v. 1. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) : musical fountainhead. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) : the magnificent. Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) : a genius of perfection in music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) : the supreme. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) : the fervent genius. The felicitous Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47). The paradoxical Richard Wagner (1813-83). Johannes Brahms (1833-97) : the third B of music
v. 2. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) : poet of cheerful melancholy. Presenting the great Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908). Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) : musical Prometheus. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) : poet of musical impressions. Richard Strauss : Richard the Second (1864-1949). Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) : a muscial prophet. Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) : poet of simplicity. Béla Bartók (1881-1945) : modern Janus. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) : perennial revolutionary. Sergei Prokofiev : his signature
SRG PRKFV (1891-1953). Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) : besieged nationalist.
