From the Book - First edition.
PART I. 1789 : BEFORE AND AFTER. Il catalogo e questo : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto No. 17, in G Major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 453 (1784) ; His Imperial Highness's Sore Finger : Ludwig van Beethoven : Trio in B- flat Major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 97, "Archduke" (1811)
PART II. THE ROMANTIC CENTURY. A Quartet That's About Nothing : Franz Schubert : String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, Op. posth. 161, D. 887 (1826) ; In the Wondrously Disturbing Month of May ; Robert Schumann : Dichterliebe (Poet's Love), Op. 48 (1840) ; A Monument Reimagined ; Hector Berlioz : La Damnation de Faust : Laegende dramatique, Op. 24 (1846) ; The Crown, the Cross, and the Cruelty of Love : Giuseppe Verdi : Don Carlos (1867) ; Almost a Tale of Joy : Johannes Brahms : String Quintet No. 2, in G Major, Op. 111 (1890)
PART III. THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY. Europe, a Prophecy? Jean Sibelius : Symphony No. 4, in A Minor, Op. 63 (1911) ; Creative Suffering : Sergei Prokofiev : Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-flat Major, Op. 84 (1944) ; An Ice-Cold Question Mark : Igor Stravinsky : Requiem Canticles for Contralto and Bass Soli, Chorus, and Orchestra (1966).