The volume includes the famous Weinen, Klagen variations, based on Bach's similarly-titled cantata and motifs from the Crucifixus of his B minor Mass; a paraphrase of Gounod's Hymne a Ste Cécile, appearing here for the first time in print, A la Chapelle Sixtine, based on Allegri's Miserere and Mozart's Ave verum Corpus (the part based on a chorus from the Ave verum Corpus can also be performed separately), the Rapsodie espagnole, a fantasia on themes from the incidental music to Beethoven's Die Ruinen von Athen, Liszt's transcription of the Pilgrims' Chorus from Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser, and Les adieux. Reverie sur un motif de l'opéra Roméo et Juliette. The volume is available linen-bound (with critical notes, Z. 12401A) and also in a cheaper, hard paperbound version that is adequate for practical purposes.

Works marked by an asterisk in the Contents are published here for the first time in print.