Welcome to Week 11 of The Works! Start with this week's episode of the Listening to the Works podcast, then find the pieces for this week on the Spotify playlist.
Here are the pieces for this week, including links to the scores, texts and translations, and opera synopsis.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Organ Works:
Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 531
Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 532
Toccata and Fugue in F Major, BWV 540 (some recordings are of the Toccata only)
Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 562 (recordings are of the Fantasia only as the Fugue is incomplete; the first recording on the Spotify playlist is labeled as BWV 561, but it's actually this piece)
Fantasia in C Major, BWV 570
Giaochino Rossini
Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Libretto
Synopsis
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 4
Text and translation
Pierre Boulez
Éclat (for large chamber ensemble)
Structures, Book I (for two pianos)
The Coasters
Selections
Eddie Cochran
Selections
Carl Perkins
Selections, including all of The Dance Album