Essentials
For beginners and lifelong listeners of classical music, YourClassical's Essentials Stream features the best in classical music. Hear pieces that are friendly, familiar and performed by well-known musicians and ensembles across the world.
- 2:20 PM
Piano Sonata No. 16: Andante
Perchance To Dream: A Lullaby Album For Children And Adults
Carol Rosenberger, piano
4:37 - 2:09 PM
St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
10:47 - 2:03 PM
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
James Galway, flute
6:25 - 1:52 PM
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto; Saint-Saens: Havanaise
New York Chamber Symphony
Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, violin
10:40 - 1:45 PM
Philharmonia Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
6:58 - 1:42 PM
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Robert Shaw, conductor
2:53 - 1:37 PM
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Colin Davis, conductor
5:05 - 1:34 PM
John Browning, piano
2:22 - 1:30 PM
Mito Chamber Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa, conductor
4:28 - 1:24 PM
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Bonynge, conductor
Nigel Kennedy, violin
5:41 - 1:21 PM
English Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Leppard, conductor
Raymond Leppard, harpsichord
2:54 - 1:14 PM
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
6:16 - 1:05 PM
Kimball Sykes, clarinet
9:38 - 12:58 PM
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
6:22 - 12:54 PM
Philharmonia Virtuosi
Richard Kapp, conductor
Chick Corea, piano
4:03 - 12:48 PM
Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra
Kristjan Jarvi, conductor
Chad Hoopes, violin
6:23 - 12:44 PM
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell, conductor
3:19 - 12:39 PM
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
5:08 - 12:35 PM
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood, conductor
3:28 - 12:26 PM
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Litton, conductor
8:56 - 12:24 PM
Gil Shaham, violin
1:42 - 12:09 PM
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Claudio Abbado, conductor
15:33 - 12:04 PM
Tafelmusik
Bruno Weil, conductor
4:45 - 11:57 AM
Paris Orchestra
Jean-Pierre Jacquillat, conductor
6:40 - 11:43 AM
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
13:53 - 11:40 AM
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
2:15 - 11:36 AM
Philharmonia Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
4:26 - 11:24 AM
Orchestra of Flanders
Rudolf Werthen, conductor
Yolanda Kondonassis, harp
11:39 - 11:15 AM
Die Meistersinger von Nurmberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremburg): Prelude to Act I
Wagner: Orchestral Favorites
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
8:55 - 11:02 AM
Sinfonia Concertante: 1st movement
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante K 364, Concertone K 190
Moscow Virtuosi
Vladimir Spivakov, conductor
Vladimir Spivakov, violin
13:13 - 10:55 AM
Piano Concerto No. 2: Rondo
Beethoven: Piano Concertos / Fischer, Goode, Budapest Festival Orchestra
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer, conductor
Richard Goode, piano
6:09 - 10:48 AM
Images for Orchestra: Iberia: On Highways and Byways
Iberia: Music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy, Turina
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, conductor
6:49 - 10:40 AM
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, conductor
8:21 - 10:29 AM
Musicians of the Louvre
Marc Minkowski, conductor
10:56 - 10:20 AM
String Quartet No. 63 "Sunrise": 1st movement
Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76, Nos. 4 & 6
Orlando Quartet
8:39 - 10:15 AM
Alexis Weissenberg, piano
4:42 - 10:06 AM
London Mozart Players
Howard Shelley, conductor
Urban Agnas, trumpet
9:16 - 10:02 AM
Orchestra of Toulouse
Michel Plasson, conductor
3:39 - 9:57 AM
Star Wars: Princess Leia
John Williams' Classic Film Scores Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Gerhardt, conductor
5:06 - 9:52 AM
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Bruno Walter, conductor
4:36 - 9:46 AM
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Hugh Wolff, conductor
6:16 - 9:41 AM
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Andras Schiff, conductor
Andras Schiff, piano
4:02 - 9:32 AM
Revolutionary and Romantic Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Viktoria Mullova, violin
9:27 - 9:24 AM
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Jaime Laredo, conductor
7:16 - 9:19 AM
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
5:10 - 9:11 AM
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood, conductor
Lisa Beznosiuk, flute
7:36 - 9:03 AM
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Vadim Repin, violin
8:03 - 8:56 AM
Piano Concerto No. 1: 2nd movement
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3
RAI National Symphony Orchestra
Juraj Valcuha, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, piano
6:36 - 8:52 AM
Northern Sinfonia of England
Jean-Bernard Pommier, conductor
3:48 - 8:48 AM
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, conductor
Christian Lindberg, trombone
4:13 - 8:46 AM
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
2:31 - 8:34 AM
Orchestra of St. Luke's
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
11:40 - 8:28 AM
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev, conductor
5:30 - 8:21 AM
Berlin Philharmonic
Simon Rattle, conductor
Toru Yasunaga, violin
6:48 - 8:14 AM
Polonaise No. 6 "Heroic"
The Complete Piano Works of Chopin, Vol 5: Polonaises & Impromptus
Garrick Ohlsson, piano
7:00 - 8:07 AM
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti, conductor
6:23 - 8:03 AM
Julian Bream, guitar
3:56 - 7:58 AM
La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus): Overture
Mozart: Arias for Male Soprano
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman, conductor
4:46 - 7:54 AM
Saint Cecilia Orchestra
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
4:52 - 7:50 AM
Marlboro Festival Orchestra
Pablo Casals, conductor
3:34 - 7:43 AM
Symphony No. 5: 1st movement
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 8; Overture "Die Zauberharfe"
Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra
Ton Koopman, conductor
6:34 - 7:39 AM
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
3:59 - 7:27 AM
Vienna Philharmonic
Andris Nelsons, conductor
12:19 - 7:21 AM
Turibio Santos, guitar
6:03 - 7:14 AM
Symphony No. 94 "Surprise": 2nd movement
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 45 & 94; Horn Concerto No. 1
London Chamber Orchestra
Christopher Warren-Green, conductor
6:16 - 7:09 AM
Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Uri Mayer, conductor
4:44 - 7:01 AM
English Chamber Orchestra
Jeffrey Tate, conductor
7:49 - 6:58 AM
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor
2:48 - 6:43 AM
Capriccio Espagnol
Kabalevsky: The Comedians - Suite; Rimsky-Korsakov: Cappricio Espagnol; Glinka: Ruslan & Ludmilla Overture; Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia; Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain; Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges
Bavarian State Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor
15:39 - 6:29 AM
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
13:13 - 6:14 AM
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
14:50 - 6:10 AM
Violin Concerto No. 1: 1st movement
Bach: Violin Concertos, Gubaidulina: In Tempus Praesens
Trondheim Soloists
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin
3:36 - 6:00 AM
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
10:11