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 50 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 50.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 - score
Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major, BWV 564 - score
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 - score
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 1121 - score
     recommended recordings: Weinberger; Hurford; Koopman; Biggs; Goode; Montero (bonus)

Johannes Brahms
Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 2 - score
     recommended recordings: Vogt; Ax
Bonus: Scherzo, Op. 4 - score

Peter Maxwell Davies
Vesalii Icones
      recommended recording: Fires of London

Max Steiner
King Kong (film score, 1933)

Miles Davis
Get Up With It

Welcome to Week 37 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 37.

Johann Sebastian Bach
6 Sonatas for Violin and Continuo, BWV 1014-1019 - scores
     recommended recordings: Ngai; van Dael; Blumenstock; Manze

Franz Peter Schubert
Piano Quintet, D. 667 “Die Forelle” ["The Trout"] - score
     recommended recordings: Curzon/Vienna Octet; Ma/Ax/Frank/Meyer/Young

Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Requiem fur einen jungen Dichter - information

Miles Davis
Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1957)
Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1958)
Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1960)
Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (1961)
     All of the above consist of tracks recorded on May 11 and October 26, 1956.

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

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