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 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

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)