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1. Allegro con brio (00:14:39) -- 2. Marcia funebre (Adagio assai) (00:17:47) -- 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) (5:39) -- 4. Finale (Allegro molto) (00:12:10) -- "Simplicity itself..." (1st movement) (00:13:25) -- "I always feel this gigantism" (2nd movt.) (6:07) -- "We have just been examining..." (3rd movt.) (5:26) -- "All that we have said" (4th movt.) (9:12) -- "The study of the Eroica is a lifetime work,..." (1:06) -- 1. Adagio - Allegro molto (8:52) -- 2. Largo (00:13:33) -- 3. Scherzo (Molto vivace) (7:16) -- 4. Allegro con fuoco (00:11:26) -- 1. "Does this music sound like the New World to you?" (3rd movt., Trio II; 1st movt.) (9:52) -- 2. "We come now to the second movement, which has a charming melody, ..." (2nd movt.) (3:22) -- 3. "The third movement is a marvel of ingenuity and deftness" (3rd movt.) (1:40) -- 4. "And now the last movement. In general I should say that this is the most Slavic of all" (4th movt.) (5:00) -- 5. "The final claim of those who argue for the New World Symphony as American music, ..." (4th movt.,cont.) (1:01) -- 1. Sostenuto assai - Un poco piu vivace - Allegro ma non troppo - Con fuoco (00:12:27) -- 2. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) (6:58) -- 3. Adagio espresssivo (00:11:53) -- 4. Allegro molto vivace (8:14) -- 1. "Robert Schumann has been dead..." (3rd movement, opening theme) (4:22) -- 2. "To my mind Schumann follows in this tradition" (1:48) -- 3. "Now let's look at the symphony itself" (1st movement) (8:39) -- 4. "And so we have arrived at the Allegro section..." (1st movt. cont.) (6:51) -- 5. "In the marvellous Scherzo that follows..." (2nd movt) (4:49) -- 6. "But perhaps the greatest beauty..." (3rd movt.) (7:31) -- 7. "Even in the final movement" (4th movt.) (5:15) -- 1. Allegro non troppo (00:11:51) -- 2. Andante moderato (00:11:53) -- 3. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto - Tempo I (6:07) -- 4. Allegro energico e passionato - Piu allegro (00:10:49) -- 1. "Brahms' Fourth Symphony in E minor is today ..." (4th movt., opening theme) (4:45) -- 2. "Our journey begins without introduction..." (5:15) -- 3. "Do you see now what a symphonic theme is?" (3:23) -- 4. "Now, think of it - we have so far only had 44 bars of music" (5:47) -- 5. "Here is that second theme" (2:42) -- 6. "This brings us to the development section proper" (9:34) -- 7. And here we are back home, ready for the rehearing of the exposition, ..." (2:17) -- 8. "So we arrive at the coda" (3:18) -- 9. "Well, we have had a microscopic look at symphonic method" (2:12) -- 1. Adagio - Allegro non troppo (00:18:43) -- 2. Allegro con grazia (8:14) -- 3. Allegro molto vivace (9:08) -- 4. Finale (Adagio lamentoso - Andante) (00:11:17) -- 1. "Now there is a melody, a pure orchestral song..." (1st movt.) (9:18) -- 2. "Now the development section erupts..." (1st movt. cont.) (1:58) -- 3. "Now one would think that Tchaikovsky had really exploited the device of scales" (2nd movt) (1:56) -- 4. "Jumping now to the famous third movement, the great March..." (3rd movt.) (1:50) -- 5. "Perhaps the most admirable example of this is to be found in the wonderful last movement, ..." (4th movt.) (3:41) -- 6. "Now I don't want to give you the impression that scales are the only unifying force in this work" (6:01)