disc 1. lecture 1. Let's take it from the top! -- lecture 2. The concerto and the orchestra -- lecture 3. The pre-Classical symphony -- lecture 4. Mannheim.
disc 2. lecture 5. Classical masters -- lecture 6. Franz Joseph Haydn, part 1 -- lecture 7. Franz Joseph Haydn, part 2 -- lecture 8. Mozart.
disc 3. lecture 9. Beethoven -- lecture 10. Schubert -- lecture 11. Berlioz and the Symphonie fantastique -- lecture 12. Mendelssohn and Schumann.
disc 4. lecture 13. Franck, Saint-Saens, and the symphony in France -- lecture 14. Nationalism and the symphony -- lecture 15. Brahms, Bruckner, and the Viennese symphony -- lecture 16. Gustav Mahler.
disc 5. lecture 17. Nielsen and Sibelius -- lecture 18. The symphony in Russia -- lecture 19. Charles Ives -- lecture 20. Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber.
disc 6. lecture 21. Roy Harris and William Schuman -- lecture 22. The twentieth-century British symphony -- lecture 23. Olivier Messiaen and Turangalila! -- lecture 24. Dmitri Shostakovich and his Tenth symphony.