| Preface | p. xxiii |
| Hildegard of Bingen, O Jerusalem (Sequentia) | p. 1 |
| Guillaume de Machaut, Messe de Notre Dame (Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres, conducting) | p. 4 |
| Josquin Desprez, Missa Fortuna Desperata, "La Plus des Plus," "Bergerette Savoysienne," "Adieu Mes Amours," "Consideres Mes Incessantes/Fortuna" (The Clerks' Group, Edward Wickham, conducting) | p. 7 |
| Carlo Gesualdo, Madrigals, from Books III, IV, V, VI (Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, conducting) | p. 9 |
| John Dowland, First Booke of Songes (The Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley, lutenist and director) | p. 12 |
| Shakespeare Songs and Consort Music (Alfred Deller, countertenor; Desmond Dupre, lutenist; the Deller Consort) | p. 15 |
| Claudio Monteverdi, Vespro della Beata Virgine (1610) (The Monteverdi Choir; the London Oratory Junior Choir; His Majesties Sagbutts & Cornetts; the English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conducting) | p. 19 |
| Claudio Monteverdi, Madrigali Guerrieri ed Amorosi (Madrigals, Book VIII) (Concerto Vocale, Rene Jacobs, conducting) | p. 23 |
| Henry Purcell, Odes for St. Cecilia's Day and Music for Queen Mary (Taverner Consort, Choir and Players, Andrew Parrott, conducting) | p. 26 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concertos (Il Giardino Armonico) | p. 29 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (BWV 1001-1006) (Christian Tetzlaff, violinist) | p. 32 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B minor (BWV 232) (The Bach Ensemble, Joshua Rifkin, conducting) | p. 35 |
| Johann Sebastian Bach, Glenn Gould--A State of Wonder: Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould, pianist) | p. 38 |
| George Frideric Handel, Water Music (English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conducting) | p. 43 |
| George Frideric Handel, Israel in Egypt (The Choir of King's College, Cambridge; The Brandenburg Consort, Stephen Cleobury, conducting) | p. 45 |
| George Frideric Handel, Messiah (Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Simon Preston, director; Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood, conducting) | p. 48 |
| Domenico Scarlatti, Sonatas (Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist) | p. 53 |
| Antonio Vivaldi, Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione (Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi, solo violinist and conductor) | p. 58 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concertos, no. 20 in D minor (K. 466); no. 27 in B-flat (K. 595); no. 26 in D major (K. 537); no. 23 in A major (K. 488); no. 24 in C minor (K. 491); (Sir Clifford Curzon, pianist; English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, conducting; London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz, conducting) | p. 61 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony no. 41 in C, Jupiter (K. 551), Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A (K. 622), and Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra in B-flat (K. 191) (Jack Brymer, clarinetist; Gwydion Brooke, bassoonist; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham, conducting) | p. 64 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento in E-flat (K. 563) (Gidon Kremer, violinist; Kim Kashkashian, violist; Yo-Yo Ma, cellist) | p. 67 |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem (K. 626, completion by Franz Xaver Sussmayr) (John Alldis Choir, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, conducting) | p. 70 |
| Franz Joseph Haydn, String Quartets (The Emerson String Quartet) | p. 74 |
| Franz Joseph Haydn, The London Symphonies, Vol. I (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Sir Colin Davis, conducting) | p. 77 |
| Franz Joseph Haydn, Die Schopfung (The Creation) (Stockholm Radio Chorus, Stockholm Chamber Choir, and Berlin Philharmonic, James Levine, conducting) | p. 81 |
| Juan Crisostomo Arriaga, Symphonie a Grande Orchestre, Los Esclavos Felices Overture, and Overture for Nonet (Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall, conducting) | p. 84 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven, The Nine Symphonies, Overtures (Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Choir, George Szell, conducting) | p. 86 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major (Jascha Heifetz, violinist; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, conducting); Johannes Brahms, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major (Jascha Heifetz, violinist; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, conducting) | p. 93 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven, The Late Piano Sonatas (Richard Goode, pianist) | p. 96 |
| Franz Schubert, Lieder (Ian Bostridge, tenor; Julius Drake, pianist) | p. 99 |
| Franz Schubert, Winterreise (D. 911) (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Alfred Brendel, pianist) | p. 103 |
| Franz Schubert, Quintet in C for Two Violins, Viola, and Two Cellos (D. 956) (The Alban Berg Quartet, with Heinrich Schiff, cellist) | p. 105 |
