• Contents on sound disc:
• Blue suede shoes / Carl Perkins
• School days / Chuck Berry
• She loves you / The Beatles
• Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band (reprise) and A Day in the life / The Beatles
• Baba O'Riley / The Who
• Love is the drug / Roxy Music
• 1999 / Prince
• Money changes everything / Cyndi Lauper
• Smells like teen spirit / Nirvana
• All about soul / Billy Joel.

D.J. Byrd of Paradise interviews Stanford Law School dean Larry Kramer and SLS alumnus and former Yahoo general counsel John Place on the KZSU program The Lunch Special. The guests share some of their favorite rock music by decade from the 1950s to the 1990s.

• Music selections: La campanella
• Au lac du Wallenstadt
• Die Forelle / Schubert ; arr. Liszt
• Après une lecture du Dante
• Transcendental étude no.
• 2 in a minor
• Hungarian rhapsody no.
• 6
• Consolation no.
• 3 in d flat
• Transcendental study no.
• 8
• Symphonie fantastique. Un bal / Berlioz ; arr. Liszt
• Prometheus
• Sonata in b minor
• From the cradle to the grave
• Ave Maria
• Unstern.

The life of Franz Liszt was as daring and spectacular as his music. Famed throughout Europe as the greatest pianist of the nineteenth century, he was one of the most original and prophetic composers who ever lived. In this account of his epic life, actors' readings combine with plentiful musical excerpts to paint a living portrait of a highly complex man.

• Musical selections: Piano quintet in A major ("Trout"), D.
• 667 (mvt.
• 4: Theme with variations: Andantino) ; String quartet no.
• 1 in mixed keys, D.
• 18 (mvt.
• 1 Andante-presto vivace) ; Piano trio (in one movement) in B flat, D.
• 28 ; Symphony no.
• 1 in D, D.
• 82 (finale) ; Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.
• 118 ; Erlkonig, D.
• 328 / Schubert
• String quintet in G minor, K.
• 516 (mvt. 4) / Mozart
• Mass no.
• 5 in A flat, D.
• 678 (Gloria)
• Auf der Bruck, D.
• 853 ; Marche Militaire no.
• 1 in D, D.
• 733 ; String quartet in C minor ("Quartettstaz"), D.
• 703 ; Der Strom, D.
• 565 ; Piano quintet in A major ("Trout), D.
• 667 (mvt.
• 3: Scherzo: Presto) ; Symphony no.
• 8 in B minor ("Unfinished"), D.
• 759 (mvt.
• 1: Allegro moderato) ; Piano sonata in A major, D.
• 959 (mvt.
• 2: Andantino) ; Fantasy in C ("Wanderer" fantasy), D.
• 760 ; Die Verschworenen, D.
• 787 (Duet: "Sie ist's! Er ist's!") ; String quartet in D minor ("Death and the maiden"), D.
• 810 (mvt.
• 1: Allegro) ; Die schöne Müllerin, D.
• 795 (Halt! no. 3) ; Incidental music to "Rosamunde", D.
• 797 (Ballet music no. 2) ; Octet in F, D.
• 803 (mvt.
• 4: Andante with variations - variation 2) ; String quartet in A minor, D.
• 804 (mvt.
• 1: Allegro ma non troppo) ; Fantasy in F minor for piano duet, D.
• 940 ; Impromptu no.
• 8 in F minor, op. 142/4, D.
• 935 no.
• 4 ; Winterreise, D.
• 911 (Rüblick, no. 8) ; Piano sonata in C minor, D.
• 958 (mvt.
• 1: Molto moderato) ; Symphony no.
• 9 in C ("Great"), D.
• 944 (mvt.
• 4: Finale: allegro vivace) ; Winterreise, D.
• 911 (Erstarrung, no. 4) ; Piano trio in E flat, D.
• 929 (mvt.
• 1: allegro) ; String quintet in C, D.
• 956 (mvt.
• 4: Allegretto) ; Octet in F, D.
• 803 (mvt.
• 3: Scherzo: Allegro vivace-trio) / Schubert.

The life and music of the composer Franz Schubert is given with many musical examples.

With the possible exception of Mozart, Verdi is the most popular opera composer who ever lived. Quite early in his career his tunes were being cranked out by barrel organs throughout Europe and were well known to many who may never even have heard his name. Jeremy Siepmann takes in in-depth look behind the popular image of a man who was, and perhaps remains, the most enduring national hero in Italian history and a colossus in the history of music itself.

