Rudolf Serkin, piano

    35:53
  • 5:13 PM

    A Hidden Life

    James Newton Howard

    Arctic

    Arctic Philharmonic

    Christian Kluxen, conductor

    Eldbjorg Hemsing, violin

    2:49
  • 5:06 PM

    Ode for St. Cecilia's Day: Overture; March

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Famous Overtures & Marches

    Concentus Musicus Vienna

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

    7:08
  • 5:01 PM

    Handel in the Strand

    Percy Grainger

    Music of Percy Grainger

    Bournemouth Sinfonietta

    Kenneth Montgomery, conductor

    Philip Martin, piano

    4:47
  • 4:40 PM

    Symphony No. 2

    Adalbert Gyrowetz

    Contemporaries Of Mozart - Gyrowetz: Symphonies / Bamert, London Mozart Players

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    17:36
  • 4:15 PM

    Idillio-Concertino

    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

    WOLF-FERRARI, E.: Wind Concertinos

    Rome Symphony Orchestra

    Francesco La Vecchia, conductor

    Andrew Tenaglia, oboe

    23:11
  • 4:11 PM

    Pas des sylphes: Intermezzo

    Cecile Chaminade

    Chaminade: Piano Works

    Eric Parkin, piano

    2:55
  • 4:06 PM

    Karelia Suite: Alla Marcia

    Jean Sibelius

    The Best of Sibelius

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor

    4:31
  • 4:01 PM

    The Wedding Waltz

    Heikki Aaltoila

    Scandinavian Rhapsody, A Selection of Orchestral Favourites

    Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leif Segerstam, conductor

    4:37
  • 3:57 PM

    Hungarian Dance No. 21

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Nine Hungarian Dances; Dvorak

    North German Radio Symphony

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

    1:23
  • 3:34 PM

    Symphony No. 18

    Julius Rontgen

    Rontgern: Symphony No. 18

    North German Radio Philharmonic

    David Porcelijn, conductor

    23:00
  • 3:15 PM

    Eine kleine Nachtmusik

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

    Bobby McFerrin, conductor

    17:27
  • 3:12 PM

    American Suite: Danse

    William Grant Still

    Still: Summerland - Violin Suite - Pastorela - American Suite

    Royal Scottish National Orchestra

    Avlana Eisenberg, conductor

    1:40
  • 3:06 PM

    Waltz No. 1 "Grand Valse brillante"

    Frederic Chopin

    Chopin

    Claudio Arrau, piano

    6:07
  • 3:01 PM

    Symphony No. 2: Scherzo

    Alexander Borodin

    Borodin: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3

    Toronto Symphony Orchestra

    Andrew Davis, conductor

    4:52
  • 2:50 PM

    Concert Piece for Horn and Orchestra

    Camille Saint-Saens

    Gliere, Saint-Saens, Dukas, Chabrier: Works For Horn

    Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

    Kurt Masur, conductor

    Hermann Baumann, horn

    8:35
  • 2:43 PM

    Flute and Oboe Concerto

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Concertos for Flute and Oboe

    Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra

    Janos Rolla, conductor

    Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute

    15:11
  • 2:31 PM

    Symphony No. 4 "Romantic": 3rd movement

    Anton Bruckner

    Bruckner 4

    Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

    Manfred Honeck, conductor

    10:08
  • 2:25 PM

    Four Black American Dances: Holy Dance

    Carlos Simon

    Concert Recording

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Thomas Sondergard, conductor

    5:27
  • 2:08 PM

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 4

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach's Coffehouse

    Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra

    Jeannette Sorrell, conductor

    Alan Choo, violin

    15:48
  • 2:01 PM

    Cello Sonata: Andante

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    From Ordinary Things

    Seth Parker Woods, cello

    5:57
  • 1:48 PM

    Divertimento after Couperin

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Divertimento After Couperin

    Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    35:11
  • 1:42 PM

    Sunset

    Foday Musa Suso

    Kronos Quartet: Pieces of Africa

    Kronos Quartet

    Soloists

    4:24
  • 1:31 PM

    Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral": 1st movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven For All: Music of Passion, Power and Beauty

    West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    10:39
  • 1:22 PM

    String Quartet No. 10: 4th movement

    Antonin Dvorak

    Old World, New World

    Emerson String Quartet

    7:09
  • 1:18 PM

    Your Hands in Mine

    Florence Price

    Piano Heroines

    Claire Huangci, piano

    2:57
  • 1:07 PM

    If I Were King: Overture

    Adolphe Adam

    Tortelier's French Bonbons

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Yan Pascal Tortelier, conductor

    7:14
  • 1:04 PM

    Te Deum: Prelude

    Marc-Antoine Charpentier

    Ceremonial Music for Trumpet & Symphonic Organ

    Rolf Smedvig, trumpet

    2:29
  • 12:51 PM

    Troubled Water

    Margaret Bonds

    Ashley Jackson

    Ashley Jackson, harp

    6:37
  • 12:45 PM

    Children's Games (Jeux d'enfants): Galop

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet

    San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

    Martin West, conductor

    1:56
  • 12:37 PM

    Das Rheingold: Entry of the Gods into Valhalla

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner Without Words

    Cleveland Orchestra

    George Szell, conductor

    6:34
  • 12:31 PM

    On the Beautiful Lake Erie Waltzes

    Henry Hart

    Waltzes and Love Songs of Henry Hart

    Dillon Welch, violin

    4:25
  • 12:21 PM

    Cello Concerto No. 1: 1st movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Cello Concertos

