Welcome to Week 63 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 63.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cosi fan tutte - score - libretto & synopsis
     recommended audio recording: conducted by Solti
     video recommendation: I will be watching one conducted by Harnoncourt.
Piano Concerto No. 22 - score
     recommended recordings: Schiff with Camerata Salzburg; Zacharias with Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Symphony No. 2 “Antar” - score
      recommended recordings: Rotterdam Philharmonic/Zinman; Pittsburgh Symphony/Maazel [neither of these seems to be available on Spotify]

Witold Lutoslawski
String Quartet - program notes
      recommended recording: Arditti Quartet [this does not seem to be available on Spotify]

The Beatles
Selected non-album songs from 1968: Lady Madonna; The Inner Light; Hey Jude; Revolution
The Beatles (aka The White Album, 1968)
Selected songs from the Yellow Submarine album 1969): Only a Northern Song; All Together Now; Hey Bulldog; It's All Too Much

Welcome to Week 60 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 60.

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 11 - score
     recommended recordings: Guarneri Quartet; Quartetto Italiano

Georges Bizet
Symphony in C - score
      recommended recordings: French National Radio Symphony/Beecham; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Maurice Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit - score
Le tombeau de Couperin (piano version) - score
     recommended recordings: Pogorelich; Lortie; Gieseking; Casadesus

The Beatles
Revolver (1966 UK album)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967 UK/US album)
Magical Mystery Tour (1967 US album)
Selected non-album songs from 1966: Paperback Writer; Rain

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 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 39 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 39.

Josquin Desprez
[His last name is sometimes spelled “Despres” or similar, but he is almost always known (and alphabetized) by his first name]
Missa Pange Lingua - score
Missa de Beata Virgine - score

Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces:
     Book 1 (Op. 12) - score
     Book 2 (Op. 38) - score
     Book 3 (Op. 43) - score
     Book 4 (Op. 47) - score

Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety”

Miles Davis
Miles Ahead (with arranger Gil Evans)
Milestones
Porgy and Bess (with arranger Gil Evans)

Welcome to Week 29 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode. I am posting this on Jan. 11, and the 12th is the 100th anniversary of Feldman's birth, so let's commemorate that by listening to either The King of Denmark or Rothko Chapel.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and other helpful information. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 29.

Anonymous music from the Medieval era
Lauda sion - score
Stabat mater - score
Dies irae - score
Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium - score
Salve virgo/Ave gloriosa Mater/Domino
Pucelete/Je languis/Domino - score
Sumer is icumen in - score

Petrus de Cruce
Aucuns vont souvent/Amor qui cor/Kyrie - score

Gustav Mahler
Adagio movement from unfinished Symphony No. 10 - score
     recommended recordings: Rattle/Bournemouth SInf.; Bernstein/NY Philharmonic

Morton Feldman
Projection I - look at the score here for a sense of how Feldman's indeterminate pieces of this era work.
Projection II
Projection III
Projection IV
Projection V
The King of Denmark - look at this video for more understanding of how these grid scores work. Also, look for any video performance on YouTube - this is a good piece to see visually because it's for a single percussionist with a lot of instruments.
Rothko Chapel
      recommended recording: Brett/UC-Berkeley choirs

Richard Wagner
Tannhauser - score - libretto and synopsis
     recommended recording: conducted by Solti
     recommended video: conducted by Levine
If you don't listen to the whole opera, at least listen to the Overture and Venusberg music, conducted by Mehta.

The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground and Nico
White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground

Welcome to Week 28 of The Works! This post is a little late again (the week goes from Jan. 5-11, 2026), and there may or may not be a podcast episode this week [update: there wasn't].

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores, text and translation. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 28.

Franz Josef Haydn
Symphony No. 16 - score
Symphony No. 22 - score
Symphony No. 26 - score

Felix Mendelssohn
St. Paul (Paulus) - score - text and translation

Erik Satie
Pieces froides ("cold pieces") - score
Trois morceaux en forme de poire ("three pear-shaped pieces") - score
Preludes flasques (pour un chien) ("flabby preludes (for a dog)") - score 
     — [these are the tracks with Japanese text on the playlist]
3 veritables preludes flasques, pour un chien ("3 true flabby preludes, for a dog") - score
Embryons desseches ("desiccated embryos") - score
Sports et divertissements ("sports and pastimes") - score

Thelonious Monk
Brilliant Corners (1957, recorded 1956)
Monk's Music (1957)
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane (1961, recorded 1957)

Welcome to Week 26 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 26.