• Contents on sound disc:
• Angels want to wear my red shoes / Elvis Costello
• Planet Claire / The B-52's
• Found a job / The Talking Heads
• Anarchy in the U.K. / The Sex Pistols
• Satisfaction / Devo
• I found that essence rare / Gang of Four
• Lucky number / Lene Lovich
• Complicated game / XTC
• Navvy / Pere Ubu
• Heaven / The Talking Heads.

D.J. Byrd of Paradise interviews Stanford Law School dean Larry Kramer on the KZSU program The Lunch Special. In between playing new wave and punk recordings from his college years, the dean shares memories of the music he listened to during the era.

• Music selections: Overture to A life for the Tsar / Glinka
• Dumka : op.
• 59
• Rêverie du soir
• Minuet from Mozartiana
• The storm
• First symphony
• Romeo and Juliet
• First piano concerto
• The rose adagio from The sleeping beauty
• Francesca da Rimini
• Rococo variations
• The tempest
• The sleeping beauty waltz
• Romeo and Juliet
• Fourth symphony
• Lensky's aria from Eugene Onegin
• Violin concerto in D
• Capriccio italien
• Piano trio in A minor
• Manfred symphony
• Fifth symphony
• Souvenir de Florence
• Sixth symphony. Second movement
• Fifth symphony
• The nutcracker. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
• Voyevode
• Sixth symphony
• First piano concerto.

Tchaikovsky's music is widely known. He, too, "was widely loved, but his inner life was fraught with sufferings, confusions, and a deep vein of self-doubt. The drama of his emotional life is vividly reflected in his music, letters, and diaries, all of which play a major part in this intimate portrait-in-sound"--Container.

• Life and Works / Antonin Dvorak (Sean Barrett, reader).

The life and music of the composer Antonín Dvořák is given with many musical examples.

• Introduction (6:43)
• The barber of Seville, his 17th opera (6:53)
• The Overture (2:01)
• Act I (3:32)
• Figaro's entrance aria (8:13)
• Rosina, una voce poco fa (6:05)
• Start some gossip, some slander, Don Basilio (9:46)
• Act I finale (10:05)
• Act II (2:06)
• Rosina's aria, Contro un cor (13:06)
• Zitti zitti (Quickly, quickly) (2:20)
• Act II finale (7:16).

This series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of the major operas. This volume contains biographical information on Rossini followed by an analysis of The barber of Seville broken down into sections.

• Introduction (3:50)
• Verdi's three periods in a sixty-year span (1:38)
• The political background (2:19)
• Aida, the beginnings (3:36)
• The prelude and Act I (16:48)
• Act II (6:07)
• The grand march (9:38)
• Act III (6:37)
• Act IV (4:52)
• The death scene (7:44).

This series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of the major operas. Here Smillie discusses Verdi's history and the political background surrounding Aida followed by an analysis of the opera broken down into sections.

• Introduction (3:36)
• A short history (3:06)
• Extracts from other operas (6:51)
• The ring (6:35)
• Leitmotifs, Norse, and Germanic myths and love (2:12)
• The Overture and the plot (3:11)
• Act I (7:19)
• Daland and the Dutchman (5:38)
• Act II: Inside Daland's house (6:32)
• Erik and Senta (4:46)
• Senta and the Dutchman (5:10)
• Act III (5:57)
• The dénouement (6:31).

This series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of the major operas. Here Smillie discusses Wagner and several of his other works followed by an analysis of The flying Dutchman broken down into sections.

The recording presents the life and work of Haydn. It is illustrated with quotations from the composer and his contemporaries, enhanced by extended extracts from representative works.

• Life and Works - Haydn (David Timson, reader ; Jeremy Siepmann, reader ; Nigel Anthony, reader ; Roger May, reader ; Steve Hodson, reader ; Frances Jeater, reader ; Sam Dastor, reader).

The recording presents the life and work of Haydn. It is illustrated with quotations from the composer and his contemporaries, enhanced by extended extracts from representative works.

• Violin
• Lower strings
• Woodwind
• Brass
• Percussion
• Interlopers
• The orchestra.

In depth portraits featuring individual instruments in many contexts (orchestral, chamber, folk, solo, operatic, cinematic, jazz, avant-garde) and in pieces from the Middle Ages to the present. Includes hundreds of musical examples.

