Welcome to Week 64 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 64.
William Byrd
selections* from My Ladye Nevells Booke - score
recommended recordings: Hogwood; Leonhardt
*My Ladye Nevells Grownde; Qui Passe; Ut re mi fa sol la; Will Yow Walke the Woods Soe Wylde; Have with Yow to Walsingame; My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home; The Carman's Whistle
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin (comprises 2 suites, in A minor and G major) - score
recommended recordings: Fuller; Rousset
Felix Mendelssohn
Overture and incidental music from A Midsummer Night's Dream - score (overture) - score (incid. music)
recommended recordings: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Mackerras; Leipzi Gewandhaus Orchestra/Masur; many others
Roger Sessions
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd - review
The Beatles
Non-album songs from 1969: Don't Let Me Down; The Ballad of John and Yoko; Little Brown Shoe; You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
Abbey Road (1969 album)
Let It Be (1970 album; mostly recorded in 1969 before Abbey Road)