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 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.

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