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[Disc 1]
1. Destiny, Birth And Childhood
2. From Brothel To Beethoven
3. Hungarian Dance No. 1
4. A Life-Changing Tour
5. The Meeting With Joachim
6. Piano Sonata No. 3
7. Joachim Weighs In
8. Enter The Schumanns
9. Piano Sonata No. 3
10. Prophecy And Tragedy: A Double Yoke
11. Piano Trio No. 2
12. Brahms And Clara
13. Piano Sonata No. 1
14. A Triangular Bond
15. The Death Of Schumann - A Fateful Decision
[Disc 2]
1. The Young Messiah
2. Piano Concerto No. 1
3. The Virtuoso Takes Flight
4. Variations On A Theme By Paganini
5. Detmold And Distraction
6. Serenade No. 1
7. Birth Of The D Minor Concerto
8. Piano Concerto No. 1
9. The Taste Of Failure - And Of New Love
10. String Sextet
11. Love, Folly And A New Calling
12. Motet Ich Aber Bin Elend
13. Brahms And Wagner
14. Variations And Fugue On A Theme By Handel
15. Frustrated Hopes And A Mothers Death
16. Trio For Horn, Violin And Piano
[Disc 3]
1. The Road To The Requiem
2. A German Requeim (Denn Alles Fleisch Es Ist Wie Gras)
3. The Wanderer
4. Waltz In E
5. The Consummate Performer
6. Five Studies For Piano
7. Paradox Personified: The Tender Savage
8. Piano Concerto No. 2
9. A Demanding Friend
10. Variations On A Theme By Haydn (Or Variations On The St Antony Chorale
11. The Eternal Child
12. The Ghost Exorcised / Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Finale: Ode To Joy) / Symphony No. 1 (Finale: Opening)
13. Symphony No. 1
[Disc 4]
1. A Watershed In Brahms Career
2. Symphony No. 2
3. The External Brahms
4. A Free Man At Last / Piano Sonata No. 1
5. Violin Concerto / The Rift With Joachim
6. The Composer At Work
7. Academic Festival Overture
8. Celebrity And Scholar
9. Motet Wenn Ein Starker Gewappneter
10. Love, Loss And Reconciliation
11. Concerto For Violin And Cello
12. The Greatest Living Composer - But A Difficult Friend
13. The Philanthropist
14. Decline And Death
15. Piano Concerto No. 2