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  • 9:43 PM

    Symphony No. 2: 4th movement

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    The Tchaikovsky Project

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    11:22
  • 9:39 PM

    Frohlich im Maien (Joyous in May)

    Richard Strauss

    Out Of This World

    Chanticleer

    3:18
  • 9:17 PM

    Piano Concerto No. 6

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1

    Odense Symphony Orchestra

    Scott Yoo, conductor

    Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

    21:09
  • 9:07 PM

    The Wasps: Overture

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams and Delius

    English Symphony Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    8:31
  • 9:04 PM

    Siciliano

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach Transcriptions, 2

    Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

    Jose Serebrier, conductor

    2:39
  • 8:49 PM

    Symphony No. 3 "Eroica": 4th movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 "Erioca"

    New York Philharmonic

    Leonard Bernstein, conductor

    11:21
  • 8:13 PM

    Trumpet Concerto

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn, Hummel, Etc.: Trumpet Concertos

    German Chamber Philharmonic

    Alison Balsom, trumpet

    14:38
  • 8:05 PM

    The Valkyrie: Magic Fire Music

    Richard Wagner

    Wagner

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Leopold Stokowski, conductor

    7:11
  • 8:00 PM

    Butterflying

    Elena Kats-Chernin

    Ragtime & Blue

    Nicola Sweeney, violin

    4:22
  • 5:48 PM

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits, etc.

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    10:36
  • 5:23 PM

    Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits, etc.

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    10:36
  • 5:22 PM

    Keyboard Concerto No. 1

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    J.S. Bach: Complete Keyboard Concertos; J.S. Bach-Vivaldi: Two Concertos

    Moscow Virtuosi

    Saulius Sondeckis, conductor

    Julia Zilberquit, piano

    23:09
  • 5:14 PM

    Serenata in Vano

    Carl Nielsen

    Buried Treasure

    Chamber Music Palm Beach

    7:22
  • 5:06 PM

    Blumenstuck (Flower Piece)

    Robert Schumann

    Schumann and Brahms

    Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

    7:19
  • 5:01 PM

    Trumpet Sonata a 7

    Tomaso Albinoni

    Baroque Trumpet Music

    Philharmonia Orchestra

    John Wallace, trumpet

    4:44
  • 4:48 PM

    Land of the Mountain and the Flood

    Hamish MacCunn

    Scottish Overtures

    Scottish National Orchestra

    Alexander Gibson, conductor

    9:52
  • 4:21 PM

    Concerto Andaluz

    Joaquin Rodrigo

    Spanish Night

    Internationale Philharmonie

    Horst-Hans Backer, conductor

    24:59
  • 4:17 PM

    Children's Games: Hide and Seek

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Melody's Mostly Musical Day

    Jenny Lin, piano

    2:59
  • 4:06 PM

    Prince Igor: Overture

    Alexander Borodin

    Borodin: Prince Igor (Highlights)

    Ukraine National Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Theodore Kuchar, conductor

    10:14
  • 4:01 PM

    Jota aragonesa

    Pablo de Sarasate

    Sarasate

    Julia Fischer, violin

    4:47
  • 3:49 PM

    Dance of the Hours

    Amilcare Ponchielli

    Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Boccherini, Dvorak, Faure, Grieg, Nicolai, Ponchielli, Suppe, Tchaikovsky

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    9:12
  • 3:21 PM

    Symphony No. 1

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

    27:45
  • 3:15 PM

    Lost in the Stars

    Kurt Weill

    Exiles' Cafe

    Lara Downes, piano

    4:25
  • 3:06 PM

    May-Day Overture

    Haydn Wood

    British Light Music: Haydn Wood, Vol. 2

    Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Ernest Tomlinson, conductor

    6:55
  • 3:00 PM

    Piano Sonata No. 52: 3rd movement

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

    Roman Rabinovich, piano

    4:35
  • 2:51 PM

    Fiesta criolla

    Manuel Gomez Carrillo

    Fiesta Criolla: Latin-American Orchestral Works

    Wurttemberg Philharmonic Reutlingen

    Gabriel Castagna, conductor

    7:10
  • 2:47 PM

    Academic Festival Overture

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Symphony No. 3, Academic Festival Overture

    Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Georg Solti, conductor

    10:33
  • 2:31 PM

    Swan Lake: Dance of the Swans

    Peter Tchaikovsky

    Tschaikowsky: Der Schwanensee

    Boston Symphony Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    Joseph Silverstein, violin

    17:34
  • 2:15 PM

    Violin Sonata

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart: The Violin Sonatas

    Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

    14:46
  • 2:10 PM

    Madame Butterfly: Un bel di vedremo (One fine day)

    Giacomo Puccini

    The #1 Opera Album

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Herbert von Karajan, conductor

    Mirella Freni, soprano

    4:33
  • 2:00 PM

    Morning Song "Maytime in Sussex"

    Arnold Bax

    Bax: Symphonic Variations & Morning Song

    London Philharmonic Orchestra

    Bryden Thomson, conductor

    Margaret Fingerhut, piano

    8:10
  • 1:53 PM

    Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev

    Modest Mussorgsky

    Andrey Gugnin, piano

    5:00
  • 1:51 PM

    Bogoroditse Devo (Rejoice, O Virgin)

    Arvo Part

    Shout the Glad Tidings!

