Nate Brown, Composer

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

Here is a list of all the pieces in The Works project that are titled as some sort of a concerto but don't fit into any of the previous lists of solo (or small group) concerti. Many of them are concerti grossi, which is a special baroque form that made a small comeback in the 20th century. Two are concerti for unusual solo groups that didn't fit into any of the previous lists. The next group is a special genre of piece called “Concerto for Orchestra” that emerged in the 20th century. All pieces in this group are titled Concerto for Orchestra except the last one. There is a final list of miscellaneous pieces that don't quite fit into any of the other categories.

As with the other lists, each section is arranged roughly chronologically.

Concerto Grosso
Giuseppe Torelli: Op. 8 Nos. 1-12
G.F. Handel: Op. 3 Nos. 1-6; Op. 6 Nos. 1-12; "Alexander's Feast" Concerto
Antonio Vivaldi: Op. 3 Nos. 1, 2, 7, 10, 11
Arcangelo Corelli: Op. 6 Nos. 1-12
G.P. Telemann: TWV 54:D3
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerti Nos. 1-6
Francesco Geminiani: Op. 2 Nos. 1-6; Op. 3 Nos. 1-6; Op. 7 Nos 1-6
Igor Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
Bohuslav Martinu: Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and TImpani
Alfred Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 1
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Concerto Grosso 1985

Concerti for Multiple Instruments
Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto (piano, violin, and cello)
Gunther Schuller: Concertino for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra

Concerto for Orchestra
Bela Bartok
Elliott Carter
Witold Lutoslawski
Roger Sessions
Michael Tippett
Joan Tower
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 10

Pieces called “Concerto” that don't fit into any of the above categories
Giuseppe Torelli: 12 Concerti Musicali, Op. 6
Michael Tippett: Concerto for Double String Orchestra

Here is a list of all pieces in The Works project that are for one or more string instrument soloists (other than violin only) with orchestra. The list is arranged roughly chronologically. 

If the work doesn't have a title beyond “X Concerto” or “Concerto for X and Orchestra”, then only the composer's name is mentioned (see Walton under viola for an example). If the composer has more than one such concerto, the number or numbers are listed (see Haydn under cello for an example).

The list under each instrument heading is organized roughly chronologically.

Viola
G.P. Telemann: Concerto, TWV 51:G9
Hector Berlioz: Harold en Italie
William Walton
Paul Hindemith: Der Schwanendreher; Trauermusik
Bela Bartok
Luciano Berio: Chemins 2; Chemins 3
Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life IV

Cello
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerti, R. 413, 424
C.P.E. Bach: Concerto, H. 439
Luigi Boccherini: Concerti, G. 476, 479, 480, 482, 483
F.J. Haydn: Nos. 1-2
Robert Schumann
Camille Saint-Saens: No. 1
P.I. Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme
Antonin Dvorak
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote
Edward Elgar
Ernst Bloch: Schelomo
Frank Bridge: Oration
Paul Hindemith
William Walton
Dmitri Shostakovich: No. 1
Benjamin Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
Gyorgy Ligeti
Witold Lutoslawski
Henri Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain…
John Tavener: The Protecting Veil
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 2

Double Bass
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 7

Harp
G.F. Handel: Concerto, Op. 4 No. 6
Claude Debussy: Danse sacree et danse profane
Alberto Ginastera
Luciano Berio: Chemins 1

Mandolin
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto, R. 425

Guitar
Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto, R. 93 (guitar or lute)
Joachim Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Fantasia para un gentilhombre
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Luciano Berio: Chemins 5

Multiple String Instruments
W.A. Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364 (violin and viola)
Johannes Brahms: Double Concerto (violin and cello)
Michael Tippett: Triple Concerto (violin, viola, and cello)
Peter Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto No. 5 (violin and viola)

Welcome to Week 45 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and texts/translations where available. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 45.

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 9 (Op. 59 No. 3) - score
     recommended recordings: Tokyo Quartet; Guarneri Quartet; The Lindsays

Franz Peter Schubert
Selected Lieder:
     Suleika, D. 720 - score - text and translation
     An die Leier, D. 737 - score - text and translation
     Im Haine, D. 738 - score - text and translation
     Am See, D. 746 - score - text and translation
     Die Liebe hat gelogen, D. 751 - score - text and translation
     Nachtviolen, D. 752 - score - text and translation
     Heliopolis II, D. 754 - score - text and translation
     Der Musensohn, D. 764 - score - text and translation
     Wandrers Nachtlied II, D. 768 - score - text and translation
     Der Zwerg, D. 771 - score - text and translation
     Wehmut, D. 772 - score - text and translation
     Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D. 774 - score - text and translation
     Dass sie hier gewesen, D. 775 - score - text and translation
     Du bist die Ruh, D. 776 - score - text and translation
     Lachen und Weinen, D. 777 - score - text and translation
     Viola, D. 786 - score - text and translation
(various recordings are recommended)

Muzio Clementi
Piano Sonata, Op. 24 No. 2 (sometimes called Op. 41 No. 2 or Op. 47 No. 2) - score
Piano Sonata, Op. 25 No. 5 (sometimes called Op. 26 No. 2) - score
Piano Sonata, Op. 33 No. 3 - score
     recommended recordings: Demidenko; Horowitz

John Cage
Imaginary Landscape No. 4
Williams Mix
Fontana Mix
Rozart Mix

Miles Davis
Selected tracks from The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (starting with the 6 tracks released as Highlights from the Plugged Nickel)