Welcome to Week 65 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 65.

Claudio Monteverdi
Orfeo - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended audio recording: Concerto Vocale conducted by Rene Jacobs
     video recommendation: Nederlandse Opera conducted by Stephen Stubbs

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 23 - score
     recommended recordings: Bilson (fortepiano) with English Baroque/Gardiner; Curzon with London Symphony/Kertesz

Robert Schumann
Cello Concerto - score
      recommended recordings: Ma; Casals; Du Pre; Isserlis

Lukas Foss
Renaissance Concerto

Tan Dun
On Taoism [recorded by the BBC Scottish Symphony but not available on Spotify]

John Coltrane
Blue Train (1957 album)
Giant Steps (1960 album)

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 - text - 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)

Welcome to Week 61 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 61.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 - score
     recommended recordings: Casadesus with Cleveland Orchestra/Szell; Perahia with English Chamber Orchestra; many others!

Franz Peter Schubert
Selected Lieder:
     Im Abendrot, D. 799 - score - text and translation
     Der Einsame, D. 800 - score - text and translation
     Dithyrambe, D. 801 - score - text and translation
     Abendstern, D. 806 - score - text and translation
     Auflosung, D. 807 - score - text and translation
     Nacht und Traume, D. 827 - score - text and translation
     Die Junge Nonne, D. 828 - score - text and translation
     Des Sangers Habe, D. 832 - score - text and translation
     Der Blinde Knabe, D. 833 - score - text and translation
     Totengrabers Heimweh, D. 842 - score - text and translation
     Die Allmacht, D. 852 - score - text and translation
     Auf der Bruck, D. 853 - score - text and translation
     Lied der Delphine, D. 857 - score (this song is No. 2 from these “2 Scenes”) - text and translation
     An Mein Herz, D. 860 - score - text and translation
     Der Liebliche Stern, D. 861 - score - text and translation
     Der Wanderer an den Mond, D. 870 - score - text and translation
     Das Zugenglocklein, D. 871 - score - text and translation
(various recordings are recommended)

Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening
Poem in Cycles and Bells
Rhapsodic Variations

Louis Armstrong
Selected tracks from 1947-1957 as collected in the compilation album, Satchmo: A Musical Autobiography

Welcome to Week 58 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 58.

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 10 “Harp” - score
     recommended recordings: Juilliard Quartet; Guarneri Quartet

Antonin Dvorak
Serenade for Strings Op. 22 - score
     recommended recordings: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields/Marriner; Vienna Philharmonic/Chung

Ralph Shapey
String Quartet No. 6 - score - program notes
      recommended recording: Lexington Quartet, from the Radical Traditionalism compilation

Wolfgang Rihm
String Quartet No. 3, Im Innersten - program notes and score preview

Louis Armstrong
Selected singles from 1930-1956, primarily from the complete RCA Victor

Welcome to Week 56 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 56.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended recording: conducted by Klemperer
     video recommendation: conducted by Haitink

Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonatas: K. 24, 426, 427, 158, 159, 46, 30, 120, 213, 140, 224, 87, 219 - scores
     recommended recordings: Kipnis; Parmentier

Franz Peter Schubert
Fantasie in C Major, “Wanderer” (D760) - score
     recommended recording: Pollini

Gerald Finzi
Clarinet Concerto - score (this work is NOT public domain in most countries)
      recommended recording: Plane/Northern Sinfonia

Malcolm Arnold
English Dances, Set 1 (1950) and Set 2 (1951)

The Beatles
Please Please Me (1963 UK album)
With the Beatles (1963 UK album)
A Hard Day's Night (1964 UK album)
Selected non-album songs from 1963: From Me to You; Thank You Girl; She Loves You; I'll Get You; I Want to Hold Your Hand; This Boy

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

Bonus playlists mentioned in the podcast: Hip-hop 1979-1992; Hip-hop 1993-2000

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 Lieder:
     Der Wanderer, D. 489 - score - text and translation
     Ganymed, D. 544 - score - text and translation
     An die Musik, D. 547 - score - text and translation
     Auf der Donau, D. 553 - score - text and translation
     Liebhaber in allen Gestalten, D. 558 - score - text and translation
     Der Strom, D. 565 - score - text and translation
     Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D. 583 - score - text and translation
     Blondel zu Marien, D. 626 - score - text and translation
     Der Wanderer, D. 649 - score - text and translation
     Abendbilder, D. 650 - score - text and translation
     Nachtstuck, D. 672 - score - text and translation
     Fruhlingsglaube, D. 686 - score - text and translation
     Die Vogel, D. 691 - score - text and translation
     Des Frauleins Liebeslauschen, D. 698 - score - text and translation
     Im Walde, D. 708 - score - text and translation
     Lob der Tranen, D. 711 - score - text and translation
     Versunken, D. 715 - score - text and translation
     Geheimes, D. 719 - score - text and translation
(various recordings are recommended)

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 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 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

Welcome to Week 38 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 38.