    The Singers

    Matthew Culloton, conductor

    1:02
  • 1:37 PM

    Scheherazade: The Story of the Kalender Prince

    Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Philadelphia Orchestra

    Riccardo Muti, conductor

    Norman Carol, concertmaster

    12:22
  • 1:30 PM

    Symphonic Metamorphosis: March

    Paul Hindemith

    Hindemith: Mathis der Maler - Symphony, etc.

    Philadelphia Orchestra

    Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor

    4:54
  • 1:23 PM

    An English Suite: Air and Frolic

    Hubert Parry

    Elgar: Seranade, etc./Parry: An English Suite, etc.

    City of London Sinfonia

    Richard Hickox, conductor

    5:55
  • 1:18 PM

    Polonaise

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert: Piano Music for Four Hands, Vol. 1

    Yaara Tal, piano

    4:23
  • 1:09 PM

    From the Northland

    Leo Sowerby

    Sowerby: Tone Poems

    Czech National Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    20:42
  • 1:04 PM

    Suite: Finale

    Gordon Jacob

    In This Hid Clearing...

    University of Missouri Wind Ensemble

    Thomas O'Neal, conductor

    4:00
  • 12:51 PM

    Symphonie Espagnole: Rondo

    Edouard Lalo

    Greatest Hits

    Paris Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    8:01
  • 12:49 PM

    Violin Sonata No. 5 "Spring": 3rd movement

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos.9 "Kreutzer" & 5 "Spring"

    Itzhak Perlman, violin

    1:14
  • 12:37 PM

    Gloriana: Courtly Dances

    Benjamin Britten

    Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

    Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    Andre Previn, conductor

    10:19
  • 12:31 PM

    Symphony No. 29: 4th movement

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mozart; Zuckerman

    National Arts Centre Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    5:33
  • 12:26 PM

    Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz

    Aaron Copland

    Essential Aaron Copland: 12 Greatest Hits

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Antal Dorati, conductor

    4:17
  • 12:20 PM

    Viola Sonata: 2nd movement

    Henriette Bosmans

    TRAILBLAZERS: Sonatas by Henriette Bosmans, Ethel Smyth, and Dora Peja?evi?

    Molly Gebrian, viola

    4:29
  • 12:07 PM

    Carnival of Venice Fantaisie

    Traditional

    Justin Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements

    Christopher Mallett, guitar

    6:38
  • 12:04 PM

    Now is the month of maying

    Thomas Morley

    Flora Gave Me Fairest Flowers

    Cambridge Singers

    John Rutter, conductor

    1:56
  • 11:47 AM

    Quartet No. 2

    Gioacchino Rossini

    Rossini: Six Wind Quartets

    Vienna-Berlin Ensemble

    11:43
  • 11:39 AM

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

    Edvard Grieg

    Grieg: Symphonic Dances, Piano Concerto Op. 16, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    5:53
  • 11:31 AM

    Symphony No. 82 "The Bear": Finale

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 82

    Handel and Haydn Society

    Harry Christophers, conductor

    7:35
  • 11:26 AM

    Messiah: All we like sheep

    George Frideric Handel

    Handel: Messiah Highlights

    Boston Baroque

    Martin Pearlman, conductor

    3:26
  • 11:20 AM

    Serenade No. 1: Rondo

    Johannes Brahms

    Brahms: Serenade Nr. 1; Tragische Ouverture; Akademische Festouverture

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

    5:06
  • 11:19 AM

    A Song of the Weather

    Flanders & Swann

    At the Drop of a Hat

    Michael Flanders, vocal

    Donald Swann, piano

    2:00
  • 11:15 AM

    The Year: May

    Fanny Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn-Hensel: Das Jahr - 12 Charakterstücke für Klavier

