Instrumental: a memoir of madness, medication, and music

Prelude

Track one: Bach, 'Goldberg variations', Aria (Glenn Gould, piano)

Track two: Prokofiev, Piano concerto no. 2, finale (Evgeny Kissin, piano)

Track three: Schubert, Piano trio no. 2 in E flat, second movement (Ashkenazy, Zukerman, Harrell trio)

Track four: Bach-Busoni, Chaconne (James Rhodes, piano)

Track five: Beethoven, Piano sonata no. 32, op. 111, second movement (Garrick Ohlsson, piano)

Track six: Scriabin, Piano concerto, last movement (Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano)

Track seven: Ravel, Piano trio (Vladimir Ashkenazy, Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell)

Track eight: Shostakovich, Piano concerto no. 2, second movement (Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano)

Track nine: Bruckner Symphony no. 7, second movement (Herbert von Karajan, conductor)

Track ten: Liszt, 'Totentanz' (Sergio Tiempo, piano)

Track eleven: Brahms, 'German requiem', first movement (Herbert von Karajan, conductor)

Track twelve: Mozart, Symphony no. 41 ('Jupiter'), fourth movement (Sir Charles Mackerras, conductor)

Track thirteen: Chopin Étude in C major, op. 10/1 (Maurizio Pollini, piano)

Track fourteen: Chopin, Fantasie in F minor, op. 49 (Krystian Zimerman, piano)

Track fifteen: Ravel, Piano concerto in G, second movement (Krystian Zimerman, piano)

Track sixteen: Schumann, 'Geister variations' for piano (Jean-Marc Luisada, piano)

Track seventeen: Schubert, Sonata no. 20, D959, second movement (Alexander Lonquich, piano)

Track eighteen: Beethoven, Piano concerto no. 5 ('Emperor'), second movement (Radu Lupu, piano)

Track nineteen: Rachmaninov, 'Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini' (Zoltán Kocsis, piano)

Track twenty: Bach, 'Goldberg variations', Aria da capo (Glenn Gould, piano).