• Introduction (3:36)
• A short history (3:06)
• Extracts from other operas (6:51)
• The ring (6:35)
• Leitmotifs, Norse, and Germanic myths and love (2:12)
• The Overture and the plot (3:11)
• Act I (7:19)
• Daland and the Dutchman (5:38)
• Act II: Inside Daland's house (6:32)
• Erik and Senta (4:46)
• Senta and the Dutchman (5:10)
• Act III (5:57)
• The dénouement (6:31).

This series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of the major operas. Here Smillie discusses Wagner and several of his other works followed by an analysis of The flying Dutchman broken down into sections.

• Music selections: Disc
• 1: Capriccio on the departure of his beloved brother
• Toccata and fugue in D minor, BWV
• 565
• Trio sonata in E flat, BWV
• 525
• Concerto in A minor for four harpsichords / Vivaldi/Bach
• Prelude and fugue in A minor, BWV
• 432
• The well-tempered Clavier, bk. I. Prelude in E flat minor
• Violin concerto in E major. Finale. Disc
• 2: Concerto for two violins. Largo ma non tanto
• Brandenburg concerto no.
• 5 in D. First movement
• B minor Mass. Et resurrexit
• Aria in G
• Bist du be mir / Stölzel
• Magnificat
• Cantata no.
• 80. Duetto
• Sinfonia (Three-part invention) in E flat
• Italian concerto. Last movement
• Cantata no.
• 147. Opening chorus. Disc
• 3: Partita no.
• 1 in B flat, BWV
• 825. Courante
• Singet dem Herrn, BWV
• 225
• St. John Passion. Opening chorus
• Brandenburg concerto no.
• 1. First movement
• Suite no.
• 3 in D, BWV
• 1068
• Prelude in D major, BWV
• 532
• Concerto in C for three harpsichords. Finale. Disc
• 4 (All are excerpts): Coffee cantata
• Peasant cantata.

• The art of fugue
• The musical offering
• Mass in B minor.

• Life and Works of Brahms / Johannes Brahms (Jeremy Siepmann, reader).

• Music selections: disc
• 1. Sinfonia di caccia / Leopold Mozart ; Minuet in G, K.1 ; Molto allegro in G.K.72a ; A musical joke, K.522 ; Cassation in G.K.63 ; Symphony no.1 in E flat, K.16 (mvt 1) ; Piano concerto no.3 in D, K.40 (finale) ; Allegri: Miserere ; Ascanio in Alba, K.111 (Act 1, scene 1)
• disc
• 2. Riconosci in questo amplesso' from "The marriage of Figaro", K.492 ; Piano concerto no.5 in D, K.175 (finale) ; Sympnony no.25 in G minor, K.183 (mvt 1) ; Sympnony no.29 in A, K.201 (finale) ; Piano concerto no.9 in E flat, K.271 (mvt 2) ; Violin concerto no.3 in G.K.216 (finale) ; Piano concerto no.8 in B flat, K.238 (finale) ; Piano sonata no.7 in C, K.309 (slow mvt)
• disc
• 3. Concerto in C for flute and harp, K.299 (finale) ; Sympnony no.31 in D, K.297 (Paris; finale) ; Piano sonata no.8 in A minor, K.310 (slow mvt) ; Mass in C, K.317 (Coronation; Kyrie) ; Clementi: Piano sonata in B flat, op.24 no.2 (slow mvt 1) ; Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman', K.265 ; Overture to "The Abduction from the Seraglio", K.384
• disc
• 4. Serenade in B flat for Thirteen Wind Instruments, K.361 (mvt
• 6: Romanze) ; Concert Rondo in D for piano and orchestra, K.382 ; Horn concerto no.1 in D, K.412 (Rondo) ; String quartet no.19 in C, K.465 (Dissonance) (mvt 1) ; Piano concerto no.20 in D minor, K.466 (last mvt) ; "Se vuol ballare" from "The marriage of Figaro", K.492 ; Symphony no.40 in G minor, K.550 (slow mvt) ; Cosi fan tutte, K.588 (act II, finale) ; Adagio in C for glass harmonica, K.356 ; Piano concerto no.25 in C, K.503 (finale).

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the most astonishing child prodigy in the history of music, is felt by many people to be the greatest composer who ever lived. Dominated and shaped by a highly intelligent but frustrated and ambitious father, his story sees the development of a unique genius, from precocious and often endearing childhood to liberated fulfilment, unexpected poverty, and a tragically early death. Generously illustarated by Mozart's music, from his fifth to his final year, this portrait-in-sound reveals a fascinating yet elusive character, drawing richly on the words of the composer himsef and those who knew him.

