A Granada Production, color (1989), 55:00.
U-Matic (NTSC) (2 copies).
VHS (PAL), in Dutch (recording ends after about 47:00 of the program), see V057.Written and presented by Bamber Gascoigne
Production executive: Peter Stevens
Associate producer: Caroline Speed
Directed by Robin Lough
Produced by Tony Cash
Further credits below.
| Time | Description |
| 0:00 | "Man and Music. Vienna: End of an Empire: The New Music" |
| 0:30 | Footage of Franz Joseph's funeral (1916) |
| 1:30 | Viennese plundering the Vienna woods for firewood after WWI; footage of soup lines |
| 2:20 | Narrator gives brief introduction to Schoenberg and 12-tone composition |
| 3:20 | Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon, op. 41, plays in background |
| 3:45 | AS self-portrait, photos of Berg and Webern, AS |
| 4:25 | Interview with pianist at AS's apartment in Mödling. Pianist explains system of tonality, atonality, and 12-tone composition. |
| 5:50 | Erwartung, scene 4 |
| 8:30 | Exterior of Mödling house; pianist inside explains the row used in the Suite, op. 25 and performs the Gavotte and Musette. |
| 13:40 | Juxtaposition of nudes by Ingres, Cezanne, and Picasso (compared to radical changes in musical composition made over the same time period) |
| 15:00 | Narrator describes Schoenberg's founding of the Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen |
| 15:45 | Scenes from a performance of Berg's Wozzeck |
| 18:15 | Footage of Vienna in 1920s and the Karl-Mark-Hof, discussion of Webern's activities with the Workers' Orchestra |
| 19:10 | Performance of a Webern song |
| 20:20 | Photos of Berg, AS, and Webern; footage of Vienna in the 1930s; stand-off between Nazis and socialists; Schoenberg's decision to move to LA |
| 22:20 | Footage of celebration of 250th anniversary of repelling the Turks (1933) |
| 23:50 | Berg's death and first performance of his violin concerto; performance of the violin concerto |
| 27:40 | Narrator describes the concerto's premiere; Vienna Philharmonic's complicity in the Anschluss (1938); footage of Hitler arrival in Vienna |
| 30:00 | "End of Part One" |
| 31:30 | "Part Two": Footage of post-war Vienna |
| 32:45 | Narrator explains Vienna's changed political and cultural position after WWII, discusses Webern's death |
| 33:55 | Footage of 1940s Hollywood, photos of Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
| 34:45 | Interview with Charles Gerhardt, conductor, arranger and orchestrator of Hollywood film scores |
| 35:30 | Footage of Korngold playing piano |
| 36:00 | Gerhardt discusses Richard Strauss |
| 37:00 | Music to Robinson Crusoe |
| 37:30 | Footage of Schoenberg playing tennis |
| 37:50 | Interview with Alexander Goehr, Schoenberg's student. He discusses American serialism. |
| 39:30 | Goehr coaches a quartet playing his First String Quartet (fourth movement) |
| 42:00 | Star Wars theme music, movie posters |
| 42:45 | Messiaen's pupils Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen |
| 43:15 | Stockhausen lectures on the influence Schoenberg and Webern had on his own work |
| 44:30 | Pianists perform Stockhausen's Mantra |
| 46:30 | Water fountains outside Centre Georges Pompideau; IRCAM studios |
| 48:30 | Composer Philippe Manoury works with a computer expert recording his Pluton |
| 49:05 | Manoury discusses his work, integration of instrument and computer |
| 51:00 | Narrator discusses the difficulty contemporary art has in finding acceptance with the broader public |
| 51:30 | Portraits of Schoenberg and Brahms, Viennese cityscape |
| 52:10 | Closing credits |
| 53:40 | End |
Credits
ORF Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walter Weller
Karan Armstrong, Soprano
Paul Crossley, Piano
Nash Ensemble
Arditti String Quartet