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Most recent tracks:
| Title | Composer | Performers |
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| 1:53 pm | Piano Concerto #20 in d K.466 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Mitsuko Uchida, piano Mitsuko Uchida / Cleveland Orchestra |
Decca B0015498-02 |
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| 1:34 pm | Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite #1 | Ottorino Respighi | Richard Hickox / Sinfonia 21 |
Chandos 9415 |
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| 1:16 pm | Le Tombeau de Couperin | Maurice Ravel | Christoph Eschenbach / Orchestre de Paris |
Ondine 1051 |
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| 1:12 pm | Ave Verum Corpus K.618 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
James Vivian, organ Stephen Cleobury / Choir of King's College, Cambridge |
London 482 4615 |
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| 1:05 pm | Primavera | Ludovico Einaudi |
Ludovico Einaudi, piano Robert Ziegler / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic |
Ponderosa 035 |
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| 12:56 pm | Symphony #4: Finale | Peter Tchaikovsky | Mariss Jansons / Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra |
Chandos 8361 |
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| 12:47 pm | Piano Concerto #3 in C Op 26 | Sergei Prokofiev |
Martha Argerich, piano Claudio Abbado / Berlin Philharmonic |
DG 415062 |
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| 12:26 pm | Symphony #25 in g K 183 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Trevor Pinnock / English Concert |
DG 431679 |
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| 12:08 pm | Variations on a Theme by Haydn | Johannes Brahms | Thomas Dausgaard / Swedish Chamber Orchestra |
BIS 2253 |
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| 11:50 am | Siegfried Idyll | Richard Wagner | Vladimir Ashkenazy / English Chamber Orchestra |
London 410111 |
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| 11:43 am | Serenade for Strings in E Op 22 | Antonin Dvorak | Myung-Whun Chung / Vienna Philharmonic |
DG 471613 |
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| 11:34 am | Academic Festival Overture | Johannes Brahms | Thomas Dausgaard / Swedish Chamber Orchestra |
BIS 2253 |
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| 11:30 am | Gymnopedie #2 | Erik Satie | Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano |
Decca 230 |
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| 11:18 am | Triple Concerto in C Op.56 | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Mari Kodama, piano; Kolja Blacher, violin; Johannes Moser, cello Kent Nagano / Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin |
Berlin 0301304 |
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| 11:04 am | Symphony #5 in e Op 64 | Peter Tchaikovsky | Valery Gergiev / Vienna Philharmonic |
Philips 462905 |
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| 11:01 am | Messiah: Hallelujah | George Frideric Handel |
Philharmonia Chorus Nicholas McGegan / Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra |
Naxos 8570363 |
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| 10:47 am | Symphony #1 "Classical" in D Op 25 | Sergei Prokofiev | Andre Previn / Los Angeles Philharmonic |
Philips 420172 |
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| 10:44 am | Gymnopedie #3 | Erik Satie | Alexandre Tharaud, piano |
Erato 34137 |
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| 10:29 am | Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G BWV 1049 | Johann Sebastian Bach | Jeffrey Thomas / American Bach Soloists | ABS | Buy |
| 10:23 am | Four Last Songs: Beim Schlafengehen | Richard Strauss |
Jessye Norman, soprano Kurt Masur / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra |
Philips 475 8507 |
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| 10:18 am | Two Sunsets | Ludovico Einaudi | Ludovico Einaudi, piano; Marco Decimo, cello |
RCA 655089 |
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| 10:07 am | Night on Bald Mountain | Modest Mussorgsky | Andre Previn / Los Angeles Philharmonic |
Philips 416382 |
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| 10:03 am | Guitar Quintet #4 "Fandango" in D G.448 | Luigi Boccherini |
Milos Karadaglic, guitar Paul Watkins / English Chamber Orchestra |
DG 001938302 |
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| 9:59 am | Sleepers Awake BWV 645 | Johann Sebastian Bach | Eugene Ormandy / Philadelphia Orchestra |
Sony 38915 |
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| 9:52 am | Danse Macabre Op 40 | Camille Saint-Saens | Kent Nagano / Montreal Symphony Orchestra |
Decca 483 0396 |
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| 9:47 am | La Traviata: Sempre libera | Giuseppe Verdi |
Cheryl Studer, soprano; Luciano Pavarotti, tenor Metropolitan Opera Orchestra |
DG 445774 |
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| 9:44 am | La Traviata: Libiamo (Brindisi) | Giuseppe Verdi |
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor; Joan Sutherland, soprano; London Opera Chorus Richard Bonynge / National Philharmonic Orchestra |
Decca B003033002 |
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| 9:38 am | Suite Espanola: Asturias | Isaac Albeniz | David Russell, guitar |
Telarc 80576 |
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| 9:33 am | Brandenburg Concerto #1 in F BWV 1046 | Johann Sebastian Bach | Jeffrey Thomas / American Bach Soloists | ABS | Buy |