• Chopin and the soul of the piano (1:49)
• Berceuse, op.
• 57 (2:17)
• Chopin the pole (1:48)
• Polonaise in G minor (1:04)
• Early education (3:05)
• Variation on a German air (1:33)
• Encounters with the Polish peasantry (1:02)
• Mazurka in G major (1:13)
• Chopin as industrious pupil (:58)
• Sonata in C minor. Opening (1:49)
• He finds his true voice as a composer (1:50)
• Ronda a la mazur, op.
• 5 (1:05)
• The fun-loving teenager (1:17)
• Ecossaise, op. 72, no.
• 3 (:45)
• Onset of illness and the death of a sister (2:05)
• Nocturne in E minor (4:32)
• "Hats off, gentlemen! A genius!" (1:36)
• Variation on "La ci darem la mano, " op.
• 2 (3:41)
• The influence of Paganini (1:19)
• Souvenir de Paganini (1:19)
• The first etudes (:44)
• Etude in C♯ minor, op. 10, no.
• 4 (2:15)
• Success in Vienna (5:58)
• Nocturne in C♯ minor (1:23)
• Chopin in love (5:19)
• Polonaise for cello and piano (1:33)
• Stagnation, celebrity and the first concerto (2:18)
• Concerto in F minor, op.
• 21 (1:42)
• Return of vitality and inspiration (5:10)
• Concerto in E minor, op.
• 11 (10:49)
• Farewells and the final departure from Poland (1:38)
• Europe and Chopin in crisis (7:43)
• Scherzo no.
• 1 in B minor (4:28)
• Arrival in Paris (2:24)
• Waltz in E♭, op.
• 18 (5:31)
• Paris, politics, poles and performance (7:40)
• Impromptu in A♭, op.
• 29 (4:27)
• Chopin and the opera (1:49)
• Andante spianato, op.
• 22 (4:37)
• Chopin and Kalkbrenner (2:15)
• Etude in G♭, op. 10, no.
• 5 (1:47)
• The cholera epidemic ; The fashionable teacher (7:52)
• Etude in C minor, op. 10, no.
• 12 : "The revolutionary" (3:02)
• Teaching in earnest (4:58)
• Etude in A minor, op. 25, no.
• 4 (1:47)
• "Souplesse avant tout!" (2:24)
• Nocturne in B♭ minor, op. 9, no.
• 1 (5:34)
• The Wodzinska affair (3:43)
• Nocturne in B major, op. 32, no.
• 1 (2:08)
• "An elegant, pale, sad young man" (2:14)
• Nocturne in D♭, op. 27, no.
• 2 (6:10)
• George Sand and a Majorcan winter (22:08)
• Preludes, op.
• 28 (6:17)
• Misanthropy, hypocrisy and prejudice (3:38)
• Mazurkas (7:25)
• At Nohant : an idyllic and creative summer (2:33)
• Impromptu in F♯ (5:47)
• The idyll continues (4:57)
• Sonata in B♭ minor. Funeral march ; Finale (10:41)
• The return to Paris (2:27)
• Ballade no.
• 4 in F minor (12:11)
• Chopin grows moody, petulant and volatile (5:57)
• Sonata no.
• 3 in B minor, op.
• 58. Finale (5:33)
• Failing health and mounting tensions (4:34)
• Barcarolle, op.
• 60 (8:42)
• The break with Sand ; Illness ; London (12:33)
• Prelude in F♯, op. 28, no.
• 8 (1:53)
• Scotland, London, Paris ; Decline and death (14:01)
• Polonaise in A♭, op.
• 53 (7:13).

Biography of Frédéric Chopin with music examples.

• Introduction (6:43)
• The barber of Seville, his 17th opera (6:53)
• The Overture (2:01)
• Act I (3:32)
• Figaro's entrance aria (8:13)
• Rosina, una voce poco fa (6:05)
• Start some gossip, some slander, Don Basilio (9:46)
• Act I finale (10:05)
• Act II (2:06)
• Rosina's aria, Contro un cor (13:06)
• Zitti zitti (Quickly, quickly) (2:20)
• Act II finale (7:16).

This series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of the major operas. This volume contains biographical information on Rossini followed by an analysis of The barber of Seville broken down into sections.