| Composer | Music |
| Mahler | 2 items from "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" & "Das Knaben Wunderhorn" (played by Mahler on a piano roll) |
| Glinka | "A Life for the Tsar" - Susanin's aria (Chaliapin, 1914) |
| Verdi | "Il Trovatore" - "D'amor sull'ali rosee" (Dame Eva Turner, 1928. Preceded by a 1988 introductory talk by Dame Eva) |
| Schubert | Quartet in D minor - "Death and the Maiden" (Finale) (Busch Quartet, 1936) |
| Elgar | Violin Concerto - 2nd mvt (Heifetz/LSO/Sargent, 1949) |
| Richard Strauss | "Wiegenlied", "Morgen" (Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, 1969) |
| Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique - "Marche au supplice" (Concertgebouw/Davis, 1974) |
| Tchaikovsky | Symphony No.6 - "Pathetique" (Finale, rec.1974) |