Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Frédéric Chopin, reactionary and revolutionary -- Robert Schumann, a vision of the future -- Long perspectives -- The New Grove's dictionary returns -- Western music : the view from California -- Theodore Adorno : criticism as cultural nostalgia -- Resuscitating opera : Alessandro Scarlatti -- Operatic paradoxes : the ridiculous and sublime -- Lost chords and the golden age of pianism -- Montaigne : philosophy as process -- La Fontaine : the ethical power of style -- The anatomy lesson : melancholy and the invention of boredom -- Mallarmé and the transfiguration of poetry -- Hoffmansthal and radical modernism -- The private obsessions of Wystan Auden -- Old wisdom and newfangled theory : two one-way streets to disaster.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sonata in A minor, D. 821 : "Arpeggione" / Franz Schubert (25:47) -- Märchenbilder : op. 113 (17:26) ; Adagio & allegro, op. 70 (9:05) / Robert Schumann -- Kol nidrei : op. 47 / Max Bruch (10:41) -- Konzertstück / Georges Enesco (9:19).…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…To know one thing well -- Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) / Spring from the Four seasons, movement 1 -- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / Invention no.1 from the Two-part inventions -- George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) / Hallelujah chorus from Messiah -- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) / Haydn String quartet op.76 no. 1 mvmt. 3 -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) / Dove sono from the Marriage of Figaro -- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) / Waldstein sonata movement 1 -- Franz Schubert (1797-1828) / Erlkönig -- Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) / A-minor Mazurka op.17 no.4 -- Robert Schumann (1810-1856) / Traümerei from Kinderscenen -- Franz Liszt (1811-1886) / Transcendental etude in a minor -- Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) / Scherzo from the String octet -- Richard Wagner (1813-1883) / Prelude to Tristan and Isolde -- Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) / De' miei bollenti spiriti from la Traviata -- Giaccamo Puccini (1858-1924) / Un bel di vedremo from Madama Butterfly -- Brahms (1833-1897) / A-major intermezzo, op.118 no.2 -- Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904) / Slavonic dance op.46 no.8 -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) / Trepak from the Nutcracker suite -- Claude Debussy (1862-1918) / Des pas sur la neige (Footsteps in the snow) from Preludes book I.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Brandenburg concerto no. 1 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Concerto for piano no. 5, "Emperor" ; Fidelio: Overture ; Symphony no. 2 ; Symphony no. 3, "Eroica" ; Symphony no. 4 ; Symphony no. 5 ; Symphony no. 6, "Pastoral", Symphony no. 7 ; Symphony no. 8 ; Symphony no. 9, "Choral" / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Romeo and Juliet: Queen Mab scherzo / Hector Berlioz -- Academic festival overture ; Concerto for piano no. 1 ; Concerto for piano no. 2 ; Symphony no. 1 ; Symphony no. 2 ; Symphony no. 3 ; Symphony no. 4 / Johannes Brahms -- Symphony no. 4, "Romantic" / Anton Bruckner -- Concerto for cello ; Symphony no. 9, "New world" / Antonin Dvořák -- Symphony no. 31, "Mit dem ornsignal" / Joseph Haydn -- Symphony no. 1 ; Symphony no. 4 ; Symphony no. 5 / Gustav Mahler -- Midsummer night's dream: Nocturne ; Symphony no. 3, "Scotch" / Felix Mendelssohn -- Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K. 550 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Pictures from an exhibition / Modest Mussorgsky/Ravel -- Bolero ; Concerto pour piano et orchestre ; Pavan for a dead princess / Maurice Ravel -- Symphony no. 3 / Camille Saint Saëns -- Symphony no. 5 / Dimitri Shostakovich -- Symphony no. 3, "Rhenish" / Robert Schumann -- Don Juan ; Don Quixote ; Ein Heldenleben ; Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks / Richard Strauss -- Firebird suite / Igor Stravinsky -- Symphony no. 4 ; Symphony no. 5 / Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Lohengrin: Prelude to act III ; Das Rheingold: Prelude ; Siegfried's Rhine journey / Richard Wagner -- Der Freischütz: Overture / Carl Maria von Weber.…”