    Christina Bjorkoe, piano

    2:47
  • 11:07 AM

    Concerto for Two Flutes

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: 6 Double Concertos

    Academy of St Martin in the Fields

    Neville Marriner, conductor

    William Bennett, flute

    6:42
  • 11:04 AM

    Jazz Suite No. 1

    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Shostakovich: Jazz Music

    Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

    Riccardo Chailly, conductor

    8:04
  • 10:42 AM

    Ma vlast (My Country): Vysehrad

    Bedrich Smetana

    Smetana: Ma Vlast

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

    Semyon Bychkov, conductor

    15:52
  • 10:36 AM

    Les Soirees d'Auteuil: Scherzo

    Napoleon Coste

    Anabel Montesinos, guitar

    4:29
  • 10:21 AM

    Horn Concerto No. 1

    Richard Strauss

    Martin Owen plays Strauss, Schumann, and Weber

    BBC Philharmonic

    John Wilson, conductor

    Martin Owen, horn

    15:26
  • 10:17 AM

    Voices of Spring: May Night

    Marie Trautmann Jaell

    Compositrices: New Light on French Romantic Women Composers

    Roberto Prosseda and Alessandra Ammara, piano four hands

    1:53
  • 10:06 AM

    Capriol Suite

    Peter Warlock

    The Spirit of England

    English String Orchestra

    William Boughton, conductor

    9:56
  • 10:01 AM

    Violin Sonata

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Haydn: Cello Concert in C Major, etc.

    Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violin

    4:30
  • 9:43 AM

    Carmen Suite

    Georges Bizet

    Bizet: Symphony in C; Carmen - Suites Nos 1 & 2; Jeux d'enfants - Suite; Overture: Patrie

    French National Orchestra

    Seiji Ozawa, conductor

    14:56
  • 9:22 AM

    Serenade for Winds

    Emil Hartmann

    Romantic Wind Serenades

    Consortium Classicum

    19:40
  • 9:17 AM

    Song without Words No. 25 "May Breezes"

    Felix Mendelssohn

    Mendelssohn: Songs without Words

    Ilse von Alpenheim, piano

    3:15
  • 9:06 AM

    Morning Papers Waltz

    Johann StraussJr.

    1995 New Year's Concert

    Vienna Philharmonic

    Zubin Mehta, conductor

    10:26
  • 9:01 AM

    Musical Moment No. 4

    Franz Schubert

    Schubert, Mazzoli

    Shai Wosner, piano

    4:47
  • 8:36 AM

    Caucasian Sketches

    Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

    Khachaturian, Kabalevsky

    Utah Symphony Orchestra

    Maurice Abravanel, conductor

    22:01
  • 8:22 AM

    Concert Rondo "Krakowiak"

    Frederic Chopin

    Dances for Piano and Orchestra

    Northwest Sinfonietta

    Christophe Chagnard, conductor

    Joel Fan, piano

    13:54
  • 8:05 AM

    Printemps (Spring)

    Claude Debussy

    Debussy: Works for Orchestra, Vol. II

    Radio Luxembourg Orchestra

    Louis de Froment, conductor

    15:17
  • 8:01 AM

    En avril a Paris

    Charles Trenet

    Carte Blanche

    Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

    3:05
  • 7:44 AM

    The Merchant of Venice: Suite

    Arthur Sullivan

    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    Vivian Dunn, conductor

    14:20
  • 7:31 AM

    Violin Concerto

    Antonio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi: Violin Concertos, RV 187, 195, 197, 204, 209, 242, 364

    English Chamber Orchestra

    Pinchas Zukerman, conductor

    Pinchas Zukerman, violin

    12:15
  • 7:09 AM

    Harp Concerto

    Francois Boieldieu

    Villa Lobos, Boieldieu, Rodrigo: Harp Concertos

    Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra

    Antonio de Almeida, conductor

    Catherine Michel, harp

    20:29
  • 7:01 AM

    The Red Pony Suite: selections

    Aaron Copland

    Aaron Copland: Four Dances from Rodeo

    Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

    JoAnn Falletta, conductor

    7:21
  • 6:24 AM

    Symphony No. 2

    Ludwig van Beethoven

    Beethoven For All: Symphonies 1-9

    West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

    Daniel Barenboim, conductor

    34:08
  • 6:21 AM

    Cancion de luna (Moonsong)

    Ernesto Lecuona

    Lecuona: "La Habanera"

    Kathryn Stott, piano

    1:59
  • 6:01 AM

    Duet-Concertino

    Richard Strauss

    Strauss, Honegger

    Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

    Gerard Schwarz, conductor

    Kenneth Munday, bassoon

    18:34
  • 5:44 AM

    Symphony

    Chevalier de Saint-Georges

    Black Composers Series 1974-1978

    London Symphony Orchestra

    Paul Freeman, conductor

    14:17
  • 5:25 AM

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

    Johannes Brahms

    Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4

    Dresden State Orchestra

    Kurt Sanderling, conductor

    18:38
  • 5:01 AM

    String Quartet No. 2

    Robert Schumann

    Brahms, Schumann: String Quartets

    Melos Quartet

    21:56