Arcangelo Corelli
12 Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 - score
     recommended recording: London Baroque

Eugene Ysaye
6 Sonatas for unaccompanied violin, Op. 27 - score
     recommended recordings: Shumsky; Zimmermann

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 9 - score
      recommended recordings: Abbado; Karajan; Bernstein (all with Berlin Philharmonic)

Benjamin Britten
Ceremony of Carols
      recommended recordings: Cleobury; Hill

Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
Safe as Milk
Trout Mask Replica

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 23 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 23.

Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 13 - score
Symphony No. 14 - score
Symphony No. 15 - score

Frederyk Chopin
Ballade No. 3 - score
Ballade No. 4 - score
     recommended recordings: Rubinstein; Horowitz; Cortot; Zimerman

Michael Tippett
Triple Concerto (Concerto for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Orchestra)

Frank Zappa
The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life

John Barry
Dances with Wolves (film score)

Welcome to Week 22 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 22.

Vexilla Regis Prodeunt (plainchant) - text - score
Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainchant) - text - score
Veni Sancte Spiritus (plainchant) - text - score
Victimae Paschali Laudes (plainchant) - text - score
Veni Creator Spiritus (plainchant) - text - score

Paul Hindemith
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano - score (only public domain in Canada)
     recommended recording: Gilbert Johnson/Glenn Gould
Kleine Kammermusik (Op. 24 No. 2) - score (public domain in US & Canada, but not EU)
     recommended recording: Bergen Wind Quintet

Georg Philipp Telemann
12 Fantasias for Flute (unaccompanied) - score
     recommended recording: Claire Guimond

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 8 - score - text
      recommended recording: Chicago Symphony/Solti

Frank Zappa
Freak Out! (Mothers of Invention)
We're Only In It For The Money (Mothers of Invention)
Hot Rats

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 16 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 16.

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

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 11

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6

Pierre Boulez
Piano Sonata No. 1
Piano Sonata No. 2
Piano Sonata No. 3
This Wikipedia page has information on these pieces.

Duke Ellington
Fargo, ND, Nov. 7, 1940 - YouTube link - album info

It's week 15 of The Works. First, listen to this week's podcast, then find the playlist for this week here.

The pieces for this week are:

Conrad Paumann
Wach auff mein hort 
Kyrie Angelicum
Redeuntes in idem
Mit ganzen willem

Frederic Chopin
Variations on “La ci darem la mano”

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 3

Anonymous
Gregorian Chant selections

Duke Ellington
Duke's Men: selections from small group recordings 1934-38

Welcome to Week 13 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 13.

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

Domenico Scarlatti
Keyboard Sonatas: K3; K185; K184; K227; K238; K239; K52; K192; K193; K208; K209; K252; K253; K191

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5

Pierre Boulez
Le Marteau sans maître (text and translation here)

Duke Ellington
Early recordings on the OKeh and Columbia labels.

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

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)

Here is a list of all 270-ish pieces, titled “Symphony” or something similar, that will be part of The Works project. 

The list is arranged in roughly chronological order by composer, based on the earliest piece in the list by each composer. Where the symphonies are numbered, just the numbers will be shown. Many numbered symphonies also have descriptive titles, but these are not included.

All of these pieces are for orchestra except where noted. A few are for strings only, but most include woodwinds, brass and percussion. Several also include chorus and/or solo voices. These are marked with an asterisk (I probably missed some, but will edit as the project progresses).

Classical Era
William Boyce: 1-8
Haydn: 6-8, 13-16, 22, 26, 30, 31, 43-45, 48, 49, 53, 55, 59, 60, 63, 64, 73, 82-104 (and maybe a few others!)
Mozart: 25-27, 29, 31-36, 38-41
Beethoven: 1-9 (9*)

