"An essential guide to 400 major works by over 60 of our greatest composers. From Bach and Beethoven to Walton and Webern, this enthralling compendium explores the most significant and frequently performed orchestral works, and includes symphonies, concertos, overtures, suites and ballet scores."--Back cover.

Johann Sebastian Bach -- Mily Balakirev -- Samuel Barber -- Béla Bartók -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- Alan Berg -- Hector Berlioz -- Georges Bizet -- Alexander Borodin -- Johannes Brahms -- Benjamin Britten -- Max Bruch -- Anton Bruckner -- Emmanuel Chabrier -- Fredéric Chopin -- Aaron Copland -- Arcangelo Corelli -- Claude Debussy -- Frederick Delius -- Antonin Dboærák -- Edward Elgar -- Manuel De Falla -- Gabriel Fauré -- Césare Franck -- George Gershwin -- Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka -- Edvard Grieg -- George Frideric Handel -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Paul Hindemith -- Gustav Holst -- Charles Ives -- Leoæs Janáæcek -- Franz Liszt -- Gustav Mahler -- Bohuslav Martinu -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Olivier Messiaen -- Darius Milhaud -- Walfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Bohuslav Martinú -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Olivier Messiaen -- Darius Milhaud -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Modest Musorgsky -- Carl Nielsen -- Sergei Prokofiev -- Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Maurice Ravel -- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov -- Gioachino Rossini -- Camille Saint-Saëns -- Erik Satie -- Arnold Schoenberg -- Franz Schubert -- Robert Schumann -- Alexander Scriabin -- Dmitri Shostakovich -- Jean Sibelius -- Bedærich Smetana -- Richard Strauss -- Igor Stravinsky -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky -- Michael Tippett -- Edgard Varèse -- Ralph Vaughan Williams -- Antonio Vivaldi -- Richard Wagner -- William Walton -- Carl Maria von Weber -- Anton Webern.