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[Disc 1]
1. Home and away: Schuberts boyhood (includes performance of Piano Quintet Trout, D. 667, Mvt. 4: T
2. 1st movement: Andante - Presto vivace (Excerpt)
3. Homesickness and the death of his mother
4. Excerpt
5. Growing circle of friends and a change of direction
6. Finale (Excerpt)
7. In school and out, the first flowering of genius
8. First love, and the unwelcome ralities of adulthood
9. Speed demon and diarist (includes performance of Mozarts String Quintet in G minor, K. 516, Mvt. 4
10. Gloria (Excerpt)
11. The child in the man: the testimony of friends
12. Curtain
[Disc 2]
1. Escape to Hungary
2. Excerpt
3. Mayrhofer, misanthropy and melancholy; his first instrumental masterpiece
4. A bleated adolescence, and the black-winged demon
5. No happy music?
6. Mvt. 4: Scherzo. Presto (Excerpt)
7. Joys, sorrows and perspective
8. Mvt. 1: Allegro moderato
9. Death, suffering, redemption and arrogance
10. Mvt. 2: Andantino (Excerpt)
11. Drama on and off the stage
12. Excerpt
13. Curtain
[Disc 3]
1. Romantic visions and inner turmoil
2. Duet. Sie ists! Er ists!
3. A dream and a terrible discovery
4. Mvt 1: Allegro (Excerpt)
5. Syphilis, Schober, dissipation and sublimation
6. The Schubert circle
7. Ballet music No. 2
8. The most unhappy and miserable creature on earth
9. Mvt. 4: Andante with variations - Variation 2
10. The life in the music
11. Mvt. 1: Allegro ma non troppo (Excerpt)
12. In and out of pain; a lovelorn and melancholy Hungarian summera
13. Excerpt
14. Musical Vienna in decline
15. Excerpt
16. Curtain
[Disc 4]
1. New serenity - and a misanthropic tirade
2. Excerpt
3. Schubert and Beethoven
4. Mvt. 1: Molto moderato (Excerpt)
5. Grand symphony achieved
6. Movt. 4: Finale: Allegro vivace (Excerpt)
7. The first tragic composer
8. Schuberts only concert
9. Mvt. 1: Allegro (Excerpt)
10. Schubert and Paganini
11. Mvt. 4: Allegretto
12. Decline and death
13. Mvt. 3: Scherzo: Allegro vivace - Trio