Welcome to Week 17 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode in which we briefly review last week's works and look ahead to this week's playlist.
Here is the Spotify playlist for week 17.
Here are this week's pieces, along with links to the scores where available and other information:
Alessandro Scarlatti
Cantata: Su le sponde del Tebro - score
Cantata: Tu sei quella che al nome (Bella dama di nome santa) - score
Cantata: Infirmata vulnerata - score unavailable
Cantata: Quella pace gradita - score unavailable
Cantata: O di Betlemme altera - score unavailable
Cantata: Ardo, è ver, per te d'amore - score
Luciano Berio
Sinfonia (includes orchestral version of O King as 2nd movement)
O King (chamber version)
Johann Strauss II
An der schönen blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube)
Künstlerleben (Artist's Life)
Unter Donner und Blitz (Under Thunder and Lightning)
G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods)
Wein, Weib und Gesang (Wine, Women and Song)
Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring)
Morgenblätter (Morning Papers)
Pizzicato-Polka (with Josef Strauss)
Neue Pizzicato-Polka
Kaiser-Walzer (Emperor Waltz)
Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South)
Wiener Blut (Viennese Blood)
Perpetuum Mobile
Accellerationen Walzer
Johann Strauss I
Radetzky March
Josef Strauss
Dorfschwalben aus Österreich (Village Swallows from Austria)
Geheime Anziehungskräfte (also known as Dynamiden)
Eduard Strauss
Bahn Frei! (Make Way!)
Jacques Offenbach
Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
score - libretto (no English translation) - synopsis
Elvis Presley
selected songs