Welcome to Week 62 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 62.

William Byrd
Selected Keyboard Works:
     Pavan & Galliard, BK16
     Pavan & Galliard, BK23
     Ground, BK43
     Pavan & Galliard, BK14
     Pavan & Galliards “The Earle of Salisbury”, BK15 - score
     Pavan & Galliard “Sir William Petre”, BK3 - score
     Galliard “Mistress Mary Brownlo”, BK34 (T460) - score
[scores for all of the above can be found in volume one of this edition - BK numbers refer to the order they are presented in this collection]
     recommended recordings: Leonhardt; Moroney

John Taverner
Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas - score
     recommended recording: The Sixteen
Western Wind Mass - score
     recommended recording: Tallis Scholars

Cesar Franck
String Quartet - score

Dmitri Shostakovich
Cello Concerto No. 1
     recommended recording: Rostropovich with Philadelphia Orchestra

Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1954 album)
“What a Wonderful World” (1967 single)

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
The Great Summit (originally issued as two albums: Together for the First Time (1961) and The Great Reunion (1963), both from the same recording sessions in 1961)

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 36 of The Works! Start with his 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 36.

John Dunstaple (Dunstable)
Missa Rex seculorum - score
Motets:
     Preco preheminenciae - score
     Veni Sancte Spiritus - score
     Quam pulchra es - score
     Ave regina celorum - score
Recommended recordings: Orlando Consort; Hilliard Ensemble; Clemencic Consort

Franz Peter Schubert
Selected Lieder:
     Erlkonig, D. 328 - score - text and translation
     Am Tage Aller Seelen, D. 343 - score - text and translation
     Sehnsucht, D. 359 - score - text and translation
     Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren, D. 360 - score - text and translation
     Am Bach im Fruhling, D. 361 - score - text and translation
     Sprache der Liebe, D. 410 - score - text and translation
     Seligkeit, D. 433 - score - text and translation
     Erntelied, D. 434 - score - text and translation
     Gott im Fruhlinge, D. 448 - score - text and translation
     An die untergehende Sonne, D. 457 - score - text and translation
     Ruckweg, D. 476 - score - text and translation
     Geheimnis, D. 491 - score - text and translation
     Wiegenlied, D. 498 - score - text and translation
     Am Grabe Anselmos, D. 504 - score - text and translation
     Die abgebluhte Linde, D. 514 - score - text and translation
     Der Schiffer, D. 536 - score - text and translation
     Am Strome, D. 539 - score - text and translation
     Auf dem See, D. 543 - score - text and translation
     Die Forelle, D. 550 - score - text and translation
(various recordings are recommended)

Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Trumpet Concerto “Nobody Knows the Trouble I See”

George Gershwin
Porgy and Bess - synopsis
     recommended recording: Glyndebourne Chorus/London Symphony/Rattle
     also the symphonic suite Catfish Row, recorded by St. Louis Symphony/Slatkin

Sonic Youth
Sister
Daydream Nation

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

Week 4 of The Works! Here's the new podcast episode, in which I review last week's pieces, talk about listening to music in other languages, and preview the works coming up this week.

Here is the Spotify playlist containing the recordings for Week 4.

Here are the works on this week's list, including some links to the scores (and other relevant information) where available:

Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
Album: On the Boardwalk (read the liner notes here)

Eubie Blake
I wanted to listen to his appearance on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, but I don't have access to it. If you do, listen to it this week! Here's information about the album, and here's one piece from it.

Dmitri Shostakovich
Music (Op. 116) from the film Hamlet (not to be confused with the incidental music he wrote for the play)
Watch the film or listen to the recording of the suite (Op. 116a) conducted by Yablonsky (alternate recording conducted by Sinaisky)

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2
This symphony includes vocal parts. The texts and translations can be found here.
Recommended recording: Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Klemperer (alternates: City of Birmingham Symphony/Rattle; New York Philharmonic/Bernstein; NYPO/Walter)

J. S. Bach
15 Two-Part Inventions
15 Three-Part Sinfonias (or Inventions)
Recommended recording on piano: Angela Hewitt (alternates: Glenn Gould; Andras Schiff) and on harpsichord: Ton Koopman

Week 3 of The Works begins with the new podcast episode, in which I review last week's pieces, share a little bit about my experience with opera as a non-opera-buff, and preview the works coming up this week.

Here is the Spotify playlist containing the recordings for Week 3.

Here are pieces on this week's list, including some links to the scores where available:

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Missa Papae Marcelli
Missa Inviolata - this video is the only performance I could find.

Franz Liszt
Transcendental Études

Aaron Copland
Dance Symphony
Short Symphony

Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto - here is the libretto with an English translation, and here is a synopsis of the opera.