"Recorded and manufactured especially for Reader's Digest by the Custom Record Division of the Radio Corporation of America." Manual sequence. "Introducing the composers, with sketches of their lives, by Robert Littell" ([32] p. ports.) laid in container. Brandenburg concerto no. 1 / Bach -- Water music suite / Handel -- Symphony no. 94 ("Surprise") / Haydn -- Symphony no. 40 / Mozart -- Symphony no. 3 ("Eroica") / Beethoven -- The barber of Seville: overture / Rossini -- Symphony no. 8 ("Unfinished") / Schubert -- Roman carnival overture / Berlioz -- Symphony no. 4 ("Italian") / Mendelssohn -- Les Sylphides: excerpts / Chopin -- Symphony no. 3 ("Rhenish") / Schumann -- Mephisto waltz / Liszt -- Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod / Wagner -- La forza del destino: overture / Verdi -- Symphony in D minor / Franck -- Waltzes: Wiener Blut and Fledermaus: Du und du / Johann Strauss - - Symphony no. 3 / Brahms -- Carmen: prelude to act I / Bizet -- Symphony no. 6 ("Pathâetique") / Tchaikovsky -- Carnival overture / Dvoérâak -- Peer Gynt suite no. 1 / Grieg -- Russian Easter overture / Rimsky-Korsakov -- Prelude to the Afternoon of a faun / Debussy -- Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks / Richard Strauss -- Finlandia ; The swan of Tuonela / Sibelius -- The rite of spring / Stravinsky. Orchestral works performed by various orchestras and conductors.