1. Liszt’s Consolation in D flat played by Jorge Bolet

2. Oscar Straus’s ‘C’est la saison d’amour’ from Les trois valses, sung by Yvonne Printemps

3. Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat and ‘Hungarian Fantasy’, played by Jorge Bolet with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (Stoloff)

4. Gordon Jenkins’s ‘The Worst Kind of Man’, sung by Judy Garland,from LP The Letter

5. ‘Vilja’ from Lehár’s The Merry Widow, sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf with the Philharminic Orchestra (Matacic)

6. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C minor, played by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra (Walter)

7. ‘Hello Dolly’ from Jerry Herman’s Hello Dolly, sung by Carol Channing

8. ‘I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face’ from Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady, sung by Rex Harrison

Outright Choice: the Beethoven
Book: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
Luxury Object: ‘Conversation Piece’, John Singer Sargent’s painting of the Sitwells

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