Welcome to Week 41 of The Works! Start with this week's podcast episode.

The pieces for this week are listed below, along with links to scores and the libretto of the oratorio. Here is the Spotify playlist for Week 41.

George Frideric Handel
Deborah - score - libretto

Robert Schumann
Papillons - score
Waldszenen - score

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Concerto Grosso 1985
[Tenor] Trombone Concerto
Bass Trombone Concerto - recordings of 1st - 2nd - 3rd movements (not on Spotify)

Miles Davis
Kind of Blue
Sketches of Spain (with arranger Gil Evans)

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