    Norwegian Chamber Orchestra

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Truls Mork, cello

    9:06
  • 12:14 PM

    Abdelazer: Suite

    Henry Purcell

    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

    Boston Baroque

    Martin Pearlman, conductor

    5:44
  • 12:08 PM

    Saul and David: Prelude to Act II

    Carl Nielsen

    Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto, Flute Concerto

    Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

    5:03
  • 12:04 PM

    Lieutenant Kije: Troika

    Sergei Prokofiev

    Pops a la Russe

    Boston Pops Orchestra

    John Williams, conductor

    3:04
  • 11:49 AM

    Serenade No. 1: Allegro molto

    Johannes Brahms

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Bernard Haitink, conductor

    9:42
  • 11:43 AM

    Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

    2:00
  • 11:35 AM

    Symphony No. 3 "Scottish": 4th movement

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Symphonies

    Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra

    Paavo Jarvi, conductor

    9:18
  • 11:30 AM

    Pied Piper

    Walter Mourant

    Musical Fun and Games

    Northern Sinfonia of England

    Steuart Bedford, conductor

    George MacDonald, clarinet

    4:38
  • 11:21 AM

    Concerto No. 8

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Albinoni: 12 Concerti a cinque, Op.5

    Collegium Musicum 90

    Simon Standage, conductor

    7:50
  • 11:15 AM

    German Dance No. 5

    Franz Schubert

    Dance

    Zurich Chamber Orchestra

    Daniel Hope, violin

    4:28
  • 11:08 AM

    Polonaise

    Antonin Dvorak

    Dvorak: Czech Suite, Prague Waltzes, etc.

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    5:21
  • 11:04 AM

    Orchestral Suite No. 3: Gavottes

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: Orchestal Suites

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Vladimir Spivakov, conductor

    3:49
  • 10:30 AM

    Gaite Parisienne

    Jacques Offenbach

    Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne; Gounod, Thomas, Chabrier

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    19:06
  • 10:24 AM

    Perpetual Motion

    Niccolo Paganini

    Carnaval

    Eastman Wind Ensemble

    Donald Hunsberger, conductor

    Wynton Marsalis, cornet

    4:33
  • 10:13 AM

    Oboe Concerto No. 2

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Complete Orchestral Works

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Raymond Leppard, conductor

    Heinz Holliger, oboe

    9:30
  • 10:06 AM

    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
  • 10:01 AM

    The Chrysanthemum

    Scott Joplin

    JOPLIN: Piano Rags, Vol. 2

    Benjamin Loeb, piano

    4:40
  • 9:42 AM

    Les Preludes

    Franz Liszt

    Encore!

    Berlin Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    16:41
  • 9:30 AM

    Orchestra-Symphony No. 3

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    CPE Bach: 4 Symphonies

    English Concert

    Andrew Manze, conductor

    10:15
  • 9:12 AM

    Eight Russian Folk Songs

    Anatol Liadov

    Liadov: The Enchanted Lake, and other orchestral works.

    Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra

    Enrique Batiz, conductor

    15:32
  • 9:06 AM

    Intermezzo No. 2

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms Inspired

    Orli Shaham, piano

    5:48
  • 9:01 AM

    The Nightingale

    Deborah Henson-Conant

    In Transit

    Emily Granger, harp

    4:30
  • 8:38 AM

    English Suite No. 4

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach: English Suites

    Angela Hewitt, piano

    20:28
  • 8:26 AM

    Vignettes

    William Grant Still

    Get on Board

    Sierra Winds

    (Selected members), conductor

    11:13
  • 8:08 AM

    Horn Concerto No. 1

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Trumpet Concerto; Horn Concerto No. 1

    Cologne Chamber Orchestra

    Helmut Muller-Bruhl, conductor

    Dmitri Babanov, horn

    15:48
  • 8:01 AM

    O felix anima

    Hildegard von Bingen

    Hildegard Von Bingen: Origin Of Fire

    Anonymous 4

    6:31
  • 7:22 AM

    An Irish Symphony

    Arthur Sullivan

    Sullivan: Symphony in E major 'Irish'

    BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    35:54
  • 7:18 AM

    Sicilienne

    Maria-Theresia von Paradis

    Hidden Flame

    Yoshika Masuda, cello

    3:31
  • 7:01 AM

    Guitar Concerto

    Ferdinando Carulli

    Carulli, Molino: Guitar Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Iona Brown, conductor

    Pepe Romero, guitar

    15:28
  • 6:29 AM

    Symphony No. 4

    Franz Krommer

    Krommer: Symphonies Opp. 40 & 102

    London Mozart Players

    Matthias Bamert, conductor

    29:25
  • 6:17 AM

    Fratres (Brothers)

    Arvo Part

    Passacaglia

    MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Kristjan Jarvi, conductor

    Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

    10:49
  • 6:01 AM

    Five Bagatelles

    Gerald Finzi

    FINZI: Clarinet Concerto / Five Bagatelles / Three Soliloquies / Romance

    Northern Sinfonia

    Howard Griffiths, conductor

    Robert Plane, clarinet

    14:32
  • 5:44 AM

    Waltzes for Piano Four-Hands

    Julius Rontgen

    Double Trouble

    Bengt Forsberg, piano

    14:39
  • 5:37 AM

    Of Paradise and Light

    Augusta Read Thomas

    New Haven Symphony Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    5:51
  • 5:32 AM

    Gymnopedie No. 1

    Erik Satie

    Reveries

    Minnesota Orchestra

    Eiji Oue, conductor

    3:38
  • 5:01 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Frank Martin

    Concert Recording

    Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

    Eun Sun Kim, conductor

    Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin

    29:46
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