| Franz Schubert, Sonata for Piano no. 21 in B-flat (D. 960), and Three Klavierstucke (D. 946) (Mitsuko Uchida, pianist) | p. 108 |
| Hector Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Sir Colin Davis, conducting) | p. 111 |
| Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony no. 4 in A major, Italian (op. 90); and overture and excerpts from the Incidental Music for Midsummer Night's Dream (Orchestra of the Age of Englightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras, conducting) | p. 115 |
| Frederic Chopin, Twenty-four Preludes (op. 28), Berceuse (op. 57), Barcarolle (op. 60), Piano Sonata no. 2, "Funeral March" (op. 35), and the Impromptu in G-flat (op. 51) (Arthur Rubinstein, pianist) | p. 117 |
| Robert Schumann, Carnaval (op. 9), Novellette (op. 21, no. 1), Nachtstuck (op. 23, no. 4), Romance (op. 28, no. 2), and Fantasiestucke (op. 12) (Arthur Rubinstein, pianist) | p. 120 |
| Franz Liszt, Sonata in B minor, Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude, Waldesrauschen, Gnomenreigen, and Vallee d'Obermann (Claudio Arrau, pianist) | p. 124 |
| Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) (op. 45) (Arleen Auger, soprano; Richard Stillwell, baritone; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Robert Shaw, conducting) | p. 127 |
| Johannes Brahms, Symphony no. 1 in C minor (op. 68), Symphony no. 2 in D (op. 73), Symphony no. 3 in F (op. 90), Symphony no. 4 in E minor (op. 98), Tragic Overture, and Academic Festival Overture (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti, conducting) | p. 130 |
| Johannes Brahms, String Sextet in B-flat (op. 18), String Sextet in G (op. 36), Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor (op. 34), Quintet for Strings in F (op. 88), Quintet for Strings in G (op. 111), and Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (op. 115) (Cecil Aronowitz, violist; William Pleeth, cellist; Christoph Eschenbach, pianist; Karl Leister, clarinetist; The Amadeus Quartet) | p. 134 |
| Bedrich Smetana, Ma Vlast (My Country) (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik, conducting) | p. 138 |
| Modest Mussorgsky, Songs (Sergei Leiferkus, baritone; Semion Skigin, pianist) | p. 143 |
| Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (Ravel orchestration), Khovanshchina Prelude (Shostakovich orchestration), Night on the Bare Mountain (Rimsky-Korsakov orchestration), and Sorochintsky Fair Gopak (Liadov orchestration) (Vienna Philharmonic, Valery Gergiev, conducting) | p. 145 |
| Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 4 in F minor (op. 36), Symphony no. 5 in E minor (op. 64), and Symphony no. 6 in B minor, Pathetique (op. 74) (Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgeny Mravinsky, conducting) | p. 147 |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade; Alexander Borodin, Symphony no. 2 in B minor (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, Kiril Kondrashin, conducting) | p. 150 |
| Edvard Grieg, Holberg Suite (op. 40), Two Elegiac Melodies (op. 34), Peer Gynt Suite no. 1 (op. 46) and Suite no. 2 (op. 55), and "Evening in the Mountains" and "At the Cradle" from Lyric Pieces (op. 68, nos. 4 and 5) (Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, conducting) | p. 153 |
| Music from Saratoga: Ludwig van Beethoven, Kreutzer Sonata for Piano and Violin no. 9 in A (op. 47); Cesar Franck, Violin Sonata in A (Itzhak Perlman, violinist; Martha Argerich, pianist) | p. 156 |
| Antonin Dvorak, Symphony no. 9 in E minor (op. 95), Carnival Overture (op. 92), and Slavonic Dances, nos. 1 and 3 (op. 46) (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conducting) | p. 158 |
| Camille Saint-Saens, Symphony no. 3 (op. 78); Paul Dukas, The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Simon Preston, organist; Berlin Philharmonic, James Levine, conducting) | p. 162 |
| Giuseppe Verdi, Requiem and Four Sacred Pieces (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano; Christa Ludwig, mezzo-soprano; Nicolai Gedda, tenor; Nicolai Ghiaurov, bass; Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano [in the Four Sacred Pieces]; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini, conducting) | p. 165 |
| Gabriel Faure, Requiem (1893 version, op. 48); Cantique de Jean Racine (op. 11); Messe Basse; Tantum Ergo (op. 65, no. 2); and Ave Verum Corpus (op. 65, no. 1) (Mary Seers and Isabelle Poulenard, sopranos; Michael George, baritone; Corydon Singers; John Scott, organist; English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best, conducting) | p. 168 |
| Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 4 in G (Judith Raskin, soprano); Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) (Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell, conducting; Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Davis, conducting) | p. 170 |
| Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 9 (Berlin Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conducting) | p. 175 |
| Jean Sibelius, Symphony no. 2 (op. 43) (Royal Philharmonic, Sir John Barbirolli, conducting) | p. 178 |