Tomas Luis de Victoria
Officium Defunctorum - score with text and translation
     recommended recording: Tallis Scholars

Jean Sibelius
Lemminkainen Suite - scores
     recommended recordings: Iceland Symphony/Sakari; Gothenburg Symphony/Jarvi; Lahti Symphony/Vanska

Heitor Villa-Lobos
Choros No. 6 - score
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 - score - text and translation
     recommended recording: Gomez/Pleeth Cello Octet
     note: Villa-Lobos' works are not in the public domain in all countries, so please follow your own country's laws when deciding whether to download the scores.

Ruggero Leoncavallo
Pagliacci - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Cellini
     video recommendation: Zefirelli film, conducted by Pretre

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
The Message

Run-DMC
Run-DMC
Raising Hell

Welcome to Week 33 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 33.

John Dowland
selected solo lute music - scores
     recommended recordings: McFarlane; Lindberg; O'Dette

Cesar Franck
Les Eolides - score
     recommended recording: Liege Philharmonic/Paul Strauss

Gyorgy Kurtag
The Sayings of Peter Bornemisza - texts - link to publisher's site with score samples

Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata - score - synopsis and libretto
     recommended audio recordings: conducted by Kleiber; conducted by Bonynge
     recommended videos: stage performance conducted by Patane; Zefirelli film conducted by Levine

Brian Eno
Ambient 1: Music for Airports

Brian Eno and David Byrne
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Laurie Anderson
Big Science

Welcome to Week 24 of The Works! There is no podcast episode this week, but next episode will discuss the works listened to in both weeks 23 and 24.

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 24.

Claudio Monteverdi
Vespro della Beata Vergine - score and text with translation
     recommended recordings: Gardiner; Parrott

Lou Harrison
Symphony No. 2 “Elegiac”

Claude Debussy
Jeux - score
      recommended recordings: Haitink; Boulez

John Williams
Jaws - film score

Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Far East Suite
New Orleans Suite

Welcome to Week 19 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode in which we briefly review last week's works, talk about the opera list for the project, and look ahead to this week's playlist.

Here is the Spotify playlist for week 19.

Here are this week's pieces, along with links to the scores where available:

Franz Joseph Haydn
Andante with Variations in F minor - score

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 7 - score

Pierre Boulez
Pli selon pli - information

Duke Ellington
The Carnegie Hall Concerts 1943
Selected studio recordings from 1943-46

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

Welcome to Week 14 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode. We review last week's works, talk about which composers will be most often found throughout this project, and look ahead to this week's playlist.

Here is the Spotify playlist for week 14.

Here are this week's pieces, along with links to the scores where available, and album information:

Giacomo Carissimi
Jephte
   text and translation here

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni
   synopsis, libretto and translation here
   If you don't listen to the whole opera, at least listen to “Là ci darem la mano” and maybe some of the other tracks from the highlights album.

Edvard Grieg
Sonata for Cello and Piano

Pierre Boulez
Répons

Roy Orbison
selected songs

Ricky Nelson
selected songs

Jerry Lee Lewis
Live at the Star Club, Hamburg (1964) - only part of the album is available on Spotify. Also listen to the original studio versions of a few of his most important songs.

Welcome to Week 12 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

Here is the Spotify playlist for week 12.

Here are this week's pieces, along with links to the scores where available, and album information:

Anonymous
Gregorian Chant - this album and this album performed by Ensemble Gilles Binchois

Johannes Brahms
String Quintet No. 1

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2

Duke Ellington
Early recordings on Brunswick and Vocalion - note: I have arranged the playlist so that the pieces NOT composed by Ellington are at the end, after the second recordings of the Brahms and Rachmaninoff pieces.

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

Welcome to Week 10 of The Works: we've made it to double digits! 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 and texts where available.

