1. Handel: `There the brisk, sparkling nectar drain' from `The choice of Hercules', arranged and played by Carl Flesch.
2. Mozart: `Fuor del mar' from Idomeneo, sung by H. Jadlowker.
3. Haydn: `Mit Würd und Hoheit angetan' from the Creation, sung by A. Schiotz.
4. Mozart: Larghetto from piano concerto 26, played on Welte-Mignon by C. Reineke.
5. Verdi: `Parigi o cara' from Traviata, sung by A. Galli-Curci and T. Schipa.
6. Beethoven: Piano Concerto 5, W. Gieseking, Wiener Philharmoniker, B. Walter.
7. Johann Strauss: Kaiserwalzer, Philharmonia, O. Klemperer.
8. Brahms: Waltzes op. 39 n. 2 and 15, played by I. Eibenschütz.
9. Mozart: `Non piu andrai' from Le nozze di Figaro (together with preceding recitativo), sung by C. Santley.
10. Thomas: Tambour major aria from `Le caïd', sung by P. Plancon (any recording!).
11. Rossini: `Pro peccatis' from Stabat Mater, sung by P. Plancon.
12. Rachmaninov: Vespers, conducted by R. Shaw.
13. Foster: The song album recorded by R. Crooks for Victor.
14. Mahler: `Ich ging mit Lust', played on Welte-Mignon by G. Mahler.
15. Copland: El Salon Mexico, conducted by S. Koussevitzky.
16. Handel: `O had I Jubal's lyre' from Joshua, sung by I. Baillie.
17. Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Alto, played by N. Umezu and N. Imai, Toho Gakuen Orchestra, H. Sato.
18. Bizet: Excerpts from Carmen (and l'Arlesienne), L. Stokowski (the 1945 recording).
19. Verdi: Overture to Nabucco, H. Scherchen.
20. Schütz: `Herr unser Herrscher', sung by P. Schreier, cond. H. Grüss.
21. Schütz: Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi, H. Grischkat.
22. Pabst: Paraphrase on Eugen Onegin, played by S. Cherkassky (Nimbus, 1987).
23. Tosti: Ideale, sung by M. Battistini (both the 1911 and the ca. 1920 recording).
24. Brahms: Symphony 2, M. Fiedler.
25. Poulenc: Quatre motets de pénitence et quatre motets de Noël, R. Shaw.
26. Stravinsky: Pastorale, J. Szigeti and other players, I. Stravinsky.
27. Schubert: Der Musensohn, sung by G. Hüsch.
28. Beethoven: Andante Favori, played by E. Ney on the Beethoven Graf-Flügel in Beethoven-Haus, Bonn.
29. Paladilhe: Mandolinata, sung by V. Maurel.
30. Copland: Old American Songs, sung by W. Warfield, A. Copland, piano or conductor (2 different recordings!).
31. Mozart: `In qual eccessi o Numi' from Don Giovanni, sung by Lisa della Casa, cond. Krips.
32. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, L. von Matacic (Zagreb Philharmonic, 1983).
33. Joplin: Silver Swan Rag, the original piano roll.
34. Beethoven: Symphony 4, K. Böhm (the DG recording).
35. Verdi: Rigoletto quartett, A. Pryor and his band.
36. Elgar: Where corals lie, sung by Dame Clara Butt.
37. Weber: Freischütz Overture, K. Böhm (Wiener Philharmoniker, August 6th 1978).
38. Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, H. Prey, L. Hokanson (video).
39. Mendelsohn: any symphony by K. Masur and the Gewandhaus Orchester (any recording)!
40. R. Schumann: Symphony 3, K. Masur, Gewandhaus Orchester.
41. Mendelsohn: Violin Concerto, Y. Perlman, MTT, SF Symphony (Gala, 7/09/2011).
42. Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije, N. Anossov.
43. Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. Ancerl, Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
44. Fauré: Pavane, played on Welte-Mignon by G. Fauré.
45. Beethoven: Symphony 5, G. Schüller (1995).
46. Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit, conducted by Milhaud (the André Charlin recording).