| Leos Janacek, String Quartet no. 1, The Kreutzer Sonata; and String Quartet no. 2, Intimate Letters; Alban Berg, Lyric Suite (Juilliard String Quartet) | p. 181 |
| Claude Debussy, La Mer, Jeux, Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien (orchestral fragments), Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, Images, Nocturnes, and Printemps (Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, conducting) | p. 185 |
| Claude Debussy, Preludes, Books I and II (Paul Jacobs, pianist) | p. 188 |
| Maurice Ravel, The Orchestral Works (Philippe Entrement, pianist; Camerata Singers; New York Philharmonic and Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, conducting) | p. 190 |
| Erik Satie, L'Oeuvre pour Piano (The Piano Works) (Aldo Ciccolini, pianist) | p. 193 |
| Manuel de Falla, El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Interludio y Danza from La Vida Breve, and El Amor Brujo (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet, conducting) | p. 196 |
| Richard Strauss, Tone Poems (Staatskapelle Dresden, Berlin Philharmonic, Karl Bohm, conducting) | p. 200 |
| Arnold Schoenberg, Suite (op. 29), Verklarte Nacht (op. 4), and Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra (Members of the Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez, conducting) | p. 203 |
| Igor Stravinsky, Petrushka and Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky, conducting); or Le Sacre du Printemps and L'Oiseau de Feu Suite (Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky, conducting) | p. 207 |
| Igor Stravinsky, The Mono Years (The Cleveland Orchestra and a chamber ensemble, Igor Stravinsky, conducting) | p. 212 |
| Reynaldo Hahn, La Belle Epoque: The Songs of Reynaldo Hahn (Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Roger Vignoles, pianist) | p. 215 |
| Agustin Barrios, From the Jungles of Paraguay: John Williams Plays Barrios (John Williams, guitarist) | p. 217 |
| Sir Edward Elgar, English String Music; Introduction and Allegro (op. 47), Serenade in E minor (op. 20), Elegy (op. 58), and Sospiri (op. 70); Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Fantasia on Greensleeves (Sinfonia of London; Allegri String Quartet; New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, conducting) | p. 222 |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff, Concerto no. 3 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra (op. 30); Sergei Prokofiev, Concerto no. 3 in C major for Piano and Orchestra (op. 26) (Van Cliburn, pianist; Symphony of the Air, Kiril Kondrashin, conducting; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Walter Hendl, conducting) | p. 224 |
| Edgard Varese, Ionisation, Ameriques, and Arcana (New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez, conducting); Offrandes, Octandre, Integrales, and Density 21.5 (Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez, conducting) | p. 228 |
| Charles Ives, Three Places in New England (Orchestral Set no. 1) and Orchestral Set no. 2; Carl Ruggles, Sun-Treader and Men and Mountains; Ruth Crawford Seeger, Andante for Strings (Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, Christoph von Dohnanyi, conducting) | p. 231 |
| George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris; Ferde Grofe, Grand Canyon Suite (Columbia Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conducting, and pianist in the Rhapsody) | p. 235 |
| Aaron Copland, The Copland Collection--Orchestral and Ballet Works, 1936-1948 (Henry Fonda, narrator; Benny Goodman, clarinetist; New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory Chorus, Columbia Symphony Strings, Aaron Copland, conducting) | p. 238 |
| Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings (op. 11), Overture to The School for Scandal (op. 5), Second Essay for Orchestra (op. 17), Medea's Dance of Vengeance (op. 23a), Andromache's Farewell (op. 39), and Intermezzo from Vanessa (op. 32) (Martina Arroyo, soprano; New York Philharmonic and Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Schippers, conducting) | p. 241 |
| Kurt Weill, Kleine Dreigroschenmusik, Mahagonny Songspiel, Happy End, Berliner Requiem, Pantomime I (from Der Protagonist), Vom Tod im Wald, and Violin Concerto (Mary Thomas and Meriel Dickinson, mezzosopranos; Philip Langridge and Ian Partridge, tenors; Benjamin Luxon, baritone; Michael Rippon, bass; Nona Liddell, violinist; London Sinfonietta, David Atherton, conducting) | p. 244 |
| Alban Berg, Violin Concerto; Wolfgang Rihm, Time Chant (Anne-Sophie Mutter, violinist; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine, conducting) | p. 247 |
| Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 5 in D minor (op. 47) and Symphony no. 9 in E-flat major (op. 70) (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conducting) | p. 250 |
| Dmitri Shostakovich, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra no. 1 in A minor (op. 77), Concerto for Cello and Orchestra no. 1 in E-flat (op. 107) (David Oistrakh, violinist, New York Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos, conducting; Mstislav Rostropovich, cellist, Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, conducting) | p. 253 |
