Ginger Rogers's Dream

Sviatoslav Richter and Rita (Monty Python sketch)

Stravinsky's Perséphone: Schade, Wunderlich, Dixon (1960)

Piston, Symphony no. 2: Dean Dixon, American Recording Society

Cowell, Symphony no. 5: Dean Dixon, American Recording Society

Battle of the PBS Stars: Beverly Sills vs Joan Sutherland

Dean Dixon conducts Liszt: Orpheus (Royal Philharmonic)

Dean Dixon conducts Liszt: Mazeppa (Royal Philharmonic)

Dean Dixon conducts Liszt: Hunnenschlacht (Royal Philharmonic)

Dean Dixon conducts Liszt: Les Préludes (Royal Philharmonic)

Vivian Rivkin and Dean Dixon in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (1952)

Dean Dixon conducts An American in Paris (1952)

In memoriam George Balanchine, 22 January 1904 - 30 April 1983 (from his ballet “Emeralds”)

Fred Astaire, "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)," from "The Sky's the Limit" (1943)

Mravinsky and the Leningrad Philharmonic, 1971: Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites: world premiere, La Scala, 1957

Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie: first recording, 1924, Fried/Berlin State Opera Orchestra

Karl Muck and the Boston Symphony: 1917 acoustic recordings

Ravel's La Valse: Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1930

Ravel’s Boléro: Koussevitzky, Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1930

Vaughan Williams, A London Symphony: first complete recording of 1920 version, Goossens/Cincinnati

Bridge conducts Bridge: The Sea (1923)

Smyth conducts Smyth: The Wreckers Overture (1930)

Sviatoslav Richter, 1946: Prokofiev's Piano Sonata no. 8

Vaughan Williams conducts Vaughan Williams: The Wasps, 1925

Klemperer and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1934

Sviatoslav Richter's first known recording, 1946: Franck's Prélude, Chorale et Fugue

Koussevitzky conducts Stravinsky's Petrushka: Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1928

1923, partial recording of Vaughan William's A London Symphony (1920 version)

1925 recording of Vaughan William's A London Symphony (1920 version)

Stravinsky conducts Pulcinella: the 1928 and 1932 recordings

Jessye Norman and Irwin Gage in recital, Florence, 1971

Klemperer conducts Beethoven’s Ninth, Amsterdam, 1956: Brouwenstijn, Hermes, Haefliger, Wilbrink

1938 world premiere cast of Vaughan Williams’s Serenade to Music, Henry Wood, conductor

Pelagie Greef-Andriessen sings Schumann's Widmung (1903)

George Gershwin Memorial Concert, September 8, 1937: complete radio broadcast

Klemperer conducts Gershwin: Prelude no. 2, arr. Broekman

World premiere: Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet, op. 25: Klemperer, Los Angeles, 1938

My Sister Eileen (1955): opening credits showing New York’s Greenwich Village

Elgar Conducts Elgar: The Fringes of the Fleet, 1917 acoustic recording

Schoenberg's complete piano music: Eduard Steuermann, 1957 recordings (corrected and complete)

Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado: D'Oyly Carte, 1926

Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto: Ponti/Beissel/1997

Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto: Ponti/Beissel/Halle (with combined first-movement cadenzas)

Korngold, Symphony in F-sharp, op. 40: Kempe, Munich Philharmonic, 1972

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro: Pinza, Réthy, Stabile, Rautawaara, Novotná/Bruno Walter/Salzburg/1937

Beethoven's Emperor Concerto: Rudolf Serkin, Bruno Walter, New York Philharmonic, 1941

Strauss, Don Juan: Bruno Walter and the Concertgebouw, live in 1952

Brahms's Third: Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic, 1936

Schumann's First: Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic, live in 1945.

Schumann's Fourth: Bruno Walter and NBC, 1940 (live)

Peter Schickele: Songs from The Knight of the Burning Pestle

Ludmila Ulehla: Elegy for a Whale (Katherine Hoover, Carter Brey, Barbara Weintraub)

Rudy Burckhardt, "Pursuit of Happiness" (New York, 1940, silent)

Willow Song: Maggie Smith and Joyce Redman in Laurence Olivier's "Othello" (1965)

America the Beautiful: Great Voices in Patriotic Song (1905-50)

Swan Lake sequence from "I Was an Adventuress" (1940), with Zorina, Christensen, and Balanchine

Hangover Square Finale: Bernard Herrmann’s Concerto Macabre

Stravinsky, Apollon musagète pas de deux: Koussevitzky/Boston 1928