A Granada Production, U-Matic (NTSC) (2 copies), color (1989), 54:00.
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 | Austrian hills, folk festival in Tyrol |
| 1:30 | Ensemble performs Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G Major, First Movement |
| 3:05 | Train station in Vienna, tourists and immigrants arriving in Vienna |
| 4:15 | Ensemble continues |
| 5:50 | More about Gustav Mahler, Hugo Wolf; narrator on location at Wolf's summer home |
| 7:30 | Singer and pianist perform a Wolf Lied |
| 8:55 | More about Wolf and his mental decline, Mahler's return to Vienna, anti-Semitism in Vienna. Old-fashioned train travels through the Austrian countryside. |
| 11:10 | Narrator on location at the Vienna Staatsoper |
| 12:05 | Secession building, built the year after Mahler arrived in Vienna |
| 13:20 | Otto Wagner buildings around Vienna: train station, home, Postsparkasse |
| 15:45 | Ensemble performs Mahler's symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor, Second Movement |
| 18:20 | Klimt paintings: The Kiss, Beethoven frieze. Photo of Mahler in garden party at Carl Moll's villa. Mahler's association and marriage with Alma. |
| 20:05 | Ensemble performs Mahler's Kindertotenlieder |
| 25:10 | "End of Part One" |
| 27:15 | "Part Two": Footage of Vienna in the early 20th century |
| 28:10 | Freud's office, narrator discusses beginnings of psychoanalysis, evidence of cultural anxiety in multiple art forms |
| 29:30 | Horse-and-carriage parade in the Prater, outdoor market, popularity of Die lustige Witwe |
| 30:30 | Paintings by Egon Schiele starkly contrast with Lehár's appealing operetta melodies |
| 31:50 | Discussion of Mahler's attempts to win Salomé for the Vienna Court Opera and his defeat at the hands of the censors |
| 33:00 | Music from Salomé, related paintings by Klimt, Franz von Stuck, Aubrey Beardsley |
| 34:35 | Discussion of café scene in Vienna, painting of Café Griensteidl. Narrator speaks on location at Café Central and discusses its patrons. |
| 36:15 | Narrator discusses Schoenberg's compositional style, sextet performs Verklärte Nacht |
| 40:15 | Schoenberg's paintings found little public acceptance. |
| 40:40 | Narrator discusses difficulties Schoenberg experienced with his public, Skandalconzert |
| 41:30 | Mahler's activities before his death, Alma's patronage of new music |
| 43:00 | Beginning of modernism in architecture, Adolf Loos's designs. Narrator compares a Loos house from 1912 with the contemporary Pierrot lunaire |
| 44:00 | Performance of "Mondestrunken" from Pierrot |
| 45:55 | Footage from royal wedding in Vienna, 1912 |
| 46:30 | Performance of "Der kranke Mond" from Pierrot |
| 49:10 | Kokoschka's painting "The Tempest" (1913), self-portrait of him with Alma Mahler |
| 49:50 | Café scene, narrator discusses Karl Kraus's career |
| 50:40 | Footage jusxtaposing WWI and the opening of the new Kaiser Wilhelm café in Vienna (both 1914) |
| 52:00 | Cemetery |
| 52:20 | Credits |
| 53:40 | End |
Credits
Felicity Lott, Soprano
Graham Johnson, Piano
Felicity Palmer, Soprano
Franz Schubert Quartet
Nash Ensemble