| Bela Bartok, The Six String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet) | p. 256 |
| Bela Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; and Hungarian Sketches (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, conducting) | p. 259 |
| Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Concerto Funebre; Symphony no. 4; and Chamber Concerto (Isabelle Faust, violinist; Paul Meyer, clarinetist; Petersen Quartet; Munich Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen, conducting) | p. 262 |
| Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour le Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time) (Tashi) | p. 264 |
| Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras, nos. 1, 2, 5, and 9 (Victoria de los Angeles, soprano [in no. 5]; Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise, Heitor Villa-Lobos, conducting) | p. 267 |
| Benjamin Britten, War Requiem (op. 66) (Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano; Peter Pears, tenor; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Simon Preston, organist; Melos Ensemble; Highgate School Choir; Bach Choir; London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Benjamin Britten, conducting) | p. 271 |
| Benjamin Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (op. 34), Simple Symphony (op. 4), and Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (op. 10) (London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, conducting) | p. 274 |
| Witold Lutoslawski, Symphonic Variations, Symphony no. 1, Musique Funebre, Symphony no. 2, Concerto for Orchestra, Jeux Venitiens, Livre pour Orchestre, and Mi-Parti (Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Witold Lutoslawski, conducting) | p. 276 |
| Leonard Bernstein, Candide Overture, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront, and Fancy Free (New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, conducting) | p. 279 |
| Bernard Herrmann, The Film Scores (Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conducting) | p. 282 |
| Milton Babbitt, Three Compositions, Duet, Semi-Simple Variations, Partitions, Post-Partitions, Tableaux, Reflections for Piano and Synthesized Tape, Canonical Form, and Lagniappe (Robert Taub, pianist) | p. 286 |
| John Corigliano, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra; Aaron Copland, Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Harp, and Piano; Igor Stravinsky, Ebony Concerto; Leonard Bernstein, Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs, on Richard Stoltzman: The Essential Clarinet (Richard Stoltzman, clarinetist; London Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Leighton-Smith and Richard Stoltzman, conducting) | p. 289 |
| Steve Reich, Early Works (Steve Reich and Russell Hartenberger, clapping; Nurit Tilles and Edmund Niemann, pianists) | p. 292 |
| Steve Reich, Tehillim and Three Movements (Schonberg Ensemble with Percussion Group The Hague, Reinbert de Leeuw, conducting; London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, conducting) | p. 294 |
| Philip Glass, Music in Twelve Parts (Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman, conducting) | p. 296 |
| Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi (Albert de Ruiter, bass; Philip Glass Ensemble, Western Wind Vocal Ensemble) | p. 299 |
| John Adams, Shaker Loops (1978, revised 1983) and Violin Concerto (1993) (Orchestra of St. Luke's, John Adams, conducting; Gidon Kremer, violinist, London Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano, conducting) | p. 302 |
| Gregorio Paniagua, La Folia (Atrium Musicae de Madrid) | p. 305 |
| Arvo Part, Tabula Rasa, Fratres (Violin and Piano version), Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, Fratres (Cello Ensemble version) (Gidon Kremer and Tatiana Grindenko, violinists; Keith Jarrett and Alfred Schnittke, pianists; the Twelve Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic; Stuttgart State Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies, conducting; Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Saulus Sondeckis, conducting) | p. 307 |
| Henryk Gorecki, Symphony no. 3 (op. 36) (Dawn Upshaw, soprano; London Sinfonietta, David Zinman, conducting) | p. 310 |
| Einojuhani Rautavaara, Symphony no. 7, Angel of Light; and Annunciations (Concerto for Organ Brass Group and Symphonic Wind Orchestra) (Kari Jussila, organist; Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam, conducting) | p. 312 |
| Bright Sheng, H'un: In Memoriam 1966-1976, The Stream Flows, Three Chinese Love Songs, and My Song (New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz, conducting; Lucia Lin, violinist; Lisa Saffer, soprano; Paul Neubauer, violist; Bright Sheng, pianist; Peter Serkin, pianist) | p. 316 |
| Another 100: More Albums You Should Own, or at Least Know About | p. 321 |
| Illustration Credits | p. 337 |
| Index | p. 339 |
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