December 21, 2019: (Full-page version) Close Window “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.” — Leonard Bernstein Start Buy CD Stock Program Composer Title Performers Record Label Barcode Time online Number Sleepers, 00:01 Buy Now! Strauss, Josef Music of the Spheres Vienna Philharmonic/Kleiber Sony 48376 07464483762 Awake! 00:11 Buy Now! Leontovych Two Christmas carols Dale Warland Singers Gothic 49208 000334920821 00:17 Buy Now! Bach English Suite No. 1 in A, BWV 806 Andras Schiff London 421 640 08942164024 00:39 Buy Now! Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 Brantelid/BBC Philharmonic/Mena BBC Music 328 n/a Records 01:00 Buy Now! Rimsky-Korsakov Night on Mount Triglav Slovak Philharmonic/Rezucha 7009 N/A International 01:32 Buy Now! Howells Here is the little door Chanticleer Teldec 94563 745099456320 01:37 Buy Now! 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