Romantic Era
Carl Maria von Weber: 1, 2
Schubert: 3-6, 8, 9 (Schubert's symphony numbering is tricky; this assumes that the sketches from 1821 are assigned number 7)
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Symphonie funebre et triomphale*, Romeo et Juliette*
Wagner: Symphony in C
Mendelssohn: 3-5
Schumann: 1-4
Franz Berwald: 1-3
Georges Bizet: Symphony in C
Liszt: Dante Symphony*
Camille Saint-Saens: 2, 3
Bruckner: 1-9 (but not "number 0")
Tchaikovsky: 1-6 plus Manfred Symphony
Borodin: 1-3
Rimsky-Korsakov: 2
Dvorak: 5-9
Brahms: 1-4
Mahler: 1-9 (2*, 3*, 4*, 8*) plus the Adagio movement of the unfinished number 10
Cesar Franck: Symphony in D minor
Charles Gounod: Petite Symphonie (for 9 winds)
Ernest Chausson: Symphony in B flat
Alexander Glazunov: 4, 5, 7
Sibelius: 1-7
Nielsen: 2-6
Elgar: 1-3
Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony
Janacek: Sinfonietta

Modern Era
Sergei Rachmaninoff: 1-3
Amy Beach: Gaelic Symphony
Charles Ives: 1-4 (4*) plus Universe Symphony
Alexander Scriabin: 3-5
Josef Suk: Asrael Symphony
Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in C, Symphony in E flat, Symphony in Three Movements, Symphony of Psalms, Symphonies of Wind Instruments (for wind ensemble)
Reinhold Gliere: 3
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 1-9 (1*, 7*)
Karol Szymanowski: 3*
Sergei Prokofiev: 1-7
Gustav Holst: First Choral Symphony*
Dmitri Shostakovich: 1-15 (2*, 3*, 13*)
Virgil Thomson: 1
Anton Webern: Symphony for Chamber Orchestra
Arnold Bax: 3
Aaron Copland: 2, 3 plus Dance Symphony
William Grant Still: 1
Albert Roussel: 3
Howard Hanson: 2-4, 6, 7*
Carlos Chavez: 1, 2
Franz Schmidt: 4
William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler Symphony, Symphony in E flat, Symphony in B flat (for band)
William Walton: 1
Samuel Barber: 1
Roy Harris: 3 (and possibly others)
Benjamin Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Spring Symphony*
Florence Price: 3
Arthur Honegger: 2, 3, 5
William Schuman: 3, 6
Lou Harrison: 2
Elliott Carter: 1 plus Symphony of Three Orchestras
Don Gillis: 4
Walter Piston: 2, 6
Bohuslav Martinu: 4, 6
David Diamond: 4
Roger Sessions: 2, 6, 7, 9
Karl Amadeus Hartmann: 2, 4, 8
Witold Lutoslawski: 1-4
Olivier Messiaen: Turangalila Symphony
Leonard Bernstein: 2
Peter Mennin: 5
Robert Kurka: 2
Hans Werner Henze: 4, 6, 7
Alan Hovhaness: 2, 50 (not a typo; he wrote 67!)
Michael Tippett: 2-4
Ned Rorem: 3
Roberto Gerard: 3
Luciano Berio: Sinfonia*
Henryk Gorecki: 3*
Robert Simpson: 6, 9
George Rochberg: 5
John Harbison: 2
Peter Maxwell Davies: 4
John Corigliano: 1
Philip Glass: 1
Michael Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony
Einojuhani Rautavaara: 7
 

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

Week 5 of The Works begins with episode 5 of Listening to the Works, on your favorite podcast platform. We talk about how film music fits into the project and the difference between recordings of piano music and programming for actual recitals and concerts.

Here's the Spotify playlist for the coming week.

Here are the works on the list for Week 5:

Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
(recommended recordings: Boston Pops/Williams; US Air Force Band; London Symphony/Copland; Philadelphia Orchestra/Ormandy)
Symphony No. 3
(recommended recordings: New York Philharmonic/Bernstein; Philharmonia Orchestra/Copland)

Leos Janacek
Glagolitic Mass
(recommended recordings: Czech Philharmonic/Mackerras; London Symphony/Tilson Thomas)

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Stanzas to the Blessed Virgin (consists of 8 madrigals)
1. Vergine bella (score; text)
2. Vergine saggia (score; text)
3. Vergine pura (score; text)
4. Vergine santa (score; text)
5. Vergine sola al mondo (score; text)
6. Vergine chiara (score; text)
7. Vergine quante lagrime (score; text)
8. Vergine tale è terra (score; text)
(recommended recordings: Hilliard Ensemble; Akademia)

Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Selected early recordings

New Orleans Rhythm Kings
Selected early recordings