| 9:29 am | Karelia Suite: March Op 11 | Jean Sibelius | Yoel Levi / Atlanta Symphony Orchestra |
Telarc 80320 |
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| 9:16 am | Der Rosenkavalier: First Waltz Sequence | Richard Strauss | Herbert Blomstedt / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig |
Decca 4645 |
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| 8:57 am | Holberg Suite Op 40 | Edvard Grieg | Neeme Jarvi / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra |
DG 437520 |
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| 8:51 am | Piano Concerto #5 "Egyptian": Finale Op 103 | Camille Saint-Saens |
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande |
Decca 9744 |
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| 8:47 am | Memories of the Alhambra | Francisco Tarrega | Xuefei Yang, guitar |
EMI 70714 |
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| 8:41 am | Sinfonia Concertante in Eb - Finale K 364 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Philippe Graffin, violin; Nobuko Imai, viola Philippe Graffin / Brabants Orchestra |
Avie 2127 |
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| 8:31 am | Symphony #8 in F Op 93 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Osmo Vanska / Minnesota Orchestra |
Bis 1516 |
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| 8:22 am | Symphonie concertante for 2 Violins in G Op.13 | Joseph Boulogne |
Miriam Fried, violin; Jaime Laredo, violin Paul Freeman / London Symphony Orchestra |
Sony | Buy |
| 8:13 am | Huapango | Jose Moncayo | Benjamin Juarez Echenique / Orquesta de las Americas | Urtext | Buy |
| 8:02 am | Sorcerer's Apprentice | Paul Dukas | Jesus Lopez-Cobos / Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra |
Telarc 80515 |
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| 6:52 am | Symphony #9 'Choral' in d Op.125 | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Erin Wall, soprano; Kendall Gladen, mezzo-soprano; William Burden, tenor; Nathan Berg, bass-baritone; San Francisco Symphony Chorus; Michael Tilson Thomas / San Francisco Symphony |
SFS Media 55 |
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| 6:36 am | Rhapsody in Blue | Buy | |||
| 5:55 am | Symphony #9 "From the New World" in e Op.95 | Antonin Dvorak | Kevin John Edusei / Chineke! Orchestra |
Signum 515 |
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| 5:20 am | Piano Concerto #2 in c Op.18 | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Gabriela Montero, piano Carlos Miguel Prieto / YOA Orchestra of the Americas |
Orchid 100047 |
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| 4:38 am | Symphony #6 "Pastoral" in F Op.68 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Osmo Vanska / Minnesota Orchestra |
Bis 1716 |
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| 3:58 am | Symphony #7 in A Op.92 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Michael Tilson Thomas / San Francisco Symphony |
SFS Media 0054 |
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| 3:18 am | Piano Concerto #5 "Emperor" in Eb Op.73 | Ludwig van Beethoven |
Norman Krieger, piano JoAnn Falletta / Buffalo Philharmonic |
Decca 481 5583 |
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| 2:44 am | Symphony #5 in c Op 67 | Ludwig van Beethoven | Michael Tilson Thomas / San Francisco Symphony |
SFS Media 0037 |
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| 1:54 am | Requiem in d K 626 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
St. Olaf Choir; Maria Jette, soprano; Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano; James Taylor, tenor; Eric Owens, bass; Andreas Delfs / Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra |
Limestone 2756 |
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| 1:38 am | The Lark Ascending | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Nicola Benedetti, violin Andrew Litton / London Philharmonic Orchestra |
DG 10830 |
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| 1:25 am | The Moldau | Bedrich Smetana | Andre Previn / Los Angeles Philharmonic |
Philips 416382 |
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| 12:51 am | Violin Concerto in D Op 35 | Peter Tchaikovsky |
Leila Josefowicz, violin Sir Neville Marriner / Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields |
Philips 446131 |
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| 12:41 am | Adagio for Strings | Samuel Barber | New Century Chamber Orchestra |
NSS Music 110 |
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| 12:38 am | Star Wars: Imperial March | John Williams |
Robert deMaine, cello Gustavo Dudamel / Los Angeles Philharmonic |
DG 002993902 |
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| 12:33 am | Star Wars: Luke and Leia | John Williams |
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin John Williams / Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles |
DG 003062902 |
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| 12:29 am | Star Wars: Episode IV - Binary Sunset | John Williams | John Williams / London Symphony Orchestra |
RCA 68772 |
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| 12:27 am | Star Wars: Main Title | John Williams | John Williams / London Symphony Orchestra |
RCA 68772 |
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| 12:23 am | Appalachian Spring: Simple Gifts | Aaron Copland | Leonard Bernstein / Los Angeles Philharmonic |
DG 445486 |
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| 12:17 am | Suite Bergamasque: Clair de lune L 75 | Claude Debussy | Carol Rosenberger, piano |
Delos 3030 |
Buy |