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 3
String Quartet No. 4
Recommended recordings: Takacs Quartet; Quartetto Italiano; Guarneri Quartet

Franz Peter Schubert
Winterreise (text and translation here)
Recommended recordings: Peter Schreier/Andras Schiff; Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Gerald Moore (Fischer-Dieskau recorded this song cycle several times with different accompanists; all are recommended)

Pierre Boulez
Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna
Notations I-IV for orchestra (originally for piano from 12 Notations)
Recommended recordings: Orchestre de Paris/Barenboim for both pieces; BBC Symphony/Boulez for Rituel

Freddie Keppard
Complete recordings

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
Complete 1923 recordings

It's Week 9 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 other information.

Georg Frideric Handel
Dixit Dominus (recording: Westminster Abbey/Preston; alternate: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner)
 - text and translation

Hugo Wolf
String Quartet in D minor (I didn't find any recommendations for recordings of this piece. The Spotify playlist has recordings by Quartetto Prometeo and the Fine Arts Quartet)

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 1 (recording: St. Petersburg Philharmonic/Janssons; alternate: Russian National Orchestra/Pletnev)

Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor (recording: Callas/Karajan; video: Sutherland/Bonynge)
 - Libretto
 - Synopsis

Bill Haley and His Comets
Selections

Buddy Holly (and the Crickets)
Selections, including the entire album The “Chirping” Crickets

Welcome to Week 8 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 alternate recordings.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Magnificats (these are 3 of Palestrina's 35 settings of this text):
Magnificat primi toni a 8 (recorded by the Westminster Cathedral Choir)
Magnificat primi toni from Book 3 (recorded by the Westminster Cathedral Choir)
Magnificat septimi toni from Book 3 (recorded by Camerata Nova. NOTE: this doesn't seem to be titled correctly. Details in podcast episode 9)

Georges Bizet
Suite 1 and Suite 2 from L'Arlésienne (recommended recording: London Symphony/Abbado; alternates: New Philharmonia/Munch; Royal Philharmonic/Beecham)

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Stimmung (recorded by Singcircle and Theater of Voices)

Jelly Roll Morton
Listen to selections from the following:
- Complete Victor Recordings
- Complete Library of Congress Recordings (not available on Spotify; link is to a playlist of 8 YouTube videos)

It's Week 7 of The Works! Start with episode 7 of the Listening to the Works podcast, including a review of the pieces from Week 6 and a discussion of musicality.

Here's the Spotify playlist for the coming week.

Here are the works on the list for Week 7, along with links to scores where available and texts for vocal works:

Jelly Roll Morton
Selected recordings from 1923-1927 with Morton on solo piano and leading a trio and the Red Hot Peppers
A few piano scores of Morton's compositions are available here. Don't forget to check in the “collections” tab.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 10 (for two pianos)
(recommended recordings: Argerich/Rabinovitch; Labèque Sisters; Emil and Elena Gilels)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 3
This symphony includes vocal parts. Here is the text and translation.
(recommended recordings: Berlin Philharmonic/Abbado; New York Philharmonic/Bernstein)

Maurice Ravel
Works for solo piano (note: You have to click on the “arrangements and transcriptions” tab to find the scores of the orchestrated versions, even though they are Ravel's own orchestrations.)
 - Menuet antique (also an orchestral version)
 - Pavane pour une infante défunte (also an orchestral version)
 - Jeux d'eau
 - Sonatine
 - Alborada del gracioso (No. 4 from Miroirs; also an orchestral version)
(recommended piano recordings: Robert Casadesus; Alexandre Tharaud; orchestral recordings: Cleveland Orchestra/Boulez; Montréal Symphony/Dutoit)

It's Week 6 of The Works! Start with episode 6 of the Listening to the Works podcast, including a review of the pieces from Week 5 and a discussion of musical texture.

Here's the Spotify playlist for the coming week.

Here are the works on the list for Week 6:

Giacomo Puccini
Tosca - score; synopsis and libretto with translation
recommended recording: Maria Callas as Tosca at La Scala, conducted by de Sabata
recommended video: Hildegard Behrens as Tosca at the Met, conducted by Sinopoli

Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphonies 6 (Le Matin), 7 (Le Midi), and 8 (Le Soir)
(recommended recording: Northern Chamber Orchestra/Ward; Hanover Band/Goodman)

Mily Balakirev
Islamey for solo piano (and version orchestrated by Casella)
(recommended recordings: Boris Berezovsky; Simon Barere; Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy)

Dmitry Shostakovich
Sonata for Violin and Piano
(recommended recordings: Oleg Kagan; Rostislav Dubinsky)

Fats Domino
Selected early recordings

Little Richard
Selected early recordings

Bonus listening selection: Tamara by Balakirev