Nate Brown, Composer

Welcome to Week 55 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores, song texts and translations. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 55.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 18 - score
     recommended recordings: Goode with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; Andsnes with Norwegian  Chamber Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 1 - score
Leonore Overture No. 2 - score
Leonore Overture No. 3 - score
Fidelio Overture - score (this is the page for the whole opera)
     recommended recordings: Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan; Cleveland Orchestra/Szell; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Masur

Franz Peter Schubert
Selected Songs (details soon)

Hans Werner Henze
Symphony No. 7
     recommended recordings: City of Birmingham Symphony/Rattle

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five (or Hot Seven)
Selected 78 rpm singles from 1926-27

Welcome to Week 54 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores, opera libretto and synopsis, and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 54.

Modest Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov - score - synopsis
     recommended audio recording: Vaneev/Kirov Opera/Gergiev
     video recommendation: Lloyd/Kirov Opera/Gergiev

Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 44 - score
Symphony No. 45 - score
     recommended recordings: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Bruggen; English Concert/Pinnock; Radio Zagreb Symphony/Janigro

Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 3 - score
      recommended recordings: Hough; Grimaud

Ralph Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge - score (not public domain in EU countries) - text
      recommended recordings: Partridge/Music Group of London; Ainsley/Nash Ensemble
Serenade to Music - score (not public domain in most countries) - text
      recommended recordings: conducted by Boult; Best

Queen Latifah
All Hail the Queen

De La Soul
3 Feet High and Rising

Welcome to Week 53 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores where available. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 53.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suites Nos. 3 and 4 - score (3) - score (4)
     recommended recordings: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Marriner; Academy of Ancient Music/Hogwood; Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Koopman

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 17 - score
     recommended recordings: Bilson (fortepiano) with English Baroque/Gardiner; Anda with Camerata Salzburg

John Philip Sousa
Selected Marches - see playlist for the specific marches.
Most scores are available on Sousa's IMSLP page, and there are many free recordings there as well.

Hans Werner Henze
Symphony No. 6

A Tribe Called Quest
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
The Low End Theory

Welcome to Week 52 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores, opera libretto and synopsis, and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 52.

Giuseppe Verdi
Aida - score - libretto & synopsis
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Solti
     video recommendation: Metropolitan Opera/Levine

Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 30 - score
     recommended recordings: Philharmonia Hungarica/Dorati; Camerata Rhenania/Gmur
Symphony No. 31 - score
     recommended recordings: Orchestra of St. Luke's/Mackerras; Concentus Musicus Wien/Harnoncourt
Symphony No. 43 - score
     recommended recordings: Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra/Weil; English Concert/Pinnock

Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 1 - score
      recommended recordings: Biret; Richter

Hans Werner Henze
Symphony No. 4
      recommended recording: Berlin Philharmonic/Henze

Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill

Arrested Development
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of…

Welcome to Week 51 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 51.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suites Nos. 1 and 2 - score (1) - score (2)
     recommended recordings: English Concert/Pinnock; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Marriner; English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 16 - score
     recommended recordings: Barenboim with Berlin Philharmonic; Uchida with English Chamber Orchestra/Tate

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade - score
      recommended recordings: Royal Philharmonic/Beecham; Concertgebouw/Kondrashin; many others!

Hans Werner Henze
El Cimarron - program notes - score (preview version)

Ice-T
O.G. Original Gangster

Dr. Dre
The Chronic

Welcome to Week 50 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 50.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 - score
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major, BWV 564 - score
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - score
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 1121 - score
     recommended recordings: Weinberger; Hurford; Koopman; Biggs; Goode; Montero (bonus)

Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 2 - score
     recommended recordings: Vogt; Ax
Bonus: Scherzo, Op. 4 - score

Peter Maxwell Davies
Vesalii Icones
      recommended recording: Fires of London

Max Steiner
King Kong (film score, 1933)

Miles Davis
Get Up With It

Welcome to Week 49 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores, opera libretto and synopsis. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 49.

Giacomo Puccini
La Boheme - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Karajan
     video recommendation: Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Levine

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 15 - score
     recommended recordings: Bilson (fortepiano) with English Baroque/Gardiner; Brendel with Academy of St. Martinin the Fields/Marriner

Carl Maria von Weber
Clarinet Quintet - score
      recommended recordings: Brunner/Hagen Quartet; Shifrin/Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Olivier Messiaen
Sept haikai
     recommended recordings: Donohoe (piano)/de Leeuw; Loriod (piano)/Boulez
Et exspecto resurrectionem motuorum
     recommended recordings: conducted by de Leeuw; conducted by Boulez

Digital Underground
Sex Packets

LL Cool J
Mama Said Knock You Out

Welcome to Week 48 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 48.

Rodion Shchedrin
Carmen Suite (After Bizet)
     recommended audio recording: Russian National Orchestra/Pletnev
     video: this video appears to be the original choreography

Guillaume DuFay
Selected Motets:
  Vasilissa ergo gaude - score
  *O sancte Sebastiane - score
  O gemma, lux et speculum - score
  Apostolo glorioso - score
  Rite majorem Jacobus - score
  *Ecclesie militantis - score
  Balsamus et munda cera - score
  Supremum est mortalibus - score
  *Nuper rosarum flores - score
  *Salve flos Tusce gentis - score
  Magnanime gentes laudes - score
  Fulgens iubar ecclesiae dei - score
  Moribus et generae
     recommended recordings: Huelgas Ensemble (all of the above); Hilliard Ensemble (* selections)

Franz Liszt
Tasso: Lamento e trionfo - score
      recommended recordings: Orchestre de Paris/Solti; Budapest Symphony/Joo
Les preludes - score
     recommended recordings: Philadelphia Orchestra/Muti; Berlin Philharmonic/Karajan

Sergei Prokofiev
String Quartet No. 1 - score

Miles Davis
In a Silent Way
Bitches Brew
A Tribute to Jack Johnson

Welcome to Week 47 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores, opera libretto and synopsis, and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 47.

Georges Bizet
Carmen - score - libretto & synopsis
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Abbado
     video recommendations: conducted by Levine; Rosi film

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 14 - score
     recommended recording: Bilson (fortepiano) with English Baroque/Gardiner

Camille Saint-Saens
Piano Quartet, Op. 41 - score

Charles Ives
Three Places in New England - score
     recommended recordings: Boston Symphony/Tilson Thomas; Cleveland Orchestra/Dohnanyi
Central Park in the Dark - score
     recommended recording: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein
The Unanswered Question - score
     recommended recordings: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein; Chicago Symphony/Tilson Thomas

Miles Davis
E.S.P.
Miles Smiles
Nefertiti

Welcome to Week 46 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode, which includes a quick overview of the nationalities of the composers in the project.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores where available. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 46.

William Byrd
The Great Service - score
     recommended recordings: Tallis Scholars; Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Niccolo Paganini
Le Streghe - score
Moto perpetuo - score

Bela Bartok
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta - score
      recommended recordings: Chicago Symphony/Reiner; Chicago Symphony/Solti

Malcolm Arnold
The Bridge on the River Kwai (film score)

N.W.A.
Straight Outta Compton

Ice Cube
AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted